Boston accent

The Boston accent is the dialect of English not only of the city of Boston itself, but more generally of all of eastern Massachusetts; it shares much in common with the accents of New Hampshire and upper Maine. The three regions are frequently grouped together by sociolinguists under the cover term Eastern New England accent, combined with New York-New Jersey English, forms a part of Northeastern American English. The internationally best-known user of the Boston accent was probably John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

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Boston accent - Dialect of English - Boston - Massachusetts - New Hampshire - Maine - Sociolinguists - New York-New Jersey English - American English - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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The best-known features of the Boston accent are non-rhoticity and broad A.

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Non-rhoticity - Broad A

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