Pennsylvania Seven - Text
Recorded August, 2005, Rick Thoman. Running time 00:04:45.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
So, I was born in York, Pennsylvania (uh) That’s (um) about three counties west of Philadelphia. (Uh) And when I was (uh) between one and two years old, my parents moved (uh) thirty miles east to (uh) Lancaster County, and (uh) I lived in Lancaster County (uh) until (uh) I was about 20. I attended college a couple of years back in York, commuting back and forth. So, until I was 20, I was i-- in my-- I lived right there in (uh) Lancaster and York counties. When I was 20 I went to (uh, uh)-- to college in State College, Pennsylvania, right in the middle of Pennsylvania, and I-- I wound up getting a job there after I graduated. So I lived (uh) a total of about (uh) seven years in State College. And then in 1988, I got a job in Nome, Alaska, and I’ve (uh) lived in Nome for a couple o’ years, and then, now in Fairbanks. So for a total of (um)-- What? Seventeen years now, I’ve been in Alaska. My father was (uh) born and raised in York County, Pennsylvania an-- and his (uh)-- his family had been there for a very long time. My mother was born in Connecticut. (Uh) Her parents were (um) of French descent. Her father actually (uh) was born in France, and (uh) her mother was born in New York City just a couple months after her mother had arrived in-- in New York City, from France. (Uh) My mother moved, as a (uh)-- as a girl, (uh) to (uh) St. Petersburg, Florida, (uh) where she then lived until (um)-- I think she was 17, when she (uh) moved to Pennsylvania. (Uh) My speech, (um) the thing that people tend to notice the most is (uh) I say “yous” for (uh) second person plural pronoun. And (uh) my wife (uh) still razzes me about that. She (uh) just can’t (uh)-- can’t get over that I say “yous,” or “yous going to the store.” (Um) I’ve noticed that (um, uh) there’s a few words that (um), you know, the dictionary says should rhyme, but don’t rhyme for me. And (uh), for instance, (uh) I say “mad,” and that does not rhyme with “fad” (uh) in my speech. The same thing with sad, so that’s (uh) ….
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY JACQUELINE BAKER, ASSOCIATE EDITOR FOR TRANSCRIPTIONS, July 2, 2008