Illinois 12

Listen to Illinois 12, a 65-year-old woman from Beverly, on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 65

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 02/01/1947

PLACE OF BIRTH: Chicago, Illinois

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Irish-American

OCCUPATION: retired

EDUCATION:  three years of college

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject was born and raised on the south side of Chicago (Beverly), lived in New Mexico for a few years in her 30s, and then returned to Chicago.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: David Nevell

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 23/06/2012

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Who, did you make that up? Whoa. That is amazing. So, interesting just to learn about the dialects or whatever because whatever you call this — the way I speak because it really wasn’t until you pointed it out that, uh. I mean I knew I did, but like when you see it on Saturday Night Live, it seems so exaggerated, you know? But it’s exactly. And I can remember, uh, John and I going to live in Virginia for a while, while he was playing ball. And I would hang out with the wives of the other players, you know? And we had kind of a going-away party at the end of the season or something. And I don’t know — I think it was probably, well somebody said something about accents. And these were, lot of the women were Southern. And I was saying that how it was the first time I had really had to speak so regular, at regular or daily basis with someone who had a different accent. And they just fell off their chairs laughing, you know? That I thought they had an accent. And that I think was the first I knew. Oh OK, but I actually think I speak like the TV announcers, you know? Except that Mike teases me so bad. No, my son Mike. Oh, he was delighted to hear that you were. I don’t, how did Kay and I get you going on that, uh, doing ’cause you did not want to imitate us. But particularly, yea. So, uh, that was the first time I had heard Wabash. Yeah, Wabash, a little see you can, you can even point out it’s. I don’t know if there’s a fourth. There must be. There’s an eighth. But, great. Oh, all done.

TRANSCRIBED BY: David Nevell

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 19/06/2014

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