Interviewer: Okay, would you tell me your name, please? {B} And your address? Interviewer: Okay. Where were you born? 100: Atlanta, Georgia. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Now, does the place where you were born, born, or the place where you live now have a name? Does that community have a name? 100: I was born in Grady Hospital. Interviewer: {D: Well-} does the place that you live now have a name? 100: It was Techwood. Interviewer: Techwood. Okay. Ah, what county is this? {NS} 100: {D: Wood.} Interviewer: And state? 100: Georgia. Interviewer: Okay, lets see if it's picking you up. {NS} Kay, to continue, since we seem to be doing pretty well at the moment, I think um {NS} As soon as the noise in the hall quiets down, anyway. {NW} Your age is? 100: Fifteen. Interviewer: Okay. And, what would you say your occupation is? 100: High school. Interviewer: Okay. What do you wanna do when you get out of high school? 100: I'm thinking about going to the army. Interviewer: Oh. Uh-huh. You think you might go to college? 100: After I get out the army. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Have any idea where you wanna go? 100: Um, I'll be still in California playing ba- {NS} uh broadcasting. Interviewer: That's a long way off. You wanna go that far away from home? 100: If I can go there, I would. Interviewer: Have you ever been far away from home? 100: Not really. {NS} Interviewer: Where have you been? 100: I been in Florida, uh South Carolina's about as far as I've ever been. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Was that on vacation? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: You got relatives there or something? 100: N- no we just went up there to {X} {NS} My mama had been tired so we went up there for summer vacation. Interviewer: Can you talk any louder? 100: Oh {NS} with #1 with # Interviewer: #2 Talk- # talk as loud as you can. 100: Alright. Interviewer: Okay, I'm, your-, your religion, do you belong to a church? 100: Yeah, Baptist. {NS} Interviewer: Okay. Interviewer: I hope whoever's rattling the doorknob will just go away in a minute. Uh, a- and what grade are you in? 100: Eleven. Interviewer: Okay. Interviewer: At, and you may as well tell me the name of the school. 100: Grady High School. Interviewer: Okay. Did Ms Cantrell tell you that I went to Grady? 100: No. Interviewer: It was a long time ago, but I did. Ah, Okay, do you belong to any clubs? 100: No. Interviewer: Do you do anything outside of classes? 100: ROTC and {X} Interviewer: Mm,what do you do in ROTC? 100: Drill team. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Now will that help you get into the army? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: What will that mean? 100: I- if I, when I, uh, leave out of the ROTC, I get better pay when I go into the army just coming in just {X} prior. It's, when I'm in the ROTC, I go in as a fir- private first class. Interviewer: Mm, Mm-hmm. Well that does sound a lot better then. Do you think you might wanna be, make a career out of the army? 100: I- I don't wanna see {X} go to college then I might go back in. Interviewer: Uh-huh. You like ROTC? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: What do you do in there? 100: We do a lot of marching and tests and stuff like that. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Ah, what else you take? 100: Spanish. Interviewer: Yeah. 100: You want me to tell my classes? Interviewer: Yeah. #1 Mm-hmm. # 100: #2 Oh. # {NS} My first period is argumentation, argumentation and persuasion. Interviewer: What in the world do you do in that? 100: W- we uh, it's uh, like a journalism class. Interviewer: Oh, uh-huh. 100: Yeah we talk about uh, debates, 'cause we had came here one day Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 100: #2 {D: Okay} # at the debate. And then the oth- the other day we had came here. And it was a debate on marijuana. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 100: And should it be legalized or not. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Which side were you on? {NS} I hope they don't want y- {NS} Interviewer: They'll be able to tell we did this interview at school. Okay, I was asking what, what side were you on in the debate? 100: Mm- no, I just, I was just writing down notes. Interviewer: Mm, oh, you weren't debating you were listening. 100: Yeah. Interviewer: I guess maybe if people are knocking on the door I'd better stop. Interviewer: Uh, Okay, um, alright, that takes care of first period, what do you do after that? 100: I go to, uh, human biology. We just, starting on uh, um, c- cells of the body. We are supposed to be starting on microscope #1 next week, # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # 100: some- some time about that time. Interviewer: Do you cut up a pig in that? 100: We cush- we cut up cats next quarter. Interviewer: You cut up cats? They cut up pigs when I was a student here. I never took it but that's what they did. Cut up cats? Ew, {NW} where'd they get the cats? 100: From the science institute. They ge- get 'em there. From there, I guess. #1 {D: Don't} # Interviewer: #2 Hmm. # 100: And then third period I go to ROTC. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 100: Fourth period I go to, uh, art. Interviewer: #1 Mm. # 100: #2 {D: I ain't doing none of it now.} # Interviewer: Mm-hmm, then in that case you can probably get out of art. 100: {NW} um, Spanish. #1 After that, # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # 100: Spanish. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 100: And sixth period I go to {X} developing U.S. democracy. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Who's your art teacher? 100: Ms Moller. Interviewer: Okay, well I know Ms Moller too 'cause she was a teacher here when I was a student so, I don't know whether she'd remember me or not cause I think I was in the eighth grade when I had her, but you know that, maybe, if she does remember me, maybe she would let you out of the class then. Um, hmm, let's see, do you do anything at church? 100: I just go {X} That's probably mostly what I do. Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 100: #2 I'm not # required to do that. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. You have a lot of homework here? 100: Yeah, every day. Interviewer: Keeps you busy? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: You play sports or anything? 100: Yeah at home, but I don't play nothing now. I'll probably play football next year. Interviewer: Uh-huh, mm-hmm How's the football team doing, by the way? 100: Not that good. Interviewer: Well they won first game, didn't they? 100: Yeah. They lost all the rest though. Interviewer: Well, ho- how do things look for the {NS} rest of the season, they gonna get better? 100: Homecoming they wi- they should win. Interviewer: Who they playing? 100: {D: Easter Lawn} Interviewer: Mm-hmm, Okay. How many more games are there, about five? 100: Yeah, five more. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. I haven't been to a game here in years and years. I used to come all the time. It would be great fun to go to a football game. Ah, let's see, where was your mother born? 100: Um, Macon, Georgia. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And, uh, do you know how much education she had? 100: She went through high school and she went to college at Georgia business school. Business college. Interviewer: Okay. And uh, does she work? 100: Not, not, not now. Interviewer: Did she? 100: Yeah, Interviewer: #1 Wh- # 100: #2 She # worked at U.S. post office. Interviewer: What does she do now? 100: She just a house- housema- house wife now. Interviewer: What'd she do for the post office? 100: She used to, uh, put the m-, put the mail in the boxes. where they supposed to go. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 100: So the post office so the post man can get it. Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm, # 100: #2 When, # Interviewer: mm-hmm. 100: and put it in the right place. Interviewer: Where was your father born? 100: I think he was, yeah he was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And how much schooling did he have? 100: He went through high school, but he didn't go to college though. Interviewer: Mm-kay, what does he do? 100: He's a, he's taxi t- cab driver now but he use to be, work at Scripto. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: What'd he do at Scripto? 100: Ah, he was in maintenance. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Interviewer: Does he like being a taxi driver better? 100: Yeah, {D: though} he say 'cause he at, when he working at uh, yeah, and he used to work at uh, where they make them {D: copes.} I mean where the make thread at, you know, sewing thread? Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 100: #2 Used # to work where they'd make that. N- He had an accident so he couldn't do hard, no hard work. Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 100: #2 So he # just came a cas- taxi cab driver. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. 100: And he said that's easy on his back so, just do that. Interviewer: Yeah. I should think you'd get tired sitting in a cab all 100: #1 Yeah. # Interviewer: #2 day though. # All that driving. Especially when there's a lot of traffic. 100: Yeah. Interviewer: {NS} let's see, do you know where your mother's parents were born? 100: {D: They, uh} Not re- I think they were born in Georgia but I don't really know. Interviewer: Okay, mm-hmm. Interviewer: Do you know anything about their education? Do you know what they did for a living? Are they still living? 100: Yeah. My gra- my grandma is a nurse. Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 100: #2 My # father used to work at a construction plant out on uh, I think it's out on North Avenue. Interviewer: Is it your grandfather? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 100: He used to you know, work more often. Interviewer: He retired? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: Let's see. Worked at construction plant. I can stop writing in just a minute. Um, how about your father's parents, do you know where they were born? 100: I think they were born in Georgia too. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 100: And uh, My {X} my granddad, he works as a painter. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And my g- grandma's housewife. She used to work at Scripto too. Mm, mm-hmm. Is that how your father got the job? 100: Yeah I don't know, I guess so. Interviewer: Ah, and you're not married, I assume. Right, Okay. Are there very many married kids here? 100: Not that I know of. No, nobody's married. Interviewer: Are there any at all? 100: No. #1 I don't think so. # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # I know sometimes kids get married and then stay in school but I guess they don't too much. Um, Can you tell me a little bit about the neighborhood where you live? 100: It's probably apartment housing, and uh, just a lot of kids around there and just play football. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 100: Stuff like that, sports. {X} Most. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Um, has the neighborhood changed very much since you've been living there? 100: Not at all. Interviewer: Mm. Mm-hmm. 100: Stay same way. Everybody moved in, nobody moved out. Interviewer: How long have you been there? 100: About six year. {NS} Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Where did you live before that? 100: Uh, {NS} a place called On commercial avenue by {D: Buckhead} Interviewer: Mm-hmm. How many different houses have you lived in? 100: Two. Interviewer: Just those two? 100: yeah. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Can you draw me on, just on the back of here, just a kind of a rough, floor plan of the house where you grew up? I guess that would be your first house, just so I can see where the rooms are. 100: Mm. {NS} If I can remember. Interviewer: It doesn't have to be good or anything 'cause by the time I copy it, it'll be even worse. Interviewer: How many rooms does it have? 100: Talking bout old one? Interviewer: Mm-hmm, the old one. 100: One, one big room. And 100: four. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, and what are th- what are the names of the rooms? Go ahead and draw while you talk, if, if you #1 can. # 100: #2 The bathroom, # Interviewer: Ah-huh. 100: kitchen, Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 100: and uh, living room and bedroom. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 100: Say that, 100: bathroom probably right here Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 100: Then you come out to the kitchen. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NS} 100: Bedroom. 100: Living room. Interviewer: Okay, #1 did you # 100: #2 D: ki- # Interviewer: put LR for living room and K for kitchen. I guess BR for bedroom, B for bath and BR for bedroom. Interviewer: Okay, that's good enough. Was that an apartment or was it a house? 100: House. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 100: {NS} A very small house. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NS} 100: Excuse me. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NW} Okay. Well, now, as I guess ms Cantrell told you, what we're interested in really is just how people in Atlanta talk. And, 'cause we're interested in a lot of different places but Atlanta's e what we're interested in right now. And so this is, some of this is just to see how you pronounce words, and sometimes its what words you use and different expressions you might use for things. So then just to see how you pronounce the numbers, would you count to fifteen, please. 100: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen. Interviewer: Good, and the number after nineteen is? 100: Twenty. Interviewer: After twenty-six? 100: Twenty-seven. Interviewer: After twenty-nine? 100: Thirty. Interviewer: After thirty-nine? 100: Forty. Interviewer: After ninety-nine? 100: a hundred. Interviewer: After na- nine hundred and ninety-nine? 100: A thousand. Interviewer: After I'm gonna have to look, nine hundred and, no that's not right. Nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine, would that be right? 100: A million. Interviewer: Yeah that's right. Okay. And then, if there were a line of men, {NS} and the man at the end of the line was the eleventh man, you'd say the one in front of him was the? 100: Tenth? Interviewer: Okay, so if you started at the beginning and counted back that way, you'd say? 100: One. Interviewer: No, starting with the s-t on the end, you know. Interviewer: The eleventh is at the end and at the beginning is the? 100: End. Interviewer: This is hard to explain. You know you said the tenth was #1 in front of # 100: #2 Yeah. # Interviewer: the eleventh, so who's in front of him? 100: Ninth. Interviewer: Mm-kay, #1 and then? # 100: #2 Eighth, # Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 100: #2 seventh, # six, five, four, three, two, one. Interviewer: Only instead of saying five, four, three, two, one you wanna put the t-h forms on the end, you know the ninth, and the eighth #1 and then the # 100: #2 Oh. # 100: Ninth, eighth, seventh, sixth, fifth, fourth, third, second, first. Interviewer: Right, {X} Okay, and would you name the months of the year? 100: January, February, March, April, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. Interviewer: I think you skipped one. What's after April? 100: May. Interviewer: You might've said it, but I might just've missed it. And the days of the week? 100: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Kay, do you know any other name for Sunday? Interviewer: People might say keep holy the something day? Interviewer: You know the word Sabbath? 100: Uh, isn't for Jews, or something like that? Interviewer: What does- what is the Sabbath? What day is that? 100: I don't know. I ain't never heard of that. Interviewer: Okay. Uh, if um, Interviewer: something happened just one time, you'd say that happened? 100: Once. Interviewer: Alright, and if it happened two times it happened? 100: Twice. Interviewer: Okay, that takes care of q all the numbers, I think. Alright, if you met somebody in the early part of the day What would you say to greet 'em? 100: Good morning. Interviewer: Okay, how long would you say good morning? 100: 'Till twelve. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And uh, what would you say after twelve? 100: Good afternoon. Interviewer: Until what time? 100: Six. Interviewer: And then what would you say? 100: Good night. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 100: Like I'm going to sleep. Interviewer: #1 Okay, # 100: #2 D:'Cause. # Interviewer: what if you were s- just greeting them after six o' clock, what would you say? 100: Hello. How you doing'? Something like that. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. What would you call the time of day between six o'clock and the time you go to bed? 100: Night-time. Interviewer: Would you ever say evening for anything? 100: I don't know, sometime I guess. Interviewer: What time is that? 100: I guess about eight to eleven I guess. Evening. Mm-hmm, would you ever say good evening? Yeah, on the ph- on the phone or s- something like that. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Oh that sounds kinda formal to me, I don't know if I'd ever say that to anybody. What do you say n- usually when you're leaving somebody? 100: Good-bye. Interviewer: Anything else? Interviewer: Do you ever say good-day? Interviewer: Okay, um, and then, now you said if you're going to sleep, you'd say goodnight. Would you ever say goodnight if you were just meeting somebody? Interviewer: Okay. Ah, then, if you had to get up very early, at, it was before the sun came up, you'd say I had to get up before? 100: Sunrise. Interviewer: And if you had to work until the sun went down, you'd say I worked until? 100: Dusk to dawn. Dawn to dusk. Interviewer: Alright now is there 'un- in terms of the sun going down, is there another way of saying that other than dusk? You said sunrise for the sun coming up, how 'bout the sun #1 going down. # 100: #2 Sundown. # Interviewer: Okay. Uh, then, talking about the sun coming up again, you would say at what ever time it was, seven a.m. this morning, the sun? 100: Rose. Interviewer: And tomorrow the sun will? 100: Go down. Interviewer: D: you s- 100: #1 Oh. # Interviewer: #2 D: ah meaning # coming up, the sun will. 100: Rise again. Interviewer: And the sun has? 100: Rose. Interviewer: Okay. And um. Interviewer: Today is, what is today? Wednesday? Okay. So, um. Is that right? Is this Wednesday? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: So Tuesday was? 100: Yesterday. Interviewer: And Thursday is? 100: Tomorrow. Interviewer: Okay, if somebody came to see you not this last Sunday, but the Sunday a week earlier than that, you'd say he came? 100: Sunday after last. Interviewer: Okay, and suppose he's coming not next Sunday but the Sunday a week beyond that, he's coming when? 100: Sunday week Interviewer: Okay good. Uh-huh. And did, uh, suppose somebody is staying at your house from about the first of the month to about the fifteenth of the month, how long is he staying? 100: Two weeks. Interviewer: Do you know any other way of saying that? Did you ever hear the word fortnight? 100: Mm-mm. Interviewer: Okay. I wouldn't expect you too. A lot of these things are fr- older people would know them or people out in the country would know them and one of the things we're studying is what words people in the city know, and young people know, and that kind of thing. Uh, if you wanted to know the time of the day, what would you ask somebody? 100: Do you have the time? Interviewer: Mm-kay, and so he'd look at his? 100: Watch. Interviewer: And if it were um, mid-way between seven o'clock and eight o'clock what time would you say it was? 100: Seven-thirty. Interviewer: Is there another way of saying that? 100: Half pa- no, yeah, half past seven. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, do you ever say that? 100: {D: na-huh} Interviewer: You've heard people say it? 100: Yeah I heard people say it. Interviewer: Okay. Uh, how 'bout if it's, um, fifteen minutes later than ten thirty what time is it? 100: Ten forty-five. Interviewer: Is there another way to say that? 100: A quarter to eleven. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Do you say that? 100: Sometimes, #1 yeah. # Interviewer: #2 Okay. # And if you'd been doing something for a long time, you might say I been doing that for quite a? 100: Long while. Interviewer: Okay, good. And, um, you might say that the farmers, this is, you can tell some of these questions were written for farmers. The farmers got a good crop last year but they're not going to get a good crop? 100: This year. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, And, uh. {NS} If a child has just had his third birthday, how old would you say he was? 100: Three. Interviewer: W- you do use a phrase, they're three what? 100: Three years old. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, and if something happened on exactly this day last year, you'd say it happened exactly? 100: A year ago today. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, and you might look up in the sky and say I don't like the look of those black? 100: Clouds. Interviewer: Alright, but on a day like today when the sun is shining and there are not any clouds in the sky at all, you'd say what kind of day that is? 100: A blue sky day. A nice day. Interviewer: Alright, anything else? 100: {D: Mm-mm} Interviewer: Mm-kay that's fine. How about the opposite kind of a day when really the, the clouds were just terrible, and it was cold and {NW} wh- what kind of day is that? 100: Not a good day. Interviewer: Anything else? 100: A terrible day. Interviewer: Alright, uh-huh. Suppose it had been very nice but then the clouds started coming in and it looked like there was gonna be a storm any minute, you'd say the weather is doing what? 100: Changing. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, uh, and suppose it has been cloudy but then the sun starts to come out you'd say the weather is doing what? 100: Changing. Interviewer: Changing can mean mad- bad or good. 100: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay, Ah, what would you call a heavy rain where a whole lot of rain came down just all at once? 100: Downpour. Interviewer: Anything else? 100: A storm? Sort of. Interviewer: Mm-kay. What if it had thunder and lightning? 100: A thunderstorm. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NW} Uh, and then if the wind, if there were a lot of wind during the night, you'd say all night long the wind? 100: Blew. Interviewer: And, tomorrow the wind will? 100: Blow. Interviewer: And the wind has? 100: Blown. Interviewer: Okay. And if the wind was coming from? I don't know what directions are. Do you? Do you know what, what direction we're- 100: North, east, south. Interviewer: Which, which is which? Which is- 100: I think this, I think that's south. Interviewer: Okay, well if the wind was coming from that way, you'd say the wind is? 100: South. Coming from the south. Interviewer: That's good. Okay. Suppose that we're half way between south and west, what would you call it? 100: Southwest. {NS} Interviewer: Alright, an- and halfway between south and east? 100: South-east. Interviewer: And, uh, north and west? 100: North- #1 west. # Interviewer: #2 And # north and east? 100: Northeast. Interviewer: Okay, got 'em all. Okay. Suppose it's raining, but it's not raining very hard, you'd say it's just uh, 100: Scattered. Scattered shower. Well it's not even that much, so it's just, Interviewer: #1 it's just. # 100: #2 Sprinkling. # Interviewer: Okay, uh-huh. You ever say drizzling? 100: Sometimes. Interviewer: #1 How do you s- # 100: #2 {D: now} # {NS} Drizzle. Interviewer: Mm-hmm.Do you say that word? 100: Not hardly Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 100: #2 {D: I say} # Shaf- uh, What I had just said. Interviewer: Sprinkling. #1 That right? # 100: #2 Yes ma'am. # Interviewer: Uh, how, what do you call a heavy white mist that you can't see through? 100: Snow. Interviewer: N- it's in the air. 100: Fog. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, and if it's that kind of a day, you'd say it's a what day? 100: Foggy day. Interviewer: Okay, and if you had no rain for weeks and weeks, you'd say you were having a? 100: Drought. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Now is that a long time of drought? Is there something shorter? Say just no rain for about a week or so 100: I don't kno- {NW} I don't think so. Interviewer: That's still a drought? Okay, suppose the wind has been very gentle and um, then is gradually getting stronger what would you say it's doing? 100: The wind, the wind is getting stronger. Interviewer: Any other way of saying that? Okay, how 'bout if the wind has been very strong but then it's gradually getting weaker, what's it doing? 100: The wind is dying down. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NW} Okay, that's fine. How 'bout on a morning, well, this time of the year when you go outside, it's not really cold but it's kind of #1 what? # 100: #2 Cool. # Interviewer: Anything else? Interviewer: Do you ever say chilly? 100: N- not that much because you'd be hot then. Interviewer: Well, um, any other way of saying it other than just cool? 100: Cold. Interviewer: Okay. Oh, how 'bout, what do you call that white stuff? Not snow but just on the ground on a morning like this? 100: Dew. Interviewer: What's, it's white stuff though. It's when it first starts to get cold? And it {D: I've} 100: Frozen uh, Interviewer: #1 Well it's, # 100: #2 Fro- # Interviewer: it might kill the flowers? 100: Frozen dew? Interviewer: The weather man would say we might have something tonight? 100: Frost. Interviewer: Yeah, that's it. A- um, uh-, if it was extremely cold during the night, I don't think, I don't know if that ever gets that cold here, but you might say the lake did what? 100: Froze. Interviewer: And if it gets colder, the lake might? Freeze. And it has? 100: {NW} Frozen. Interviewer: Okay, now when we were talking earlier about, I think we're through with the weather now. Earlier about the living room in your house, do you know any other names for living room? 100: Mm-mm. Interviewer: Did you ever hear your grandmother talk about a different name for a living room? Real old name? 100: Mm-mm. She just called it a living room. Interviewer: Okay. How- what do yo-, what do a lot of people have in their house a, a room where, I think the family just sit around and watch television? 100: Den. Interviewer: Okay. Mm-hmm. Uh, then b- about how high would you say the ceilings are in your house? 100: About, ten feet {D: something like that} Interviewer: Okay. Mm-hmm. Um, {NS} and uh, how do you heat your house? 100: With central heat. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Is it, what kind of central heating? 100: Uh, uh, the things going on around the home to heat the house. Interviewer: Wha- what heats it? Wha- 100: Hot water. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. 100: It #1 goes # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # 100: through the pipes and it #1 heats the house. # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh. # Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. Did you ever live in a place where there was a fire place? 100: Yeah, the house we li- lived in last time #1 had a fire # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # 100: place in the living room and bed room. Interviewer: Oh, good. #1 So, Okay # 100: #2 {X} # Interviewer: the thing the smoke goes up through is the what? 100: Chimmney. Interviewer: And what do you call the thing that comes out in front of the fireplace? It's, could be brick or tile or something. 100: Mm-mm Interviewer: Um, Interviewer: uh's, h-e-a-r-t-h. Do you know that word? 100: H-a-r #1 t- # Interviewer: #2 H-e- # a-r-t-h. Interviewer: How would you say it? 100: {D: Hearth} {D: hearth} Interviewer: Some people say hearth and some people say {D: hearth} Do you know the word at all? Never heard it? 100: No. Interviewer: Okay. Um, then in the fireplace the thing, what do you call the things you might lay the wood across. 100: Pounds or something. #1 Pound. # Interviewer: #2 Well, # I- they're iron things. 100: I know what you're talking about but I Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Well #1 some people # 100: #2 never # Interviewer: call them, an- the old fashion names for them are dog irons or fire dogs, and then some people say andirons. 100: Andiron. Interviewer: Would you call them that? 100: I guess so. Interviewer: Mm-kay, now again, a lot of these things are old words that 100: Yeah. Interviewer: you know I wouldn't expect you to know, so it's just what you know and what you don't. 100: {D: Uh} Interviewer: Ah, then up above the fireplace what do you call that thing that you might set your clock on? 100: A mantle. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Anything any other name for that? 100: No. Mantle shelf, mantle board, mantle piece, fire- Interviewer: #1 board? # 100: #2 Yeah, # mantle piece. Interviewer: Okay. Uh, then, how about, what would you call the big round piece of wood that would burn a long time? 100: A log. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And what do you call little bitty pieces of wood that would, you'd use to start the fire? 100: Chips of wood. {NS} Interviewer: Do you know the word kindling? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: Would you ever say that? 100: Yes, if we had a fireplace, yeah. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. #1 How do- # 100: #2 Heard # my momma say it. Kindling. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Good. And what do you call the black stuff that forms in the chimney. Interviewer: Starts with an 's'. 100: S- smoke? Interviewer: S-o-o-t? 100: Soot. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, do you know that word? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. And, uh, what do you call the stuff that is left after the fire burns down? 100: Burnt wood. Interviewer: Well it's left after all the wood burns. Interviewer: A-s-h? Yes? 100: A-s-h-t-a- Interviewer: A-s-h-e-s. 100: Ashes. Interviewer: Do you know ashes? 100: Yes. Interviewer: Okay. Well, you know you don't live where there's a fireplace now. Uh, what color are ashes? 100: Black. Or gray {D: sorta} Interviewer: Alright, uh, are the ever this color? Interviewer: I want you to say that color. 100: Uh, white. Interviewer: Are they ever? 100: No. Interviewer: I've never seen any ashes that color either. Okay, well what do you call the thing that people sit in? 100: Chair. Interviewer: What if it was something longer that maybe two or three people could sit on? 100: Couch. Interviewer: Any other name for that? 100: Sofa. Interviewer: Anything else? 100: Lounging chair. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, #1 ever hear your # 100: #2 {D: Na-} # Interviewer: grandmother call it anything else? Interviewer: Sometimes old people say things like settee and davenport and davonette. 100: I've heard 'em say settee. Interviewer: Okay, mm-hmm. Um, and what do you call a piece of furniture in the bedroom that has drawers in it that you put clothes in? 100: Dresser? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Does that have a mirror? 100: Yes. Interviewer: Alright, what about one that doesn't have a mirror? 100: A chest of drawer. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, alright. What would you call a piece of furniture in a bedroom that might have two doors, and you can hang clothes in it and maybe drawers at the bottom? It's an old fashioned thing. 100: #1 {D: Mm-} # Interviewer: #2 Ever see # that? 100: No. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a chifforobe or a wardrobe? 100: I heard wardrobe, but I ain't heard I thought you just put it in the closet. Interviewer: Okay, uh, so you just lived in houses that had closets? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: This, these they had in old fashioned times, is when they didn't have closets. So, um, {NW} and what do you call things that some people have in their houses that are on rollers that you pull down at the windows? 100: Shades. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And how about the things with the metal slats? 100: Uh, S- Interviewer: Blinds? 100: Yeah. Blinds. Interviewer: Okay. Um, and the room at the top of the house under the roof? 100: Uh, attic. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NS} And, moving along here. {NW} Oh, little room off the kitchen where you might store canned goods? 100: Pantry. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. What would you call a lot of old, worthless stuff that you were about to throw away? 100: Junk. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And what k- what would you call a room where you would keep that? 100: Basement or attic. Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 100: #2 {D: So-} # Interviewer: Ah, suppose it was just a room in your house that had nothing in it but junk. Anything else you might call it? 100: Junk room. Interviewer: Okay. Ah, what do you say oh- your mother or some other woman does every morning when, just talking about the daily housework, she? 100: Cleaning, cleans up. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, fine. And what does sh-, what might she sweep with? 100: Broom. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And, uh, if, um, the broom where in the corner and the door were open so that it was hiding the broom, and I said to you where is the broom, you would reply the broom is? 100: Behind the #1 door. # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # It's amazing how many people can't figure out what I'm trying to describe that way. Um, Then, eh on Monday, years ago women used to do? 100: Mondays? Interviewer: On Mondays, yeah. Used, it used to be the day when they'd get the clothes- 100: They'd wash. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And how 'bout on Tuesdays then, to get the wrinkles out, the would? 100: Iron. Interviewer: Do you have a name for washing and ironing together? 100: No. Interviewer: Uh what do you call a place in town if you were gonna take your washing somewhere? 100: Laundry. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Um. Interviewer: And, uh the, let's see. It- how do you get to the first floor up to the second floor? 100: Steps. Interviewer: That's inside? 100: Oh, talking about in here? Alright, hold on. Interviewer: Well, what's the difference? 100: Stairs or something. Interviewer: Would you say stairs at home and #1 steps # 100: #2 Yes. # Interviewer: here? Why? 100: {D: I, I don't know/have no idea} Interviewer: I never thought about that. Stairs in a house and steps in a public building. That's, that is an interesting distinction. Hmm. Well what do you call the um, if you're, if your house is a little bit up the ground, what would you call the things outside that you'd walk up? 100: Steps. Interviewer: Mm-kay, steps there. Yeah, Okay. {NS} Uh, how, and what would be build maybe outside the house where you might put chairs? 100: Patio. Interviewer: Alright, suppose it's Enclosed, maybe has a room. 100: Mm. Interviewer: Screened in. 100: Porch. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Uh, could you have one on the second story? In a two story house? 100: If you want one. {NS} Interviewer: What would you call it then? {NS} 100: I guess a patio, if uh- Interviewer: Would that be off, up high? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. Um, did you ever hear an old name for porch? {NS} Did you ever hear it called anything like a gallery or a veranda or a piazza? Those are old names for it. Old people would know that, your grandmother would know that. Okay, let's see. If the door were open and you didn't want it to be you would say please- 100: Close the door. Interviewer: What's another way to say that? 100: Shut the door. Interviewer: Mm-kay. {NS} And uh, what would you call boards on the outside of a house that run that way? Interviewer: Went horizontally. To protect the house? Interviewer: {D: Did} the old names for it are clapboards or weather boards and modern name is siding. Do you know any of those? 100: Yeah, I know siding, but I don't know. Interviewer: Okay, mm-hmm. Um, and if you were doing some carpentry, well, what do you call the thing you'd hit the nail with, first? 100: Hammer. Interviewer: Alright, so you'd say I took the hammer and I- 100: Hit the nail. Interviewer: Or I? What's another way of saying that? 100: S- Interviewer: That might be an older way of saying it to. Ah, what do you think, say you do with a car? I took my car, and I 'blank' to town. 100: Driven it down. Drove it down. Interviewer: Okay, and I have? 100: Driven it down. Interviewer: And I will? 100: Drive it down. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And the part that covers the top of the house is the? 100: Roof. Interviewer: Alright, and on some houses you have those little things around the house to carry the water off? 100: Gutter. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Um. And then, on a, if the house had several slopes to the roof, and I can't describe this uh, and, what would you call a place where two of the slopes might come together? And leaves get stuck up in there and you have to clean it out? Interviewer: This again is something that old people know. It's, it's not a word I would have known. D- would you ever call it the valley of a roof? You know that term at all? No? Okay. Uh, what would you call a little building for storing wood? 100: Mm, shelter. Interviewer: Alright, how about a little building for storing tools? 100: A tool shed. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, good. Um, And ho- if you had, if you didn't have a bathroom in your house, what might you call the place outside? 100: A outhouse. Interviewer: Any other name for that? Is there a joking name? 100: Um, I don't know. That's all I ever call it. Interviewer: Okay, that's fine. Well, if um, I were telling you about my troubles and you were tired of hearing me you might say well I blank my troubles too. 100: I want to tell my troubles too. Interviewer: Mm. That's not what I was trying to get but that'll do. Uh, if there were a noise, I might ask you did you- 100: Hear the noise. Interviewer: And you would say yes I- 100: Hear the noise. Interviewer: And I have- 100: Heard the noise. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And if I ask you if you know somebody, you might reply, no I don't know him but I have? 100: Seen him. Interviewer: Or? Using that word again, I have? 100: Heard him. Heard of him. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, good. And, uh, if a friend came into town, and I ask you, have you seen him yet, you might say no I- 100: Haven't seen him. Interviewer: And, um, if you had a brother, you might say no my brother- 100: Isn't- is not here. Interviewer: Talking about seeing a friend. 100: #1 Oh. # Interviewer: #2 I haven't # seen him, and my brother? 100: Hasn't seen him. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NW} And um, if I ask you does your brother like ice cream, you might say yes, he- 100: Likes ice cream. Interviewer: Or using just one word, yes, he- 100: Likes. Interviewer: Not using likes. Using a form of 'do' you might say yes he- 100: Does like ice cream. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Do you have a brother, by the way? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: What do you have in your family? 100: One brother, and a mother and father. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, just two children? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: {NW} Is he older or younger? 100: Younger. Interviewer: How old is he? 100: Thirteen. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Is he in school here? Mm-hmm. What grade? 100: Ninth. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Okay, if a man no, that won't do. If um, hmm. Somebody was in school and didn't pay any attention to the teacher, and somebody was explaining what his problem was, they'd say well he just blank seem to care. He just- 100: Didn't care. Interviewer: Or saying that in the present right now, he just 100: Don't care. Interviewer: Mm-kay, good. Um, and if you were not certain about something, you might say well I'm not really? 100: Sure. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And, um, if {NW} somebody had been accused of a crime and you didn't know if the person was guilty or not, you might say well I don't know, but people blank he did it. 100: Thin- blame he did. Interviewer: People- 100: Or claimed he did it. Interviewer: Okay. Ah in wi- in the present. People, right now people- 100: Said he did it. Interviewer: Alright. Okay. And um, I think you've surely already use this word. The building that people live in is a? 100: Apartment. Interviewer: Or, a whole building is a 100: A house. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, and two of them would be two- 100: Two houses. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, and this- now we've go some farm questions coming up and if you don- if you don't know just say so because you're not supposed to know farm questions. Have you ever visited on a farm? 100: Not really. Interviewer: And you, probably have seen them on television #1 and all # 100: #2 Yeah. # Interviewer: that. Uh, well what do you call the big building where they store things? On a farm. They're often painted red. 100: Barn. Interviewer: Okay. And, do you know what you'd call a building or a place to store corn? Interviewer: Corn crib, do you know that word at all? 100: I know crib, but I ain't never heard of corn crib. Interviewer: What's a crib? 100: {D: It's a} baby, what you put a baby in. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Okay, what would you call a building or a part of a building to store grain? Interviewer: Like wheat. Interviewer: Alright, did you ever hear the word grainery or granary? Interviewer: Okay. Um, well there's no, if you don't know the word we won't worry about it. Um, the upper part of a barn, do you know what they call that? They keep the hay up there? 100: Loft. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, that's it. And if you had too much hay to get it in the loft, and you put it in a big pile outside, what would you call that? 100: Hay stack. Interviewer: Good, uh-huh. Um, did you ever see a haystack that was, that had some sort of shelter? Four poles and a roof over it? No? Good. Ah, nobody ever knows that one. I think that's in some other part of the country I don't even think they have those in the south. Um, Do you have any idea what they do with hay when they cut it? For the first time. Interviewer: I've never seen it done. Where would they keep cows on a farm? 100: In a fenced area. Interviewer: What would you call it? 100: Um, {D: Not really know.} Interviewer: Well where would you keep them inside so they could get out of the rain? 100: Barn. Interviewer: Okay, where would you keep horses? 100: Stable. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And uh, do you know where they might milk cows outside? Interviewer: Ever hear of a cow lot, or a cow pen, or a milk gap? Okay. Uh, where would you keep hogs and pigs? 100: A pig pen. Interviewer: Good. And, {NS} Where, uh, what do you call the kind of farm where they just raise cows for milk? 100: A dairy. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Uh, then what would you call a place around the barn where they might let the animals walk around? Interviewer: No name for that? Barnyard, lot? No? How about the, uh, place where the cows might go out to graze? 100: Grazing land. Interviewer: Alright, um. Do you know the word pasture or field or #1 meadow? # 100: #2 Yeah. # Interviewer: {NS} What? {NS} 100: Yeah I know {X} Interviewer: Well what- What was the first one I said? 100: Pasture. Interviewer: Okay. Uh, then, do you know anything about raising cotton? 100: No. {NS} Interviewer: Did you, do you know what they call it when they thin it out with a hoe? 100: No. Interviewer: Ever hear chopping cotton? Okay. Do you know what they call grass that grows up in a cotton field that they don't want? 100: Weeds. Interviewer: Mm-kay, that's good enough. And then you- cotton and corn grow in a big area that, would you say a -cotton 100: Gin. Interviewer: Well the thing they grow in. Interviewer: #1 a 'f'. # 100: #2 Cotton # field. Interviewer: Yeah, mm-hmm. And tobacco, w- if, well something else. If something grew in just a little area, that's a? 100: Cotton gin? Uh. Interviewer: If a, say you might have a watermelon 100: Patch. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And um, what kinds of fences do you know about? 100: Barbed wire fences. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 100: Plain fences. Interviewer: #1 Wha- # 100: #2 {D: Wo-} # Interviewer: What do you mean by plain? 100: Wood just uh, going across {D: and} got a little. 100: They cross over like this all up on the top. #1 Going across # Interviewer: #2 Mm, is that, # that's a wire. Isn't it? 100: Nah. Interviewer: Th- that's, is that wood? 100: {D: Nah I ain't} yeah that's wire. Interviewer: Is wire #1 Okay. # 100: #2 Mm. # Interviewer: Yeah, I think I know what you mean. How about, um, wooden fences. How abou- do you know those little fences that, they have little, wooden things coming up that are pointed on top? 100: Stake fence. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a picket fence? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: How you say that? 100: Picket fence. Interviewer: Mm-kay, is that what I'm describing? Little #1 D: legs # 100: #2 Yeah. # Interviewer: coming up and #1 down? # 100: #2 I guess # so. Yeah. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 100: #2 {X} # {NS} Interviewer: Wooden. 100: And this, some of can be large can it? Interviewer: Mm. Yeah, I guess so. I don't really know much about fences myself. Uh, how about on a farm. Do you know if, when they would stack, have a fence stacked kind of like this? It's an old fashioned fence. It's a wooden fence. 100: I don't know the name of it. Interviewer: Rail fence? 100: I don't guess so, guess that I ain't never heard of it. Interviewer: Haven't you? Do you know the word rail? 100: Yes. I heard rail road. Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 100: #2 Stuff # {D: like that} Interviewer: But that's all that rail means to you. It's just #1 rail road. # 100: #2 Yeah. # Interviewer: Okay. Um, then if you were setting up a barbed wire fence you'd have to dig holes for the? 100: Wire. Interviewer: Well the thing that goes in the ground. 100: Stakes. Interviewer: Or what's another word for those? Interviewer: Starts with a p. 100: Pi- {D: I don't know.} Interviewer: Um. 100: Poles. Interviewer: Yeah, like pole, but p-o-s-t, is a? 100: Post. Interviewer: And if you had several of those, you'd say I had a lot of? 100: Posts. Interviewer: Okay, good. And, do you have a name for a fence or a wall made out of loose stone or rock? 100: No. Interviewer: Ah, did you ever see one? 100: No. Interviewer: Now I know that there're, there're things made out of stone or rock in Atlanta, you know sometimes around a house? 100: Yeah, I seen but it talking about it's not shaped {D: like it just} #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Just # say along the bank, what would you call that? 100: A wall. Interviewer: Okay, mm-hmm. And then i- um, what are your best dishes made out of? 100: China. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. {NW} Excuse me. If you saw an egg made out of that, what would you call that? 100: An egg made out of china? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Just put the two words together. 100: Egg china. Interviewer: Other way. 100: China egg. Interviewer: Yeah. Did you ever see an egg made out of china? 100: Mm-mm. Interviewer: Alright, uh, what would you carry water in? A big #1 thing. # 100: #2 Pail? # Interviewer: Mm-hmm. I- what's it made of? 100: Iron. Interviewer: Okay, how about, uh, carrying milk? What would that be? 100: Pail. Interviewer: Is it the same? #1 For water or # 100: #2 Yeah. # Interviewer: milk? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: Suppose they were at a well, and it were wooden. 100: Bucket. Interviewer: Okay. And, uh, suppose it were plastic, what would you call it then? 100: Bucket. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Do you know what you'd call a kind of bucket or pail that you might put food in to carry to the pigs? Interviewer: What wou- do you know what they call the food that you take to the pigs? 100: Slop. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, so you might call #1 that? # 100: #2 Slop # pail. Interviewer: Okay, good. And then what would you f-, what do you fry eggs in? 100: F- frying pan. Interviewer: Any other name for that? 100: Skillet. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Is frying pan what you usually say? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: What would you call it if it were electric? 100: Electri-, electric s-, electric pan. or s- skillet. Interviewer: Alright, mm-hmm. And do you, did you ever see one of those big black things that they used to put out in the yard to wash clothes in? Interviewer: Your grandmothers probably had them. Wash pot? Ever hear of that? What do you call the thing that they boil water in to make tea? 100: {D: Water} Interviewer: Well uh- on the stove. Sometimes they're whistling? 100: Tea kettle. Interviewer: Yeah, mm-hmm. {NW} Uh, then what would you call a container that you plant flowers in. 100: Pot. Interviewer: Alright, how 'bout a pl- a container that you, when you cut flowers you might put them in a? 100: Vase. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And then what are the eating utensils that you set beside your plate? 100: Forks, spoons, knives. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And if you had just one of the thing that you cut with, you'd have one? 100: Knife. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NW} And if the dishes were all dirty you'd say I've got to? 100: Wash the dishes. Interviewer: And then after she washes the dishes to get the soap of she? 100: Dries the di- Interviewer: Well before she drys them she? 100: Rinses. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NS} Very good. And what do you call the cloth or rag that you'd use to wash the dishes? 100: Wash cloth. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, and then to dry them? 100: A- 100: A- a cloth. A rag {D: to wa-} dry the, to dry the dishes. Interviewer: Okay. And then how about uh, what you use to wash your face? 100: Wash cloth. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, and uh, to dry yourself off? 100: Towel. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NW} Ah, then if you were at the kitchen sink what do you call the thing you turn to get the water? 100: Um 100: I just, I don't know, I just call it sink or something. Interviewer: Well the thing that you turn on? 100: Water faucet. Interviewer: That's it, Okay, and then out in the yard ho- if you were gonna hook up a hose what would you call that thing in the yard? 100: Faucet. Interviewer: Alright, and suppose it were on some kind of a, a portable container? Like a water container or something. What would you call that, a little thing that you turn? Interviewer: That a faucet too? 100: Yeah I guess so. {X} Interviewer: Some people call them spickets or hydrants. Do you know of #1 those word- # 100: #2 yeah hydrant. # Interviewer: Now what i- what is a hydrant? 100: {D: Uh, is that like what a} what a fire hydrant {D: did} Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 100: Fire hydrant people. Fire- Interviewer: #1 Mm-kay. # 100: #2 fire # men. {NS} Interviewer: Okay. Uh, and if it were very cold in the night, your water pipes might do what? 100: Freeze. Interviewer: And then they would? 100: Br- break. Interviewer: What'd you start to say first? 100: Break? Interviewer: Did you start to say something else before you said break? 100: I meant to say break. Interviewer: Oh, Okay. Well if, what if you stuck a pin in a balloon, it would? 100: Burst. Interviewer: Okay, and if it did that yesterday you'd say yesterday it? 100: Burst. Interviewer: Okay. And then what do you call a big, wooden container that flour used to come in? 100: Flour. Interviewer: Or crackers used to come in, or pickles? Interviewer: They're big wooden things and they have bands #1 around # 100: #2 Crate? # Interviewer: Um, I'm sure you know the word you probably just 100: A barrel? Interviewer: That's it. Okay. Ah, do you know what you call a little one that nails came in? Interviewer: Or beer comes in. 100: mug Interviewer: Er, this is a, a wooden container again like a barrel but it's #1 smaller. # 100: #2 Oh. # Interviewer: Keg, do you know that #1 word? # 100: #2 Yeah, # keg. Interviewer: Okay. Uh, then do you know what molasses used to come in when they'd buy a lot of it? This is, I think, before your time. 100: {D: Wood} w- #1 uh # Interviewer: #2 {D: It- I don't even} # I don't even know what it's made of, just a container for a lot of molasses. How 'bout for lard? I think its even before my time, its gotta be before your time. And if you wanted to pour water into a narrow mouthed bottle, what do you call that thing that you'd pour it through? 100: Nozzle. Interviewer: Well it's a, a thing that's narrow at the bottom and then wide at the top? 100: #1 Mm, # Interviewer: #2 And you- # 100: A funnel. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And then to make your horses go faster you'd hit them with a- 100: Whip. Interviewer: Kay, and uh, if you bought something at the drugstore then the uh, man might pu-, put it into a? 100: Sack. Interviewer: Made of? 100: Paper. Interviewer: Okay. Um, and suppose uh, w- if it were made of cloth, what would you call it if, say a lot of flour would come in a? I don't know if they still sell it that way or not. A, a large amount of sugar or flour? 100: The only thing I knew that come in a big bag are. Interviewer: Is it still made of paper though? 100: Yeah, it's made of paper. Interviewer: If you saw a bag made out of cloth what would you call it? {NS} 100: {X} {NS} Interviewer: What about that um, {NS} that very rough kind of cloth? That maybe potatoes would come in? 100: Potato sack? Interviewer: Okay. Did you ever hear that called a croker sack, or or a toe sack? Or a burlap bag, or a #1 gunny sa- # 100: #2 burlap # bag. Interviewer: Pardon? 100: Burlap bag. Interviewer: Okay. Uh, then do you know what you'd call and I'd bet you wouldn't, the amount of corn you'd take to the mill to be ground at once? If you never lived on a farm I can't imagine you'd, anybody'd know that. Um, Do you, what would you call the amount of wood you could pick up and carry in your arms? 100: {X} S-, s- Interviewer: Or the amount of anything you could carry in your arms, you'd say I've got a whole? a whole arm-? 100: Full o-, full of, full of logs. Of wood. Interviewer: Alright, so what's the, what's the word? A whole? 100: A whole arm full of. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Alright, now if you're um, bulb, I just said the word, if your if it burned out in an electric light, you'd screw in a new? 100: Bulb. Interviewer: What kind of bulb? 100: Electric bulb. Interviewer: What's another word for it? Starting with an L. Something bulb. 100: Lamp. Interviewer: Uh, an l- #1 i-t- # 100: #2 Light # bulb. Interviewer: Yeah, Okay. Uh, then, let's see. If you were taking the wa- if you were, if a woman was taking the washing out to hang it on a line, she'd carry it in a? 100: {NS} In a {NW} Interviewer: Or, um, the Easter rabbit might bring you an Easter- 100: Basket. Interviewer: Okay um, and then, on, on a barrel you know there wooden, and then they've got these medal bands going around them, do you know what to call those? {NS} 100: Metal ban- What, {D: did you,} say that over again? Interviewer: Ah, metal bands that go around a barrel. It's the same word that used to be used for that toy that was popular in the fifties that you'd spin around yourself. 100: Spin top? Interviewer: A, a hula- 100: Hoop. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And uh, what would you put in the top of a bottle, to keep the liquid from spilling out? 100: Cork #1 or # Interviewer: #2 mm-hmm. # 100: top. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Uh, what's a, is a cork, suppose it's made out of glass. Would it still be a cork? 100: The top? Interviewer: A top if it's class, Okay. And what do you call a little musical instrument that you play like that? 100: Harmonica. Interviewer: You know another word for that? Old fashion word? 100: Accordion. Something. Interviewer: Would you ever call it a harp? Mouth organ? Nope? Alright, how about the thing that you hold between your teeth and pluck? Ever hear of a Jew's harp? 100: Jew? Interviewer: Jew's harp? Jew's harp, you see that on, on country music shows sometimes if you ever watch those on television. If you had a wagon and two horses, these again, these are farm terms so you probably won't know them. There's some city terms later on but we gotta get the farm terms over with first. Uh, what would you call a long wooden piece that goes between the horses on the wagon? You probably don't know. And you don't need to know. You're not supposed to know. And if you had a horse pulling a buggy what would you call the two wooden pieces you back the horse between? Okay. And uh, on a wagon wheel? What would you call the outside part of the wheel? 100: The outer wheel? Interviewer: Um, Okay. Do you know what you'd call I'm not even gonna worry with that. Uh, if you had again a horse pulling a wagon, do you know what you'd call the bar that the traces on the horse would fasten to? Or if you had two horses, what those would fasten to? {NS} Ah, must be time for you to go to class, right? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. Interviewer: see whether it's going to be recording today or not. Uh. Did you go to the football game by the way, this week? 100: No. Interviewer: They did win, didn't they? What was the score? 100: Eight to six. Interviewer: #1 {D: How many?} # 100: #2 {D: I mean} # eight to nine. {NS} Interviewer: That is close. {NS} I'm awfully glad they won. Let me see if it's picking you up. {NS} Okay, since it seems to be recording and working at the moment and it may not be five minutes from now we need to get back to this. I know we were in the middle of this farm section, and you don't know much about it, but let's go ahead and finish it anyway. Uh, if somebody is carrying a lot of wood along, and picking it up and putting it down and so forth, what would you say he's doing to the wood? 100: {NS} Carrying the wood. Interviewer: Okay, what's another word that kind of means carrying it or taking it somewhere that begins with an "l". 100: Holding it. Interviewer: Yeah, that's right. Okay. Now suppose there's a, piece of wood, or a log or something and it's too big to pick up. You might tie a rope around it and do what to it? 100: Pull it. Interviewer: Or what's another word for pull? 100: Tug. Interviewer: Or st- uh, word starting with a "d". D-r. 100: Drug, dra- drag. Interviewer: Okay, so if you did that yesterday you'd say you? 100: Drug. Interviewer: And, I have, 100: Drag. Interviewer: Mm-kay, good. And uh, what does the farmer bla- break {NW} the ground with in the spring? 100: Plough. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And uh, do you know any different types of ploughs? Do you know what he might use to break the ground up finer than a plough? Did you ever hear of a harrow, or a harrow? Never? Okay. Uh, then um, what do the wheels of a wagon or a car fit on to? You know the wheels are at the end and there's that rod that runs underneath, that's a? 100: Axle. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Okay. {NS} And, uh, what would you call a frame that you might lay a log on to chop it? Kind of an x-shaped frame? You ever see that? Okay, this you may have seen, it's an a-shaped kind of thing and you, um. {NS} I think I drew a picture of one. It looks, that's not it. {NS} What did I draw it on? Well, anyway, it, it um {NS} I can't find the piece of paper I drew it on. It's something that's, it's like this and then it's gotta blank across the top and you might have two of them and lay a board on top to saw it. Or they might use it to put boards across to make a picnic table outside? Most people call that a horse or a saw horse, did you ever hear that? No? Okay. I guess you don't chop wood very much where you live. Okay, um. {NS} You straighten your hair with a comb or a- 100: Brush. Interviewer: And when you do that, you say I'm going to? 100: Brush my hair. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And you would sharpen a straight razor on a leather? Interviewer: It's also something they use to #1 hit kids with. # 100: #2 Whip? # #1 W- # Interviewer: #2 Pardon? # 100: A whip? Interviewer: Well it's a 100: #1 a belt. # Interviewer: #2 {D: piece of} # Ah, it's like a belt. Uh, and I really just want to say, see whether you pronounce it strap or strap. Which way would you say it? 100: Strap. Interviewer: Okay. And, uh, what do you put in a revolver? Not bullets, but something starting with a "c". 100: Case. Interviewer: You say you're firing blank what? 100: Case. Interviewer: Starts with c-a-r. car- 100: Cartridge. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, that's it. And uh, these are some things on, they might have a playground if there was a plank and a child sits at each end and you go up and down #1 that's a # 100: #2 See-saw. # Interviewer: And if you're playing on that you'd say you're doing what? 100: Well, see-sawing. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, right. Uh, how about something that was anchored in the middle, and you get on the ends and you spin around. You ever see that? 100: A merry- a merry-go-round. Interviewer: Alright, uh-huh. Did you ever see, I don't think they have these in Atlanta. A board that's anchored at both ends and you get in the middle and you jump up and down? Interviewer: #1 That's # 100: #2 A # Interviewer: called a joggling board. You ever hear of that? They have them in south Georgia but I don't think they have them this far north. {NS} And then a thing that, uh, when you tie two ropes on a tree limb and put a board? 100: Swing. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Uh, do you know what you call a thing you carry coal in? To put it by the fire. 100: {D: Pair} Interviewer: Alright, that's fine, mm-hmm. And uh, what runs from an old time stove to the chimney? 100: Pipe. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Do you know what flue is? Good, 'cause I don't either. {D: Would} that's true. How, what would you call a little thing that has two handles and one wheel for carrying heavy things? 100: Wa-, uh. Interviewer: It's a wheel #1 some # 100: #2 {D: shelf} # #1 Um. # Interviewer: #2 Wheel. # Interviewer: First part of the word is wheel. It's a wheel? 100: Wheel wagons. Interviewer: Wheel barrow, wheel- 100: #1 Wheel # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 100: b- wheel barrow. Okay. Uh, then wha- uh, what do you know what you'd, could carry in your hand for sharpening a knife on? 100: A knife sharpener? {X} Interviewer: Alright, did you ever hear of a wet stone, or wet rock? 100: Yeah, wet rock. Interviewer: Okay, how about a great big thing that might turn around and you sharpen an ax on it? 100: Um, Interviewer: Grind stone or grind rock? Interviewer: Grinding stone, nothing? Okay. Uh, then the thing that you dry, there's a 100: Car. Interviewer: Alright, if something was squeaking in your car, what would you put on it to lubricate it? 100: Oil. Interviewer: Or, what's a, heavy black stuff? 100: Lubricating oil? Interviewer: And if, well, it's um. It's a, if it was squeaking you might say to the mechanic, please do what to my car? Interviewer: Alright. But what I'm, what I'm trying to get you to say is grease. If you were asking #1 a me- # 100: #2 Oh. # Interviewer: -chanic to put grease on the car you'd say to him please do what to my car? 100: Put some grease on it. Interviewer: Well using grease as a verb, please do what do my #1 car? # 100: #2 Grease # my car. Interviewer: Uh-huh, and so yesterday I? 100: Greased my car. Interviewer: Good, and if it g-, the grease got all over your hands you'd say their all? 100: My hands are greasy. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Fine. And, do you know what they used to burn in old time lamps? 100: Kerosene. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Any other name for that? Interviewer: Did you ever see a lamp made from a rag and a bottle and kerosene? 100: {D: Never} seen one of them. Interviewer: #1 {D: Yeah but} # 100: #2 {D: Uh} # with a piece of glass over it? Interviewer: Well I don't, I don't think it even has glass over it, it's just somebody takes a bottle and then they put kerosene and a rag in it and they light it, and they use that for a lamp. Know what you'd call that? Okay. Um. That's a really old fashioned thing. Tooth paste comes in a? 100: Tube. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And um, if you've just built a boat and you're gonna put it in the water for the first time, what do you say you're going to do with it? 100: Launch it. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And what would you call a little boat that didn't have a motor on it that you just might take out for fishing on a lake? 100: Row boat. Interviewer: Yeah, good. Okay, uh. And, mm. {NS} If uh, a child was just learning to dress himself, the mother might bring in the clothes and put them down in front of the child and say Okay, here? 100: Are your clothes. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, fine. And uh, if you saw a little boy and he was afraid of you, and he thought you were gonna do him some injury, you might tell him well don't cry, I'm your friend, I- 100: Not gonna hurt you. Interviewer: Yeah, that's it, good. And if uh, you wh- you gave somebody a ride into town and he thanked you but you uh, you were telling him it wasn't really any trouble you say well that's Okay, we going that way anyway. 100: We were going that way. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And if you were telling somebody about the good old days, when everything used to be better, you might lean back and say ah, blank-blank, the good old days. 100: I wish {NS} {D: was} Interviewer: Those 100: Those good old days. Interviewer: Oh, Okay, that's good enough. And if somebody said was that you I saw in town yesterday, you might say no it- 100: It wasn't me. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And, uh, if a woman wants to buy a dress of a certain color, she might take a little piece of cloth to use as a? 100: Example. Interviewer: Yeah. Or if, uh, somebody gave you, uh, in the grocery store they wanted to sell you some cheese so they'd give you a free- 100: Sample. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And if yo- if she saw a dress that she liked, liked, she might say that's a very what dress? 100: Pretty dress. Interviewer: And if she saw one she liked a little more, she said that one's even- 100: Beautiful. Interviewer: Oh, or using another form of pretty #1 That one's # 100: #2 Prettier. # Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NS} And, uh, a woman might wear over her dress in a kitchen? 100: Flowers. Interviewer: Well, 100: Apron. Interviewer: Yeah, mm-hmm. And, uh, let's see, the thing that you write with is a? 100: Pencil. Interviewer: Or? 100: Pen. Interviewer: And you fasten a baby's diaper with a? 100: Pin. Baby pin. Interviewer: Okay. And uh, soup {NS} used to come in a can made out of? 100: Tin. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, and a dime is worth? 100: Ten cent. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And, uh, in the winter time, what do you put on to keep you warm? 100: Coat. Interviewer: And uh, then the, the thing that a man wears the matching stuff is called a? 100: Suit. Interviewer: And what are the three pieces? 100: Coat, vest, and pants. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. You have any other names for pants? 100: Slacks. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um. What do, do farmers wear? Work clothes. 100: Overall. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. That's good. Uh, then, again talking about the suit, if you're old one wore out, you might have to go and buy a brand? 100: New one. Interviewer: Okay, good enough. Uh, then, if uh, you went out in the winter without your coat and someone went back to fetch it, he might say here I have? 100: Your coat. Interviewer: Or I have done what to your coat? 100: Found your coat. Interviewer: And, blank it to you? 100: Give it, gave, give you your coat. Interviewer: Okay, we're getting a lot of verbs but not the particular one I want. I, I'm looking for one that starts with a b-r, I have? 100: Brought to you. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And I will? 100: Bring you your coat. Interviewer: And yesterday, I? 100: Brought to you. Interviewer: Yeah, good. And if you stuck a lot of things in your pockets, it would make them what? 100: Big. Interviewer: It would make them, meaning stick out, it would make them- 100: Puff out. Interviewer: Starts with a "b". Bulge or bulge? 100: Bulge. Interviewer: Okay. And uh, you might say that suit fit me last y- uh, this year, the suit fit me, but no, wait a minute, I've got it backwards. Last year it fit me, but, uh, this year? I can't even say the question I'm gonna have to read it. Uh, the coat won't fit this year, but last year it blank perfectly. 100: Fit perfect. Interviewer: Okay. And, i- if you washed something, and then it got smaller, you'd say it did what? 100: Shrunk. Interviewer: And it has? 100: Shrinked. Interviewer: And it will? 100: Shrink. Interviewer: Okay, If a woman likes to put on pretty clothes all the time, you'd say she likes to? 100: Dress pretty. Interviewer: Suppose she just stands in front of the ma-, of the mirror, putting makeup on, she's? 100: Dressing up. Interviewer: Alright, how about a man, what would you say about a man that likes to wear fancy clothes? Interviewer: Would you just say dress up for him to? 100: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. Um, then, what do you call a little thing that a woman might carry her coins in? 100: Purse. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And uh, what would a woman wear around a wrist? 100: A bracelet. Interviewer: And around her neck? 100: Necklace. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Suppose it was beads or pearls, or something, would you ah, say a something of beads? 100: A set of, a set of pearls. Interviewer: Alright. Would you ever say a string or a strand? No? Okay. Uh, then, what do men wear well they used to, in-, instead of a belt to hold up their pants? 100: Suspenders. Interviewer: Do you ever hear an old fashioned name for that? Galluses? No? And, when it rains you hold a? 100: Umbrella. Interviewer: Did you ever h- call that a parasol? Ever hear of a parasol? You know what it is? 100: Umbrella. Interviewer: Is it the same thing? 100: I just, fashion, you know. Interviewer: Fashionable name for one? Okay. Uh, then what is the fancy top covering you put over a bed? 100: S- uh, spread. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, and you put your head on a? 100: Pillow. Interviewer: Did you ever see a pillow that was about twice as long as a regular one? Ever hear of a bolster? Okay. Well, if you saw one and you called it a bolster you might say that bolster doesn't just go part way across the bed, it goes? 100: All the way. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And uh, what do you call that s- thing that you might put on the bed to keep you warm, that women stitch together? 100: A quilt. Interviewer: Mm-hmm, that's it. And um, I don't know if you know this word or not. Uh, If you had too many people comping- coming to see you, and you didn't have enough beds, you might make up something on the floor for the children, and that's a? 100: Pallet. Interviewer: Good, good, I didn't, I thought that might be an old fashion word you wouldn't know. And I think this tape's about to run out. {NS} Interviewer : Okay, it looks like it's recording. Um, th- these are some questions about types of land, and so forth. Th- a farmer might say I'm gonna get a big yield from this field because the soil is very 100: Soft? Uh. Interviewer : It's a word that means rich when you're talking about soil. Starts with an F. 100: Fertilizer. Interviewer : #1 Alright, # 100: #2 {X} # Interviewer : okay. Uh, what would you call low land along the stream? 100: A valley? Interviewer : It's mostly farmers who'd know these things. Would you ever hear of bottom land? {NS} No? Okay. How about, uh flat land where nothing really grows but maybe grass or flowers? 100: Plain. Interviewer : Alright. And how about, I know you know this word, wou- a where there're a lot of water and um bog, and alligators and 100: Swamp. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Do you know what you'd call one that was salt water that was by the sea? 100: Stream? Interviewer : Um, how about marsh. Do you know that word? {NS} Okay, um. {X} Do you have any names for different kinds of soil? 100: Dirt. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. How about that red stuff that Georgia's famous for? 100: Red clay. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NW} Okay. Did you ever hear of loam? Alright, uh. If you're getting water off the swamp, you'd say your doing what? 100: S- 100: {X} Interviewer : Draining it or draining it? 100: Draining. Interviewer : #1 Alright. # 100: #2 {X} # Interviewer : And what would you call a thing that you would dig to drain the water? 100: A hole. Interviewer : Or a th- a long thing that the water runs along. 100: Gully, or som- Interviewer : Word starting with a D? 100: Ditch. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Okay. {X} How about I, I don't think you'll know a word for this because Atlanta's not on the sea. But do you know what you'd call a place where the water flows in and out with the tide? 100: Current. Interviewer : Well it's kind of a l- uh, s- name of a stream. 100: Gulf stream? Interviewer : Hmm, alright, well, {NW} Uh, then how about a deep, narrow valley that's cut by a stream of water? 100: River. {NS} Interviewer : Mm. Not the river, not the stream of water itself but the, the valley. {X} walking along and then there were a place where it just dropped down about ten feet and there were maybe water in the bottom, would you, have a name for it? 100: Trenches? Interviewer : Alright. Would the- would you ever call anything like that a gulch or a canyon or a ravine or #1 anything like # 100: #2 Yeah. # Interviewer : that? What? 100: A ravine. Interviewer : Alright. {NW} And um, you had said gully before, would you describe a gully? 100: Uh, like, like going around the house. Like it's {NS} made like, sorta like a U but it's going like a tunnel Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: #1 and stuff. # Interviewer : #2 Mm-hmm. # Mm-hmm, okay. Uh, s- if uh, {X} what do you call a little body of water that's just flowing along? 100: Stream. Interviewer : Any other name for that? 100: Pond. {NS} Interviewer : Does a pond flow? 100: Oh, no. Interviewer : Or it, it's just sitting there? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : Anything smaller than a stream? 100: I guess so, but I don't, I can't think of a word. Interviewer : Are there any uh, streams in your neighborhood? 100: No. Interviewer : How about, any rivers that you know about? 100: Mississippi river. Interviewer : Well how about in Atlanta though? 100: Um, Chattanooga river. Interviewer : #1 Okay # 100: #2 Chattahoochee. # Interviewer : Yeah, that's it. Uh, then, let's see, what would you call a small rise in the land? 100: Mound? Interviewer : Anything bigger than a mound? 100: A mountain. Interviewer : Well what's sort of between a mound and then a mountain? 100: Hill. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Alright, good. Uh, and the thing you turn to open the door with is a? 100: Door knob. Interviewer : Would you ever call a hill a knob? Mm, they don't do that in this, that part of the country and you're not supposed to know that. Uh, then you mentioned gulf stream before. What do you call that big body of water that's south of the United States? 100: Uh, Pacific? Interviewer : It, no gulf something. 100: The gulf, the gulf stream? Interviewer : It's the gulf of 100: Mexico. Interviewer : Okay. And uh, if your getting back to the mountain again. If the, there's a place where the mountain drops off, you'd say don't fall off the 100: The hill? Interviewer : Well it's the rocky #1 side of # 100: #2 The cliff. # Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And so you'd say the mountain has two 100: Cliff. Interviewer : Okay. And uh, up in the mountains where the road goes through in a low place, would you have a name for that? Would you call that anything like a notch or a pass or a gap? Nope? Not at all. Then ah, in the mountains too, where there's water flowing along and all the sudden it drops off, that's a? 100: Waterfall. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. How about a place, uh, where boats stop and freight is unloaded? 100: Sea port. Interviewer : Or just the place where the boat comes in? 100: Port. Interviewer : Okay, that's good enough. Um, what are roads made of? 100: Uh, asphalt. Interviewer : Mm-hmm, what else? What is asphalt made of? I don't even know. 100: I guess coal, I don't know. Interviewer : What's that black sticky stuff? 100: Tar. Interviewer : Uh-huh. How about a road that's not paved at all? 100: Dirt road. Interviewer : And how about the one that's got those little rocks on it? 100: A rock road? {NS} Interviewer : Gravel, do you know that? 100: Yeah, gravel. Interviewer : Okay. And then the thing that people walk along is the? 100: Sidewalk. Interviewer : What's that made of? 100: Concrete. Interviewer : Mm-kay. Uh, then, what would you call a big main road? 100: Highway. Interviewer : And how about a smaller road, a little road that goes off the highway? 100: Street I guess. Interviewer : Alright, fine. Uh, how about a road that g- n- it's not really a road but it goes from the street up to your house? 100: #1 Driveway. # Interviewer : #2 Mm-hmm. # And what would you call the strip of grass that's between the sidewalk and the street? {NS} 100: Weed. Interviewer : Well, you know that strip, you have to mow it. But it's between the sidewalk and the street. You have a name for it? That's funny, people in some parts of the south have names for it and other parts don't, and they don't have a name for it in Atlanta so it's right that you don't. Uh, okay, if you were walking along and a dog jumped out at you, you might pick up a 100: Rock. Interviewer : And you would say I 100: Threw it at it. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NW} And uh, if you went to somebody's house and knocked and nobody answered, you'd say I guess he's not 100: Here. Interviewer : Or he's not at 100: Home. Interviewer : Okay. And uh, if somebody came to see your mother and say you were out in the yard and you, they ask you is she home y- and we would say yes, she's 100: In the house. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And if she's in the room where you prepare food, you'd say she's 100: In the kitchen. Interviewer : Mm-hmm good. Uh, and then that black stuff that people sometimes drink for breakfast is 100: Coffee. Interviewer : And uh, there are two ways that you can drink coffee in terms of putting milk in it. You can say I drink it blank milk or blank milk. 100: With milk and without milk. Interviewer : That's it exactly, good. And if somebody's not walking away from you, you say he's walking {NS} 100: Towards you.{NS} Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And if you saw somebody that you hadn't seen in a while and you were telling somebody else about him and you might say guess who I ran In to #1 Mm-hmm. # 100: #2 today. # Interviewer : And uh, if you gave a child the same name as her mother, you'd say we named the child 100: After her mother. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NS} Okay. And then, the next few questions are about animals. This is mostly farm animals, but not completely. The kind of animal that barks is a 100: Dog. Interviewer : If you wanted your dog to attack another dog what would you say to him? 100: Sic 'em. Interviewer : Good. And um, what would you call a dog that's not any particular breed? 100: A mutt. Interviewer : Mm-hmm, anything else? Ah, what would you call a very noisy little dog? 100: A runt. Interviewer : Okay. Did you ever hear of a feist? No, okay. Ah, then if he were a mean dog you'd say you better look out he might 100: Bite you. Interviewer : And yesterday he {NS} 100: Bit you Interviewer : And he has? 100: Bit you. {NS} Interviewer : Okay. And then, uh, the animal that you milk is a? 100: Cow. Interviewer : And, uh, a male is a? 100: B- bull. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And a baby one is a? 100: Calf. Interviewer : You have different names for male and female? 100: I don't think so.{D} {NS} Interviewer : Okay, how about um, uh, if a, a cow is about to have a calf she, say she's going to what? 100: Have a calf. Interviewer : Would you ever say anything like freshen or come fresh or drop a calf or there's some more too but I can't remember 'em. They're, those are old country terms. And then the animal that looks kind of like a horse but its got long ears is a 100: Donkey. Interviewer : Or? 100: Mule. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh, if you had two of those you'd say you had a what of mules? 100: Two mules? {NS} Interviewer : A something of mules. Two of them pulling a plough? 100: Couple of mules. Interviewer : Okay how about um that animal that looks kind of like a bull? that they sometimes use for ploughing? 100: Ox. Interviewer : Mm-hmm if you had two of those what would you have? 100: A couple of ox. Interviewer : Okay. Uh then if uh, well the animal that you ride is a 100: Horse. Interviewer : And two of those are two 100: Couple of horses. Interviewer : Okay. And a female is a Starts with an M. 100: M- mare. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And a male is a 100: Colt. Interviewer : Starts with an S. 100: Stallion. Interviewer : Good. Uh then if you uh were getting up on your horse you say I'm going to? 100: Ride my horse Interviewer : And yesterday I 100: Rid my horse Interviewer : And I have 100: Ridden my #1 horse. # Interviewer : #2 Okay. # And if he couldn't stay on you'd say he fell 100: Off. Interviewer : Alright and if a little child was in bed and then woke up on the floor he'd say gee I must've 100: Fallen off the bed. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh the things you put on the horse's feet are the? 100: Horse shoe. Interviewer : Okay. And uh the game you might play with those is? 100: Horse shoe. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Uh do you ever see anybody play that with rings instead of horse shoes? What would they call that? 100: Ring I don't know. I just seen it I ain't hear them call the name. Interviewer : You ever play that? Mm-kay. Um. I think I just skipped one. I did. The horses feet are called what? Starts with an H? 100: Hooves. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and if yo- just one of them would be one? 100: Hoof. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. A- do you know what you call a male sheep? Interviewer : Alright now the male could be a ram or a buck. Would you use one of those? 100: Ram. Interviewer : Alright and the female is spelled e-w-e, how would you say that? {NS} 100: Ear- {X} ewe. Interviewer : Did you ever hear of that? Nope? Okay. Um then on their backs they have what? 100: Wool. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh then the animal that uh well the the animal that you get pork from is a what? 100: {D: What'd you say} Interviewer : That you get pork from? 100: Pig. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And a baby one would be a? 100: Hog? Interviewer : How about a big one? 100: Hog. Interviewer : Same thing weather it's big or small? Okay a female? Interviewer : How about a male? {NS} Alright suppose you had a hog and you didn't want it to be able to breed what would you do to it? 100: Sterilize. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Okay, would you say the same thing about any animal? 100: Yes. #1 Yeah. # Interviewer : #2 Okay. # Uh then do you know what you would call a male hog after you had sterilized it? Alright. That's something very few city people would know unless they really lived on a farm and seen it done. Uh what do hogs have on their backs that stiff hair that stands up? Interviewer : It's the same stuff you have in a hair brush. Bristle, do you know that word? Nope, okay. How about the uh big teeth a hog has? An elephant has them too. 100: Tusk. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And what would you call a hog that's grown up wild? 100: Bore. Interviewer : Alright and what is the um trough? I just said the word. Alright well the thing you put the food for the hogs in is a? 100: Trough. Interviewer : And several of those are? 100: Troughs. Interviewer : It's awfully hard to s- to ask these things without saying the word sometimes. And um these are sounds that different animals make. What wou- noise would you say a calf makes? 100: Moo? Interviewer : How about a cow? 100: Same thing. Interviewer : Alright how about a horse? 100: Hee-haw {D: somethin-} Interviewer : How about whinny or nicker or wicker or anything like that? 100: Whinny I #1 guess. # Interviewer : #2 Alright. # And if you had some horses and mules and cows and they were all getting hungry you'd say uh I guess I'd better go feed the? 100: Animals. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and suppose you had some chickens and turkeys and geese you'd say I'm gonna go feed the? 100: Poultry. Interviewer : Good. Uh then a hen on a nest of eggs is called a 100: What you say? Interviewer : A hen on a nest of eggs. 100: I don't know.{D} Interviewer : Another I'm still on the country terms here but I will get through with them pretty soon. A sitting hen or a setting hen or a brooding hen? Any of those? Do you know what you call the place that, where chickens live? Little shelter. A #1 chicken- # 100: #2 Hen house. # Interviewer : Alright how about uh c-o-o-p, how would you say that? {NS} 100: C-o-o-p? Interviewer : Mm-hmm. A chicken- 100: coop. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Did you ever hear of that? Okay. Uh then the, the bone on a chicken that children like to break? 100: Wishbone. Interviewer : What happens when you break it? Tell me about it. 100: Mm- Interviewer : Why do they do that? 100: For wish. Interviewer : #1 And then # 100: #2 Wish- # wish for something. Interviewer : And who wins? 100: The piece with with the uh the end on it. Interviewer : The big piece? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : Okay. Does anything happen to the small end? 100: Break I guess. Interviewer : But you don't get anything if you get the small end? Okay. A- do you know what you call the inside parts of a chicken? Like the liver and the gizzard and the heart and all that? Did you ever hear of haslet? Haslet? How about the inside parts of a pig? I think it's the small intestine. 100: Chitlins. Interviewer : Mm-hmm {NW} you ever eat chitlins? I keep asking people if they have and some people have and some people haven't. The people that have eaten it say it's good but I I've never had, known anybody that knew how to cook it. If it was time to feed the animals and uh do the chores and all that you'd say it's what time? 100: Feeding time. Interviewer : Good. And um do you know how to call a cow? Or how to make a cow stand still? Do you know how to call a calf? Uh what are some of the others. Do you know how to call a mule or a horse? {D: Mm, faster} Do you know how to make a horse turn left and right, or a mule? 100: Talking about when you're on it or {D} Interviewer : #1 Hmm? # 100: #2 {D: telling} # When you're on it? Interviewer : When you're uh ploughing. 100: Pull the string right or left? Interviewer : Okay mm-hmm. And how do you make a horse get started when you ride him? Or drive him? What would you say to him? 100: Giddy-up. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and how would you stop him? 100: Ho. Interviewer : Okay and do you know how to call pigs? 100: Sooey I guess. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and you know how to call sheep? How about chickens? Alright if you're going to um get the horses ready to go somewhere you'd say I'm gonna do what to the horses? Meaning put all the stuff on them. 100: Dress. Interviewer : And uh so that you can attach him to the buggy you have to put the what on him? I need to hear how you say it so I'm gonna spell it h-a-r-n-e-s-s? 100: Ha- harness. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: #1 Harness. # Interviewer : #2 Okay uh-huh. # Uh then when your driving the horse when you're in the buggy what do you hold in your hands? 100: Whip. Interviewer : Well the things that make the horse go. The things that are attached to the horse? 100: {NW} Harness? Interviewer : How about when you're ploughing? 100: Rope. Interviewer : Alright and uh when you're riding the horse what do you hold? 100: Rope I guess. Interviewer : Mm-kay uh then what do you put your feet in when you're riding? Those things on each side of the saddle. Stirrups? 100: Stirrups. Interviewer : You know that word? No? Okay uh do you know if your, if you had two horses what you'd call the one on the left or the one on the right? Other than left or right. Which is all I would call 'em cuz I don't know. Okay um that's something people know that live out in the country that plough. They sometimes have special names for 'em. If something were not really close by you'd say it's just a little? 100: Farther away. Interviewer : Alright suppose it's, it's a quite a distance you say we still have a what to #1 go? # 100: #2 Long # ways to go. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. If uh something very common, you didn't have to look in a special place, you'd say oh you can find that just about 100: Anywhere. Interviewer : And if you slipped and fell that way you fell 100: Backward. Interviewer : And that way you fell- 100: Forward. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. If uh you went fishing and had no luck and I said did you catch any fish you would say no blank a one. 100: I didn't catch n- no- {X} no one. Interviewer : Okay thank you. Uh let's see a school boy might say of his teacher why is she blaming me? I- 100: Didn't do nothing. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh if somebody apologizes for breaking something of yours, say he broke you're pencil and you'd say oh that's alright, I didn't like that 100: Pencil anyway. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh if a child was crying and you said what's the matter he'd say why he was eating candy and he didn't give me 100: Any. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NW} And um just a few more farm questions and then I'm through with that. Ah the f- trenches that are cut by a plough, do you know what you'd call those? Starts with an F. Furrow? You don't know that word? Okay. Uh if you had a good yield you might say I raised a big? 100: Farm. Interviewer : Um starts with a c-r a big 100: Crop. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh if you got rid of all the brush and the trees on the land you'd say you did what? 100: Cleared the land. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. A- do you know what you'd call it if you cu- you harvested the crop once and then enough came up to harvest it a second time? {NS} 100: Second harvest? Interviewer : Good. How about a crop that you planted, that you had not planted but it came up anyway, maybe it was left over from a year ago or something? Did you ever hear of a volunteer crop? Okay. Uh then do you know what wheat is tied up into? 100: Barrel. I mean- Interviewer : If you just took the wheat and tied it up what would you call that? Well um {NW} do you know then what you'd call it if you stacked those things up? 100: Stacks of wheat. Interviewer : Alright. Uh then if you this is a, a measurement you'd say we raised forty something of wheat to an acre. It's a, a weight. It's, more than a peck would be a? 100: Pound. Interviewer : Starts with a B. It's an old song. I love you a something and a peck. It's from Guys and Dolls. {NW} The word I'm looking for is bushel. You'd say we raised forty 100: Bushels. Interviewer : Okay. Uh then do you know what you'd do with oats to separate the grain from the chaff? There's a word that s- it means beat 'em I think and it starts with t-h-r? 100: Thread? Interviewer : Thresh or thrash? 100: Thrash. Interviewer : Okay. The- so you'd say the oats 100: Thrashed. Interviewer : Starting a sentence with the oats you'd say the oats? 100: Were thrashed. Interviewer : Okay good. Then uh these, this next section is about pronouns. Yeah the, a lot about pronouns. And um, if I s- was talking to you and talking about a job I would say to you blank and blank have to do this interview. 100: Me and you have to do this #1 interview. # Interviewer : #2 Mm-hmm # and it's not for just you or just me, it's for? 100: Him. Interviewer : It's not for just you or just me, it's for blank of us. 100: Both of us. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And if uh if you're talking about yourself and another person you'd say blank and blank are going. 100: Him and I. I- him and I are going somewhere. Interviewer : Alright. And uh if you knocked on the door and somebody said who's there and you know they know your voice so you don't use your name you just say it's- 100: Me. Interviewer : Okay and if a man knocked on the door you would say oh it's just 100: A man. Interviewer : Using a pronoun again. 100: Him. Interviewer : Pardon? 100: Him. Interviewer : Okay and if it's a woman it's 100: Her. Interviewer : If it's two people it's 100: The- w- him. I don't #1 know. # Interviewer : #2 Two # people. 100: Them. Interviewer : Okay. And um comparing how tall you are you'd say he's not as tall as 100: I am. Interviewer : Or the other way around, I'm not as tall as 100: He is. Interviewer : Or he can do it better than 100: I can. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And if uh somebody was running and he ran two miles and then he had to stop you'd say two miles is the blank he could go. 100: The farthest that he can run. Interviewer : Very good. If something belongs to me you would say it's 100: Hers. Interviewer : Or? If you're talking to me you say it's 100: It's your. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and if it belongs to him it's? 100: His. Interviewer : And if it belongs to two people it's? 100: Their. Interviewer : And belongs to both of us it's? 100: Their. Interviewer : To us. 100: Oh. Interviewer : #1 It's # 100: #2 Ours. # Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Uh then if several people were leaving and you wanted 'em to come back you'd say I hope blank will come again. 100: Hope they come again. Interviewer : You're talking to them. #1 I hope # 100: #2 Hope # y'all come again. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And supposing uh you were, look out the window and there was a car out there that belonged to two people and you'd say uh-oh somebody's about to hit 100: Y'all- your car. Interviewer : You started to say what? 100: Y'all car. Interviewer : Okay is that, do you say that? Okay. Uh then if uh there'd been a party or something and you weren't, you weren't able to go and you wanted to know what people had been to the party you might ask somebody what blank had been there? 100: What you said? {NS} Interviewer : Alright you, you're trying to find out who went. You couldn't go yourself so you ask blank was there? 100: Was he there? Interviewer : You're asking about all the people. 100: Were they there? Was it, was they there. Interviewer : Ah would you ever say who all was there? 100: Yeah who all there. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Alright now suppose you missed class or something and you wanted to know what the teacher had said you would say well blank did she say? 100: What did she say. Interviewer : Would you ever say what all did she say? No? Okay. Then uh if no one else will look out for them you'd say they got to look out for 100: Themself. Interviewer : And if no one will do it for him he's got to do it 100: Himself. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NW} And uh what is made of flour and baked in a loaf? 100: Bread. Interviewer : And can you name some different kinds of bread? 100: Raisin bread, {NS} roll. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NS} How about those little round things that you'd 100: #1 Muffins. # Interviewer : #2 {D: use} # You sometimes have 'em for breakfast? You might put butter or jam on 'em? 100: Biscuit. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And what's made out of corn meal? 100: Cornbread. Interviewer : Anything else? Are there any? 100: Muffins. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Corn muffin. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Did you ever hear of a corn dodger? How about those things that are round and you eat 'em with fish? 100: Uh, I know that Interviewer : Hush- 100: Hush puppies Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Uh did you ever hear of eating something made out of corn meal that you boil with greens? Interviewer : Usually called a corn dumpling. This is something I've never had so I don't know much about it. Did you ever hear of a corn pone? {NW} How about, um Something made in the ashes out of cornmeal? {NW} Okay that gets {NS} I think that gets all the corn stuff. There if- might say that two kinds of bread, there's homemade bread or there's the kind you get at the store and you call that 100: Ready made bread. Interviewer : Okay. Fine. Uh then the thing with a hole in the middle is a? Sweet thing. 100: Donut. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Uh then something- when you make up a batter you might fry some of 'em in a skillet and eat 'em for breakfast? 100: Pancakes. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NW} Any other name for those? 100: Flapjack. Interviewer : Are they the same? Did you ever hear of hear 'em called flitters or fritters meaning pancake? How about batter cake? No? Alright uh then uh ah weight. You might go to the store and say I need to buy five something of flour. 100: Five pounds of flour. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NW} And uh what would you put in bread to make it rise? Uh #1 Starts with a # 100: #2 baking soda. # Interviewer : Well it's something it's like that but it's it comes in little cakes or little envelopes? Starts with a Y. 100: Yeast. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NW} And then the two parts of the egg are the? 100: Yolk and Interviewer : {D: I} think they just call it the white, the other part. #1 What color is # 100: #2 {X} # Interviewer : the yolk? 100: Yellow. Interviewer : Mm-kay. And um when you cook eggs, if you cook 'em in hot water in the shell what do you call that? 100: Boiled #1 eggs. # Interviewer : #2 Mm-hmm. # Suppose you break the shell and then let 'em fall into hot water? 100: Hot water poached egg. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Yeah uh then what would you call the kind of fat meat that you might boil with greens or beans? 100: Fat back. Interviewer : Mm-hmm any other name for that? 100: Ham hocks. Interviewer : Is that the same? Mm-kay. Uh and if what- if you cut the side of a hog what would you call that? 100: Side of the hog? Interviewer : Mm-hmm ever hear of middling? That's another old fashioned name. Uh and then the meat that some people buy sliced that you eat with eggs 100: Bacon. Interviewer : Mm-hmm wou- do you have a name for it if it was unsliced? How about the tough edge that you cut off the bacon? I think that's if it's unsliced that you can't eat. 100: Oh {NS} hmm mm I know it but I just can't #1 can't # Interviewer : #2 {D: No} # Some people say rind and some people say skin. 100: I guess skin. Interviewer : Alright. Then the kind of meat that comes in little links on a chain 100: Weiners. Interviewer : {D: R-} these are little bitty things that you fry for breakfast. 100: Sausage. Interviewer : Alright and uh the man in the store who sells meat is a? 100: Butcher. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh if the meat had, was bad and you couldn't eat it you'd say its? 100: Spoil. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. What would you say if butter had gone bad? 100: Spoil. Interviewer : Alright. And if you um, what would you make with the meat from a hog's head? 100: {D: I don't know} Interviewer : Did you ever hear of souse? 100: Souse, souse meat? Interviewer : Mm-hmm, what's that? 100: It's some kind of meat made out of all different kind of sausage. Cut it in half and make sandwiches out of it. Interviewer : Is it good? Mm, mm-kay. Um and what would you call d- you, would you have, know a name for a dish that's made out of cooking and cutting up hog liver, grinding it up? How about hog blood? 100: {D: Mm} Interviewer : Mm-mm. How about uh taking souse, juice from souse and cornbread, and let me read the description cause I don't know what it is. Uh stirring it up with corn meal and maybe hog meat and cooking it and then slicing it and frying it, did you ever hear of doing that? 100: What? {NW} Interviewer : Did you ever hear scrapple that's what I'm trying to dis- describe. Okay uh I don't think they do that in this part of the country. Uh do you know what you call thick sour milk that you might keep on hand? 100: Buttermilk. Interviewer : Did you ever hear of clabber? 100: Yeah clabber. Interviewer : What is clabber? 100: When it's spoiled or something like that. Interviewer : Mm so it's no good if it's clabber? Ah do you know what kind of cheese they used to make out of clabber? 100: Chedder cheese? Interviewer : Well it's the kind of cheese that you can still buy in the store. It's a diet food? 100: Uh cheddar, I mean Interviewer : It's that #1 {X} # 100: #2 Cottage cheese. # Interviewer : Yeah. Tha- that's made out of clabber. A lot of people don't know that. Uh then if you just milked the cow what would be the first thing you'd have to do with the milk to get the impurities out? You'd have to 100: Pour it out. Interviewer : To pour it through a cloth to do what to it? 100: To get all the fat out? Interviewer : What would you say you're doing? You're str- 100: Straining. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh then do you know what you would call a it's like a pie but it's in a deep dish and it has layers of fruit and dough? {X} It doesn't have dough on the bottom. 100: A pie. Interviewer : It's might be an apple something or a peach something? 100: Peach cobbler. Interviewer : Mm-hmm yeah that's it. And uh if somebody has a good appetite you say he sure likes to put away his 100: Food. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh b- a sweet liquid that you might pour over cake or pie would be? 100: Um Interviewer : Might, you might say if 100: #1 Icing. # Interviewer : #2 you might po- # have lemon something? 100: Icing. Interviewer : Okay good enough. And um {NW} a little bit of food that you might eat between your meals would be a? 100: Snack. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And how about um what you do with food? You say every morning I 100: {NW} Eat. Interviewer : Mm-hmm yesterday I 100: Ate. Interviewer : And I have #1 {NW} # 100: #2 Eaten. # Interviewer : Okay. And uh you were talking about well I was talking about coffee earlier, how do you prepare coffee? 100: Sit in the pot. {NS} Interviewer : Mm-hmm {NS} {NS} I think that's the your lunch bell right? Well why don't you go ahead to lunch. {X} Think I've even not forgotten where we were in s- the space of half an hour. Um, if you were thirsty you might go over to the sink and get yourself a what? 100: Drink of water. Interviewer : And it wh- you'd put it in a? 100: Glass. Interviewer : And if the glass fell off the sink it would? 100: Break. Interviewer : And yesterday it? 100: Broke. Interviewer : And it has 100: Broke. Interviewer : Okay now talking about the water, what you would do with it, you would 100: Drink it. Interviewer : Yesterday I 100: Drank it. Interviewer : I have 100: Drink. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And if uh you had company for dinner and they were all standing up and you wanted them to be seated, you would say 100: Please be seated. Interviewer : What's another way of saying that? 100: You may sit down. Interviewer : Mm-kay. And so then they all 100: Sat down. Interviewer : And they have 100: Sat down. Interviewer : Alright and if uh you wanted them to start the food moving you would say go ahead and 100: Eat. Interviewer : Go ahead and blank yourself. 100: Go ahead and serve yourself. Interviewer : Or if, another word. Starts with an H. Interviewer : Go ahead and 100: Have dinner. Interviewer : Ah if you were if somebody was chasing you, you might shout 100: Hold it. Interviewer : If you were in trouble you might shout 100: Help. Interviewer : Yeah #1 so if you go ahead and # 100: #2 Help yourself. # Interviewer : Yeah alright so he, then he {NS} 100: Helped his-self. Interviewer : And he has 100: Helped himself. Interviewer : Good. Uh then um food No I've se- about to skip one there. If you were passed something and you didn't want it what would you say to {X} the food. What would you say to refuse it? 100: I pass. Interviewer : Okay. Uh then suppose uh you've had something for Sunday dinner and there was enough left to serve it again on Monday, you'd say we're having 100: Leftovers. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And you put your food in your mouth and you begin to 100: Chew. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and then after you chew it you 100: Digest it. Interviewer : Well first you have to 100: Swallow. Interviewer : Mm-hmm, okay. Uh then uh did you ever have food that's made out of corn meal and water that's boiled? And you eat it with a spoon? Mush, did you ever hear that? Or cush? No. Uh then things like beets and peas and carrots are all 100: Vegetable. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and you would grow them in a 100: Vegetable uh vegetable garden. Interviewer : Mm-kay good. And what uh do you call that food that's made from corn that's ground up and you eat it for breakfast? It's white. 100: Rice. Interviewer : It's ground. 100: Grits. Interviewer : Yeah that's it. And how about stuff that's also made from corn that's whole grain? It can be white or yellow. And it's served as a vegetable sometimes and 100: Corn? Interviewer : Mm-hmm. I think you make it with lye. Interviewer : You know about hominy? Do you ever eat it? No? Alright um {NS} what would you call a homemade whiskey or a really cheep whiskey? 100: Booze. Uh Interviewer : Anything especially if it was homemade? 100: Moonshine? Interviewer : Mm-hmm okay. Anyth- anything for any kind that was really strong or, or really dangerous. Okay. Uh if something made a good impression on your nostrils, something that was cooking you might say to a friend just {NW} 100: Smell it. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh, then what would you pour on pancakes? 100: Syrup. Interviewer : {NW} Is there uh something that's like syrup but it's blacker. 100: Molasses. Interviewer : Yeah. And if you were Interviewer : at the difference between molasses and syrup you might say the molasses 100: Is black. Interviewer : Okay. Uh then if uh something was not imitation you might say it's not imitation it's 100: Original. And another word meaning the same thing, it starts with a G. It's gen- Gen- genuine? Interviewer : Mm-hmm, that's it. Uh then sugar bef- this is an old term, before it was sold in packages it used to be sold how? 100: In sacks? Interviewer : Well i- but even before that it would be, they just weigh up a certain amount it would be sold and they'd scoop it up when you ask for it. Or it's it's a word that means any large amount if you're ordering a large amount of something, you'd say I'm going to order in {NS} You might not know the word, b-u-l-k? 100: Plunk. Pl- Interviewer : Bulk or bulk. Bulk. Do you know that word? {NW} No. Okay uh and then the stuff that you might spread on your toast, that sweet stuff. 100: Butter? Interviewer : Sweet. Made out of fruit? 100: Jelly. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Ah and you would season your food with? 100: Salt and pepper. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and if there is a bowl of apples and a child wants one he might say to his mother 100: Can I have an apple? Interviewer : Well he's not even asking permission he's just saying #1 {X} # 100: #2 {X} # Give me an apple. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. That's it. And if it wasn't one of these boys you might say it must have been one of 100: #1 Those boys. # Interviewer : #2 Mm-hmm. # And if something is uh not here it's 100: #1 There. # Interviewer : #2 or # or over 100: There. Interviewer : Okay, would you ever say yonder? Over yonder? Okay I think that's an old time expression. Don't do it that way, do it 100: This way. Interviewer : Alright and if uh somebody said something and then you couldn't hear 'em what would you say to make 'em repeat? 100: Beg your pardon. {NS} {NS} Interviewer : Kay. {NS} Uh if um the opposite of rich is {NS} 100: Poor. {NS} Interviewer : Mm-hmm and if um you might say this just finish the sentence. If a man had plenty of money he has nothing to worry about but life is hard on a man 100: when he's poor. Interviewer : Okay. Or putting that another way leaving out the when life is hard on a man 100: When he's Interviewer : Leave out the when. Life is hard on a man 100: Poor. That is poor. Interviewer : Yeah that's good Uh then a group of trees, a big group of trees would be a 100: Forest. Interviewer : Or uh you might, say you have a peach 100: Uh Interviewer : Or an apple 100: Orchard. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and uh this is another finishing the sentence. If somebody ask you is that your orchard you'd say no I'm just the neighbor and you point and say he's the man 100: That owns the orchard. Interviewer : Good. And another one. Uh When I was a Interviewer : father was poor but next door was a child 100: That father had, was rich. Interviewer : Okay. Uh then uh what would you call the inside of a cherry? 100: Pit. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and inside of a peach? 100: Pit. Interviewer : Okay. Now the two kinds of peaches really there's one kind where the meat breaks away from the stone and one kind where it sticks to the stone what do you call those? {NS} 100: {X} Interviewer : Do you know d- have you seen the two different kinds? 100: Yeah I seen 'em but I don't I just call both of 'em peach. Interviewer : Alright. Uh what's the part of an apple that you don't eat? 100: Core. Interviewer : Okay. And um what would you call it if you cut up apples or peaches and um dried them? 100: Preserve. Interviewer : Did you ever hear the word snitz or dried apples? Good. I think that's a German word nobody ever seems to know that one. Then uh the kind of nut that Jimmy Carter grows is 100: #1 Peanuts. # Interviewer : #2 Okay. # Do you know any other name for peanuts? How about goobers or ground peas? No? 100: {X} Interviewer : Um what are some other common kinds of nuts? 100: Walnuts. {NS} Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: A- acorns. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Almonds. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Pecans. {NS} Interviewer : Mm good. Those, that's 100: #1 {X} # Interviewer : #2 fine. # Uh, ah talking about the walnut when they are on the tree they've got a soft covering outside 100: #1 uh # Interviewer : #2 what would you call that? # 100: A shell. Interviewer : Uh what would you call the hard cover you have to crack? 100: Shell. Interviewer : Alright And then the kind of fruit that's about as big as an apple that they grow in Florida is 100: Orange. Interviewer : Alright and um if there had been you had had some and you wanted one and you went and looked and there were not anymore you would say the 100: Oranges are gone. Interviewer : Good. Uh then the little red vegetable that's white inside, it's peppery? 100: White vegetable. Interviewer : It's red but it's white inside you cut it up in salads? 100: Pepper? Interviewer : It's, starts with an R. 100: Radish. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And then another kind of vegetable, I guess it's a vegetable that is kind of mushy that you slice for salads or sandwiches? 100: Tomato. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Wha- do you have a name for little bitty tomatoes? Did you ever hear those called tommy toes? Okay. And then the, the stuff the thing you might eat with your meat. You might have a baked 100: Potato. Interviewer : And uh what is the kind that's yellow inside? Or orange? 100: Sweet potato? Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Uh do you know what a yam is? Okay. Then the, the kind of vegetable that when you cut it makes you cry? 100: Onion. Interviewer : Do you have a name for the little ones? {D: Where y-} you eat the stem too? 100: Green onion. Interviewer : That's it uh-huh. And how about a vegetable that's kind of long and it's slimy if you boil it? 100: Celery. Interviewer : You can cut it up and fry it it's much better if you cook it that way. 100: Uh okra. Interviewer : Yeah that's it. {X} Uh then if you leave uh an apple or a plum around the skin might dry up and 100: Wilt. Interviewer : {X} There's a word beginning with an s-h. 100: Shrink? Interviewer : It's like that. It's um hmm. 100: Shrivel? Interviewer : That's the word. Um and then the kind of vegetables that come in heads? 100: Lettuce. Interviewer : And there's another one. That you make coleslaw out of. 100: {X} Interviewer : Starts with a C. 100: #1 Cabbage. # Interviewer : #2 Mm-hmm. # {NS} And um if you were buying several of those you {X} you'd say I want several 100: Heads of lettuce or cabbage. Interviewer : Okay. Then um to get beans out of the pod by hand you would what? 100: Break 'em. Interviewer : {D: X} you'd, actually getting 'em out of the pod you're opening the pod, I'm gonna do #1 what? # 100: #2 Splitting. # Interviewer : Um what do you call that kind of bean that's kind of shaped like an ear? It's flat. And #1 {X} # 100: #2 Butter bean. # Interviewer : That's it. {D: Well} how do you get butter beans out of the pod? What do you say you do? Interviewer : You ever say shell beans? You don't say shell. Okay. Uh then what is the kind of bean that you don't have to get out of the pod? You eat the pod too. 100: String bean. Interviewer : Mm-hmm, any other name for them? {NS} Would you ever call 'em green beans or snap beans? 100: Oh yeah. Interviewer : What? 100: Green bean. Interviewer : Would you call 'em snap beans? {NS} No. Okay uh then the tops of turnips would be, if you cooked them? Or it could be the could be mustard or it could be um um, there are others too. Interviewer : You say you're making a mess of 100: Greens. Interviewer : Mm-hmm okay. Um you mentioned heads of lettuce would you ever say if you had a big family that you had so many heads of children? Did you ever hear that? {NS} Suppose they did have a lot of children like fourteen in one family you'd say he sure has a whole- 100: Bunch of children. Interviewer : Okay. Would you ever say passel? {NS} Did you ever hear that word? Mm-mm. And then the outside part of an ear of corn is called the- {NS} 100: Shell. uh shilling. Interviewer : Uh husk or shuck. 100: Shuck. Interviewer : Okay. What would you call the kind of corn that's tender enough to eat off the cob? 100: Fresh corn. {NS} Interviewer : Mm-kay. Did you ever hear of roasting ear? Yeah that's funny because I d- I don't know that term myself and I'm, I think it may just be because we're from the city. People out in the country know that. Uh then this, the thing at the top of the cornstalk is the what? It's the thing on a graduation cap too. Interviewer : Starts with a T. Interviewer : Uh tassel or tassel? 100: Yeah tassel. {NS} Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh the stuff that you have to brush off the corn? 100: Hair. Interviewer : Stringy stuff? 100: Hair. {NS} Interviewer : Would you ever call it silk? #1 Corn silk? # 100: #2 Yeah silk. # Interviewer : Okay. Then the large oh. The fruit that's associated with Halloween, that's a 100: Pumpkin. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh a yellow, crookneck thing is a? 100: It's a vegetable? Interviewer : Mm-hmm. It's got a crooked neck. It's yellow. The different kinds #1 of, mm-hmm. # 100: #2 Squash. # Interviewer : That's it. Uh then how about types of melons? 100: Watermelon, Interviewer : #1 Mm-hmm. # 100: #2 honeydew melon # Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Cantaloupe. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Are there different kinds of watermelon? 100: Not that I know of. Interviewer : Did you ever see a kind with yellow meat? 100: Yellow meat melon, yeah. Interviewer : I've never seen one of those. 100: That what I, that what I call honeydew melon. Interviewer : Oh, I see. That's not the same as a watermelon then. 100: No. Interviewer : Okay. Then how about that little um shi- thing that's shaped like an umbrella that grows up in the woods? 100: Mushroom. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Can you eat those? 100: Some of 'em. Interviewer : What do you call the kind that you can't eat. 100: Toadstool. Interviewer : Alright and you might say don't eat those because they might be 100: Poison. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Uh then the things that people smoke are 100: Cigarettes. Interviewer : And then the big brown ones are 100: #1 Cigars. # Interviewer : #2 Mm-hmm. # A- um, hmm.{NW} If uh somebody ask you if you were, about a certain job, and if you were able to do it you would say sure, I 100: Can do the job. Interviewer : But if you were not able you'd say no I 100: I can't do the job. {NS} Interviewer : And if they ask you if you were willing to do the job you would say no I 100: Can't do the #1 job. # Interviewer : #2 No you, # #1 you can't # 100: #2 Will not # do the job. Interviewer : What's another way of saying will not. I no matter how many times you ask me I 100: Won't do the #1 job. # Interviewer : #2 Mm-hmm. # Mm-hmm. {NS} Uh mm, and if uh, somebody offered to do you a favor but you didn't want him to because then you thought you that uh you might have to do him a favor, you'd say no thank-you I don't wanna be 100: {D: Bought} Helped. Interviewer : Because I don't wanna be blank to you. 100: Owing you. Interviewer : Would you ever say obligated or beholden? {NS} Mm-kay. Um If uh the corn if you were a farmer you might look at the corn and say th- it's not as tall as it blank be. As it 100: Looks. Interviewer : Well it blank to be taller. It 100: Should be taller. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. that's good. And um {NS} if {NS} one little boy was daring another he says I dare you to go to the graveyard at night but I bet you Interviewer : I dare you to go but I bet you Interviewer : Any sort of negative of dare would you say {D: darrowed or dassent} or anything like that? Okay. Um again talking about a word that's a means kind of the same thing as should. You say I bet he did something he #1 have {X}. # 100: #2 Did. # 100: What'd you say? Interviewer : It means the same thing as should, he- I bet he did something he blank #1 have done. # 100: #2 Should've done. # Interviewer : Or not. He 100: Shouldn't, shouldn't have done. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. How about ought. Do you ever say that, he oughtn't to or ought not to? Okay. Uh then if uh you done something that was hard work all by yourself and you could've used help you, might say to a friend after you finished, well you 100: Coulda helped me. Interviewer : Yeah. {NS} And um {NS} suggesting the possibility of something you might say um If it quits raining by Thursday I blank do that. 100: I'll do that? Interviewer : I, the, it's possible, I 100: Will finish the job. Interviewer : I don't know if I will but I 100: Might. Interviewer : Mm-hmm that's the word. Then what is the kind of bird with big eyes that can see in the dark? 100: Owl. Interviewer : Do you know any different kinds of owls? 100: Uh {X} they call it a hawk but some kinda hawk {X} Interviewer : Do you know a big owl that um has a very deep voice? How about a little bitty owl with a very high, shrill voice? 100: I just know 'em {D:names are} Interviewer : Mm-kay well I don't think there're many owls in the city so think there wouldn't be a problem. Uh what's the kind of bird that drills holes in trees? 100: Woodpecker. Interviewer : Do you know another name for him? Did you ever call him a peckerwood? Did you ever hear the word peckerwood? What is a peckerwood? 100: I guess it's the same thing. Interviewer : Did you ever hear of a person called a peckerwood? Mm-mm. Okay how about uh a great big woodpecker. Did you ever see one that was about as big as a chicken? {NS} Okay. How about the kind of animal that's black and white and smells bad? 100: Skunk. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh what would you call the the kinds of animals that were were pests? It's another word for pests. All the animals that might get your chickens, you might say I'm gonna get my gun and shoot #1 those # 100: #2 Weasels. # Interviewer : Well meaning all k- different kinds of animals. I'm gonna shoot those 100: ro- rodents. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Do you know the word varmint? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : How would, how do you say that? 100: Varmint. Interviewer : Okay does that mean animals or people? 100: Animals I guess. Interviewer : Could it mean people? 100: If you really wanted it to. Interviewer : What ki- what would the people be if they were varmints? 100: Talk too much {X} {X} Interviewer : Okay. Uh then the, the little bushy tailed animal that runs around the trees is a? 100: Squirrel. Interviewer : What color is that? 100: Brown. Interviewer : Did you ever see any that were any other color? 100: A gray squirrel. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Okay, which one's bigger? 100: A gray one's big. Interviewer : Bigger then the brown one? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : Okay. What's the little animal, I think it's in the same family, that runs along the ground? It doesn't have a bushy tail. 100: Oh a woodchuck? Uh. Interviewer : It's got stripes on it's back? 100: Um {NW} Wi- I know what you're talking about. Interviewer : Chip- 100: Chipm- chipmunk. Interviewer : Mm-kay mm-hmm. Uh and what kind, do you do you fish ever? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : What kinds of fish do you get around here? 100: Moll- not mollusk uh mussels what's it called? Guppie. Little bitty fish. Unless you go way out {D: you get cod} and uh catfish. Interviewer : Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. 100: {D: about most} Interviewer : Mm-kay what kind of snakes do you know about? 100: Rattle snake. Green snake. I don't seen grass snakes in a while That's about the only kind I know. Cobra. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Python. Interviewer : Well, those you don't have around here do you? Mm-kay. Uh ha- what is the uh thing that pearls grow in? 100: Uh oyster. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {X} And there's another kind of sea food that's pink and kind of curled around with a tail that you often eat fried. Interviewer : It's like that. 100: Shrimp. Interviewer : Mm-hmm that's it. Uh and you might, if you had several of those you'd say I have several 100: Shrimp. Interviewer : Okay. Uh then the animal that croaks is a 100: Frog. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. What do you call the great big one? 100: Bullfrog. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. How about the uh little tiny one that might live in the trees? 100: Little frog. {D: I guess} {NS} Interviewer : I don't know if they have those here. I've seen 'em in Tennessee. 100: I seen 'em {X} I went to camp one time I seen 'em. Interviewer : Mm where was the camp? 100: In in Lovejoy, Georgia. Interviewer : Mm-hmm yeah I've heard of that. Uh Now that's south of here though isn't it, Lovejoy? That's 100: #1 I saw a l- # Interviewer : #2 {D: Mm} # 100: {X} Interviewer : Mm but, do you know what to call 'em? Mm-kay. What is the kind of it's a kind of frog that lives in on the ground. They say it gives you warts. 100: {X} Interviewer : Would you call that a toad? 100: Oh yeah toad. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NS} Uh then what do you use for bate when you're fishing? 100: Worms. Interviewer : What kind? 100: Big one. Interviewer : Do you know any, any different kinds of worms? Alright. And then the animal with a hard shell that can pull in its head and legs? 100: Turtle. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Uh what would you call one that lived on dry land? 100: Turtle. Interviewer : Would you ever call it a tortoise or a terrapin or a gopher or a cooter? 100: Terrapin I guess. Interviewer : Okay. Any of the others? Does gopher mean anything to you? 100: It's a something that dig in the ground. Interviewer : #1 Is it a # 100: #2 Uh # Interviewer : turtle? 100: Naw. Interviewer : It- i- wh- is it a furry animal? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : Okay. Uh that yeah that's what I mean too. But they're, in south Georgia they call it land turtle or gopher. Really they do, and also in Mississippi and Alabama. What would you call something that looks like a lobster but it's fresh water it's a little thing. And it swims away backwards if you 100: #1 Clam. # Interviewer : #2 {D: are} # No um it's more like a lobster then a 100: #1 Clam. # Interviewer : #2 Clam. # It's craw or {D: creu-} 100: Crawdad. Interviewer : Okay. Good. And then the thing that, an insect that flies around around a light it might try to fla- {NS} to fly into the light is a? 100: Moth. Interviewer : Alright h- and if you had several of those you had a bunch of 100: Moths. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh the thing with the light in its tail? 100: Uh lightning bug. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And a long, thin bodied insect that has two pairs of wings and uh they say it eats mosquitoes I don't know if that's true. 100: Dragonfly. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. You know another name for that? Did you ever hear of a snake doctor or a mosquito hawk? 100: Snake doctor. Interviewer : Is that the same? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : Okay. What are some insects that sting? 100: Mosquito. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Bees. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And there's one that starts with an H that's supposed to be really bad. 100: Hornets. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh one that starts with a W. 100: Wasp. Interviewer : And if you had a lot of those you'd there're several 100: Wasps. Interviewer : Mm-kay. And uh the Georgia Tech football mascot is 100: Yellow jacket. Interviewer : Okay. Uh then there's a kind ah I think it's in the wasp family but it makes holes in the ground? It's a dirt something. Dirt dauber, mud dauber? Heard dirt dauber, I ain't 100: #1 {X} # Interviewer : #2 Do they sting? # 100: I ain't never seen them before. Interviewer : Mm. I don't think I've ever seen 'em I don't know what they are if I saw one. And then there's a little tiny insect that'll bite you if you um walk in the grass. It'll get under your skin. 100: Tick. Interviewer : It's not exactly #1 the same thing # Interviewer : #2 Flea. # as a tick I think they're red. And they raise welts in your skin. Red bug or chigger? 100: Chigger. Interviewer : Okay. And then the animal that hops in the grass is a? #1 I mean # 100: #2 Grasshopper. # Interviewer : Yeah. I should have said the, the bug. Ah did you ever call that a hoppergrass? How do you say that? 100: Hoppergrass. Interviewer : Do you say that sometimes? Okay. And how about a small fish that might have been used for bait? Interviewer : I wish people would stop using that pencil sharpener. Do you know the minnow? No. Um and what do spiders make? 100: Webs. Interviewer : Would you call it web whether it was inside or outside? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : Any difference? 100: No. Interviewer : Okay. And then the part of a tree that's under the ground would be its? 100: Roots. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Uh do you know of anything that's made from roots? Any kind of folk medicine? Alright. Do you know the kind of tree that you get syrup from? Interviewer : Okay. Uh now this is a kind of tree I'm not sure that I know what it is so I'll just read what the description is. It's got broad leaves which are shed all at one time with bark that peels and it has little knobs or balls with tough wood. 100: Oak. Interviewer : No. Um its the tree, I don't know how much you know about Bible stories but it's the tree that Zacchaeus climbed in the Bible to see Jesus. And I don't even know if they have 'em in this part of the city. It's called sy- 100: Sycamore. Interviewer : Mm-hmm do you have those anywhere around? 100: Not that I know of. Interviewer : I don't know what they look like. What are some common trees around your neighborhood? 100: Oak. That's probably {D: all of them, and some} couple of dogwood tree. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Okay. What is the tree that George Washington cut down? 100: Cherry tree. Interviewer : Okay. And a, a shrub that has red leaves and uh has berries. The leaves turn red in the fall. Some people say it's poison. Um usually grows along by the roadside this is something else I don't think I've ever seen. 100: Oak tree? Interviewer : It's a bush. Some people say sumac some people say shoemake or sumac. You never heard of it? Kay, I've heard of it but I don't think I've seen it. Oh what are some kinds of bushes or vines that make your skin break out? 100: Uh poison ivy, poison oak. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And what are some kinds of berries? 100: Um- #1 {D: I don't know.} # Interviewer : #2 {X} # #1 Well how about red # 100: #2 {X} # Interviewer : Well how about red berries? I don't mean that make your skin break out but I just mean berries that you eat. 100: Oh. Uh blackberries, blueberries, Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: mm Interviewer : What are the ones you put on shortcake, red ones? 100: Strawberry. Interviewer : Mm-kay. There's another kind that's red. They're, they look like blackberries. Starts with an R. 100: Raspberry. Interviewer : Mm-hmm.{NS} And uh you probably have not seen these because they grow in the mountains but it's a tall bush with clusters of pink and white flowers? Did you ever hear of laurel or mountain laurel? Did you ever hear of rhododendron? How do you say that? 100: Rhododendron. Interviewer : Mm-kay. And how about a big tree, they do have these in Atlanta, great big thing that has a shiny leaves and big white flowers? Think it's the state flower of Mississippi. {NW} Mag- 100: Magnolia Interviewer : #1 Mm-hmm. # 100: #2 tree? # Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And this is, these next ones are about family relations. A married woman might say I have to ask my 100: Husband. Interviewer : And he would say I have to ask my 100: Wife. Interviewer : Are there any joking names that a husband and wife might call each other? 100: Not that I know of. Interviewer : Mm-kay. Um. A woman who has lost her husband is a 100: Talking about a divorce? Interviewer : Well if he's dead. 100: Deceased. Interviewer : Well she is a 100: Oh. K- widow. Interviewer : Mm-kay. Do you have a name for it if she's divorced if her husband has left her? 100: Difo-, divo-, divorcee. Interviewer : Did you ever hear of a grass-widow? Okay uh then the man whose son you are is your 100: Father. Interviewer : And his wife is your 100: Mother. Interviewer : What do you call your father? 100: Dad. Interviewer : Mm-kay what do you call your mother? 100: Mother. Interviewer : Okay and your father and mother together are your? 100: Parents. Interviewer : Mm-kay. And uh your father's father would be your 100: Grandfather. Interviewer : And your father's mother would be your 100: Grandmother. Interviewer : What do you call them? 100: Grandparent. Interviewer : No I mean e- what do you say when you're talking to 'em? 100: Granddad and grandmom. Interviewer : You call them both the same thing? Mm-kay. Uh then your sons and daughters would be your 100: Children. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: And uh, a name that a child is called by maybe just in the family that is not his real name it's his Play name. Interviewer : #1 Or what's another name # 100: #2 {NW} # Interviewer : or another word for that? 100: Nickname. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And um something that you could put a baby in and it would lie down it's got a top #1 and wheels. # 100: #2 Oh. # Interviewer : Y- 100: Carriage. Interviewer : Okay and you, if you put the baby in the carriage, you'd take him out and say I'm gonna do what to the baby? 100: Stroll the baby. Interviewer : Good. And uh your children would be your sons and your 100: Daughters. Interviewer : Or a boy and a 100: Girl. Interviewer : Or a man and a 100: Woman. Interviewer : Okay and what would you say about a woman who was going to have a baby, she's 100: Pregnant. Interviewer : Is there another way to say that? 100: Not that I know of. Interviewer : Any old-fashioned ways? {NS} Uh how about um what would you call uh the woman that you might send for if you didn't have a doctor? 100: Nurse. Interviewer : It's, it's an old-fashioned kind of thing. More out in the country I guess then in the city. {NS} Did you ever hear of a midwife? 100: #1 Yeah. # Interviewer : #2 Or a {X} # What would #1 you call # 100: #2 Mi- # Midwife. Interviewer : Okay. Uh then if a boy and his father had the same appearance you'd say the boy 100: Resemble his father. Interviewer : Mm-kay. Supposed they just acted the same you'd say the boy 100: Acts like his father. Interviewer : Okay. And if a mother had to take care of three children, and say the father died, all by herself, you say she had to what the children herself? 100: Raise the children herself. Interviewer : Good. And uh what would you say to a naughty child. You're gonna get a 100: Whooping. Interviewer : Anything else? 100: Spanking. Interviewer : Which is worse? 100: Whooping. Interviewer : Why is it worse? 100: It just sound worse. Interviewer : Okay. Uh lets see. If uh Bob is five inches taller this year you'd say Bob 100: Grew five inches. Interviewer : And uh next year he will 100: Grow five Interviewer : #1 Mm-hmm. # 100: #2 inches. # Interviewer : And he has 100: Grown five Interviewer : #1 Okay. # 100: #2 inches. # Interviewer : What would you cha- call a child that's born to an unmarried woman? #1 You know # 100: #2 {X} # Interviewer : parents are not married then the child is a 100: Bitch. Interviewer : I think that's what the mother is. The child is a? Starts with a B. Bastard? Would you #1 use that? # 100: #2 Oh yeah. # Bastard. {NS} Interviewer : Okay. Uh then um, your brother's son would be your {NS} 100: Your u- your uh your nephew. Interviewer : Mm-hmm, okay and you'd be his you started to #1 say it. # 100: #2 Uncle. # Interviewer : Okay. Uh let's see and- Uh wa- child whose both, both his parents have died. He's a 100: Orphan. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh wha- the court might appoint somebody to look after him. That would be his? 100: Guardian. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Guardian. Interviewer : Okay. Uh then uh all the people that are related to you, you'd say this town is full of my 100: Relative. Interviewer : Would you ever say anything else? Like kin-folk or kin-people or{NS} Kay. And if somebody had the same family name as you and maybe looked a little like you you'd say no, he's no 100: Kin to me. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. What would you call somebody who came into town that you'd never seen before? 100: A foreigner. Interviewer : Mm-kay. Um even if he's {NS} would you call him a foreigner if he's from say another state? 100: He's from outta state. Interviewer : He's a foreigner if he's out of state? 100: Naw I just say he's Interviewer : #1 Just out of state. # 100: #2 out of state. # Interviewer : What does foreigner mean then? 100: From out of the country. Interviewer : Okay. Uh then a, a name for a girl beginning with M? 100: M- Interviewer : Well the mother of Jesus is named 100: Mary. Interviewer : And George Washington's wife? 100: Mary. Uh, Martha? Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Okay now there's, this one's harder to get, is a, it's a nickname for Helen beginning with an N. Nobody knows it's a nickname for Helen though and there's an old song that goes wait till the sun shines 100: Nelly? Interviewer : That's it. Yeah, have you heard that song? Hmm. 100: Yeah. Interviewer : Oh. That was a very good guess if you were just guessing. Okay well Jimmy Carter's brother is named? 100: Jimmy. Interviewer : His brother. 100: Jimmy? #1 Oh no. # Interviewer : #2 He's # 100: Billy? Interviewer : That's it. The one that {X} the one that can't keep his big mouth shut. Uh the four gospels were written by Mark, Luke and John and 100: Abraham? Interviewer : Starts with an M. 100: Mark. Interviewer : It's the first one of the gospels. Blank, Mark, Luke and John. Matth- 100: Matthew. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Um a woman who teaches school is a 100: Teacher. Interviewer : Mm-kay. Um Do you know the name of a novelist who wrote uh the Last of the Mohicans? His name is James Fenimor- Okay well his name is well if you ha- saw the name C {D: it's} o-o-p-e-r, how would you pronounce it? 100: The name? Interviewer : C-o-o-p-e-r. 100: Sycamore? Interviewer : Cooper or Cooper, which would you say? 100: Cooper. Interviewer : Okay. If there were a married woman and you didn't know her first name you would call her 100: Miss. Interviewer : Alright, her last name is Cooper so #1 call her # 100: #2 Oh. # Miss Cooper. Interviewer : Okay. Uh then do y- what would you call a carpenter who didn't really do a good job? He's not really trained, he's a? 100: Um, amateur. Interviewer : How about a preacher that didn't really have a regular pulpit. He just preached around different places? 100: Amateur. Interviewer : Did you ever hear of a jackleg? Okay. Uh then my mother's sister would be what relation to me? 100: Your n- aunt. Interviewer : Okay. Uh the wife of Abraham in the Bible? Starts with an S. 100: Uh Sa- uh S- {NW} Interviewer : It's also a company that makes bakery products. Something Lee? 100: Sarah. Interviewer : Uh-huh. Uh then if your father had a brother named William you'd call him {NS} 100: Uncle William? Interviewer : Mm-hmm and if his brother was named John you'd call him 100: Uncle John. Interviewer : Mm-kay the highest rank in the army is? 100: The president? Interviewer : In the army. 100: Company commander. Interviewer : Uh the whole army. 100: Secretary of Interviewer : {D: He said} he's a five star what? 100: General. Interviewer : Okay and then uh the man that owns Kentucky Fried Chicken, he's? 100: A colonel. Interviewer : Okay and uh the man in charge of a boat is a 100: A admiral. Interviewer : Uh lower than an admiral. Just of one ship. I think the admiral is kind of in charge of the whole thing. It's an army rank I think. It's got general, colonel, major and then 100: {NW} Mm. Interviewer : Well the uh, uh the head of a football team is the 100: Coach. Interviewer : No the head uh player. 100: Captain. Interviewer : Okay that gets it. Uh then the man who presides over the court is a 100: Judge. Interviewer : And the man who argues in front of the judge is a 100: Lawyer. Interviewer : Okay and a person who goes to school is a 100: Student. Interviewer : Would you use the same word regardless of what age he is? Even if he's just a little child in grammar school? Mm-kay. And uh the, the person that works for a m- businessman and opens his mail and types his letters is his 100: Secretary. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NW} I think this tape's about to go. {NS} I've got another reel ready to go on. I'm also about to lose my voice. {NS} We haven't got much longer today anyway. {NW} 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. Interviewer : Uh then what do you call the man that delivers the mail? 100: Mail man. Interviewer : Alright and the man that picks up the garbage? 100: Garbage man. Interviewer : And what would you say a person has if he can get favors from city hall? 100: Political authority. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and uh what would you call a person maybe who worked for the city m- a city employee who had, really didn't have a job but they paid him anyway. 100: {NW} Interviewer : Most people don't have a name for that. Interviewer : The name for it is supposed to be pay roller but nobody's ever heard of that. Okay, um What would you call not a, a brand name but those great big food stores? 100: Grocery store. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. How about a, just a small neighborhood store? 100: Grocery store. Interviewer : Alright and how about those kind of specialty stores where they might sell special meats and salads? 100: Mm- Interviewer : Often they're run by Jewish people or German people. Interviewer : Deli? 100: Uh delicatessen. Interviewer : Alright. And I asked you the other day about that one so I'm not gonna repeat myself. Uh, uh what would you call a coin operated self-service laundry? 100: Coin laundry. Interviewer : Alright. Uh what would you call a thing that you might use to put dirty clothes in? 100: Washing machine. Interviewer : Well I, I don't mean to clean them I mean to keep them in #1 the c- # 100: #2 Hamper. # Interviewer : Yeah, mm-hmm. And then the thing that you, the electric thing you clean the rug with is a 100: Uh vacuum cleaner. Interviewer : And what is the thing in the vacuum cleaner that you have to take out and throw away? 100: Dust collector. Interviewer : Mm- #1 Okay. # 100: #2 Dirt- # Interviewer : And uh have you ever seen, I've never seen one, those things that some people have that takes the garbage and then makes it small? 100: Garbage compacter. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and what do you call the, the big thing that you put the garbage in outside? 100: Herbity curby. Interviewer : {NW} Yes, okay wha- {NW} uh how about something that's smaller that's metal that you just might have for a little garbage? 100: Tin can. Interviewer : Uh-huh and uh then in apartment complexes they sometimes have great big things #1 that you # 100: #2 Dumpsters. # Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh I should have asked you this earlier. Are cigarette's ever called anything else? Do you know any slang names for those? 100: Square. Interviewer : Ah yes, okay. I've heard that once before too and it was, it was new to me when I heard it before. What would you call an enclosed room in a house that's designed to receive a lot of sunlight? Interviewer : I guess it's glassed in. Has a lot of windows. 100: Mm Sw- Mm Green house? Interviewer : Okay. How about a, a th- I think I asked you that one. How about a room that just had a toilet and the sink but did not have a bathtub or a shower? 100: Bathroom. Interviewer : Alright, um we talked about well there's the, the um lunch bell so go ahead and have lunch and I'll see you in a few minutes. Interviewer : See, um. Oh we were talking about, I was about to start talking about heating the house. You said that there was, I don't, what would you call that kind of heating system you said where there's hot air? Do you call, is that forced air? 100: Central heating. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Uh well what are some other things that people pa- heat their houses with? 100: Radiators, Interviewer : #1 Mm- # 100: #2 fireplaces, # Interviewer : Mm-hmm. #1 Okay. # 100: #2 mm. # Interviewer : And suppose they have, they cool their air. What do you call that? 100: Air condition. Interviewer : Okay. And did you ever see a house, uh where they're just three rooms? One in back of the other? And if you open the front door you could see all the way through the house? Alright how about a house where they're just two rooms and then there's an open hall down in between the two rooms? Interviewer : Uh, how about a house where there is just one room and then a long entrance hall? Interviewer : Can you name any uh particular designs for unus- for little houses, for small houses? 100: Um Interviewer : No? Alright now you talked about apartment houses. What are, can you name any different types of apartments? 100: Um, name apartment houses? Interviewer : Well n- what are different types of apartments? 100: Government apartments. {NS} Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NS} 100: High rent apartments, low rent apartments. Good apartments, bad apartments. 100: #1 Apartments. # Interviewer : #2 O- # Okay uh {NW} Did you ever see a, I don't think, {NS} I don't know if they have it here but {NS} they have it in {NS} some of the cities in the North. Uh places where the houses are so close together that in fact they join {NW} {X} Interviewer : There's just a whole line of houses and they have a wall in common? Alright how about uh the kind, the, I know they have these here. You, it's an apartment but you buy it you don't rent it and usually they're expensive. 100: Condominium. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and what would you call an apartment that's the whole level of a building? Interviewer : I don't know if they've got these here. They have 'em in Chicago. Interviewer : They call 'em flats in Chicago. That's not a term that I would know. What do you call a person that looks after the apartment that does the repairs and things like that? 100: Maintenance man. Interviewer : Alright. What would you call the person that takes people around and shows 'em new apartments? 100: Real estate man. Interviewer : Or how about the person that collects the rent? 100: Uh management. Interviewer : Alright, mm-hmm. And um {NS} did I skip one? No. Uh- what would you, if you had a house and a lawn you were gonna cut the grass, what would you use? 100: The lawnmower. Interviewer : Alright. Uh when you say lawn mower do you mean, well how is it powered? 100: Gas. Interviewer : Okay. Suppose it's- doesn't have a motor and you just have to push it, what would you call it? 100: Push mower. Interviewer : Okay. And suppose you can ride on it? 100: Riding mower. Interviewer : Alright. And what do they call those things that's kind of like a little hand plow that {NS} eats up your grass when you want to plant? Interviewer : I think people rent 'em a lot instead of buying 'em. Tiller? Do you know of that? Mm-kay uh how about something that if you were going out to dig, just a little hand thing? 100: Uh hoe. Interviewer : #1 Well- # 100: #2 Small # #1 hoe. # Interviewer : #2 with a # short handle. 100: Small hoe? Interviewer : Alright how about something with three prongs you might dig with? 100: {NW} {NW} Interviewer : If you're not a gardener you might not know all this stuff. And then to get the leaves off in the fall what would you use? 100: Rake. Interviewer : Are there different kinds of rakes? 100: Not that I know of. Interviewer : Kay and what would you use to cut the hedge? 100: Hedge clippers. Interviewer : Mm-kay and uh if a big tree blew down and you didn't want to saw it up by hand what sort of a saw might you use? 100: A power mo- a power saw. Interviewer : Mm-kay. And uh can you name some different kinds of beef? Different cuts of beef. Steaks especially. 100: Porter house. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: T-Bone. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Ground. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Round. Um- 100: Fillet mignon. Interviewer : Yeah. 100: {D: Mm let's see} 100: Porter house. Interviewer : Think you said that one. 100: Oh. Interviewer : Any other kinds of beef? 100: Steaks. Interviewer : Just beef. Not steaks. 100: Beef tongue. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Beef liver. 100: Mm. Interviewer : How about kinds of pork? 100: Pork chop. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Mm ham. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Chitlins. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Are there any different kinds of ham? 100: Uh cured ham, hickory ham. Interviewer : Yeah. 100: Sweet ham. Interviewer : Good. How about cuts of lamb? 100: Lamb chops, that's probably the only one I know. Interviewer : Mm-hmm yeah that's all most people know. What about some different kinds of uh poultry that you eat? 100: Chicken, turkey. duck. Um Interviewer : Are there different kinds of chicken depending on maybe what size or age the are? {NS} 100: {D: I don't know} {NS} Interviewer : Mm-kay how about uh different types of sausage? {NS} 100: Beef and pork chops. Interviewer : Mm-kay. How uh what is that thing that you get in a bun at the ball park? 100: Hot dog. {NS} Interviewer : Mm-hmm. When you say hot dog do you mean the meat and the bun or do you, could you just mean the meat? {NS} 100: Meat. {NS} Interviewer : Alright. Uh then what do you call the kind of sandwich that has several kinds of meat and sometimes cheese and it's usually on a big bun? {NS} 100: Uh Philadelphia cheese steak? #1 What'd you say now? # Interviewer : #2 Mm- # 100: #1 A submarine sandwich? # Interviewer : #2 I don't, I don't know that one. # A- what was that? 100: A submarine #1 sandwi- # Interviewer : #2 Okay # that's it. Do you know any other names for that one? 100: Mm hero sandwich. Interviewer : Yeah mm-hmm. Good. And uh what might you drink with a hero sandwich? 100: Beer or something. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. You have any nicknames for beer? Interviewer : Well what might you drink that was not alcoholic? 100: Coca-cola.{NS} Interviewer : Mm-hmm okay. {NS} {NS} Um suppose you were {NS} #1 talking-{NS} # 100: #2 Water.{NS} # Interviewer : Hmm?{NS} 100: Water.{NS} Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NS} You're talking about things that're not coca-co- not just coca-cola. 100: {X} Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Mm-kay. {NS} Okay now stuff that's like, things that are like coca-cola, say Coke and Pepsi and R-C and ginger ale and all those things, what would you call all of 'em, that kind of drink? 100: Mm. Diet {NS} {NS} uh strong coke. {NS} Strong. {NS} Interviewer : Well would you use anything like pop or soda pop or soft drink or cold drink or anything? If you wanted, if you went into the store and said you'd- to order one, you'd say give me a 100: Drink. Interviewer : What would you mean when you say drink? 100: Let me have a drink. Uh, coca-cola. Interviewer : If you said drink you'd mean a coca-cola? Okay. Then uh what do you call things that you get at a bakery, it's, you, well people eat 'em for breakfast, it's a little sweet cake. 100: Uh danish? Interviewer : Okay good. Now what if it's the whole cake and not just a little individual piece? 100: Pound cake? Interviewer : Well it's like a danish though. It's that kind of thing. It might be in a ring. 100: Cinnamon roll? Interviewer : Okay, okay. Uh and then those stuff you spread on a cake is 100: Icing. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And uh wha- what would be stuff that was spread on donuts? 100: Icing. Interviewer : Okay. Uh then did you ever see a rectangular donut that didn't have a hole? Interviewer : How about a donut with jelly in it. What would you call that? 100: A jelly donut. Interviewer : Alright. What about a twisted donut? 100: Twirl. Interviewer : #1 A what? # 100: #2 Twirls. # Interviewer : Okay yeah. Mm-hmm. And uh what would you call a ring that had a big stone in it? 100: Uh class ring or diamond ring. Interviewer : Mm-kay. 100: Wedding ring. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And um different lengths of shorts, what are, what would you call knee-length shorts? 100: At the knee. Interviewer : Well would you have a name for that kind of shorts? 100: Knickerbockers or something. Interviewer : Alright what about lower than knee-length shorts? 100: I don't know I never seen nobody wearing none of those Interviewer : Alright how about really short ones? 100: Short shorts. Interviewer : Mm-kay good. How about clothes that are previously owned by somebody else. Maybe y- your older brother owned 'em and then passed 'em down to you? 100: Hand-me-down. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Suppose you went out and bought them in a second hand store? 100: Hand-me-down. Interviewer : Okay. What would you call very fashionable or good looking clothes? 100: Good looking clothes. Interviewer : Any slang name for that? 100: G-Q. Interviewer : What? 100: G-Q. Interviewer : What does that mean? 100: Fashion. It's a fashion book. where fashion clothes come from Interviewer : Is that a brand name? Mm-hmm okay. Uh then what would you store clothes in in the winter? 100: Closet. Interviewer : Uh would you put 'em in something in the closet? 100: No just in the closet Interviewer : What would you call the kind of bag you might get from the cleaners? 100: A plastic bag. Interviewer : How about the kind of bag you might use to put your suit in if you were going on a a trip. 100: Mm- I ain't never seen one. Interviewer : Alright. Uh can you name some different types of shoes? 100: Mm- 100: Tennis shoe. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Oxford. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Boat shoes. Interviewer : What are boat shoes? 100: Uh like penny loafers and Interviewer : #1 Uh-huh. # 100: #2 {X} # And uh look like Indian shoe. {NS} With a string on it. You tie 'em up. Interviewer : Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. 100: And uh dress shoe. Interviewer : Alright. Is that all? Alright how about some different types of hair styles? 100: Afro. Braids. And um {NS} Shag. Low cut. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Interviewer : Okay there is a section now for different, for names for different types of people and um you may not know any of these. There're a bunch of 'em so just let me know if you don't. Well this one we've already really talked about. We talked about this a little bit yesterday. What might you call a man or a boy he might not be a homosexual but he just actu- acts kind of girlish? 100: Sissy. Interviewer : Alright now suppose he is a homosexual, what would you call him? 100: Gay. Interviewer : Okay how about a woman who was not, not homosexual but she acts kind of like a man? 100: Tomboy. Interviewer : Alright suppose she is a homosexual? 100: Lesbian. Interviewer : Good. What would you call a sexually overactive man? 100: Gigolo. Interviewer : Good and uh how about a sexually overactive woman? 100: {D: Gigolass.} Interviewer : {NW} How about a, a sexually indiscreet man? A man that sleeps around a lot? Then tells everybody about it? {NS} 100: Mm- {NS} Interviewer : #1 {X} # 100: #2 Slum. # Interviewer : {NS} Pardon? 100: Slum.{NS} {NS} Interviewer : Can't, couldn't hear you for the pencil- 100: Slum. Interviewer : Okay how about a sexually indiscreet woman? 100: Mm same thing. Interviewer : Alright. Ho- what would you call an ugly boy or man? 100: Ugly.{NS} Interviewer : Would you say boy look at that 100: Ugly man. Interviewer : Alright how about an ugly woman? 100: Same thing. Interviewer : {NS} Just ugly? How about a very nice looking boy or man? He sure is {NS} 100: Looking good.{NS} {NS} Interviewer : How about a very nice looking girl or woman? 100: She looks good. Interviewer : Alright how about a somebody that studies all the time? 100: Mm Interviewer : Do you use the word book-worm at all? 100: Not {X} Interviewer : What would you call a really smart person? Always makes all A's. {NS} 100: A smart person. He's really smart. Interviewer : Okay. What would you call a child in school that always tries to get favors from the teacher? 100: Teacher's pet. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. How about a person at work that tries to play up to the boss. What would you call him? 100: Boss's pet. Interviewer : {NW} Alright. Uh let's see how about uh what's the first school that you go to? 100: Preschool. Interviewer : And then? 100: Elementary. Interviewer : What grades are elementary? 100: First {NS} first through seventh. Interviewer : Alright and then what do you go to? 100: I went to middle school. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. What grade was that? 100: Sixth through eighth. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and uh then after that is 100: High school.{NS} {NS} Interviewer : Kay good. {NS} {D: Don't get why people couldn't sharpen their pencils before they come} Uh what kind of a fence is around a playground in a school? 100: Mm- a wire fence. Interviewer : Any kind of, particular kind of wire? Okay what uh is the name of the building where they play basketball and that kind of thing? 100: Gym. Interviewer : Okay. Um what do you do in the gym besides play basketball? 100: Mm play hockey. Mm- play dodge ball, battle ball, baseball. s- mm- Interviewer : Do you do anything other than play games in there? Do you have assemblies in there? 100: Yeah assemblies. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Mm Pep assemblies Interviewer : Uh-huh. Do they ever have concerts or- speakers or anything like that 100: #1 {D: No} # Interviewer : #2 in the gym? # 100: They don't hardly have concerts but they got speakers. Interviewer : Mm. Mm-hmm. Mm-kay, um now these are names for different groups of people. Mostly different um different nationality groups and if you've never known any people by these, of these nationalities then you probably don't have a name for 'em but if you've ever heard any names for these groups then just tell me. Um how about uh- oh uh w- before I do that I forgot to ask you what you call bathrooms in the school. 100: Restroom. Interviewer : Okay. Now to get back to the different types of people what would you call Chinese people? 100: Chin- Chin- Chinamen Interviewer : Alright how about Japanese people? 100: Japanese. Interviewer : Do you know any nicknames like Chink or Jap? 100: Jap. Interviewer : Okay. How about, uh what would you call Roman Catholics? {NS} 100: Romans? Interviewer : Any nicknames for them? How about uh very fundamentalist protestants? Interviewer : The, the kind of people that might get up and sing and shout and roll in the aisles? 100: Baptist. Interviewer : Alright. Um then how about Jewish people, what would you call them? 100: Jews. Interviewer : Do you know any slang names for Jews? Either good or bad? You know any names for American Indians? How about Germans? How about uh Dutch people? Italians? Poles? 100: Who? Interviewer : Polish people? How about Russians? 100: I don't know. Interviewer : Czechoslovakians? Lithuanians? Englishmen? Um Irishmen? Scots? Frenchmen? Cajuns? Do you know what Cajuns are? 100: Hmm? Interviewer : They're people that live in Louisiana that are part French. Uh Greeks? Cubans? Puerto Ricans? Mexicans? Uh Scandinavians? Canadians? Now you're not supposed to know those unless you know people with those particular ethnic backgrounds. What, what are the two major political parties? 100: Republican and Democratic. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Speaking of the political parties what do you think about the election? Who's gonna win? 100: Carter. Interviewer : You think he should win? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : He's better than Regan? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : Think anybody's gonna vote for Anderson? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : Very many? 100: No. Interviewer : Why not? 100: He just ain't got that much Public- publicity. Interviewer : Mm. Mm-hmm I guess he hadn't got as much money as the others. Why is Carter better than Regan? 100: Because he's already the president. And Carter thinking- I mean Regan thinking about the war. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Going to war and I don't want war. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Well I don't think anybody really wants a war. I don't know about Regan. Uh what do you call the uh people that I guess they used to have around, I don't know if they still do, that have the long hair and don't take #1 baths- # 100: #2 Hippies. # Interviewer : Do they still have 'em around? 100: {D: I don't know. Never seen 'em.} Interviewer : Are there any here? 100: #1 I don't # Interviewer : #2 No? # 100: think so. Interviewer : Okay. What would you call the uh the person of the same sex as yourself that you {NS} uh like to talk to and go around with the most? 100: Friend. Best friend. Interviewer : Mm-hmm okay. Was there, well especially when you were younger but I guess maybe now too, was there one group of children that you played with? 100: Yeah. Interviewer : Did they- what would you call them? 100: Friend. Interviewer : Alright um what would you call it when maybe one child, one parent has died and somebody else in the neighborhood becomes really close, some adult becomes really close to the child? Interviewer : Sort of takes the place of his parent? 100: Mm- Interviewer : Did you ever hear of anything like a play-mom or a play-daddy? Have you? What have you heard? 100: I just heard of that. But I ain't ever seen nobody. But they- both of 'em had they had both parents but they just considered them their play-mama Interviewer : Well what is a play-mama then? 100: {D: I don't know} {C: mumbles} #1 I- # Interviewer : #2 Is she # related to the- 100: No I don't think so. {NS} Interviewer : Okay. Uh did you ever hear of a game, a word game, where people insult each other in rhyme and it gets worse and then they end up fighting? 100: Joaning Interviewer : Hmm? 100: Joaning {NS} {D: When} talking about somebody's mama {NS} joaning {NS} {NS} Interviewer : I, I don't, I don't know the word that you're saying, because what I heard it {NS} called is playing the dozens.{NS} Do you know that thing? Alright the word you're saying is what? 100: Joaning. Interviewer : Joaning? Joaning. I never heard that. You have said several things that I have never heard and I'm really interested in that. Uh did it, does anything happen when a new kid moves into your neighborhood because you said nobody new ever moves in. But if anybody did would there be anything you'd have to do to make himself one of the gang? Interviewer : Did you ever know that to happen where you've lived? Okay. Well now almost the last thing. I wanna know about some games. Can you tell me some hiding games that you used to play, or play now? 100: Hide and go seek and kick the can. Interviewer : Is kick the can a hiding game? I don't know how to play it. Tell me. 100: Te- somebody, somebody throw the can up in the air and then when he kick the can he close his eyes and everybody hide. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: And then when they, they can then get, kick the can before he can, they go kick the can and they safe. Interviewer : Mm. Mm-hmm. I, I know I never saw anybody play it, I've just heard of that game. Anymore hiding games? 100: Fox and the hound. Interviewer : How do you play that? 100: Chasing game. Interviewer : Okay any, how about some more chase games? 100: {NW} Tag out of jail. Interviewer : Tag out of jail? 100: See you know like this room right here Interviewer : Uh-huh. 100: Like somebody like you get somebody like can bring 'em in here. Interviewer : Uh-huh. 100: You have a guard standing right here. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: And you want and the person's outside want you to cha- want the guard to chase them. So the other person that on they're team can come around and touch it Interviewer : #1 Uh-huh. # 100: #2 {D: up there s} # so they can get out. Interviewer : Then they get out. 100: Mm- Interviewer : How do you know who wins? 100: Person who gets all the persons in. Get all the persons in jail. Then they switch over to the other side. Interviewer : Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. 100: Keep on playing until they get tired. Interviewer : Well if you never got everybody in jail then 100: You never get a #1 chance to go. # Interviewer : #2 {NW} # {NW} You just play the rest of your life huh? Okay uh h- are there any games, I think this is mostly for little children that you play in a ring? 100: Mm {NS} Interviewer : Um little Sally Walker, did you ever play that? How about ring around the rosie, farmer in the dell, any of those? London bridge? 100: London bridge probably. Interviewer : It's too long ago you can't remember? Uh how about uh you mentioned some ball games and I guess, well you mentioned hockey which is played with a puck. Um any more ball games that you haven't mentioned? 100: Football. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Baseball. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Basketball. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Racquetball. I play that sometimes with my #1 dad. # Interviewer : #2 Oh. # Mm-hmm. 100: Tennis. Interviewer : Yeah. 100: Um Interviewer : Do you play any games with a knife? Interviewer : How about um with a rope? Interviewer : Do you ever jump rope or is that just girls? 100: Mm it ain't for girls but I don't do it. Interviewer : Mm-kay. Uh how about marbles. Do you play with them? 100: Used to. Interviewer : Can you, are there any marble games you could tell me about? 100: It's just shoot the marbles. Try to hit the other marble. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Did you play for keeps? Do the different marbles have names? 100: Yeah. The big one was {X} And the blue one was b- m- the uh the uh let me see. 100: The mu- blue one was a cat eyes and the green one was the green and wh- the blue and white one was cat eye and I done forgot all the rest. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. I remember cat eye, I think I had some of those. Um did you ever play jacks? Interviewer : Alright how about uh can you name some kinds of parties that they that you have now or that you had when you were little? 100: Birthday party. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Just party and uh Christmas parties. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: New years party, fourth of July party Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: Halloween party. 100: East- no we don't have no Easter party. We had almost all of them for every holiday except for uh Easter. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Do they have parties here at school? 100: Yes. They have dances. Interviewer : Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. What, uh what are the occasions? Why do they have the dances? 100: Uh after the football game they have a dance. Interviewer : Uh-huh. Do they call it a certain kind of dance? 100: N- you know uh it's like a party but it's a dance Interviewer : #1 Uh-huh # 100: #2 you know like a # ball. Interviewer : Uh-huh. 100: It's just called they have it on Thursdays. Interviewer : Mm, that seems like a bad day if you have to go to school on Friday. 100: Mm. Interviewer : Couldn't stay out late. Uh what kinds of music do you like to listen to? 100: Soul music Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Anything else? 100: Um rock. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Okay. Um what kinds of music don't you like? {NS} 100: Country. Interviewer : Okay uh-huh. Um uh tell me what do y- what you think about, about speaking correct English and all of that? Do you think everybody ought to speak correct English? {NS} Does it matter? Interviewer : Now what do you think about that? What, what do you think about the way people talk? 100: Just everybody talk probably. There wouldn't be no hardly no vocabulary and everybody ha- some people have to talk correct. So they know they have manners, sometimes. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Well who talks correctly? 100: Mostly parents. Interviewer : Parents do, okay. I guess school teachers do. {NS} If you wanted to know what was correct in terms of talking or writing or something who would you ask? Or how would you find out? 100: I ask my teachers. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 100: And my mom. Interviewer : Okay. Uh-huh. Um do you, do you talk differently to white people then you do black people? Do you talk differently to older people then you do to kids your age? How so? 100: Talk nice. Interviewer : Is there something you'd say to kids that you wouldn't say to adults? Interviewer : Like what? 100: Shut up. Interviewer : Uh-huh. Yeah I can see how if you told your teacher to shut up that would not go over very well. Uh do you, well what about writing? Do you think everybody ought to write correctly? Interviewer : Mm-kay. Um well I think that's just about it. Is there anything else you wanna say? 100: Can I finish my homework or anything like that? Interviewer : Okay as is, is it for Spanish? The homework that- 100: Yeah. Interviewer : You mean the homework that you're supposed to turn in today? {NS} 100: Naw. Tomorrow but I wanna finish the homework, got this class too. Because I go to the next Interviewer : Oh is that the next period? 100: Yes I been here since all day. #1 so I need- # Interviewer : #2 Mm-hmm. # Mm-hmm. Why didn't you do it last night? 100: I had to go somewhere with my m- me and my mom and dad went somewhere. Interviewer : {NW} Interviewer : Well, I don't know if Ms. Cantrell's gonna like the idea, because I've got to go and see her now to s- to talk to Priscilla. Interviewer : Now I really think you'd better come back down to Ms. Cantrell's class but anyway, thank you very much for doing this.