Louisiana 10

Listen to Louisiana 10, a 38-year-old woman from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 38

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 19/12/1980

PLACE OF BIRTH: Slidell, Lousiana (but raised in New Orleans)

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian/European and Cajun

OCCUPATION: server

EDUCATION: high school

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

The speaker was raised in New Orleans but moved at age 22 to Chalmette, right outside the city.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

She self-describes her accent as being part New Orleans with Cajun and country sounds in the mix.

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RECORDED BY: Tanera Marshall

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 28/03/2019

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Yeah, a lot of people — we say, uh, “icebox” for, like, you would say the “refrigerator.” I say “micolwave.” Mi-col-wave, but it’s a microwave! [Subject laughs.] And for the longest, um, my grandmother used to say “erl“ instead of “oil,” and I couldn’t pronounciate [sic] the word “oil” until I was like, maybe, six or seven years old. I could not say it. I would always say “erl.” Or, like, when we go to get food from the store, we say, “We’re gonna go make groceries.”

My grandmother: We used to call her “maman” instead of, you know, “grandma.” I have people that are from — I know on my grand-, my dad’s side, from Spain, from like — and then my mother and them are Irish, French, and, I think, if I’m not mistaken, I have Italian, but I’m not too sure. Well, I have family members that are Creole. We say “y’all” a lot, too. And we’ll say, “How’s your mom an’ em? How’s your mom an’ em?” You know, it’s just axing [asking ] how your people are. [We] say “liberry.”

[Interviewer: What do you call rings and necklaces, all those things?]

Jury! Jury! [jewelry]

TRANSCRIBED BY: Tanera Marshall

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 19/06/2019

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