It's people cruising around the countryside looking at the fall colors. Not many people cruise around the packed city of Boston to look at canvases of foliage.
Yeah, pretty much. Anyone who goes to rural New England for foliage season may be a leaf peeper, but especially if you're from Boston and New York, and only venture west of Cambridge once every October.
Having gone to college and then lived for 11 yeahs in Bahstun, I can also confirm that leaf peeping is specifically about viewing fall foliage. However, I have never heard locals referred to as leaf peepers – only tourists (and not necessarily from New York).
You won't run across too many people here who speak quite this extreme a version unless you ride the T (MBTA public transit). I am convinced that strength of accent is one of the hiring criteria to operate a bus or subway
#12 sounds racists - I've just looked up the US meaning and apparently it means a package store over there but in the UK it is a derogatory way to refer to a Pakistani, or a corner shop run by a South Asian
Yes it is spelled differently, and I'm not suggesting that you intended any offence, but it does sound racist to my ear.
I guess it's due to different cultures having their own parlance and I'm not saying that it necessarily should be changed, just making you aware in case you want to consider changing it
The average American racist is not intelligent enough to discern among different nationalities in the Arab world. They just use the same catch-alls racisms for everybody.
I mean, if they have a slur specific to Pakistanis, instead of just lumping them all together, then they're at least a bit more discerning than the people who wanted to depose Saddam Hussein in response to 9/11.
Yes and no. A lot of these are either combinations of local slang words, or brands turned into generics. For example, "over the bridge" doesn't mean "Cape Cod" regardless of context. It might be used in a conversation that is already in some way about the Cape, as in "Yeah, Charlie moved over the bridge after he retired." "Wicked" in this context would mean "serious," though I've rarely heard people combine with the the already serious "nor'easter," a nationally used name for the weather phenomenon. "Jimmies" are a word for sprinkles in New England. "Hoodsie" comes from Hood Ice Cream, an ice cream company based in Boston (like Atlantans use "coke" to mean "soda," even when not Coca Cola). AFAIK, "Take the pike not the T" is a not a universal way to say "drive, don't take the train" regardless of route. It is a combo of "take the Massachusetts Turnpike (since it is an option for your route)" and "don't take the 'T,'" which is the name of Boston's train system.
Two things: 1) leaf peepahs view foliage in the fall. Nothing to do with New Yorkahs in New England. 2) If yah gonna have a picture of a bridge at the top due to the first question, can it at least be the Sagamore or Bourne Bridges (the two that go to the Cape) and not the Zakim over the Chahles?
Not sure if I should be proud or disappointed after getting 12 right. I think it was watching COPS back in the 90s where I learned I should pahk the cah outside the apahtment.
10/14, only because some of the stuff said is still used by many people in Philly, also I had a teacher from Boston. I still love how people get mad at me for using the word "Jimmies".
I impressed myself with 9/14. Really not bad for a Zimbabwean. There were some things that I got because it was close to slang I know, there were some that I should have got P-town, and there were a whole load of lucky guesses.
What a fun idea for a quiz. It would be fun to do more of these for different regions. (I can't make one, though. I'm from Oregon, and we don't seem to have a lot of local slang/accents.)
12/14. Been to Boston only once but as an Aussie it actually was similar enough logic wise to translate it as our slang is equally as hard to understand.
You don't put marshmallows on a fluffernutter. That would be sick. A fluffernutter is peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff (marshmallow creme) and is one of the pinnacles of human ingenuity and accomplishment.
It's people cruising around the countryside looking at the fall colors. Not many people cruise around the packed city of Boston to look at canvases of foliage.
Great quiz! Probably my easiest 100% yet!
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I guess it's due to different cultures having their own parlance and I'm not saying that it necessarily should be changed, just making you aware in case you want to consider changing it
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