News item: Per a recent story in the Boston Globe — even a sociolinguist from Dartmouth agreed after his quantitative study on the issue — the famed, fabled, fabulous Boston accent is slowly ...
From call-in radio shows to corner bars, the accent that defined Boston is losing ground. A Dartmouth linguist has research to prove it. The iconic dropped "r" sound is disappearing. But to those who ...
A few weeks ago, the Globe’s Beth Teitell penned a piece heralding the death of the Boston accent. Such a controversial pronouncement prompted a lot of thoughts, some of which readers shared with us ...