My mom *loves* kale. And I always get made fun of when I talk about it because for some reason it comes out sounding like 'cow' and no one knows what the hell I'm trying to say.
I never thought Baltimore accents were that pronounced, to be honest (I grew up in Frederick County, which is Appalachian, so we heard a lot thicker). But there is nothing like some delicious cow salad ;)
I think it depends where in Baltimore. In the city the accent tends to be very pronounced...and very...not nasally but similar (i think it sounds like you're talking as if you constantly smell something bad. which could be, it's Baltimore after all). I grew up (and still live) in Dundalk and I don't really think I have the Baltimore accent. I don't so 'oh' like 'oooouuuuuu', lol. And I don't say 'wuder' like everyone around here, I make a conscious effort to say 'water' because my cousin from Arkansas once made fun of how I talked (yeah...).
But for some damn reason I can't pronounce kale. Much to my family and friends amusement. ;)
I have the pleasant joy of not really sounding like I'm from Indiana even to other Hoosiers, and I suppose that's fair enough when you consider that I was in my late teens when we moved back XD Part of it is that I never really stayed in one place long enough to develop a regional accent; I do have the generic East Coast impatience, though.
"Wuder" also seems to be a Pennsylvania thing, given that I heard it there too. (There are more egregious offenses here, probably thanks to the fact that I live close to the Kentucky state line; I would like to ban "them was", "is them", and "did her" for life. I am dying to tell someone that unfortunately I am not fluent in Stupid, but if they want to give standard English or Russian a good crack I will try to help.) Returning to your cousin from Arkansas: pot, kettle, black ;)
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But for some damn reason I can't pronounce kale. Much to my family and friends amusement. ;)
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"Wuder" also seems to be a Pennsylvania thing, given that I heard it there too. (There are more egregious offenses here, probably thanks to the fact that I live close to the Kentucky state line; I would like to ban "them was", "is them", and "did her" for life. I am dying to tell someone that unfortunately I am not fluent in Stupid, but if they want to give standard English or Russian a good crack I will try to help.) Returning to your cousin from Arkansas: pot, kettle, black ;)
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