Tennessee Four - Text
Caucasian female, born 1967 from Middle, TN. Spent 2 years in Watertown, NY and 3 years in Berlin, Germany. Reads Comma Gets A Cure and then recalls a funny childhood memory.
Recorded 6-8-01by Patricia Childs; edited by Shawn M. Muller. Running time 00:02:32.
TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH
When I was a little girl, I was readin’ a story to my mom—we’re—we were just goin’ through the book, an’ I was jus’ readin’ all the words, an’ I always sounded everything out, jus’ word for word, jus’ every little syllable—an’ I got to the word “Determined” a’ I sounded out “deeter-minded.” So now the whole family, when they come to a word “determined,” everybody says “deeter-minded”—they’re all deeter-minded to do everything. So that—that has stuck with our whole family.
UNSCRIPTED SPEECH TRANSCRIBED BY SANDRA LINDBERG 24 APRIL, 2008.