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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Wtf with Wtf? No need to be rude.

Many white people who live — or whose parents and grandparents lived — in East Baltimore moved there from West Virginia in search of work. Several years ago, East Baltimore also had a large white immigrant population, including many people from various European countries, including Poland and Italy. All of these relocations, influenced the accents in the East Baltimore area, along with people who moved to the area from other areas of Maryland. All of these factors, along with educational experiences and other types of exposures to different accents (media, neighbors, etc.) influenced accents to some degree.


Tldr: I might be incorrect X but hardly silly.

For anyone genuinely interested — which likely does not include the “Wtf” rude and ignorant PP that I’m replying to here — I just found this recording. You might find this bit about two of the many Baltimore accents and how they developed interesting:

https://www.wypr.org/2022-02-07/how-did-the-baltimore-accent-happen

Thanks OP — for sending me down an interesting internet rabbit hole on a rainy day!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

Wtf with Wtf? No need to be rude.

Many white people who live — or whose parents and grandparents lived — in East Baltimore moved there from West Virginia in search of work. Several years ago, East Baltimore also had a large white immigrant population, including many people from various European countries, including Poland and Italy. All of these relocations, influenced the accents in the East Baltimore area, along with people who moved to the area from other areas of Maryland. All of these factors, along with educational experiences and other types of exposures to different accents (media, neighbors, etc.) influenced accents to some degree.


Tldr: I might be incorrect X but hardly silly.

Anonymous wrote:

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?