ACCENT COACH REACTS to the Boston Accent

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Accent coach Matt Pocock reacts a native recording of the Boston accent, courtesy of the International Dialects of English Archive.

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Native Bostonian here . . . this example accent is extremely light and thus rather misleading. Too many R's. The most authentic passage is "rare form of foot and mouth disease." That comment notwithstanding (which has nothing to do with your estimable skill!), your ear is pretty astounding and I love this channel!

nchasin

You make some really great observations here. I’ve been living in Boston my whole life and I’m still trying to figure it out. My husband grew up in Cambridge and he will say things that I still need clarification on! As a musician, I’ve had many a conductor who asked for “shot notes” (short) half the band understands and half are like huh??? I have a typical standard American accent, but slip in and out of the Boston accent when I’m tired or in a hurry. Very inconsistent indeed!

musician

This was great!
This girl has a really typical younger Boston accent.
Older people, usually 60 and older have a different “old” Boston accent. For example They would elongate the “a” in yard more often and the put an extra “r” where it doesn’t belong. For example, the name Samantha becomes “samanther” or soda becomes “soder”

livbirka

This is great! It's funny what you pick up on.

My parents have South Boston accents and theirs are much stronger (or "wicked strawngah").

Hers is fairly average for the younger Boston accent. I'm 40 and I say "yahhd" for yard. Another thing is we put in "R"s where they don't belong. Around the 1:30 mark after you point out "North Square, " she says "That area (arear) was much..."

laanyan

Many people all over New England sound similar, but it's heavier in the Boston/Cambridge areas, & parts of Maine. Normal, sounds like nohmal, car like cah, door like doah, mister like mistah, coffee like cawfee, here like heah. Great video.

racheljodoin

Great observations. Born and raised in Boston. The accent can vary depending upon what part of the state you are from. The readers accent sounds like she is from the North Shore such as Saugus, Salem, Gloucester etc. . A well known Bostonian such as Mark Wahlberg has a Dorchester accent. There are little nuances that those of us from the area can pick out. There is a misconception that everyone from Boston has a strong accent. Do you remember the scene from Departed when Mark Wahlberg’s character tells Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, “when you are in Southie you’re dropping your r’’s. But when your home with your rich family in Marblehead you sound completely different “? That statement was spot on. I have been told that I don’t have an accent however my father has a very thick one.. Odd considering he and my mother’s ancestors were the original Puritans.

paulamanningtsougranis

The "her" vs "squa-uh" is actually a well known to natives wrinkle in the accent. If the following word starts with a vowel (especially the short-a in "and") the "r" stays, or in some cases, is _added_. The canonical example is "pizza and beer", which is often pronounced as "pizz-er and bee-ah". I've dubbed this phenomenon as the "Conservation of Rs" in the Boston accent.

mikechmielewski

Thanks for helping me with accents hope you’re doing well love your videos.

thejohntron

Yessss thank you for noting the subtleties. This is where a lot of actors get it wrong, and assume everything is just a big non-r party (pahty?)! I think it's what makes folks from the Northeast cringe when we hear it. Also, a note on that "r" after area: very common in between words when one ends in vowel (think, "Put your bra on" becomes "Put your braron"), but I would argue that fewer people add r to the end of a sentence (Florider instead of Florida), though it does sometimes happen. Fun anecdote: I was about 14 when I learned that "drawer" (like, something you pull out from a dresser/bureau) is spelled D-R-A-W-E-R, because I had always, always, always said "draw" and so did everyone else I knew! I say "dror" now, so I'm not sure it's any better.

courtneywason

As a Bostonian you’d usually see less of the “awe” in terms of frequency but the “awe” sound would be more prominent in words like north ‘nawth’ or something of that nature there are also a lot more prominent “ah” sounds like hard would go to ‘hahd’ or sucker would go to ‘Suckah’ and something that I didn’t hear that is very common in a Boston accent is adding r’s onto words like “idea” would go to “ider” or “saw” would be “sawr” or law would be “Lawr” but the r is only added if the word is followed by a vowel

Evan

I’m watching and thinking we don’t talk like that. So I say the words out loud and am stunned….. I do sound like that. Oh gawd

crystal

Did you catch the 'r' at the end of 'area'. She says 'arear'. Very common in North-Eastern US with words that in schwa.

teddyjones

So there is a Boston accent but there is different dialects for which part of Massachusetts your from. I'm from Dorchester and we have a really thick accent and don't pronounce our "R's" like "ah" Opposed to the north shore or south shore like this girl in the audio clip sounds like "o-ah". Also we say "wicked" a lot. "She's wicked smart (smaht)" or "It's wicked hot outside" or we also substitute a word with "ing" on the end with 'in. "What are you do'in" "It's freezin outside"

Let me know if you want a true bostonian audio recording.

CrazySauceEST

Are you the same matt pocock who makes typescript videos? I never would have guessed lmao

techtutorvideos

Hey Matt ! Born and bred in Boston here. You have a great ear. Yes..this is a soft Boston accent. She uses too many hard " R's " ya don't need 'em...chuck 'em...useless things....just replace all those r's with ah's.

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