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To: JoeProBono

Heh...I go by that liquor store a couple times a week on my way to grad school classes. I never actually noticed the name.

It’s astonishing to hear an actual Virginia or Southern Maryland accent around here anymore.

I was born in DC, my grandfather was a DC Trolleyman, and my Mom had an authentic Southern Maryland accent (and one of my uncles had the same accent so thick he was incomprehensible - like Boomhauer on King of the Hill.)


4 posted on 01/17/2011 7:15:44 AM PST by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

I ran into such an accent in Portsmouth, Va. about 15 years ago asking for directions at a gas station. Almost an accent you hear on those PBS programs set on an English country estate.


14 posted on 01/17/2011 7:57:44 AM PST by Oratam
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