@@wesok7124 Born, raised & still live here. My father and Aunts all Baltimore raised and would be in their late 90s and over a 100 years old, spoke proper but never British English Accent. Majority of the eastcoast cities are America's oldest cities and don't sound alike or even British. However, we do have small towns in the eastern shore of Maryland that the people have really maintained a strong British influenced accent til this day but they are never talked about. Baltimore trends all day on social media and others chime in. I encourage you to look into the accents of Eastern shore Maryland and you'll be surprised.
@@Garrett1240 there is no standard American accent lol north sound different than the south. South sound different from the west and the west sound different from the mid west. It varies by region.
@@deezusnubes I’m talkin bout y’all who not from Baltimore specifically down south y’all country travel out your state up north to New York New Jersey or Maryland you’ll then find out what I’m talking about
I’m from Baltimore but I was born in the county and when my friends from Baltimore city call me dummy it’s the most regular thing to me but I always think about how we’re basically calling each other dumb 😂
😅😅😅😅😅😅 yeah I guess you have a point sometimes the truth sounds funny even when said in literal terms it may be funny but honestly I feel like it's super sad its probably best they stay on that side of United States on the west coast they will get laughed out their entire city but I'm sure they can get a job at McDonald's on the spot😂😂😂😂😂😂
The pronunciation of a lot of words is similar to how people talk in Northern Ireland. Given how unique the pronunciation is, I would say there is definitely huge influence from people who emigrated from Northern Ireland to America
@@grant.5345 yep. Lots of things came with those irish immigrants. They brought the knowledge of whiskey production, which resulted in the creation of kentucky burboun. They also brought their musical influence with them, which was a clear precursor to blues and such. I'm very interested in this mixture of culture between African American freedpeople of the South and lowly Irish immigrants. I've noticed a lot of African Americans are called Sean, for example. Sean is the Irish word for old/eldest, usually given to the oldest son.
@@Riyadh460 that wouldn't be strictly true. Being influenced by something and being something are different things. Irish influenced a lot of white people over there also but so did the Dutch, Scottish, English, German, french etc
@@loto7197 Blah, blah, blah. So called African Americans have done their due diligence in regards to who their antecedents were. We get it...the whole world has taken an oath to keep the true origins of the American people a secret. African Americans are the Irish, are the French, are the Germans, are the British. You know this. Carry on as you were pal
it's the same in alot of cities tbh. In chicago, black and white people sound different. Black people in the midwest (chicago) come from the south due to the "great migration" so there's alot of southern influence in their accents. But the white people in chicago have alot of polish and irish influences in their accents.
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As someone who lives in baltimore, when a city’s biggest saving grace is “having personality” it usually just means the place is a shithole. Baltimore is very much that
Hi, I'm a linguist. This is very cool and I really like your channel. Thanks for making it. If I could offer one piece of advice - use fewer clips of people being aware of their accent (like the ones where people pronounce certain words, or talk about their own accent, etc.), and go for videos of native speakers (in this case for example, baltimore-accented speakers) either talking to each other, or at least not directly talking to non-native speakers (e.g., recording a video they never thought non-natives would see). Those are of course much harder to find, but are far more valuable data.
It is like an uncanny blend between Boston/New England and Tennessee drawl, with a pinch of British sprinkled on top (trust me, it will make all the difference).
As someone with a TN drawl I found out some of the settlers in TN were from MD (mostly from NC and VA) but MD and SC had a few sprinkled in, so it makes sense. Maybe the TN drawl is the real blend
Growing up in Maryland, I never knew that Baltimore had its own accent. I always heard some people speak like that and thought nothing of it. I just assumed it was natural 😅
i kinda get what you mean, i’m from frederick (roughly an hour west of baltimore, for those who aren’t aware) and i’ve only visited baltimore once in my entire life. never knew that city had its own accent, in fact these accent videos are the first time i’ve been exposed to it. you must be a lot closer to baltimore than i am, i spend way more time in dc
Growing up over west, I never even paid it any attention till it came to 'Zink'. Then I started rebelling against all it. I can't stop all of it. I still can't pronounce the T in ballmore. I'll slip up with "oinch" instead of orange if I'm talking quick.
When I moved to the DMV from CA I didn't only have culture shock I felt like I had to learn a whole new language. I almost fainted when I heard someone say "Erck" instead of "Eric" for the first time. 🤣
🤣Being that the DMV is so close to Bmore, there's a lot of interaction between the two. When I lived in the DMV my boyfriend lived in East Baltimore because that's where his "job" was. 🤣 I'm from Oakland, CA so E Bmore never scared me.@@TG-st2ze
I moved from NYC, so I feel your pain! I had spent time in Pittsburgh though, which also has a crazy accent, so it wasn't such a big deal. And yes, there are ppl who talk like this all over the DMV.
You heard of people in Yorkshire or flipping Cornwall😭 which part of Britain are you talking about? Also, people tend to talk very court and blunt, so the ewwwwwwww wouldn't stretch out like that💀💀💀
@Ja'Cora Williams but it's the way we say it, we don't prolong it. We are more choppy when we speak but in the South, they have a drawl that we don't, that makes it sound different especially paired with other words in a sentence.
Baltimore really has a British accent to parts of their words, and here I thought us here in Boston had a unique accent where anyone from around the country could say yup he’s from Boston. But these ppl definitely have a unique accent only found in one place In our country and it couldn’t be mixed up where their from.
Baltimore, Philly, Outer Banks, and Appalachia have truly wild accents that only get love from linguists. This country is full of cool shit that gets papered over with New York, LA, Texas, and shit else
I met someone from baltimore that said she was a 'heron' addict and i thought she meant she liked great blue heron birds, but really she meant she had been addicted to heroin in the past. She was in recovery, inspirational lady.
I live in the Seattle area now. My son says he cannot understand anyone in my family when he talks with them on the phone. My wife just absolutely LOVES the Baltimore accent!
Wild guess here... what you probably know as the london roadman/multicultural accent has an exaggerated "oooooo" sound in it, like here when they say "too" or when young lads in london say "you" that's the best guess I can make 🤣
@j.e3336 One word doesn't mean a lot of other words aren't pronounced in a southern dialect. I'm not the only one who noticed the blended accents, so there must be something there.
Fr fr. I’m from the valley and the first time I met my homie from the 5th, he was in the half way house working for McDonald’s as a teen, I didn’t understand a single fucking word out his mouth. It took a few minutes for my brain to adjust to understand him. That was the first time I had heard such a thick ass accent. That was so profound that I never was culture shocked again after that when traveling to different places lol.
I always wondered when the English (British) came and created the 13 colonies what happened to the accent? How come it never progressed deeper into the states the more it expanded? Well, Maryland kept it and said no one else could have it then twisted it to their own specifics.
People from Britain used to sound like this, our accent changes a lot. Americans think of the queens English but it’s changed again in the last 50 years
They left out the best part of the one clip when the dude had a remarkable moment of self realization and went, "DAMN, WE REALLY TALK LIKE THAT?!?!?!!"
@@edwardssistershands Ahhhh see I hate to be nitpicky but if the subject is "Baltimore accents" and you're talking about the state of Baltimore as a city then you are off-subject. If the video was about croissants and you started talking about how the French Aristocracy was guillotined... you see where I'm going?
