Is the beloved, bedeviled Boston accent dying?

Write to us at startingpoint@globe.com. To subscribe, sign up here. Longtime Globe reporter Beth Teitell came here from New York, and almost immediately found herself enchanted by the speech of the receptionists at the Boston Herald, where she worked. She thought it was a wonder. Better yet, a wicked pissah … once she figured out what that meant. How exactly to describe her joy? “You know how when you walk into a relative’s house on Thanksgiving and it smells like Thanksgiving and it feels cozy and right?” she told me. “The accent is the turkey and stuffing of the aural…