Spoken like a true Marylander

Owen, with head cocked and hands clasped, to me at the dinner table:

“You done your dinner, sweetpea?”

Well, I died right there, I tell ya. Bless his heart.

“Done your.” Geez. If he had only replaced “sweetpea” with “Hon” I’d have known we had a true bilinguist in our midst: American English AND Bawlmerese.

Was this how my New York parents felt the first time they heard their children ask for a “pop” with our flat Midwestern twang?

May 27, 2007 | Filed Under baltimore, toddler

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3 Responses to “Spoken like a true Marylander”

mayberry on May 27th, 2007 11:18 pm

My daughter is developing an upper-midwestern accent and it is freaking me right out!
Mama C-ta on May 29th, 2007 11:04 am

LOL - If he starts asking for a beehive, then I’ll be woried.

Since I can’t check in regularly, just wanted to say an early congrats, looking foward to the new face on Flickr!
danielle on May 30th, 2007 1:39 pm

That is too precious. Did he follow it up with:

“‘Cause I’ma leave out now.” ?