pronouncing the county that Annapolis, MD is in

Just don’t pronounce the r: Have de Grace. Of course, some people I know shop at the “Weese” in “Haver” de Grace, so maybe I’m saying it wrong. :stuck_out_tongue:

My mom says NAWfick and that is what I learned, but she is originally from across the state line in NC. Now that I’m all worldly and stuff I say NAWfuck.

A lot of folks say NORfuck as in “we don’t drink, we don’t smoke, Norfuck, Norfuck!”

There’s an Arundel (and Arundel Castle), in West Sussex, England. That is pronounced ˈærəndəl (or, roughly, “ARR-uhn-dle”). I wondered if there was a link, and apparently there is - Anne Arundell (whatever happened to that second “l”, anyway?) was born there.

As for Norfolk, the one in England is also pronounced NOR-fuhk.

I’m originally from the other side of Ballmer and I have to know: what is the “Weese?” In Glen Burnie we pronounce it Have-er de Grace.

Weis Supermarkets. Some say “wise,” some say “weese,” but all agree they’re overpriced.

And “have-er” is what I meant by “haver.” My grandfather would say “Hahve de Grass” like how I imagine some Bostonians would say Harvard in dialect. Not sure about the grass.

piepiepie–Weis supermarkets? How recent? I thought after Grand Union, and then Giant, tanked everybody went to the 24 hr Super Wal-mart.

What is it about Maryland? We don’t even pronounce our own state correctly. It’s like we took every English speaking dialect out back the wood shed and beat it to death with a rock, then stitched them all together and wear them like a really disgusting poncho. PROUDLY!!

Didn’t mean to correct your pronunciation of HdG. Grass? That’s a new one on me.

I loved my time in Bawlmer, where folks used paramours to cut the grass.

The Havre de Grass?

Weis and Giant are very much alive. If you don’t live near Baltimore or in Bowie or Landover, there’s no such thing as Walmart.

Same as NJ.

–Cliffy

Counties:
Ann Uh Run Dul
Bal Mer
Why Com Ih Co
Wooster
Door Chester
Summer Set

Towns:
Have A Disgrace
Sauls Bury
Lah Playta
Dun Dock

People:
Baltimorons

Phrases:
You eat arsters. They come from the wooder. From downy oshun.

Hun.

I have nothing to add. I bow to the master. :smiley:

Now I wanna go crabbin’. Got any chicken legs and string?

Trotline using bull lips.

In the mom-and-pop grocery I worked in in hah (“a” as in “odd”) skoo, it was chicken necks for crabbin.’

It’s actually the first L that was lost. Not many people know that.

Sometimes the E in “Anne” was lost too. Here’s a 1750s map of the area, which shows it as “Ann Arundel County”. (Zoom in to just a bit north-west of Annapolis.)

Fixed link too late to edit on iPhone.

But is “Bowie” |'bu i|, |'bou i|, |'bau i|–some variation thereupon-or something unholy?

Boo Eee

YUM.

My only trotline experience is my uncles catfish lines in Alabama. That was yummy too, but not anything like crabs in Old Bay.