Beaglebay
Houndsight is 20/20
Caw-hawg is how this Rhode Islander (and just about every other one I know) says it.I have friends who live in Peabiddy and Woobin. (Peabody and Woburn).
My wife is from Taunton and they have a strange pocket of dialect. I can't even write a phonetic. Tunh (pause) ehn. They drop not only R's but
T's from the middle of words and substitute a brief pause. There is a kih-en with mih-ens in Tunh-en. There is a kitten with mittens in Taunton.
I like baked, stuffed quahogs which are pronounced Co-hogs round here. Simple and correct. In Rhode Island they become Kworh-haworhgs. Almost impossible
accent to duplicate. Like New York on steroids. Great fun to ask them to pronounce certain words.
"Jeet yet?"
"Naw, goin' ta Rod's ta get three gaggas, all the way and a cawfee milk. Swingin' by Del's fo' a quot latah."
Music to my ears. I don't hear many RI accents here on the Cape, but I can identify one immediately. And we usually discover we are less than six degrees of separation once we get talking.
Ah...the rhotic 'R', and the glottal 'T'--it's all very similar to some British accents/dialects, you dozy sod. :giggle:
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