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Ohio accent
My daughter has just been given a leading role in a play that requires her to use an Ohio accent from the 1930's.
I have tried googling but it's not been very successful. Any assistance would be appreciated. If it helps, we're English.
Thank you.
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You might want to try to ask the Drama teacher, or director, what she wants the accent to be presented as. Sometimes the director wants an accent that just sounds different. You could also try to find documentaries or internet clips that have people from Ohio talking, then you could add your own twist to it. Trust me, evreything will fall into place. You could even ask the director if you could make up your own 1930's Ohio accent, sometimes they're leaniant that way. Hope this helps.:)
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ohio in the 1930's hmm well considering I wasn't alive during the 1930's i'm not completely sure...I know a good traditional "ohioan" accent uses "warshing" instead of "washing" but it's not like southern or anything...my biggest suggestion to you is to watch some old movies or even modern ones based around the depression and prohibitionist era and mimick their accent
-Seabiscuit
-Cinderella man
-Chicago
-Of Mice and Men
-The Grapes of Wrath
-Casablanca
-The Shoot Horses, Don't They
just a few to consider
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you're english... hmm..
I'm a total Ohio-an and besides having an American English accent, there's not much to it. just adding an "r" to washing [warshing] and saying "please?" instead of "excuse me" when you don't understand something. there's not southern drawl. if you need anything else lemmeknow! <3
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well i live in Ohio, east liverpool. we all have differnt accents. but ohio doesnt really have their own accents, our talk is mixed in with all differnt kind of accents. uhm.. if you tell me where your from, i might be able to help you more..
i looked this up too..
Not everyone in Ohio speaks with the midwestern nasal twang. Some do. In the Northern part of the state this is certainly the case. But if you move towards the hillier portion of the state, you hear a lot more about *warshing* dishes and *hunnerd* dollar bills, but somewhere in the middle everything levels out into a crisp non-accented cadence that is as clear as the words on this screen. In fact, the Ohio accent is the basis of the accent taught to newscasters. Newscasters on the televisual machine, meaning: the Ohio accent is so bland that you wouldn't even know it if you heard it because there's nothing to hear except the words, man.
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