Regional accents and dialects (Was: The best hard drives??

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote: I was told that the "correct" pronunciation was BAWL-tim-more Well, admittedly, there was a time half a century ago, when certain forces objected to the "MISpronunciation". Radio staff, in response to the pressure, said bawl - TEA-more. Half a century ago, there were horse drawn rag carts, a lot of cobblestone streets, giant mutant rats at the harbor, and major renovation being started. Along route 40, and many other major streets, there were dozens of blocks slated for demolition. They developed a style of their own; they took all of the doors from inside a condemned group of houses and nailed those together to make a fence. So, there would be block after block of multicolored door-fence from street corner to street corner, punctuated at intervals by marble doorsteps. I have heard that the harbor is now a tourist destination; that probably includes a reduction of the rat population. Long Island (NY) was pronounced Lawn-GUY-land