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It's not just actors who can't get the Boston accent right
By adamg on Sun, 11/02/2008 - 3:12pm
CNN talks up Boston as a great place to visit (thanks!), but gives this advice:
Pahk your cahr: Here's the secret of why Bostonians "pahk their cahr in Hahvid Yahd" -- because it's too expensive to park it in the city.
As Charlie Brown might say if he lived around here: AHHHHHG! Dear CNN: Ditch the extra R and the advice to pahk in Hahvahd Yahd - which nobody does because they don't want to get towed away by Hahvahd Police.
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the parking garage at eliot
the parking garage at eliot and jfk must be among the most expensive in the area. I've never heard someone say Harvard Square is cheap parking
Pahk ya cah
The hahdah they try, the woorse they sound.
And the squirrels get
And the squirrels get pissed.
This gentleman...
...gets it right: http://www.soxaholix.com/
If you don't know him, scroll through his archives. Funny, smaht, knows the Sox. And his Bostin accents.
hahvahd coppahs
The police are fine upstanding defenders of justice, but it's the cahppahs that I'm really concerned about.