>>>Americans say pawsta? I have not heard that. Sounds like it could be Boston maybe, but they pronounce a lot of words funny <g>.
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>>When I first heard the name of the city the way the, ahem, natives pronounce it, it sounded "bwastun"... very similar to my local dialect back home. Which makes this a very small world indeed - you get two very different languages having a shared (sound of a) dialect.
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>I was born just outside of Boston and went to school there until I was 16.
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>My family had moved there from the midwest a couple of months before I was born.
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>My father threatened to slap me or my brothers if he ever heard us using a Boston accent (like IDEAR (idea) or CAAA (car) or LIBARY (library)).

And "Paaak Street"! :-)

BTW why was I cc'd on this thread??
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