Interviewer:  Have him look at your
166:  Teeth.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you have one that's bad he says well I'm gonna have to pull that
166:  Tooth.
Interviewer:  And the flesh around the teeth are the This part you know
166:  Gums.
Interviewer:  Okay. And um the inside of your hand is your
166:  Palm of your hand.
Interviewer:  And if you double it up it's a
166:  Fist.
Interviewer:  #1 You got two of them they're #
166:  #2 {NW} # Two fists.
Interviewer:  Okay. How would say two of 'em two
166:  Two you say two fists.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  One either one you.
Interviewer:  At any place where you're you bend is called a
166:  #1 This is called an elbow #
Interviewer:  #2 You say I've # Uh-huh. And
166:  This is your knees.
Interviewer:  Right. And uh any place where bones come together maybe you you say as well I've got getting kind of stiff in my
166:  Hips.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. But uh what about the word that means all of those places? You know like the hips and this and you say the joints
166:  Joints.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  Cuz I'm {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah. And the upper part of a man's body is his you might he's got a broad
166:  Shoulder.
Interviewer:  Okay and the part out of here is his
166:  Small.
Interviewer:  {NW} But you might say this is his uh
166:  Chest.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh uh this back here is his
166:  Shoulder.
Interviewer:  And two of them are his
166:  Shoulders.
Interviewer:  Uh okay how's that?
166:  Shoulders.
Interviewer:  Okay and they might. They used to measure the height of a horse they didn't say he the horse was so many feet high but so many
166:  Feet.
Interviewer:  They used fists I believe. Did you ever hear 'em talking about the height of a horse and say so many
166:  #1 Were you driving him? #
Interviewer:  #2 Well # Uh well no I just talking about the measurement. But this whole thing is your
166:  Hand.
Interviewer:  Okay. And two
166:  Hands.
Interviewer:  And uh if uh this whole part of your body is your
166:  This is your thighs here.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  And this is your legs. What you call legs here and
Interviewer:  Okay. And then down at the bottom are your
166:  Foot. Toes.
Interviewer:  And your two of 'em are Uh uh you wear your shoes on your
166:  Foot.
Interviewer:  Okay two.
166:  Feet.
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about if you hurt yourself right here. You ever heard that called anything
166:  Yeah I got it now
Interviewer:  What would you say
166:  {D: Worn flesh isn't it} Is that what you're talking about?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh if you bump yourself right there you say oo I hit myself on my #1 Shin. #
166:  #2 What they're called #
Interviewer:  You ever
166:  Yeah that's where that's
Interviewer:  #1 oo #
166:  #2 where I get # {X} {D: with a rock.}
Interviewer:  You sure do. Okay. Uh. What about the back part of your thighs like if you're working in the flowers and you're pulling weeds you might say well I had to uh
166:  Bend over.
Interviewer:  Okay. Would you say squat down? Or hunker down?
166:  Squat down. I bend over. I just bend over.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh if somebody has been sick awhile and he's up and around now you might say well he still looks a little bit
166:  Droopy.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about his if uh any other words for that?
166:  Pale.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  #1 You gonna get through with me today? #
Interviewer:  #2 And # Uh I'll quit whenever you get tired. Are you getting tired?
166:  No I can make it a little #1 longer. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
166:  #1 I get {D: dizzy} #
Interviewer:  #2 We'll do a little bit more #
166:  #1 Sure well I don't want you to #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
166:  have to come back that's the
Interviewer:  Well no that's no problem at all.
166:  You gotta see somebody else.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. That's all right no problem. Uh if a person can lift heavy weights you might say my he is really a
166:  Strong.
Interviewer:  Okay and if someone is easy to get along with is always pleasant you might say she's such a
166:  Nice sweet person
Interviewer:  Okay. And if someone is uh is is always just happy you might say she's always
166:  Happy.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if somebody's who's always stumbling and falling you know like a teenage boy you might say well he is just always so
166:  Clumsy.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if somebody keeps doing things that just uh just don't make any sense at all you might say he's a plain
166:  Hard head.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other words for that Would you ever say a fool?
166:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  Crazy.
Interviewer:  Okay. Would you ever say he's just a plain fool? Or is that kind of strong? Is that kind of seem like it's too ugly to say that? Do you ever say oh he's just a fool. Somebody says maybe you could get him to do some work for you. I say I don't want him to do work for me he's just a
166:  too slow.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about somebody who won't spend any money at all. He's a real
166:  Won't do what?
Interviewer:  Won't spend his money at all.
166:  Stingy.
Interviewer:  Okay. Would you ever say he's a tightwad? Have you heard that?
166:  I've heard tightwad but I don't
Interviewer:  A tightwad.
166:  Oh yeah yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh What about uh miser. Do they ever say somebody say keeps all his money somewhere you ever heard the word miser?
166:  No I haven't about money
Interviewer:  Okay uh uh. What about the word uh uh common. Would you be likely to use that uh in a complimentary or an uncomplimentary way if you're talking about uh a person and you wanted to say well they're just nice everyday people. Would you be likely to say oh they're just common people? Or would it be more likely to mean well they're not very nice people they just common they're just trash. How would what does the word common mean to you?
166:  I believe it mean that uh they just the same thing all the time.
Interviewer:  Okay. I like them they're just #1 common folks. Okay. #
166:  #2 Mm-hmm. # {D: Old} people.
Interviewer:  Okay. #1 Uh. #
166:  #2 But they're good. #
Interviewer:  Right. All right if uh if there's somebody who's uh oh an older man say he's ninety years old but he's just going all the time and real busy. You might say well he's quite for his age. He's quite.
166:  Good for his age.
Interviewer:  Right #1 uh. #
166:  #2 Getting around good for his age. #
Interviewer:  Okay. How any other ways. Would you say he's spry or #1 he's #
166:  #2 Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  very active. Uh Real peppy. No? Wouldn't say peppy? For somebody's who's ninety and just goes all the time
166:  Say he's got good health.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh If the children were out late and uh uh you might say well I don't suppose there's anything wrong, but I can't help feeling a little bit
166:  Worried.
Interviewer:  Okay uh. Well you wouldn't say that you feel easy about it you might say
166:  Uneasy.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh have you ever if you hear somebody saying I don't wanna go upstairs in the dark I'm a-
166:  Scared.
Interviewer:  Okay. Or another way of saying scared might be
166:  Uneasy.
Interviewer:  Okay or afraid.
166:  Yeah afraid.
Interviewer:  Okay and if somebody isn't afraid now, but she when she was real little she Would you say she used to be?
166:  What was what was that question?
Interviewer:  Uh if you're talking about somebody and you say well she isn't afraid now she's a big girl
166:  She used to be.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  {NW}
Interviewer:  And or then you might say well she's afraid now. I don't understand it she
166:  hasn't been afraid when she was little
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh. What's the opposite of she used to be afraid? She didn't used to be afraid or She's afraid now but she didn't used to be? Would you say that?
166:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Somebody who leaves a lot of money out on the table and leaves the doors unlocked. You might say well he's mighty
166:  Careless.
Interviewer:  And uh if uh if you're talking about somebody she's just uh uh they might say well there's nothing really wrong with Aunt Lizzie but sometimes she acts kind of
166:  Just not right.
Interviewer:  Okay any other ways of saying that?
166:  Yeah say How cuz you you mean she's mentally but at the same time it wouldn't be called that would it
Interviewer:  Okay would you uh
166:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Would you say she's kind of queer? #
166:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Does that mean anything else?
166:  Yeah that means it's she uh has different ways #1 from hers. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # Okay. What would you call somebody who always wants to have his own way? #1 He's just a #
166:  #2 Hard headed. #
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if you there's somebody you can't joke with at all they'll get mad you might say well you you can't joke with him without losing his temper. He's mighty
166:  Churlish.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh and to say that somebody just absolutely lost their temper completely you might say well I was just kidding him and he got
166:  Mad.
Interviewer:  And if somebody is about to lose his temper and you don't want him to you might say now just
166:  Touchy
Interviewer:  Okay. Or uh uh and if there's a an emergency and everybody's getting excited and you want to tell them to be easy you might say now just keep
166:  Calm.
Interviewer:  How would you say that?
166:  Calm. C-L-M.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh if you've been working very hard and you might say well I am just
166:  Give out.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh any other ways of saying that?
166:  Tired.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh. What about uh If you say well if I work uh very hard I just real quickly I wear out Would you say that?
166:  Give out
Interviewer:  Okay. uh have you ever used wear out?
166:  You you can #1 use that #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
166:  {D: if you wanted}
Interviewer:  And then you might say well I was working in the yard and I
166:  So tired.
Interviewer:  I just wore
166:  Out.
Interviewer:  Oh how would you say it
166:  Wore out.
Interviewer:  Okay. If a person has been quite well and you suddenly hear that they have a disease you might say last night she
166:  Was alright.
Interviewer:  Yeah and then suddenly she
166:  Uh had a stroke or had a
Interviewer:  Okay. Would you say she got sick or she took sick In the middle of the night.
166:  She had a spell.
Interviewer:  Okay okay and if uh you wanna say well uh he's sick now uh but uh he'll be up again by
166:  Keep it going.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  He's sick but {D: out there} drive a car.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you mean sometime in the future he'll get better you might say by and by or uh uh you mean well talking about the work well there's a lot of work to do but we'll get it done
166:  After a while.
Interviewer:  Alright. And if someone sat in a draft and uh began to cough you might say #1 now look if you stay out in that and he what? #
166:  #2 Too cold # Too cold.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if it affected his voice you might say listen he's if he sounds strange when he talks listen
166:  Hoarse.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if he has a {NW} You say listen to that
166:  Dry cough.
Interviewer:  And uh if you like if it's getting late you might say well I better go to bed I'm feeling a little bit I'm ready to go to bed I it's getting late. I'm feeling a little bit
166:  Sleepy.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh you might say well every morning at six o'clock I
166:  Get up.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if you you say I didn't want to get up but I
166:  Had to.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh and so maybe you want to just say that you're not asleep but you stayed in bed. You say well at six o'clock this morning I not I got up but I just I
166:  Went back to sleep
Interviewer:  Okay but if you mean just to wake up you might say I didn't mean to get up, but I
166:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Woke. I woke up. # And uh if you're uh if you tell one of the children that uh that uh so and so is upstairs asleep you might say go up and
166:  #1 Go to bed. #
Interviewer:  #2 You want him to # Yeah well you want the child to go up and tell this person to get up so you're gonna say go up and shake him go up and
166:  Get up and
Interviewer:  wake him up. How.
166:  Just shake him to wake him up.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  And get up breakfast is ready.
Interviewer:  Okay and if uh if uh some medicine is still on the table beside the bed you might say why haven't you
166:  Took that medicine.
Interviewer:  And the patient might say well uh uh I
166:  Forgot it.
Interviewer:  Okay. And he might say yes that he'd already had it he might say well just a half an hour ago I
166:  Took some.
Interviewer:  And I'll Some more later on. I'll So later on I'll
166:  Take it.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if uh you can't hear anything at all you might say well I'm just stone
166:  De- Deaf {C: mispronounces deaf as deef} or Deaf {NW} D-E-A-F #1 How do you pronounce that #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah. You say both? # You hear both of 'em deaf and deaf {C: deef}?
166:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if somebody can hear a little bit not very well. They're not completely deaf you might say uh well he's getting a little bit #1 He's not deaf. How's that? #
166:  #2 Hard of hearing. # Hard of hearing.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh if if he began to sweat when he was working in the sun you might say well um
166:  I got hot.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. He in the sun. He to mean that all that perspiration you say he's in the hot sun he's
166:  Sweaty.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh you might say well you take your uh jacket off and your clothes are all sticking to you might say look how I've been
166:  Sweating.
Interviewer:  And uh if you have a sore that comes to a head you say
166:  #1 Rising #
Interviewer:  #2 this is. #
166:  That's a rising is what we used to call
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh and if water uh you put on the stove and it gets so hot that it will start bubbling you say it's
166:  Boiling.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if uh and do you ever call a rising a boil?
166:  Hmm?
Interviewer:  Do you ever call a rising a boil?
166:  Mm-hmm. I had 'em when I was young.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And if it opens the stuff that drains out what do you call that?
166:  A lot of times you have to have it done.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What do you call that stuff that may #1 run out #
166:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Okay. uh and if you have an infection in your hand {X} and it gets big you might say my hand is
166:  Swelled.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if has uh and I say talking about your wrist I don't what's the matter with my wrist it has
166:  #1 It has a cramp in it #
Interviewer:  #2 This way. #
166:  #1 {D: And I just} #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh and if it's just getting bigger # If it's just getting bigger it has
166:  Swelled.
Interviewer:  Okay. And then you might say well I hope it won't tomorrow
166:  Be better tomorrow.
Interviewer:  Okay I hope it won't I hope it won't
166:  Be sore.
Interviewer:  Okay Um and if you have a blister and there's a little bit of something inside of it clear
166:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  #2 what do you call that? #
166:  Um {D: They} call it busts.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh #
166:  #2 Bust for that # {D: correction} to come out.
Interviewer:  Okay what what drains out of it. Of a blister if it bursts.
166:  #1 Puss. #
Interviewer:  #2 There's a little bit of # Is it puss if it's clear and it's just like
166:  Puss we used to call it.
Interviewer:  Okay
166:  #1 I don't know they #
Interviewer:  #2 how's that #
166:  have so many names now #1 puss #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
166:  is what we used to call it. And then you nee- stick a needle in it or something to let it out.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if in a war uh a soldier has a wound say a bullet goes through his arm you say he got a bad
166:  Bad uh arm.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh if someone was stabbed and they had to uh to go to the doctor you say I've gotta get a doctor to look at the what do you call that place where the knife went in a w-
166:  To the doctor. #1 You would call it a wound #
Interviewer:  #2 to look at # Okay. Uh what about do you remember a long time ago maybe uh around a wound there would be a kind of skinless growth and it would be hard and uh white. A granular looking substance might form around the edge and sometime it had to be cut out or burned out. Do you remember anything like that? Some kind of flesh did you ever hear?
166:  No I haven't
Interviewer:  You ever heard of something called proud flesh.
166:  Yeah I've heard of that.
Interviewer:  How is that?
166:  Swelled up
Interviewer:  Uh-huh How do you call it?
166:  Pr- what you called it.
Interviewer:  #1 Proud flesh. #
166:  #2 Proud flesh. (C: mispronounces proud} #
Interviewer:  Okay. And what kind of medicine do you put on if you get a little bitty cut on your finger you might say well I'll put some
166:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. What about that red stuff that burns.
166:  Iodine.
Interviewer:  And uh what about something they used to give for a tonic for malaria that tasted real bad?
166:  Um. #1 {D: Chill} tonic #
Interviewer:  #2 Was it #
166:  we used to take what's called a chill tonic when we was growing up.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Did you ever have quinine or
166:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 quinine. #
166:  We took quinine yeah.
Interviewer:  How is it?
166:  Quinine.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if a person was shot and didn't recover you might say well he
166:  Gone.
Interviewer:  Okay what other ways of saying that? He I I think I heard you say somebody passed on
166:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  #1 Any other ways? #
166:  #2 Somebody was shot and killed. #
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. How would the preacher maybe talking about it in church say it. He Would he say he passed on? Or he died.
166:  Died.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh
166:  Passed away they're saying that now. #1 Passed away #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
166:  we used to say die
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh what about any sort of joking way use of it they might say it about oh let's say it was somebody that was an old skin flint you might say well that old skin flint finally
166:  {D: Found a good humor.}
Interviewer:  Okay. {NW} Do you ever hear kick the bucket?
166:  Yeah
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
166:  #2 Heard that. #
Interviewer:  Yeah Okay Uh What about uh when you're telling somebody that maybe I don't know uh I don't know what he died
166:  with
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh what about uh the place where people are buried
166:  #1 Cemetery #
Interviewer:  #2 What do you call # Okay and if it's out in the country. And very small
166:  Small cemetery.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh if it's around the church it's a cemetery is there a different word for one if it's not around a church but just maybe out on the farm like just one family used.
166:  Definitely that's definitely the word, but I don't know how to say it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Do you ever say uh
166:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 graveyard. #
166:  Grave site.
Interviewer:  Grave site.
166:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  That's what the area
166:  out in the woods.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  I know several around here that's in the woods.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Okay. What about the box that people are buried in. What do you call that?
166:  Um casket.
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
166:  #2 They used to make 'em when we was coming up # Take wood and make a
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
166:  #2 casket. # They had no {X} then.
Interviewer:  Well who made it? So {B} the members of the family or friends?
166:  Friends.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
166:  {X} like that it's that's been years and years ago
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And how would they would they line them with something?
166:  I don't remember because I was small then. I was just twelve years old when he died
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
166:  #1 But I #
Interviewer:  #2 And #
166:  remember making it but they didn't make it at the house {X} had it somewhere else #1 {D: and made it.} #
Interviewer:  #2 Right. #
166:  I never did see the inside.
Interviewer:  And what is the ceremony called when somebody dies?
166:  Conduct a funeral.
Interviewer:  Alright. And if the people are dressed in black and they're being very sad you might say the family's in
166:  Mourning. That's what we used to call it.
Interviewer:  {NW} Excuse me.
166:  But now they call it grieved.
Interviewer:  Oh okay. And uh what do you say in response if somebody says how're feeling you wanna say oh just
166:  Pretty good.
Interviewer:  Alright. {NW} I'm sorry. If somebody's troubled you might
166:  #1 perhaps you're getting chilly ain't you #
Interviewer:  #2 say. # No ma'am I'm no I'm very comfortable if you're alright we'll do a little bit more here Okay. If somebody's in trouble you might say oh he'll come out alright don't
166:  Worry.
Interviewer:  And uh a disease of the joints is called uh when you get still in your joints and they hurt that's
166:  Arthritis.
Interviewer:  Okay another kind
166:  Um bursitis.
Interviewer:  Okay and rheum
166:  I always call it just straight arthritis because that's what it is but they give everything new names
Interviewer:  Sure. Did they used to call it arthritis or did they ever use to call it what about rheumatism?
166:  Yeah rheumatism.
Interviewer:  Is that about the same?
166:  Yes it's about the same.
Interviewer:  What about a disease that they just don't have much anymore of the throat. Blisters would get inside of it and uh children would just choke with it {NW}
166:  Diphtheria
Interviewer:  Don't have that much anymore do they?
166:  {NW} My boy had it when he was a kid
Interviewer:  Is that right
166:  #1 He almost died with it too #
Interviewer:  #2 Real sick # He died
166:  He {D: liked to}
Interviewer:  #1 Oh #
166:  #2 Doctor come # {X} next morning. And said well there's no use to give him {NS} said his tongue turned blue And I was {D: trying to} go to bed. I said where do you want. {D: I} said him another one try it. and he gave him that other shot and and in a little while the child was alright {D: things} was in his throat.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Goodness that was something wasn't it.
166:  And one child scared me the lady come and seen her and was reading said you know miss {D: Bible said} miss uh so and so young had a child that choked to death and fell {D: over in the wood} {X} with it.
Interviewer:  Goodness.
166:  {X} I guess we're interrupting this.
Interviewer:  No that's fine. Uh what about a disease that sorta makes you turn yellow.
166:  Yellow jaundice.
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about if you have your appendix taken out you might say you had an attack of
166:  Appendicitis.
Interviewer:  And if somebody ate something that didn't agree with him and it came back up again you'd say he had to
166:  Vomit
Interviewer:  And if somebody is uh pretty bad all this way. You might say oh he was leaning over the fence and more and more he was You have another word besides vomit?
166:  Mm. Fell over.
Interviewer:  Mm yeah but uh but for the action of vomiting if you say well he uh he uh what about throw up? Or up
166:  Used to call it throwing up {D: straight out} but now they've changed it to something else.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh any you don't remember any other sorta joking ways of saying that? Don't remember anything like
166:  No. Gag and I know
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
166:  A lot of times they say he's gagging #1 real gagging. #
Interviewer:  #2 Oh # Okay. And if a person uh vomited you might say oh he was sick
166:  to his stomach.
Interviewer:  How.
166:  Stomach. Was sick on his stomach.
Interviewer:  Sick on Okay uh
166:  That's what we used to now they've changed everything so I may be wrong
Interviewer:  No I want to know any that you remember the way it used to be or now either one. Uh what about if uh somebody's very anxious to tell about things you say well just as she as soon as she got the news she came right over to
166:  See about it.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 Curiosity. #
Interviewer:  Okay and she just came over to uh to tell would you say to tell the news.
166:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  Cause I got that close to me.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay and if you invite somebody to come over you might say well now if you don't come I
166:  Get mad.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if uh if you're both uh you and someone else are going to be glad to see me you might say now we
166:  Expecting.
Interviewer:  Okay we'll be uh
166:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Would you ever say we'll be glad to see you. #
166:  Glad to see you.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if a child is misbehaving then you might say if you do that again I'll
166:  Switch you.
Interviewer:  Okay. Would you ever say I'll uh Uh I'll go and tell your mother
166:  Uh tell yeah.
Interviewer:  #1 How'd you say #
166:  #2 {X} # If anybody you know like children I had their children that {X} instead of switching them I would tell them I was gonna tell their mother.
Interviewer:  Okay. And maybe if you tell a child to do something and he doesn't do it and he's being rude and you say well I'll just go and
166:  Do {D: it myself}
Interviewer:  Okay. Would you ever say uh uh talking about uh well I I guess we probably have all that uh what about uh how would you describe it if a boy is interested in a girl. You say he is what her he's
166:  In love with her.
Interviewer:  Okay you ever hear courting.
166:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  #1 What about #
166:  #2 Courting it used to be # courting all the time. Couple are courting
Interviewer:  uh courting okay. What about sparking?
166:  Well I've heard that too.
Interviewer:  Remember any other words for that Keeping company.
166:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Um. If a boy is paying serious attention to a girl what do you say he's doing he's courting would you use courting there?
166:  Yeah. Go and see her.
Interviewer:  Mm k.
166:  Have a date.
Interviewer:  Okay and if it gets more serious
166:  You say they're gonna get married
Interviewer:  Okay and what do they call him. He's her
166:  Sweetheart. Now that's what they used to called them {X} whatever it is now they have a new name for it.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if a girl's putting on her best dress her little brother might say oh she's fixing up for her
166:  Beau.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh she is his
166:  #1 Sweetheart. #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: Used} to # Okay. Any other words for the sweetheart for a girl.
166:  Well I don't remember #1 what it is growing up #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
166:  when I was coming up I don't know what they do these days.
Interviewer:  Okay and what about if a if a boy comes home with lipstick on his collar his little brother might look at him and say you been
166:  Kissing
Interviewer:  Okay any other words for that? Kissing. Any old words that you remember for kissing.
166:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  #1 Kiss that girl #
Interviewer:  #2 What about #
166:  That's what it is The girl kissed you.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if he asked her to marry him and she doesn't want to what do you say she did to him
166:  She they used to say kicked
Interviewer:  She kicked him okay.
166:  Not kick him but meant that uh word that he wasn't going {X} that boy kicked that girl.
Interviewer:  Okay what about jilted.
166:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh #
166:  #2 Yeah either one. #
Interviewer:  And so uh if she didn't turn him down they went ahead and got
166:  Married.
Interviewer:  And at a wedding the man who stands up with the groom is the
166:  Father-in-law to the girl
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 The boy's father #
Interviewer:  Okay you ever hear him called best #1 man or the groomsmen #
166:  #2 Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  And the girl that stands up with the bride is her
166:  Her best best friend
Interviewer:  Okay. And do you remember anything about a real noisy party that they the people of the community used to get together and come to the couple's house when they just got married
166:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  What'd they call that? Shiver. Shivaree
166:  I don't remember what to call that. {D: Cheering on my wedding}
Interviewer:  How?
166:  {D: Cheering} 'em
Interviewer:  Yeah. Did did they ever do that when you were young
166:  Y- No not when I was right young but later on they picked it up you know throwing rice on 'em and things like that
Interviewer:  #1 Mm #
166:  #2 Like they # do now but no then you just went mad and that was it.
Interviewer:  Right
166:  Didn't have all this other
Interviewer:  Right. You don't remember anything about a crowd of people coming in the middle of the night and rattling pans and so forth outside
166:  #1 Yeah they #
Interviewer:  #2 the #
166:  used to do that in olden times. Bunch of them get together and you know just
Interviewer:  Yeah.
166:  Go and ring a bell ring bells and things. {D: A lot was} Christmas times anyway.
Interviewer:  Yes oh
166:  Regular folk people had to work so hard they had to go to bed and sleep
Interviewer:  Sure. Um Okay if you were telling somebody that yesterday you went to {D: Ellaville} and you saw such and such you might say oh yesterday I was #1 In {D: Ellaville} #
166:  #2 {D: Ellaville} # And so
Interviewer:  Would you say in {D: Ellaville}
166:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Would you ever say up # to {D: Ellaville} or over in {D: Ellaville}
166:  I went up to {D: Ellaville} that's the way that I say it
Interviewer:  Okay what about a town down south of here I went
166:  I went down
Interviewer:  Okay and if it was over east you might say What would you say there
166:  I say went down down but don't matter if it
Interviewer:  Okay and what about plains. How would you say that?
166:  I went up to Plains.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 {D: so} # that's up with me
Interviewer:  Uh-huh
166:  To me and that's down
Interviewer:  Uh-huh
166:  And some people call that up
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 But I don't # Never have
Interviewer:  Okay Um And if you're somebody's in town and you wanna say well he stays with such and such a family say the Browns how would you say that. He lives the Browns.
166:  Lives with
Interviewer:  Okay and if you're talking about all of uh the people who were at a party maybe it was noisy and loud you might say well the police came and got the
166:  whole business.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh where do people like to go out to on an evening where they uh have music and maybe dance
166:  Dance hall.
Interviewer:  And uh if if the children get out of school at four o'clock you say at school at four o'clock school
166:  Is out
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh after vacation they say well when does school
166:  Close
Interviewer:  Okay and if September they say when is it going to
166:  Start
Interviewer:  Okay
166:  They all run to grandmothers and tell her to go.
Interviewer:  {NW}
166:  When they get out of school
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And if a boy left home to go to school and uh and didn't actually go but maybe
166:  Skipped school.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh you say well you go to school to get an
166:  Learning
Interviewer:  Okay or if you had a college
166:  Education
Interviewer:  And uh after high school though you go where do you go to after
166:  On to college.
Interviewer:  And uh if you got to kindergarten what then the first uh school is called what The first class you go to is called
166:  Kindergarten
Interviewer:  Uh-huh and then you go to
166:  Regular school
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Uh first grade
166:  yeah.
Interviewer:  Did they used to say first reader or primer
166:  First grade's all I lear- #1 ever heard #
Interviewer:  #2 Oh. # Okay and at school you sit at a
166:  Desk
Interviewer:  And a lot of them or several
166:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  You say Well it wasn't not just this desk but all the
166:  All of 'em
Interviewer:  All the
166:  Desks.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the building especially for books is called a
166:  What is it called library
Interviewer:  Okay and if you want to mail a package you go to the
166:  to the post office.
Interviewer:  And if you go to see a play or a movie you go to the
166:  Theater.
Interviewer:  And if you're sick you go to the
166:  Doctor.
Interviewer:  And the building you go to if you go to stay several nights is a when you're sick
166:  Go to the doctor and then to the um hospital
Interviewer:  And if you're taken of by a doctor he usually will have some help by several the women who help the doctor are
166:  Nurses
Interviewer:  And uh if you go catch a train you go to the
166:  {D: Went} into the depot
Interviewer:  Okay and uh if uh you might also call it might say the depot or the uh rail
166:  Uh the uh bus station
Interviewer:  Okay or the railroad
166:  Yeah railroad.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh the main part of town if it's uh like this you say that's the city uh place where there's grass and trees maybe around the courthouse is the what do you call that area downtown
166:  Well I call that courthouse already.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 Cuz # we have it down here.
Interviewer:  Right have you seen any where there's no building in the middle maybe just grass and trees and uh benches.
166:  Not up in town I haven't.
Interviewer:  Okay Uh what are you calling it if somebody instead of walking straight across a street at an intersection walks crossways
166:  Crossways
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 Going across the street #
Interviewer:  Uh and the the vehicle that used to run on tracks with a wire over head in town
166:  What did they call them little things there used to be a lot of them I lived right close to the railroad when I was small.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Uh electric car or a trolley or trolley car
166:  Must be a trolley.
Interviewer:  What about tram?
166:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  #2 Ever heard of 'em. Okay # And if you're riding the bus you may tell the bus driver the next corner is where I want to
166:  Get off.
Interviewer:  And uh uh the uh uh {D: Americas} is the what of {D: Sumpter} county.
166:  {D: America soldier.}
Interviewer:  Is the what do you call it to Sumpter county
166:  Yeah Sumpter county
Interviewer:  You say it's the county seat or the county capital?
166:  County seat. #1 {D: I guess} #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay #
166:  But I know it's not capital.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh uh the the post master is employed by the federal
166:  Federal um
Interviewer:  g-
166:  Postal
Interviewer:  Uh-huh
166:  #1 well #
Interviewer:  #2 Are you # The people in Washington are in charge of the g-
166:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 All the #
166:  Well I call it {D: a government trial}
Interviewer:  Okay. and the police in a town are supposed to keep
166:  Peace if he can
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 If he can do it #
Interviewer:  Okay And uh do you ever hear it called law and
166:  Uh
Interviewer:  Keep law and order?
166:  Keep law order uh-huh
Interviewer:  #1 Okay how is #
166:  #2 That's what they're fixing to do now # Policemen's {D: off} {X} and on the news other day they sent two whole half a train {D: and they called ten twenty} sent twenty-six policemens {D: on} train and said they're gonna put tighter rules on it
Interviewer:  #1 Is that right #
166:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Okay and if you you talk about the law you may put that together with the word order you say law and how do you say that?
166:  Order or or
Interviewer:  #1 Order yeah #
166:  #2 How do you say that # Order.
Interviewer:  You say law and order.
166:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  How do you say it?
166:  Order.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  I guess that's right
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {NW} And that uh fight we mentioned it before talking about Robert E Lee between the North and the South that big war what how'd you call that
166:  War I reckon.
Interviewer:  Yeah would you say the
166:  #1 {D: The war between} #
Interviewer:  #2 Civil War? #
166:  the two
Interviewer:  #1 two states. #
166:  #2 The {D: green} states okay. #
Interviewer:  And before they had the electric chair murderers were
166:  {D: They were} hung
Interviewer:  #1 And. Oh. #
166:  #2 Electrocuted. #