Videos Of Black Baltimore Accents & Words And Videos Of White Baltimore Accents & Words

Rockstar Love, Dec 23, 2016

Baltimore Accent, places, words, and things unique to the city of Baltimore, Maryland
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Rockstar Love discusses some Black Baltimore words such as "yo", "ard" ("alright"),"hack" and "unc" ("uncle").

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Edited by Azizi Powell

This pancocojams post showcases three YouTube videos of Black Baltimore, Maryland accents & AAVE words and two YouTube videos of White Baltimore, Maryland accents & words that document pronunciation and regional meanings.

The content of this post is presented for linguistic and socio-cultural purposes.

All copyrights remain with their owners.

Thanks to all those who are featured in these videos and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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Click https://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2024/01/black-washington-dc-accents-non-black.html for a closely related pancocojams post on Black Washington D.C. Accents and non-Black Washington D.C Accents (Videos)

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #2 - Accent Tag Baltimore, Maryland! 



CTBL, August 2, 2013
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Words for this accent challenge:

aunt
roof
root
wash
oil
feeder
iron
salmon
caramel
fire
water
sure
data
ruin
crayon
New Orleans
pecan
both
again
probably
spitting image
image
Alabama
lawyer
coupon
mayonnaise
syrup
pajamas
caught
naturally
aluminum
envelope

The questions for this accent challenge are the same as the questions that are asked in Showcase video #3. These are also the same questions that are asked in some of the Washington D. C. accent videos that are showcased in the pancocojams post on that subject whose link is given above.

Here are those questions:

What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?

What is the bug that when you touch it curls into a ball?

What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?

What do you call gym shoes?

What do you say to address a group of people?

What do you call the kind of spider or spider-like
creature that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?

What do you call your grandparents?

What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries
at the supermarket?

What do you call it when it rains when rain falls while the sun is shining?

What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #3- Accent Tag Baltimore/ Dundalk Maryland, U.S.A

tammy jacobson, Feb 27, 2014

Stumbled upon the accent tag that has been going around for a few years. so even though i am late with it...i still decide to participate.
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The words for this accent challenge are the same as those that are given in Showcase Video #2.
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Here's information about Dundalk, Maryland from that video's discussion thread:

@yetzchaqeaton6888, 2016
"Im from Baltimore City and I moved to Dundalk in 2005 and I see Dundalk as a suburbs and Sparrows Point as a Rural Suburb like a mini-Glen Burnie with less houses. Now, the accent of those Suburbanites are just like the accent of the Urban dwellers as the townships are adjacent to the city which the cultures are always blending, and everything she said is just like the way urbanites speak and pronounce words!!! My mother is from Glen Burnie and my father is from Cherry Hill, (South Baltimore) and I was raised in PHW (westside) and Fayette/Orleans (eastside), I KNOW BALTIMORE LIKE THE BACK OF MY HAND, from poplar grove to Belair... from northern parkway to Westport."

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #4 - HOW TO: Talk like you're from Baltimore | Baltimore Slang

BE PHENAHMENAL, Jul 26, 2017

Couldn't decide what I wanted my first video to be, so I started with something that represents me!!

WARNING- This video includes a few curse words. 

This vlogger begins with the Black Baltimore pronunciation of the word "Baltimore" and then shares the following Black  Baltimore AAVE terms:

dummy/woe = "It's like saying "Yo"

guy= That's just a hype word "Guy, cut up!"

Cuttin up = "is like when somebody yping you up you dancing or say you...doin your dance for real they say "guy, you cuttin up"...

cruddy = "you did somebody dirty; you did somebody wrong".

crouchy/live = "both of them mean the same thing; asically mean like it's lit like that's the place you need to be"

Yaddamean = "I don't know what it means...like it's one of those you feel me"

bop = [Pancocojams editor: This vlogger gives examples that I think means something unexpected happened and people say the word bop. But I'm not sure that I understood her definition.]

geeking = "We say that 24-7. Geeking means two things: She acting stupid and I'm not ready to do all that. The other meaning can mean laughing you know to the point where you crying roll on the floor"

Bipped up = "Boys usually say that because they mean you got a little fresh  shape up you feeling you're feeling good you're bipped up for him"

[Pancocojams Editor: In Pittsburgh, Pa, Black people use "shape up" to mean getting our hair done ("touched up"; styled to refresh an old hair treatment or styling. This may be the same meaning as "bipped up"]. 

Been been -"It means you been doing it you know, self-explanatory"

Or whatever= "It's not a slang. It's something we say at the end of our sentences"

Playing bent = "You actin goofy.Stop acting goofy."

Bittie = "That's my bittie basically means "That's my homegirl" 

Furred= "means you're drunk".....the other meaning [is that] you're dirty or you just ratchet or something like that"

Dead = "you're not in to that It's dead"

Dookie = "i don't know if a lot of people say that but i say i'll be like girl dukey Get that out my face. I'm not feeling it." 

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SHOWCASE VIDEO #5 -  Baltimore Accent Challenge

@trendsetterrrrrrr, 2021

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Accent Challenge Words:

Dummy
Sweetheart
Blue
Avenue
Hulu
Sink
Aaron earned an iron urn
Tuesday
Mother, brother, father
Dog
Stupid

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