New England English
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New England English is a group of varieties of the English language, which belongs to the Upper North linguistically. It is spoken in the Northeastern U. S. One of its varieties Boston accent, which is not only spoken in the city of Boston, Massachusetts itself, but more generally of all of eastern Massachusetts; it shares much in common with the accents of Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Southern Maine. The three regions are frequently grouped together by sociolinguists under the cover term Eastern New England accent, combined with New York-New Jersey English, forms a part of Northeastern American English. The internationally best-known user of the Boston accent was probably John Fitzgerald Kennedy; however, Bostonians know this as the "Kennedy accent," as no one other than the Kennedys seem to have that particular accent. This accent is separate and distinct from the Boston Brahmin accent associated with the Boston Brahmin aristocracy. Western New England is a mainly rhotic variety of New England English. The rest of New England English is Eastern New England accent, which mainly is non-rhotic. Maine-New Hampshire English belongs to New England English.
