Missouri 10

Listen to Missouri 10, a 41-year-old woman from Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 41

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1959

PLACE OF BIRTH: Kansas City, Missouri

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: actress and medical-office manager

EDUCATION: N/A

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: N/A

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Shawn M. Muller

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 23/07/2000

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Camelot is a summer fine arts camp for children and it’s in its thirty-fifth year, or just completed its thirty-fifth year. Um, children ages pre-k through tenth grade go through morning classes of art, dance, drama, vocal music, guitar, and, uh, there are three divisions; uh, junior division is pre-k through third grade, senior division is fourth through eighth grade, and apprentices are ninth and tenth grade, and all at the same time within a six-week period, we are doing musicals. Oh, let’s see, we used to have overnights. Every Thursday night after showcase, which is a performance the kids do, and some of the campers, who shall remain nameless, used to sneak off with other campers, who shall remain nameless; and Gina, who’s the director, used to go around the corner and scare them half to death because she’s triple-jointed and she can make her hands look really silly, and, uh, it worked. It frightened everybody.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Phil Hubbard

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 21/05/2008

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