My family teaches you how to speak Baltimorese

Let my family, at Christmas Day dinner, teach you how to speak Baltimorese (Bawlmerese). How many of these words can you say correctly?
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How do you say “Down the ocean?”
All the time he was growing up in Baltimore County, Phillip Schwarzmann never knew he spoke funny.
“People say I speak with an accent, but I say I’m just speaking perfectly normal,” he says.
Well, Bawlamerese does sound funny to people who have never heard it before, who insist that there’s no such phrase as “downy ocean” (which, of course, is how that phrase in the opening sentence above is supposed to be pronounced).
So Schwarzmann, now 38 and 17 years removed from living in Baltimore, decided to take advantage of returning home for the holidays. During a family get-together at his aunt’s home in Perry Hall, he had various family members pronounce words and phrases written on index cards - from “Tuesday” and “water” to “ambulance” and “Belair Rd.” - committed their distinctive pronunciations to video and posted it to his Facebook page.
At the suggestion of a friend, he made the post public. By Thursday afternoon, more than 500,000 people had viewed it, Schwarzmann said. More than 4,200 people had liked it, and more than 11,000 had shared it.
“I wanted to show my San Francisco friends why I talk so funny,” Schwarzmann, a UMBC grad now doing public relations work for a tech company, said Thursday, still in Baltimore and enjoying English the way it was meant to be spoken. “Especially in the Bay area … they don’t really have an accent. They always make fun of me, for certain words. Everybody has seen ‘The Wire.’ Every time I say certain words at work, I get grief.”
His family certainly seems to be in the spirit, happily talking about “Blair Road” and “amblance” and “worter” and “Tuesdee.” Truly, it’s about time the rest of the world learned to speak properly.
“I knew my family would be good at those words,” Schwarzmann says. “They can be good spokespeople.”

[@johannesbridges1341]

Someone once said, "Baltimore is like all the eccentrics from the south tried to move up north, and ran out of gas in Baltimore."

[@kennethzheng3735]

"Bostonians have no soul"

[@OK-hi5ym]

that "someone" being the great John Waters

[@sherodbrown3961]

That sounds about right

[@unclechuck3229]

😭😭😭😭😭

[@KcKupid]

😂😂😂

[@stark1193]

Hmmm... AARON EARNED AN IRON URN. Let’s see.😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@NanaLaEnana]

ERN EERN EN ERN EERN

[@blade7506]

ERN ERN ERN ERN ERN

[@nocturnalgremlin8910]

😂😂😂

[@Mister-gh5qp]

EERN ERN EN EREN EERN

[@ladyd104]

I couldn't say it right to save my life

[@VideoNozoki]

This seems like a very nice family. It is nice to see everyone together, laughing.

[@jbbrault2052]

Idk man…. It’s very sus that you said that. I’m not sure if it’s really sad bc you have no family nor friends??? Or you are going to kill his “very nice” condensed, comedy troop-family? Now that I thought about it I get it bro. Do what you must

[@j4miee]

@@jbbrault2052 Bro how insecure are you? 🤣sounds like you're bitter about seeing people enjoying themselves

[@39bigmarks]

@@jbbrault2052 get the fuck off the internet and go find some friends because it's very obvious you don't have any. this guy just said something nice and you had to go ahead and leave that stupid ass comment there.

[@WlseCrow]

Jb brault please hes just having a nice moment

[@nimphilia]

@@jbbrault2052 oh come on you didnt have to bring out your honest thoughts on the table

[@Pete_Finch]

I love how excited everyone is to read the word once they see it. I'm a native New Yorker and get the same grin when someone from out of town asks me to say "coffee," "dog" or "daughter"

[@pongop]

I'd also ask to hear "hot dog" and "water"

[@gorkskoal9315]

LOL my mom said when she had moved out to johns mariland then went to live out in Balmr people thought it was hillarius to ask her to say things like choclate or food etc. Normal people: choclat Her: Chwlate Normal people: food Her:grb me:how the hell did I learn to have a normal cnvrstn?

[@gorkskoal9315]

LOL when I was dating this super suuuuuuuuuuper nice girl who was orginally from Mariland, then moved to Baltimore and then Pittsberg she had by then had the cutest mix of all them. Tooke me a minute to undr stwand hers. Bcs ov hwans a drawls untps thaa wrdst mixtares ufs scnts. Normal people: "Heey how ya doin'?!" Her: "drs cmshrs ayands gme a bgl owl kiss!" Me now: how the hell did we understand each other?

[@dividad1]

My dad will add Rs at the end of words with As, like Soda becomes soder, Anna becomes Anner

[@gorkskoal9315]

@@dividad1 LOL, my dads mum was still alive, she a deeeep southern accent, and would call up to talk my my father. She'd roll constantans and ings was atually ang. "Hawn caawns 'yall geets yers fader onder phwone like gud 'lil deer?" and Thin was Thang. Coke pipsi all that was color coded soder. When he came back from seeing her his drawl was awful, I have no idea how I under stood a gd thing he said. "comsgeetshereindeercarrightquweeknow!" (wtf did he say?)OOh get in the car so we can go get the pizza. got it.

[@GrimOakheart]

Normal people: "Did you have dinner?" Baltimore: "d'YEET?!"

[@TylerLL2112]

Baltimore invented the would Yeet confirmed. It’s just applied differently.

[@adamthevintagerazornerd2767]

Midwest has a word similar, it's g'eat. But the G is pronounced like J

[@fireballferret8146]

🙋‍♂️

[@Jesse-cx4si]

I’m from OKC and we also say “ja-eet.”

[@mightyquinn38]

@@Jesse-cx4si I'm from Lexington, Kentucky and we say that.

[@konrad4421]

Our accent is like a weird mix of the southern and the northern accent. Its REALLY strange.

[@unorthodoxromance254]

Geographically that would be correct.

[@m00dsw1ngs]

i agree, we some things we say have a southern drawl, others are northern, i think it depends on what part of MD you live in

[@mattiekim]

Smith Island, MD, is in the middle of the Bay, they speak like they're "English" because they've been so isolated and untouched by the outside.

[@lia5958]

MentleGen of Leisure right

[@Elios0000]

yeah the Smith Island dialect is neat i have read some stuff that its likely VERY close to how the early colonist talked

[@post_historic]

This is a akchewl anthplologically significant video. This made me smile so hart it brought tears. 100% ackerit.

[@cmmmmmmmw]

You're an anthplologically significant video.

[@matthew3009]

​@@cmmmmmmmw That's very serendipitous of you

[@gamespotlive3673]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[@XJapanGonnaGiveItToYa-cd4xj]

Signifkint. is how we would say that. heh

[@alainadacosta1222]

This video is so cute and warm, just a family laughing at themselves and having fun.

[@eyedictate]

@Spritz McSoda lmao chill

[@mondobacon8101]

@Spritz McSoda there were plenty of times that they were laughing...

[@seancollins9745]

when we moved to baltimore in 1987, my michigam raised mom spent 2 hours looking for blair road one day lol

[@JStephs1950]

Fortunately,, when Baltimorians go to a hardware store to buy a paramour, the clerk knows that they want something they can use to cut the grass.

[@seancollins9745]

JStephs1950 roflmao

[@sandrayousif2418]

I was born and still live in Michigan and that’s exactly how I would spell that too from the way she pronounced it.

[@pepperforpresident3039]

Hahahahaha 😅I'm a in tears in laughing so hard j imagining ur mom looking for a road that doesn't exist for the rest of the English speaking world yes Blair rd lombird st as opposed to the correct way Lombard balamere (baltimore) and jeet? (Did u eat) are probably some of our worse or best ways of pronouncing words depending on how u look at it oh and pixture, lil itlee (little italy)and our tried and true hon...but I don't even realize or hear it unless it's two people conversing one being from bmore and the other from the English speaking world then I see how truly pronounced it is....

[@theanagraman8325]

Lmao

[@tshyne8007]

When Baltimoreans speak they get their point across by using the least amount of words, and, or syllables.

[@mdinunzio7610]

"Why waste time, say lot word when few word do trick" - Kevin Malone

[@unclechuck3229]

🤣🤣🤣

[@camden336]

I understood them clearly..sounds like my grandmother and shes from north carolina

[@inside1283]

Very much like Yorkshire in England, we literally don’t use the word “the”😂

[@reikomyles1495]

Truth

[@CapturedByKen]

Mann , I love accents ...gives every region so much character

[@rachelladue1572]

yeah, i hate the way a lot of ppl looks down on their regional accents and try to conform their way of speaking, often intentionally. But with the internet and tv and such the way it is it's so ubiquitous you're going to hear words from ppl not in your region before you adopt the regional accent, so a lot of this is going away. Plus like so many kids going to school have teachers not from their area, so the ppl they're hearing when not on the media are also not speaking with the regional accent. very sad imo

[@patrickscannell6370]

Lived in Balmore for three years and I was happy to get most of the pronunciations right. I was also only hoping to hear a few more missing words like "mayor" (pronounced "mare"), "paris" (pronounced "purris"), and "wash" (pronounced "warsh")

[@tonym2513]

How do you’s mfs say two?

[@youtubename7819]

What? How else do you say mayor besides “mare”? Does anyone say “may or”?

[@doinyourmom7236]

Worst three years of your life? If not, you're brain is broken. I live there for 6, and I say burn that useless city to the ground.

[@doinyourmom7236]

Yes, because that's the proper pronunciation.@@youtubename7819

[@aynDRAWS]

Ah yes, that classic "warsh". That's a staple down here in Hoosier land as well lol

[@winterdunlap1596]

I dont say bawlmore i say bal-da-more

[@destinyofforji6318]

Right same

[@JonathanPerez-kw1jg]

Facts! I was confused when they said it lol

[@NFL_Prod]

😂😂

[@j.z.blasko594]

They clearly from south baltimore theres a completely different accent between southern baltimore and the west and east sides that's why they say it like bawlmor and not bal-di-more like we say

[@sfort515]

I say Bal-ti-more but I’m from California living in MD now lol

[@TnseWlms]

Bawlmer is a city located in Merlin, home of the Oryuls, Crabtown's major lig baseball team. Known for row houses, uhrster roasts, marble steps, painted screens and crab feasts. Purnts of interest include the Inner Harbor, Pimlico, Droodle Park, Hollintown, and downy ashin, 3 hours away as the iggle flies. Bawlmer has a certain charm you just won't find in Shcargo, Pissberg or Warshnun.

[@TigerTiger-wf7xq]

Yes!!! I’m from Maryland but now in Florida and I sure miss Maryland! Nicest people and everyone calls each other “Hun” I still pronounce “wash” as “warsh” 😂

[@joshturner1591]

De winner hon

[@HardluckHutch]

Damn! Reading that was fun.

[@finessekid4789]

I read that perfectly

[@TylerLL2112]

I literally just read a post that sounded like it came from my grandfather who grew up in Bawlmer. Literally to a T every word. Crazy how you make a step out of the city and it seems like that accent isn’t as common.

[@eoghanhayes4575]

Stav's family is so wholesome

[@teteteteta2548]

Respect

[@EQuake2290]

I'm gay

[@tee5615]

I’m also gay

[@christopherknowles]

powerful haunches.

[@michaelrfalkowski2446]

Hell yeah dude

[@kenfederighi461]

I’ve showed this video to soo many people! I go to the Czech Republic every Spring to train kids coming to Ocean City to work for the Summer. Ever since I found this video, I’ve been including it as part of my class! I tell my students that we don’t talk like the English they have been learning! While I grew up in Howard County, my grandparents lived on Harmon Avenue, in Morrell Park. The 1970’s were an amazing time in West Baltimore!

[@krystalgardiner5591]

I grew up in Brooklyn in Baltimore and eventually bought a house in Morrell Park! Moved away to Carroll County about 15 years ago.

[@SteppingStonevlogs]

LOVE IT because it's kept it's local dialect. Hope they keep speaking 'funny' because the world would sound a lot more blend if we all had the same accent!

[@paladin4141]

I don't know about other parts of Balmer' but it's pretty much dead on the Southside

[@Walamonga1313]

Bland, not blend

[@Saghetti]

@@Walamonga1313 i think that was the joke

[@cinnamoncigarettes]

We are losing accents in the US and its very very sad. I live in NC and probably 1 out of 8 people even have a southern accent.

[@badart3204]

@@cinnamoncigarettesit’s not all bad. It makes it much easier to understand each other which is very useful.

[@215joee]

Its funny because in Philly we say “wooder” too instead of “water”

[@tmtmtmtmtm]

I've noticed a lot of similarities in the Baltimore and Philly accents. Also, nobody in Maryland ever calls it Pennsylvania, it's always just P.A.

[@215joee]

An Request Yeah we just say P.A too. I rarely hear Pennsylvania

[@pepperforpresident3039]

Joe 215 I have noticed certain parts of P.A. pronounces things like us...i have never been to Philly but in Pittsburgh and its really similar to our accent

[@survivurman]

its the same accent yeah en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_American_English

[@condeezyyy]

Im from Baltimore nd i say “wada” or “wooder” 😂

[@Smajtastic]

This is so wholesome, thank for you sharing your wonderful moment with your family

[@emilyhenry6086]

as a wisconsinite hearing them say “J’eet?” brought a tear to my eye

[@cairegrigsby7682]

The “dgeeet” took me out. “Did you eat” 😂😂

[@tiffygne18]

White accent lol black Baltimore be like yew tew and yo

[@THE14THPRIME229]

Melanin God YES YES AND YES

[@Dalunaa]

thats tuff

[@omartheodore]

Smoking a fug like what the fug?!

[@jennatorres-alta9764]

“Wud da fug?! Y’all be doin tew much”. Is how every black person in Baltimore I know talks.

[@tacotuesdayy9264]

Me tuw

[@lawdawg5818]

This was EVERYTHING to me as a middle aged Lady who was a runaway child living in baw-mO In the 90s. Thank GOD for the lovely Ms.Stacey of Camden Cafe who hired me and made me manager of the pizza joint across from Camden Yards AKA Oriole's stadium. This woman saved MY LIFE as well.as the Punk Rockers who kept me safely home at 1134 Warshington Blvd. I appreciate and love y'all, Hon! I love all my HUNZ from BMOR añd I will do anything to bring love back to you whenever you need... Love, Lauren ❤️

[@lawdawg5818]

#VirginHouse by a band called Violent Society from PA made proper legitimation of our lifestyle and honors the beauty of a counterculture which was loving, caring and RIGHTEOUS at a time when buildings were being blown up and we had one another to lean on. #NattyBo at #SidsTavern was living life to it's fullest! Thank you, Mike Straight .. you definitely put the straightness into me by kicking my ass outta bed, giving me $15 to buy a shirt and show up for a job interview..and made it happen. I love y'all... I still call everyone "HON."

[@rebeccagavin974]

I'm Irish and this is how I talk 😆

[@xenap.5596]

I moved to Maryland 5 years ago from South East Asia, and I tried saying the words before your family did. Nailed it everytime! And I didn't even know I was talking like this on the daily lol

[@TylerLL2112]

Haha. Funny how accents are picked up like that. Take care!

[@BIoknight000]

This is a similar story to yourself: Vladimir Lenin, Russian Communist Leader, first learned English in Dublin so he went his entire life speaking it like an Irishman

[@philmccracken564]

Maybe because Baltimorese sounds like a Vietnamese person trying to speak English.

[@BeLikeNexus]

Welcome brother

[@jjlax7]

Southern accent + English Cockney= Baltimore accent

[@CRuf-qw4yv]

Cockey is much to fast, choppy with end of words cut off. Batimoreans drawl out their words much longer then Cockney...so I disagree.

[@projectnugget1417]

No its more of a city mixed with rap

[@bratzlover501]

They pronounce tuesday like English northerners though

[@AuntieLux]

@@bratzlover501 yeah but still not anywhere close to a cockney accent

[@bcfromse]

It’s more southern America + west country English accent

[@Xamaza]

aaron earned an iron urn

[@kalvinpacker]

I love how the algorithm gifts me this video the night before Im taking a trip to Baltimore. Absolutely amazing

[@MamaChartman]

As a lifetime Marylander with tons of family in South Baltimore, I could not stop laughing. This is so accurate.

[@Scorch1028]

Cynthia Hartman Did you ever hear the Baltimore accent that the bearded lady (Kathy Bates) had in “American Horror Story: Freak Show”? It sounded like a mockery of a Cincinnati accent. 🤣

[@doinyourmom7236]

You poor sunna.

[@mlady204103]

I'm from Minnesota, but I used to know a guy from Dundalk. We had the worst time understanding each other, but the sparks still flew! This fun video took me down memory lane.

[@Missingonesmatter]

I’m from Baltimore and moved to Minnesota a few years ago, so I totally get what you’re saying😂

[@mlady204103]

@@Missingonesmatter lol...yes I'm sure my "fargo" accent was a challenge, too!

[@commentingisawasteoftime7195]

the two funniest regional accents in the country. It takes everything in me to not laugh when my aunt says "for gahd sakes"! A thick Dundalk might be funnier.

[@kenndirtyyhitzfromdavault2036]

I’m from north Minneapolis

[@martybass7376]

@@mlady204103 you smash

[@marcusperdue5862]

That’s so strange! I’m originally from B’ham, Alabama and there are SO many similarities that I hear between Alabama and Baltimore’s accents. Love it!

[@idahomusic]

My brother in law is a grammar police. He is always correcting me to his way of talking. He grew up only 250 miles from me but we were separated by the continental divide between Idaho and Montana

[@TigerTiger-wf7xq]

I’m from Maryland and now living in Florida. I still pronounce the word “wash” as “warsh”. Put the dishes in the dishwarsher. I have to warsh clothes. I need to warsh my hair. That’s how I say it and my former coworkers used to laugh and one of my daughter’s friends asked her “Why does your mom say warsh instead of wash? Hey, that’s just part of our Maryland/Balmore accent! Be proud fellow Marylanders and raise your crab mallets high! 😂

[@kaymuldoon3575]

Some people in Kansas also say “warsh” instead of “wash.” My family is originally from Kansas and my older sister still says “warsh.”

[@joea.9969]

George Warshington??

[@cuckoo61]

D'yeat is the universal way of saying I love and care for you 😍😂

[@alesanafyi]

I cracked up as soon as I saw that last card. I knew jeet was coming

[@Mutedmouth]

The „did you eat“ reminded me of my own German dialect, where instead of „Hast du gegessen?“ (did you eat) we sometimes only say „S'gessen?“

[@miromax811]

- What's the name of that guy from Ocean's Eleven? - 1:34

[@MalignDreams]

So the Baltimore accent is a like a mix of a heavy southern accent and boston, with a touch of Canadian. Huh. Cool.

[@kilanspeaks]

OMG 1:02 that was how my junior high English teacher taught us how to say “Tuesday” 😂 Mind you, this was one of our first English lessons (yes, we started really late in junior high school) and this was how she taught us the days of the week: Sundee, Mundee, Toosdee, and so on. 😁 I’ve always hated her for ruining us for life, but now I realized that she was just Baltimorese all along 🤣 I’m from Indonesia, BTW. Cheers! 🍻

[@StormyDay]

This is hysterical. My friend always says “awn” for “on.”

[@davidbuschhorn6539]

Melanie is the cutest :-) I moved from MD (Severna Park) and came out west. After I graduated from the U of I, I worked in Spokane for a summer. At night, I worked with all these black guys and at one point one of them and I started talking at the same time. We both froze and looked at each other and I swear the level of tension in the airplane we were working on skyrocketed. Then, again at the same time I said, "You're from DC!" just when he said, "You're from Maryland!" We'd gone to the same bars, ate at the same restaurants, etc.. It was great.

[@jordaneliisee]

Mom: geet? Me: no What kind of language!?!?

[@pepperforpresident3039]

Jordan Elise I know it's crazy but we know exactly what the question is or where jeet? Where did you eat

[@maiya3717]

It's basically did ju eat

[@BluSapphire1]

We don’t say geet🙄

[@JayK817]

I’m adding this to my vocabulary dammit

[@adamsanders1213]

"Did you eat?" Is actually spelled "jeet"

[@dawnmarieslaght6406]

I am rolling🤣🤣🤣, born and raised in Baltimore. Still say it the same way after over 30 years living in California.

[@FeelinErie]

As a Londoner, this is highly entertaining! 😂

[@8964TS]

Pretty similar to a lot of British pronunciations, don’t you think?

[@One_Of_One.1]

Too funny! I have lived in Baltimore all of my life....I realize now that Baltimoreans speak differently from the rest of Maryland! Gotta love it...

[@doinyourmom7236]

You poor person. Get out when you can, I'll pray for you.

[@johnv7976]

Lmao Baltimore is so weird. Literally the rest of Maryland doesn’t talk like that

[@macvena]

The rest of New York doesn't sound the NYC. Nor does greater Mass sound like Boston. It's a city thing.

[@johnv7976]

MAC VENA right but Maryland is a really small state. If you go 20 minutes away from Baltimore the accent completely change. I find it funny.

[@macvena]

@@johnv7976 I agree. That was sort of my point. Cities have their own sound, as compared to the neighboring suburbs and rural counties. Baltimore has very distinctive sound, not heard in PA, or VA, Delaware or West Virginia. Hell, Germantown and Frederick dont sound like Baltimore.

[@dannih.5622]

Most people on the shore of MD do sound like them but each place is different still. Easton sound way different than Cambridge lol you can tell where people are from. I noticed people not from Maryland pronounce the 't' in Baltimore where we don't its funny and weird

[@msqtpie2471]

John V They will in a minute tho lol.. The Counties is the new City now fr

[@nikodimus86]

Family together, indulging a family member and having a laugh. They have already won in life.

[@awesomesause1116]

Normal people: what’s up Baltimore: maNuT

[@kaymuldoon3575]

There’s a small town in Texas named Italy. And they pronounce it “It-ly” just like the Baltimore folks do.

[@debdobry910]

Renee - Thank you for sharing this. I LOVED this. When I am on conference calls at work, people recognize my Baltimore accent right away!

[@gorkskoal9315]

probably because it sounds kind of like chicago...with even less sylables used and slightly less shouting. da chigns gotsa speefcix waysda spxns. and su do' balmrs. both sound like their shouting drunk dutch people.

[@rosavito1]

Loved that! Thanks to Phil's family!

[@downhilltwofour0082]

Very cute family. Thanks for sharing!

[@kent7525]

Love it I have lived in Maryland all my life and your family definitely has the accent down, if people see this who are not from Baltimore this is not a put on accent they are doing to try to be funny or to entertain, it's for real how we talk in Balmore. Lol Great video Bro Go O's Ken

[@seancollins9745]

Ken T yes, barely intelligible giberish.

[@ThatLadyBird]

Gew Oews

[@JStephs1950]

Jeet? Nah, joo? Nah, squeet.

[@Mrmagusmc]

That's perfect lol

[@londons_legacy]

JStephs1950 I found a loophole: If you’re from the south you understand this 😂

[@snoozeking7497]

LOL

[@thegreathawk3659]

I didn't get "squeet"

[@londons_legacy]

The Great Hawk very quick, lazy way of saying let’s go eat lol

[@kivzzzz]

This was wholesome, thank you!

[@austinstitzel]

I love the Baltimore accent!

[@meghanlloyd]

I love this video! Makes me homesick. I'm from the Baltimore area, live in California now. No one can ever quite place my accent. Only had one person ever come close haha

[@Ariel_530]

😂😂😂 It's so true! I got them all right because my family lived in Baltimore before I was born and I still go visit my cousins that live there every once in a while. You missed wash (warsh), spider (spy-der), yellow (yelluh), and leg (lay-g) 😂

[@kay-uw5lt]

This is heart warming.

[@marshallwhite7324]

Holy smokes, nailed them all... I consider my self a conisuerrier of Maryland dialects and this really sums it up nicely. When the word "on" becomes two syllabled I know I am home.

[@simoneboldreghini7209]

As an English graduate in Italy, I find this video both interesting and funny!! Also my undergraduate thesis was on the Mary-merry-merry-Murry merger in North America...

[@Armistice023]

I like stuff like this. Accents and some wholesome fun

[@nicoletinker8081]

i lived in bawmer for a year and a half i came back with an accent lol i love this and i miss being there. basically you need to speak like you are as impatient as the city you live in lol

[@QUEENBEE200384]

This is spot on. Every word you held up I pronounced the same way they did.

[@Scorch1028]

The “Bord-uh-more Oh-ree-ohs!” ⚾️

[@merrybot101]

This is so funny to me because I live just half an hour away from Baltimore and our accent is completely different. In fact, I never even knew people from Baltimore had such a strong accent. Never had much reason to go into the city. Guess it must be extremely localized

[@uhohhotdog]

It’s strongest in Eastern side of baltimore I’d say

[@mELONHEAD1899]

Dude. Spot on. Grew up outside of Baltimore and this is perfect!

[@lioneatsthesheep8996]

Damn, its crazy how the only thing I am paying attention to is how normal and loving this family is, and how crazy it is that not a lot of families are like this.....

[@richardgazinia5482]

I grew up in between Philadelphia and Baltimore but slightly closer to Philly because my parents moved from Philly to the far Philly suburbs in Southern Chester County, PA. I slip into the Philly accent on certain words because that's the way my parents talked but I picked up some Baltimoreese as well. "Did you eat" has always been "jeet" to me. Having lived in New York for over a decade people in NYC always think I have a southern accent and when I tell them I'm from Philly (I root for all the Philly teams because of my dad and we were just out of range for Baltimore TV so it was Philly TV all the way) they look at me like I'm crazy because I don't have the stereo-typical Philly accent. Thanks to this video I now understand where my mixed Southern PA and Northern MD accent must have come from.

[@igweofart]

That's how white people talk in Baltimore

[@JStephs1950]

Um, it's Balimerese. It's interesting because it shows how much some people in Baltimore vary their speech from the English of TV announcers. The focus is on the peculiarities of the speaking. You're the only one making this about race. Anyway, how about a video showing how non-white people from Baltimore talk? In particular, though, the person making the film has to pronounce the words in standard TV English, to show everyone on the internet how much that non-white pronunciation varies from "proper" English. Unless, of course, all non-whites from Baltimore talk like Al Rokker. In that case, I'd rather watch Al. If you decide not to make the video, here's one for you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3yne6WVaJmFrdk The speaker says that white people and black people in Baltimore speak two different ways, and that's just the way it is.

[@wolfkeeper9019]

Everyone talks like this

[@cmd7129]

baltimore actually has two accents. This is an example of the upper class white accent. Baltimore has another accent common in the black community. In this community they pronounce things way differently; Dog = Dug Shoe = Shew We also use the word dummy as a term of endearment. "Ay yo" "You feel me" "Playing the fifty"

[@SimplyJustZariyahbackup]

CAPTMochaLatte True omg😂

[@theanagraman8325]

White people from here talk like that mainly. Been here all my life and never heard a black person speak like that. No matter the social economics state that's how our white people talk. They'll tell you that

[@frankcastle6003]

your family was spot on.

[@MissLalove123]

You have a lovely family. I really enjoyed this. 👍☺️

[@Scorch1028]

“dep-uh-dee” = deputy 😆

[@sirarnie9837]

I was born and raised in Baltimore, and I really don't have the accent. Many of these pronunciations are specific to regions within the city. The ones that I believe are universally spoken throughout the city are ambulance, water, and Bel Air Rd. I never heard anyone ever say hon. That is very specific to the Hampden area, so I am not sure how that has become something to represent the whole city.

[@MMMTheOriginalDiva]

Born and raised in Baltimore (moved away almost 50 yrs ago)... No one in my community said "blair" rd! No one!... Bel Air Rd. My sister taught in Bel Air, Md., used to drive on Bel Air Rd. in a Chevy Bel Air! A few words are universal, but many are within certain communities... I still have a subtle Bmore accent... but, never spoke with the exaggerated accent... Baltimore is a city of historically many migrant families from within the U.S. and abroad... This factor has played a major role in developing a " Baltimore accent"...

[@monchiemonchum]

As someone born and raised in Delco, aka Delaware County PA, southwest of Philadelphia and north of the Delaware state line, this video just demonstrated to me some of the similarities of the Philly accent and the Baltimore accent. Particularly "wooder" and "Djeet?"

[@Starlett7777]

I absolutely love it I’m from Parkville Towson area! Fortunately living in Lancaster PA now you should hear the accent now lol

[@emiliesmith9917]

I’m from York and it’s accent hell. Like there’s some elements of Philly, Baltimore, Pennsylvania Dutch and Pittsburgh so my accent has some elements of this (tues-dee and such you’ll hear) but also all the other accents

[@mikebenedict1056]

Philly says half thos words the same! Specially "Geeeet?" Lol

[@Straight0uttaCrofton]

The Blair Road Project!

[@WMUH1]

When I saw "We Own This City" on HBO last year, I thought of this video after I heard one of the lead actors pronounce "ambulance" as "am-blance"! Really enjoyed this video!

[@rh81454]

Stravos lmao Thank you for this. Awesome accent

[@THE14THPRIME229]

Being from EASTON , MARYLAND... YOU GUYS NAILED IT AND IM SUBSCRIBING !! Feel free todo the same ... dis thurdy. Not fridie. 🤣😂

[@CRuf-qw4yv]

Being from Easton and the shore, a typical yocals or chicken farmers paragraph would sound like .. " I have a wooder doeg, but she won't use her doeg hace (house). But she is a purdy (pretty) doeg. Only thing, she gits skitty arain (around) Fall-arms (firearns). Specially when those Balt-mur city folks come dane (down) here to hunt. Half of them start a far (fire) or shoot yer cayes (cows)". Note.... "Wooder" seems to be universal for the word "water" in Maryland.

[@clairecaterer8362]

Great video on the Baltimore accent (which I knew nothing about)! Also, what a beautiful family. It's clear how close you all are.

[@schwarjm100]

Thank you! That’s my family.

[@cliffdweller]

Yawlar. One word.

[@beepbeepcasucha]

When he started spelling them I lost it

[@JetteSwan]

Your family is so cute!

[@hads5279]

My dad grew up in Baltimore and he says “dee” instead of “day” for days if the week. “Arange” instead of “orange.” “Farest” instead of “forest.” He says “jeet” instead of “did you eat?”, “worter” instead of “water.” And my grandparents on his side have a little bit of a thicker accent. I dunno when they all moved to Oregon, but I was born and raised in Oregon.

[@phile5437]

You live in Organ?

[@gorkskoal9315]

LOL did he also do probably the most bolmore thing: "charlet"! for chocolate, my grandma lived their for ages, and even when she moved to florida sometimes would go: gima charlat! (wtf did you ask for?)...da' charlt!

[@olilondonisabum7170]

your dad is saying the words wrong

[@aloveaffairwithself]

There are multiple accents in Baltimore. I miss home sometimes. I stick out like a sore thumb with this accent, son.

[@DrJonez]

Your family seems hilarious :)

[@nicholasstephens1349]

Genius video. Well done!

[@JohnSmith-nh2te]

Ahhh makes me think of my Dundalk

[@pattigaines5249]

Byrdflough dundlk people dont talk that

[@JohnSmith-nh2te]

Patti Gaines lol not like I live there

[@zoominthroughspace2583]

Dandalkk

[@pattimlareau]

Google, "Christmas in an Essex wonderland" a local holiday treasure. Enjoy.

[@Jules91961]

Not to split hairs, but it's Belair Rd., not Bel Air Rd. Bel Air is the town in Harford County.

[@monicasojka2738]

True! And the town of Bel Air is full of Bel Air Roads

[@EDIFnikkor]

it's how we pronounce it not how its spelled, btw Bel Air Md. is said Belair by Balmer people ..

[@MikeJones-vi6mx]

Monica where is my kid?

[@jacobbarrett8068]

Ironically people from bel air sound like implants from upstate new york

[@jacobAmango]

Belair road goes in to bel air and its also called route 1

[@Eevee_133]

I live with my grandmother who is from Baltimore. I never really paid attention to her accent until someone pointed it out 😆

[@fk8317]

This is gold!!!!

[@jacobAmango]

Everything they pronounced was completely correct and relatable to many of my older relatives.

[@MariaIsabel-zb2fi]

Greetings from 🇫🇷

[@smartman123]

God bless your family

[@jerrybroxson1174]

I was born and raised in the south and I married a girl from dondalk, Maryland. (May she rest in peace) Friends had a hell of a time understanding our children and us.

[@CliftonPhotographer]

Had to find out what a Baltimore accent was thanks to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight.

[@ivanruiz2218]

same hahaha

[@camilachaos4490]

Haha well welcome my friend

[@Michael-ji8lu]

Very interesting. I live in the DC area now and never really noticed much dialect here in the Mid-Atlantic. I would guess Baltimore really straddles the southern accent and the northeastern dialects.

[@pattimlareau]

MARYLAND'S THE OLD LINE STATE. People try to say Baltimore's a southern city, largely because so many moved here from the south and in those areas brought much of those origins with them. BUT, no, it's both, with deadly hot, humid summers, frozen icy, winters with extended frost biting temps, and debilitating snow, (more outside the city,) we are truly both a southern, (noPalm trees!) at times, and winter (no horse driven sleighs!), but both Union and Confederate, cousin against cousin, and brother against brother, fought and kylled each other here in a particularly bloody history of the Civil War, where we are both and null, South and North.

[@gregpaspatis9425]

@Michael @Patricia Lareau although Maryland never officially seceded from the union, it was still heavily sympathetic to the southern Confederacy, thus during the final half of the 20th century there were still many around Baltimore carrying racial prejudices with them. It's a known fact that when Brooklyn Dodgers baseball hall of famer Jackie Robinson played his only year for the minor league Montreal Royals (Bklyn. farm team) in 1946, during road trips meeting the (International Lea.) Balt. Orioles, Robinson encountered some of the worst prejudice imaginable.

[@kevingomez-johnson140]

​@@gregpaspatis9425The Midwest was the same way, Which Maryland is akin too more than the northeast in my opinion; Dr Martin Luther King even said that Chicago was the the worst city with racism than he has ever encountered in the south.

[@xLibyanox]

Love this video. Came here after watching We Own This City. 😁

[@yippee8570]

Lol this is great. What's interesting to me is that some of these are very similar to people from Kent in the UK. Also very much people of a particular generation :)