Boston University students talk about the unique words Bostonians use when describing a water fountain, milk shake, liquor store, and more. Read more about Boston slang in BU Today: www.bu.edu/today/2017/masteri...
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@bobdonovan346 жыл бұрын
It's true. We have no patience for long sentences. Everything's shortened up. Extra words waste time. We're always in a rush even when we have nowhere to go.
@74artgrrl Жыл бұрын
The Pike is another one.😊
@jenniferwalsh13386 жыл бұрын
I live in Boston and I use a lot of these words I was surprised when some of them didn’t know what a bubbler was 😂
@oop22706 жыл бұрын
Sassy Chicken Nuggets ......every New Englander knows what a bubbler is.... I’m from Worcester out in central mass and I know what a bubbler is.
@ellenw3916 жыл бұрын
LOL I just posted on this...no one, in recent history has used that word for "water fountain." And by recent, I mean MANY decades lolol
@InMyBassMent6 жыл бұрын
Sassy Chicken Nuggets when they didn’t know what a rotary or bubbler was I was losing my shit
@Baconator13685 жыл бұрын
Ellen W i use the word bubbler and most people i know do
@zolarczakl38805 жыл бұрын
Don't forget frappe.
@pinkpeachlake6 жыл бұрын
"Rotary" and "nor'easter" are not Boston slang. They are common throughout New England, New York State, and, I bet, a vastly larger area.
@jimeb2jim2564 жыл бұрын
Rotary is not slang at all. Roundabout is a UK word imported into the US a century or more after the correct US Rotary, but most of the country did not use them in traffic. In essence traffic planners were adopting a foreign word and feature as they were ignorant of the correct term.
@kingwise20743 жыл бұрын
New England follows Boston
@74artgrrl Жыл бұрын
@@kingwise2074 and Boston follows New England.😊
@kenb35522 жыл бұрын
A Nor'easter is not just a big snowstorm. It is a particular type of storm and while often used to refer to snow storms, they can also just be rain storms. It's the direction they move in. North and East. The usual scenario - a tropical system containing lost of moisture comes out of the Gulf of Mexico travels North East towards New England and runs into a cold front usually over the Northeast and or Mid-Atlantic states. The collision of fronts causes strong winds. The moisture hits the cold and causes a lot of snow. If it happens outside of Winter, then it will be just a nasty wind and rain storm.
@marilynpagliuca14783 жыл бұрын
For those not knowing, Boston accent is the last of the old British accent. Remember the British were the first inhabitants!
@cinnamonape30453 жыл бұрын
You're thinking of the Boston Brahmin accent.
@dhruvadeshmukh12482 жыл бұрын
@@cinnamonape3045 how do you know Brahmin? Are you Indian?
@teachertrail4390 Жыл бұрын
It is also a term for the uppermost Boston people
@Donkey_Lips3 жыл бұрын
Only in Boston, using the word "wicked" as a superlative adverb. It is wicked hot out!
@maggaman1603 Жыл бұрын
wicked pissa man, fuchin A
@PilarAYah5 жыл бұрын
I went to subway one day here in NC and I asked for an "Italian Grinda" ....they looked confused and one lady laughed and said, youll find that at a strip club. hahahaha
@277kne5 жыл бұрын
Bubbler because the water bubbles up. On the older ones
@MegaALLCAPSRAGE6 жыл бұрын
alot of these are used in Australia in very similar ways. Bubbler = Bubbler , Nor'easter = Nor'easter (but means north-east wind) and Bang a U-ey = Chuck a U-ey
@interstateeddietv85515 жыл бұрын
A bubbler lol I learn something new everyday. Don't confuse us Texas folks with this. 😂 This is awesome!
@wonderworld5606 Жыл бұрын
We use bubbler, blinker and u-ey in Australia 🇦🇺
@crazychickSHENA4 жыл бұрын
Noreasteer are strong Winter Stroms
@melissab23395 жыл бұрын
💗 U BU!
@antiqueshistoryandconspira37913 жыл бұрын
I so whish that these slang words as well as the accent existed everywhere is Mass. Though in western mass some of these words are used, like rotary.
@teachertrail4390 Жыл бұрын
The accent is all over eastern Massachusetts. It changes a bit in Rhodesia island
@leslieraymond63726 жыл бұрын
Jimmies
@Davanthall5 жыл бұрын
Leslie Raymond no. I’m a Bostonian, born and raised, and even I think that’s a horrendous nickname for sprinkles.
@lozloz74184 жыл бұрын
Leslie Raymond here in Australia it’s dingers
@davidpetrusewicz77294 жыл бұрын
Sprinkles not Jimmy cap
@MichelleDespres5 жыл бұрын
When I was in college, I had one roommate from Attleboro who knew what I was saying, but my other two roommates from NH and upstate NY respectively had to be taught the correct Massachusetts terms. They had no idea what a packie, a bubblah, a grindah or a rotary was.
@Davanthall5 жыл бұрын
Yeah I’m from North Attleboro and the only one of these that confused me was “bang a U-ey”, never heard that before in my life. But all the other words were normal to me.
@notsure61875 жыл бұрын
Michelle Despres they didn't know what a grinder was? musta been one of those people who say sub or hoagie.
@Blackphillipsupporter2 жыл бұрын
Doood I’m from Attleboro!
@teachertrail4390 Жыл бұрын
I’m from North Attleboro but I live in Illinois now.
@InMyBassMent6 жыл бұрын
Were half these people even Bostonian?
@bridgettorpey82065 жыл бұрын
yes
@Davanthall5 жыл бұрын
InMyBassMent I sincerely doubt it, they were all college kids from other parts of the world.
@gordonhall7524 жыл бұрын
don't think any of them were
@petalchild3 жыл бұрын
@@bridgettorpey8206 No. They're kids who moved to Boston for college.
@shantanu9253 жыл бұрын
I wrote all these in my application essay, haha
@noahmcdonald52086 жыл бұрын
I knew all of these sines I’m from boston
@frosting6439 Жыл бұрын
I was shocked to learn people outside of New England say tennis shoes instead of sneakers. I have never use the word tennis shoe we all use sneaker.
@seventiesgirl64494 жыл бұрын
Why did they ask people who obviously are not from Massachusetts?
@teachertrail4390 Жыл бұрын
To see if they knew those words.
@Futureone3 жыл бұрын
I neva knew my accent until the internet..lol
@bubulunaidoo3 жыл бұрын
I need Dunk
@MsSmitty93 жыл бұрын
Med-Fid. Never Meffa. Unless your from Mall Din. !! 😂
@myradioon Жыл бұрын
In Boston we use "Kid" instead of "Bro" or "Dude". Even between middle aged people. "Nah Kid, I stayed home last night and watched the Bruins".
@crazeyjoe4 жыл бұрын
New York: fuhgeddaboudit Boston: wicked
@user-lf7nf3kl7t4 жыл бұрын
Wicked pissah kid
@jacquir83313 жыл бұрын
@@user-lf7nf3kl7t Kid so right!
@davidthaler7018 Жыл бұрын
Frappe, not milkshake Grinder, not sub, hero, or hoagie Pizzas aren’t sold as “pies”; they just pizzas. Pies have fillings, not toppings. Packie, not liquor store Old-school New Englanders may say “tonic” instead of “soda” And remember the accent: Kin ya spawt me three dawluhs? Whose cah we takin’? Can’t drive in this weather, no sah! Oh, and Peet’s coffee is WAY better than *cough* Dunks.
@lewis73152 жыл бұрын
i-yah means yes ...... " Down East" means the NorthWest towards Maine... as the prevailing schooner wind is coming from the SouthEast
@gordonhall7524 жыл бұрын
"Nor'easter" is an invention of the weather people on television on Boston stations. It was always called a "Northeast storm". And what's with their pronunciation of "garden" with equal emphasis on BOTH syllables? HUH? It's pronounced "gah dn" with what's known as a schwa between the "d" and the "n" at the end (meaning you nearly skip over the vowel all together.
@kiwitrap254 жыл бұрын
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@asdic8883 жыл бұрын
Anyone who's driven in Boston should understand "bang a uey." Boston drivers are notoriously aggressive, so turns need to be made quickly and decisively. See also: "Bang a left at the next set of lights" or "Bang a right on Boylston."
@matthewlorono6 жыл бұрын
Commentary for anyone that happens along this video from an outsider that lived there for a few years: I never actually heard any use the word "bubbler" in the context of actually talking about a drinking fountain when I lived there. I heard the word by someone showing off unusual local words, but never in actual contextual use. Rotaries and Traffic Circles aren't true Roundabouts. There are distinctions in how a driver approaches and when to yield. The other problem here is that most Americans never encounter any type of round intersection, so none of these words would be familiar. Advice to any region thinking about putting in Rotaries, Traffic Circles or Roundabouts into their communities, just don't do it for any traffic where the speed limit is over 25MPH. Rotaries are traffic choke points in New England for all but the least travelled roads. Nor-easter isn't just any storm. It's a storm coming out of the North East, which has distinct properties that sets it apart from storms (including Tropical Storms) out of the South or storms (including Lake Effect Snow) from the West. Weather in New England is incredibly complex. Bang a u-ey? Similar to other phrases for quick U-turns around the US. In context, I'm sure most people would get this one. The- is a common practice throughout the world in many languages. Carthage simply means "New City" and Istanbul means "Into the City". Los Angeles has a similar habit using "the" with nicknames for their freeways. ::shrug::
@LoveNotesAndLies6 жыл бұрын
Have you really never heard the word "bubbler" used as a drinking fountain while in Boston? I'm just surprised because I grew up just south of Boston, and didn't know it as anything other than "bubbler" for most of my childhood haha. However, although my parents use the word "bubbler" exclusively, I pretty much always say "water fountain" now as an adult. It's definitely a dying regional word, kind of like "pissah."
@matthewlorono6 жыл бұрын
Yup, never heard "bubbler" genuinely used. "Wicked" I heard, and "wicked pissah" from time to time. I definitely heard the conserved R (taken away from words like "pissah" and added to other words that actually did end in an "a". :)
@tiedough74813 жыл бұрын
I’m 40 minutes north and I’m suprised you haven’t heard it
@davidthaler7018 Жыл бұрын
A Nor’easter is a storm that TRAVELS northeast, originating south of New England. If it originated in the northeast, then every storm in New England would be a Nor’easter.
@Davanthall5 жыл бұрын
I’ve never heard “bang a U-ey” I’m a native Bostonian. Also the T is what the MBTA calls itself, I mean it right in the freak’n logo.... I thought “round-about” was what they called it England?
@Jayden-we9ie4 жыл бұрын
really? Im a native Bostonian and I hear it almost every time I ride with someone lol
@dinoradja29803 жыл бұрын
You're not from Boston
@AkilezNewEngland4 жыл бұрын
The Philippines has Rotaries lol. We call them Rotary.
@DspaZZfrmdaf3 жыл бұрын
Shoulda did Dorchester slang
@davidpetrusewicz77294 жыл бұрын
T or Catipiller
@gunnarfrawley3 жыл бұрын
MA PASS ME THE CLICKA
@johndoe-wv3nu3 жыл бұрын
Ma pass da clicka..... born and raised.
@reloadpsi4 жыл бұрын
Let's just say that word for the liquor store is wicked awkward if you're from the UK.
@user-lf7nf3kl7t4 жыл бұрын
Any students coming to Boston. learn the slang sure....just don't try the accent please.
@kat4truth3963 жыл бұрын
The Gah-den not gaRden that just weird minus the R... who Eva made this isn’t from Boston lol
@btm3802 жыл бұрын
"Hook a u-ey" is also acceptable.
@johnnybravo11964 жыл бұрын
Doesn’t everyone talk like this?
@annadraper65 жыл бұрын
I always thought bang a uey was universal.
@MsFeiji4 жыл бұрын
and you can bang a left or bang a right also
@gordonhall7524 жыл бұрын
NO. "make a u-turn is".
@atex61753 жыл бұрын
These words aren't slag they are words. Why didnt you ask people from Boston instead of half the yuppies from outta state that go to your school? Why am I surprised you gave aoc an economics degree
@robertgraham54862 жыл бұрын
It’s not the Boston Commons its the Boston Common
@pepsiq119652 жыл бұрын
Please don't call it the Boston Commons. There is no S in the Boston Common
@ellenw3916 жыл бұрын
Ok I've lived in Boston since I came up to go to BU, back when COM was SPC (and that is as close to dating myself as I dare). I have not ONCE heard anyone, anywhere, call a water fountain a "bubbler" except on videos like this. Just silly!
@annadraper65 жыл бұрын
I've never called a water fountain a bubbler.
@helenakronick57415 жыл бұрын
Ellen W I and everyone I know from New England uses the word bubbler.
@Davanthall5 жыл бұрын
Ellen W the kids called it that in elementary school all the time.
@71sc5024 жыл бұрын
Sorry, but youre wrong. Im 15 min south of boston and we always called it a bubbla in school when i was growing up.
@Alison03054 жыл бұрын
Ellen W I came here in 5th grade and have lived in several towns as far out as an hour from Boston. Everyone at school (including teachers) all referred to it as a bubbler
@hsun79973 жыл бұрын
People in Boston say bubbler? I thought it was only a Wisconsin thing.
@teachertrail4390 Жыл бұрын
Nope. It’s a bubbler in New England.
@betsybaldwin43423 жыл бұрын
White out storm
@jumpingjeffflash99462 жыл бұрын
that English accent at 0:28....swoon........
@jimdellavecchia4594 Жыл бұрын
The most common Boston slang is in Southie, where they are ultra racist. I can list those terms here.
@TomSmith-dp9zb2 жыл бұрын
the T's not reliable? there's a train every 15-20 minutes buddy
@kimcreate13 жыл бұрын
You people are saying it wrong. It's bub-bla, and Nor Eaststa
@billie65285 жыл бұрын
Who cares about a bubbler? Are they still around? Lol