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Nova Scotia Three - Text

Subject is a white male, born in 1987. Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Subject is the son of Nova Scotia1 and the nephew of Nova Scotia2. Recorded on November 14, 1999 by Susan Stackhouse and edited 02/05/00 by Paul Meier. Of interest is the lack of breath support, the use of rising intonation and the word 'miracle' pronounced as 'mericle'. Also note the mid-central starting point used for the typically Canadian pronunciation of the word 'about'. Running time 00:03:01

TRANSCRIPTION

I like to play basketball, and some…and I sometimes like to play badminton. But, I go to Oxford school and I went there since primary. It is a very nice school and I probably wouldn’t go anywhere else because I have all my friends that go there. Um, I traveled to Ontario and to Florida and I went to Quebec and New Brunswick and a lot of different places. Best party was probably a recently one. I went to my friends house and we had three systems: a, um, a Sony Playstation, a Sega Dreamcast and a Nintendo64 all set up. And we had about five different games for each system. There were about 18 people.

Transcribed by Mitchell Kelly, January 15, 2008

 

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