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Sep 13, 2013

Overheard in D.C.: The D.C. Accent

D.C. isn’t a place people think of as having its own dialect, but it’s there: “Surday” for Saturday, “‘bama,” and other local lingo. But aside from the words, there’s an accent too. Sometimes you just don’t think about it.

 
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