DC accent

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Anonymous wrote:Bamas. Erryone a y'all's bamas.

Lol!! I love it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom grew up here and she says "warshington."

My grandmother from rural Appalachia pronounces it that way. I think it's more of a generational thing.

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Anonymous wrote:The DC accent is a black DC accent. There is no white DC accent for the most part.

My grandparents both had that accent ( there IS a DC accent) and they are white. To me, it's the same accent as those who are black. The DC accent has a southern twang to it.

[Anonymous]

The NYT has an accent quiz and accurately predicted that my kids had an accent somewhere between Arlington and Baltimore!

[Anonymous]

Here’s the quiz https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the quiz https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz-map.html

Thanks for posting this. It nailed exactly where I grew up (down to the city) and showed the influence of where I went to college on there West Coast as a secondary influence (I remember being 18 and deliberately dropping some childhood terms from my vocab).

And yes, when I moved here from Seattle I noticed a very strong DC accent, particularly in the old timers.

"Have a blessed day."

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Anonymous wrote:My born-and-raised DC kids, now grown, say "I'm onna" or "I munna" in stead of "I'm going to", as well as "all-most" and "ohmost", each kid differently, for almost. We're white.

im not alone! lol

You guys aren't lol

My white, DC- raised kids do this too. The "I munna" drives me insane lol. I've never thought of it as DC thing, but maybe it is.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My born-and-raised DC kids, now grown, say "I'm onna" or "I munna" in stead of "I'm going to", as well as "all-most" and "ohmost", each kid differently, for almost. We're white.

im not alone! lol

You guys aren't lol

My white, DC- raised kids do this too. The "I munna" drives me insane lol. I've never thought of it as DC thing, but maybe it is.

My husband and kids are both born and raised here and I have never heard any of them utter anything like that. I've been here 25 years and I don't either. My daugther claims I say something that sounds like "Dudn it" instead of "doesn't it." With that said, I just took that quiz and it didn't come close to pinning down where I was raised, other places I have lived, or the influence of where my parents grew up. Born and raised outside Philadelphia, parents from Central PA, and that quiz said I was from Rochester or Grand Rapids. Never been to either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bamas. Erryone a y'all's bamas.

Lol!! I love it.

❣. This totally jolted me back to my Kennedy Playground days! Lol

[Anonymous]

Yawn another uppity white people thread wanting to fit into chocolate city. The city they gentrified and booted out all the actual black dc people with dc " accents" . All the black dc people were pushed out to pg and woodbridge va.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yawn another uppity white people thread wanting to fit into chocolate city. The city they gentrified and booted out all the actual black dc people with dc " accents" . All the black dc people were pushed out to pg and woodbridge va.

Except that some of us were born and raised here. EOTP, even.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Bamas. Erryone a y'all's bamas.

Lol!! I love it.

+1. Lots of good ones on here (Muraland). Dc native and while there are distinctively DC phrases (the above for example) never noticed a DC accent. My cousin who visited DC from England for the first time couldn’t understand anything anyone was saying. So I guess there is.

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My white DC born and bred teens drive me crazy with their lack of of “T”s before an ending “in” and forget the “g” on “-ing” - Latin is La-in, batting is ba-in, fighting is fi-in.

It’s like a lazy NE mumble and really stands out to me - childhood in Midwest where every dang consonant is pronounced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The NYT has an accent quiz and accurately predicted that my kids had an accent somewhere between Arlington and Baltimore!

I'm born and raised in DC and that quiz told me my accent is Jacksonville, FL?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My white DC born and bred teens drive me crazy with their lack of of “T”s before an ending “in” and forget the “g” on “-ing” - Latin is La-in, batting is ba-in, fighting is fi-in.

It’s like a lazy NE mumble and really stands out to me - childhood in Midwest where every dang consonant is pronounced.

Oh I remember my mother harping on the way we said Shirt-- "shirr" with that glottal stop.
Now I carefully pronounce it ShirT. Thanks Mom!