New England Tahk

From a coworker:

My mother who had a career as a school psychologist, moved to Southern Maine in her forties, having lived in Cincinnati since girlhood. Early on, she was testing a kid, and asked him, "Can you tell me what a hat is?"

The kid answered, "A haht? A haht's what beats in your chest!"

The thing is, when I tell that story to native New Englanders, they don't get it. "That's a perfectly good answer for a kid!"