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Welcome to Bawstin
Posted by Raven on September 19th, 2006
For those of you who have never been to “Bawstin”, this is a good guideline. I hope you will consider coming to “Beantown” in the
near future. For those who call New England home, this is just plain great!
Information on Boston and the surrounding area:
There’s no school on School Street, no court on Court Street, no dock on Dock Square, no water on Water Street.
Back Bay streets are in alphabetical “oddah”: Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth, etc.
So are South Boston streets: A, B, C, D, etc.
If the streets are named after trees (e.g. Walnut, Chestnut, Cedar), you’re on Beacon Hill.
If they’re named after poets, you’re in Wellesley.
Massachusetts Ave is Mass Ave; Commonwealth Ave is Comm Ave; South Boston is Southie. The South End is the South
End. East Boston is Eastie. The North End is east of the former West End. The West End and Scollay Square are no more; a guy
named Rappaport got rid of them one night. Roxbury is The Burry, Jamaica Plain is J.P.
How to say these Massachusetts city names correctly: **Say is wrong, be shunned**
Worcester: Wuhsta (or Wistah)
Gloucester : Glawsta
Leicester: Lesta
Woburn: Wooban
Dedham : Dedim (like denim w/ a D in the N pace)
Revere: Re-vee-ah
Quincy: Quinzee
Peabody: Peabuddy
Waltham : Walth-ham
Chatham: Chattum
Definitions:
Frappes have ice cream, milkshakes don’t.
If it is fizzy and flavored, it’s tonic.
Soda is CLUB SODA.
“Pop” is Dad.
When we want Tonic WATER, we will ask for Tonic WATER.
The smallest beer is a pint.
Scrod is whatever they tell you it is, usually fish.
If you paid more than $6/pound, you got scrod.
It’s not a water fountain; it’s a bubblah.
It’s not a trashcan; it’s a barrel.
It’s not a spucky it’s a sub.
It’s not a shopping cart; it’s a carriage.
It’s not a purse; it’s a pockabook.
They’re not franks; they’re haht dahgs. Franks are money in France.
Police don’t drive patrol units or black and whites they drive a “crooza”.
If you take the bus, your on the “looza crooza”.
It’s not a rubber band, it’s an elastic.
It’s not a traffic circle, it’s a rotary.
“Going to the islands” means Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket.
If something’s good, it’s “pissa”. If something’s really good, it’s “wicked pissa”.
The Pat’s = The Patriots
The Sox = The Red Sox
The C’s = The Celtics
The B’s = The Bruins
Things not to do:
Don’t pahk your cah in Hahvid Yahd they’ll tow it to Meffa (Medford) or Slumaville (Somerville).
Don’t sleep in the Common. (Boston Common)
Don’t wear Orange in Southie on St. Patrick’s Day.
Things you should know:
There are two State Houses, two City Halls, two courthouses, two Hancock buildings (one old, one new
for each).
The colored lights on top the old Hancock tell the weatha’:
“Solid blue, clear view….”
“Flashing blue, clouds due….”
“Solid red, rain ahead….”
“Flashing red, snow instead….” – (except in summer; flashing red means the Red Sox game was rained out)
Route 128 is also I-95 south. It’s also I-93 north.
The underground train is not a subway. It’s the “T”, and it doesn’t run all night (fah chrysakes, this ain’t Noo Yawk).
Order the “cold tea” in China Town after 2:00 am you’ll get a kettle full of beer.
Bostonians… think that it’s their God-given right to cut off someone in traffic.
Bostonians…think that there are only 25 letters in the alphabet (no R’s).
Bostonians…think that three straight days of 90+ temperatures is a heat wave.
Bostonians…refer to six inches of snow as a “dusting.”
Bostonians…always “bang a left” as soon as the light turns green, and oncoming traffic always expects it.
Bostonians…say everything in town is “a five-minute walk.” (pronounced “wok”)
Bostonians…believe that using your turn signal is a sign of weakness.
Bostonians…think that 63-degree ocean water is warm.
Bostonians…think Rhode Island accents are annoying.
September 19th, 2006 at 4:32 am
Worcester, Gloucester, Leicester, Chatham… you stole our names! :>
September 19th, 2006 at 1:53 pm
HAHA! That’s wicked funny. I’ve been in NOLA fah too long. I can’t wait to go home! They all think I have an accent…keep asking me to say Princess Leir and Dahth Vadah…I don’t know why?!? And why do they look at me funny when I say crayfish???? I hate the south, morons don’t know that honking a split second after the light turns green is perfectly acceptable.
See you all in Bah Habah next summah!
September 19th, 2006 at 2:55 pm
Rhode Island accents are annoying, so are Cow Hampshires. (wink)
September 19th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Rhode Islanders sound different from Bostonians?
Who knew?
WTF is a spucky? A po-boy? (That’s for Chris G.!) :mrgreen:
And seriously, y’all call coke “tonic?” I STG, I had never heard that one before. Bubblah, yes. Tonic=coke, no. (Coke is the flavored fizzy stuff, not necessarily Coca-Cola, although Coca Cola Coke is definitely preferred here in the South!)
September 19th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
I have heard everything you mentioned this week, with the exception of spucky?
Which reminds me – wanna meet for dinnah tomowah?
I’ll buy!
September 20th, 2006 at 5:54 am
Coke did have its origins in a miracle-medicine, of the type supplied by snake-oil salesmen. Its changed so much since then there is no resemblence at all now, but perhaps the name stuck in some places.
September 21st, 2006 at 8:55 pm
Yes SR we stole all your English names way back in the day. MANY towns are named after British towns. It’s a compliment!
September 21st, 2006 at 8:56 pm
Chris— you from New England? I love Bah Hahbah! Was just there not too long ago too. EVer have Atlantic Brewing CO’s blueberry ALe???? To die for. I have cases of it LOL!!
September 21st, 2006 at 8:57 pm
I call Coke and the like
soda
September 21st, 2006 at 8:58 pm
Beth D- believe or not I have been at work all week and am just too wiped for dinner. When yah coming up this way again? How do you like Lowell and have you been to Bawston? Did you go to the Black Rose? I have been there and it’s very coooool.