The Local Four-State Accent: A Primer
Before I moved back to Maryland from Florida (many moons ago), when traveling back to this area to see friends and family, my wife was often baffled by the conversations that took place between locals. She grew up in both Massachusetts and Florida, where the accents you hear coming from people’s mouths are far different from what she was being subjected to in the four-state area. She’d listen to an exchange and then literally ask for me to interpret, like…