The Globe Sunday Magazine has a great article about local slang. "Salted" is a word that I'm too old to use, unless I wanted to make a teenager fall down from laughing at me. But there is a list of other local terms like jimmies and frappe, and an interesting discussion of how words can be a way to express the city's identity and history.
The writer uses a self-deprecating and sarcastic humor that can be difficult to notice if English is not your first language. Enjoy sentences like, "'[T]onic' is fading from use, thanks in part to the realization that it's actually the name for a completely different beverage."
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