Ohio 5

Listen to Ohio 5, a 14-year-old boy from Steubenville and Wintersville, Ohio, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 14

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

PLACE OF BIRTH: Steubenville, Ohio

GENDER: male

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OCCUPATION: high school student

EDUCATION: The subject was attending high school at the time of this interview.

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject was living in Wintersville, Ohio, at the time of this interview.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

The subject lives near the Ohio border with West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and his speech demonstrates the influence of the southwestern Pennsylvania dialect.

The text used in our recordings of scripted speech can be found by clicking here.

RECORDED BY: Corey LaRue

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

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I’m 14 years old, and I live in Wintersville, Ohio.  ’S right outside of Steubenville, Ohio, which is about 45 minutes from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  (Um) I’m in drama club, an’ I’m in band, and … ’ell, let’s see, there’s not a lo– whole lot to do around here.  I s’pose I could tell you ’bout what there is to do in Pittsburgh.  We have (uh) Robinson Town Center, which is a very large shopping complex, just (uh) about five minutes from the Pittsburgh International Airport.  (Uh) I like to go plays up in Pittsburgh, an’ few concerts every once in a while.  I really don’t get outta the area, much more than two or three times a year, an’ I go down to Knoxville, Tennessee, (um) on my vacation.  (Um) I enjoy listening to music.  I like a lotta different kinds o’ music actually.  I’m not one of those people who’ll only listen to, y’know, rap, or pop, or rock.  I listen to a healthy mix.  I like the– like to listen to the radio.  (Uh) I like to watch some television.  I’m not a major, big-time television watcher.  I don’t spend every waking hour watching television, if you know what I mean.  But I do like to watch FoxNews channel, and (uh) CNN, the O’Reilly, Hannett, Ian Combs.  I like the — I like to be informed, which a lotta people don’t, in my school, so it’s much easier to get ahead o’ the game in a few subjects that way.  I like to play video games.  I have a GameCube and an N64.  I’m kind of a Nintendo fan, but I don’t really know all that much about other systems.  I li- (uh) I like to watch, an’ enjoy watching movies.  I love all the James Bond films.  I think Sean Connery, y’know, he’s the best. But, I like a lot of other movies too.  “Air Force One,” that was a good one; all the “Star Wars” ones; (uh) “Remember the Titans,” “Men in Black,” (uh) “Independence Day,” y’know, an’ “Harry Potter,” “Castaway.”  I’m not a real big sports person.  I’d rather play in band.  I play the trombone.  I’m pretty decent at it.  I write songs.  I’m not really incredibly wonderful at ’em, but, y’know, I like to write songs every once in a while.  I find it is a nice escape.  I like to go online.  I enjoy computers, think that’s the way the world’s heading.  I like reading books.  Lord forbid, a teenager read a book any more, but I enjoy it, thoroughly.  You can actually stop whenever you feel like it, an’ take stuff with you.  (Um) I was born in Steubenville; then I moved out to Wintersville, in my kindergarten year, but I still kept going to Steubenville city schools.  I’ve got two parents, that still live together and are happy, which is a good thing.  Both my grandparents live in (uh) the area, within 15 minutes of my house, so, they’re like second parents to me.  My aunt lives down in — my aunt [here pronounces “ant”] lives down in Tennessee.  (Um) That’s who I go visit.  My mom graduated from OU, so they’re trying to drag her into the band, to be a part-time director.  My dad graduated from OSU, and he’s a pharmacist.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Jacqueline Baker

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 02/07/2008

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