Boston accent
Hub City dialect
The Boston accent is the distinctive way English is spoken in and around Boston, Massachusetts.
Its most recognizable feature is non-rhoticity—dropping the r sound after vowels, so "car" becomes "cah" and "park" becomes "pahk." The accent also features a broad a in words like "bath" and distinctive vowel shifts.
You can always tell a Boston accent—they pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd.
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