Learning a Maine Dialect
As someone based in Chicago from the Midwest, I can pick out a native Chicagoan's voice in crowd pretty quickly. Other dialects like a standard Southern accent or a surfer's Californian dialect are also pretty easy to pick out. However, Halcyon's next show Dreams of the Penny Gods takes place in a small town in Maine. Before starting to work on this show, I had no concept of what a Maine dialect should sound like. I …