A fun reference book for all things Boston; complete with info
graphics and glossary of the terms and “slang” that makes
Bostonians unique. The book will include historical facts and
references of the words’ origins. The book will also include
landmarks, both historic and cultural, and why they’re so important
to the city. The goal is to create a book for all ages to reference
whether they’ve been to Boston once, lived here their whole life, or
just plan to visit one day. Boston has a lot of universal references
throughout pop culture and this book will be the go-to resource for
people to learn more, get a laugh, and understand the people of
Boston. We are working out the organization, but it will be broken
into categories For example, the weather pages would begin with a few
pages with some fun facts about the weather in Boston, some general
weather humor info and then it will go into different anecdotes and
slang explanations related to the the weather. Ex. Muggie, Scortcha,
Wintah, Wicked Humid, etc… Each anecdote page will be then be
accompanied by some fun facts related to the slang term. Scortcha:
Anytime the weather in Boston is over 90 degrees, you will hear
someone say "It's a Scortcha out there.” This is what we call hazy,
hot, & humid! On a scortcha of a day a typical Bostonian would visit
Dunks for an "Iced" an extra time or two, anyone with a pool will be
getting a message asking "What are you doing today", and social media
will be full of photos showing temperature gauges inside cars (unless
you drive a "beater", they don't usually have temperature gauges).
Even if we suffered a tough winter Bostonians will be complaining
about the heat. In fact most conversations in Boston are weather
related.........................more (Page will have accompanying art,
maybe a funny caricature of someone sweating in the heat or in a float
in a pool, and will have some related facts about Boston weather..
maybe avg. temperatures during summer months) SAMPLE ENTRIES Weather
Concepts Scortcha Wintah Muggie Food & Drink Concepts Dunks Frappe
Tonic "Swigga Tonic" Badaydas (Potatoes) Transportation Concepts Bang
A Uey Beater Statie Breakdown Lane Other Concepts, To Be Categorized:
Sneakahs Hawahya? No response required Beantown Down Cellah No Suh
Irregardless Pockabook Tonic 30 rack keggah dungarees Whaddup Ked
Blinkahs Yous Guys Carriage Clickah Elastic Jimmies Nor'Eastah Rubbish
Dingah Booted Wiffle
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781493024780
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
Globe Pequot Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter