So someone named "Ricker" who lives in Germantown, who loves the Orioles and who works at a bank based in Buffalo.
Yea, they'll never find you
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The Balmer Accent
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Posted 20 August 2014 - 03:12 PM
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Posted 20 August 2014 - 03:14 PM
My pops says am-buh-lance and says the lance part really fast. Lie-bary too.
I'll say this to those of you who think you don't have it - you do. Its impossible to hear because you're around it all the time.
Sammy, I'm curious. A guy on my boat is from York, hasn't lived there in 20+ years, and I'd swear he's from Pasadena. Does it exist upair?
Yes, it's up here. I hear it a lot on radio commercials. It must migrate as Marylanders come north. However, it pretty much stops at York. I grew up in Harrisburg and people up there tend to speak like people from Philly or Pittsburgh.
¡Hasta la vista, pelota!
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Posted 20 August 2014 - 03:16 PM
¡Hasta la vista, pelota!
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Posted 20 August 2014 - 03:30 PM
Worter and canny (water and county).
I say warter and counny.
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Posted 20 August 2014 - 04:00 PM
Ass is another one. Ay-iss
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Posted 20 August 2014 - 04:23 PM
When I was at school everyone would make fun of me for saying "on" and anything with an "o" in it.
I got progressively more Balmer as I drank more.
But coming back home, I definitely picked up on it more.
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Posted 20 August 2014 - 04:59 PM
I've never heard someone, in normal conversation, say "Bawlmer". "Baldamore" is the more used version.
Baldamore, Maralind.
Thats why I loved Jon Miller so much. He said Baldamore like I, and we say Baldamore. The right way.
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Posted 20 August 2014 - 05:35 PM
Jeet dinner yet?
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Posted 20 August 2014 - 07:44 PM
Mun-dee Twos-dee Whens-dee Thirs-dee Fry-dee Satr-dee Sun-dee
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Posted 20 August 2014 - 07:59 PM
Mun-dee Twos-dee Whens-dee Thirs-dee Fry-dee Satr-dee Sun-dee
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Posted 21 August 2014 - 07:30 AM
¡Hasta la vista, pelota!
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Posted 08 May 2018 - 01:10 PM
Do you speak it?
Just curious. I know a few people that have the traditional, "stereotypical" Baltimore accent, but it's not as common as a lot of people outside of the area think it is, I'd think?
So...how do you pronounce "water," I guess?
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Posted 08 May 2018 - 01:15 PM
I only have trouble saying ambulance. Aside from that, no trace.
I never had friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?
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Posted 08 May 2018 - 01:18 PM
I stress my o's in the typical way, but unlike my parents don't go for the wudder's, warshington's, etc.
However, when I go out of town (i.e. when I was at X), people definitely ask me about my accent, so it's certainly prevalent and possibly gets more "attention" away from other Baltimore people.
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Posted 08 May 2018 - 01:20 PM
I don't have the sterotypical East Baltimore accent... but like Chris, when I was away at school in Florida... they heard something.
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Posted 08 May 2018 - 01:22 PM
"I seen (I saw) you upair (up there) last Frydee (Friday)
You was (were) with your Fodinlaw (Father In Law)"
Actual conversation in front of me at an O's game recently.
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Posted 08 May 2018 - 01:33 PM
I don't have the sterotypical East Baltimore accent... but like Chris, when I was away at school in Florida... they heard something.
Yes you do.
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There is baseball, and occasionally there are other things of note
"Now OPS sucks. Got it."
"Making his own olive brine is peak Mackus."
"I'm too hungover to watch a loss." - McNulty
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Posted 08 May 2018 - 01:35 PM
Yes you do.
Get the f out of here lol... I do not sound like Nestor.
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Posted 08 May 2018 - 01:36 PM
Get the f out of here lol... I do not sound like Nestor.
No you're not that bad but you def have a Baltimore accent.
The only time I notice the accent with me is when I say "come on" it sounds like "come ahwn"
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There is baseball, and occasionally there are other things of note
"Now OPS sucks. Got it."
"Making his own olive brine is peak Mackus."
"I'm too hungover to watch a loss." - McNulty
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Posted 08 May 2018 - 03:59 PM
So hold on.
Because people brought up Nestor.
If there's one famous person (not counting Nestor, I guess) that you'd point to for having the accent, who would it be?
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