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