Anonymous
Post 09/23/2023 08:14     Subject: Re:What is this man's accent? Maryland area
Anonymous wrote:Here is the video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-tt2nTCE5c

It doesn’t sound like a typical Maryland red neck accent you hear in Frederick/Damascus/etc which is a little more twangy I agree it’s different.



Op here Thank you! I posted the other night without the video link and then got distracted… I can’t believe you found the video!
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2023 05:50     Subject: Re:What is this man's accent? Maryland area
Anonymous wrote:I’ve known people in Baltimore ( East Baltimore, Dundalk) with similar accents. I think it’s a white West Virginia accent coupled with Murlyn. So people who grew up in Maryland around adults who grew up in West Virginia. Just a guess though.


Now that’s just silly. It’s a Maryland accent. Wtf with the WV?
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2023 05:49     Subject: What is this man's accent? Maryland area
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It's a rural MD accent. It's like a combination of a southern twang, Pittsburgheze, a with a light touch of Philly/Jersey.

This is what I hear to. The prononciation of “water” is very Philly.

His grammar was very informal.


It’s not Philly - it’s Maryland.
Anonymous
Post 09/23/2023 05:48     Subject: What is this man's accent? Maryland area
Anonymous wrote:It’s an old time rural Maryland twang. It almost sounds like the old East Baltimore accent crossed with the rural eastern shore twang.



100% correct.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2023 23:48     Subject: Re:What is this man's accent? Maryland area
I’ve known people in Baltimore ( East Baltimore, Dundalk) with similar accents. I think it’s a white West Virginia accent coupled with Murlyn. So people who grew up in Maryland around adults who grew up in West Virginia. Just a guess though.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2023 23:33     Subject: Re:What is this man's accent? Maryland area
I thought he might be a little deaf plus a rural accent.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2023 23:22     Subject: What is this man's accent? Maryland area
Honestly, it sounds like a speech impediment combined with a rural MD accent.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2023 23:16     Subject: Re:What is this man's accent? Maryland area
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here is the video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-tt2nTCE5c

It doesn’t sound like a typical Maryland red neck accent you hear in Frederick/Damascus/etc which is a little more twangy I agree it’s different.



Oh yeah, that’s definitely a rural Maryland accent. Perhaps he’s also had some other issue that slows the cadence of his words. But you can hear that Maryland accent.


+1 my family members are farmers around there and they sound like him, except I think he has an impediment or had a stroke.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2023 22:39     Subject: Re:What is this man's accent? Maryland area
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Here is the video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-tt2nTCE5c

It doesn’t sound like a typical Maryland red neck accent you hear in Frederick/Damascus/etc which is a little more twangy I agree it’s different.



Oh yeah, that’s definitely a rural Maryland accent. Perhaps he’s also had some other issue that slows the cadence of his words. But you can hear that Maryland accent.


I agree

We have lived in Maryland for over 25 years and there are quite a spectrum of accents here. However, that does sound like some rural Maryland people I have heard - I also thought they sounded like a combo of southern and Philly when I first heard them

I love hearing strong accents and wish I had acquired more of a Maryland flavor when I talk.

The human brain is amazing in the ways it shapes so many wildly different and nuanced expressions of our shared humanity.


+1. I love hearing an accent. My grandparents have strong Queens/Long Island accents but I was raised in upstate NY. It wasn’t until I watched Escape from Damascara that I realized I also have a strong accent. The upstate NY accent feels like home now. It’s almost midwestern.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2023 22:32     Subject: Re:What is this man's accent? Maryland area
Nothing unusual about his accent.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2023 22:22     Subject: What is this man's accent? Maryland area
Anonymous wrote:It's a rural MD accent. It's like a combination of a southern twang, Pittsburgheze, a with a light touch of Philly/Jersey.

This is what I hear to. The prononciation of “water” is very Philly.

His grammar was very informal.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2023 22:16     Subject: Re:What is this man's accent? Maryland area
I grew up on the eastern shore. He sounds like my dad and most of the guys older than him. My dad was from princess anne originally
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2023 22:10     Subject: What is this man's accent? Maryland area
It’s sort of a Scranton/Delaware/Syracuse Law School mashup.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2023 16:11     Subject: What is this man's accent? Maryland area
https://youtu.be/xcCyhgk_sIU?si=GUarQDfIuBNvedyB

Watermen accent is the same in MD and VA, and it sounds like East Baltimore, Eastern Shore, and Rural MD.
Anonymous
Post 09/22/2023 16:09     Subject: What is this man's accent? Maryland area
https://www.city-data.com/forum/maryland/1168843-detailed-dialect-map.html

Detailed dialect map for MD