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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many Annapolitans are transplants. Many of the locals do have the Maryland accent, listen for the Maryland “o” and you will hear it.

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PP.  My grandma with 2 parents from the Davidsonville Road area had that, I think.

"Dog" sounded like "Doahg".

I had forgotten that.  That sound and the "Warshington" were all we noticed at home.[/quote]

My grandmother was from DC and she called it Warshington. [/quote]

I grew up in Montgomery County and remember my parent's friends who were born and raised in DC always called it Warshington.  I always thought that was surprising.  Of course these are people who would be in their 80s today, and I think was more common in people born in DC before the 1960s.  I also thought it was weird because my grandmother in Ohio was always talking about warshing her clothes.  And just seemed so odd that older Washingtonians would say Warshington.  Did not compute.  lol[/quote]

But we’re the parents of your parents friends born in Washington? I was born in DC. Both of my parents were born in DC. But the parents of many of my friends were born in Georgia, Alabama, and the Carolinas — so there are some things that I say with a different accent from my parents, because my peers and some of my teachers were born in Southern states.

I think “Warshington” is more of a blue collar thing, but I had to go to Bawmer to hear deug (that’s as close as I can get to the Baltimore pronunciation of “dog” and zink. [/quote]

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