A Georgia mother talks about her children. She says they are very precious to her and she doesn't know what she'd do without them, even when they frustrate or aggravate her. She talks about how her kids are doing in school and how proud she is of them.  She also talks about her husband and how she enjoys life and being with her family.

Georgia, mother, kids, school, grades, husband, married, family

 

An 8 year old girl from a trailer park in Georgia talks about her school, her birthday, her summer break, her family, being bored, and various things she wants to do.

Georgia, school, math, birthday, beach, summer, family, bored, haircut, boyfriend, friends

White female 11, talks about flirting in class, and Kindergarten love life recorded 1993.

Flirting, kiss, class, Kindergarten, love

A young female child, aged around 8 years old, from Georgia talks about what is currently happening in her life.  She is not a fan of school and wants to do something fun over the summer.

 

A mother from Georgia, aged around 35 years old, loves her daughters and family.  She talks about how strong her kids are in school and how she enjoys spending time with her family.  She is married to a farmer and her family lives close by.

 

A young, teenage girl around the age of 14, from Georgia talks about her experience with trying to sneak out of the house at night.

 

American Southern: Southern Dialects: Southern Accents: Plantation Southern: Tidewater Southern, Upper-Class, White Female.� Ann Peets was recorded in a hospital in Georgia, at age 78 in 1993.� Her family and accent are from the Mississippi Delta region.� She has a slightly diluted Tidewater or Plantation Southern dialect, shared by other families along the coastal and riverbed regions of the American South wherein rich plantation owners kept contact with British merchants during the 1700's and 1800's, dropping their "r's" along with the Southern British elite class to sound more refined.� This dialect also has elements of "ebonics" or "Gullah" sounds, as many children of plantation owners were raised by African slave nannies alongside their own children.

A 13 year old white female talks about how she and her friend used to sneak in and out of their houses to meet up for their boyfriends. One night at her friend's house the mom had nailed the windows shut and pulled a gun on the boyfriends waiting outside to scare them off that particular night. 

Georgia, teenager, mothers, sneak out, gun, boyfriends, nailed, caught, sly, asleep.

This is a dialect from a working class white female living in a trailer from Warwick, Georgia. She is white, was born in 1982 and was 11 years old at the time of recording.

Her dialect is American Southern rhotic.