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== African-American variations == According to linguists, the "hon" dialect that is popularized in the media and that derives historically from the speech of [[white people|white]] [[blue-collar worker|blue-collar]] residents of South and Southeast [[Baltimore]] is not the only accent spoken in the region. There is also a particular Baltimore accent found among Black Baltimoreans: a sub-type of [[African-American Vernacular English]].<ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=http://baltimorelanguage.com/baldamor-curry-and-dug-podcast/|title=Baldamor, Curry, and Dug': Language Variation, Culture, and Identity among African American Baltimoreans|last=DeShields|first=Inte'a|work=Podcast|date=17 May 2011 |access-date=17 July 2011}}</ref> For example, among Black speakers, Baltimore is pronounced more like "Baldamore" {{IPA|/ˌbɔldəˈmɔr/}}, as compared to "Bawlmer" {{IPA|/ˈbɔlmər/}}. Other notable phonological characteristics include vowel centralization before {{IPA|/r/}} (such that words such as "carry" and "parents" are often pronounced as "curry" or "purrents", and "Aaron earned an iron urn" might sound like "Urrun urned an urn urn") and the mid-centralization of {{IPA|/ɑ/}}, particularly in the word "dog," often pronounced like "dug," and "frog" as "frug."<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" /> The African-American Baltimore accent, or a variation thereof, is also shared by many African Americans throughout Maryland and the [[Washington metropolitan area]].
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