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[quote=Anonymous]Fourth generation Washingtonian here. My in laws and mother and five of my aunts and uncles grew up within blocks of each other in SEDC. All are white and range in age from 60-80. All have distinctive accents that to me, a native northern Virginian, sound a bit like a less pronounced Baltimore, Maryland accent. Collectively, all of my family sounds like Pat Buchanan. What's distinctive about HIS accent? The long "a" sounds in manner, in Pat, in Buchanan -- they all stretch out (oh- out is sometimes said like oat) those a's so it's Paaat Byu cahhh non. There may be a sub category of working class/upper class DC accents. My father in law and his siblings all say Warshington and Merlin and amblance and even warter for water and they were rough city boys whereas my private school educated uncle has the Pat Buchanan accent.[/quote]
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