--Sue, My cousin lives there, and he says "Tingsfurrah"! LOL You made me think of the many trips I took with my mom and my AUNT, to Upumm's cohnah in Boston! Jan LIVE, FREE genealogy help at www.genealogyforum.org ---- Sue Richart <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, you aren't the only ones laughing. You're making think of my aunts and > cousins, hearing their voices. > > My family left Boston and moved West when I was 2 years old. I clearly > remember the one and only time on the telephone I said "aunt" like "ant" to > my Aunt Mary. She said "Ants crawl around on the ground. Aunts are your > parent's sisters". > > Then there was the time I was going to visit another aunt in Florida. My > Aunt Mary asked if I was going to "Get my shots". This had me quite > concerned, but my mother laughed and told me that that she was talking about > "shorts". > > I've been updating more towns in the vital records. So, how you you folks > say Tyngsborough? > > Sue > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

--Dear Joe, Not a problem, she would be happy to hear you! I live in the South, and I lived in NJ for many years before we came down here, but I still know how to "pahk the cah ahroun the cohnah" Jan LIVE, FREE genealogy help at www.genealogyforum.org ---- Joseph T Chetwynd <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear "J" > > Those are 'finest kind ' of old expressions. With your dear departed > grandmother's kind permission, I would like to borrow a few of those and > begin slipping them into my daily conversations, if appropriate, of > course. > > We are too quickly loosing our national regional dialects and language. > Hold onto it all as tight as you can. Once it is gone, it is gone. > > Thanks, > > Joe > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

-- LIVE, FREE genealogy help at www.genealogyforum.org ---- Joseph T Chetwynd <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear J, > > What do you make of ' leaning towards sawyers ' ? That's a real curious > one. > > Joe > Joe, that's a new one on me. Can't figure it out at all! Been away from there for many yeahs, but can still remembah how to say most of those words! Looknig forward to making my way up theah, probably this comin summah! Jan in SC > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Susan, I must confess that I somehow stumbled onto this website ans am intrigued as to the interesting inquiries about peoples families and records research. I have especially had a wonderful time participating in the fun pronouncing names of towns and cities in our unique little dialects. People sure enjoy sharing their New Englandness with others. A great, lot of fun for all. Please tell me briefly, if you will, how this all works. I would like to learn more about my own family members, if at all possible. The Chetwynds, my father's family, go back to 1780's. They were from England and, as Loyalists, they left from New York for ( now called ) Shelburne, NS. On my mother's side, there are Donovans, Murphy's and , I believe, Kidney's, all from the county Cork area of Ireland. My G-G-GF, John Donovan, arrived in Boston in 1854. He was a blacksmith , who lived at West Cambridge ( now, Arlington ) and Charlestown, before removing to Quincy, where he first worked shoing horses for the, then new, Horse Street Railway. Later, he had his own stand at Neponset in Dorchester. How should I go about making my inquiries and to whom should they be directed ? Thankyou, Joe The Calker

Great story. Ha, ha, ha. Thanks, Joe

see what a great thing you all started here. It is amazing and great fun to read. Thanks, all, Joe

These are 'spot on', as a proper Brit would say. I rather like the New England accent above all others I have encountered. It derives from our old world heritage as well as our regional isolation, before the 20th century. Sadly, Vermont's peculiar, but lovable dialect is almost a thing of the past, while in some areas of Maine, Neh Hampshire and Conn. and RI, their unique voices are still evident. I rather like travelling from, say, Michigan to south Carolina to Maryland and as far south as Georgia and ' interfacing ' with my ' cousins' frum away. joe

the ' i ' is soft, not hard as in 'eye '........ ting, like sing

Joseph and Bobbie, Thank you. I'm thinking "sings low" while looking at Tyngsborough. Sue On 12/12/06, Joseph T Chetwynd <[email protected]> wrote: > > the ' i ' is soft, not hard as in 'eye '........ ting, like sing > >

My daughter lives in Dexta. She was raised in Noo Yahk and used to make fun of me (being a New Englander). You should hear her now....ha ha

I love it!

This is one of my all time favorite stories. I was 18 and visiting my future husband's family. I was setting the table with "his" father and I said to him................"Shall I put the fahk n knife on the table?" He said...Jackie!!! Needless to say, I was very embarrassed. Yes, that is one of my all time favorites from the olden days.

That'd be yaw fahtha? Mine wuz Robit, owa Bawb fowa shawt. And my granmutha wuz Mahgrit, owa Peg fowa shawt. I wuz bown Bahbra, but got nickmamed (sic) fowa my fahtha, so I'm Bawbie. Chee-ahs! Bobbie (spell-checka cahn't handle this!) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 10:45 PM Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] [MAMiddle] How to pronounce Massachusetts Town Names > > In a message dated 12/11/2006 10:58:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [email protected] writes: > > and Dexta > > > Ayah - my father's name was Clayton Dexter Farnsworth > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Ting with a short "i", Tyngsboro rhymes with "sings low" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue Richart" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 10:23 PM Subject: Re: [MASUFFOL] Descriptive Language >I didn't eliminate enough syllables. Is that with an "eye" sound or more > like the "i" in "if"? > > Sue > > On 12/11/06, Joseph T Chetwynd wrote: >> >> Tings-bro >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Bahstin! A Bawstin Lexicon ah The letter between "q" an "s." ahdery Runs through the middle of the city. Ahftah foah o’clock, it’s clogged with cahs . ahnt Sistah of your fathah or muthah. Also: are not bah Serves beah and hahd likkah: The train to Noo Yok has a bah cah. bayah Ferocious brown or black animal. beah Malt beverage; e.g., Gansett. bon As in: Where were you bon? I was bon in J.P. Bawstin cream pie A frosted layah cake. Broons Professional hockey team, named after bayahs. Buljah President of the state Senate. Likes the guvnah; does not like Howie Cah. bzah Strange, odd: The Stuart case was bzah. cahdnal Oversees the Ahchdiasis of Bawstin. If speaker is over 50, refers to Richard Cushing. Chahlie He may ride forever ‘neath the streets of Bawstin. Last seen rumblin’ through Leechmeah; now needs 80 cents to get off thtrain. Chahlz The rivah; take the MTA across. chowdah Clams, milk, buttah Only a Noo Yokka (e.g., a chowdahead) puts tomatoes in it. con Stahchy veggie that comes on a cob. ‘The Pilgrims stole the Indians’ seed con to get through the wintah of 1621. connah Where streets intersect; e.g., Fields, Uphams. Dappab The city councilah most likely to drop by at your wake. Dot Short for Dotchesta. Mahky Mahk, the rappah, grew up neah Dot Ave. Emeffay The Museum of Fine Ahts. Evacuation Day When the redcoats left. Same date as St. Patrick’s Day; a legal holiday if you work in City Hall fah Not neah heah: Chiner is fah from Needum. fayah What life is not. fok What you eat pahster with. frappe Milk, ice cream, and syrup mixed together. Take out the ice cream, and it’s a milkshake. fyah Blaze: The Great Fya of 1872 reduced a lahge paht of Bawstin to cindahs. gahbidge What they used to dump in the hahbah. Gahden What they’re tearing down this yeah. guvnah Chief exeeutive of the commonwealth. hahbah What the Sonsalibidy dumped the tea into in 1773. To find it, walk east until your hat floats. hahlakwin A blend of vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry ice cream, served at pahties. Hahnsbagah Attorney general; the man who would be guvoals. Hahvid Country day school across the rivak The guvnah went there. So did Hahshbagah. Not the mayah, though. hahf-ahst Done without regard to detail heah Done with the eaha Listen, my children, and you shall heah Of the midnight ride of Paul Reveah. Also: not thayah hoss Equine quadruped. Runs at Suffick. Howahya How are you? Ianeah Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. khakis What you staht the cah with. mayah Chief executive of the city. Used to be Irish, before the Irish moved to Milton. James Michael Curley was the mayah of the pooah. Mutberagawd! Favorite expletive of a fawmah mayah. nawtheasta A multiday stawm that blows in from the wotta. In February, a blizzid. NINA No Irish Need Apply. Employment signs remembered bitterly by third-generation Irish who never saw one. Noo Yok Sinkhole of America, 240 miles south of Tremont Street. Everyone at RU comes from Noo Yok. Oah Greatest Broon evah. Woah Numba Foah. Also: what the Hahvid crew rows with. oddah I’m Mahtha. Can I take yiz oddah? owah Sixty minutes. Also belonging to us. pahk Can’t do it in Hahvid Yalhd. Not downtown, eitha. Maybe in Glosta. pahkah One who pahks a cah. pahker What you wayah in the winta. pahlah Where the sofer is. Pahselz Former coach of the professional football team neah Patuckit; Moah popula than the guvnah - this yeah. pahster Spaghetti, ziti, etc., served with veal pahm. paht Neighborhood of the city: What paht of Bawstin are you from? Dot? Rozzie? Eastie? pahty A social gathering. Also: Democratic or Republican. pastah The rectah of a parish, like St. Mahgrit's or Sacred Haht. pickchas Canvases by Sahjent et al. hanging in the Emeffay pitchas They throw fast-balls at Fenway. retahded Silly: Making Nancy Kerrigan wear her Olympic medal at Disney World wasn’t just "corny"; it was retahded . Rawjah He throws the fastest fastballs at Fenway. Reveah He rode through Ahlington on a hoss, shouting: "To ahms!" Lived in the Nawth End. Also: the city just above Bawstin on the wotta shua Of course. Seltz Local professional basketball team. Plays on a pahkay floah at the Gahden. shot Not tall. The mayah is shot. squayah Intersection with a bus stop, a smoke shop, and a Brigham’ s; e.g., Cleary, Oak, Maverick, Codman. speeka Tip O’Neill, back when the Democrats ran things. Now refers to Chahlie Flaherty up the State House. Mistahspeeka, to you. Sistah (variant) I know the ansah, Sistah Mary of the Immaculate Conception. Call on me. tamorrah The day aftah today. tonic Coke, Sprite, etc. Not to be confused with tonic wotta, which goes with gin. waw An ahmed conflict As in: "If they meanto have a waw, let it begin heah." wof A peeah, jutting into the hahbah; e.g., Rowes, India, Long. wottah A blend of hydrogen and oxygen. Also: a street next to Milk. Yankee Descendant of the folks who stole the Indians’ seed con. yeah A 365-day period: The Red Sox always make us wait until the next one. yiz You, plural. As in: "Ah yiz goin’ down the Cape tamorrah?" _http://pages.prodigy.net/cotter_family/Bawstin.htm_ (http://pages.prodigy.net/cotter_family/Bawstin.htm)

In a message dated 12/11/2006 10:33:16 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Bahstin! Yep that's just how they pronounced it !

In a message dated 12/11/2006 10:58:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: and Dexta Ayah - my father's name was Clayton Dexter Farnsworth

And...my favorite which didn't make my first list was my grandmother's faith in humans... They never lied - they were just "a little careless with the truth." Jan Delorey

Tings-bro

I was just recently down to Charleston, SC. I was calking on the new pilot schooner they are builfding there, The SPIRIT of SOUTH CAROLINA. Do you knmow about it ? Glad you are enjoying the great new england accent symposium. It is great fun. Joe