My family teaches you how to speak Baltimorese

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  • @johannesbridges1341
    @johannesbridges1341 5 років тому +7570

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

  • @konrad4421
    @konrad4421 6 років тому +6885

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

    • @unorthodoxromance254
      @unorthodoxromance254 6 років тому +265

      Geographically that would be correct.

    • @m00dsw1ngs
      @m00dsw1ngs 6 років тому +101

      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
      @mattiekim 6 років тому +83

      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
      @lia5958 6 років тому +4

      MentleGen of Leisure right

    • @Elios0000
      @Elios0000 6 років тому +15

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

  • @GrimOakheart
    @GrimOakheart 4 роки тому +5436

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

    • @TylerLL2112
      @TylerLL2112 4 роки тому +162

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

    • @adamthevintagerazornerd2767
      @adamthevintagerazornerd2767 4 роки тому +75

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

    • @fireballferret8146
      @fireballferret8146 4 роки тому

      🙋‍♂️

    • @Jesse-cx4si
      @Jesse-cx4si 4 роки тому +40

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

    • @mightyquinn38
      @mightyquinn38 3 роки тому +15

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

  • @VideoNozoki
    @VideoNozoki 3 роки тому +2266

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

    • @jbbrault2052
      @jbbrault2052 2 роки тому +6

      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
      @j4miee 2 роки тому

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

    • @39bigmarks
      @39bigmarks 2 роки тому

      @@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
      @WlseCrow 2 роки тому +38

      Jb brault please hes just having a nice moment

    • @hamhampangpang_customer
      @hamhampangpang_customer 2 роки тому +7

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

  • @alainadacosta1222
    @alainadacosta1222 3 роки тому +1277

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

    • @eyedictate
      @eyedictate 2 роки тому +1

      @Spritz McSoda lmao chill

    • @mondobacon8101
      @mondobacon8101 2 роки тому

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

  • @stark1193
    @stark1193 5 років тому +3378

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

  • @seancollins9745
    @seancollins9745 6 років тому +1974

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

    • @JStephs1950
      @JStephs1950 6 років тому +95

      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
      @seancollins9745 6 років тому +7

      JStephs1950 roflmao

    • @sandrayousif2418
      @sandrayousif2418 6 років тому +7

      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
      @pepperforpresident3039 6 років тому +5

      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
      @theanagraman8325 6 років тому

      Lmao

  • @tshyne8007
    @tshyne8007 4 роки тому +1284

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

    • @mdinunzio7610
      @mdinunzio7610 3 роки тому +92

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

    • @unclechuck3229
      @unclechuck3229 3 роки тому +2

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @camden336
      @camden336 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @inside1283
      @inside1283 3 роки тому +5

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

    • @reikomyles1495
      @reikomyles1495 2 роки тому

      Truth

  • @Pete_Finch
    @Pete_Finch 2 роки тому +530

    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
      @pongop Рік тому +3

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

    • @gorkskoal9315
      @gorkskoal9315 Рік тому +4

      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
      @gorkskoal9315 Рік тому +4

      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
      @dividad1 Рік тому +4

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

    • @gorkskoal9315
      @gorkskoal9315 Рік тому +4

      @@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.

  • @post_historic
    @post_historic 2 роки тому +447

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

  • @TnseWlms
    @TnseWlms 5 років тому +993

    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
      @TigerTiger-wf7xq 4 роки тому +43

      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
      @joshturner1591 4 роки тому +7

      De winner hon

    • @HardluckHutch
      @HardluckHutch 4 роки тому +27

      Damn! Reading that was fun.

    • @finessekid4789
      @finessekid4789 4 роки тому +14

      I read that perfectly

    • @TylerLL2112
      @TylerLL2112 4 роки тому +13

      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.

  • @tiffygne18
    @tiffygne18 6 років тому +3367

    White accent lol black Baltimore be like yew tew and yo

    • @THE14THPRIME229
      @THE14THPRIME229 6 років тому +44

      Melanin God YES YES AND YES

    • @Dalunaa
      @Dalunaa 5 років тому +22

      thats tuff

    • @omartheodore
      @omartheodore 5 років тому +27

      Smoking a fug like what the fug?!

    • @jennatorres-alta9764
      @jennatorres-alta9764 5 років тому +143

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

    • @tacotuesdayy9264
      @tacotuesdayy9264 5 років тому +2

      Me tuw

  • @winterdunlap1596
    @winterdunlap1596 6 років тому +1783

    I dont say bawlmore i say bal-da-more

    • @destinyofforji6318
      @destinyofforji6318 5 років тому +26

      Right same

    • @JonathanPerez-kw1jg
      @JonathanPerez-kw1jg 5 років тому +19

      Facts! I was confused when they said it lol

    • @NFL_Prod
      @NFL_Prod 5 років тому +2

      😂😂

    • @j.z.blasko594
      @j.z.blasko594 5 років тому +72

      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
      @sfort515 5 років тому +4

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

  • @CapturedByKen
    @CapturedByKen 3 роки тому +119

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

    • @rachelladue1572
      @rachelladue1572 3 роки тому +6

      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

    • @jishan6992
      @jishan6992 2 місяці тому

      Yeah its called culture

  • @kenfederighi461
    @kenfederighi461 2 роки тому +37

    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
      @krystalgardiner5591 Рік тому

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

  • @xenap.5596
    @xenap.5596 5 років тому +486

    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
      @TylerLL2112 4 роки тому +24

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

    • @BIoknight000
      @BIoknight000 3 роки тому +19

      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
      @philmccracken564 2 роки тому +5

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

    • @BeLikeNexus
      @BeLikeNexus Рік тому

      Welcome brother

  • @SteppingStonevlogs
    @SteppingStonevlogs 4 роки тому +542

    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
      @paladin4141 2 роки тому +3

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

    • @Walamonga1313
      @Walamonga1313 2 роки тому +9

      Bland, not blend

    • @Saghetti
      @Saghetti Рік тому +5

      @@Walamonga1313 i think that was the joke

    • @cinnamoncigarettes
      @cinnamoncigarettes Рік тому +9

      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
      @badart3204 Рік тому

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

  • @cairegrigsby7682
    @cairegrigsby7682 4 роки тому +78

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

  • @patrickscannell6370
    @patrickscannell6370 Рік тому +187

    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
      @tonym2513 Рік тому +1

      How do you’s mfs say two?

    • @youtubename7819
      @youtubename7819 Рік тому +4

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

    • @doinyourmom7236
      @doinyourmom7236 Рік тому

      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
      @doinyourmom7236 Рік тому

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

    • @aynDRAWS
      @aynDRAWS Рік тому +3

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

  • @eoghanhayes4575
    @eoghanhayes4575 3 роки тому +51

    Stav's family is so wholesome

  • @215joee
    @215joee 6 років тому +523

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

    • @tmtmtmtmtm
      @tmtmtmtmtm 6 років тому +55

      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
      @215joee 6 років тому +13

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

    • @pepperforpresident3039
      @pepperforpresident3039 6 років тому

      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
      @survivurman 5 років тому +7

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

    • @condeezyyy
      @condeezyyy 5 років тому

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

  • @MamaChartman
    @MamaChartman 5 років тому +66

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

    • @Scorch1028
      @Scorch1028 5 років тому

      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
      @doinyourmom7236 Рік тому

      You poor sunna.

  • @Smajtastic
    @Smajtastic Рік тому +24

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

  • @lawdawg5818
    @lawdawg5818 2 роки тому +6

    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
      @lawdawg5818 2 роки тому

      #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."

  • @kalvinpacker
    @kalvinpacker 3 роки тому +4

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

  • @jjlax7
    @jjlax7 5 років тому +192

    Southern accent + English Cockney= Baltimore accent

    • @CRuf-qw4yv
      @CRuf-qw4yv 5 років тому +3

      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
      @projectnugget1417 5 років тому

      No its more of a city mixed with rap

    • @bratzlover501
      @bratzlover501 5 років тому

      They pronounce tuesday like English northerners though

    • @AuntieLux
      @AuntieLux 4 роки тому

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

    • @bcfromse
      @bcfromse 4 роки тому

      It’s more southern America + west country English accent

  • @mlady204103
    @mlady204103 6 років тому +190

    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
      @Missingonesmatter 4 роки тому +6

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

    • @mlady204103
      @mlady204103 4 роки тому +3

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

    • @commentingisawasteoftime7195
      @commentingisawasteoftime7195 4 роки тому +6

      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
      @kenndirtyyhitzfromdavault2036 3 роки тому +1

      I’m from north Minneapolis

    • @martybass7376
      @martybass7376 3 роки тому +1

      @@mlady204103 you smash

  • @johnv7976
    @johnv7976 5 років тому +596

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

    • @macvena
      @macvena 5 років тому +85

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

    • @johnv7976
      @johnv7976 5 років тому +66

      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
      @macvena 5 років тому +30

      @@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
      @dannih.5622 5 років тому +8

      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
      @msqtpie2471 5 років тому

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

  • @monchiemonchum
    @monchiemonchum Рік тому +1

    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?"

  • @idahomusic
    @idahomusic 3 роки тому +4

    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

  • @miromax811
    @miromax811 4 роки тому +44

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

  • @TigerTiger-wf7xq
    @TigerTiger-wf7xq 4 роки тому +42

    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
      @kaymuldoon3575 4 роки тому +1

      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
      @joea.9969 Рік тому

      George Warshington??

  • @igweofart
    @igweofart 6 років тому +817

    That's how white people talk in Baltimore

    • @JStephs1950
      @JStephs1950 6 років тому +35

      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:
      ua-cam.com/video/5KDJr_34Rww/v-deo.html
      The speaker says that white people and black people in Baltimore speak two different ways, and that's just the way it is.

    • @wolfkeeper9019
      @wolfkeeper9019 6 років тому +26

      Everyone talks like this

    • @cmd7129
      @cmd7129 6 років тому +100

      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
      @SimplyJustZariyahbackup 6 років тому

      CAPTMochaLatte True omg😂

    • @theanagraman8325
      @theanagraman8325 6 років тому +26

      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

  • @Mutedmouth
    @Mutedmouth 2 роки тому +4

    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?“

  • @marcusperdue5862
    @marcusperdue5862 2 роки тому +7

    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!

  • @cuckoo61
    @cuckoo61 4 роки тому +14

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

  • @davidbuschhorn6539
    @davidbuschhorn6539 6 років тому +22

    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.

  • @kent7525
    @kent7525 6 років тому +170

    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

  • @deanevangelista6359
    @deanevangelista6359 Рік тому +1

    That accent has creeped into the DC area as well.

  • @dawnmarieslaght6406
    @dawnmarieslaght6406 Рік тому

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

  • @meghanlloyd
    @meghanlloyd 4 роки тому +4

    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

  • @MalignDreams
    @MalignDreams 5 років тому +30

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

  • @One_Of_One.1
    @One_Of_One.1 4 роки тому +27

    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
      @doinyourmom7236 Рік тому

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

  • @sirarnie9837
    @sirarnie9837 3 роки тому +8

    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
      @MMMTheOriginalDiva Рік тому

      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"...

  • @richardgazinia5482
    @richardgazinia5482 2 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @Jules91961
    @Jules91961 6 років тому +67

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

    • @monicasojka2738
      @monicasojka2738 6 років тому +4

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

    • @EDIFnikkor
      @EDIFnikkor 5 років тому +1

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

    • @MikeJones-vi6mx
      @MikeJones-vi6mx 5 років тому +1

      Monica where is my kid?

    • @jacobbarrett8068
      @jacobbarrett8068 5 років тому +2

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

    • @jacobAmango
      @jacobAmango 5 років тому

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

  • @jordaneliisee
    @jordaneliisee 6 років тому +193

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

    • @pepperforpresident3039
      @pepperforpresident3039 6 років тому +7

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

    • @maiya3717
      @maiya3717 6 років тому +4

      It's basically did ju eat

    • @BluSapphire1
      @BluSapphire1 5 років тому +3

      We don’t say geet🙄

    • @JayK817
      @JayK817 5 років тому

      I’m adding this to my vocabulary dammit

    • @adamsanders1213
      @adamsanders1213 5 років тому +1

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

  • @kaymuldoon3575
    @kaymuldoon3575 4 роки тому +12

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

  • @nicoletinker8081
    @nicoletinker8081 3 роки тому +1

    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

  • @atlntcostv7293
    @atlntcostv7293 Рік тому +1

    ever heard a Baltimorean & a Bostonian argue ? I momentarily forgot it was English
    (& the guy that broke it up was from Chicago)

    • @a.y.t.a.s.494
      @a.y.t.a.s.494 Рік тому

      It’s not English. It’s a very distant relative who has spent many nights under the stars 😂

    • @a.y.t.a.s.494
      @a.y.t.a.s.494 Рік тому +1

      I curse the predictive text making me edit 😂

  • @Armistice023
    @Armistice023 3 роки тому +3

    I like stuff like this. Accents and some wholesome fun

  • @debdobry910
    @debdobry910 6 років тому +7

    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
      @gorkskoal9315 2 роки тому

      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.

  • @nikodimus86
    @nikodimus86 Рік тому +2

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

  • @N0phillter
    @N0phillter 5 місяців тому +1

    Did you eat ?! Is outrageous lol

  • @frankcastle6003
    @frankcastle6003 Рік тому +1

    your family was spot on.

  • @JStephs1950
    @JStephs1950 6 років тому +239

    Jeet?
    Nah, joo?
    Nah, squeet.

    • @Mrmagusmc
      @Mrmagusmc 6 років тому +6

      That's perfect lol

    • @londons_legacy
      @londons_legacy 6 років тому +4

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

    • @snoozeking7497
      @snoozeking7497 6 років тому +1

      LOL

    • @thegreathawk3659
      @thegreathawk3659 6 років тому +9

      I didn't get "squeet"

    • @londons_legacy
      @londons_legacy 6 років тому +11

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

  • @Xamaza
    @Xamaza Рік тому +9

    aaron earned an iron urn

  • @StormyDay
    @StormyDay 3 роки тому +3

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

  • @austinstitzel
    @austinstitzel Рік тому +2

    I love the Baltimore accent!

  • @downhilltwofour0082
    @downhilltwofour0082 3 роки тому +1

    Very cute family. Thanks for sharing!

  • @simoneboldreghini7209
    @simoneboldreghini7209 4 роки тому +5

    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...

  • @clairecaterer8362
    @clairecaterer8362 5 років тому +23

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

  • @marshallwhite7324
    @marshallwhite7324 3 роки тому +3

    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.

  • @lioneatsthesheep8996
    @lioneatsthesheep8996 5 місяців тому +1

    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.....

  • @alesanafyi
    @alesanafyi Рік тому +3

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

  • @kilanspeaks
    @kilanspeaks Рік тому +5

    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! 🍻

  • @merrybot101
    @merrybot101 2 роки тому +7

    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
      @uhohhotdog Рік тому

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

  • @hallnonsensical104
    @hallnonsensical104 3 місяці тому

    "Down the ocean" made me belly laugh, she sounds exactly like my great aunt. Fantastic video

  • @GarbageAtSB
    @GarbageAtSB Місяць тому +1

    "oh man i wish someone would tell me what character george clooney plays in that one heist film from 2001"
    1:37:

  • @FeelinErie
    @FeelinErie 3 роки тому +5

    As a Londoner, this is highly entertaining! 😂

    • @8964TS
      @8964TS 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @rebeccagavin974
    @rebeccagavin974 3 роки тому +7

    I'm Irish and this is how I talk 😆

  • @JohnSmith-nh2te
    @JohnSmith-nh2te 6 років тому +37

    Ahhh makes me think of my Dundalk

  • @mikes5637
    @mikes5637 3 роки тому +1

    All this time and I never realised it was The Bel Air Witch Project.

  • @aloveaffairwithself
    @aloveaffairwithself 4 роки тому +6

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

  • @Straight0uttaCrofton
    @Straight0uttaCrofton 6 років тому +15

    The Blair Road Project!

  • @Michael34-14
    @Michael34-14 5 років тому +7

    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
      @pattimlareau 3 роки тому +2

      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
      @gregpaspatis9425 2 роки тому

      @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
      @kevingomez-johnson140 Рік тому

      ​@@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.

  • @awesomesause1116
    @awesomesause1116 3 роки тому +2

    Normal people: what’s up
    Baltimore: maNuT

  • @paulmkz
    @paulmkz Рік тому +1

    I'm from Western MD we have some of this but not to this degree. Lol

  • @hads5279
    @hads5279 4 роки тому +33

    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
      @phile5437 3 роки тому +1

      You live in Organ?

    • @gorkskoal9315
      @gorkskoal9315 2 роки тому

      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
      @olilondonisabum7170 2 роки тому

      your dad is saying the words wrong

  • @mikebenedict1056
    @mikebenedict1056 4 роки тому +4

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

  • @Scorch1028
    @Scorch1028 5 років тому +10

    The “Bord-uh-more Oh-ree-ohs!” ⚾️

  • @emilyhenry6086
    @emilyhenry6086 3 роки тому +2

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

  • @NVRAMboi
    @NVRAMboi 3 роки тому

    Early in the history of America, Baltimore was the largest/busiest port in the USA. And had the rail connections to prove it.

  • @Ariel_530
    @Ariel_530 4 роки тому +4

    😂😂😂 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) 😂

  • @Scorch1028
    @Scorch1028 5 років тому +11

    “dep-uh-dee” = deputy 😆

  • @THE14THPRIME229
    @THE14THPRIME229 6 років тому +11

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

    • @CRuf-qw4yv
      @CRuf-qw4yv 5 років тому

      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.

  • @kay-uw5lt
    @kay-uw5lt 3 роки тому +2

    This is heart warming.

  • @judecarter205
    @judecarter205 3 роки тому

    Maryland!! Towson checking in

  • @laminator11
    @laminator11 3 роки тому +39

    This guy's making fun of his family's accent while he keeps saying "pernounce"

  • @bigol9223
    @bigol9223 4 роки тому +135

    I think everyone in America pronounces mirror as "mir"

    • @johnindigo5477
      @johnindigo5477 4 роки тому +17

      A lot of people say it with a A at the end

    • @ajaku
      @ajaku 4 роки тому +17

      I'm from southeast Michigan and I say it more like "mee-er"

    • @xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888
      @xx_somescenecath0lic_xx888 4 роки тому +8

      big ol' I'm from NC and we say it like mir-ror

    • @myamoser4512
      @myamoser4512 4 роки тому +1

      @@ajaku i'm from cincy and that's how we say it too

    • @OhthatKt1
      @OhthatKt1 4 роки тому +6

      Florida says "Mira".

  • @mocaps7778
    @mocaps7778 5 років тому +5

    Love this video. Honorable mentions thought...
    Crayon - crown
    Oil - ull
    Iron - awrn
    Egg - agg (hard a)
    File - foul

    • @JessKalinow
      @JessKalinow 5 років тому +3

      My dundalk grandma says piano=pie-ana

  • @Starlett7777
    @Starlett7777 3 роки тому +2

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

    • @emiliesmith9917
      @emiliesmith9917 3 роки тому +1

      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

  • @AMY-k5t
    @AMY-k5t Рік тому

    I live in England now and I get so many compliments on my Baltimore accent, from everyone.
    I was calling the non-emergency health line in England because I was sick and the lady on the line said I had the loviest American accent she had ever heard.

  • @julibierman6016
    @julibierman6016 6 років тому +10

    I was born in Baltimore and my husband from Florida so he always gives me shit on how I pronounce "Wash" as "Warsh"... "Crayon" as "Crown"... And "water" as "wooder"

    • @macvena
      @macvena 5 років тому

      OMG, I forgot about "warsh!" Too funny.

  • @lennrd5912
    @lennrd5912 2 роки тому +3

    The fact that, due to all the media consumption, as an European, i was able to predict this northern accent in my mind... America is something different 😂

  • @jacobAmango
    @jacobAmango 5 років тому +7

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

  • @WMUH1
    @WMUH1 Рік тому

    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!

  • @jerrybroxson1174
    @jerrybroxson1174 3 роки тому +1

    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.

  • @DrunkenSkittlez
    @DrunkenSkittlez 4 роки тому +5

    you forgot the pronunciation of dundalk which is "Dundock"

  • @peterjonas4971
    @peterjonas4971 Рік тому

    Here to represent Ellicott City, Ho. Co. The only things missing at the table were crabs. Thanks for making this.