Showing posts with label balmorese. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 17, 2014

At Johnny's . . .

 . . . downeyaishen HON . . .

For anyone not from the Baltimore metropolitan area, we here at home have a distinctive dialect of the Mother tongue, ranging from the mild to the severely unintelligible, called Balmerese. . . (and we frequently refer to each other as Hon and we always vacation in Ocean City). . .


Just as an illustration . . . 
(from http://www.baltimorehon.com/)
A
    Aig...the kind with a yoke
    Amalance...You know, the vehicle that takes you to the hospital
    Ann Runnel...Glen Burnie's county
    Anyfink..As in anything goes
    Arn... What you do on an arnin board
    Arnjuice...from the sunshine tree
    Arsh...People from Arlin
    Aspern..."Take 2 and call me in the morning"
    Authoritis...arthritis
    Awl...goes into the crankcase
    Ax...as in Ax me no questions, I'll tell ya no lies


B
    Baffroom...see "rostrum"
    Balamer...our home town
    Barrie...as in I need to barrie some money off you
    Bawler...what the plumber calls your furnace
    Beeno...A famous railroad
    Beero...bedroom dresser (with jroors fulla cloze wif jewry and nick nacks on top)
    Bethlum...A steel mill
    Bidness: as in nunyer bidness
    Birfday...blow out the candles on this day
    Blare...City in Harford County
    Bleef...What you believe in
    Blow...opposite of "above"
    Brefist: Champions eat it...meal you eat (or drink) before lunch


. . . Anyway . . . OHO was in Ocean City recently, dig . . .


Slough of Despond
Live at Johnny's, Ocean City, MD-August 2014 [field recording by OHO - Jay Graboski, David Reeve and Ray Jozwiak]




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(and, if you're in town, at Trax On Wax on Frederick Rd. in Catonsville, MD) OHO is Jay Graboski, David Reeve and Ray Jozwiak.

My latest solo release, '2014' of original, instrumental piano music, can be downloaded digitally at:

Ray Jozwiak: 2014

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