http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=188 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=188&cpage=1#comment-119207 Frances Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:39:08 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=188#comment-119207 "Wooder" is the way "water" is pronounced by natives of Baltimore, Maryland. It is classic "Baltimorese," as explained by the late John Goodspeed of the Baltimore Sun in his Lexicon of Baltimorese. “Wooder” is the way “water” is pronounced by natives of Baltimore, Maryland. It is classic “Baltimorese,” as explained by the late John Goodspeed of the Baltimore Sun in his Lexicon of Baltimorese.

]]> http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=188&cpage=1#comment-87751 manoj Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:32:46 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=188#comment-87751 in maryland, the pronunciation of water is approximately close to "wooder". in maryland, the pronunciation of water is approximately close to “wooder”.

]]> http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=188&cpage=1#comment-85297 Jehanne Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:43:12 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=188#comment-85297 Just to throw everyone for a loop, I have to incriminate my extended family from the Philadelphia area in the "wood-er" crime. I'd always imagined that pronunciation came from that area, so it surprises me to find out they say it down in Florida too! My mother aggressively schooled herself when she was in her teens to pronounce the word as WATT-er, but most of her siblings still say wood-er. Just to throw everyone for a loop, I have to incriminate my extended family from the Philadelphia area in the “wood-er” crime. I’d always imagined that pronunciation came from that area, so it surprises me to find out they say it down in Florida too! My mother aggressively schooled herself when she was in her teens to pronounce the word as WATT-er, but most of her siblings still say wood-er.

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