Regional accents and oddments are always good for a poke-and-prod (of the kindest kind of course) So, here's the take on Boston. Please feel free to add your regional accent-tricities and such.

Bawston
Getting around Boston:
-Pay no attention to the street names.
-There's no school on School Street, no court on Court Street, no dock on Dock Square, no water on Water Street.
-Back Bay streets are in alphabetical odda: Arlington, Berkeley,Clarendon, Dartmouth,etc..
-So are South Boston streets: A, B, C, D,etc..
-If the streets are named after trees (e.g. Walnut, Chestnut, Cedar), you're on Beacon Hill.
-If they're named after poets, you're in Wellesley.
-Southie is South Boston.
-The South End is the South End.
-Eastie is East Boston.
-The North End is east of the West End.
-The West End and Scollay Square are no more, a guy named Rappaport got rid of them one night. (They are now Government Center.)

Definitions:

-Frappes have ice cream, milkshakes don't.
-If it is fizzy and flavored, it's tonic.
-Soda is CLUB SODA.
-Pop is Dad. (your Fatha)
-When we mean Tonic water we will ask for Tonic WATER.
-The smallest beer is a pint.
-Scrod is whatever they tell you it is, usually fish.
-If you paid more than $6 a pound, you got scrod.
-It's not a water fountain; it's a bubblah.
-It's not a trashcan; it's a barrel.
-It's not a shopping cart; it's a carriage.
-It's not a purse; it's a pockabook.
-They're not franks; they're haht dahgs. Franks are money in France.

Things not to do:

-Don't pahk your cah in Hahvid Yahd ... they'll tow it to
Meffa'd (Medford) or Slumaville (Somerville).
-Don't sleep in the Common.
-Don't wear Orange in Southie on St. Patrick's Day

Things you should know:

-There are two State Houses, two City Halls, two courthouses, two Hancock buildings (one old, one new.)
-Route 128 is also I-95. It's also I-93.
-The underground train is not a subway. It's the "T" and it
doesn't run all night (fah chrysakes, this ain't Noo Yawk!)

Bostonians...
-think that it's their God-given right to cut off someone in traffic.
-think that there are only 25 letters in the alphabet (no R.)
-think that three straight days of 90+ temperatures is a heat wave.
-refer to six inches of snow as "a dusting."
-always "bang a left" as soon as the light turns green, and oncoming traffic always expects it.
-say everything in town is "a five-minute walk."
-believe that using your turn signal is a sign of weakness.
-think that 63-degree ocean water is warm.

> Enjoy BAWSTON