Illinois 5

Listen to Illinois 5, an 18-year-old man from Lynwood, Illinois, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 18

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PLACE OF BIRTH: Lynwood, Illinois

GENDER: male

ETHNICITY: Caucasian (Greek)

OCCUPATION: student

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RECORDED BY: Eric Armstrong

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Uh, when I was, uh, younger, um, we’d go to the family dentist, and our family dentist’s name was Dr. Harry Richard Mole, and he’s — is a very, very jovial man. He had a big belly and he a — he wou — tried to make jokes while he was inspecting my teeth. But h- he had really, really bad breath, which is bizarre because this is a dentist; you know, why would he have bad breath; he should know better. And when he would get in close and — and he’d be talking it was — it was almost too much to take because, you know, yuh- you’re really breathing out of your nose because he’s working with your mouth, and one time when, uh, he was f- fiddling around with something by my throat, my gag reflexes reacted and I sm- smelled his breath and ended up throwing up all over his white smock, and, uh, which was insane, pretty crazy and m- my mom thought it was really funny, but, uh, she was embarrassed and we had to switch dentists. We live in Lynwood, which is right on the boarder of Munster, Indiana, which, uh, h- has caused a deep, hidden resentment for Indiana people. We really don’t like the people in Indiana; it’s the whole running gag; they say we can’t drive we say they can’t drive, and, uh, so, um, also, um, we live in kind of a it’s — it’s not the greatest neighborhood in the world, um, economic-wise, and it’s right next to, uh, little, little more better-off town, and there’s also a little — little resentment towards those people. I don’t know if it’s because they have it better-off or because of their attitudes towards us, and, you know, uh, maybe a little snobbish, stuck-up.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Shawn M. Muller

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SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY:

Subject’s speech features the very “flat” sound that characterizes the American Midwest. Similar “flattened” sounds can be heard in other Northern cities, such as Detroit, Michigan, and Buffalo, New York.

COMMENTARY BY: Eric Armstrong

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