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<blockquote data-quote="GreekOrthodox" data-source="post: 76038786" data-attributes="member: 271308"><p>North American Midwestern, specifically around Cincinnati, is supposed to be relatively unaccented American English and became the standard radio and eventually TV news "accent". Back in the 1920s, the radio station set up by William Crosley and the inventor of the Crosley radio, broadcast not at 5000 watts or 50,000 watts (which is now the limit), but at a whopping 500,000 watts which could be heard not only across the continental US, but on a good night, Australia. Even today, that tower is capable of broadcasting at 1 million watts.</p><p></p><p>As a result, radio and TV personalities were taught the Cincinnati accent for some time because it was unaccented compared to other regions. One example is Rod Serling, of the Twilight Zone, who was a host on WLW.</p><p></p><p>My current profession deals with voice communications and I've learned to pick up on various accents and dialects. Some can be pretty subtle but get them emotional and their real voice comes through. As a result, there may only be certain words and phrases that someone might pick up as to their regional accent. Even the "southern" accent is different across the south and you might not recognize it. This is an example of the Tidewater accent from southeastern Virginia.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]1RzVKCWXrRA[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreekOrthodox, post: 76038786, member: 271308"] North American Midwestern, specifically around Cincinnati, is supposed to be relatively unaccented American English and became the standard radio and eventually TV news "accent". Back in the 1920s, the radio station set up by William Crosley and the inventor of the Crosley radio, broadcast not at 5000 watts or 50,000 watts (which is now the limit), but at a whopping 500,000 watts which could be heard not only across the continental US, but on a good night, Australia. Even today, that tower is capable of broadcasting at 1 million watts. As a result, radio and TV personalities were taught the Cincinnati accent for some time because it was unaccented compared to other regions. One example is Rod Serling, of the Twilight Zone, who was a host on WLW. My current profession deals with voice communications and I've learned to pick up on various accents and dialects. Some can be pretty subtle but get them emotional and their real voice comes through. As a result, there may only be certain words and phrases that someone might pick up as to their regional accent. Even the "southern" accent is different across the south and you might not recognize it. This is an example of the Tidewater accent from southeastern Virginia. [MEDIA=youtube]1RzVKCWXrRA[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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