Citations:park the car in Harvard Yard
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English citations of park the car in Harvard Yard
- 1998, Walt Wolfram, Natalie Schilling-Estes, American English: Dialects and Variation [1]
- ... for “Park the car in Harvard Yard.” Interestingly, one of the most stereotypically r—less ... pahk the cah 'park the car' as you shape your answer.
- 2000, Allan A. Metcalf, How We Talk: American Regional English Today [2]
- The "New England broad a" Park the car in Harvard Yard. That saying is a well-known test for New England pronunciation. If you say "Pahk the car in Hahvahd Yahd," ...
- 2003, Kim Grant, Boston: With Cape Cod & New England Getaways. [3]
- The Boston dialect is famous for broad-vowel English; Pahk the cah in Hahvahd Yahd (translation: Park the car in Harvard Yard) is the common illustration of the peculiar 'r.'