“The life of a Baltimore Army lieutenant may have been saved by Baltimore during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II. Military police suspected him of being a German spy in an American uniform, but an M.P. from Baltimore heard the lieutenant pronounce his home town as 'Balamer' and passed him as genuine. Only a native can say it that way.” (A Fairly Compleat Lexicon of Baltimorese, compiled from Mr. Peep's Diary in The Evening Sun, by John Goodspeed)
