The Don & Mike Show - Baltimore Accents (Part 1 of 2)

[Artylang]

Anyone else say wursh?

[donnellynell]

Maybe white Baltimoreans talk like this, cuz no niggas I kno talk like that

[Aegilbert8410]

Radio gods forever

[Aegilbert8410]

Baltimore is ok a lot easier to drive around then ole dc

[amselby81]

It's Bal'mer, Merland, not however they said it. GET IT RIGHT! They almost sounded British.

[VideoMenu]

I remember this intro.

[kevindniemann]

Baltimore is still so much better than DC on every possible level.

[tooeasy26]

@kevindniemann Yeah, it's a real gem. People flock from all over the world to visit Baltimore. The ONLY reason you clowns get anybody up there is cause you're 30 minutes from DC. Trust me, NObody is sitting around in any country around the world saying "Man! I really need to visit Baltimore soon"

[kevindniemann]

@tooeasy26 People might not flock to it, but we don't have to deal with tourists or all the bullshit politicians down in DC. It's a beautiful city.

[quincee33]

@kevindniemann I've seen The Wire....Where's the beauty?

[screw67]

Maybe you Baldimore bananas don't think it sounds like you because you're actually from there? But, trust me, to those of us on the outside this sounds just like you. Instead of bitching about a radio comedy bit, why don't you worry about cleaning that miserable piece of chit city! Baltimore is an ugly, dirty llittle town and every time I ride through I was they would just blow the whole place up and start over. Worthless...

[tommy2chips]

@screw67 :) it is far from its glory days

[quincee33]

@screw67 There's a reason they only have 2 major sports teams.

[adrianedawndawn]

Oh man, farngine got me, hahahahah.

[lordofwar528]

no one in baltimore talks like that you fucks

[Fudgaboutit]

Oh god, I miss Ron and Fez from WJFK. I'd get home after school and turn on 106.7 every day, starting with Don and Mike, then Opie and Anthony, and then ... finally ... Ron and Fez. The show I'd look forward to.

[Thn1kk4man]

God I miss this show. 

[vtecd16z6md]

they look like a homosexual couple....

[ironkatia]

People from Baltimore say Mew-zam instead of museum.

[slowfuse]

listened to 2 mins and started to wonder why i lasted that long...kill radio

[barb7124]

The accents have a lot to do with your education. The more English and Speech classes you take, the more you will employ good grammar. My speech professor at AACC spent a long time trying to rid us of the "local color" of Glen Burnie and Pasadena.

[philberz]

I'm not from anywhere near Baltimore but I shorten words like this a lot..maybe I should move out there.

[plowingzero]

Only Maryland, Europe, and geraffe

[tmamone83]

I've lived in Maryland all my life, and I can't do a Balmer accent to save my life, hon!

[natjones09]

way off.

[lakedog19352]

Complete unfunny mess

[ssidur]

Radio gods

[CCGuitarGod]

yeah, i've lived in baltimore my whole life, and had grandparents with really thick baltimore accents. i say some thing like wooder (water) and sometimes awn (on). some of these were right, but most were overexaggerated, like the snow one. nobody says that. we speak badly, but not that badly. still i wish i could do the accent better

[PPGcoolgirl]

Yeah... that sounds absolutely nothing like a Baltimore accent. I even have a pretty thick Baltimore accent and I say nothing like that. I pronounce Baltimore like Baldimore, toilet like toolet, and I say I dont know like Ahont knehow. That's really it. These guys totally overexagerate it. I didn't understand any of those quiz words at all.

[gauchebag]

none of this is even baltimore accent

[gauchebag]

why dont they discuss the guys wife getting into a silly car accident

[freakmech]

don and mike, more importantly, mike and mike, are NOT from Baltimore.

[frogman1981]

Gay, Glad thur goone.

Druid Hill, Balmer suburb?

[Adam44516]

ngl the photo of the two of them makes them look like a gay couple.

[ringouthegong]

bal-T-more!

[rickbangkok]

I went to Baltimore 2 weeks ago, and someone put "hon" at the end of the Welcome to Baltimore sign on the parkway, hmmmm

[SuperCreamface]

these two!!!

[gravelandgrain100]

These two can't hold a candle to Opie and Anthony!!

[Gugeno]

Wow this is nothing like how any sort of accent I've ever heard in baltimore. That sounds like.. Canadian or something, if I heard someone talking like that I would uppercut them.

[dover1982]

@Gugeno

Sorry but it doesn't sound Canadian at all either.

[bendover6969]

this is good radio?

[TheBaltimoreKnight]

Why is it that when people do a Baltimore accent they put on an annoying high pitch squeeling voice. Like if you lived in baltimore and picked up the accent your voice goes up an octave.

[rickbangkok]

This is perfect radio! Thanks gentlemen.....

[20sk8tergirl]

I got all the words right!....maybe because I've lived in Baltimore my whole life..O_o lol

[janhammerrules]

DON has a great show on KHTK 1140 in SACRAMENTO!

You can hear him live on the KHTK 1140 WEBSITE with the streaming audio M-F 12:00 - 4:00 PST.

He is a RADIO GOD!

[janhammerrules]

Don is now on khtk 1140 sacramento!!

[ShermitCrab]

Most of the quiz words I didn't get and I've lived in Baltimore my whole life. They're pretty bad with the accent. Sounds more like Australian to me.

[TheBaltimoreKnight]

@ShermitCrab Yeah, it sounds like a bad British or maybe even Irish accent. I ain't know what they was talkin about. And that accent is for the most part only found in Dundalk and through Southern Baltimore because the city is over 60% black now.

[johnnieangel99]

@TheBaltimoreKnight I was born and raised in Dundalk. I don't know one person who speaks this way. Highlandtown, Hamden and pigtown are another story. Bk, you must have listened to too much B-104.

But it Is one of the worst accents in the english language, the worst of boston new york and the south all in one,

[TheBaltimoreKnight]

@johnnieangel99 Lol, well, it's not that bad, it's the impersonations that make it really bad. I knew people who speak with a "Baltimore" accent and it's nowhere near as annoying as this radio show makes it out to be.

[jadeddrifter]

oh my gosh. this is aweful. i hope somebody really called them out when they did this. This is not the real thing at all. It's a HORRIBLE imitation that kinda makes me angry.

[ohso41]

@jadeddrifter

This actually sounds alot more real than "Andy's Baltimore accent"

[BonazaiGirl]

Bal-TI-more!? I've never said it like that, i've always pronounced it Baldimowre. Sounds weird when I hear other people pronounce the T.

[custom944]

@JasonandMitchelsgurl i live in columbia, and my accents part this, part murland, and part black

[MultiReeves1]

I'm from the Baltimore area and I didn't know the majority of the quiz words...i think these pronunciations represent a very small subset of the population. Still very funny though.

[Audiomuse]

Awesome!!

[Sind3r3lla175]

I have lived in baltimore all my life, and these accents SUCK. its Baldeemore, or baldamore, of balimore. thats how you say it. And you say frideeee not friday.

[TSquared2001]

A bit Anglish like. But that's White Baltimore.

[BLueEyeButterfly]

a few of these are right on.. but last time i checked there weren't many english accents in maryland. and it's BALDAmore.

[ZAPdontlook]

i'm from baltimore but i've honestly only met one person ever that talks like this. so...

[ZAPdontlook]

just kidding. i just realized that i say "granite" instead of granted.

crap.

[bloodredeyes666]

A lot of those words they had on the quiz I couldn't get at all, and I've lived in Baltimore all my life. This made me realize, though, we drop a lot of random letters from our words sometimes, don't we?

I have to say, the concept that I speak with an accent is completely fascinating to me. I've never really thought about it before as I've been speaking like this my whole life, but then I realize that the rest of the world thinks I talk funny. Go figgur.

[JasonandMitchelsgurl]

What's the accent from around Columbia MD like ?/ Just curious to knoww. Anyone who can help THNXX !

[ZAPdontlook]

either like baltimore or just a regular american accent.

[skizzo192]

were can you hear a baltimor accent there are no white people in baltimore

[MassTransit999]

you're a fucking idiot.

[skizzo192]

@MassTransit999 well niggers all just have nigger accents i was wondering where this accent in the video can be herd............can you give me that information??.......nigger

[theviolinvixen]

I guess it really depends on what part of Maryland you're from because I've heard some people speak like this, but then there are some words they say in here that I have never heard come out of any Marylander's mouth. They make Marylander's sound more Australian or British to me, lol. I've lived in MD for most of my life, but my parents were from the Midwest, so I guess that has a lot to do with how I speak.

[ohso41]

actually the Maryland accent is very similar to Cockney English. I think these guys are dead on. Some people who are trying to mimic the accent are making it sound too Southern. Being an ex New Yorker I can confidently say the Maryland or Baltimore accent has more in common with the NYC accent that it does with the Southern accent.

[theviolinvixen]

I'm not sure if I've ever heard Cockney English before...? I live in MD and, at least around my area, people don't really talk like that. Which is part of the reason why I think the different regions in MD have different types of accents. The farther south in MD you get, the more southern the accent, and vice versa. MD is pretty much on the border between north and south, I think. :)

[ohso41]

The eastern shore does sound more "Tidewater Virginia" however Baltimore and DC (although both accents are only slightly different) sound more like folks from Philadelphia. Those from the western part of the state (Cumberland and Hagerstown) actually sound more West Virginian

[theviolinvixen]

Yeah, I've never really done much comparing, but I certainly find accents interesting! I don't remember the exact number, but there are a lot (massive understatement) of dialects all over the U.S....It must have taken a really long time to catalogue all of them.

[tavolo22]

balls on chin!

[Spazztic13524]

i miss don and mike :(

[TyVulpine]

RADIO GODS!

[Piiierina1293]

They make us sound like leprechauns :(

[jackf456]

I miss Don & Mike.

106.7 JFK sucks now that its all sports. F U WJFK

[koolmaaan]

@jackf456 Amen. I grew up on listening to Don and Mike since 8th grade... I listened every day from 3 to 8... or was it four? either way it was amazing listening to awful sports talk bleh.

[HDK703]

@jackf456 The Junkies > Don & Mike, sorry you can't handle a side of sports talk

[TripinFL]

@jackf456 The Mike O'Meara Show is still being produced as a daily 1-hour podcast with Robb, Buzz and Oscar Santana on mikeomearashow com

[Babygirl83641]

My principal pronounces each syllable in Baltimore.

[zenvidar]

So do I, but I'm originally from Frederick County. More of a rural area than Baltimore, but yet we still have more of a General American accent than a lot of Marylanders. Weird.

[Seandaleanbh]

This is definitely a classed speech pattern though... I grew up middle class in Perry Hall, so I don't talk like that at all. However my stepfather's family (from Cockeysville) was lower/lower middle class and they definitely spoke like this all the time.

[410BodymoreChik443]

i agree, but i also think it's a location thing, b/c im from baltimore, nd some of these words, i do pronounce like that, but i've NEVER heard ppl around my way tlk like this......for example----pronouncing "aisle" like "oil"---no one does that...we say it like "owl" but im from the hood so like i said, i think location has a lot to do with it

[bwhite3024]

some of these are outrageous but for the most part they are right on haha

[TaylorWK]

i live in baltimore....

[terpman8705]

love don and mike, but they give it like a british accent, not the case

[bmorer]

man i from bmore an i came to AZ an to me yall the one wit accents mayne don an mike can suck my dick ya heard me fuckin whiteys man err body got an accent niggas from fuckin middle of no where usa got mad accents jus depends where u from fuck em they sound nothin like n e of my fam

[coleb23]

ok, I'm going to have to ask you to use your vowels

[rere989375]

DON AND MIKE YESSSSS.

[CDiddy51]

There is no "T" in Baltimore. Ask anyone from baltimore, its either Balmer, or Ballmore.

[DaHattasLoveMe]

i say ballamore

[mj2345michaeljordan]

people do say Ball T More.

[CDiddy51]

in all of my 21 years living in baltimore, i've never heard a native pronounce it ball t more

[mj2345michaeljordan]

oh dear god, you have lived in baltimore for 21 years?why?baltimore is the worst place i have ever been in my entire life. besides cal i dont see one positive about the entire city.

[CDiddy51]

where else have you lived, or even visted. Baltimore is one of the best cities I've ever been to. I really don't get why you would think that, you are grossly exagerating.

[mj2345michaeljordan]

baltimore, washington, orlando, toronto, new york, boston, las vegas, san francisco, charlotte, and chicago. out of those baltimore is by far the worst. everybody i know hates baltimore. its a pit. the city is trash. ive been there at least 15 times and the only thing ive ever enjoyed is watching the orioles lose to the Red Sox.

[CDiddy51]

lol, whatever you say dude like half of those cities count for shit anyway. LOL Washington, Orlando!!, Vegas, Charlotte!! ROFL thats classic.

Don't get me started on the Red Sox lol talk about a history of mediorcrity, they're a joke enjoy your 10 good years out of 100 of sucking, your entitled to it lol. All I can say is enjoy it while it lasts, the Sox are a team in decline while the O's have some of the best young prospects and players in the league and are rapidly on the rise.

[mj2345michaeljordan]

u call me stupid and then say the o's are better than the sox. lets see the red sox have made the playoffs 6 of the last 7 years and 3 in a row and havnt had a losing season since 1997. the o's however finished dead last in the division for the second year in a row. and havnt had a winning season since 1997. and just so you know the red sox also enjoyed a lot of succes for the first 20 years of the 20th century, winning 5 world series.

[bitch4ville]

They'll get over it won't they ahah. :) I'm wrong baltimore and it's not that bad really, I mean you could check out a place called york pa and it's dirtier here and way worse. tbh baltimore is a typical inner city area/

[mj2345michaeljordan]

Baltimore is a pit. besides cal Ripken the city doesn't have one good thing to offer.

[bitch4ville]

Ahah, Well you have your opinion. :) But I was born and raised there so I'll always love my city [:

[mj2345michaeljordan]

I guess I could understand loving ur city. I feel the same way about Boston.

[patriasadeyes]

hows waldorf have you been there?

[CapsRock21]

I live in DC and NO ONE talks like this haha

[trainspotter1976]

No one said anything about DC, dude.

[CDiddy51]

because thats DC... not baltimore

[LASVEGAN2007]

But DC is close enough that you hear that accent occasionally around here.

[commventam]

Long-time DC area residents who's families go way back can sound very much like Baltimoreans. I know several. The accent has been diluted greatly because DC attracts so many outsiders, but there's an accent there.

[Oldsckooltunz]

This is how most white people in Baltimore talk, Blacks and Whites in Baltimore have totally different accents and sound nothing alike.

[Jasonlords]

They had a discussion on the show about whether or not there was any black people with Baltimore accents... Most people called in and said no black people have that accent.

[Jasonlords]

You better not listen to the Big O and Dukes Show on 10:00 AM- 3:00 PM on WJFK

[MikeTooleK9S]

so much for that

[baltimore80]

listing to the podcast from todays O & Dukes n its mooooooooooolney

[MulcheArcade]

sounds a little british/australian

[RENThead91]

I live in Baltimore and I don't talk like that. You mainly hear that accent in Dundalk.

[Gazaunga]

this is pretty much the Baltimore accent...Dundalk is much different. He put a little british in it, but it's like 90% true...don't know where you live

[christymoellering]

Thank you for posting this. I love these guys and miss them. I'm in another state now.

[GetatMD]

These guys are off... they can't speak the Baltimore accent well. They make us sound Irish instead of southern

[ohso41]

That means people from Philly sound like they're from the south too.

[tbarton00]

What year is this from?

Thanks for posting.

[JeffBDemented]

Maybe 98, 99, or 2000? I'm not sure exactly.

[keyso12]

@JeffBDemented It is from 1996