Interviewer:  Okay so you might uh pick up uh something and you'd say uh oh no we, we'd talk about that one. If you go to somebody's house and uh and he's not there you might say Is he here? And they would say no he
165:  He's gone
Interviewer:  Okay, he's not at
165:  Not here yet.
Interviewer:  He's not home, he's not, he's not, what would you put in front of home, he's not
165:  {X} I say he not home
Interviewer:  Okay Would you ever be like and say he's not at home or to home
165:  #1 No I wouldn't say that. #
Interviewer:  #2 He's not home. #
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  And uh Talking about uh putting milk in coffee you say some people like it
165:  like cream and some like milk
Interviewer:  Okay. Um Uh and you might ask somebody do you like it milk how
165:  do you like like it black or like it milk and sugar
Interviewer:  Okay. and um Have you ever heard any uh is it is it I don't want anything in it you just say I just drink it
165:  Black.
Interviewer:  Okay. You ever heard any other ways of saying black coffee, do you remember uh?
165:  No. {X} {NS}
Interviewer:  And uh if someone is not going away from you you say well he's coming straight
165:  {D: He coming something}
Interviewer:  Coming me, coming
165:  to me
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh, toward toward
165:  toward me
Interviewer:  What
165:  He's coming toward me
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you saw somebody you hadn't seen for a long time you might say well this morning I was downtown and I so and so
165:  see somebody I did- hadn't seen in a long time.
Interviewer:  Alright would you be likely to say I ran I ran
165:  I ran into somebody
Interviewer:  Okay. And if a child is given the same name that his father has you might say they name the child his father
165:  His name
Interviewer:  They named him his father I I'm just wondering would you be more likely to say they named him for his father or they named him after his father?
165:  They named him after his father.
Interviewer:  Okay. And um uh they uh The animal that barks is uh
165:  A dog
Interviewer:  A what
165:  A dog
Interviewer:  Okay and if you want a dog to attack another dog what do you say to him?
165:  Sic it.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  And uh if a dog is um mixed breed what do you call him he's not a pure bred something you might say he's just a
165:  Just a dog.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh what about if he's a very small and very na- noisy little dog yapping you got a word for little bitty dog who's real loud?
165:  mm
Interviewer:  A uh feist or a mongrel you ever?
165:  {D: A feist they something a feist that's all}
Interviewer:  Okay. and and uh if the dog actually bit him well that boy was
165:  picking at the dog cuz he wouldn't have bit him if he hadn't {D: barked} #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # You say uh Well uh I'm afraid that dog will
165:  He bite you.
Interviewer:  Okay. and uh every uh People go over there all the time and uh and every time anybody goes there the dog has
165:  Bit me.
Interviewer:  Okay. and um and a herd of cattle what do you call the the, the male
165:  bull.
Interviewer:  Okay. and did you do you remember uh around women that they might've used another word uh maybe more polite word or was that just all
165:  #1 That's all I know. #
Interviewer:  #2 word they all # Okay. and um and of course the one you keep your milk is the
165:  Milk cow.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh the one's that you drive to uh um to work are the uh
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Two two mules or call it you what? #
165:  You talking about the ox?
Interviewer:  Okay. Did you ever see anybody work?
165:  Ox I guess, if I seen a man or two come {D: to the working ox}
Interviewer:  Yea, and what do they call it was two of them they said uh {X} What about a, talking about uh mules if there were two of them you might say that's a nice looking
165:  Calf.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh uh the cow has a baby
165:  Calf.
Interviewer:  And uh how did you uh say that uh the cow was expecting a calf you'd say well Daisy if that were her name Daisy's going to
165:  Have a calf.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the male horse was called uh
165:  Mare. #1 No. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh is that the male? #
165:  Nah.
Interviewer:  #1 Mare was a female wasn't it #
165:  #2 {X} # Yes.
Interviewer:  And what'd you call male you remember?
165:  mm
Interviewer:  Uh.
165:  #1 Yea a stud #
Interviewer:  #2 A stud or # Okay. And uh Uh {NW} You might have one horse or you might have several. One's a horse and several
Interviewer:  What'd you say?
165:  Several horses.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if you don't know how to ride you uh you might say Well I'd like to but I have never
165:  #1 A horse. #
Interviewer:  #2 A horse. #
165:  I'd say I ne- never rode a horse.
Interviewer:  Okay. And you might say everybody around here likes to horses
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Horses. # And uh uh yesterday I got on the horse and I
165:  Rode.
Interviewer:  Okay. If you couldn't stay couldn't stay on the horse you might say well I fell
165:  {X} {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh fell?
165:  Off.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if a little child went to sleep in bed but the next morning he was on the floor he might say well I must have
165:  Fell out the bed.
Interviewer:  Okay. What are the things that you put on a horse's feet to protect them?
165:  Shoes.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 Horseshoes. #
Interviewer:  Okay. And the part of the horse's feet that you put the shoes on to are the the horse's
165:  hoof
Interviewer:  Okay. A hoof and he has four
165:  {D: Hoof} #1 Hoof #
Interviewer:  #2 Four # How's that?
165:  Four of them hoof.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh the game that you play with the those things is called
165:  #1 Um. #
Interviewer:  #2 You know throwing it? #
165:  Horseshoe.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh you said you didn't have sheep much around here, do you happen to remember what they call a male sheep?
165:  Uh. {D: I don't know.}
Interviewer:  Okay. and a female sheep either?
165:  No I do- {NS} Most the sheep I see is on the TV
Interviewer:  #1 Oh okay #
165:  #2 {X} # But that stuff that grows on the sheep's back is called Wool isn't it? {NS}
Interviewer:  Alright a male hog is a {NS} {NS} {NS}
165:  Boar.
Interviewer:  And uh If uh if they want him so that he wouldn't uh uh be the father of little pigs What do they they do to uh what do they call it when they fix themselves so they wouldn't have a
165:  {D: What they call something} {NS} {D: They spay a something} {NS}
Interviewer:  Yea how's that? #1 Uh huh. Okay. #
165:  #2 {D: I said it spays a something to keep it from having pig.} #
Interviewer:  Uh do you remember do they that on the farm when uh they didn't want the
165:  Yea yea.
Interviewer:  The boar. What did they do you remember what they called it?
165:  oh
Interviewer:  And do you remember what they would call a male after he's been fixed that way?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  You ever hear a barrow? Barrow? #1 {D: Barrow} #
165:  #2 {D:mm} # bar #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 uh huh # I think maybe that's what it is they say uh castrated
165:  Yes
Interviewer:  Uh huh. Any other way of saying that you remember? Cut or
165:  {X} Yes they cut the they'll cut the pig while they're holding it in the sides you know
Interviewer:  #1 Meat wasn't good when it was uh #
165:  #2 Now # {X} killed one with that heat in it it ain't good. #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Okay. And uh all of the um The baby ones are called the little ones where it's first born is called uh
165:  Pigs.
Interviewer:  And when they get a little older they call them uh {NS}
165:  Hogs.
Interviewer:  Okay. Did you ever hear them called shoats?
165:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  #1 What's #
165:  #2 Shoats. #
Interviewer:  What's what's that kind of in between?
165:  Yes. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay. And what are those stiff hairs on a hog's back? They use them to make hair braces sometimes. Now remember bristle? {X}
165:  Yes {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright what about those big teeth that the hog had? Remember?
165:  {D: Yes} I know they have big some of them have great big teeth.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Yeah sometimes they have that they call them {X}
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  #1 Ha- you remember how this #
165:  #2 Yea # They'd cut 'em put some of 'em pull 'em
Interviewer:  Yeah what'd they call them?
165:  Tusks
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 {D: They'd kill it} # You know {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah {NS} And uh the place where you put the food for a hog would be a
165:  trough
Interviewer:  Okay and two of them would be hog
165:  Troughs.
Interviewer:  Uh and uh You ever had any names for a hog that grew up wild around here?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  You didn't have {X}
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh what about the noise that's made by a uh calf when it was being weaned? What do they say it did he was The calf would Uh if he's a big cow you'd say the cow goes Have we gotten
165:  I don't know {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah? {NS} Well you remember how they kind of fuss when you're trying to wean them?
165:  Yes sometimes {X}
Interviewer:  Uh I was wondering if they say uh it'd be more likely to say uh bleat or bawl or
165:  They always took 'em away.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
165:  The calf would would given milk {X} for awhile You know. {X}
Interviewer:  #1 But #
165:  #2 Okay. # {X}
Interviewer:  Okay and uh The the general noise that a cow would make maybe would be
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Okay. And what about a horse? Uh neigh or whinny? Either one of those?
165:  #1 No. #
Interviewer:  #2 Is um # Don't remember that one okay. And if um you're gonna go out and feel feed say the horses and the mules and the cattle uh How'd you say that I'm gonna go out {C: nn}
165:  Feed up That's what I'd say.
Interviewer:  Alright and did you have any other uh things besides chickens in the way of that type of thing?
165:  Guineas.
Interviewer:  Yeah? What about turkeys? You ever have turkeys?
165:  No. We didn't have turkeys we had {X}
Interviewer:  You had to hunt them?
165:  yeah.
Interviewer:  They go off and hide?
165:  Yes and you'd put your hand in 'em they wouldn't lay back in there.
Interviewer:  Oh. They'd move to some other
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Huh.
165:  I had a sister used to make me so mad with her She'd find 'em though. She'd tell mom {X} hunt again. I said you wanna go hunting {D: go yourself} They'd lay by eleven o'clock
Interviewer:  At night or in the morning?
165:  In the morning. They'd eleven o'clock you'd {X} {X} In the front of that house where we stayed. Right through the bottom Go down and find {X} {X}
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
165:  #2 {X} # I'd kill her {X}
Interviewer:  Tha- She thought that was fun?
165:  She liked the blackberry pie {X}
Interviewer:  Uh huh. {NW} Okay and if you're going to feed the hens and the guineas what would you say I gotta go out and
165:  Feed the chickens.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  And um A hen on a nest of eggs is called a
165:  Sitting hen
Interviewer:  And uh a place where you might put a hen or a chicken just to take them somewhere
165:  Put them in a coop.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh what about that bone uh when you cook a chicken that the children used to like to
165:  #1 Pull it bone. #
Interviewer:  #2 break? # The what?
165:  Pull it bone.
Interviewer:  Okay and {X} Which was the lucky side? The little one or the big one? The long one?
165:  The the big one
Interviewer:  And what what was gonna happen if you got that
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 It was #
165:  got married first
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  I see. And uh do you have a word for the insides the different parts of the chicken you would eat? Just one word that meant all of them together? The heart or the gizzards or whatever?
165:  #1 No. #
Interviewer:  #2 No. # And uh that part of the uh uh hog that you sometimes eat and sometimes use to stuff sausage in What do you call that?
165:  {D: Tassels.}
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you uh if you cook it up if you uh clean it real good and cook it up in little pieces And sometimes I think they used it for uh bread. No? Um
165:  {X} The children they got they cleaned them and they The other part the upper one with the cases They cleaned them Stuff the sausage {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And if it's time to feed the cattle uh they'd say well its about that time it's
165:  Time to feed up Oh at night I'll feed up feed 'em once a day I'll feed 'em twice a day
Interviewer:  Feed up?
165:  {X} Time to feed up.
Interviewer:  Okay good. Would you say her name too or?
165:  Yes something like that
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
165:  #2 {D: Come on Mary} # Cut cow cut.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh What would you say to a cow to make her stand still when you milk?
165:  Back your leg.
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about calling a calf? Would you have a different word to call a calf?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Same way?
165:  Yessum.
Interviewer:  Okay and what about to call mules or horses? Or to make them turn to the left or to the right when you're driving them? What'd they say?
165:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  #1 Never heard about uh that one? #
165:  #2 No. #
Interviewer:  Alright uh uh do you remember hearing anybody call or what you said you probably had a horse if he were out in the pasture how would he call him?
165:  He didn't have him out in the pas- he had him in a lot.
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  And his name was Joey. {X} {X}
Interviewer:  #1 He'd com- #
165:  #2 He'd come running he was a # fine horse.
Interviewer:  Okay. And to get uh to to get a horse to go on faster you'd say
165:  Come up.
Interviewer:  mm-kay And to get him to stop you'd say?
165:  Woah.
Interviewer:  And uh what about to call the pigs when feeding them?
165:  {NW} They'd come running.
Interviewer:  They'd come huh? Uh and uh. {D: and their sheep uh} What about how'd you call the chickens?
165:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. And um When you're uh when they're going to put uh to get the horses ready to go somewhere to go to work they'd have to say I've gotta go The horses or the mules I gotta go
165:  Gotta go to work now
Interviewer:  #1 Alright and put all that stuff on that you had to have #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  I'm gonna go what what'd you put on
165:  Harnesses.
Interviewer:  Okay. And is that the way you say it I gotta go harness or gear or
165:  You had to go put the gears on them when you're going to work you'd say put the gears on them
Interviewer:  What about if you're going to put them to the buggy? Would there be a different word if they're going to the buggy?
165:  harnesses to put on 'em to the buggy
Interviewer:  Okay. and if you're driving a horse or a mule what do you hold in you're hands?
165:  The lines
Interviewer:  And if you're riding a horse back you got him with the?
165:  You have a halt on {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And what do you put your feet in when you're riding a horse back?
165:  {D: Feed}
Interviewer:  Uh huh you know those things that you uh
165:  #1 Oh saddles. #
Interviewer:  #2 on the saddle? # #1 #
165:  #2 #
Interviewer:  #1 The little thing down at the feet went in #
165:  #2 {D: They were saddles} # We'd call them saddles.
Interviewer:  The big thing that you sat on was a
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 saddle? #
165:  {X} you know.
Interviewer:  Okay did you ever hear them called stirrup?
Interviewer:  #1 No. #
165:  #2 No. #
Interviewer:  Um. And if something is not right here But you might say well it's just a little? Over there just a little How'd you say maybe it's out in the field not too far it's just a little
165:  Down in the field?
Interviewer:  Uh huh a little way a little distance how would-
165:  I said down there in the field. Down by the ditch down there or
Interviewer:  A little away? A little piece?
165:  A little piece down there.
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 But if you been try- # How's that?
165:  Said a little piece down the {X}
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh if you've been traveling and have not finished your journey you might say well I've gotta before dark I've gotta
165:  I nearly got {X} little piece further to go.
Interviewer:  And if it's more than a little piece if it's uh It's many many miles you might say well I gotta before dark.
165:  I gotta lotta miles to make up.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh a long way? Uh {D: a fur piece} uh A good ways? #1 What would be more #
165:  #2 {X} # You said long ways. And a long way yet to go.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if um if something is very common very familiar you might just uh you don't have to look for it in any special place You might say well you're gonna find that just about
165:  Anywhere.
Interviewer:  And if someone were on the ice maybe and he slipped and fell this what you'd say He fell?
165:  Broke his back broke his neck
Interviewer:  Okay he fell how?
165:  He broke his neck.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  And uh If he fell this way you'd say he fell
165:  #1 He skinned his knees #
Interviewer:  #2 You're talking about the #
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # #1 I'm just talking about the direction he fell in #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 He'd stand up he fell this way #
165:  #2 In front. #
Interviewer:  He fell fa-
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  And this way he fell?
165:  Back.
Interviewer:  Okay. How?
165:  Backwards.
Interviewer:  Okay. And um If uh If somebody went uh maybe hunting Did you're father ever go hunting?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  No? {X}
165:  No. {D:There was no fish net}
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh If you um Somebody might say Have you got a so maybe cabbage out in the garden You might say well I don't have a single head I don't have {D: A what don't have}
165:  #1 I don't #
Interviewer:  #2 How would y- #
165:  have anymore. Long gone.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright if uh the the teacher is is fussing a boy at school and he he didn't feel he deserved if he might say w-what she fussing at me for I nothing wrong I
165:  I ain't done nothing wrong
Interviewer:  Alright. And if somebody uh Uh borrows uh Oh say the rake you use in the yard and it was one you didn't particularly care for anyway you might say Oh that's alright I didn't like it
165:  That's alright something happened that's alright {X} that's alright
Interviewer:  I didn't like it?
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh Uh a child maybe there were two children out and one had some candy and the other one wanted some he might say well he was eating candy and he didn't give me
165:  {D:He didn't give none of it}
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 {D:That what he said} #
Interviewer:  And if uh If one of your uh granddaughters is going to visit a friend going to be there from uh say one afternoon until the next day you might say well she's going over there to
165:  Spend the night.
Interviewer:  Alright. And what about if you talk about uh the noise you might say uh uh at one oh clock you know I heard something sometime in the night how would you say that?
165:  Heard something last night didn't you hear #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # And uh would you be more likely to say in the night or during the night or?
165:  {D: I'd say} {X} about one oh clock last
Interviewer:  #1 Alright #
165:  #2 about two or something like that #
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh if you're Uh how would you say uh you think Something probably is going to happen You might say well that boy is just {D: foul} When he grows up Um He'll have his troubles.
165:  I say when he grow up he gonna make his momma cry.
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: Like he's not or after he's not} # How would you say it?
165:  I say {X} make his momma cry
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh those the trench like thing that is cut by a plow is called the? You know that little When they go plowing and they lay it up like that, a fur?
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  #1 How would you say it? #
165:  #2 I'd say # {X} After that you {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. To plant something? Alright and uh If you have a real good yield you might say well we really raised a big?
165:  We had a good crop year this year.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if there's a lot of brush or trees in the land on the land and you cut them all down You might say well we what the
165:  #1 We #
Interviewer:  #2 land? #
165:  clean up the bushes off the land.
Interviewer:  And if you uh cut hay early and then it grows some more and uh There's some left to be cut again you might say well we gotta What?
165:  We have to cut just got to cut the grass again.
Interviewer:  Okay would you call it a {X}
165:  #1 Yes. #
Interviewer:  #2 the something to be made hay out of #
165:  #1 Yes. #
Interviewer:  #2 Would you say a second cutting or second crop? #
165:  Yes a second crop.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh The wheat you said was uh tied up in uh bu- the oats you said were tied up in bundles didn't you? And it was piled up into a Would you say a {D: shock}
165:  They sh- shocked it around like that you know.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh you might say what would be a good crop to the acre? How would you say that? You know bushels to the acre? You remember?
165:  No I don't remember.
Interviewer:  Well you might say we raised forty of oaks to an acre m- How would you say that in a sentence? We raised?
165:  I don't know. {D: I don't know.}
Interviewer:  Uh I just want I want you to use {X} Use the word bushel somehow like uh. Uh. Just you know just guessing
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
165:  {D: one of them that would}
Interviewer:  Oh. Okay. I knew it wouldn't be too bad. Let's just see. {D: Let's see X} We won't we don't have very much more because I don't want you getting tired. Um. I just wanted you to use the word bushel like uh ask somebody how many?
165:  {D: Bushel X} {NS}
Interviewer:  Thirty? Forty bushels {D: don't something} ten acres.
165:  #1 Something like that. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # Okay. And uh You might say what do you with oats you just separate the grain from the rest of it? You say the oats is? The oats?
165:  They They thrash them.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Every year in August the oats is?
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. Um If uh If you're talking about not just yourself but you're talking about uh me too You might say well This is uh Not just me or not just you but it's
165:  Us.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh.
165:  #1 Both of us. #
Interviewer:  #2 Both of us. # Okay. And if you're some friends of yours are coming over you might say well well um Uh. Maybe it's Mary and you and instead of saying Mary, you might say Oh she or her uh and How would you say they're coming over?
165:  {X} Her and her daughter coming over.
Interviewer:  Okay uh would you say her and me are coming over?
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Alright and if you knock at the door and somebody says who's there you'd say? It's
165:  {NW} oh they call your name what they say me #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. Alright expect they'd figure they know who it is # They recognize your voice?
165:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Alright talking about how tall you are Um. And you're taller than than maybe your daughter you might say She's not as tall as
165:  As I am.
Interviewer:  And uh Talking about somebody who's taller you might say
165:  #1 They tall- #
Interviewer:  #2 Huh? #
165:  They taller than I am.
Interviewer:  Okay or I'm not as tall as?
165:  She is.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh talking about how well you can do something you might say well uh comparing you and you're daughter you might say well I can do it better than
165:  She can.
Interviewer:  #1 Or she can do it #
165:  #2 better than I can. #
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh If uh a man had been running just as fast as he could go and he just had to stop you'd say well two miles is He could go.
165:  That's right. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh. Oh yeah Uh talking about the the distance that he could run you might say Well two miles is
165:  All he can run.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if something belongs to me you might say it's
165:  Mine. It's mine.
Interviewer:  Alright if it belongs to me
165:  #1 That's yours. #
Interviewer:  #2 You'd say # Alright. Or if it belongs to
165:  You might say its so and It's uh
Interviewer:  #1 Oh. #
165:  #2 It's theirs. I'd say it's theirs. #
Interviewer:  And if it's just one person? It's?
165:  Theirs.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if its uh Is that your your son?
165:  #1 grandparents #
Interviewer:  #2 grand- # Okay you might say talking about him it's
165:  It belongs to him.
Interviewer:  Okay it's hi-?
165:  His.
Interviewer:  Alright and if uh it's your granddaughter you'd say its
165:  It's hers.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh talking to uh all of them when they're leaving you might say where are
165:  you going.
Interviewer:  Okay and if it's two or three of them?
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Where are?
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  You or you all?
165:  Oh you all. Where y'all going?
Interviewer:  More than one person you'd probably say
165:  #1 I'd say y'all. #
Interviewer:  #2 you all? #
165:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Sure. # Sure. Okay. And if you were uh the some of the children had been to the party and you wanted to know uh the people who were there you might ask them who?
165:  Who was there?
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 {D: That was of them X} #
Interviewer:  Okay. Who all? Would you say?
165:  I'd say tell me some of the names were there.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you're asking about what somebody would say would you say what all did he say?
165:  What they say?
Interviewer:  What they say alright. And if nobody else will look out for uh them you might say well They gotta look out
165:  #1 For themselves. #
Interviewer:  #2 for? # And if no one else will do it for him you'd say well
165:  #1 He gotta do it hisself. #
Interviewer:  #2 uh h- he better #
165:  gotta look out for hisself.
Interviewer:  Okay and. What is bread made of that's baked in loaves?
165:  {D: White bread}
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh If it's what's the difference in whether or not you put uh that stuff you put in it to make it rise is?
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh do you have a different name for it if you don't put yeast in it? {X}
165:  {D: Oh I don't know.}
Interviewer:  Okay. And what other kinds of bread do you have uh besides that you make it into a loaf You might say you bake a pan of?
165:  Biscuits.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh What about the kind that you make out of cornmeal?
165:  Egg bread. {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about uh Egg bread is uh is in
165:  #1 Loaf. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh. # Okay.
165:  I make muffins {D: in the muffin things}
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about the kind
165:  #1 corn cornbread #
Interviewer:  #2 that you don't # What?
165:  Corn.
Interviewer:  #1 That you don't put eggs in it #
165:  #2 Cornbread. # No not corn cornbread.
Interviewer:  And it's just a little paddy like this?
165:  Oh it's a it's a little corn you bake it and stuff.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh uh what about something else made of cornmeal maybe something that you cook with uh uh some sort of um uh vegetables drop it in with it to cook.
165:  Corn. Corn dogs they call 'em {X}
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  That was good.
Interviewer:  yeah? and you still make it?
165:  Sometimes.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 Whenever I can get it # {D: get the salad}
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Sure. And the kind that you uh Do you fix hush puppies?
165:  Yessum
Interviewer:  Uh any other kind of uh bread made with cornmeal? Did you ever make mush?
165:  {D: N-no}
Interviewer:  For somebody that's sick maybe?
165:  Yes. I made uh I don't know what they call them {X} and take the broth and put onion and black pepper in it. Then she cooked it. They call that some kinda mush.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh. #
165:  #2 It was # {X}
Interviewer:  {NW} Did you ever hear that called scrapple?
165:  No. What is-
Interviewer:  Like a mush that was used the juice
165:  #1 Yes. #
Interviewer:  #2 or? # Uh huh. Uh you don't remember a name for it.
165:  No.
Interviewer:  If you think of that one well tell me.
165:  I will if I think of that call that.
Interviewer:  Uh.
165:  Tastes good though.
Interviewer:  #1 Alright what else uh #
165:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  When you you killed hogs what were some of the other stuff that you had? If you butchered a hog? What did you make from the meat of the head maybe?
165:  {D: south meat?}
Interviewer:  yeah. And uh. Uh what about uh
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  #1 From the livers? #
165:  #2 From the livers? # {X}
Interviewer:  Did you make that?
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  How was that?
165:  Tastes good.
Interviewer:  Was that with the onion?
165:  yeah. And uh what about did you make anything out of the blood? {NS} No.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh of course the the that one is ground up pork and makes
165:  Sausage.
Interviewer:  And the man that uh used to go or if you think about going to uh buy uh who sells meat is the what?
165:  The butcher.
Interviewer:  Butcher. And uh the kind of meat that you buy and slice real thin to eat with eggs is
165:  Bacon.
Interviewer:  And what about the kind that uh like that the whole part of the the hog that side how did you call that?
165:  {D: Min- something}
Interviewer:  Okay {D: min-} I've never heard that word {X} Alright and uh {NW} The kind of meat you use out of that to cook with vegetables maybe off of the s- I think it came off of the side.
165:  Off the {D: min-}
Interviewer:  Off the back?
165:  Backbone?
Interviewer:  Uh huh and the kind you put in to cook with uh vegetables?
165:  {X} off the {D: m-} and then shoulders.
Interviewer:  Okay that that fat
165:  #1 Yes y- yes #
Interviewer:  #2 It's theirs. #
165:  off the shoulder
Interviewer:  What'd you call that?
165:  and fatback
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  that's right in the back
Interviewer:  Okay. and uh If you you took the uh hams and the shoulder and maybe put them out in the smokehouse and that part that was the where the bacon sliced off of what'd you call that when you hung it up what is that?
165:  The bacon {X} #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh huh. #
165:  {X} {NS} The middling.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. And uh Th-that that uh part that you had to cut off the outside part that you cut off to cook the bacon is the
165:  That's is is that's called a slab part of it.
Interviewer:  Okay. Are the the skin or the edge of it you call the Rind?
165:  #1 Yes. #
Interviewer:  #2 You get your own rind okay. # And um There's there two kinds of bread, there's the homemade kind and the kind that you buy at the store. You might call that At the store you'd say it's not homemade bread it's
165:  {X} {X} Light bread.
Interviewer:  Mm ah okay. You said light bread?
165:  Mm.
Interviewer:  Now so this is not homemade bread this is light bread okay. Light bread minute was bought at
165:  #1 That's right. #
Interviewer:  #2 the store? # Okay. And what about that kind of um Of uh uh dough that you cut like this and
165:  #1 doughn- #
Interviewer:  #2 take a hole out # What?
165:  Doughnuts.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh you say that uh your family doesn't too much like biscuits anymore but they like the kind you put butter and syrup on you call them?
165:  Hotcakes.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you go to the store to buy flour now you might say well I wanna buy two Of flour. Two? Or five?
165:  Five pound.
Interviewer:  And uh. The inside part of an egg is the?
165:  Yolk. Yolk.
Interviewer:  Okay you say yolk {D: and yaw or y'all}
165:  {D: got yoke out the}
Interviewer:  Okay and if you put eggs in hot water and cook them with the shells on you call them?
165:  Boiled egg?
Interviewer:  And if you crack them and drop them out of the shell and cook them in hot water they're?
165:  Poached. No.
Interviewer:  Poached egg I've heard that.
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And if um if you keep butter too long and it didn't taste good how would you say it tastes?
165:  Rancid.
Interviewer:  Alright and uh The thick sour milk that you keep on hand is called?
165:  Sour milk.
Interviewer:  Okay and that kind of milk that just gets kinda thick and you know slice it?
165:  Yes. It that's buttermilk clabber
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Did you ever make cheese out of that? #
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Uh you never did make homemade uh cottage cheese?
165:  Mm no. although my granddaughter's sent me a case of Dutch cheese from
Interviewer:  From Europe?
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Okay. That must've been good.
165:  {D: Oh I like it.} Used to have {X}
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
165:  #2 I # couldn't use all of it course I put it in a big freezer
Interviewer:  #1 Sure. #
165:  #2 and wrapped it up and # cut it up and wrapped it up.
Interviewer:  #1 Sure. yeah? #
165:  #2 Real good cheese. Good cheese. #
Interviewer:  I bet it was. Okay when you milk what is the first thing you do after milking? You pour it through something to
165:  Strain it.
Interviewer:  And uh what kind of uh sort of dessert is baked in a deep dish and maybe it's made of apples or some kind of fruit?
165:  Baked apples or?
Interviewer:  #1 Well you put some pastry down a dough. #
165:  #2 Oh. Apple # pie.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 Apple dumpling. # Oh I mean um apple chops.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you have maybe a big uh bowl that you can put in the oven or a pan like this and you put a pastry all the way across the bottom you put a layer of fruit and then sugar and butter and then maybe you put another layer of pastry on top
165:  That's old fashioned pie.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh did you call it cobbler? No?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Apple pie or Peach pie?
165:  I made apple {X} {X} about them.
Interviewer:  #1 Was that just with the the fruit in the dough? #
165:  #2 yeah. # Fruit in the dough and butter and sugar {X}
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And did you put some kind of something sweet sauce over that?
165:  No I didn't want nothing on it. {X} I browned it {X} You know and be white. That butter will be brown and crispy all the way through.
Interviewer:  Sounds good.
165:  That will be good I hate {X} {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if somebody has a real good appetite you might say he sure likes to put away his
165:  Food.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay did you ever say vittles
165:  Yes. {X}
Interviewer:  Both of them? No.
165:  Vittles.
Interviewer:  You'd be more likely to say food?
165:  Yes I'd say food I didn't say
Interviewer:  #1 Alright. #
165:  #2 {D: vittles} #
Interviewer:  And uh with different uh with puddings or whatever er- Would you ever serve a sweet liquid something that you'd pour over? some puddings?
165:  Yes. {X}
Interviewer:  What'd you call that?
165:  Uh syrup no. Lemon sauce or with gingerberry
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay what do you call just a little bit of food that you might eat between meals?
165:  Snack.
Interviewer:  Hmm?
165:  Called it a snack.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh how did you to talk about when you have your food you might say everyday I? breakfast at seven oh clock I?
165:  Eat dinner at twelve
Interviewer:  Okay. But last night I
165:  Didn't eat no supper {X}
Interviewer:  A what?
165:  Last night I didn't eat no supper.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh all my life everyday I have
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay I'm talking about taking in food
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 though like at seven oh clock everyday I have #
165:  eat on time.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh what do people usually drink for breakfast?
165:  Coffee.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and do you usually say uh uh that you're going to ha-how do you say you're gonna prepare coffee? You say I'm going to go Some coffee I'm going to go
165:  I'm gonna put my pot on and {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And what what do you drink when you're thirsty?
165:  Water.
Interviewer:  And you have it in a
165:  Glass.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And uh if you're talking about a glass uh Y-you might say be careful talking to the child be careful don't
165:  #1 Break it. #
Interviewer:  #2 drop it. # Alright. And If somebody did drop you'd say look there
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 you #
165:  Broke that glass.
Interviewer:  Alright and If you're talking about a child that's maybe real clumsy you say every time y- Every time he has come here he has
165:  Broken a glass.
Interviewer:  Okay. And um. If you uh talking about uh water you might say well I a lot of it I
165:  I drank a lot of water.
Interviewer:  Okay. and then say maybe yesterday I you had uh eight glasses you say yesterday I
165:  I say I drank eight glasses of water.
Interviewer:  Alright and uh all my life I have
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 that much water. # I have
165:  Drank {X}
Interviewer:  Okay and if you're when dinner is on the table the family's standing around What do you say to them to get them in there?
165:  Dinner ready.
Interviewer:  Come on and
165:  sit down.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh when they come in the dining room you might say won't you?
165:  Sit down.
Interviewer:  And uh So he at the table he {D: you said him} sit down and then he
165:  Said the blessing.
Interviewer:  Okay but uh after he got into the chair you might say well he's in that chair. To say he was in that chair you might say he?
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 ru- # He's
165:  He sits in that chair.
Interviewer:  And yesterday he
165:  Sit over there.
Interviewer:  #1 And uh #
165:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  All his life when he has come to see me he
165:  #1 {D: sat in that chair} #
Interviewer:  #2 has # Okay. And if you want somebody not to wait until the potatoes are passed you might say uh uh yourself.
165:  Help yourself.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh You might say well he went ahead and #1 himself. #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  And what?
165:  Helped hisself.
Interviewer:  Okay and since he had already I asked him to pass him since he had already
165:  Helped hisself pass
Interviewer:  Alright and if you decide not to eat something you might say well I don't
165:  #1 want #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # I don't.
165:  I don't care for that.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if the food has been cooked And then served a second time you might say it's been
165:  Leftover.
Interviewer:  Okay and if it you uh you uh put it on the stove a second time you'd say well this been
165:  been warmed.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you put food in your mouth you begin to
165:  Chew.
Interviewer:  And um Well let's talk about the garden a little bit you say I grow all kinds of?
165:  Vegetables.
Interviewer:  And uh They're out uh Well just tell me the the different I don't think we put did we talk about the different kinds of {X}
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay tell me about the different kinds of vegetables that are in the garden.
165:  What a plant's name mean?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
165:  ah plant butterbeans and
Interviewer:  What other kinds of beans? Are butter beans those green ones or are they all kinds?
165:  They're green ones. Little green ones snap beans {X} {X} Collard greens. And turnips. I didn't I didn't plant no eggplants this year. I should have.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh What about the typical southern food that you think about having the {D: eggs in the morning} White and having the bowl with butter.
165:  {X} I cook the grits every morning
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  And Grits {X} and Billy one piece of toast with grits. and bacon. and egg. Coffee most of them drink coffee. {X} They'll drink orange juice instead.
Interviewer:  Mm. And uh what about uh a dish that was made from the whole grains of corn? Ruth and I we
165:  #1 {D: that something} #
Interviewer:  #2 generally think # What?
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  yeah do you ever fix that?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Did you used to?
165:  No. {NW} {X} I love it though. {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 yeah? #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Did your mother fix it?
165:  #1 No. #
Interviewer:  #2 Where'd you have it? #
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  You like it you get it canned?
165:  I like that she cooked {X} Friend up the street {X} cooked some every year {X} She cooked it {D: good and} {X}
Interviewer:  She made it all the way herself?
165:  {D: yeah. That's a lot of} {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about uh uh a grain that you generally thing about being raised down in Louisiana it's uh {NS} Um. They use it for uh food all the time and its white in little grains and.
165:  Rice.
Interviewer:  And uh What about uh Uh homemade Or a homebrewed some kind of alcoholic beverages or homemade beer what kind of things like that have you heard of?
165:  {NW} Black beer or wines {X}
Interviewer:  Did you ever make wines?
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  yeah? And that one that you think about being made out in a still out in the woods is a? What do they call that? It's illegal.
165:  Whiskey.
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
165:  #2 Uh #
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
165:  #2 Moonshine. #
Interviewer:  Uh huh any other words you've heard besides moonshine?
165:  No I haven't heard nothing. moonshine {X}
Interviewer:  You ever hear it called rotgut? Somebody the other day told me
165:  {X} The stuff they make it out of be uh The stuff had a rot or do something to them
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
165:  #2 {D: naked} # {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And if something is cooking and um And it makes a real good impression on your nose you might say
165:  #1 S- #
Interviewer:  #2 This this #
165:  Smells good.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh Uh. See we talked about uh voices uh You never made maple maybe did a thing with uh juice from the maple tree did you Erica?
165:  I have made mapleine syrup for us at the house
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
165:  They bu- they buy it in maple
Interviewer:  A little flavoring.
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  But you nobody ever got the water out of the trees and
165:  #1 No. #
Interviewer:  #2 cooked it down. #
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you say this is not a imitation maple syrup it's?
165:  Maple syrup?
Interviewer:  Or if you talk about leather you might say this is not plastic
165:  #1 it's leather. #
Interviewer:  #2 it's # Okay so the real thing if you gotta order {X} it's not imitation it's gen-
165:  Genuine leather.
Interviewer:  Okay how's that?
165:  It's genuine leather.
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh sugar sold retail is already put up in packages. Wholesale you might say it's sold in
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay n- uh loose or in bulk?
165:  They used to sell it loose but they don't now.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh do they say it in bulk how do they say that?
165:  They usually just go get as much as you want in a sack.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay do they use a word in bulk?
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  How
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 say it for me. #
165:  in bulk.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh what did you make um with fruit if you strain the juice and cooked it
165:  #1 Jelly. #
Interviewer:  #2 with sugar # Made what?
165:  Jelly.
Interviewer:  And uh you on the table you usually put uh two things to season with
165:  Salt and pepper.
Interviewer:  Okay and if there's a bowl of apples over there and a child wants one he'll say
165:  {D: want an apple.}
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if you're talking about two uh two groups of boys you might say it wasn't those boys
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 it was one of #
165:  Those over there.
Interviewer:  Okay not one of these one of
165:  Those.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you're pointing to a tree that's a long way off you might say it's a
165:  Way down y- way down yonder that's what I say down yonder.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NW} And if you're telling somebody to how to do something and they're not doing it right you're going to say #1 Don't do it that way do it #
165:  #2 Do it # this way.
Interviewer:  And if um there's somebody's uh is saying something you don't understand you might say now
165:  What you say?
Interviewer:  Okay. And you might say if a man has plenty of money He doesn't have anything to worry about but life is hard on a man
165:  Poor. {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. A man
165:  Who poor
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you have a lot of peach trees you have a You say I gotta big
165:  Peach orchard.
Interviewer:  And uh Uh i- if you see a lot of an orchard you know you might say well If somebody said is that your orchard and you say no I'm just a neighbor he's the man
165:  Live there.
Interviewer:  Okay and who who has or who owns {X}
165:  #1 Who owns that. #
Interviewer:  #2 that # Okay. When I was a boy uh my father was poor But next door was a boy
165:  Lived good. Lived well.
Interviewer:  Okay. You might say his father his his fa- my father was poor but
165:  He lived good.
Interviewer:  Okay and talking about uh his father you say my father is poor but
165:  {X} rich.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And inside of a cherry the part that you don't wanna eat the little hard thing is a
165:  A seed.
Interviewer:  Okay inside of a peach?
165:  That's a seed.
Interviewer:  And what about the there's a kind of peach that's served the meat clings or sticks to the seed and then there's nothing that breaks off easily.
165:  {X} peach that sticks to the seed.
Interviewer:  Which one?
165:  {D: Chris}
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh the others are called
165:  {D: less seed}
Interviewer:  Okay. And what's the part of the apple that you throw away?
165:  The core.
Interviewer:  And uh uh did you ever cut up apples or peaches and dry them?
165:  Yessum.
Interviewer:  What did you call that?
165:  Dried apples and dried peaches.
Interviewer:  You never heard them called uh snitz?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  yeah I don't think that much is used around here but I've heard of that one. Um. Okay what are the kinds of uh nuts that you have around here? Mostly?
165:  Pecans {D: picker nuts or something}
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And uh of course the big money crop is
165:  Pecans.
Interviewer:  Uh bigger than the ones you dig up and uh you have the Carter's have the {X} underground they grow underground? {C: car passing} {NS}
165:  Nuts peanuts? {C: car passing}
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about one you just see a tree around occasionally and it has a soft hull outside and a hard hard inside and if you break them open you stain your hands badly. Remember one like that?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Um. A uh Uh walnuts?
165:  Mm.
Interviewer:  yeah did you have them?
165:  {X} There's some I think I see the tree up to around
Interviewer:  A what kind now?
165:  Walnuts.
Interviewer:  Okay. You don't have them very much though.
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Alright what about another that you think that's long and flat shaped and uh It has a real thin shell and you use them in cooking but you have to buy them. They blanch them sometimes slice them up real thin?
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. Almonds you ever buy almonds?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  No? Okay. And if the kind of fruit that they Florida's famous for is The most famous Florida fruit that gets is
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  yeah but even more common than tha-
165:  {D: oh} Mangoes.
Interviewer:  Uh yeah but l- it's a citrus fruit too you talk about you have it in juice sometimes. Maybe they don't drink coffee
165:  #1 Oranges. Oranges. #
Interviewer:  #2 they want a glass, what? # Okay. And if you have a bowl of oranges and one day you go to get one and they're all gone you might say well the oranges are
165:  Gone.
Interviewer:  They're all
165:  Gone.
Interviewer:  All
165:  #1 All gone. #
Interviewer:  #2 How'd you say? # Okay. And uh the little red red vegetable that you have in the garden It's peppery and kinda hot
165:  {X} Radishes.
Interviewer:  And uh those they're really a fruit big and round and red. Juicy and you slice them {D: X a vegetable}
165:  Those are tomatoes.
Interviewer:  to you ever hear of any little ones real small ones?
165:  {X} No but I know a lady do had a lot of them {X}
Interviewer:  #1 What'd she call them? #
165:  #2 Every year. #
Interviewer:  You know what they call them?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  You ever uh
165:  #1 They #
Interviewer:  #2 heard of #
165:  They just volunteer e- every year there.
Interviewer:  Uh huh.
165:  She had them
Interviewer:  Where'd they grow?
165:  up Beside the fence.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Y-you know {D: called them} Tommy toes? Or?
165:  I don't know what she called them I just {D: see her}
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  And uh along with {D: meech} you might have uh baked Or another vegetable that grows underground
165:  Potatoes.
Interviewer:  Okay what different kinds of potatoes did you have?
165:  White potatoes and yam.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Did you pretty much call those that are sweeter did you call them
165:  #1 yams. #
Interviewer:  #2 yams? # More than you did sweet potatoes?
165:  That's the same thing.
Interviewer:  Okay. But you alway always say yams?
165:  Sweet potato what I said.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh what about one that's still grows underground and it has a real strong odor and it makes tears come to your eyes some
165:  #1 Onions. #
Interviewer:  #2 times? # What?
165:  Onions.
Interviewer:  Okay did you have different kinds of them?
165:  yeah.
Interviewer:  What kinds of
165:  {X} Red onions.
Interviewer:  {D: Which ones were shawed} How'd they look like?
165:  {D: Big} {X} Top of them eat them both.
Interviewer:  #1 Oh you'd eat the tops of them? #
165:  #2 {X} # {X} {X} mostly get that {D: bone}
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you leave uh
165:  Alright.
Interviewer:  Apple or plum around it would dry up and You might say the skin of that dry apple was all?
165:  {NW} Dried up.
Interviewer:  {NW}
165:  Sh- Shriveled up.
Interviewer:  How?
165:  Shriveled up.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the kind of vegetables that come in big leafy heads are
165:  Cabbage?
Interviewer:  Okay. and uh Uh another leafy vegetable you might have is {NS} Okay one that you put in salads?
165:  Turnips.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Might chop up uh with tomatoes
165:  #1 Lettuce. #
Interviewer:  #2 and # Okay. And uh leafy one that you might put with tomatoes and make a salad would be a?
165:  #1 Lettuce. #
Interviewer:  #2 L- lettuce # Lettuce? Okay and how would you raise that you might talk about Would you have bunches of lettuce or Like you said head of cabbage right?
165:  {X} {X}
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  #1 {D: They'd have} #
Interviewer:  #2 They didn't have #
165:  pull a little
Interviewer:  #1 Oh. #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Okay then you didn't say heads of lettuce?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. You getting tired? {NW} Wanna stop awhile?
165:  No let's go.
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  That a
Interviewer:  Alright did you ever use heads to refer to children? Like I got four or five or six or eight head of children did you ever hear that used that way?
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Head?
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  What about passels? I mean a whole large numbers or something.
165:  Don't know much that.
Interviewer:  Never had that one okay. That's the word my grandfather would use for big {X}
165:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Passel of children so he would say. Okay and um The corn that you might just raise in the gardens to distinguish it from field corn is
165:  There's the sweet corn and yellow corn.
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear of mutton corn?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Oh. Um. {NS} A large round fruit that grows on the ground you make pie out of at Thanksgiving?
165:  Pumpkin.
Interviewer:  And uh the little yellow crook neck vegetables
165:  Squash.
Interviewer:  Did you have different kinds of that? What kind?
165:  I don't know what the name of them is. Different color and be red Some round ones and {X}
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  And some of them were yellow.
Interviewer:  And uh. What about melon?
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Different kinds
165:  #1 Different kinds. #
Interviewer:  #2 of melon? # And uh. Uh. The kind uh not the red one but the kinda kind that is
165:  #1 Yellow. #
Interviewer:  #2 is yellow? #
165:  {D: Yellow}
Interviewer:  What'd you call that one?
165:  {X} think they called it.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And uh another kind that's just more like a little ball like this Uh. Did you ever have mushmelon or?
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  #1 Did you call it #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Cantaloupe
165:  #1 Yes. #
Interviewer:  #2 too? # Cantaloupe?
165:  Just mushmelon. Cantaloupe.
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about something that comes up in the woods or the fields after a rain? Little bitty umbrella
165:  #1 Mushrooms. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Okay did you ever eat uh have one them that you'd eat?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  You heard of them though?
165:  #1 No. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Okay. Um. Uh. They uh Sometimes uh call them mushrooms.
165:  Yes. {X}
Interviewer:  But y'all didn't raise any.
165:  No. {X}
Interviewer:  You ever buy them in cans?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh. If a man has a sore throat And the inside of his throat is so swollen And he maybe put food in his mouth but he couldn't
165:  Swallow.
Interviewer:  And uh what do people smoke?
165:  Cigarettes.
Interviewer:  And
165:  Pipes.
Interviewer:  Okay. And that one that's not white but long and brown?
165:  #1 Cigars. #
Interviewer:  #2 Not # Okay. And a lot of people at a party having a good time you might say they were standing around a singing and a laughing
165:  And talking.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if uh somebody offers to do you a favor And you say well I appreciate it but I don't wanna be
165:  Bothered.
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay. And uh maybe somebody wanted to give some give a man a coat Because he was cold. But he wouldn't accept it because he said he didn't wanna be
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 to anybody #
165:  Charity.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  What about beholden? or obligated?
165:  yeah. They don't wanna be obligated to you.
Interviewer:  Okay. If somebody asks you about doing a certain job you might say well sure I can I can do it.
165:  {D: I can do it.}
Interviewer:  How?
165:  Sure I can do it.
Interviewer:  Alright if somebody says can you? You might say no I?
165:  Can't.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 Can't do that. #
Interviewer:  If somebody asks you um to do some work and it's right about sundown you might say you've maybe been working so well I got up to work before sun up and I
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 all I'm going to do today # I've
165:  I'm tired out I've done all the work today.
Interviewer:  Okay. If you're talking about Your family you might say well Most of them uh older people most of them are not living anymore they're
165:  Not {X} gone on.
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh there was a wreck and there was a person in it you might say well There was no use to calling a doctor because the victim by the time we got there he was
165:  wasn't any good.
Interviewer:  He was what?
165:  Dead.
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh. Uh and talking about how you think the corn usually might be at this time you might say Well it's not as tall as it
165:  Not as tall as it should be but it's got pretty good little {X}
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh Maybe sometimes children sort of try to get each other to do things they won't do themselves like maybe I I am I dare you to go through the graveyard at night but I bet you
165:  Won't go.
Interviewer:  Won't {X}
165:  You won't go near it.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  Alright and um If you're uh You knew when you uh If uh children again are talking about doing something that maybe was not uh they thought their parents wouldn't approve of and one of them might say well uh you maybe gonna do the wrong thing you are not going to do what you blank to do you're not going to do what you
165:  Want.
Interviewer:  What you
165:  Wanna do
Interviewer:  Okay are uh uh Should another way of saying you know that's not what you
165:  Should do.
Interviewer:  Are all
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh and if a you say No to this somebody says will you do it you say no I
165:  I won't do it.
Interviewer:  And uh. If you had to do some real hard work all by yourself. And let's say the girls were standing around and didn't help You might you could say well you at least you
165:  Could help.
Interviewer:  Okay or you uh {NW} You might've helped me How would you say that?
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Uh might have
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  How say that.
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 At least #
165:  At least you might have helped.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh Suggesting Just the possibility of being able to do something you might say Well I'm not sure but I
165:  I've tried.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you wanna say um Uh The the possibility and there I I'm not sure but uh I m- might {X}
165:  I might do it. I'll try.
Interviewer:  Okay. What's the kind of bird that can see in the dark?
165:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # What do you talk about hearing at night that makes a little
165:  #1 Owl. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # What?
165:  Owl.
Interviewer:  Okay what about one that makes a little bitty sound? Do you know about different kinds of owls? You ever heard of a screech owl or screech owl?
165:  Screech owl.
Interviewer:  #1 How? #
165:  #2 {X} # Yes.
Interviewer:  How'd you call them?
165:  Screech owl.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if he's bigger and goes ooh you might say
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 that's # What?
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  And the kind of bird that drills holes in trees?
165:  Woodpecker.
Interviewer:  And did you ever hear that swapped around and called them peckerwood?
165:  Pecker.
Interviewer:  What what's uh Just talking about the bird?
165:  yeah.
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear people refer to it as peckerwood?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Um. And what about uh a black and white animal that has a real strong smell?
165:  Oh Uh Skunk.
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about all the small animals that might get into the chickens that they are predators You might say Well we have to fasten the chickens up at night so the what won't get them?
165:  Um. Possum gets them.
Interviewer:  Okay but maybe possums and different kinds of rats
165:  #1 Manx #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: or all kinds} # What?
165:  A manx can get them too.
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  #1 What? #
165:  #2 {X} # You gotta keep the manx out the chicken coop too.
Interviewer:  Are there any of them around here?
165:  Yes they used to be I ain't have no chickens in a long time.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NW} Have you What about you say there's something that getting into the chickens every night Imma get me a gun and some traps and stalk those
165:  pole cats
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh uh
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Did you ever hear the # Did you ever hear the word varmints about All different kinds of little animals
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  How was how'd they say that?
165:  Varmints.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh. And what did it mean then it just Uh.
165:  I guess it meant the pa- {X} um possum things that's coming up
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} And uh {NS} What about the different kinds of squirrels? That you had around?
165:  I don't know much about them {X} around big squirrels. Uh he used to kill squirrels and bring squirrels home and we had fried squirrels squirrel stew.
Interviewer:  Sure. Did you ever hear a squirrel called a boomer?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  That may be more like a mountain {X} What about different colored ones? Are there different colored ones around?
165:  All I'd seen was gray kinda like {D: brown streaks}
Interviewer:  Okay what about a little animal that maybe runs around more on the ground looks a little like squirrel but a lot smaller.
165:  I don't know I seen them. But I don't know about them.
Interviewer:  Um. You never did hear something called a ground squirrel?
165:  Y- yes.
Interviewer:  #1 Ground squirrel? #
165:  #2 My yes yes #
Interviewer:  What about chipmunk? You ever hear chip-
165:  A little bit but I ain't seen much of that.
Interviewer:  Okay. J- uh Ever hear anything called a A pocket gopher or a Ground gopher?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  No? Okay. And uh Talk about the the fish what about a uh uh uh a fi- uh a shell? A sea animal. That pearls sometimes supposed grow in.
165:  I don't know nothing about it.
Interviewer:  Nothing about oysters did you ever cook oysters?
165:  Yessum I cooked oysters. We shelled 'em.
Interviewer:  yeah how'd you fix them?
165:  Fry 'em make stew too.
Interviewer:  yeah. And if you made stew you said it was what kind of stew?
165:  Oyster stew.
Interviewer:  Uh huh. And what about the the things that uh around the water that croak and carry on? Hop around?
165:  Frogs?
Interviewer:  Uh huh what different kinds of frogs?
165:  #1 Uh #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
165:  I don't know about different kinds of frogs.
Interviewer:  What about the great big ones?
165:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  The nobody ever had uh ever killed them and had frog legs?
165:  No not I didn't fix none they told us about that when I lived in Florida. We went down there {X} and they was talking about frog legs and brown snakes {D: They'd head down there} I didn't care none about that
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
165:  #2 {D: cuz they'd} #
Interviewer:  Okay. And you don't know about a little kind of uh a little bitty green one then?
165:  Yessum I {X} I see them they out there. round My tomato bunch now.
Interviewer:  yeah but you don't have any special name for them?
165:  No they just say green ones.
Interviewer:  #1 Oh #
165:  #2 green frog. #
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh. What about uh uh Do you call them toads or toad frogs?
165:  {X} called toad frogs but I don't know one.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh what was the thing that they used to dig uh uh {D: a for-something} or crawled around and went and or into the If you raised up a rock or something you found.
165:  Baits.
Interviewer:  yeah. What?
165:  {NW} {X} Baits all I know.
Interviewer:  Okay you don't know any different kinds of words?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Uh okay what about the hard shell thing that's supposed to pull its legs and its
165:  #1 That's uh #
Interviewer:  #2 head? #
165:  Turtle.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh What about uh Does that one go in the water or is it just on
165:  I think they stay around the water.
Interviewer:  Okay you ever hear them called terrapin or {D: gopher something}
165:  I heard talk of them but I
Interviewer:  You just say turtle?
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Okay what about something that you find in maybe little streams or creeks and they're supposed to swim uh uh uh or crawl backwards Little claws? Know about one like that?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Uh crawfish or crawdad or
165:  {D: craw fry} Uh little type of crawfish I seen the starfish {X}
Interviewer:  yeah that's an ocean one isn't it?
165:  Yessum
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
165:  #2 I think this one is one that's maybe around streams. #
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  And um Another kind this is an ocean one like where they have oysters and everything and serve {D: something like this} and this little thin shell you ever cook or {X}
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Uh. But you heard of shrimp?
165:  Shrimp yes I've heard
Interviewer:  What about an insect that flies around a light a lot? Flutters up to the light.
165:  Little green ones? The green bugs {X}
Interviewer:  yeah and sometimes I think they're uh grayish powder comes off when you
165:  yeah. Camel fly.
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about an insect that's supposed to get in well it does get in wool cloth and eat holes.
165:  Moths.
Interviewer:  Okay. And maybe there's just one and you'd say there's a
165:  Moth hole.
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh a bug that has a light in its tail at night #1 The kids'll #
165:  #2 Lightning bug. #
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh What about a long thin bodied uh insect that uh has two pairs of wings on it it's supposed to be around swampy old water little puddles they say something about used to eat uh mosquitoes You'd say they're around snakes sometimes. You ever hear of a dragonfly or?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  A snake feeder snake doctor?
165:  Yes {D: and my little} snake doctors.
Interviewer:  Okay. And what other kinds of stinging bugs or insects are around?
165:  Uh wasp you mean?
Interviewer:  Right.
165:  Yellow jackets.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about What about one that um that um makes uh a nest a big paper bag looking nest?
165:  That's a wasp.
Interviewer:  Okay. Is there one that's even bigger about the size of a football?
165:  Yellow jacket {X}
Interviewer:  Okay do they have any hornets around here?
165:  Yessum in the woods out there where they work at. {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And ones the little tiny ones that uh carry malaria they're supposed to be around the water the mosquitoes? How do you say that?
165:  I don't know of any.
Interviewer:  Mosquitoes you know they're always
165:  Oh yessum mosquito.
Interviewer:  And what about the little teeny ones that uh burrow down in your skin and they're out in the fields and uh They uh Uh if you walk in the woods without you may get them on your legs or
165:  Um. {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about the ones some green and some brown that hop around in the grass in the summer? They hop you know. You seem them from the corn sometimes.
165:  Like a frog?
Interviewer:  Uh but this is an insect a bug. Grass?
165:  Hopper.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Did you ever hear them called hopper grass?
165:  Yessum grasshopper and hopper grass they'd call 'em backwards {X} That's right.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh You said you didn't do much fishing what about uh a little bitty fish that's used for bait? Minnows? You
165:  yeah heard them talk about minnows. {X}
Interviewer:  And what's this uh Uh something a little thin uh thread like thing you may find across the path when you walk down to the garden or sometimes you find them in the corner of the room? You have to sweep them down with a broom or something.
165:  Spiders.
Interviewer:  And what do you call the thing that they leave?
165:  Webs.
Interviewer:  Okay. And a tree down in the ground puts out? Uh what's the part of the tree that goes down in the ground?
165:  Roots.
Interviewer:  And um. Uh. Did we say you had maple trees around here?
165:  I don't know. But I think so but I don't know.
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about a kind of a tree That has uh broad leaves and they pretty much shed all at one time the bark peels off and it has little balls on it sometimes. Real tough wood they use it for chopping blocks.
165:  Uh.
Interviewer:  Sica-
165:  Sycamore.
Interviewer:  Have you had what's that one?
165:  Sycamore.
Interviewer:  Okay and Any other trees you think of that might be around? Of course you have the pines pretty much around here.
165:  Yes and then oak tree.
Interviewer:  Okay. That's the one that made the best wood?
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Alright and uh what was that story George Washington could never tell a lie he was supposed to cut down
165:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 the # What was that one?
165:  {NW} {NW} {X}
Interviewer:  {X} a cherry tree wasn't it?
165:  They said George Washington never told a lie the biggest lie right then he ever told.
Interviewer:  {NW} {D: You never talked about something}
165:  {NW}
Interviewer:  {NW} You heard those stories about it
165:  {NW}
Interviewer:  You hated his expense account?
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  yeah
165:  #1 I heard the story. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # That's kind of a surprise to me. Okay what about a shrub doesn't get too big just kind of a bush out in the fields. And um The leaves get real- very red in the fall. and they grub 'em up sometimes
165:  Out in the field?
Interviewer:  Yes or along with the road. It's a the they don't want it the farmers don't want it some and they have a sort of sticky gummy stuff around on those little berries or
165:  Oh. Uh.
Interviewer:  S- #1 {X} #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  What? Well I'm thinking about one that's like {X} or something like that.
165:  #1 I don't know about that one. #
Interviewer:  #2 don't know about that one. #
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  That's a that's a nuisance
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Okay we talked about poison oak poison ivy tell me about the different kinds of berries you might have around here.
165:  Oh blackberries strawberries raspberries
Interviewer:  Any that are poisonous?
165:  None of that
Interviewer:  yeah. Did you ever uh ever see pope one called pope berry
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 around here? #
165:  Yes.
Interviewer:  yeah and you use the leaves of that
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 don't you? #
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh what about a A shrub that has a very beautiful bloom pink and white flowers I think they originally came from the mountains. They bloom late in the spring. Uh laurel any laurel around here? A rhododendron? {X}
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  No? Okay. And the the big um of course the big flowering tree with the big white blooms are? Typical of uh the south. The big glossy leaves. The magna-
165:  Magnolia.
Interviewer:  Alright.
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  They're real pretty {X}
165:  {X} planted five or six trees about Twenty years ago me and Mayberry both said I'll never live to seem 'em blooming and they haven't bloomed yet.
Interviewer:  Oh really they grow real slowly huh?
165:  I don't think they're the blooming kind they all don't bloom in this town.
Interviewer:  #1 Oh. #
165:  #2 We just # We just {X} this time of year {X} wall of flower.
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay. And uh if uh If a married woman doesn't want to make up her own mind she might say well I don't know I better ask my {X} might not of asked decide for herself she might say well I'll ask my
165:  husband {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And any other ways you say old folks might say that She might say well I'm gonna ask
165:  I'd love to see what so and so says
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Any other sort of nicknames instead of saying the husband she might say?
165:  yeah cuz my momma called my daddy boy {NW}
Interviewer:  Boy?
165:  Boy.
Interviewer:  {NW} What does she call that a nickname
165:  #1 that was #
Interviewer:  #2 or #
165:  his nickname. {X}
Interviewer:  yeah.
165:  Called her sis.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the man might say well I don't know I must ask my
165:  Wife.
Interviewer:  Okay. And a woman who has lost her husband is called a
165:  Widow.
Interviewer:  And uh. If a woman whose whose husband is dead and a woman whose husband has just left her you have a different word to say that has widow in it.
165:  Yes
Interviewer:  #1 How? #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 How would you say that? #
165:  #2 {NW} # {X} grass- {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 Grass widow well have you got another way of saying that have you ever heard of a sod widow? #
165:  #2 {NW} # No but they always say she's a grass widow.
Interviewer:  She's a grass widow that means her husband just
165:  #1 Yes. #
Interviewer:  #2 left her. # Well somewhere here somebody told me that {X} she's either a grass widow or a sod widow
165:  Well I reckon it
Interviewer:  {D: cuz he's something the sod} {NW} I thought that was interesting. Okay and and your mother's husband is your
165:  My father.
Interviewer:  Uh huh and uh And what did you call your father?
165:  Dad, papa
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other ways what did your children call your husband? The same?
165:  Dad.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other ways what about the grandchildren? Call their father?
165:  They called him Daddy
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  That That's latest style {X} you know long time ago the pop
Interviewer:  Right and uh his wife was your mother you said your mother? What did you your father's wife was your
165:  Grandma.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh uh the children your children called you
165:  B- All my grandchildren call me big momma I don't like grandma
Interviewer:  Uh huh and what do they call their mother?
165:  Ma m- call them momma.
Interviewer:  Okay. And your mother and father together are called your? Pare-
165:  Call them parents.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh Your father's father you call your
165:  Grandpa.
Interviewer:  Okay any uh affection sort of joking ways you remember folks calling their grandfather? Did they say uh like big momma did they say Did they say big daddy or
165:  No.
Interviewer:  What'd they call him?
165:  {X} I don't know much about my granddad.
Interviewer:  I see.
165:  He was dead before I was {X} don't know a thing about him.
Interviewer:  I see.
165:  But my grand dad parents on my mama's side
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
165:  And my grandpapa On my daddy's side he didn't live I I did know them but he didn't live long.
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  But I did never know my grandmama on my mama's side
Interviewer:  I see. What did your children your children call your father? Did they call him grandpa?
165:  They didn't have to call him cuz he was dead before they were born.
Interviewer:  Oh yes.
165:  yeah he died before I had any children. {NS: phone rings}
Interviewer:  And um Your grandchildren call you big momma?
165:  Everybody in Plains call me big momma {X}
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 Well now they told me Ms. #
165:  #2 {X} # {B} Well I mean the children all of them almost all the children call me their big momma.
Interviewer:  Uh huh.
165:  #1 Well and #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: They going they go by gone this something} #
165:  Hey big momma hey big momma
Interviewer:  I'll say. Okay well now uh {NW} What your grandchildren called your husband what did they?
165:  called him daddy
Interviewer:  Just daddy? Okay.
165:  But he died. My grandchildren you mean.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
165:  Mm oh. He died before they was they was very little.
Interviewer:  Sure. Okay. And um. Your sons and daughters together are called your you say this these are all my
165:  Daughters.
Interviewer:  #1 He was their sons and daughters #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  You just say these are
165:  My children.
Interviewer:  And uh uh A little something with wheels on it you put a baby in you call a
165:  A carriage.
Interviewer:  Okay and when you take the baby out to in it you say your going to do what to it?
165:  Took to them to the carriage.
Interviewer:  Put the baby in the carriage
165:  #1 Y- #
Interviewer:  #2 And go out and #
165:  Yep. {X}
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  Quiet him.
Interviewer:  And uh. Talking about your boys uh Which one was the oldest? How would you say that he was which one
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: of my boys} #
165:  Richard the oldest.
Interviewer:  He's the what?
165:  Richard is t- Richard is my oldest boy.
Interviewer:  Okay and what about maybe not just of his age but maybe the one who always seemed most uh responsible was that Richard too or one of the others?
165:  oh that's my baby boy.
Interviewer:  Is that right and how would you say that he's my most what? How would you describe him?
165:  Well I don't know somehow or other they think I sent him on to school.
Interviewer:  #1 I see. #
165:  #2 {NW} # Well the rest didn't wanna go you see how that is.
Interviewer:  #1 Sure. #
165:  #2 {X} # And he wanted to go. And he tried to work to help hisself though and so.
Interviewer:  Where'd he go?
165:  He went to high school. finish high school. {X} Left. Went to Brooklyn. {X} Didn't come back until the {X} {NS} doctor and dentist working.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
165:  He done that hisself {X} {X}
Interviewer:  And is he in New York now?
165:  Yes ma'am.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And he's working?
165:  Yes he working.
Interviewer:  As a? In? In a hospital or
165:  No he not working in a hospital. He changed jobs About five years ago. He's he say left for Tennessee took up another course and uh sent back here for his uh he lost his uh diploma he sent back for it told me to go over there to the school and get his um
Interviewer:  Diploma?
165:  yes and recommendations from it. And they sent me to the Uh superintendent. He said he couldn't give it to me. Wherever he wanted to be working he had to have it and uh {X} They said he couldn't give it to him but he
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
165:  #2 tell him to go right then # {X} Be there at Monday morning he said his recommendation would be there he wasn't allowed give it out
Interviewer:  Sure.
165:  So when got there {X} {X}
Interviewer:  Okay Well in talking about him how would you say that he's the the the grown up-est the most grown up {D: the most something}
165:  He is my baby boy
Interviewer:  yeah but he's the the one that did the most
165:  He {X}
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  The wanted to do the what?
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh Your um Oh yes what about the way that eh if a woman is going to have a child how how would you say that? She's?
165:  Pregnant?
Interviewer:  Okay do you remember how many that used to say that when they maybe wanted to talk a little nicer or something? Any other ways of saying that besides pregnant? Might say she's
165:  See what they used to say {X} know nothing about that {D: when I'd come home.}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
165:  {X} {X}
Interviewer:  You mean uh when the you didn't actually know about uh uh
165:  nothing about how a baby was to be born or nothing.
Interviewer:  Is that right?
165:  #1 No I #
Interviewer:  #2 Even after you were married? #
165:  That's right.
Interviewer:  Is that right?
165:  {X} I didn't know. I thought calling a doctor that was just it you's {X}
Interviewer:  Sure.
165:  Shut the door you couldn't see out of it. {X} Dad called hisself the best doctor in Plains and we let living out there on the farm Momma was and I went home you know {X}
Interviewer:  Sure.
165:  Doctor said come out there. {X} {D: One} In uh read the paper And I was just having a fit
Interviewer:  #1 The the doctor read the paper? #
165:  #2 {X} # Read the newspaper gave me a shot and read the paper and you know I had to do something then {NW} It was
Interviewer:  Mercy. What about uh a woman that maybe is not a doctor that helps out then? {NS}
165:  Oh {NS} From then on I had midwives
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
165:  I said {X}
Interviewer:  Sure. Well do they have any of them around now?
165:  I think one or two. {X} Wait just one minute.
Interviewer:  {X} If you uh if you wanna ask somebody uh how many times about something you might say uh oh how do you go to town how uh {NS} What word would you put in there if you wanna know where they went? Every week or twice a week how?
165:  I did it go to town once a week or
Interviewer:  yeah How how would you say how?
165:  How often do you go to town?
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you're uh talking with a friend and uh uh he says uh I'm not going to do something and you agree with him that that's not a good idea you might say well you might say well I'm not gonna vote for that guy and you might say well
165:  I don't vote {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 Alright well you were #
165:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  yeah you might say I'm
165:  #1 I I don't #
Interviewer:  #2 I am gonna vote # but if he says that he's not gonna vote for him and you're agreeing with him that you're not going to vote for him either you might say well me
165:  #1 I'm not #
Interviewer:  #2 I #
165:  I'm not gonna vote for him.
Interviewer:  yeah. And somebody else might say well me neither or me
165:  Me either.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh And uh This part of your uh face is your
165:  Forehead. {NS}
Interviewer:  And uh if you go to the man goes to uh uh the barber you might say he wants to get his
165:  Hair cut.
Interviewer:  Or if he doesn't
165:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 shave # Huh?
165:  A shave.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh and if he doesn't shave around here he's growing a
165:  Beard.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh If you're if somebody is uh hunting for the pencil and they've got it sticking up here you might say its well its right behi-
165:  #1 right #
Interviewer:  #2 right #
165:  behind your ear
Interviewer:  Okay and if he he you wanna tell him it's the one on this side you say it's your?
165:  Right or your left.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh If somebody is mumbling one of the children maybe and you can't understand what they're saying you might say well take that chewing gum out of your
165:  Mouth and I can understand what you said.
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh if uh baby starts coughing when he's uh eating or something you might say he's got a uh look he's got a chicken bone stuck in his?
165:  Throat.
Interviewer:  Okay. And this whole part of your body you call your?
165:  Neck.
Interviewer:  And uh what about this little part right here?
165:  I call it the goose.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  And that's just that little thing
165:  #1 Yes. #
Interviewer:  #2 right there? # Okay. And if you go to the dentist you want him to look at your?
165:  Teeth.
Interviewer:  Okay and how's that?
165:  {D: Go and look at your teeth}
Interviewer:  And uh if one has a cavity and you say I'll have to fill that.
165:  Fill it up {X}
Interviewer:  K. And they're all teeth and one is a? This one
165:  Teeth.
Interviewer:  yeah. Okay uh You might say uh I think this {X} is hurting then
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  The front what?
165:  #1 Teeth biggest front teeth here #
Interviewer:  #2 The front # Okay. And what do you call the uh uh the place up around the teeth?
165:  Gums.
Interviewer:  And uh you might say to somebody look at that uh that baby bird it's so small you could hold it in the of your hand.
165:  In your hand.
Interviewer:  In the what?
165:  Palm of your hand.
Interviewer:  How's that?
165:  Palm.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
165:  #2 of your hand. #
Interviewer:  And if uh somebody got mad and he did this he doubled up both {NS}
165:  Fists.
Interviewer:  Okay or he just took one and did it like this you might say well {X} Uh you might say he shook his
165:  Fists.
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh any place uh where you bend your finger or your arm are called the
165:  It's called your elbow.
Interviewer:  Okay but what do you call all of those like
165:  Knees
Interviewer:  yeah but the places where they join together you say have you got
165:  Joints.
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  {X}
Interviewer:  {X} Uh and the upper part of a man's body is called his?
165:  That that's his chest across there
Interviewer:  Uh and if he's real strong you might say he has really broad?
165:  Shoulders.
Interviewer:  And uh You may uh uh Do you remember they talked about the height of a horse they would didn't say the horse isn't so many feet high but so many
165:  Inches?
Interviewer:  Uh well apparently they use this what do you call this? These are your two These are your two?
165:  Hands.
Interviewer:  Okay and this is your? And this is your?
165:  Right and left.
Interviewer:  Okay that was what I was asking about sometimes apparently they measured horses' height in hands They say he's sixteen hands high or something like that. Okay. Um. Uh {NS} And uh You might say well this part of the body is the
165:  Your leg and your thigh
Interviewer:  And uh
165:  #1 foot. #
Interviewer:  #2 they #
165:  #1 Ankle. #
Interviewer:  #2 your # And one is a foot and two are your?
165:  Ankle. {X}
Interviewer:  And you say well both my
165:  Feet.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh How was that?
165:  Both my feet. {NW}
Interviewer:  And uh {X} What about this part of your leg right here if you stumble and fall and bruise yourself right here you say I hurt my
165:  lay right on the shank
Interviewer:  Okay. That's the front part of the leg right about
165:  yeah.
Interviewer:  And uh What about this part of your thighs right here if you're you're squatting down you say I'm squatting down on my?
165:  Hips {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh Any other way that you talk about squatting down maybe to pick vegetables in the garden or anything? or pull weeds how would you say if somebody's trying to bend over you might say well get down on
165:  On your knees.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh would you ever use uh Hunker down to do something? or to squat like to squat down no?
165:  Yes You say squat down.
Interviewer:  And if somebody's been sick awhile but he's up now but he still looks you might say well he still looks a little bit
165:  Pale to me.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other way of saying pale?
165:  No they look like he still sick.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh If somebody who can lift really large loads you might say my If you can lift something uh big heavy sack of grain or something you might say he's really
165:  Strong.
Interviewer:  Okay and somebody who's very easy to get along with is you might say he's very
165:  I like him because he's easy to get along with.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh And what about somebody who just maybe a boy in his teens is just real maybe always falling over his feet how would you say he's so?
165:  Clumsy.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if somebody Is always doing something that doesn't make sense you might say about him oh that
165:  That boy is awful.
Interviewer:  Okay. yeah well just a word for him he's a real
165:  Bad boy.
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about somebody who just won't spend any money at all. What would you call him?
165:  He gets stingy.
Interviewer:  Okay. Ever use tightwad another word tightwad for somebody {X} just stingy? Um What about uh If you can if somebody asks about something that's is just can be found anywhere you say well that's real
165:  Easy to find look behind you it's easy I say {X}
Interviewer:  Okay.
165:  Table there.
Interviewer:  Okay and something that's not unusual at all is very c- very common? do you say common?
165:  Common yes.
Interviewer:  Do you ever use that about a person? Would you ever use she's a real common person or he's a real common person?
165:  Yes sometimes.
Interviewer:  And does that mean that {NW} that they're just plain every day folks
165:  Yes and the same thing everyday.
Interviewer:  Okay. In other words it's it's complimentary it doesn't mean that they're trashy or anything like that?
165:  No.
Interviewer:  Just if you say she's just somebody enjoyed just everyday they're
165:  The same thing everyday.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh Alright if uh If there's uh uh uh A man let's say approaching a hundred or some such but he's still very active and doesn't show his age and still likes uh is interested in everything how would you?