They say water," he said. 7/10/2013, 4:25 p.m. Sign up for our weekly home and property newsletter, featuring homes for sale, neighborhood happenings, and more. Neal Rafferty says the Philly accent is so strong it lives on across the bridge in South Jersey where he's from. Sep 2, 2015 - Explore lin471ss13a's board "Philadelphia dialect" on Pinterest. He says wooder too. The key feature of the Baltimore accent is identified by a sound change called “fronting back vowels”, where … I grew up in South Philly and spent most of the past decade working as a translator in Beijing, and I am pretty sure that if "mumbled Mandarin without the tonal shifts" made sense it would be wrong. But this is a fun article otherwise, and it does a nice job of pointing out the underrepresentation of the Philly accent in movies. Frankly it's a bit difficult to replicate and there's a few different accents within the city.

People with a Philly accent come from city filled with places and things that helped make this country what it is today.

A lot of actors end up doing a vaguely jersey or New York accent, which is close but not the same. Lived my first eight years in Philly, then continued my growing up in Pittsburgh. People tend to place my accent as New York, which I never lived in, but my perception is that I retain some Pittsburghisms many years later. The bitter irony in all of this is the sobering fact that people who AREN'T from New Jersey say "Joi-Zee," believing that their unfounded stereotype is how everyone in NJ says "Jersey" Perplexingly, this means that, in reality, they are stereotyping themselves. Similar to Philly speak (but according to our survey, not as sexy), Baltimore residents will commonly pronounce mirror as “mere” and water as “wooder”. See more ideas about Philadelphia, South philly and Philly style. "They say it wrong. I watched the video on Philly accents and didn't recognize any of the sounds they were talking about.