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I’m from Wisconsin, the south central – probably more south than central – part of Wisconsin, Edgerton. And there were about 4,300 people that lived there when I was growing up.
(Um) A lot of people telling a lot of stories all the time, talking really fast. Lot of people talking like-- Well, actually my relatives, that grew up in Cambridge, I couldn’t-- They would come over, my older relatives, like my-- my mom’s cousins, and my aunts and uncles. I wouldn’t be able to understand them at all. A couple of them talked like they just came off the boat. So, they talked like they came from Norway, but they never-- they grew up right there the whole time.
So I had friends from Edgerton that would talk similar to that. Just, you know, depending on what part of-- if they lived in town or if they lived on a farm. And sometimes I think they were pretending that they-- Or, either that or they were influenced by other peoples’ (um) dialects, or whatever. So, they’d be talking and all of a sudden they’d just have this accent. They’d have a-- like a Norwegian accent, which I really can’t describe, but...
But other than that, growing up with a small town was-- Everybody knew everybody else, and every time (um)-- Every time you (uh)-- you’d try to get away with something, everybody else knew before you even got there, that-- that you had gotten in trouble, or…