Missouri Fourteen - Text
Caucasian female, born 1981 in Springfield, MO. Talks about her views of city/country life and her travels. Reads The Rainbow Passage. Dialect Features: Significant lack of lip-rounding, especially in interview section of recording. She has been told that some of her vowels are "wrong." Teeth held close together and not open on open vowels. Recorded by Saren Nofs-Snyder (on behalf of Louis Colaianni) 4-15-01 and edited by Shawn M. Muller. Running time 00:02:57.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
I was born in Springfield, Missouri but my parents lived out in the country and I really enjoyed growing up there because we…we didn’t really have a lot of people around and that was nice growing up although now I like the city a lot but I can why people decide to move to, like, rural areas when they have kids because you get to run in the yard and such, I don’t know, that’s something I miss up here. A lot of times I’ll start thinking about, like, even though now I don’t live out in the country I still (unclear) a lot more, you know, countryish than this, but yeah, and we would walk to the creek and stuff and I really enjoyed growing up out in the country but that was near a little town called Cassville, Missouri and now I live in Shell Knob but it’s so little that for high school we have to go to Cassville to go to high school but that’s ok. We’ve got an elementary and everything so that’s good but where I live now is, like, mostly old people…so…but Cassville is like the county seat so it’s bigger and there’s a lot of little towns out there that are so small, you know, that they don’t have schools and everyone goes to Cassville pretty much. I have some from Scotland and Ireland and then I have a little bit of Native American in me. That’s where the majority of it comes from is Scotland, I think. My favorite place is The Bahamas because we went there over Christmas and usually when we go on vacation it’s really stressful, you know, because I have an older sister and at that time, like she wasn’t married or anything so she still went on vacation with us and every time we’re too close, we fight but on this vacation we (unclear) like my parents had there own room, we had our own room and had two beds so it was easier and we weren’t going all the time so we all got along. It was great and it was so beautiful and I’ve been to Mexico but I’ve only been on the border and it wasn’t really that nice but I’ve been all around the United States, pretty much, like Washington and Virginia and Florida and Washington and Oregon.