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"Midwestern Ohio Newscaster" is the US version of the Brit's "received pronunciation."
"This is what it sounds like to not have an accent."
Posted by: mikeski at March 14, 2026 02:27 AM on A♠
How To Talk Like an Okie
Damien Lodes
Damien Lodes
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Republican U.S. Representative Randy Fine of Florida:
"If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one."
"If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one."
Stay away from our dogs
Conservative Momma
Conservative Momma
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Conditions may vary depending on your hemisphere.
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I've always enjoyed taking things apart and reassembling them in (one hopes) working condition. Back in my Jr High years, Dad gave me a reel-to-reel tape recorder (3" reels). Guess he moved up to a dictaphone or something. I took it apart and got it back together and it lasted for years.
From my oldest brother, I inherited a 1950s General Electric Alarm Clock-Radio. I just found a picture of the clock part - I am whelmed with nostalgia.
The radio part (not shown) attached on the right side. When I got it, the radio attachment didn't work. After some investigation, I realized the tab with four metal strips on the radio side, that slid into a slot on the clock, was partially broken off, and by inserting something as simple as a piece of cardboard, the strips made contact and, voila, the radio and clock-alarm worked like new.
Shortly after fixing it, I came home and my older brother (not the one from whom I got the clock) had the shell open on the radio part, and was smashing the tubes into the guts, imagining rocket ships crash-landing.
Not the first or last thing of mine he would destroy like that. RIP both bros.
Originally posted (edited since) on A♠ Hobby Thread, Dec 27, 2025
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Sitting in my room one day, friends asked about my lack of accent. I tried to imitate a rural Oklahoma accent. Naw, I said, that's more Deep South. I tried another accent, but decided that was too South Texas. Again I tried an accent, but, no, that was more Arkansas-Missouri hillbilly.
It was at that moment that the only other student there from Oklahoma was looking for me, and from down the hall, we heard this loud gal's voice hollering, "Wharr's th' gaahyy from OAK-luh-HOma?"
I exclaimed, "That's it! That's the accent!" Followed by, "Quick! Close the door!"
True story.