South Carolina 10

Listen to South Carolina 10, an 18-year-old woman from Summerville, South Carolina. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 18

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 30/07/2003

PLACE OF BIRTH: Willard, Ohio (but raised in Summerville, South Carolina)

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: White/American with European ancestry

OCCUPATION: part-time restaurant worker

EDUCATION: high school diploma; currently in college

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

The subject has lived in Summerville, South Carolina, since the age of seven (about 11 years at the time of this recording). However, she was born and lived in Willard, Ohio, until the age of three. She then lived in Greenwood, South Carolina, for a year before moving to Charlotte, North Carolina, where she lived for about three years.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Both parents are from north-central Ohio. Her father was born and raised in Willard and Crestline, Ohio. Her mother was born and raised in Tiffin, Ohio. The subject was primarily raised by her mother. All grandparents grew up in north-central Ohio as well, and she admits that her relatives’ Ohio sound might have influenced her dialect.

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RECORDED BY: subject

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 04/11/2021

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

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

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

So, I was born in Willard, Ohio, which is in Huron County, um, in north-central Ohio. It’s near Norwalk; um, I was born in a, uh, in a hospital in Norwalk, but my whole family lived in Willard, so I didn’t really live in Norwalk, um, in my life. Um, but basically, when I was three, we moved to the South, um, and I’ve basically just lived in the South my whole life, um, mostly in, well, pretty much just in the Carolinas. Yeah, so, I’ve basically moved back and forth from South Carolina to North Carolina my whole life, and, yeah, I’ve lived in, uh, Summerville — ’bout 30 minutes; it’s about 30 minutes from Charleston. Um, and, yeah, I’ve basically just lived here since I was seven, um, and I’m 18 now, so that’s pretty much the majority of my life. Yeah.

My mom, um, has a different kind of accent than mine ’cause she’s from, uh, this town called Tiffin, and she kind of enunciates and stresses her A’s more, um, than mine. So, I may, I may have adopted some of her, uh, speech, um, tendencies. And, uh, so that may have an effect on my recording. Um, but yeah. I’ve always been interested in, uh, speech dialects, so when I found out that I could insert my own, um, accent, I thought, “That’s really cool.” [Subject laughs.] Um, so yeah, I hope this is helpful. Um, and thanks for giving us the opportunity to do this. It’s really cool.

TRANSCRIBED BY: subject

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 04/11/2021

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