Texas 26

Listen to Texas 26, a 72-year-old woman from Fort Worth and Houston, Texas, United States. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject. 

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 72

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 25/06/1953

PLACE OF BIRTH: Houston, Texas

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: White/Caucasian

OCCUPATION: accounting

EDUCATION: undergraduate degree

AREAS OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The speaker has never lived outside Texas. She moved from her birth city of Houston to Fort Worth at the age of 12 and has lived there since.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH:

Most of the speaker’s family are from Tennessee, which impacted dialect and turns of phrase.

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RECORDED BY: Shelby Parker (under supervision of Deric McNish)

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 19/10/2025

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Aunnie, which is really Granny, but she was born in 1901, and she was the daughter of a traveling preacher. And she — in the — we’re talking about in Tennessee in the— 1901, they didn’t really still have cars at that time. It was horse and buggy. And, eh, when I was growing up, if she said electricity, she said electWicity.

Also, I didn’t know for a long time, when I was in school, that she called sandwich bread light bread. And I mentioned that in school one time as we were having lunch, and everybody looked at me and didn’t know what that meant. And I said, “It’s the sandwich bread!” And they just kinda looked at me.

TRANSCRIBED BY: Shelby Parker (under supervision of Deric McNish)

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 19/10/2025

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