You may have noticed that Nicolitalia Pizzeria's menu has some deliberately-misspelled words to mimick a Boston accent, but the truth is, those words only reflect one small rule of speaking like a true Bostonian, which is to drop the r's on when the said r is located after a long "a" sound (such as "cah" instead of "car")..

Another important rule to speak like a Bostonian is to also drop the r sound after long "ee" or "ea" sound, such as "beah" instead of "beer" and "deah" instead of "dear." You may wonder where did all those r's go after we drop them so much, but have no fear. Us Bostonians add those missing r's into words that end with a long "a" sound, but only if those words are followed by words that start with a vowel in a sentence ("I have no idear if he can come.").

If you ever come to Boston, one thing that you will quickly notice is how unusual we pronounce some of our cities' and towns'. Some of the notable ones are how Worcester is pronounced "Wohsta", Gloucester is pronounced "Glohsta", Revere is pronounced "Reveah", and Woburn is pronouced "Woobin." Also, let's not forget how Boston is the oldest city in the union. We haven't forgotten our British ancestry. Bostonians pronounce "aunts" as "ahnts", for example.

Last but not least, if a Bostonian (such as dear ol' Nick who might be waiting on your pizza order) says "How why ya?", he probably is asking you how you are doing.