Welcome to Route 20: America's longest road stretches from Boston to Oregon

[usonian]

https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/09/22/massachusetts-boston-route-20-comm-ave-sign


From sea to ....



From Kenmore Squayah



To Newpawt



Rain in Oregon?

And keep your eyes open along the way for Gas Guzzling Griswolds in their wicked cah.



Disclaimer: bawn in Bawstin and still working on Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
Props to WBUR! Grew up with WBUR.

Moved from MA to CA. Main disorientation:
From MA, there's nothing east.
From CA, there's nothing west.
Decades later, I still have to think about highway exits.
LAND to the east, WATER to the west.

[2naSalit]

1. Except a real Bostonian would...

pronounce it buostin not bawstin.

[usonian]

4. Varies, I think.

North shore, harder accent.
Baw versus Buo.
Southie?
Been a damn long time.
🦞🦞🦞🦞🦞

[2naSalit]

5. I was most familiar with the...

North shore and that's how we always pronounced it.



Things change over time.

Out west, people think it's "ba'stin" which I regularly correct. There's a true Southie Irishman in town and when we see each other we immediately go into our native accents and entertain those around us. We always tell the audience that we're both from Beantown and he agrees that my phonetic spelling is correct. There are many cultural things that folks out this way don't understand about the eastern states.

[usonian]

6. North shore, myself.

Oh, well.

People kind of freak out when I tell them I watched Big Brother on TV.

[Backseat Driver]

2. Major US route through my old stamping grounds until 1987

My goodness, the changes you've seen along the way!