BAWSTONIAN LEXICAHN _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ The Boston Globe had a lexicon for people learning to speak with a "Bawstin" accent. The following contains some of the better excerpts. Pahty : A place to go to drink and socialize - nothing to do with Mother Nature. ah: The letter between "q" & "s." ahnt: Sistah of your fathah or muthah. bah: Serves beah and hahd likkah: "The train to Noo Yok has a bah cah." bayah: Ferocious brown or black animal. beah: Malt beverage. bon: As in: "Where were you bon?" bzah: Strange, odd. Chahlz: The rivah. chowdah: Clams, milk, buttah. Con: Stahchy veggie that comes on a cob. connah: Where streets intersect. fah: Not neah heah fok: What you eat pahster with. fyah: Blaze Gahden: What they're tearing down this yeah. hahbah: What they dumped tea into in 1773. Hahvid: Country day school across the rivah. hahf-ahst: Done without regahd to detail. heah: Done with the eahs. "Listen my children, and you shall heah of the midnight ride of Paul Reveah." khakis: What you staht the cah with. nawtheastah: Stawm that blows in from the wottah. Noo Yok: Sinkhole 240 miles south of Tremont Street. owah: Sixty minutes. pahk: Cahn't do it in Hahvad Yahd. Not downtown eithah. pahster: spaghetti, ziti, etc. pastah: The rectah of a parish, like St. Mahgrits. pichahs: They throw fastballs at Fenway. Rawjah: He throws the fastest fastballs at Fenway. Reveah: He rode through Ahlington on a hiss shouting "To Ahms!" shuah: Of course shot: Not tall. wof: A peeah, jutting into the hahbah. wottah: H2O yeah: A 365 day period. yiz: You, plural. As in: "Ah yiz goin down to the Cape tammorah?" snickahs to Pahtrick Mahshall