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The Baltimore accent that originated among white blue-collar residents closely resembles blue-collar Philadelphia-area English pronunciation in many ways. These two cities are the only major ports on the Eastern Seaboard never to have developed non-rhotic speech among European American speakers; they were greatly influenced in their early development by Hiberno-English, Scottish English, and ...
Cypriano Ferrandini (1823 – December 20, 1910) was a barber from Corsica who emigrated to the United States, and established himself as the long-time barber and hairdresser in the basement of Barnum's Hotel, in Baltimore, Maryland. There he practiced his trade from the mid-1850s to his retirement long after the close of the Civil War.
As such, what is in here is technically original research. As for informal confirmation, as the article maintains that Dundalk Baltimorese is the "official" Baltimorese, Dundalk-ians don't say "wooder." I'll add that the "Northern Baltimore" accent is a little different from the "Southern Baltimore" accent, but I can't specifically state how.
Regional dialects in North America are historically the most strongly differentiated along the Eastern seaboard, due to distinctive speech patterns of urban centers of the American East Coast like Boston, New York City, and certain Southern cities, all of these accents historically noted by their London-like r-dropping (called non-rhoticity), a feature gradually receding among younger ...
Baltimore accent; H. History of White Americans in Baltimore; S. Mayo A. Shattuck III This page was last edited on 8 September 2021, at 13:26 (UTC). Text is ...
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Pinkerton and his fellow operatives, including Kate Warne, [15] discovered several possible plots in Baltimore. This included an investigation of Corsican hairdresser Cipriano Ferrandini, a well-established barber at Baltimore's Barnum's Hotel, and president of the pro-Confederate National Volunteers. One of Pinkerton's operatives attended a ...
Hagy also introduced the tradition of shouting the letter "O" during the national anthem at sporting events in the Baltimore area. [4] [5] Since its introduction at Orioles games by Wild Bill Hagy et al in 1979, it has been a tradition at Orioles games for fans to accent the line of "Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner yet wave" in "The Star-Spangled Banner" by yelling "O!"