Baltimore has its own peculiar accent, and I have spent the last thirty years perfecting my impression of its odd mixture of southern, West Virginian, DelMarVan and redneck patois which makes oil sound like oll and sink sound like zink and leads to interesting sentences like Dose crabs smell turrble, lake dere spereled. Amboolamps is a favorite of the Lockardugan household and we use it whenever we can, along with po-leese and farfarter.
In any case, this Travelall ambulance showed up on Marketplace last week to be parted out, and I contacted the seller to see if any of the sheet metal was worth saving; he told me it was all junk. If it had been closer it would have been worth a road trip up just to look over (and possibly to save the rear set of doors for spares) but Massachusetts is too far away to entertain that idea and I think he wants to sell the whole thing together.
The interesting thing here is that additional section they installed between the two doors to lengthen the truck—from the looks of things that metal was some of the first to start breaking down. This would have been an amazing truck to save about ten or fifteen years ago. Dat’sa shayme, hon.
Neal in Boston says:
I’m glad you saw (sawre) that listing. I took photos (said in my best Philly/ Delco accent, by the way) to send to YOU, but the week got away from me and I lost the thread to share it and did not followup.
I grew up in Philly and have been living in Boston for some 30 years, so sometimes I’ve got a battle of accents in my mind and on my tongue.
bill says:
We have a book from the early 90’s called “How to Speak Bawlmorese” that has a treasured space on our shelf. It’s a strange dialect like no other. I would imagine the mixture of Philly and Boston in your head must be….challenging.