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"How They Talk in Baltimore"
By John Sherwood
Taken from an article in the Washington Star (!) mostly

accordeen               accordion
aks                     ask
a-most                  almost
Annarunnel              Anne Arundel County, MD
anythink                anything
apinned                 opened
architexture            architecture
arns joose              orange juice
Arsh                    Irish
ast                     ask
attoreneys              attorneys
Bawlmer                 Baltimore
Beeno                   B&O
Bethlum                 Bethlehem
bidnessmen              businessmen
bleef                   belief
bobwar                  barbed wire
boy                     buoy
buoy                    boy
choaked                 choked
crawler                 cruller
conjextured             conjectured
cole race beef          cold roast beef
corm beef               corned beef
calf lick               Catholic
dayontayon              downtown
dint                    did not
difrinse                difference
down-a-hill             where steel workers work at Bethlehem Steel Co.
downey Ashin            down the ocean (City, MD)
draffs                  giraffes
Droodle                 Druid Hill
Drooslem                Jerusalem
druckstewer             drugstore
dusk                    dust
dust                    dusk
enywears                anywhere
everthink               everything
excapes                 escapes
farmin                  firemen
flars                   flowers
flitters                fritters
frents                  friends
gayo                    go
gobbidge                garbage
granite                 granted
gubner                  governor
gummit                  government
Habberdy Grace          Havre de Grace, MD
harballed iggs          hard-boiled eggs
harrid                  Howard
Hollontayon             Highlandtown
howler                  holler
idnit                   isn't it
igger                   eager
ignernt                 ignorant
insparin                inspiring
Jewtayon                Jewtown, delicatessens
John Hopkins            Johns Hopkins
keller                  color
klumya                  Columbia, MD
koors                   machines (cars)
laft                    laughed
leginamint              legitimate
Lumberd                 Lombard
Lil-Illey               Little Italy
machines                cars
Melhawk                 Mohawk
mirrow                  as in meer, or mirror
munlaws and fodlaws     mother-in-laws and father-in-laws
Naplis                  Annapolis
neerbize                nearby
Norf Abnew              North Avenue
norf, souf, ees, wess   north, south, east, west
oltno                   I don't know
owen                    on
pall burier             pall bearer
pancake                 pound cake
paramour                power mower
Patapsico               Patapsco River
payment                 pavement
pickstyers              pictures
plooshin                pollution
po-leece                a single police officer
pleece                  more than one po-leece
quarrs                  choirs
samidges                sandwiches
shares                  showers
snoo few                what's new with you
sould                   soul
spearmint               experiment
stall                   style
starfame                styrofoam
sympathy                symphony
taggers                 tigers
tar                     tire
tarred                  tired
tire                    tar (as in tire the roof)
torst                   tourist
transresistor           transistor
tword                   toward
unnerstayon             understand
urshter                 oyster
vollince                violence
wald                    wild
wooders                 waters
Warshnin Monament       Washington Monument
Yerpeens                Europeans

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