So don't I

Dude...I say "so don't I" all the time.

eeek so dont i! although its really pronounced "so dunn-eye"

wait... so is it good as in "so do I," or is it bad as in "I don't like it either"???

"So Don't I" that'd drive me crazy if I heard that all the time!

when I moved from mass me and my buddy to Va we noticed how different we sounded check it outhelp it oout instead of outviser caad - visa cardchristiner - christinawhat'z upbuddy - what's up buddy - say real fast

another is down in va they call the store by the name but in mass we might saysupa maakit or the growcez

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I am from MA and live in Virginia and two things that when I say it people said "what?!"Elastic: apparently people call these things rubber bands and they did not know what an elastic was!Jimmies (on ice cream): people call these sprinkes and did not know what jimmies were.Am I alone here ;-)

I am a black guy who loves hockey.GO BRUINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

my whole family is from boston and now we are living in va. we call the remote control for the tv 'the clickah' and people here call it a remote. when I ask for the clickah I get funny looks.

I am flying to Boston tomorrow, from Toronto, CA. Thanks for the quick heads up on the lingo, I'll let you know in a week what I thought of it all. Cheers

Am I the only one that's heard this expression's first cousin, "So ain't I"? As in, "Um goin' to the cahnivuhl tuhnite"..."So ain't I!"" Oh and the previous poster is NOT alone...When I lived on the west coast, I was told that "elastic is a quality, not an item.." yah, right. I also got weird looks asking for jimmies and about making a "packie run"

this drives my wife crazy when I use it.... I'm a lifelong MA resident.... she is a New York transplant

i grew up in Boston. i know all about packie runs "yo, you want en'in?" nah, imstr8." "grab up a deuce deuce though, dry as shit!"i live outside the country now so i live on my memories. but its funny, cuz i work on the phones and get to listen back on previous calls. my Boston accent is so pronounced.what really makes me proud though is when i am on the phone and people recognise my accent as being from Boston. i think that's the best feeling in the world....

So if your name is Bob and you are married to Barb, how do you know when people in Boston are calling your name?

My family (from California) visited another family in Weymouth in the 60s, and even they were confused ... we had a "Barbie" and they had a "Bobby." We were in stitches listening to them, but they were totally convinced that they talked just like Huntley & Brinkley!

I'm from GA and I'll be in Boston this weekend until next wed. It should be interesting to how southern "redneck" and Boston lingo go together. It's probably gonna be confusing for all of us. I can't wait. Go Sox!!! I hate the Yankess. Later, CAV

People of Massachusetts who moved to my state, I feel you.I'm from VA and recently visited Mass. Expected "Boston" to follow some derivative of the ar-ah rule... but talked to some people and they were like "so how do you like it at Buwaustn?"It was quite great... But my question is how the heck to you get along with no "yoll"? It's vital!

when i was a kid i used to say " so dont i" all the time , ive lost it now but i was laughin when i read this cuz it brought me back,,but what in the hell is up with all these people from Mass, livin down in VA

This is cool - stumbled across this site looking for anything about the Boston accent - certain words, etc. and the pronunciation of them.I am from Lynn (City of Sin......) and now live in New York......and get picked on all the time!!

im from MA and am currently goin to school in CT, i said "so ahhn't i" and now after i was made fun of i realized i and are don't even go together? and i cant stand their accent is Bawwston, no BAHHHHston!~ and yes i love my accent cause everyone knows im from MA and wants to have the accent

Hey, lifelong Boston resident now living in Phoenix, AZ of all things, and ohmigawd, I get ragged on all the time..."WHAT? What did you say??" I went in the store and said "throw it on my cahd" WHAT? What's a CAHD? Aw, jeez...at least I can find a place to pahk the cah heah hehe, but I wicked miss the way we talk back home :(

As a native Bostonian, i used to get blank stares from friends when, on days we might want to get some beer, I'd suggest a trip to the "packy"oh and they all made fun of my accent whenever I said I had an idea. (Idear)

While I was living in Allston (Ipswich Native, now in Worcester), my roomates had some friends from jersey, who did not know, that you drink water from a bubblah, I had to tell them you only throw coins in a fountain.

I am in Chicago and can't stand the way Chicagoan's pronounce the middle o vowel which Bostonians don't have (example the vowel that would make the diffence between Bob and Barb. To get even with these mid-westerners, I always have them pronounce (after writing them down) Mary, marry and merry. Inevitably they will pronounce them all the same, while Bostonians will have a distinct vowel for each. Who says our English is weahd?

I am a Bostonian living in South Florida, people think I talk a little funny, so I throw in a couple of youze guyz, and tell them I am from Providence.I tell the rednecks here that youze guyz is northern for y'all. Some of them actually believe me, and others don't know what I am talking about, but want to know if I ever met a Kennedy.

A real good ear can hear the difference between an accent from Medfed vs. an accent from Sto'tin" A true native can hear distinct accents that differ from town to town. A Lynn accent is dramatically different than from Somerville accent; and a Southie accent is the REAL Boston lingo. 351 towns in the Commonwealth, probably 352 different takes on it.

Confused about the Bob/Barb thing.Around here ( Boston area) it would be Bawb and Bahb. Is someone calling Bobby Bahbie?It's funny, I learned to talk while living in Cambridge and moved to a NW burb when I was very young and still retain a very heavy Boston accent, my kid's accents are very diluted though and I often hear my youngest actually saying ( gulp) CAR not cah

and of course when you drop the 'r' from a word it must be added somewhereelse.ex. "My girlfriend worked in a lawroffice"and living now in CA I asked for directions and the gal at Circle K saidtake a U-ey at the light. I knew shewas from Boston!

I haven't heard anyone say this yet, so I've been wondering ... is the emphasis on "Don't" or "I"? When I say "So do I," I think I usually put it on the "I," but I wasn't sure if it's the same.

My CA-raised daughter makes fun of the way I say Are-inge for the citrus fruit and fahr-est for a large group of trees. I just tell her that anyone who can't say "Mary is merry that she's married" and have anyone know who did what doesn't have any right to complain.

I do need to come to Boston and check this out. I am an Australian living in London and from what you're saying the Boston accent has some similarities with - gasp - the Australian accent.

OMG, my cousins from Michigan think I'm a riot. Funny thing is, I grew up in MI and moved to MA around age 7. I used to get reemed for the mid-west accent so I dropped that pretty quick and picked up a wicked thick Lowell accent. (yes, it is a bit differnt from Boston but sounds the same to an outsider). Does anyone remember "No Sah... Yes Sah..."? I had a boyfriend who lived in England and he flipped out when I said I was heading to the packy. Apparently, in England, packy is a derogitory term for Pakistani people. Go figure!

So how would David (1/10) pronounce the surname of Adam (1/13), and distinguish him from Foster? But Aussie is pretty consistently right behind the nose, while BosTalk (or whatever) bounces back and forth between the throat, the nose and the outstretched lips, much like Parisian French. Remember when the young Bee Gees (fresh from a dozen years in Oz) sang "awluva sudden I sore a new morning"? No wonder they also offered a hat-tip to "Massachusetts"!

I now live in Florida originally from Dorchester. The best one I have ever heard was told to me by my nephews wife. She was attending art school in Florida two guys from Boston are in her class and one yells out to the other" I need a "Darka Marka"

Help me on this one- I grew up on the South Shore and call pepsi, coke... "soda". A friend from Dawchesta calls is "tonic"---- Is this regional???

dude, you'd be surprised. people in the south call it "coke" even if its sprite or dr. pepper. and in the pac.northwest, and in the midwest its "pop" I've never heard tonic before, unless you're talking about the shit you put with gin.

Yeah- we also called it "coke" even if it was ginger ale......

I grew up just north of Concord NH. We called soft drinks "tonic".My father was from PA. To us kids, a "cah" was something you drove. To him it was an animal that gave milk.

Tonic is from the days when Pespsi, Coke etc. had drugs in them, sold in drug stores, and and were used as pick me up's.

My sister and I (ages 40 & 43)grew up in Dorchester and always said "tonic".Fa cryin out loud, it was right up there on the menu in the "spuckie" shop!Here are sumoah:Toozdeez & Thursdeez we always had pa-day-duhs and roast beef on a boo-key roll.My father called taxi cabs "nickle chasers"Mah would scream out the window"Get up the house!"when she was really mad and wanted us in.

"Jimmies (on ice cream): people call these sprinkes and did not know what jimmies were.Am I alone here "Oh, thank God, I'm not the only one!! I lived in Taunton (ok, so not quite Boston) until I was nine, then transplanted to Illinois. Not one person here knows what the heck I'm talking about when I ask for jimmies on ice cream!! Used to get them on sundaes at Friendly's.Reading this has brought on all kinds of warm fuzzies remembering that delicious dialect. =) Wish it hadn't been drilled out of me!

If you're arguing with someone and you want to say "you better not do that" it's "ya beddanot!"Also, I get lots of phone messages that go a little something like this.... "Hi Christiner, it's mum..."And a great story: I was in NY at the closest Dunkies (40 miles away!! I was suffering severe "withdrawral") and I asked for a jimmie donut. The guy looked confused, but pretended he knew what I was talking about and turned to the donunts like he was going to get it. He just stood there for 10 seconds and finally turned back and goes, "a what?"

"So don't I" was something I always said without giving it a second thought until I was an adult and somebody pointed out to me how weird it really sounds. I also said (say) "So ahn't I" (So aren't I") instead of "So am I".For instance, "I'm goin' up Brighton Center (senna) ta do some shoppin'."..."So ahn't I."

Also we say RUM instead of ROOM. My freinds from Ny always laugh when i say " i'm tired, i'm about to go slepe in my Rum"

I can answer the "Bob" "Barb" question if no one else has. "Barb" is pronounced "Bahb" and "Bob" is pronounced "Bawb" Totally different and even an outsidah can tell the difference.Most people don't realize that in the New England dialect, the way the "o" is pronounced is as distinctive as the way "r"'s are. (Or aren't, depending on how you look at it.)Jess

Rum (room) is a Jersey thing, but okay.

My mom and I were living in Holliston (Hallstin) but we moved out to ChicAAHgo 43 yrs ago... she still pronounces my name MAAAAAAHHK.... it's a pretty resilient ole accent.When we came out here on summuh vay-cay to see our rel's, that's when I first heard the word "tonic"... we called it "pop" and I thought it was pretty weird, tonic was what guys put in their hay-ah.I've been back here since 88, and have finally started the "heah an' theah" and "he's wikkit smaaaht". I'm not doing the "I sawr a great movie" thing though (yet)...I still say, "My folks live near ROWT Eight outside Chicago..." but here in Natick, "the traffic is always a mess on ROOT Nine." It's two different ways, depending where the street is I'm talking about...Finally, I remember reading a little story in Reader's Digest years ago: a lady was at a family reunion and was talking to a doctor from Boston. She noticed he was looking at her very closely and she asked "What's wrong?" He said "I notice you have PSDS." She got pretty freaked out until she realized he was saying "You have pierced ears".mark

if u've missed the boston accent, u can listen to NPR's cartalk they got this thick accent, or u can google car talk and lisen to it online.

The man in my life grew up near Boston. I grew up in the midwest. He often says, "So don't I," and even thought I've known him for three years, yesterday was the first time he ever said "Bang a left" while I was driving! We are going to Boston next week, and I can't wait!!