How to write characters with accents

If you need to write a character with an accent, here is some useful advice from writer Rose Lerner, and over here more specifically about the Southern American accent.

Laughing Lizards, in writing

What on Earth are These Lizards Laughing At? - Cheezburger:

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Staffs University student animation videos

Dave O'Neill
http://vimeo.com/52422175

Dan Warrilow:
Onomatopoeia on Vimeo:

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TED-Ed | Onomatopoeia

An educational song with video by Mindy Bauer:

TED-Ed | Onomatopoeia:

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Make Onomatopoeia Magnets!

A nice idea to give your fridge more oomph

Smallgood Hearth: Comic Onomatopoeia Magnets:

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Song: Todd Rundgren Onomatopoeia - YouTube

Todd Rundgren Onomatopoeia - YouTube:

With cue cards!

Lyrics

Nujabes ‘Battle Cry’ – Typographic Onomatopoeia Score | susanna yee design

Nujabes ‘Battle Cry’ – Typographic Onomatopoeia Score | susanna yee design:

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Want to Feel Ukiuki, Pichipichi and Pinpin? Japanese Food Onomatopoeia | Cultural Detective Blog

Want to Feel Ukiuki, Pichipichi and Pinpin? Japanese Food Onomatopoeia | Cultural Detective Blog:

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Onomatopoeia in Graphic Design: Video

Professor Lisa Rosowski of Massachusetts College of Art and Design has 6 brief videos animating onomatopoeia (text) to music. Made by Graphic Design sophomore students. Looks great!

Onomatopoeia project | Ryan Boye from Lisa Rosowsky on Vimeo.

Onomatopoeia project | Jason Benjamin from Lisa Rosowsky on Vimeo.

Onomatopoeia project | Zach McCarthy from Lisa Rosowsky on Vimeo.

Onomatopoeia project | Mike Tavilla from Lisa Rosowsky on Vimeo.

Onomatopoeia project | Meghan Ciaramitaro from Lisa Rosowsky on Vimeo.

Onomatopoeia project | Matt Kaiser from Lisa Rosowsky on Vimeo.

Dirnt, the sound of a bass guitar

Mike Dirnt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Michael Ryan Pritchard (born May 4, 1972) is an American musician, best known as the bassist, backing vocalist and co-founder of the American rock band Green Day. While at school, he would play "air-bass." While pretending to pluck the strings, he made the noise, "dirnt, dirnt, dirnt". As a result, his schoolmates began to call him "Mike Dirnt"."

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Scientific study of onomatopoeia

Research has shown that onomatopoeic words activate brain regions involved in the processing of verbal and non-verbal sounds. Imitation is a fundamental biological mechanism for learning and generating behavior. But how are non-human sounds translated into speech, as in onomatopoeia, given the anatomical constraints of the vocal system? Marcos Alberto Trevisan and his co-workers at the University of Buenos Aires address this question in a scientific study modeling voice generation based on anatomical parameters. PLoS ONE: The Anatomy of Onomatopoeia:

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Onomatopoeia in advertisement

"Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is"
(Alka Seltzer in the 50's and 60's) Watch the commercial

Pow

"One of these days, Alice. Pow! Right in the kisser!"
(Jackie Gleason, The Honeymooners, 50's tv series)

Wub is the new oonse

Wub wub wub, nehnehweeh, YOI YOI YOI WAHBWUHB

The sounds of dubstep, a genre in electronic dance music. Pretty popular on the internet, so now and then you run into these onomatopoeia. Oonse or untz is an onomatopoeia imitative of the repetitive beat in rave music. Dubstep is newer than rave, therefore 'wub is the new oonse'.

Dubstep | Know Your Meme: "signature repetitive bass"
Dubstep by Datsik
dubstep beatboxer

Ah-hoo-gah! Old car horns

Hear the funny sounds of antique automobile horns. The 1912 Pierce-Arrow has that awesome cartoonesque sound, definitely a winner. If you ever hear it in real life (many hot-rods have them too) some of them are loud and you immediately recognize it. Here's another website with car-horns by the Antique Automobile Club of America, and a video of a model-A: Renfroe's Model A Aooga horn.
Thanks Doug!