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[BSLZackKiesel]

Just a few words where it comes out for me. "Ool" (oil) and "Shaar" (shower) are the two main ones. Of course, every time I hear my voice played back I definitely hear it in the way I pronounce certain syllables overall.

[Russ]

I can't say oil or wool right.

[RShack]

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?

 

Ref: recordings of William Donald Schaefer.... strong accent without sounding like he dropped out young and went to work at Sparrows Point...

[Miller192]

It took lots of practice for me to get "warsh" out of my vernacular.

[BSLMikeLowe]

11 years in Oregon and still, people who talk to me for the first time can hear it. They don't know exactly where I'm from, but they know it's east coast. I still catch myself saying "tarlit" (toilet) sometimes. I have no idea how I picked that one up. Some members of my family had accents, but I can't remember anyone who said tarlit.

 

A couple weeks ago I was at the grocery store and ran into a guy wearing an M.R. Ducks sweatshirt. I hadn't seen one of those in forever.

[BSLMikeLowe]

It took lots of practice for me to get "warsh" out of my vernacular.

 

A year or so after I moved here I was sitting in a deposition and the questioning attorney kept saying warsh. During a break I asked him if he was from Bawlmer. He looked at me like I had three heads and said no, born and lived his whole life in Seattle. I said I figured he was because he said warsh. Then he tells me his grandfather, who essentially raised him, was originally from Baltimore. He never realized until then why he pronounced it that way (or so he said).

[Bmore Irish]

I've got a few like warsh and wooder that pop up, but not much of a trace. One of the women I work with has a legit, noticeable Baltimore accent though, and it's great. Her personality just makes it that much better. My grandfathers both had it to an extent, and my mother-in-law has the Glen Burnie variation.

[McNulty]

I only have trouble saying ambulance. Aside from that, no trace.

 

Amba-lance?  I still can't say cauliflower right after all these years.

 

Stoner I'd say your balmer accent is medium.  Cerrano's is low, which is disappointing.  

 

When I catch myself saying something with the accent, I always say that 'my baltimore is showing.'  No one gets it but I do it anyway hon.

[NewMarketSean]

Amba-lance?  I still can't say cauliflower right after all these years.

 

Stoner I'd say your balmer accent is medium.  Cerrano's is low, which is disappointing.  

 

When I catch myself saying something with the accent, I always say that 'my baltimore is showing.'  No one gets it but I do it anyway hon.

 

That's it. That's the extent of my Bawlmerese.