Editing Baltimore accent (section)

==Lexicon==

The following is a list of words and phrases used in the Baltimore area that are used much less or differently in other American English dialects.
*''down the ocean'' – (eye-dialect spellings include ''dayown the ocean'' or ''downy ocean'') "down to/on/at the ocean", often [[Ocean City, Maryland]].
*''hon'' – a popular term of endearment, short for ''honey'', often used at the end of a sentence. This word has been a popular marker of Baltimore culture, as represented in the annual [http://honfest.net/ Honfest summer festival] and in landmarks such as the Hontown store and the [[Cafe Hon|Café Hon restaurant]].<ref>Rizzo, M. (2010). Hon-ouring the past: play-publics and gender at Baltimore's HonFest. International Journal Of Heritage Studies, 16(4-5), 337-351.</ref>
*''natty boh'' – local slang for the beer originally brewed in Baltimore, [[National Bohemian]].
*''pavement'' (commonly pronounced "payment") – means "sidewalk." 
*''went up'' (shortened from "went up to heaven") – commonly used when an appliance dies; e.g., our refrigerator went up
*''yo'' – as a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun<ref name=":1" /><ref>Stotko, E. M., & Troyer, M. (2007). A new gender-neutral pronoun in Baltimore, Maryland: A preliminary study. American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage, 82(3), 262.</ref>

African-American Baltimore English includes the words ''ard'' for "alright", ''lor'' for "little",<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://data.baltimoresun.com/features/baltimore-dictionary/|title=How Baltimore talks|website=The Baltimore Sun|language=en|access-date=2017-12-02|archive-date=2022-08-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807200217/http://data.baltimoresun.com/features/baltimore-dictionary/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''rey'' for ''ready'' (associated with Baltimore users of [[Black Twitter]]),<ref name=":0">Jones, T. (2015) Toward a description of African American Vernacular English dialect regions using “Black Twitter.” American Speech, 90(4): 403-440. doi:10.1215/00031283-3442117</ref> and ''woe'' for a close friend.