Queen Dee takes a bite out of Bostonians who don't know how to pronounce the name of that roundoid food substance and shmears people for other mispronunciations. But she lox up the Boston English Speakah Awahd with a list of local pronunciations she wishes her poppy would use.

David Boeri interviews local voice impressario made good Billie West on the Boston accent and asks him why Hollywood can't get it right.

This Friday at 1 p.m., WBUR's David Boeri will spend an hour discussing the Boston accent.

If you want to hear my non-Boston accent, well, you could fly to Rochester to hear me on the Bryant Park Project on WXXI tomorrow around 7 a.m., or you listen to a copy of the program later in the day. I'll be talking about Boston crime maps and how people are now using them as online memorials (and, ugh, online taunting grounds, which I need to do something about).

Gnomi has some requests, including:

... There's no such thing as "the 93" in this area unless you're continuing with "tunnel" or "backup" or "cloverleaf." If you want to put articles with interstate route numbers, you're going to have to look west. Waaaaaaaaay west. Which is where you're probably from if you're saying "We're located right off the 93." ...

Noelle reports:

I just moved to San Fran, and I asked what time the packies closed - my coworker told me that the airport will ship packages 24/7.

In a discussion on candlepin bowling, John Smith wonders:

I love the Boston area language. Especially the use of the word wicked. I'm from Nova Scotia Canada and we have our share of odd language up here. But my question is this. I know wicked can be tagged on to almost anything...wicked awesome, wicked good, wicked bad etc... My question is this can wicked be combined with wicked to describe something that's super-wicked? Like could I say "that was wicked wicked"? or is one wicked as good as it gets?
Go Patriots.

Mass. transplant Gift of Green counts them down, from "raspberry lime rickey" to "jimmies."

Speaking of jimmies, debate continues to simmer as to whether the term is racist (the most recent post on that was just a couple days ago). I say no. What says the jury?

Sonia reports:

Last night's Big Love. The ATF agent was from Boston...she was as bad as Sean Penn's wife in Mystic River.

Montreal's PrGirl recounts (in French), a whirlwind weekend visit to notre ville and surrounding areas (like Cambridge):

... Et que dire de l'accent nasiard! Là-bas, on ne dit pas Boston, c'est Baahstun... Dialecte parfois difficile à comprendre, mais ô combien typique. Ha ya doin?

Which I think means something like:

And talk about your nasal accent! They don't say "Boston," they say "Baahstun." Hard to understand them, but that's typical. Comment ca va?

Sorry, it's not really that exciting a thing, but I just can't say spuckie without an exclamation point. In any case, Richard A. reports that Dairy Dome in Stoneham sells D-Boy spuckies(!) - three eggs, ham, cheese and BBQ sauce. In fact, a gander at their menu shows they offer entire spuckie trays!

Spuckie, spuckie, spuckie!

Earlier:
Sub wars.