I have dealt with the Mass accent before.
Back in my teen years, the family went to Cape Cod on vacation.
*Naturally* I had cameras with me [photography nut] and at some local tourist trap, I tried to buy film.
I have no idea what y’all call film up there, but true as I’m sitting here, the woman kept hollering into the back of the store [a la Katherine Hepburn] “Do we have any ‘fillum’, Nawhmun?”
They had no idea to what I was referring.
I kid you not.
I never did get my ‘fillum’ but I did get to see some “Jennah Hannuhvuhs” hanging from the rafters.
[they reeked]
And then I went and married a RI guy who gets “idears” and then “drars” them on paper so he can go “foward” with his design.
Yeah...and *I* talk funny.
When he first came to live here, I had to act as an interpreter between him and my dad.
[I’m bilingual...fluent in both English *and* Hillbilly]
We call it film.
“Jennah Hannuhvuhs”
Never heard of that, or those.