Last week, we shared this video from the Boston Globe that proved getting rid of an accent you’ve had your entire life is not an easy feat. But what about local words and phrases? It might be just as difficult to forgo using all the colloquialisms you’re so accustomed to.
Once again, Globe reporter Billy Baker uses his Boston-born father as a primary example. We all know that milkshakes are actually “frappes,” and that “TV remotes are “clickahs,” but some of the words he uses appear to be fading with the older generation. Do you use any of these words still? What did he forget?
Video source: Committed to his colloquialisms by The Boston Globe
