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Do any /his/torians know where else I could get a good idea of how "Okies" would've spoken (accent & slang) during the Great Depression?
For that matter, how would your "general" American accent back then have differed from that of today?
Every time I try to look into this elsewhere, all I can find are articles about Southern Accents in the Civil War, and the dreaded "Did Old Americans REALLY Sound British Like On 1930s Radio?" (spoiler: No, they didn't)
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>>2548520
>For that matter, how would your "general" American accent back then have differed from that of today?
There wouldn't be one, for starters.
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>>2548523
Bad phrasing. How would an urban Midwesterner have sounded?
My Grandparents were born towards the end of this era, and I've noticed they do pronounce some things differently.
"Orange" is more like "Ahrange", "Monday" is more like "Mondee" and they pronounce the "H" in "Whip". They don't do the "Warshington" thing, though.
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Not exactly what you're asking for but there are some pretty old and obscure accents in this series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOTzkejL7ks
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>>2548520
Okies back then spoke Irish niggah......
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>>2548520
https://youtu.be/PlgXghaJCK0?t=163
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW2aKWk4lcU
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