‘Task' Dialect Coach on Getting the Cast to Make Those Very Specific Pennsylvania Sounds: ‘It's Such a Strange Accent'

Throughout “Task,” the seven-episode crime thriller that concluded on HBO on Oct. 19, viewers were re-introduced to the ...

Dialect Coach For HBO’s Hit Series ‘Task’ Explains How They Nailed That Hilariously Specific ‘Delco’ Pennsylvania Accent

HBO's hit series Task wrapped up its season one run on Sunday night with its seventh episode, the widely-lauded "A Still Small Voice." The series was the ...
Citizen's Voice

‘Hayna’: Professor studies dialect of Northeast Pennsylvania

SCRANTON — Jeet yet? No. D’joo? Longtime residents of Northeast Pennsylvania likely would readily understand hearing that coal-region-speak as: Did you eat yet? No. Did you? Likewise, they would know ...
Time

Education: Pennsylvania Accent

Unlike New York, Pennsylvania has no state university, yet its pattern of higher education is also shifting. Last week Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton signed a bill making Philadelphia’s ...
Yahoo News Singapore

‘Task’ Dialect Coach on Getting the Cast to Make Those Very Specific Pennsylvania Sounds: ‘It’s Such a Strange Accent’

Throughout “Task,” the seven-episode crime thriller that concluded on HBO on Oct. 19, viewers were re-introduced to the specific Delaware County, Pa. accent that they’d perhaps first heard in HBO’s ...