Wed, Jun 13 2007
Words
  • Words that I love to hear when they are said with a thick Boston accent: "Martha", "heart".
  • 3 cool word sites: Wordie, Online Etymology Dictionary, OneLook search.
  • What do you read, my lord? Words
  • I'm the lyrical gangsta (word'em up)
The first point was all I really wanted to say. The rest is fluff because you can't write a one line blog post.
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From: JD url: http://djdw.wordpress.com/ date: 6/14/2007 09:51:12 title: comment: You totally crack me up. excerpt: blog_name: ip: 140.247.216.199 ----- name: Kyle url: date: 6/15/2007 14:50:38 title: comment: One of my favorite posts excerpt: blog_name: ip: 72.248.148.90 ----- name: betsy url: date: 6/29/2007 00:43:17 title: comment: My Bostonian friend grew up purposely avoiding the accent. One day she had to call her mom at work; coincidentally, her mom's name is Martha. The conversation went something like this: Friend: "Hello, is Martha there?" Coworker: "Who?" F: "Martha" C: "Um, I'm sorry...?" F: "Martha!" C: "...Mar...Marta?" F: (sighing resignedly) "MAAHtha" C: "Oh, Martha! Ok just a sec, I'll get her." excerpt: blog_name: ip: 125.3.42.41 ----- name: Mandy <>
Subject:
You need to get the Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/). It is very good with the new slang and most standard words. You'll spend too much time clicking and checking out different words.
Subject:
Hi My name is Mahtha and I grew wup in Boston. my mom, also Mahtha, was from new orleans and they called me mahtha loo. OmG can you even imagine growing up with a name like that in Boston? I am full recovered after years of self help groups, and have even emigrated to ny,
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well, Im irish and my fiance's name is Micheál (pronounced Me-haaall)and my cousin from Boston calls him Mo-haalll. Its funny when you are in the west of Ireland in a small pub and he comes out with it....
Subject:
My college roommate grew up in Duxbury, Massachusetts. One Christmas break she came back and told me the story of the wedding she went to with a very BOSTON cover band who played "Calendar Girls" by the Beach Boys..."Yeahhss, Yeahhss, ma haht's in a whool, I luv, I luv, I luv, my calendah ghe-wul" Course, being from So. Cal, in the 1980s, I was doing alot of "Gag me with a spoon" myself, so I can't really talk much!!!
Subject: sorry
but my brain/ears can't hear anything by my mom saying martha in her sweet southern (Miss,) accent! started me giggling so hard I could see the second word. As we say in the south, "Bess you heart". a new appreciator of your geeky skills!
Subject: not bess
please reread as Bless...sometimes the magic fingers just ... never mind.
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