Editing Boston accent (section)

==Notable lifelong native speakers==
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<!--A source here listed for Bill Simmons literally stated that he does NOT have a Boston accent! The Wahlberg brothers, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck, though all capable of imitating the accent (to varying degrees, according to some critics), are certainly not primary or lifelong speakers of the accent. [[John F. Kennedy]]'s accent has been described as a "[[wikt:tony|tony]] [[Harvard]] accent,"<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/314791/John-F-Kennedy/3868/Presidential-candidate-and-president|title=John F. Kennedy|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|year=2009}}</ref> with an implication that it is more of an example of a cultivated, class-based New England accent rather than a clear example of the traditional and linguistically defined Boston accent; notably, he does not show a cot-caught merger, rounded LOT, or fronted START.-->

[[File:Joseph Curtatone at October 11 2019 Somerville mayoral candidate forum.flac|thumb|Joseph Curtatone's voice]]
[[File:Rachel Carson (As Told By EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy).ogg|thumb|Gina McCarthy's voice]]
[[File:Sec. Walsh on Construction Jobs in Infrastructure Bill v2.flac|thumb|Marty Walsh's voice]]

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* [[Ray Bolger]] – "that Boston accent is so present; he never tried to hide it"<ref>{{cite news|last=Tuttle|first=Kate|date=March 13, 2019|title=How a high schooler's obsession became a biography|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2019/03/13/how-high-schooler-obsession-became-biography/K5pndff9Quyycbqpw5rxSK/story.html|url-access=limited|newspaper=The Boston Globe|publisher=Boston Globe Media Partners|access-date=May 21, 2025}}</ref>
* [[William J. Bratton]]<ref name=mayor>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/16/nyregion/16accent.html|title=Mayor's Accent Deserts Boston for New York|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|author=Roberts, Sam|date=2006-01-16|access-date=2009-02-26}}</ref> – "thick Boston accent"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-07-me-bratton7-story.html|title=Police chief says he still has plenty to prove|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|author=Rubin, Joel|date=2008-12-07|access-date=2009-02-26}}</ref>
* [[Bill Burr]] – "the comic's wicked Boston accent"<ref>Miller, Gregory E. (11-1-2018) "[https://nypost.com/2018/11/01/bill-burr-vows-to-never-become-an-old-cornball/ Bill Burr vows to never become an 'old cornball']". ''New York Post''. NYP Holdings, Inc.</ref>
* [[Mike Capuano]] – "It didn't matter that Capuano had the stronger Boston accent"<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Beinart|first=Peter|author-link=Peter Beinart|date=September 5, 2018|title=Ayanna Pressley's Victory and the End of Local Politics|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/politics-isnt-local-anymore/569347/|url-access=limited|magazine=The Atlantic|publisher=The Atlantic Monthly Group|access-date=May 21, 2025}}</ref>
* [[Lenny Clarke]] – "a [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]]-raised verbal machine gun with a raspy Boston accent"<ref>{{cite news|title=Lenny Clarke Deftly Handles Nightschtick|newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]|author=Sullivan, Jim|date=2001-04-18}}</ref>
* [[Chick Corea]]<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=15351|title=Chick Corea|author= Cumbie, Ty|magazine=[[All About Jazz]]|date=2004-10-30|access-date=2009-03-17}}</ref> – "his speech still carries more than a trace of a Boston accent"<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/02/29/a_banjo_a_piano_and_two_willing_masters/|title=A banjo, a piano, and two willing masters|newspaper=The Boston Globe|author=Mitter, Siddhartha|date=2008-02-29|access-date=2009-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924003912/http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/02/29/a_banjo_a_piano_and_two_willing_masters/|archive-date=2015-09-24|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Sue Costello]] – "Between her thick Boston accent and fearless, stand-up style, Sue Costello is a true embodiment of the city's comedy scene."<ref>Juul, Matt (2015). [https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2015/06/12/watch-dorchester-comic-riffs-on-boston-gronk-and-more "Watch: Dorchester comic riffs on Boston, Gronk, and more"]. ''Boston.com''. Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC.</ref>
* [[Joseph Curtatone]] – "speaks in a rapid-fire '[[Somerville, Massachusetts|Summahville]]' accent"<ref>{{cite news|last=Moskowitz|first=Eric|date=2016-02-25|title=Somerville's Curtatone doesn't shy away from a fight|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/02/25/curtatone-doesn-shy-from-fight-spotlight/fs7UjYIC0YD3t3L7gTyFDO/story.html|url-access=limited|newspaper=The Boston Globe|publisher=Boston Globe Media Partners|access-date=2025-05-21}}</ref>
* [[Nick Di Paolo]] – "thick Boston accent"<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/theater/n_10107/|title=Did You Hear The One About The @&%#! Comic?|magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|author=Calhoun, Ada|date=2004-03-29|access-date=2009-03-17}}</ref>
* [[Annissa Essaibi George]] – "speaks with the accent of working-class Boston"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/09/us/annissa-essaibi-george.html|title=Candidate for 'Mayah' Proudly Leans Into Her Boston Sound|newspaper=The New York Times|author=Barry, Ellen|date=2021-10-09|access-date=2024-01-23}}</ref>
* [[Jack Haley]] – "from Boston (as anyone who heard the [[Tin Woodman|Tin Man]]'s accent would know)"<ref>{{cite book|title=New England: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures|editor=Sletcher, Michael|page=186|publisher=[[Greenwood Publishing Group]]|year=2004|isbn=0-313-32753-X}}</ref>
* [[Don Kent (meteorologist)|Don Kent]] – "With his inimitable Boston accent"<ref>Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame, 'Don Kent,' ca. 2010 https://www.massbroadcastershof.org/hall-of-fame/hall-of-fame-2007/don-kent/</ref>
* [[Mel King]] – "he has the soft R's of a deep Boston accent"<ref>{{cite news|title=Mel's Vision|last=Concannon|first=Jim|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=May 12, 2009|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/05/12/mels_vision/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923220029/https://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/05/12/mels_vision/|archive-date=2015-09-23|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Lyndon LaRouche]] – "a cultivated New England accent"<ref>{{Cite book | last = King | first = Dennis | title = Lyndon LaRouche and the New American Fascism | publisher = Doubleday | year = 1989 | location = New York | page = 306 | url = https://archive.org/stream/LyndonLaroucheAndTheNewAmericanFascism/LLNAF#page/n305/}}</ref>
* [[Tom Magliozzi|Tom]] and [[Ray Magliozzi]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://onlineathens.com/stories/070608/marquee_20080706005.shtml|title=Radio's 'Car Talk' guys reluctantly tackle TV|newspaper=The Boston Globe|date=2008-07-01|author=Littlefield, Kinney|access-date=2009-02-26}}</ref> – "like drunk raccoons with Boston accents"<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/03/AR2005050301694.html|title=Oh, Brother: 'Car Talk' Guy Puts Mouth in Gear|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=2005-05-04|author=Leibovich, Mark|access-date=2009-02-26}}</ref>
* [[Rocky Marciano]] – "He spoke with distinct traces of a Boston accent"<ref>Roberts, Randy (2005). ''The Rock, the Curse, and the Hub: A Random History of Boston Sports''. Harvard University Press. p. 222</ref>
* [[Gina McCarthy]] – "Obama's nominee to head the EPA has that spectacular [[South Boston]] accent"<ref>NewSoundbites (YouTube user; uploaded 2013) "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNy1IBNvT2Q Boston accent goes national with President Obama's pick for EPA]." ''YouTube''. Excerpted from [[MSNBC]]'s ''[[The Rachel Maddow Show]]''.</ref>
* [[Joey McIntyre]] – "his authentic Boston accent"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-mccarthys-joey-mcintyre-on-the-show-and-new-kids-on-the-block/|title=Joey McIntyre on appeal of "The McCarthys," future of NKOTB|work=[[CBS]] News|author=Moraski, Lauren|date=2014-10-30}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Menino]] – "strong traces of the Boston dialect"<ref name="Baker, Billy">{{cite news|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/11/17/boston-accent-strong-mayor-elect-walsh/AFouySIXDXFVE58IMsJGwI/story.html|title=In Walsh, students of Bostonese have found their avatah|newspaper=The Boston Globe|author=Baker, Billy|date=2013-11-17|access-date=2015-06-15}}</ref> 
* [[Christy Mihos]] – "speaks unpretentiously in a variation of a Boston accent, and drops the 'g' in words like talking or running."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/02/19/the_nonpolitician_who_would_be_governor/|title=The nonpolitician who would be governor|newspaper=The Boston Globe|author=Mooney, Brian C.|date=2006-02-19|access-date=2009-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924144830/http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/02/19/the_nonpolitician_who_would_be_governor/|archive-date=2015-09-24|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Brian Moran|Brian]] and [[Jim Moran]] – "The Moran brothers share... an unmistakable Massachusetts accent"<ref name="family">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/02/10/ST2009021004032.html|title=A Time to Reevaluate Family Ties|newspaper=Washington Post|author=Gardner, Amy|date=2009-02-11|access-date=2009-02-27}}</ref>
* [[Joe Morgan (baseball manager)]] – "the pride of [[Walpole, Massachusetts|Walpole, Mass.]], with a tremendous Boston accent"<ref>{{cite web|last=Browne|first=Ian M.|date=June 15, 2020|title=Red Sox's Top 5 managers: Browne's take|url=https://www.mlb.com/news/red-sox-all-time-best-managers|website=MLB.com|publisher=MLB Advanced Media|access-date=May 21, 2025}}</ref>
* [[Alex Rocco]] – "grew up in blue-collar Cambridge"<ref name="Allis, Sam">{{cite news|url=http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2004/01/25/its_tough_to_talk_like_a_true_bostonian/|title=It's tough to talk like a true Bostonian|newspaper=The Boston Globe|author=Allis, Sam|date=2004-01-25|access-date=2009-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923230152/http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/articles/2004/01/25/its_tough_to_talk_like_a_true_bostonian/|archive-date=2015-09-23|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Tom Silva]] – "New England accent"<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.sacmag.com/Sacramento-Magazine/February-2007/Mr-Fix-It/|title=Mr. Fix-It|magazine=[[Sacramento Magazine]]|author=Bizjak, Marybeth|date=February 2007|access-date=2009-03-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319174607/http://www.sacmag.com/Sacramento-Magazine/February-2007/Mr-Fix-It/|archive-date=2016-03-19|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Marty Walsh]] – "he demonstrates what many believe to be the strongest Boston dialect in the city's mayoral history."<ref name="Baker, Billy"/>
* [[Jermaine Wiggins]] – "skin as thick as his [[East Boston]] accent"<ref name="Jensen, Sean">{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-125717347.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611052758/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-125717347.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-06-11|title=Despite his unlikely build, Vikings' Wiggins gets it done at tight end.|newspaper=[[Saint Paul Pioneer Press]]|author=Jensen, Sean|date=2004-12-03|access-date=2009-02-26}}</ref>