<p>The dreaded TV Tropes has some pretty <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects" rel="noreferrer">good notes on Japanese dialects</a>.  The use of <em>ora</em> instead of <em>ore</em> and being used by women in particular is an element of the Tohoku dialect.  It also compares the dialect to US English 'hillbilly' accents, which matches with the subtitling.</p>

<p>It does not list the use of <em>de gasu</em> in place of <em>desu</em>, but the notes are hardly comprehensive.  Or it could be a personal thing for Mio5.</p>

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<p>Mioko (voiced by Kana Hanazawa) uses some kind of unusual speech pattern which the subtitles translate into vaguely US Southern dialectal English:</p>

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<p>Specifically, I can hear her using <em>ora</em> to refer to herself and ending her sentences with <em>de gasu</em> instead of <em>desu</em>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pronouns" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Wikipedia</a> says <em>ora</em> is an informal pronoun with rural connotations, and <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-3kBAwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT42&amp;lpg=PT42&amp;dq=japanese+de+gasu&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=abdOz6W0KP&amp;sig=GwbxhTaltjTLAQotu5mYzg0D8lk&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjw6YSIvYLMAhUYzmMKHZyrDHsQ6AEIKDAC#v=onepage&amp;q=japanese%20de%20gasu&amp;f=false" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this Google Books result</a> says <em>de gasu</em> is a contraction of <em>de gozarimasu</em>, a very polite form of <em>de aru</em>.</p>

<p>You can hear it for yourself in <a href="http://www.crunchyroll.com/ojisan-and-marshmallow/episode-7-mioko-and-marshmallow-692327" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Episode 7</a> starting around 24 seconds in.</p>

<p>Is Mioko's accent a specific regional accent, or is it just one of those made up bizarre speech patterns that anime specializes in?</p>

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What's up with Mioko's speech pattern?
# What's up with Mioko's speech pattern?
Posted by: username_0 on 2016-04-09
Mioko (voiced by Kana Hanazawa) uses some kind of unusual speech pattern which the subtitles translate into vaguely US Southern dialectal English:

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[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/RGtBTm.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/RGtBTm.jpg)

Specifically, I can hear her using *ora* to refer to herself and ending her sentences with *de gasu* instead of *desu*. [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pronouns) says *ora* is an informal pronoun with rural connotations, and [this Google Books result](https://books.google.com/books?id=-3kBAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT42&lpg=PT42&dq=japanese+de+gasu&source=bl&ots=abdOz6W0KP&sig=GwbxhTaltjTLAQotu5mYzg0D8lk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjw6YSIvYLMAhUYzmMKHZyrDHsQ6AEIKDAC#v=onepage&q=japanese%20de%20gasu&f=false) says *de gasu* is a contraction of *de gozarimasu*, a very polite form of *de aru*.

You can hear it for yourself in [Episode 7](http://www.crunchyroll.com/ojisan-and-marshmallow/episode-7-mioko-and-marshmallow-692327) starting around 24 seconds in.

Is Mioko's accent a specific regional accent, or is it just one of those made up bizarre speech patterns that anime specializes in?
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### Answer by username_1 on 2016-04-10. Score: 5 | Accepted answer
The dreaded TV Tropes has some pretty [good notes on Japanese dialects](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/JapaneseDialects). The use of *ora* instead of *ore* and being used by women in particular is an element of the Tohoku dialect. It also compares the dialect to US English 'hillbilly' accents, which matches with the subtitling.

It does not list the use of *de gasu* in place of *desu*, but the notes are hardly comprehensive. Or it could be a personal thing for Mio5.
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