| Like a Boston accent |
| Like the middle months |
| Like most summer months |
| Like non-oyster months? |
| Like Elmer Fudd's elocution |
| Like speech in New England? |
| Like Boston accents, as it were |
| Like May through August, in a way |
| Like May through August, literally |
| Like non-oyster months, supposedly |
| Like May through August, letterwise |
| Like warm months, in oyster folklore |
| Like non-oyster months, traditionally |
| Like inopportune months to eat oysters |
| Like poor months for oysters, it's said |
| Like "park the car," to a New Englander? |
| Like the year's middle third, letterwise |
| Like months inconducive to oyster-eating |
| Like months when oysters aren't in season |
| Like May through August, orthographically |
| Like months when oysters are not in season |
| Like months when oysters are out of season |
| Like English pronunciation in most of England |
| Like the spelling of oyster-abstaining months |
| Like the Boston-accented pronunciation of many words |