Where did Baltimorese come from? There seems to be no definitive answer. Gordon Beard, a retired Associated Press reporter and native “Balmoron,” wrote two guides on the subject: “Basic Baltimorese” ...

Years ago, a Michigan friend came to Baltimore for a job interview. He boarded a trolley car and asked the conductor to call out the Howard Street stop. After spending quite some time in his seat, he ...

John Goodspeed, the former Baltimore Evening Sun columnist who collected examples of the city’s linguistic train wrecks and christened the mispronunciations Baltimorese, died Sept. 10 of pulmonary ...

On Conan, Kathy Bates revealed that she got all sorts of guff from linguists for her performance in American Horror Story: Freak Show. In the show, Bates was supposed to have a Baltimore accent, or ...