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To: cradle of freedom
Do Marylanders have a Southern accent?

No.

10 posted on 10/18/2013 6:21:31 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: PistolPaknMama

The accent of native Marylanders really depends the part of the state in which you were born. Where I live it’s a little southern-sounding, but then there’s a heavy dose of Baltimore...it sounds strange.

A lot of people who live in Maryland weren’t born in Maryland too, so they bring their southern, northeastern, Midwestern et. accents with them.


26 posted on 10/18/2013 6:48:10 PM PDT by perez24 (Dirty deeds, done dirt cheap.)
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To: PistolPaknMama

They have a funny (if not downright ugly) accent all their own. Water is pronounced “wuter”; house is pronounced “hise”; when someone tells you that he or she is going to the Atlantic beaches, they’ll say that they are “goin’ donn de aoshin”; oysters are pronounced “urshters”; Baltimore is pronounced variously “balmer” and “bowl-tee-more”; and the state is pronounced “Murlin”. This accent spills over into parts of southeastern PA, Delaware and northern/Chesapeake Virginia. The preposition “on” is pronounced “own”.


49 posted on 10/18/2013 9:08:17 PM PDT by nd76
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