The New York Times (again) misses the mark on Southie
Nearly four years after the New York Times tried to call South Boston “SoBo,” the publication has made another apparent blunder: Calling those who hail from the neighborhood “Southies.”
The newest transgression against South Boston came in a profile of renowned chef Barbara Lynch, which was published to the Times’s site on Monday.
The term is introduced in the second sentence of the article’s copy: “The chef is a fierce Southie, a local term for this neighborhood and the people who built it.” It’s then used again further down in the story: “She still curses like an old-school Southie, but without the accent.”
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