Ontario One - Text
Subject is white female, born 1971, college educated, working as a tutor. She is a lifelong resident of Kingsville/Windsor, Ontario. Recorded by Cynthia Blaise 8/18/99 and edited by Jeremy Spencer 9/17/99. You will hear a good example of quick, clipped speech, with strong r-coloration, the familiar Canadian pronunciation of 'house' and 'about'; also a very high front monophthong for the long 'a' in 'paint' and 'face'. This subject has her generation's 'creaky' voice. Running time 00:02:45.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
Canada's interesting cause we are known to be...I guess I would even use conservative and boring, which is kind of sad but that's I--I think how we look at each other. We lack the fire and the 'go for freedom' that Americans have I think, so I find that frustrating, and it's weird 'cause our country's gargantuan, and there's 26 million of us, and you guys have that what, in Michigan, so that's what's weird about, I guess part of being in Canada, but it's gorgeous, if I had to, if they said you can't go anywhere out of your country for the rest of your life, I would pick Canada just cause it's absolutely stunning. I went to University of Windsor, which is, in Windsor, not terribly big, but it had a good engineering program, and they were doing a big push for getting women in engineering, and...I fell for it, I went, I have no idea why I went there, but it was a good party for 4 years. Food, well, we got everything, everything you can think of we got almost every kind of restaurant you possibly want, um, I'm not in Windsor as much as Kingsville, we're lucky is that we have tons and tons and tons of vegetables, uh, y'know rarely do I see in Windsor or in the states any side-road places to buy food and if you were out in the Kingsville-Leamington area you could--all the way down lined in both sides are uh, are greenhouses now and tomatoes and peppers and zuchinni, and everything you could possibly think of and it's--it's a treat we're so lucky that we have that 'cause a lot of people don't so that's nice. The improv, I...I don't know I love it I'm so lucky a friend of mine he has--he has friends who did theater sports in Toronto and thought I would be good at something like that instead of doing stand up comedy do more group type stuff where y'know something's thrown at you 'cause we do that at Toastmasters uh, table topics, it's called where they throw you a topic I mean you've got to take it and run with it and go wherever you want, which is a bit of improv and someone told me about the training center here and the best way to break into an area I suppose would be to get to know the business and Second City made sense 'cause Windsor has a small, sad little drama place and I don't know where I want to go I love writing so I'm learning about the writing I'm just gonna suck it all up like a sponge because in the past I've never really thrown myself into anything and I really want to do it with this.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY FAITH HARVEY 7 JULY 2008