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No time like the present to resurrect The Birdfeed-Strophic Great Vowel Movement hypothesis:

http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.php?Cat=0&Number=100461


An interesting read. Very well researched and prsented.
Having spent much time in (and around) the Washington, DC area I can attest that many of those 'Vowel Hordes' settled in Maryland.
Those native to Baltimore speak in an abbreviated fashion that economizes on consonants.
An aborigine will proudly state their birthplace as "Ball-murr, Murr-lyn, hun"

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