Welsh Society of Central Ohio

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Welsh Society of Central Ohio http://www.welshsocietyofcentralohio.org/

Sorry…..I’m a homie first on Saturdays!!
09/19/2026

Sorry…..I’m a homie first on Saturdays!!

09/19/2026

What's one Welsh phrase you used to hear all the time as a child? 👏 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Welsh and Proud of Wales
Paul Jones

DAN ROWBOTHAMOhio being pronounced Ohio in the north and something closer to Ohia in the southeast is one of those jokes...
09/18/2026

DAN ROWBOTHAM

Ohio being pronounced Ohio in the north and something closer to Ohia in the southeast is one of those jokes that only works because it's rooted in something real. The state's accent doesn't stay consistent from border to border, and that pink section on the map lines up almost exactly with Ohio's slice of Appalachia, a region with its own distinct dialect that has almost nothing in common with how people talk in Columbus or Cleveland.

Southeastern Ohio counties like Athens, Jackson, and the towns along the Ohio River sit right at the edge of the wider Appalachian dialect region that stretches down into West Virginia and Kentucky. Linguists have documented real vowel shifts in that part of the state for decades, including unstressed vowels softening or sliding toward different sounds than they would up north. A famous example is a former Ohio governor from Appalachian Jackson County who was known for pronouncing official closer to "offeeshal," a small quirk that stuck with him his entire career and became a bit of local legend among linguists who study Ohio speech patterns.

That same softening tendency is exactly the kind of thing that turns a flat, clipped Oh-HY-oh into something with a looser, more drawn out ending once you cross into the hill country. It's not that anyone down there is officially renaming the state. It's that the accent itself bends vowels differently, the same accent that gives southeastern Ohio its slower cadence, its drawl, and its noticeably different rhythm compared to the clipped, flatter voices you hear an hour north in Columbus.

Ohioans from the blue part of the map love to tease the red part for it, and the red part tends to shrug and lean into it, since the Appalachian identity down there has never needed northern Ohio's approval anyway. It's one of those rare cases where a joke about a state actually holds up once you look at the dialect map underneath it, proving that Ohio isn't really one accent pretending to be one state, it's several accents that happen to share a border.

We Are Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 History Maker 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Matthew Rhys has made history, becoming the first person in Emmys history to wi...
09/15/2026

We Are Wales
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 History Maker 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Matthew Rhys has made history, becoming the first person in Emmys history to win two acting awards in different leading categories on the same night.

And on one of the biggest stages in television, he made sure Wales was part of the moment.

“To the great and good people of Wales, who were as much a nurture as anyone else.

“We are a small but mighty nation. This is incredible. Diolch yn fawr iawn.”

A proud Welshman making history on the world stage.

ATTENTION!
09/14/2026

ATTENTION!

Bore da, bawb!Welsh actor Taron Egerton was born on 10 November in 1989. Though born in Birkenhead, Merseyside, Egerton ...
09/11/2026

Bore da, bawb!

Welsh actor Taron Egerton was born on 10 November in 1989. Though born in Birkenhead, Merseyside, Egerton is Welsh "through and through" (his words and I am inclined to agree with him) and speaks fluent Welsh. He grew up on Ynys Môn from the age of 2 and moved to Aberystwyth when 12 years old.

Egerton graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 2012 and has since gone on to star in a number of films, most notably in the Kingsman series of movies and the Academy Award winning film Rocketman, in which Egerton received international attention for his role as Elton John.

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