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To: Chad C. Mulligan

““Wicked” is a Maineism, not used in Boston in my experience.”

“wicked” is used all over Massachusetts..
it’s wicked cold, that’s wicked expensive, you look wicked good...etc.


80 posted on 12/09/2023 6:25:26 AM PST by Mrs. B.S. Roberts
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To: Mrs. B.S. Roberts
“wicked” is used all over Massachusetts..

Obviously the word has metastasized down from Maine since I left in '77. I never heard it at all growing up until I spent a summer in Yarmouth. I think that was 1959. My cousin used it at the supper table, and I thought Aunt Abby was going to wash his mouth out with soap. Never heard it again in Massachusetts right through '77 when I left for a job in upstate NY. That's how language goes, though. I picked up the word "spendy" during my one year TDY in Minnesota (1999) and I still use it occasionally.

82 posted on 12/09/2023 7:26:20 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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