World Accent Project (Ohio, USA)

"This is my contribution to the Worldwide Accent Project, which is a collaboration project made by YouTubers from around the world, with the intention of creating a global accent archive. Anybody can participate, even if English is not your first language. Please go to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8VTuM129HA for more information, and to submit your own!"

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Howto & Style

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• World
• Accent
• Project
• Ohio
• USA
• America

[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.

[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

[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

[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...

[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.

[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..

[foxkieran]

Steubenville here.

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

[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.