Interviewer:  Um, a woman who appears in plays or movies would be a
100:  Actress.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm uh and um, your nationality is
100:  American.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay, and your race is
100:  Black. {NS}
Interviewer:  Any other term for that?
100:  Negro.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh what are insulting terms for negros?
100:  Nigger?
Interviewer:  Anything else?
Interviewer:  Okay, uh, my race is
100:  White.
Interviewer:  Okay is there another term for that?
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
100:  #2 I don't know. #
Interviewer:  Marking which page I left off on. Uh is there something insulting that blacks would call whites?
100:  Honky.
Interviewer:  Okay uh-huh. Anything else?
Interviewer:  {X} {NS} cracker, did you ever hear that
100:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 used as n- #
Interviewer:  How would they say that?
100:  Cracker.
Interviewer:  Is that what blacks would say? What does it mean if you call somebody a cracker?
100:  I don't know, I don't know how they would say it. I don't say it.
Interviewer:  How about redneck, what does that mean?
Interviewer:  Okay uh what would you call a child that was born of a mixed marriage? One parent's black and the other's white.
100:  He's mixed.
Interviewer:  Anything else? Do you know the word mulatto? Um, whi- what would you call a black person that had very light skin?
100:  Um-
100:  Uh I know that.
Interviewer:  High- do you say high yellow? Mm-mm, some people do that. #1 Uh, is there terms #
100:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  like quadroon and octoroon? Ever hear those?
100:  There's another one
Interviewer:  #1 Mm- #
100:  #2 isn't there? #
Interviewer:  I don't know what it is you're trying to think of. Let me know if y- if you {NW} if you think of it. Uh, what would you call the man that you work for?
100:  Boss.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay, um, what would you call white people that didn't have any education and didn't have any money and didn't really try to make anything better of themselves?
100:  They're poor.
Interviewer:  Do you know the term poor white trash or trash or something like that? Okay. What would you call somebody that lived way out in the country and hardly ever came to town?
100:  Country folk.
Interviewer:  Um, is there something you might say that was kind of insulting?
Interviewer:  Uh, suppose you came from the mountains.
100:  Mountain people.
Interviewer:  Do you know um, anything like country hick or country hoosier?
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. S- if it's, it's not quite midnight but you might look at your watch and t- it's not quite midnight but it's
100:  Almost.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if you didn't quite fall, you'd say I slipped and I
100:  Almost fell.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if somebody was waiting for you and you were not quite ready he might say will you be ready soon and you say I'll be with you in
100:  A minute.
Interviewer:  Alright. And you know you're on the right road but you're not sure of the distance and so you say how
100:  Far am I.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Um. And if you wanted to know how many times somebody did something you'd say how blank does he do that? How
100:  How many times does he do that.
Interviewer:  Another way of saying how many times. Starts with an "O", how
100:  Often.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh, if you were agreeing with somebody who says he was not gonna vote for somebody if he said I'm not gonna vote for Anderson and you would say well blank am I.
100:  Neither am I.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and uh this is parts of the body. This part of your body is the
100:  Head.
Interviewer:  What part of #1 your head? #
100:  #2 Forehead. #
Interviewer:  Okay. And this stuff is your
100:  Hair.
Interviewer:  And you might grow a
100:  Beard.
Interviewer:  And this is your
100:  Ear.
Interviewer:  Which one?
Interviewer:  It doesn't matter, the tape can't see which #1 one you say. #
100:  #2 Oh. # {D: lu-} left ear.
Interviewer:  And the other is your
100:  Right ear.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh then this whole thing is your
100:  Face.
Interviewer:  This, this thing.
100:  Mouth.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh, you'd put a tie around your
100:  Neck.
Interviewer:  And you might get something stuck in your
100:  Throat. {NW}
Interviewer:  Uh does the word goozle mean anything to you? Okay. Uh the dentist would look at your
100:  Teeth.
Interviewer:  And he says there's a cavity in one
100:  Molar.
Interviewer:  or one-
100:  Tooth.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And the flesh around the teeth would be the
100:  Gum.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. This part of your hand is the
100:  Palm.
Interviewer:  And you make a
100:  Fist.
Interviewer:  Or you have two
100:  Fists.
Interviewer:  And any place you bend your wrist or your elbow or your knee, that's a
100:  Joint.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh this part of a man's body would be his
100:  Chest.
Interviewer:  And then he has broad
100:  Shoulders.
Interviewer:  And um this is one
100:  Hand.
Interviewer:  And two
100:  Hands.
Interviewer:  And one
100:  Foot.
Interviewer:  And two
100:  Foot.
Interviewer:  Two what?
100:  Foots. Feet.
Interviewer:  Okay and this whole thing would be your
100:  Leg.
Interviewer:  And the front part of your leg that hurts if you kick it is your
100:  Shin.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you get la- down like this you're down on your
100:  Uh.
Interviewer:  It's- the back part of your leg is your what?
100:  Thigh.
Interviewer:  Okay, uh would you ever sit down on your haunches or hunkers? So what would you call it when you get down like that? I'm gonna {NS} do what?
100:  Squat.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh then if somebody had been sick but he's up and about now you'd say he still looks a little bit {NS}
100:  Sick or pale.
Interviewer:  Alright, would you ever say peaked? Okay. A person who can lift heavy weights, he's big and
100:  Strong.
Interviewer:  Would you ever say he's stout to mean he's strong? Does stout, what does stout mean?
100:  Uh, kinda big.
Interviewer:  Does it mean strong or fat or what?
100:  Kinda fat.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh what would you call somebody who was very easy to get along with? He's very
100:  Eas- Easy to get along with. {X}
Interviewer:  He's a what kind of person? He's a
100:  Easy person.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh what would you say about a boy who's maybe a teenager and he can't walk through a room without falling all over the furniture? #1 he- #
100:  #2 Clumsy. #
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh then a person who keeps on doing things that don't make any sense, he's just a plain
100:  Dope.
Interviewer:  Anything else?
100:  Dumb.
Interviewer:  There's a word that starts with an "F", he's a
Interviewer:  Ends in an "L". {NS}
100:  Flop?
Interviewer:  F-o-o-l?
100:  Fool.
Interviewer:  Would you ever call anybody a fool? Is that a bad thing to say about somebody? Okay, um is there a special reason that you wouldn't use it?
100:  My mama told me not to. {NS}
Interviewer:  Did she tell you why?
100:  She just told me not to use that.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh, what would you call somebody that won't spend any money? He's a
100:  Stingy.
Interviewer:  And- alright. Uh, what uh if you used the word common about a person what would that mean? {NS}
100:  {D: Common.}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, yeah he's common.
100:  {D: Deuce} They're like a common person like any other person.
Interviewer:  Okay so it's something, is it good to say a person's common?
100:  Sometimes.
Interviewer:  Suppose you said a girl was common. Would that mean something different? Alright. Uh, how about an old lady, that was still very active. She still gets around and does her own housework and so forth you say she's still very
100:  Active.
Interviewer:  Anything else? Spry, pert, chipper? Mm-mm. Uh if the children were out later than usual, the man might say to his wife I don't guess there's anything to worry about but I can't help feeling a little bit
100:  Upset.
Interviewer:  Or 'un-
100:  Safe.
Interviewer:  Or #1 Uh #
100:  #2 Uneasy. #
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, that's it. And uh then she would say to him oh they'll be home alright don't
100:  Worry.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. If uh, a child might say I don't wanna go upstairs in the dark, I'm
100:  Scared. Okay and uh, the old gray mare, she ain't what she Used to been
Interviewer:  Alright, do you have a negative form of saying used to be? She is afraid now but she
100:  Wasn't afraid {D: then}
Interviewer:  Using used to be. She is afraid but she
100:  Used to used to be brave?
Interviewer:  Okay we'll let that pass. Uh somebody that left a lot of money lying around and then left the door unlocked you'd say he's awfully
100:  Dumb.
Interviewer:  Or?
100:  Foolish.
Interviewer:  Or if you ma-, if you made a lot of mistakes in your addition it's not that you don't know how to add, they're just what kind of mistakes? Just
100:  Simple mistake.
Interviewer:  Or a word starting with a "C", they're car-
100:  Careless.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh, and you you might say there's nothing really wrong with that Lizzie, but sometimes she acts kind of
100:  Foolish. {NW}
Interviewer:  There's a word beginning with a "Q".
Interviewer:  Queer? Would you ever use that to mean she acts kind of silly or crazy? {NW} {NS} {NW} What does that mean, queer?
100:  Sissy
Interviewer:  Would it, does it mean a man or a woman or could it be either one?
100:  Man.
Interviewer:  Does it mean homosexual? Mm-kay how do you say the word?
100:  Queer.
Interviewer:  Okay. And it doesn't mean just strange? A lot of old people, when they say somebody's queer just means they're peculiar, it doesn't have anything to do with being homosexual. Okay, uh if a man is very sure of his own ways and he never wants to change you say to him don't be so
Interviewer:  There's nothing you can say will make him change his mind. He's what?
100:  Mm- stubborn.
Interviewer:  Okay, good enough. And uh somebody you can't joke with without him losing his temper you'd say he sure is
100:  Mad.
Interviewer:  Well he'd get mad, but then he'd be a what kind of person?
Interviewer:  Oh um touchy or short tempered or high tempered or
100:  Short temper.
Interviewer:  Alright. And if he was about to get mad you'd tell him just keep
100:  Down. Cool down.
Interviewer:  Or, or in, keep
100:  #1 Keep calm. #
Interviewer:  #2 A- # Okay {NS} And um if you had been working very hard you would be very
100:  Tired.
Interviewer:  Or even more than that you'd say I'm all
100:  Tuckered out.
Interviewer:  Okay uh there's another way of saying that beginning with a "W"? I'm all
100:  Weared out.
Interviewer:  Alright. And if a person had been well then you hear that all the sudden he's got a disease, you say well when did he
100:  Get the disease.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um and if he starts to sneeze and cough you'd say he must've
100:  Caught a cold.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And um if it effected his voice the way this always does mine, so that it got very low you'd say he's getting
100:  Laryngitis.
Interviewer:  Or it's a word starting with an "H".
100:  Hoarse.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh if he goes {NW} that's a
100:  Cough.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if he's feeling like he needs to sleep you'd say he's getting
100:  Sleepy.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And at six o'clock in the morning he will- meaning open his eyes, he'll
100:  Wake up.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and he's still sleeping you'd better go
100:  Wake him up.
Interviewer:  Alright and the, if the medicine was still by somebody's bed you might say well why haven't you
100:  Taken your medicine.
Interviewer:  And he'd say but I already
100:  Have taken my medicine.
Interviewer:  Leaving out the have, yesterday I
100:  Took my #1 medicine. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. # And I will
100:  Take my #1 medicine. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm. # And if you can't hear anything at all your stone
100:  Deaf.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if you went out in the hot sun and worked hard at the end of an hour you might come in and say look how much I- If your shirt's all wet, look how much I
100:  Sweated.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And um a discharging sore you might get on your arm that comes to a head is a
100:  Wart.
Interviewer:  Mm, I think it's worse than a wart. I think they're really painful they get very big sometimes.
100:  Mole?
Interviewer:  Starts with a "B"?
100:  Blister.
Interviewer:  Boil? Do you know- Would you ever call it a, what's the other word for it? Good heavens, uh rising Do you know what s-, what the stuff would be inside that would drain out?
100:  Puss.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh you mentioned blister. What is in a blister?
100:  Puss.
Interviewer:  Okay, if a bee stung you then your hand would
100:  Swell up.
Interviewer:  Okay so you'd say yesterday it
100:  Swole up.
Interviewer:  And it has
100:  Swell.
Interviewer:  Okay. And in a war if a bullet went through your arm you'd say you had a bullet
100:  In your arm.
Interviewer:  A bullet something. The doctor would treat his
100:  Shot, um.
Interviewer:  Um, another word for injury that starts with a "W". It's a bullet
100:  Wound.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And did you ever hear of a kind of flesh that grows around a wound when it doesn't heal right?
100:  Sk- scab.
Interviewer:  It's called proud flesh. Did you ever hear of that? Alright. Uh then how about a brown liquid that they used to put on cuts that stings?
100:  Peroxide.
Interviewer:  Starts with an "I".
100:  Iodine.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And how about s- um, a medicine that they used to give as a tonic for malaria? Starts with a "Q". It's the tonic in gin and tonic. Quinine or quinine? Never heard of it? {NS} Alright, if uh somebody was shot and didn't recover you'd say he
100:  He taking a turn for the worst.
Interviewer:  And then finally he
100:  Died.
Interviewer:  Okay. Is there another way of saying died?
100:  Got killed.
Interviewer:  Is there maybe a n- a nice way of saying it?
100:  He's deceased.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh is there any kind of joking way of saying it?
100:  Passed away.
Interviewer:  Would you ever say kick the bucket? Mm-mm? Um, and if he'd been dead and you didn't know the cause of his death, you say I don't know what he
Interviewer:  what he died
100:  Of.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh then the place where people are buried is a
100:  Burial ground.
Interviewer:  Or
100:  Graveyard.
Interviewer:  Alright and a box people are buried in is a
100:  Coffin.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And um if people are wearing black you'd say they're in
100:  Funeral clothes.
Interviewer:  Yeah and you'd say that they're
100:  Going to a funeral.
Interviewer:  Okay, um, do you know the term mourning, they're in mourning?
100:  Yeah I know it but I ain't know it for that.
Interviewer:  What does it mean?
100:  When you cry or something like that.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. How do you say the word?
100:  Mourning.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um, and then the man who takes care of the dead body is the
100:  Uh
Interviewer:  Well if you can meditate on that until tomorrow I guess. {NS} Assuming that it's working today and it looks like it is. Uh the last thing that I asked you when the bell rang was what you'd call the person that takes care of the dead body before the funeral?
100:  Uh. {NS}
Interviewer:  And send it to the funeral home and what do you call the man there? {NS}
100:  In- embalmer uh.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Would you ever say a mortician #1 or undertaker? #
100:  #2 Oh yeah. #
Interviewer:  or undertaker?
100:  Yeah I knew, it was on the tip of my tongue but I couldn't get it #1 out. #
Interviewer:  #2 Which one? #
100:  Undertaker.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh and then what do you call the vehicle that carries the dead body?
100:  #1 Hearse. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm. # And do you have a name for the building above the ground where they sometimes put bodies instead of burying them in the ground?
100:  {D: mausoleum}
Interviewer:  Okay that's good. I think that's all the ones about death but we still got some diseases coming up. Well if somebody met you on the street and said how are you and you're feeling about average, you'd say
100:  I feel alright.
Interviewer:  Okay, good. And um, what i- do you call the disease at the joints that old people get sometimes?
100:  Arthritis.
Interviewer:  Is there another name for that?
100:  Bronchitis? Uh-
Interviewer:  I think bronchitis is when you cough.
100:  Oh, uh
Interviewer:  Rheumatism? Is that #1 the same? #
100:  #2 Yeah # rheumatism.
Interviewer:  Is it the same thing?
100:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh there's a disease that children used to get but the get a shot for it now. You'd, they'd get sores inside the throat and choke.
Interviewer:  You've probably heard of it but don't know what it is. That's, that's the way I am about it.
Interviewer:  Starts out diph-
Interviewer:  diphtheria. Did you ever hear of that? Mm-kay. Then do you know what you call the disease that makes your skin turn yellow?
Interviewer:  Ever hear of yellow jaundice or janders? No? Okay, and then what i- what do you call the disease when you have your appendix taken out?
100:  Appendicitis?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, that's it. And uh if you ate something that didn't agree with you- we shouldn't be doing this right before lunch- and it ha- came back up you'd say you had to what?
100:  Vomit.
Interviewer:  Okay, do you know of any other ways of saying that?
100:  Throw up.
Interviewer:  Okay, which, which of those is more polite?
100:  Vomit.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um what's, do you know any really bad ways of saying it?
100:  Throw up.
Interviewer:  Anything worse? Mm-kay, and if you do have to do that you say you're sick where?
100:  In your stomach.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay good. Uh then let's see. Uh if a boy is spending a lot of time with a girl, you'd say he's doing what?
Interviewer:  He keeps going over to her house and they keep going out
100:  They girlfriend boyfriend.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm but what would you say he's doing?
Interviewer:  Would you ever use a word like courting #1 or #
100:  #2 {D: oh} #
Interviewer:  That's an old fashion word. Would you just say dating maybe?
100:  Yeah. Dating.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh then if he came home with lipstick on his collar his little brother might say you've been
100:  Kissing.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if he asked her to marry him and she wouldn't do it you'd say she did what?
100:  Refused.
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh, but if she didn't refuse, then they went ahead and got
100:  Married.
Interviewer:  And what do you call the man that stands up with the groom at the wedding?
100:  Best man.
Interviewer:  And how about the girl that stands up with the bride?
100:  Bridesmaid.
Interviewer:  Alright. Did you ever hear of an old fashioned kind of noisy party after a wedding when they'd make a lot of noise and shoot of guns and march around the house?
100:  Only think I can, only thing I can think of after a wedding's a recep- res- re- sesh- recession. Or something, reception.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Did you ever hear any of anything called the chivalry or serenade for a party after a wedding? That's an old country term. I don't think they do that anywhere in this area so, and I'm not surprised you haven't heard of it. Um how would, how do you use the words up and down and over when you're talking about going to places? Say you were going to um, what was, what was the camp that you mentioned, i- um it wasn't Zebulon was, no it was #1 uh #
100:  #2 Camp # {D: Calvin}
Interviewer:  The, well anyway the, the place in Pike county, if you were going there you're saying I'm going what to Pike county? Would you say up or down or over?
100:  {D: I'm going} up to Pike county.
Interviewer:  Alright, suppose you were going north, what would you say?
100:  Going up to Pike county.
Interviewer:  If you're going south?
100:  Going down.
Interviewer:  And if you're going east?
100:  Going down I guess.
Interviewer:  How about west?
100:  Going down.
Interviewer:  Okay, uh then suppose then you were just going to somebody's house that lived maybe a few blocks away you'd say I'm going
100:  Over.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh then if the police, if there were trouble at a party and the police came and they didn't arrest just one or two people they arrested the
100:  Whole bunch.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh, what do you call it when people get up and move around to music?
100:  Dance.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh then, if school gets out at uh, well if s- at three fifteen, you'd say school does what
100:  End. Ended.
Interviewer:  Alright and then in the, in the fall you might ask your parents well when does school
100:  Start.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh if you've left home to go to school and sort of didn't show up y- what would you say you did?
100:  Play hooky.
Interviewer:  Is there any other way of saying that?
100:  Stayed out of school. #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Some # people say shoot hooky, did you ever hear that? Shoot the hook? I've heard that. Uh then let's see go to school to get an
100:  What'd you say now?
Interviewer:  You go to school to get an
100:  Diploma.
Interviewer:  #1 Well, #
100:  #2 Oh. #
Interviewer:  you, you call #1 all #
100:  #2 Education. #
Interviewer:  Yeah, all that knowledge you're supposed to get in school. And tha- the after kindergarten, you go into
100:  First #1 grade. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm. # And um in school you sit behind a
100:  Desk.
Interviewer:  And then they're a lot of
100:  Desks.
Interviewer:  in the room. Mm-hmm. And the building well this, this room is called the the whole thing is
100:  School.
Interviewer:  This room.
100:  Library.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and uh you in a strange town you stay over night in a
100:  Room. A hotel.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh you would go to see a movie at a
100:  Theater.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh you would catch a train at the
100:  Train station.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, okay. And do you have a name for a place in the city, it might be around a courthouse where there are a lot of, there's a green space and maybe some trees?
100:  Lawn.
Interviewer:  Okay, good. And what would you call it if you an- instead of {NS} crossing the street strait you sort of cross at an angle, you'd say I'm walking
100:  Diagonal.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh suppose there a piece, there's a piece of furniture that there's not one in here but was not sitting right against the wall but was sitting kind of at an angle in the corner, how would you say it's sitting?
100:  Diagonal.
Interviewer:  Would you ever say kitty corner or catty corner? Catty-wampus? Okay. Um, and uh th- what do they call those things that use, years ago use to run on tracks?
Interviewer:  Instead of buses?
100:  Um.
Interviewer:  {NS} They're trollies or trolley cars or #1 street #
100:  #2 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  cars.
100:  Trolley car.
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh you might say to the bus driver the next corner is where I
100:  Want to get off.
Interviewer:  Good. And um, uh, the uh, the congress and the supreme court and all that are part of the federal
100:  Government.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And the police are supposed to maintain
100:  Justice.
Interviewer:  Uh there's, there's a two word phrase, something and something.
Interviewer:  Or as a good citizen you're suppose to obey the
100:  Law.
Interviewer:  Okay so police maintain law and
100:  Order.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, would you say those together?
100:  Law and order.
Interviewer:  Good. And what do you call that war uh from eighteen sixty one to eighteen sixty five where the slaves were freed? Between the North and the south?
100:  Uh, Civil War.
Interviewer:  Do you have any other name for that? Do you ever say war between the states? Okay, and uh, before they had the electric chair, murderers were
100:  Hanged.
Interviewer:  And uh, the man went out and did what to himself?
100:  #1 Shot himself? #
Interviewer:  #2 W- # using the rope he
100:  Hung himself.
Interviewer:  Okay, and the next little bit is some names of cities and states. This is not a geography test, but it's just to see how you pronounce them. Um, the s- the biggest city in the country is in what state?
100:  {NS} Illinois.
Interviewer:  What is the biggest city?
100:  Chicago.
Interviewer:  Is it? I don't think it is but it, it might be now, I don't know. But do you know what state Albany is the capital of?
100:  New York.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Well if you know the capitals we'll get it that way. Annapolis is the capital of
100:  {D: Annapolis}
Interviewer:  Annapolis. Annapolis. Baltimore is in the state too.
100:  Maryland.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh, Richmond is the capital of
Interviewer:  The state Robert E. Lee is from. It's a southern state.
100:  Alabama.
Interviewer:  No, uh that is one that's coming up later. Let's see
100:  #1 Oh. #
Interviewer:  #2 It's # further north than Alabama. Um, I'm trying to think, you talk about hams from there or peanuts from there. Starts with a "V".
100:  M- uh Virginia.
Interviewer:  Okay. And then uh Raleigh is the capital of
100:  North Carolina.
Interviewer:  And the other Carolina is
100:  South Carolina.
Interviewer:  And um, Tallahassee is the capital of
100:  {NS: Tallahassee} uh, Florida.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and Baton Rough is the capital of
100:  Alabama. #1 Or Louisiana. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-mm. # That's it and uh the blue grass state, do you know that one?
100:  Kentucky.
Interviewer:  And um, Little Rock?
100:  Arkansas.
Interviewer:  And Jackson is the capital of
100:  Alabama?
Interviewer:  It's the state that's just west of Alabama.
100:  Mississippi.
Interviewer:  That's it and the Lone Star state?
Interviewer:  The big one in the west.
100:  Texas.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and uh Tulsa is in
100:  Oklahoma.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and Boston is in
100:  Massachusetts.
Interviewer:  And what would you call all those states from Maine to Connecticut?
100:  New England.
Interviewer:  That's it. And the biggest city in Maryland is
100:  Baltimore.
Interviewer:  And the capital of this country, the whole country is
100:  Washington D.C.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and uh biggest city in Missouri, Saint-
100:  Saint Louis.
Interviewer:  That's it. And uh the historical seaport in South Carolina
100:  Hmm.
Interviewer:  Starts with a C-
100:  Charleston.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh, can you name the three biggest cities in Alabama?
100:  Birmingham,
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  um,
Interviewer:  One of them's the capital. Both of them start with "M".
100:  Montgomery.
Interviewer:  Yeah that's the cap- -ital {NS}
100:  And um
Interviewer:  The other one's on the gulf.
Interviewer:  It sounds like the name of an oil company but it isn't quite.
Interviewer:  Mo-
100:  Mobile.
Interviewer:  #1 That's the n- #
100:  #2 Mobile. # Mobile. #1 Mobile. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # Okay. Uh let's see and do you know the name of the resort city in western North Carolina?
100:  Uh, Atlantic City?
Interviewer:  Starts with uh, with A-S-H-
Interviewer:  I don't think it's as well known as these others. Asheville, do you know anything about it? I don't really. Um, can you name the four biggest cities in Tennessee?
100:  Nashville.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  #1 One #
100:  #2 Chatta- # Chattanooga.
Interviewer:  That's one, mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  There's one that starts with a K-N-
Interviewer:  Knoxville?
100:  Oh Knoxville.
Interviewer:  Alright and then there's on that starts with an "M". That's where Elvis Presley was born I think.
Interviewer:  I think.
Interviewer:  It's where Martin Luther King was shot.
100:  Um, Montg- {X}
Interviewer:  Mem-
100:  Memphis.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And um, the city in Georgia that's on the coast, starts with an "S"?
100:  Savannah.
Interviewer:  And um, let's see you said Macon because that was were your mother was born. How about a city, the city that's near Fort Benning? It's near the Alabama line?
Interviewer:  It's the same name as the man that discovered America.
100:  Columbus.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh the biggest city in southern Ohio where the Reds play?
100:  Uh Cincinnati.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and um the biggest city in Kentucky where the derby is run.
100:  Kentucky Derby.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, what's the name of the city?
100:  Louisiana.
Interviewer:  That's close. Loui-
100:  Louisville.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And then the three foreign countries, Dublin is the capital of
100:  Ireland.
Interviewer:  Paris
100:  France.
Interviewer:  And Moscow
100:  Russia.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh this is just to get a, a word for distance. Say from here to Decatur is about how far?
100:  About
Interviewer:  Just guess.
100:  Thirty mile.
Interviewer:  Okay. I don't think it's that far, is it? I would have guessed about ten, I think if I were guessing. Well if somebody ask if you w- if you were going to go with him and you weren't sure you wanted to you would say well I don't know
100:  If I want to go.
Interviewer:  Good. And uh if you were asked to go somewhere without your brother and you wanted him to go along you might say well I won't go blank he goes.
100:  I won't go but he'll go.
Interviewer:  Well you want to go together though. I won't go blank he goes too.
100:  I won't go if he don't go. If he l- don't want, if he doesn't go.
Interviewer:  Well maybe that will turn up in another s- another context. Uh let's see, if somebody- if say your brother went off without helping you you might say well why did you do that blank helping me?
100:  Why did you leave without helping me.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um, and if a man is funny and you like him and I said why do you like him you'd say I like him
100:  Because he's funny.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if, people become members of a church you'd say they did what?
100:  Joined the congregation.
Interviewer:  #1 Good. #
100:  #2 Congregation #
Interviewer:  And in church you worship
100:  God.
Interviewer:  And um, the minister preaches a
100:  Sermon.
Interviewer:  And the organ and the choir provide the
100:  The music.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and if it's very good music you'd say oh that music was just
100:  Wonderful.
Interviewer:  Or
100:  Beautiful.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if you had a flat tire on the way to church you might say well church will be over blank I get there.
100:  What'd you say now?
Interviewer:  You had a flat tire and so you're gonna be late. You say well church will be over
100:  When I get there.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the enemy of God is the
100:  Devil.
Interviewer:  And do you have any other names for him?
100:  Satan.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. I- what might you tell children was gonna get 'em if they weren't good?
100:  Satan.
Interviewer:  Anything else?
100:  Devil.
Interviewer:  Do you ever say boogey man or booger man? No, okay. Um, and then what do people think they see at night in a grave yard to frighten them?
100:  Corpse.
Interviewer:  Or the things with the, in white that float #1 around. #
100:  #2 angel. #
Interviewer:  Hmm?
100:  Angels.
Interviewer:  Um, I think they're more dead people then they are angels. You know on, on Halloween they wear sheets with #1 the whole that's #
100:  #2 Oh ghosts. #
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh a house where ghosts live would be a what?
100:  Ghost house.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Um is there another way of saying that?
100:  Haunted house.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And um, if you um, uh I, I might say I'll go if you insist but I blank stay here.
100:  I go with you if you insist but I would rather stay here.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, fine. And what would you say to a friend that you hadn't seen in a long time?
100:  How've you been?
Interviewer:  Kay and uh then if you, if a man owned say some really big amount of land, a thousand acres or something you'd say gee that's a so- a what of land?
100:  That's a lot of land.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} and uh {NS} what would you say, maybe to a teacher or to the principal if you really wanted to be polite? Instead of just saying yes you might say
100:  Yes ma'am.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay or
100:  Yes sir.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh then it wasn't just a little cold this morning it was
100:  Freezing.
Interviewer:  Or something cold. It was
100:  Real cold.
Interviewer:  Good. And what would you, what might you say if you hit your finger with a hammer?
100:  Ouch.
Interviewer:  What might you say that's worse than that?
100:  That hurts.
Interviewer:  What's the worst thing you'd say?
Interviewer:  I'm looking for a good cuss word there.
100:  Uh probably damn, something like that.
Interviewer:  Okay. Suppose you were just surprised about something what might you say?
100:  God
Interviewer:  Alright suppose you were just a little bit mad at yourself about something, what might you say?
100:  Darn.
Interviewer:  Okay good. And um if you really didn't know about something you might say I have no
100:  No idea.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and uh to s- to ask about somebody's health as a greeting you might say
100:  How you, how've you been doing.
Interviewer:  Alright and uh when you're introduced to s- to a stranger you might say
100:  How are you.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh what would you say to somebody on the twenty-fifth of December?
100:  Merry Christmas.
Interviewer:  Is there anything else you might say? Maybe the first thing on Christmas morning?
100:  Good morning?
Interviewer:  Do you ever say Christmas gift? Does anybody in your family say that? Some people say that just as a greeting they don't really mean they want a present. What would you say on the first of January?
100:  Happy New Years.
Interviewer:  Okay um and i- you would, might say I have to go downtown tomorrow to do some
100:  Shopping.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and if you bought something the storekeeper might take a piece of paper and
100:  Wrap it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and then when you got home you
100:  Unwrap it.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if he had to sell it for less than he paid for it he'd be selling it at a
100:  Bargain.
Interviewer:  Alright uh there's another way you might- It, it's a bargain to you but for him it's a
100:  Whole sale?
Interviewer:  L-O-S-S how do you say that? He sold it #1 {D: at a} #
100:  #2 Loss. #
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if you saw something that you really liked but you didn't have enough money, you'd say I'd really like to have that car but it
100:  Cost too #1 much. #
Interviewer:  #2 Good. # And on the first of the month the bill is
100:  rent Uh-
Interviewer:  Meaning you have to pay it, it's Or um in school you might say next week my paper is
100:  Due.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh if you belong to a club you have to pay {NS}
100:  Dues.
Interviewer:  And if you had no money you'd have to go to a bank and try to
100:  Get a loan.
Interviewer:  And then you'd say I'm going to blank some money.
100:  Owe some money. Get some money.
Interviewer:  A word beginning with a "B" meaning what you do
100:  Buy some- Uh {NW}
Interviewer:  I don't think you buy money, I'd never
100:  #1 {D: Yeah} #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: know} # Well you can if you're buying currency from another country, that's buying money. But if you go to a, if you get a loan you say you're going to do what? Bar-
100:  Borrow.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and if the bankers were refusing you, he said well I'm sorry but money is
100:  Mm too short? #1 I don't have enough? #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay um # {NW} {NS} Or there's an old expression blank as hen's teeth did you ever hear that?
100:  No.
Interviewer:  I wouldn't, I'd think that one's before your time. Or if there there used to be a lot of fish in a certain creek and they're not any more you say the fish are really getting {NS}
100:  Shallow. None.
Interviewer:  How about scarce, do you know #1 that word? #
100:  #2 Yeah scarce. #
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you might go to the spring board and blank in the water.
100:  Dive.
Interviewer:  Alright yesterday he
100:  Dove. {NS}
Interviewer:  And he has
100:  Dived.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you dived in and you landed flat and it hurt, that's a what?
100:  Belly bust.
Interviewer:  Good, and if you um you got down on the ground you put your head down and rolled over that's a
100:  Flip.
Interviewer:  E- okay um do you know the word uh summerset or somersault or tumbleset or anything like that?
100:  Tumble.
Interviewer:  #1 Is that #
100:  #2 Uh # Uh a somersault.
Interviewer:  Is that the same thing as a flip?
100:  That's- you do it on your hand {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 Oh your #
100:  #2 Somersault. #
Interviewer:  A somersault, a flip is {NS} that when you're down on the ground?
100:  Yeah
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
100:  #2 {D: something like that} # {X}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, I see. Alright if uh you wanted to get across the river you would dive in and
100:  Swim.
Interviewer:  And yesterday he
100:  Swam.
Interviewer:  And he has
100:  Swam.
Interviewer:  And if he didn't know how to swim he might
100:  Drown.
Interviewer:  And yesterday he
100:  Drown.
Interviewer:  And he has
100:  Drown.
Interviewer:  Okay, uh {NS} there used to be an old custom I don't really think they do it in Atlanta but when you buy something or you payed your bill, the storekeeper might give you a little something extra and he'd say that's for
100:  Good luck. Uh Shopping in.
Interviewer:  Well he'd say this, here's a little
100:  Token.
Interviewer:  Okay, you did you ever hear the word lagniappe? I wouldn't think so. That's in Louisiana where they say that. Uh what does a baby do before it can walk?
100:  Crawl.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and uh if you saw something up a tree and you wanted to get a close look you'd have to
100:  Climb.
Interviewer:  So yesterday you
100:  Climb.
Interviewer:  And you have
100:  Climbed.
Interviewer:  Okay. And um in church you might go up to the alter and you kne-
100:  Kneel.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, so in the past she
100:  Kneeled.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and if you were really tired you might say I'm going to go over to the sofa and
100:  Lie down.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh he was really sick he couldn't sit up he just blank in bed all day
100:  Slept. Well it's another, another way
Interviewer:  #1 of saying #
100:  #2 Laid in # bed.
Interviewer:  Kay, good that's it. And what you see in your sleep you'd say last night I
100:  Dream.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and uh tomorrow I will
100:  Dream.
Interviewer:  But I forgot what I have
100:  Dreamt of.
Interviewer:  Okay good. And uh if you do dreamed you were falling then all of a sudden you might say all of a sudden I
100:  Woke up.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if you bring your foot down really heavy on the floor you'd do what?
100:  Stomp.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if you met a girl at a party and you wanted to go home with her you might say to her may I
100:  Walk you home.
Interviewer:  Suppose it's in a car?
100:  Drive you home.
Interviewer:  Okay. And to get a boat up on land you would
100:  Pull it.
Interviewer:  Or if a car was stuck you'd get behind and
100:  Push.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh if you carried a very heavy bag or something you might say I had to
100:  Tote the bag.
Interviewer:  Good. And if there were some children and they were getting to close to the hot stove, the mother might say don't
100:  Touch.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if you needed a hammer and it was in the other room you might say to me go
100:  Get the hammer.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh and then when you're playing tag or something what would you call the tree or whatever you'd run to to be safe? {NS}
100:  The uh base.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay good. And you might throw a ball and ask somebody to
100:  Catch it.
Interviewer:  So you threw it and he
100:  Caught it.
Interviewer:  And he has
100:  Caught it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh I might say let's meet in town. If I get there first I'll
100:  Look for you.
Interviewer:  Alright or I'll wait
100:  Wait for you.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh if a mother was about to punish the child he might say just give me one more
100:  Chance.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if somebody was always laughing at jokes you'd say he's got a good sense of
100:  Humor.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if um you had termites or something you'd you would say I'm gonna have to call the exterminator to get
100:  The is- the insects, the uh termites out of the house.
Interviewer:  Or uh another way of saying that, I've got to get blank of these termites.
100:  Gotta get rid of the #1 termite. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm # good. And uh if somebody stole your pencil what's, what might be a slang way of saying that, you might ask who
100:  Stole my pencil.
Interviewer:  Any other way of saying it other than stole?
100:  Who swiped my pencil.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, good. And you might say I had forgotten about that but now I
100:  Remember.
Interviewer:  Or if you didn't you might say I'm sorry I
100:  Forgot.
Interviewer:  Or using remember I
100:  Didn't remember.
Interviewer:  Alright and um you might say I have just blank him a letter.
100:  Wrote him a letter.
Interviewer:  And uh yesterday he blank me a letter.
100:  Written me a le- written me a letter.
Interviewer:  And tomorrow I will
100:  Write him a letter.
Interviewer:  Okay and I expect to receive an
100:  Answer.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh when you put the letter in the envelope and the you take out your pen you do what?
100:  Take out the #1 envelope? #
Interviewer:  #2 When you # write on the envelope you
100:  Write an address.
Interviewer:  Okay well what do you say you're doing? You blank the letter.
100:  Write in the letter.
Interviewer:  Would you say address the letter or address the letter or would you ever say something like back the letter, which old people say.
100:  Address the letter.
Interviewer:  Okay uh then if a little boy had learned something new, he learned to whistle say um, and you wanted to know where he learned it, you might say well who
100:  Taught you that.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh what would you call somebody who, uh a little boy who goes and tells everything that somebody else has done?
100:  Uh tattle tale.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if you wanted a bouquet for the dinner table you might go out and
100:  Buy one.
Interviewer:  Well if you go out in the garden you've got things blooming out there so you
100:  Pull up. Pick tho- Pick 'em?
Interviewer:  Pick what?
100:  The roses or flowers.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm good and something a child might play with?
100:  Toy.
Interviewer:  Would you ever call that a play pretty? Did you ever hear anybody say that? I don't think I ever did. Uh and if something had happened that you ha- you were sure was going to happen you might say I just blank that was gonna happen.
100:  I just knew that was going to happen.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay now we got a whole bunch more verbs here but then we'll get these over with in a minute. Um that uh at Christmas time you would blank somebody a present.
100:  {D: Is that} {NS} buy somebody a present?
Interviewer:  And then you would blank it to them.
100:  Give it to 'em.
Interviewer:  And he, in the past he
100:  Gave it to him.
Interviewer:  And he has
100:  Given it to him.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And you might say I'm glad I carried my umbrella. We hadn't gone half a block before it blank to rain.
100:  Started to rain.
Interviewer:  There's another word that means the same thing that starts with a "B".
100:  Start to pour?
Interviewer:  Means the same thing as start.
100:  Begin. Uh began to rain.
Interviewer:  Okay it began to rain in the past and tomorrow it will
100:  Begin to rain.
Interviewer:  And it has
100:  Began to rain.
Interviewer:  Okay and um, uh why are you out of breath I was feeling so happy I blank all the way home.
100:  I r- {NS} la- laughed all the way home.
Interviewer:  I think you were right the first time.
100:  I ran #1 all the way. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh # and I will
100:  Run.
Interviewer:  And I have
100:  Ran.
Interviewer:  Okay and um if you didn't know where somebody was born you might say well where does he blank from?
100:  Where does he where did he where wh- where did he come from.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and you would say he blank in on the train.
100:  He came fr- in on the train.
Interviewer:  And he has
100:  Came in on
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NW} If I don't choke you might say what do you do with your eyes, you
100:  See.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and then yesterday I
100:  Saw.
Interviewer:  And I have
100:  Seen.
Interviewer:  Okay and um if I we're talking about being able to do something, I might say can you blank that?
100:  Can you do that.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and you say yes y- just yesterday I
100:  Did that.
Interviewer:  And I have
100:  Done it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  #1 Done that. #
Interviewer:  #2 And # uh if the city, if the sewer department was in and they ripped all the pavement out you'd say the street is all
100:  Messed up.
Interviewer:  And what's another way of saying that?
Interviewer:  Or if you took the pages of a magazine and you ripped 'em apart you'd say the paper is all
100:  Ripped up.
Interviewer:  There's still another way of saying that beginning with a "T" it
100:  Tore up.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And um if you gave somebody a bracelet you might say well don't just look at it go ahead and
100:  Wear it.
Interviewer:  Or
100:  Put it on.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm that's it. Uh if um I ask you what's new you might shrug your shoulders and shake, say {X} shake your head and say aw
100:  Nothing.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and I'd say oh come now there must be
100:  Something.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and um you might say I've never heard of blank a thing
100:  Huh?
Interviewer:  I've never heard of blank a thing.
100:  Of a such thing.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm good. And if I said well how long have you lived in Atlanta you'd say well I've blank lived here.
100:  A long time.
Interviewer:  I've, well using one word I've lived here al-
100:  All my life.
Interviewer:  Or just one word starting with al-
Interviewer:  #1 a six letter word #
100:  #2 All the time. #
Interviewer:  Pardon?
100:  All time.
Interviewer:  One word. I've lived here al-
Interviewer:  How long has that mountain been here? It's blank been here. Meaning forever it's al-
Interviewer:  Now I'm not going to beat that to death it'll come up in conversation. Um a person might say I got thrown once and I've been scared of horses ever
100:  Since.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm it wasn't an accident. He did it on
100:  Purpose.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh a couple more verbs and then I think we're through with the verbs. Ah if you wanted to know the answer to a question you'd have to go and blank somebody.
100:  Ask somebody.
Interviewer:  And then so yesterday I
100:  Asked somebody.
Interviewer:  And you have already
100:  Asked.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And every time two bil- those two boys meet they always
100:  Fight.
Interviewer:  And yesterday they
100:  Fought.
Interviewer:  And they have
100:  Fight.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh if he did that to her with a knife you'd say he
100:  Stabbed.
Interviewer:  Okay and if there was a funny picture on the blackboard the teacher might turn around and say to the class alright who
100:  Did that.
Interviewer:  Or, meaning who, who #1 put it up #
100:  #2 Who wrote #
Interviewer:  #1 Well it's #
100:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  picture so who
100:  Drew that.
Interviewer:  Good. And if you wanted to pick up something heavy you might you might get pulley blocks and a rope and tackle to
100:  Pick it up. #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 It's a # word that starts with an "H".
100:  Haul.
Interviewer:  Ah do you ever say hoist or heist?
100:  Hoist.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now the next part, in fact the last part though it's a pretty long part is about, it's questions that are just asked to people that live in cities. And some of these are things that people that live in the country wouldn't know and some of them are things anybody would know. First few things are particularly about the city that you live in, which in this case is Atlanta. Can you name major sections of Atlanta? How is the city divided up?
100:  Talking about name?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  They uh {X} and North Fulton
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NS}
100:  East Atlanta.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  West West {D: what's that name again} West Fulton.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  Fulton. And
Interviewer:  Well what would you call the part of the city where say the main offices of the banks are located?
100:  Downtown.
Interviewer:  Alright where would you say the oldest and the largest stores are?
100:  Downtown.
Interviewer:  Okay. Are there any neighborhoods where a, one particular maybe racial group live or maybe an ethnic group like the Jews or the, neigh- neighborhoods that have names?
100:  {D: I don't know}
Interviewer:  Or how about
100:  {X}
Interviewer:  Pardon?
100:  Up there uh {X} {NS}
Interviewer:  Does it have a name?
100:  Uh, um s-
Interviewer:  Are there particular neighborhoods where the blacks live?
100:  #1 East #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
100:  Atlanta.
Interviewer:  Okay, any more?
100:  Pittsburgh.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  {D: Trying to} uh Mechanicsville.
Interviewer:  Oh yeah I've heard of that uh-huh.
100:  Um Techwood.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  Um {X}
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
100:  #2 East {X} #
100:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay that's good um now are e- of these these black neighborhoods that you've named are there any that are, that particularly where rich black people live?
100:  Um
100:  Probably over there uh Greenbriar.
Interviewer:  Okay how about where maybe very poor black people live?
100:  Those places I just named.
Interviewer:  All the ones you named or
100:  Not mostly Techwood but all the rest though.
Interviewer:  Okay and do, do these special neighborhoods have they're own shopping centers? No? Okay uh then can you name any, any other places where rich people live, not just blacks but maybe blacks and whites and
100:  Buckhead.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  Um
Interviewer:  Any more?
100:  No, not in Decatur.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. How about middle class people? Whether black or white. {NS}
100:  Decatur.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  Mm
100:  Outskirts of Atlanta I guess.
Interviewer:  Alright how about then lower class people. Poor people.
100:  #1 Down in #
Interviewer:  #2 Bla- #
100:  in town. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay mm-hmm. Now if uh say somebody from out of town was visiting you what are, what would be the places in Atlanta that you'd want to take him to see? What are the main tourist attractions?
100:  Downtown.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What's downtown?
100:  The big building. Six Flag.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  Stone Mountain.
Interviewer:  Okay. Anything else special? Any historical things he might want to see?
Interviewer:  Anything famous here that everybody wants to see when they come?
100:  not that I know of
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh then if you're, if you were flying in from Atlanta where would your plane land?
100:  Hartsfield.
Interviewer:  Okay. Suppose you were driving in from another state what would you ca- say you were driving in from Tennessee what would you come in on?
100:  Highway.
Interviewer:  #1 Alright. #
100:  #2 Freeway. #
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. If uh you're driving along a highway or a freeway what would you call those places where you might pull off the road and there'd be restaurants and service stations and
100:  Mm- a motel.
Interviewer:  Well it's not really a motel it's just a place where you can pull off and get some gas and rest.
100:  Uh service station?
Interviewer:  Mm alright. Uh then what do you call the lines that are painted on the road?
100:  Uh divider line.
Interviewer:  Alright what do you call that concrete thing or it might be grass in the middle of some big roads?
100:  Divider.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And uh what do you use to get onto the freeway?
100:  A enter- entering ramp.
Interviewer:  And then to get off #1 is a #
100:  #2 Exit # ramp.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm good. Uh what is a freeway exactly?
100:  {NW} Where you don't have to pay no money.
Interviewer:  Okay yes that, that's true. What would you call it if you did have to pay money?
100:  Toll.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Alright, # {NS} Is uh there any difference between wha- do you, do you ever call anything an expressway? What's an expressway?
100:  Freeway I-
Interviewer:  Same thing? Okay how about interstate? do you ever use that word? {NS} You don't know that, okay. Um
100:  I know it but I don't never
Interviewer:  #1 But you don't #
100:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  use it. Okay. What are some of the main streets in Atlanta?
100:  Buckhead. Peachtree.
Interviewer:  #1 I don't think #
100:  #2 {D: Ma-} #
Interviewer:  Buckhead's a street is it?
100:  {D: Probably not} Peachtree.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
100:  Martin Luther King drive.
Interviewer:  Yeah, right. Mm-hmm.
100:  And um {NS}
100:  Techwood. Techwood drive.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
100:  Marietta street.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  Forsyth street.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Yeah those are some good ones. What are some of the streets in your neighborhood?
100:  Pine street. Mm {X}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  Lucky.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  Lovejoy.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  Mm.
Interviewer:  Okay that's good enough. On uh some streets there's a place where you can go under and then a train goes over you, what do you call that?
100:  Bridge.
Interviewer:  What would you call it if you went over and the train went under?
100:  Oh I meant, that's a #1 bridge there. #
Interviewer:  #2 That's a bridge # Okay well what is it if a train
100:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 goes over # and you go under.
100:  Tunnel.
Interviewer:  Alright. Would you ever, do you use the word viaduct at all? I know there is something in Atlanta called the viaduct. I, I can't remember where it is though. It's out south of the city somewhere. Uh how do you, what do you call that kind of parking where you're up next to the curb and you pull in between the cars and #1 the kind- #
100:  #2 Parallel # park?
Interviewer:  Yeah and what is the kind that you do in shopping centers where you pull in beside the cars?
100:  Parallel park.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh I think you said this the other day but what do you call the place where the fireman plugs in his hose?
100:  Hydrant.
Interviewer:  Kay. And in, again about parking what do you call those big buildings downtown where you drive up several levels to park?
100:  Um
100:  parking parking meters. Or something.
Interviewer:  Well par- parking meter that's where you have to put in money. But this is the whole building. What would you call that?
100:  Parking site.
Interviewer:  Okay. And um what are the biggest buildings in town. You mentioned big buildings.
100:  Peachtree Peachtree plaza.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm that's a hotel isn't it?
100:  Mm.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
100:  Um First National Bank.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  E- {D: Equitable} building.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
100:  Mm
Interviewer:  What name would you have for all really tall buildings?
100:  Skyscraper.
Interviewer:  Okay. Would you call the ones in Atlanta skyscrapers? Are they big enough?
100:  Peachtree plaza is.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh isn't it the biggest hotel in the world or something? Well they sa- I think I've heard that. Uh what would you call a little passage way between buildings in town? Or between houses, just a little thing.
100:  Driveway.
Interviewer:  Okay. Would you ever call it an ally? What does that mean to you?
100:  A dark hole. Where you go down in it. A dead end.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  Ally.
Interviewer:  Kay. And uh what do you call a place where there, w- used to be a building but now it's been torn down? And maybe the kids
100:  Vacant lot.
Interviewer:  Yeah that's it. And what do you call a place, not a place a thing in a public building where you get a drink of water?
100:  Water faucet.
Interviewer:  Alright, suppose it's in a park outside its a
100:  Water fountain.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And um these are about different types of cars. Uh, can you describe some different body styles of cars? Not, not brand names or anything.
100:  Names of cars?
Interviewer:  No, bra- uh not brand names but body styles like for instance what would you call a very small car?
100:  Uh compact car.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay what would you call a car that had two doors?
100:  Not, it's, it's not a sus- sedan but
Interviewer:  What is a sedan?
100:  Four door.
Interviewer:  Okay. Well what's a two door?
100:  Passenger car.
Interviewer:  Okay good. And what do you call those uh large things that people with a lot of children have that have a hatch in the #1 back? #
100:  #2 Station wagon. #
Interviewer:  Yeah. And what would you call a great huge car that uses a lot of gasoline it's really expensive?
100:  Lim- Limousine.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh do you have any slang names for those?
100:  Cadillac.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh then what would you call a little truck that might deliver items to your house?
100:  Van.
Interviewer:  Okay and how about the kind of little truck that's in the back?
Interviewer:  Farmers have them a lot.
Interviewer:  I would call that a pickup, would you use #1 the same? #
100:  #2 Yeah # pickup #1 truck. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay # mm-hmm. And then if you were going to the airport well how mi- how would you get to the airport? If you didn't have a car.
100:  Bus.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh suppose you wanted ride on something that was not the bus and you didn't want to take a taxi then how would you get there?
100:  Ask somebody to give me a ride.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh then tell me about the public transportation that they have in Atlanta.
100:  MARTA.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay what is MARTA?
100:  Bus and ma- rapid trail.
Interviewer:  Rapid what?
100:  Rapid transit.
Interviewer:  Tell me about the train. {NS} Because that's something new.
100:  Yeah new.
Interviewer:  Have you ridden the train?
100:  {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah? What do you do in the station?
100:  Just wait on the train. Train usually be there and just take off.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Where does it go?
100:  All around town. Different di- space, all the buses now go toward it go to a station.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
100:  So you go to a station you be near a bus stop.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay uh then on the car what do you call the thing in the front where the speedometer and things are?
100:  Dashboard.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And what do you call that little place over on the right hand side where you'd keep maps?
100:  Dash box.
Interviewer:  Alright, uh-huh. Would you ever call that a glove compartment?
100:  Yeah glove compartment.
Interviewer:  Keep gloves in it?
100:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  Does anybody? Uh then what is the what do you call this thing? Stretchy thing?
100:  Rubber band.
Interviewer:  Alright and um I don't have the other thing. A little metal thing you might use to hold two pieces of paper together?
100:  Jim clip.
Interviewer:  Okay, you say jim clip, good. Um, where uh would you keep your spare tire on a car?
100:  Trunk.
Interviewer:  Okay, and then to make the car go faster you step on the
100:  Gas.
Interviewer:  Um alright, uh-huh.
100:  Uh pedal.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you don't have an automatic transmission what do you call the thing that you shift?
100:  Sti- stick shift.
Interviewer:  Would you call it anything different if it's on the steering wheel instead of on the floor?
100:  Um
100:  automatic. That's about the only thing I call automatic {X} You don't have to shift every time you stop.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. #1 Okay. #
100:  #2 That # that what automatic is I think.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Uh then what do you call those things they have in apartment complexes and other and shopping centers maybe where you have to slow down because there's a thing built up?
100:  Hump.
Interviewer:  Okay, uh-huh. And what do you call the different kinds of things that the fire department has to ride in?
100:  Fire trucks.
Interviewer:  What about the kind that just pumps water?
100:  Water truck?
Interviewer:  Alright, how about the kind with the latter on it?
100:  Fire truck.
Interviewer:  Alright, how about the kind that has a a boom and a bucket that'll just lift one person up?
100:  Guess fire truck.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay I've seen 'em I wouldn't know what to call 'em. If somebody had a heart attack what kind of a small thing might come to help 'em?
100:  {X}
Interviewer:  Alright and if the fire chief came to the fire alone what might he drive in?
100:  Station wagon.
Interviewer:  Alright and uh what do you call the thing that the police ride around in?
100:  Police car.
Interviewer:  Any other name for that? Would you ever call it anything like oh, squad car, cruiser police sedan? Mm-mm? Uh cop car? Okay uh what about the big thing where they might put a lot of criminals in the back?
100:  Police, police van.
Interviewer:  Okay would you ever call that a paddy wagon #1 or a #
100:  #2 Yeah # paddy #1 wagon. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # And then the thing that police and radio stations do have that flies around?
100:  Helicopter.
Interviewer:  You know any other names for helicopters?
100:  Um Pu- whirly bird.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm yeah that's a good one. And a few questions about weather. What do you call that big storm, they don't have them here but they have them on the gulf where there's a big wind and it blows everything down?
100:  Hurricane.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And then another kind of storm that they do have here that's a funnel cloud?
100:  Tornado.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And another kind of storm that they usually have here about once during the winter when the rain freezes after it hits the ground?
100:  Um
Interviewer:  It breaks the power lines?
100:  Uh snow storm? #1 Uh #
Interviewer:  #2 It's # It's not #1 snow. #
100:  #2 Sleet # storm.
Interviewer:  It's not even sleet because it's j- it's just rain and then it freezes. But it's terrible because there's this layer of ice the next day and you can't get anywhere.
Interviewer:  I call it an ice storm.
100:  A ice storm.
Interviewer:  Do you remember the one that they had in was it seventy three? Were you too young to remember that?
100:  I guess so. {NS}
Interviewer:  Well there was no power for about a week I think and almost the whole city were yo,u you remember not having power? Well maybe you've maybe you had power or maybe you just forgot. Well what do you call the men that fight the fire?
100:  Firemen.
Interviewer:  Alright and what do you call the uh, men that work for the police department?
100:  Policemen.
Interviewer:  I know you must know some other names for policemen.
100:  Fuzz.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  Cop.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Is fuzz insulting? Would that make 'em mad?
100:  {D: I don't know} Pig.
Interviewer:  Yeah pig I guess would make 'em mad. And what do you call the place where the firemen s- work?
100:  Fire house.
Interviewer:  How about the place where the police work?
100:  Police building.
Interviewer:  Alright. And then uh where would they put criminals?
100:  Jail.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Is there a, a special place where they might put drunks?
100:  Uh
Interviewer:  You ever hear of a drunk tank?
100:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  How do you say that?
100:  Drunk tank.
Interviewer:  Okay and what does a policeman carry for protection?
100:  Gun.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh then what, what is it that's not a gun that he might carry to hit people with?
100:  A fla- blackjack.
Interviewer:  Alright, how about something that's just wood though?
100:  A blackjack.
Interviewer:  {X} Doesn't a blackjack have something on the end doesn't it that's not wood? I don't know that much about it but just a wooden stick. Night stick or billy club or something like that?
100:  Oh I though, that's what I thought it was.
Interviewer:  Oh that's a blackjack? Okay. Uh then what would you call uh, do you have any other names for prostitute?
100:  Hooker.
Interviewer:  Alright and what do you call a building where prostitutes work?
100:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  Alright well do you um, what would you call the man that manages prostitutes?
100:  Pimp.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, how about the woman who lives in the house with them?
Interviewer:  Okay. Um and uh what would you call people that just drink too much and lie around on the street all the time?
100:  Drunk. Hobos.
Interviewer:  Alright. What if they drink too much but they're really respectable businessmen?
100:  {X}
Interviewer:  Pardon?
100:  Um
Interviewer:  Now they have a drinking problem but they're, they're not really out of work. They drink all the time but they can they can keep #1 on. #
100:  #2 Alcoholics. #
Interviewer:  Okay. And how about people that uh lie around on the street all the time but they're, not because they're drunk they're just out of work.
100:  Unemployed.
Interviewer:  Alright um then what do you call cheap hotels where people like that might live?
100:  Cheap hotel.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you talked about uh the, your marijuana debate the other day, do you h- know any other names for marijuana?
100:  Grass.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  Herb.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, yeah.
100:  About all I know.
Interviewer:  Kay. Um what are some other drugs that are worse than marijuana?
100:  angel dust
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  speed
Interviewer:  Yeah.
100:  Mm- cocaine.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  {X} {D: oak}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
100:  {D: flodine}
Interviewer:  Mm, I don't know that one, what does it do?
100:  I don't know I just heard a boy say it one day.
Interviewer:  Hmm, mm-hmm. I've heard of the others but I haven't heard of that one. What do you call a person that takes drugs all the time?
100:  Drug addict.
Interviewer:  Alright what would you call a person that sells illegal drugs?
Interviewer:  Sells 'em on the street?
100:  Pusher.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay good. And um what, do you have any slang names for money?
100:  Dough. Duckies.
Interviewer:  What was that?
100:  Duckies
Interviewer:  Duckies? I never heard that. Does that just mean, what does that mean? Is it bills or
100:  Dollar.
Interviewer:  That means a dollar bill? Hmm.That is a new one, it really is. Uh then what do you call a place where you might, if you didn't if you needed some money you might take your watch and leave it
100:  Pawn shop.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh do you have any names for cheap wine?
Interviewer:  I asked about cheap whiskey the other day but this is cheap wine.
Interviewer:  Alright what would you call the worst place in town where all the bums hang out?
100:  Town.
Interviewer:  Just town? #1 Well- #
100:  #2 Downtown. #
Interviewer:  Okay. I think the tape is about to run out here. Uh what would you call a theater where they show X-rated movies?
100:  Bath house.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. I'm just gonna let this tape run.