Bard spotting on Bluesky 26 September 2024

Hillary Monahan (@hillarymonahan.bsky.social):

Cannot make this shit up.

Woman next door, who has not said a single R sound in her 30+ year Boston life, is hanging out the front door of her house holding a cup of Dunkies, wearing a Celtics sweatshirt, and screaming CONNAH (Conner) GET YA BUTT INSIDE IT'S COLD OUT YA GONNA CATCH COVID.

Serenity "Lady of Shallots" Dee 🍜 (@sapphixy.bsky.social):

I once came across a TikTok from a Bostonian objecting vehemently and sincerely to a TikTok from some dude in central MA giving proper pronunciation of MA place names because he had a mostly rhotic accent. (I say "mostly" because he still pronounced Woburn like a Southie.)

Julia S. (@booktweeting.bsky.social):

the phoneme fairies gave the people of Central Massachusetts the ability to pronounce an interstitial R but took away their ability to pronounce interstitial T in exchange

this is an impor-un difference

Serenity "Lady of Shallots" Dee 🍜 (@sapphixy.bsky.social):

are you telling me that for some people it's not "Wuster" but "Wusser"?

Julia S. (@booktweeting.bsky.social):

Wissdah

Serenity "Lady of Shallots" Dee 🍜 (@sapphixy.bsky.social):

there's a Hampton Roads (e.g. Norfolk, Virginia Beach) accent that seems to have lost all consonants except for some nasals

"Feather and Fin" became "e'erãhĩ"

Julia S. (@booktweeting.bsky.social):

hyperlocal pronunciation is so interesting to me

Serenity "Lady of Shallots" Dee 🍜 (@sapphixy.bsky.social):

Yeah, I'm not even sure how to transcribe the sound that the /ð/ in feather became

/ʍ/, maybe

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

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