# Visitors and Transplants: what have you only heard said in New England? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 31, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visitors-and-transplants-what-have-you-only-heard-said-in-new-england/541358 "2010-05-31T06:14:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visitors-and-transplants-what-have-you-only-heard-said-in-new-england/541358/101 "2010-06-05T21:07:53Z")
Because they’re trying to flap their Rs but failing? ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visitors-and-transplants-what-have-you-only-heard-said-in-new-england/541358/102 "2010-06-05T22:48:41Z")
A friend of mine from Maine calls her front yard the _dooryard_. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visitors-and-transplants-what-have-you-only-heard-said-in-new-england/541358/103 "2010-06-06T00:25:52Z")
> [@nonacetone](#): > > A friend of mine from Maine calls her front yard the _dooryard_. See post #60. ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visitors-and-transplants-what-have-you-only-heard-said-in-new-england/541358/104 "2010-06-06T00:43:45Z")
Ah, my apologies. I obviously missed that one. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2010, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visitors-and-transplants-what-have-you-only-heard-said-in-new-england/541358/105 "2010-06-07T13:24:46Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > 😃 I’m a bit confused by their guide to pronouncing Chourico, though. Everyone I’ve ever heard say it has said shuh-deese not shuh-reese. I’ve always heard it pronounced “shuh-reese” in Rhode Island. I’ve never heard the other pronunciation. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visitors-and-transplants-what-have-you-only-heard-said-in-new-england/541358/106 "2010-06-11T11:23:06Z")
I was thinking about the time thing before bed last night. I have a clear memory of sitting in my second grade classroom with a worksheet filled with clocks, and our task was to label them properly as quarter past, half past, and quarter of/to whatever hour the clock showed us. Since we were taught time that way, it strikes me as strange that I could tell someone from elsewhere that it’s quarter of four and have them not understand me. ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visitors-and-transplants-what-have-you-only-heard-said-in-new-england/541358/107 "2010-06-11T11:41:06Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > In New England, you will also get your share of French Canadian influence - which results in words like “birfday” for “birthday” and “sketti” for “spaghetti” > > Oh, and we called both our grandmothers by Grammy. I’ve not heard that down here. > [@elfkin477](#): > > Sure, but only if the speaker is under the age of six or so. > > As for Grammy - and its male counterpart, Grampy - I’ve heard that it’s most common in French-Canadian and Portuguese families, which would fit with the fairly large populations of both in the northeast (people of French extract being common in NH/ME/VT and Portuguese being common in MA/RI). Actually - I grew up hearing my Grammy call it “birfday” - and she was well over six 🙂 She just had a hard time translating her words into English. As for “Grammy,” my Portuguese relations go by VoVo and VuVu and my sister-in-law goes by TiTi (aunt). They had not really heard of Grammy until they married in - just sayin’ My mother, for some reason that eludes my brothers and I, requires the much more formal “Grandmama” _shakes head then shrugs_ ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visitors-and-transplants-what-have-you-only-heard-said-in-new-england/541358/108 "2010-06-11T17:07:48Z")
> [@Constant\_Reader](#): > > Born in Salem, lived on the North Shore of MA till I was 10 then moved to southern NH… (god I miss Candlepin) Leda Lanes was still there last time I checked, about two years ago. Still prefer tenpin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/visitors-and-transplants-what-have-you-only-heard-said-in-new-england/541358.md?page=5)