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Originally Posted by snbush67
I think its funny how people from Boston don't pronounce R in words, IE car is ca and "I parked my car in the yard" becomes "I pauked my ca in the yad".
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LOL, I was just at a wedding with a lot of folks from Boston. Lots of that.
An interesting note about immigration & linguistics: As late as the 1950's, when scottish Gaelic dialects were being studied, it was often done in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Accents, dialects, songs and folklore that were tied to specific regions in Scotland were still preserved in Cape Breton. When Scots immigrated in Nova Scotia, they often came as whole villages. They would uproot and re-establish themselves in the "new world", bringing its local dialect & culture with it.
This is in contrast to the "chain" immigration typical of the Irish, who would often come in a steady trickle. First a father, then a few years later the sons, the wife, then cousins... there was more dispersion and assimilation.