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Originally Posted by qworldorder
Reality check? Have you been to any of these cities? I have, and I gave my personal reasoning for my opinion. Last I checked, Philadelphia, Baltimore, DC, Richmond, and Hampton Roads are all a part of the Mid-Atlantic--there are visible/cultural similarities between all the cities in the region, with Philly as the northern terminus, and the 757 as the southern terminus (imo). It's a gradual gradient. Linguistically, the Baltimore accent sounds nothing like the Philadelphia accent. Have you ever heard them pronounce a word like "do" or "two"? "Murrland"? Not even close, no matter what nerd map you pull up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8zavPW3Bus
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I haven't been to Philly I've been to Baltimore and I've been to DC. I'm sorry but just google dialect maps and you will see that Baltimore and Philly are grouped apart from the Hampton Roads area and are grouped together...also google Southern dialect maps and you'll see almost always that Baltimore is almost always placed north of the line and Richmond and Hampton Roads well to the south of it. I don't need to show you a map it's all over google but I will anyway. This was a professional study done by the University of Pennsylvania. This qualifies a lot more than your youtube videos, which don't sample the white people living there. And I'm sorry they do sound alike...it's backed up by both maps I'm posting. if they don't sound alike, why do so many dialect maps place them together in the same region? I've made my point here I'm done. If you don't want to agree with the maps that's your issue, not mine, and I'm not interested in ripping you apart either. Have a good day.
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