Eastern Massachusetts has its own way of saying things. Whether you're drinking a tonic, or slurping a frappe, or quenching your thirst with water from a bubbler, you know you're near Boston when the letter "r" starts migrating within sentences (think 'supah idear').  To linguists, New England breaks into two dialect regions:  Eastern New England…Read more If Ancestors Could Talk: The Words of Nineteenth-Century New England