Delaware 1

Listen to Delaware 1, a 34-year-old man from Claymont, Delaware, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 34

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 05/01/1990

PLACE OF BIRTH: Claymont, Delaware

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: White/Caucasian

OCCUPATION: captain

EDUCATION: high school

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: none

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: none

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RECORDED BY: Michael Cunningham (subject)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 30/12/2024

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Um, Christmas just passed. I spent it mostly alone. And my birthday is coming up soon. It’s on January 5th. I plan on going ice-skating with friends from work and just my regular friends, and it’s the first time I’m having a birthday celebration that I’m not getting just drunk as an adult. I haven’t been ice-skating since around middle school. It was something that we did, um, every weekend when I was going to school, and I just figured, now that I’m getting older, it would be fun to maybe do that again, and uh, you know, enjoy my life, you know, while I can while I’m still fairly young.

Uh, I’m submitting my voice here because I didn’t see any under the Delaware section and I’ve lived in Delaware my entire life until actually a month ago where I moved to Pennsylvania, but, uh, I’ve been in Delaware about 34 years, and this is what my voice sounds like. I’ve just lived a normal life, nothing too crazy.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Michael Cunningham (subject)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 30/12/2024

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: 

The subject has an even tone, with almost no vocal fry. His dialect is closer to General American than to any type of regional Delaware sound. The subject is from Claymont, a suburb of Wilmington, in extreme northeastern Delaware, closer to Philadelphia than to southern Delaware. For more perspective on Delaware dialects, visit DelawareOnline.com.

COMMENTARY BY: Cameron Meier

DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): 01/01/2025

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