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Antonyms that are in the dictionary are marked in green. Antonyms that are not in the dictionary are marked in red.
James Stanford, chair of the Linguistics Department at Dartmouth, laid out the reasons for this thinking in his 2019 book “New England English.”
Source: https://www.boston.com/news/wickedpedia/2023/03/27/boston-accent-origins-linguistics/