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I remember years ago when I had direct-reports in "Baldamore" and going down there and realizing that the dialect was close to that of a number of neighborhoods here in "Fluffia". Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi has some of that old accent - despite being in California for decades (although she was born and raised in Baltimore).

Then I found an article that actually described that dialect and noted what regions it existed in and sure enough!

You hear the "older" versions of if with some former MSNBC folks like Tweety and Smerconish (and there was a South Philly vs NE Philly accent too). You even hear it from Andrea Mitchell who although from NY, went to school here in Philly and was a local reporter (and she says "Warshington" along with Philly native Kristen Welker).

https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/11/philadelphia-accent-linguistics-upenn-penn-philly

But what is wild is that over my lifetime, and particularly the last 30 years, I detected an entirely new dialect that emerged out of my nieces/nephews and their millennial age group, and they all lived and went to school in Philly, so the closed nasally sound is going away and has been replaced by something also unique that is like an open nasally sound.

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2018/12/04/philly-accent-millennials/

(thank you for sending me down the rabbit hole... again... )