Regionalism's

[AmyO]

Let's see: tonic, frappe, wicked pissa, barrel, bubbler, packie, jimmies, dungarees...
Oh and calling everything by some abbreviation that was thought of 200 years ago.

These words are dying out. Nobody I know has a Boston accent and none of my friends use these words. Once in awhile I slip one in to confuse my husband.

I tried in vain to make my kids call a Coke "tonic". I won't give up, though.

I have a "bad" Boston accent, but my kids don't. I agree that most of these things are getting lost.

Interesting show from WBUR's "Radio Boston" about the accents in eastern Mass....http://www.radioboston.org/index.php...-accent-2.html