Maryland Accent

[fedbam024]

Depends on where you live. I'm from the Howard County Area and everyone I know talks like this...

[peachie0keen]

I've tried to resist donning a Marylander accent the ten years I've lived here...but I do say "ignernt." I don't do that "hon" business though.

I need to go somewhere like Chicago and hear how different I sound in comparison to them.

[fulograceable]

I've lived on the eastern and western shore of Maryland. I don't know where you all went that you hate the eastern shore, but it is definently the place to be. It is absolutely gorgeous (google oxford, md) and the people are very friendly. The Western shore can be pretty, but is quickly becoming a giant suburb of DC with meaner people.

[wjaiv]

@fulograceable The eastern shore is the most depressing place on earth.

[imacutelilmama]

I'm from Maryland, there is no accent.

[TheTrieutran]

@imacutelilmama Yes there is. Ask a Brit how you sound to him, he'll tell you.

[imacutelilmama]

@TheTrieutran True.

[Austyg]

early Elizabeth Banks?

[Nacorple]

Bottom line: the south doesn't claim us and the north doesn't claim us. Do we care, not really. My family likes to say that we're the most Northern Southern state and we're the most Southern Northern State. We are who we are because we're country sweet yet east coast rude...love it or hate it, we're awesome!

[Oricelis]

Not saying you believe we are an extension of DC, but thats a lot of the treatment we get here.

The western shore is much nicer than the eastern shore, in terms of people, in my opinion.

[sherlockkoleno]

i love it

[SuperBrandone]

People on the shore think they're southerners, but they're not. sorry. Lived there for 2 years, couldn't stand it. Rudest people I ever met, especially if they found out you moved there from somewhere else, you were a "transplant" sorry folks, last I knew, this land is your land, this land is my land. The only good thing about the Eastern Shore is Ocean City. Peace.

[Oricelis]

@SuperBrandone Thats because all over Maryland the "transplants" are destroying Maryland culture and turing it into just another Northeastern state. Long time native Marylanders rather dislike that, thus the rudeness. We feel as though we're overrun by people from the north who think we're just an extension of DC.

[Oricelis]

@SuperBrandone Partly the idea of being southern is because we feel a lot more of a connection to Virginians than we do to Pennsylvanians.

[JGoff54321]

Maryland has different ones. Baltimore, PG, The Shore, Garret, Montgomery and other

[ilovepjysomuch]

I live in baltimore and were notorious for having that weird sounding "o". But its nothing like this. Terrible imitation lol. But there is a slightly different dialect for baltimoreans that is different from wester MD where there is lots of southern influence. In Balt, we definitely have a lot of northern influence to our accents

[estschro]

Hahaha I love this, it's so true.

I'm from Western MD and people have definitely commented on how I say my O's

[TheSHOW634]

We dont talk like that ! We talk like regular americans and one of the comments below said amerca doesnt have many accents we kinda do. We have the north accents like new york, new jersey and brooklyn. We have southern accents like alabama, missipi and virginia but maryland does not have a accent. Only thing is we say stuff like "sit ahn tha binch" (sit on the bench)

[Oricelis]

@TheSHOW634 Marylanders have an accent. Everyone in the world has an accent. There are actually four, yes four accents in Maryland. There is the older, original Maryland accent, it sounds like a Virginia Tidewater accent or a Tangier/Smith Island accent. Then in Central MD and DC there is the "Generic American Accent", like you hear in movies. Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore have a light Lowland Southern accent, similar to VA or NC, but lighter. Northern MD has an accent similar to PA.

[SuperBrandone]

@Oricelis I'm from PA, and there are many different accents across that state. I'm from the Northeast "coal region" ya know, up in da mountains....I moved to the eastern shore for 2 years, and definitely noticed a huge accent...to me anyway. very exaggerated O's and words like "house" and "out" were just like something I've never heard. Actually, the whole peninsula has it, including lower Delaware, when we would go to Baltimore the accent was the same, but different...like I said, to me anyway

[Oricelis]

@TheSHOW634 In my part of MD we would say "sit aun th' beaanch".

[pallekanin91]

There does not exist many accents in The United States of Twats

[lozoft9]

@pallekanin91 You're one to talk cuz i'm pretty sure Denmark (which is about the size of New Hampshire) doesn't have accents.

[tstodgell]

If you grew up there and moved away later, you'll neohtice the differntce when yuns geowh heowhm.

[Hoooooooar]

the fuck they don't heading out into the rural areas outside of Baltimore it sounds like a mix between Australian and what the fuck is that?

[mayoandchicken]

I never thought that marylanders had an accent until my friend from WI started teasing me about the way I said phone. She said it sounded like I was saying phoone. I didn't hear a difference.

[nebhuskers923]

Nobody from Maryland talks like that. Fuckin dumbasses

[smash0203]

@nebhuskers923 lol yes they do, head over to dundalk/essex area...

[RIPIzzy022404]

who the fuck says "o" like that? i'm from maryland and i've never heard that shit in my life.

[ALXVid101]

@RIPIzzy022404 Who cares it was funny

[V8Deuce]

@RIPIzzy022404 Thats because you love there , talk like that, and don't hear it

[typenamehere19]

It's not just the "o" dont forget "warter" "warsh" and most of all "hun"

[medusiform]

is this the chick who played nicky sobotka's girlfriend on season two of the wire?

[alwaysinbeastmode]

haha this sounds so funny

[KSCrosby]

definitely.

[COUNTRYMAN223]

im from mayland but the western part of it im closer to west virgina and i have the aplatchin accent like the mountain talk. idk if yall ever heard anyone talk like that before but yall would just have to look it up.

[xxxbankrollzxxx]

She sounds perfectly normal to me...

But im from baltimore, so maybe thats why :D

[ctrone]

@nathanjamesbaker HMPL was made in Maryland,right?

[Aceofhearts126]

It would have been better had they used the word hon instead of oh. She kinda sounds British, but what I know I just was you know born and raised there. XD

[timmy3679]

What the hell was that..

[TheKevinWalker]

Uh, see, I live in Maryland, and, we didn't get the joke. I guess it would be cool if we had an accent, but, we really don't. Not offended or anything, but, strange.

[j0phus]

@TheKevinWalker You think you'd fit right in somewhere in England? I can hear it and I'm from Chicago. It's not as strong as some of ours, but you've got it.

[TheKevinWalker]

@j0phus Then again, I was born in Turkey, spent three years in Texas, lived in Germany for fur years, and then my dad retired off of Ft. Meade. So I guess I shouldn't really have an accent one way or the other. Which is funny, because he's an Arkansan and has some of the clearest english I've ever heard.

[TheKevinWalker]

@j0phus Then again, there is BALTIMORE accent, or the "Bal'mer" accent. I honestly don't find it that disimilar from the Boston accent.

[stuckontheline]

@TheKevinWalker Having grown up in virginia until going to Towson for college. You native Marylanders do infact have an accent, I can vouch for that.

[Laqesha1]

She makin us sound like some valley girl

i know i dont talk like dat.

shit , she got me bent!

[LongshotRecordsTV]

Lol what?

[curlytoes79]

I live in Maryland and sort of pronounce my "oh's" like that. I thought it was from growing up in the 80s as a wannabe valley girl, though. :-)

[mindlessskull201]

I don't recall us Marylanders having a distinct acc-ooont.

[princesslolasluv]

@mindlessskull201 I am from Wisconsin and you do. HAHA.

[stinkyeggs]

The fuck was that?



[JohnnyKennedy93]

'That accent is idiotic' *in a thick boston accent*

[281gummybear]

if u close urr eyes and just hear the audio it sound like..

[nijaexhile3]

Oh and I just mean the way Americans pronounce your O's.

That aside, In general the maryland accent IS from another planet.

[capitalsown]

@nijaexhile3 I think you are confusing the Baltimore accent with the Maryland one. I don't understand what this "oh" thing is all about.

[nijaexhile3]

I got news for you Americans, you ALL sound like that to us(Canada...yeah yeah yeah aboot aboot) ehooww my GAhd. Hehehe.

[txff2002]

just moved to maryland and people here really do drag their o's out. 30 rock is priceless.

[xwinkwinko]

she sounds like Bruce from Family guy lol

[Worldmusicrevolution]

@xwinkwinko "eeowwwww neooowwwww"

[saachica07]

@xwinkwinko them rebels took zeus! that's allan's dog! i know! oh no! i know...

[TheEgg185]

@xwinkwinko he sounds like that guy from family guy who says "ehw nehww". i cant even type it.

[airwolfman]

eoooooohh, my gawd :D

[sonikmuff]

We baltimoron's love our boh's and O's.

[sabotaged]

HAHAHAHA

[h3adbangr]

most hilarious part of that episode imo!