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Want people to think you are from New England?
Or do you just want to sound cool at Bit of Boston when you order dinnah? Here is some fun and useful terminology to learn....

ah                The letter between "q" an  "s."  

ahnt             Sistah of your fathah or muthah.

bah              Serves beah and hahd likkah

bayah          Ferocious brown or black animal.

beah            Malt beverage; e.g., Gansett.

bon              As in: Where were you bon?

Broons        Professional hockey team, named after bayahs                       

bzah           Strange, odd

chowdah    Clams, milk, buttah Only a Noo Yokka adds tomatoes                    

con             Stahchy veggie that comes on a cob                  

fah             Not neah heah

fok             What you eat pahster with.

hahf-ahst   Done without regard to detail

heah           Done with the eaha  

hoss           Equine quadruped. Runs at Suffick.

Howahya   How are you?

khakis        What you staht the cah with.

lobstah       Really good shellfish   

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.

pahster       Spaghetti, ziti, etc., served with veal pahm.

paht             Neighborhood of the city: What paht of Bawstin are you from?

pahty           A social gathering.   Also: Democratic or Republican.

pitchas         They throw fast-balls at Fenway.

retahded      Silly

shua             Of course.

tamorrah     The day aftah today.

tonic            Coke, Sprite, etc.

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?"