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A piedmont traditionally begins at the fall line of the local river. That is at Little Falls, which make DC mainly in the coatstal plane.
The mall and tidal basin area seem like tidewater. Upper Northwest more like piedmont. Driving up 14th St. from downtown to Columbia Heights is like going from tidewater to piedmont.
John Warner doesn't have a Southern accent I'm sorry. DC is not a Southern city. I was just there. Culturally and linguistically it has more in common with Philadelphia than Richmond.
Despite the size difference, I'd lump DC in with Richmond to an extent but not the other Southern cities. But I agree that the best term to describe it is mid-Atlantic.
DC is nothing like Richmond. Culturally and linguistically it is VERY different from Richmond. It's more like Philadelphia and Baltimore.
A piedmont traditionally begins at the fall line of the local river. That is at Little Falls, which make DC mainly in the coatstal plane.
"Virginia Piedmont" is just the name some linguists give to the group of accents found in central (Piedmont) Virginia, the Washington, DC area (which includes Piedmont and coastal plain areas), southern Maryland (away from the Chesapeake - Calvert and St. Mary's counties have tidewater accents), up to Baltimore. Of course much of the city proper is east of the fall line.
Don't you consider John Warner's lack of rhoticity to be pretty intriguing if you are trying to group his accent with the Delaware valley?
Ah also wonna... say I felt your statements were very infaumative...
It's more like Philadelphia than it is Richmond. LMAO you just don't give up do you? You want D.C. to be Southern so badly you'll deny anything that makes it un-Southern and try your best to group it in with cities it has nothing in common with like Richmond.
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