Getting  Scrod in Boston

My dad just sent me a list of Boston distinctives, including:

How to say these Massachusetts city names correctly:


**Say it wrong, be shunned**
Worcester : Wuhsta (or Wistah)
Gloucester : Glawsta
Leicester Lesta
Woburn: Wooban
Dedham : Dead-um
Revere: Re -vee-ah
Quincy: Quinzee
Tewksbury : Tooks berry
Leominster : Lemin-sta
Peabody: Pee-ba-dee
Waltham : Walth-ham
Chatham: Chaddum
Samoset: Sam-oh-set or Sum-aw-set but nevah Summerset!

My mom always insisted on the proper pronunciation of her hometown, "Quincy."

One brought back some memories:

Bostonians.. ..think that there are only 25 letters in the alphabet (no R's)

except in "idea".

I remember being in First or Second Grade in Oak Harbor, Washington and not being able to understand why I was being marked down for mispelling "idear", when it was so clearly pronounced that way.  It wasn't until a college linguistics class that I learned that was a marker for the Boston dialectic, where I lived around the ages of three to four.