Contrary to what the narrator of this video states there IS a 'Ham in Massachusetts, and that would be FRAMINGHAM, a.k.a. "THE Ham"!

Many thanks everyone for watching. Don't know how this got so popular after sitting around for months, but it's a nice feeling. Hoping to get a sequel up by the end of the month but no promises.

YOU MISSED LEICESTER!!! pronounced "Lester"'

Actually, this isn't completely accurate. People FROM Raynham will tell you it's Rain Ham, Worcester is Wista, Gloucester is Glosta and Medford is Medfa. That's how we really say it in Massachusetts.

The more I think about it, the more I love about living in MA!

I basically live in Stoneham (I live right on the Stoneham/Wakefield line so I do technically live in Wakefield despite not being able to get to my house without going into Stoneham and having Stoneham Water and Power) and when I was little I literally thought that Stone-m and Stone-ham were two different places! I knew how to say Stoneham but when ever I saw it on a sign I would say “Stone-ham” until one day I drove by the “Welcome to Stoneham” sign and did not read it Stone-ham for some reason (and said it like I knew how it was said) and suddenly I had an epfinany and realized that Stone-m and Stone-ham were the same place and I still wonder to this day why I some how did not realize that sooner or think it was weird that two towns (supposedly) right next to each other sounded so similarly! (I was like Seven when I finally figured it out!) 😂

Quincy? Come on! It's Kwin-Zee!

How to pronounce Massachusetts town names with a Boston accent 1 bilricah 2 chicahpee 3 glostah 4. Haavril 5 leminstah 6 menthuen 7 peebudy 8 reeding 9 shitsuiate 10 stellahm 11 whenuhm 12 woostah 13 rahveah 13 mahblehead 14 fawl rivah

Rowdy - Gloucester boy, been on the West Coast for 35 years. Thanks for starting my day with a HUGE laugh!!

I grew up in the Bridgewater-Raynham school district. Everyone I know who actually grew up in or currently lives in Raynham pronounces it "Rain-ham". It's "Rain-ham".

how about Chelmsford? no "L" "O" or "R" here! Chemsfid.

One thing....there are places in MA that pronounce the "Ham"....like Waltham.

I love this video! Marlborough is a big one people all the time say ma-R-lborrow when we pronounce it mahbro

An Aussie here who got most of these right, based on the pronunciation of the English towns and cities, a couple of them were tricky though, I actually though Worcester was pronounced Warchester despite the fact I know that would be incorrect. Oh, and Aussie is pronounced "Ozzy" Cheers!!

Born in WUH-STA and raised in Web-sta Mass!!

I lived in Haverhill for quite a long time. From Springfield

"There is no HAM in the Commonwealth" is a false quote! You forgot about FramingHAM! The "ham" is pronounced phonetically with that one. :) (P.S. I'm from Massachusetts and I know what I'm talking about.)

Right on, 100%. I was born and raised in METHUEN, and agree with all your recommendations. And yes, Methuen begins with METH, but the stress is on the THU: meh-THU-en, and not METH-u-en. And yes, there are many more: Leominster (LEM-inster) Quincy (QUIN-zy not QUIN-see) Waltham (WALL-tham, not WALL-th'm) Rowley (ROW rhymes with HOW, not with GO) Salisbury (SAUL's berry, not SAL-lis-berry) Athol (A-thawl, A as in apple, not A as in ape) Chelmsford (CHE(L)Mz-f'd -- natives tend to drop the L) Wenham (WENN-em, no ham) Wilbraham (WILL-bra-ham, YES ham)

Townships are similarly designed to the New England town in that both are civil divisions of the larger county. Even though there are no county governments in all three southern New England states they still exist as geographic entities not political ones. Townships in New Jersey(outside the region of New England) are almost like cities because they are led by a mayor and a "Township Council".

Hey, Duck boats are fun. I’m a native Bostonian and I go on duck tours....I mean you know....about once or twice per decade.....

NOS4A2's "Have-Er-Hill" pronunciation in the audiobook brought me here. xC

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Live near the line of Haverhill and N.Andover. I'll never forget bringing a girl from San Diego up here and having her try and pronounce these names haha.

GREAT!! haha thanks for making this! haha! 2 yrs in Boston is ENOUGH for me….moving...

I lived in Massachusetts (Worcester (Whoo stir)) since I knew how to talk. Boston slang is very simple. The "barrel" is a trash can because in Boston, the trash cans look like barrels. Most of it is inspired by Irish Englandish town names. In my opinion, all Spanish names are at least 10x harder to pronounce. I actually live in Shrewsbury (Shoes Berry) and If you stay here for a while, everything makes sense.

Where was Quincy? Great video!

what about about Tewksbury?

WareHAM and EastHAM, but yeah, mostly right. My favorite part is that EastHAM and Chatham (Chat’m) are one town apart.

What about Framingham? We say ham there.

Might want to add Tewksbury ;)

as a resident of woburn, it's "woo-burn" like woooohoooo!!! and i like to make an emphasis on the rn

I went to school in Billerica - Shawsheen Valley Tech - and they actually had us learn the correct pronunciation of "Billerica" turning our freshmen orientation! Of course we were from Bedford (no OR)...

I've only heard those two as "Where-um" and "Ashburnum". -Grew up next to Lemminsta and goes to school on the border of Newtin and Bawstin

Some town names that end in ham pronounce the ham. Like Petersham, Tyringham, and Framingham.

Summa-vul Meh-fuh

My student advisor thought I said PB, Massachusetts, when in actuality I said Peabody.

Framingham has a ham... No one pronounces it Framingum. Don't make blanket statements unless you're 100% certain it's accurate. Otherwise I enjoyed the video.

The "h" is silent in Amherst. But it is fully pronounced in Wareham. The "l" is silent in Holyoke as well. It is pronounced Ho-yoke.

Why does everyone leave out Leicester?

What aboutCochituate? And there's always Revere (raviah)

what is so hard with Billerica ( and for us folks that grew up there its bricca to us) look at the word and pronounce it folks BILL ER ICA

I didn't even know how to pronounce some of these and I have lived in Massachusetts all my life. yes we exist down here in Southeastern Massachusetts (Fall River, Seekonk, Dartmouth etc).

I know Reading and Gloucester cause I'm from Philly and them towns are here too.

Woburn is pronounced Woo-burn

Psh, what, no mention of Gahdna-hey? Where my Gardner at?

I guess the last 28 years I spent growing up in Massachusetts was all just an incorrect dream... I hate when people says “this is how people from Massachusetts say it”, because 99% of the time, no, that’s not how people from “Massachusetts” say it, that’s how people from SOUTHIE say it. And this video is no exception. Granted people from Southie think that the entire state of Massachusetts and Southie are one in the same, because people from Southie think they’re the center of the universe, but still....

Hahaha it's really funny for a foreigner like me. And I live in Boston, and more than once I've had problems with the pronunciation of those town names.

Home sweet home!

Nailed it. I was looking for the whole diatribe about Concord though and didn't get one. :(

Bernardston. “Burnid-sten”

What about Amherst everyone says it wrong

Except Wareham. Where-Ham. There is no -um there.

I used to live in “Summahvull”

Raynum? Its RaynHAM. Guess you have to live there to know that.

You would be completely lost in Uk especially in scotland ireland etc they have crazy pronunciations like wheest its english like but completely different pronunciations and meanings

It's interesting that most of the towns are in Essex County. There is one I can think of that you missed though ... what about Leicester?

How did Stoneham make the list and mefid didn't (actual spelling Medford)

Um actually in Raynham you do pronounce the ham

Swampskit?

All these people trying to say they know about Massachusetts though. Worcester is woosta and shrewsbury is pronounced shrewsbury. We don't neglect r's or ah's unless they're alone or at the end of a word

Grest job. Liked this a lot.

My all time favorite is the city of Athol. Used correctly in a sentence it's " Man ,you drive like a Athol up here".

It's Wissta

The only thing I would say is that there actually are "-ham"'s in MA that are pronounced like ham (Eastham). -ham and -tham towns are all messed up...see: wal-THAM east-HAM WREN-tham CHAT-ham we just can't make up our minds.

GREAT - and I would stress that "Hingham" is "Hingum", not "Hing Ham", and Fall River definitely has no 'r' on the end "Fawriva", and Taunton - well, ,let's get all Indian on you and pronounce it correctly "Tah'n" (there being that 'click' where the apostrophe is). Oh! Assonet! (I once had a visitor ask where "Ass-o-net" was. When we picked ourselves up off the floor we realized where he meant. For your next video!~

Many of these pronunciations are taken directly from the British.

Haverhill (Hell Town) in da house! nice to know I have been in every city mentioned here for one reason or another.

you left out the little town next to methuen, dracut out of stater say drakit lol

Billerica, named for Billericay, Essex, England. Anglican pronunciation Bill-er-rick-ah. Remember the rules of the English Language. Words with ar; er; ir; or & ur in them are pronounced like the letter R. Billerica was a hot bed of anti British sediment during the revolution, so we changed the pronunciation from Bill-er-rick-ah to Bill-rick-ah

Gotta love Mass. Almost got my ass kicked for saying Pea-body...and I was in freaking Needham. Or...was it Dedham? I was like wicked scared!

Woah woah woah... Chicopee? Really? Not saying no, but I never even realized..

Needham was Need-em

I have to admit I had to spell where I lived on a test and I just moved so I spelt Haverhill haverill on accident

most of these are simply the English pronunciations - the phonetic butchering started long ago in Britain. Leominster is now down to two syllables in England (Lemster).

Worchestuhsheere sauce is my fahkin favrit! All day guy.

Wow my town was on the map in the beginning we're never on the map automatically I mean WOW

How 'bout Tewksbury?

Great video...for hams what about wareham and ashburnham?

2:05 LMFAO THAT SOUND

you forgot amherst.. one of the most miss said words

The "Ham" IS pronounced in Ashburnham!

Peabody -- like P Diddy, but use Biddy and smoosh it together. P-biddy

I love Worcestershire sauce

I know I'm uh... about 5 years late but what's the song laying at the end? Sounds very familiar

For the record, those who live in ashburnham most definitely pronounce the ham.

You forgot Tewksbury

born and raised a fully on bostonian

Just trying to help and have fun.

what about "Quinzee"???

Whoa , Whoa, Whoa. NOBODY goes to Chicopee lmfao

I fuckin' hated everyone calling Methuen "Meth-town" back in school. Still pisses me off. xD

I'm from Nyoo Hemsha!

So every town in mass has alternate pronunciations like every other word in the English language.

Love this

what about chumsford

AYEEEE SCITUATE

My home town.... Waltham.... should have made this list. It is NOT "WAL-thumb", as many who are unfamiliar with the town pronounce it.

What about Leicester?

I’m from raynham and we say it RAIN-HAM

There is too a "ham" in the commonwealth. Petersham. It's like Peter's Ham. Not peter sham. Nor do you "em" the ham like Stoneham. Peter's HAM. Petersham is also known as New Hampshire light. A third less flannel than your regular New Hampshire. Another honorable mention? Marlborough. It's Mar-bro, Bro. If you don't say it that we we know you're not from around here.