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Traditional dialect of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, USA

Eastern New England English, historically known as the Yankee dialect since at least the 19th century, is the traditional regional dialect of Maine, New Hampshire, and the eastern half of Massachusetts. Features of this variety once spanned an even larger dialect area of New England, for example, including the eastern halves of Vermont and Connecticut for those born as late as the early twentieth century. Studies vary as to whether the unique dialect of Rhode Island technically falls within the Eastern New England dialect region. Eastern New England English, here including Rhode Island English, is classically associated with sound patterns such as: non rhoticity, or dropping r when not before a vowel; both variants of Canadian raising, including a fairly back starting position of the vowel (as in ); and some variation of the vowel distinctions, the marry–merry distinction, or both. Eastern New England (excluding Rhode Island) is also nationally recognized for its highly front vowel. As of the 21st century, certain traditional characteristics are declining due to many younger Eastern New Englanders avoiding them, particularly non rhoticity and the aforementioned vowel distinctions, which they tend to perceive as old fashioned, overly rural sounding, or even overly urban sounding with regard to Boston.

Northeastern New England English, popularly recognized as a Boston or Maine accent, in addition to all the above phonological features, further includes the merger of the vowel in cot and caught to , often with a slightly rounded quality, but a resistance to the merger of the vowels in father versus bother, a merger that is otherwise common throughout North America. Also, for speakers born before 1950, the words half and pass (and, before World War II, also ask and can't) are pronounced with a "broad a," like in spa: and .

Boston, Massachusetts is the birthplace and most famous site of Eastern New England English. Historically, a Northeastern type of New England English spread from metropolitan Boston into metropolitan Worcester, the bulk of New Hampshire, and central and coastal Maine. Boston speech also originated many slang and uniquely local terms that have since spread throughout Massachusetts and Eastern New England. Although mostly non rhotic, the modern Boston accent typically pronounces the r sound in the vowel, , as in bird, learn, turkey, world, etc.

A traditional Maine accent, the closest remnant today to a more widespread 19th century Yankee regional accent, includes the phonology mentioned above, plus the loss of the phonemic status of (as in there), (as in here), and (as in more) all of which are broken into two syllables (, respectively): they uh, hee yuh, and moh uh; some distinct vocabulary is also used in this accent. Maine is one of the last American regions to resist the horse–hoarse merger. This continued resistance was verified by some speakers in a 2006 study of Bangor and Portland, Maine, The horse–hoarse separation means that words like war and wore may sound different: war rhyming with law , and wore rhyming with boa Unlike the Boston accent, this traditional Maine accent may be non rhotic entirely: even in the pronunciation of as .

A cultivated New England accent, sometimes known as a "Boston Brahmin accent" within Boston, was once associated with members of wealthy New England families in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; it is now essentially extinct. Notable example speakers included many members of the Kennedy family born in this time period, including President John F. Kennedy, whose accent is not an ordinary Boston accent so much as a "tony Harvard accent".

The traditional English language accent of Southeastern New England, popularly known as a Rhode Island accent, is spoken in Rhode Island and the western half of Bristol County, Massachusetts. plus the pronunciation of , as in car, far back in the mouth as —these three features making this New England accent noticeably similar to a New York accent. These features are often unlike the modern Northeastern New England (NENE) dialect of Boston, as is Rhode Island's feature of a completed father–bother merger, shared with the rest of the country outside of NENE. A few terms are unique only to this area, such as the word cabinet to mean "milkshake" (particularly, coffee cabinets), pizza strips (Italian tomato pie strips served cold without cheese), and coffee milk.

An ethnic local accent has been documented among self identifying French Americans in Manchester, New Hampshire. The accent's most prominent pronunciation features are th stopping (pronouncing thin like tin and there like dare) and, variably, word initial h dropping (so that hair may sound like air).