Do Bostonians think "hat" and "heart" are homophones? I never noticed anything that extreme. I've known a tiny handful of people with accents that *strong*, but I don't think they were in that particular direction. (Closer to "hot" and "heart" being homophones? Though not all the way there?)
But accents can vary a great deal based just on where in the Boston area you are (I once read something which described how they'd migrated around since the mid-to-late 1800s; I wish I could find it again); the stereotypical "pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd" accent exists, but is a pretty small % of the metro-area population. A Southern Maine accent might well be nowhere near Bostonian.
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Date: 2017-01-06 20:20 (UTC)I've known a tiny handful of people with accents that *strong*, but I don't think they were in that particular direction. (Closer to "hot" and "heart" being homophones? Though not all the way there?)
But accents can vary a great deal based just on where in the Boston area you are (I once read something which described how they'd migrated around since the mid-to-late 1800s; I wish I could find it again); the stereotypical "pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd" accent exists, but is a pretty small % of the metro-area population. A Southern Maine accent might well be nowhere near Bostonian.