World Accent Project (Ohio, USA)

[Brettwbeyer14]

i noticed some slight southern draws in a few spots here in his accent. especially when he says not miss an opportunity. instead of saying not he says nawt. and says opportunity as opporteewnity.

[ThatLameKid92]

@Brettwbeyer14 I love how perceptive people are about my accent, really makes me self aware of how I speak lol.

[Brettwbeyer14]

@ThatLameKid92 im the same way. i would like to figure out how to post videos on youtube so people can tell me if i have an accent or not. Im a michigander and i've noticed in recent years for the first time that we have accents. I have been very self aware, and try to catch myself when I say hyave instead of have or have overly harsh pronunciations of words and a few other things amongst our dynamic accent.

[humanonthetube]

If yer from the Siddyatahleedo,Ohio, ya kinda soun like Mishigin..Check out YT vids of Toledo Ohio TV spots..

[bgdrewsif]

@humanonthetube What??? I am from Findlay originally and grew up on 26 years of Toledo TV stations... Toledo has a very un-accented standard American English dialect... Cleveland, Cincinnati? Definitely a noticeable accent... but From Toledo to Columbus with BG, Findlay, and Marion in between.. about as close to standardized American 'news' dialect as you can find anywhere in America...

[foxkieran]

Steubenville here.

Went to high school outside Pittsburgh, and my friends always grilled me for my Ohio accent.

[IcyHot311]

I live in south western Ohio and this is exactly how everyone I know talks(: Guys...a lot of people in Ohio have southern accents and in northern Ohio the Great Lakes accent plays into it. But this person was just doing the average Ohioan accents. Definitely less modulation and a lot of other people would find us to have "flat" or "boring" accents because of that. May sound too articulate or proper...but not to us!(:

[ThatLameKid92]

@IcyHot311 Thanks :) I was actually putting a little effort into sounding "proper" trying to make Ohio look good, haha

[Redsfancoop1]

@IcyHot311 I live in Cincy and it's crazy because when i see people from like Cleveland they sounds like they're from Canada lol.

[etemuru]

this is interesting. very flat, no country like southern ohio. like me. but i'm from wheaton, il. then i moved to akron when i was 11ish

[IcyHot311]

@etemuru I live in southern Ohio and we don't have a southern accent at all. We talk exactly like the man in the video. I really just think it's too broad to say "southern" or "northern" it really just differs from place to place.

[onecrazybff]

Warren ohio baby :) myfriend in chicago says ohioans say hold, sold, shoder, old... basially anythng "ol" differentially hahaha. i didn't know i had an accent! <3

[ThatLameKid92]

@onecrazybff interesting :P

[Larielle]

Sounds just like us here in Stark County.  :-)

[ThatLameKid92]

@Larielle I'm actually somewhat near Stark, Trumbull :P

[ThatLameKid92]

@cwillia1111 My family, myself included, is from northeast ohio, lol. Thanks all the same though.

[IcyHot311]

@ThatLameKid92 haha exactly. :P I wish people would stop classifying it by southern/western/eastern/north­ern. Tons of people in Ohio talk like this.

[gmdriver70]

i'm from ohio and i sound nothing like that. Its way too proper

[deathuntoviacom]

@gmdriver70 That's probably because you're from Jackson, Ohio!

[lamareikan666]

I'm from California and you sound 95% the same as me.

[Jaspirita]

Woot! Another Ohioan! ^_^ Nice, clear reading. We sound very similar, so I believe our contributions for this area are good examples of what Ohio sounds like. *thumbs up*

[ThatLameKid92]

@Jaspirita thanks :) 

[OmniPictures]

This is really cool, thanks for participating. :)

Don't forget to add it as a video response to the initial video though!

[ThatLameKid92]

@OmniPictures Why thank you kind sir, I shall :)