330:  {X}
Interviewer:  So you but you're not sure?
330:  No I I've done this done slipped me {X} seems true I don't I've never hadn't told nothing like that but I have heard people way back old time talking about {X} you know {X} and they they couldn't get a doctor in there just an old lady to come.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  I heard 'em talking about it. {C: tape overlaid here}
Interviewer:  Okay and one has the same color hair same color eyes that his father has same {X} nose and so forth you'd say the boy
330:  was the image of his father.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other way you'd say that?
330:  Well just like his dad.
Interviewer:  Okay. would you say takes after, resembles,
330:  #1 resembles #
Interviewer:  #2 or looks like? #
330:  takes after his father.
Interviewer:  Okay. What if you don't necessarily look like him but he has the same behavior?
330:  #1 As his #
Interviewer:  #2 Same #
330:  father?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Well he had some of his father's habits.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
330:  I'd say he don't uh he doesn't don't look exactly look like him but takes {D: after him}
Interviewer:  What if it's bad that he does? If his father wasn't {X}
330:  Well his father was cruel, is that too much it's bad he just maybe he has some of his good habits uh I hope well of course naturally I hope he don't have the bad habits.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  I I I know I wouldn't want mine to have the bad habits. And I guess you'd just say just he he has some maybe has some of his bad features features or something.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay look um so if the mother's looked after three children until they're all grown up you'd say that she's what three children she's
330:  She's uh has raised three children.
Interviewer:  Okay.
330:  Grew them to be women I'd say girls grown people. she looked at 'em watched after 'em.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um if a child was misbehaving you'd say, "Now if you do that again you're gonna get a..."
330:  Whipping.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other word for that? Any other expression?
330:  Uh if you don't mind now I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to get a hold of you something or another {X} if you don't do something right get a hold of it
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  But I'd say best would be best thing would be to say if you don't mind, I'm gonna whip you. If you don't #1 quit #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
330:  doing something.
Interviewer:  Okay um a child that's born to a woman that's not married you'd call that child a
330:  {X} illegitimate child. illegitimate
Interviewer:  Okay any other word you may have heard people say?
330:  well let's uh yeah a {D: wild woods kid}
Interviewer:  A what?
330:  I've heard 'em say {NW} {D: woods colt} I don't know.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  You ever heard that? I've heard 'em say woods colt.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Anything else? Wasn't very nice maybe to say, or
330:  uh
Interviewer:  you heard people say? Did people use the word bastard?
330:  Yeah yeah I've heard 'em say #1 that #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. # Is that not is that a
330:  #1 I I I #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
330:  yeah I wouldn't want to use it as a saying but I've heard 'em say that, a bastard child.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay um talk about the word "loving." You say, "James is a loving child but Peggy is even..."
330:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. But talk about "loving," so you say, "James is loving but Peggy is even..."
330:  Uh uh more
Interviewer:  More loving than
330:  More loving I guess.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um so your brother's son would be called your
330:  My brother's son?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
330:  Would be called my my boy. I guess.
Interviewer:  Okay um wouldn't be your niece, it'd be your
330:  Child.
Interviewer:  You wouldn't he wouldn't be your niece, he'd be your
330:  You talking about my son you talking about?
Interviewer:  Yes.
330:  Oh.
Interviewer:  Your your brother's son.
330:  Oh yeah yeah yeah be my nephew. Yeah I I just I didn't really get the point of what you
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay a child that's lost both parents is called a
330:  Orphan.
Interviewer:  Okay.
330:  {C: tape overlaid here}
Interviewer:  And the person appointed to look after the orphan is called a
330:  Guard a guardian.
Interviewer:  Huh?
330:  Guardian.
Interviewer:  Okay. And a woman who gives a party and invites all the people that are related to her you'd say she asked all her
330:  Friends no her kin people her related or something I don't know exactly. You said she invited all the people
Interviewer:  That are related
330:  related to her. She asked all her all the kin people I guess.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other word for that?
330:  Well it'd be all her folks I'd say.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um you'd say well she has the same family name and she looks a little bit like me but actually I'm no
330:  Has the same family name?
Interviewer:  And she looks like me but actually we're no
330:  No kin.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um somebody comes into town and nobody's ever seen him before. You'd say that he's a
330:  Stranger.
Interviewer:  Okay. What if he comes from a different country?
330:  He's a he's a foreigner.
Interviewer:  Okay. um {D: the names of some names} um the name of the mother of Jesus
330:  Huh?
Interviewer:  The name of the mother of Jesus.
330:  Uh Mary.
Interviewer:  Okay. And George Washington's wife.
330:  Martha.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh you ever heard the song "wait till the sun shines?"
330:  Song "wait till the #1 sun shines?" #
Interviewer:  #2 "sun shines," yeah. #
330:  Yeah I believe I have #1 been a long time, I #
Interviewer:  #2 What's his name? #
330:  I don't I I couldn't tell you I believe I've heard "wait till the sun shines," I don't it's been so long I don't know what to call it.
Interviewer:  Um it's a nickname for Helen starting with an N.
330:  Helen?
Interviewer:  Yes. Starts with an N. {NS}
330:  Nickname for Helen. I just don't know I couldn't couldn't figure that out. {X}
Interviewer:  What about Nellie?
330:  About what?
Interviewer:  Nellie? Nellie?
330:  Nellie.
Interviewer:  Nellie the girl?
330:  Oh yeah yeah {X} I can't even hear what you're saying {NS} {X} {NS} {NS} {NS} {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay um nickname for a boy named William.
330:  Bill.
Interviewer:  Okay or Bill
330:  Huh?
Interviewer:  What do you call a male goat?
330:  Male goat?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Ram.
Interviewer:  Okay or a
330:  A billy or I mean a male goat billy and a ram is a sheep yeah I got {X}
Interviewer:  Okay um the who wrote the first of the four gospels? goes something Mark Luke and John
330:  {X} I couldn't tell you to save my life.
Interviewer:  starts Ma-
330:  Matthew?
Interviewer:  Okay. Um a woman who conducts school is called a
330:  Uh conducts it? Teacher?
Interviewer:  Okay. What'd you call 'em when you went to school?
330:  I well I called 'em I called her my teacher.
Interviewer:  Okay. You never heard school schoolmarm or school ma'am or anything like that?
330:  Uh-uh. {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. Um this is a common family name. It's it's the name of a barrel maker. It's a family name.
330:  Family name. Family name.
Interviewer:  You ever heard of Cooper, a cooper?
330:  {D: a cooper}
Interviewer:  Yes. Did you ever hear that?
330:  I don't I don't remember if I'd ever heard it before. Not as I not as I remember.
Interviewer:  And what would you call a married woman by that name?
330:  A married woman by her {X}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Call her her husband would be Mr she'd Cooper, she'd be
330:  Mrs Cooper.
Interviewer:  Okay or you'd just call her missus?
330:  Just Ms Cooper.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um a preacher that's not really trained doesn't have a regular pulpit, he sorta preaches here and there, not a real preacher, you might call him a what
330:  {NS} {NW} Wasn't a real preacher just a substitute preacher like {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  {X} wasn't ordained to preach.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  I guess you'd call him a just a kind of a speaker.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Do you ever use the word "jackleg" or "yard ax" for {X} preacher?
330:  Well {NW} I've heard that said about a lot of 'em that preaches
Interviewer:  Yeah?
330:  something like that about 'em.
Interviewer:  What's that?
330:  About 'em being a jackleg preacher. That's what a lot of people says about {D: second} preachers there.
Interviewer:  How what does that word mean?
330:  Just what wasn't any good at it
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  what I'm saying.
Interviewer:  Would you use the word about something other than a preacher?
330:  About the jackleg?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
330:  Jackleg oh I bet I've seen jacklegs of all trades. Try to be do something of everything, you know? Call 'em jackleg {X} Did you ever hear that?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Jack uh jack
330:  {X} Jacklegs of all trades. hey
Interviewer:  Would you talk about a jackleg teacher, jackleg lawyer?
330:  Mm-hmm. Yeah.
Interviewer:  What about jackleg mechanic?
330:  Uh we have them too I'd say.
Interviewer:  Would you say jackleg to that?
330:  Well there wouldn't be no good one {X} I'd call 'em something like jackleg
Interviewer:  yeah
330:  Till they got uh better training or something you know. Or just a or just a I don't know {D: fakeout} And I think we got more jacklegs than we have mechanics, too.
Interviewer:  {NW} Um what relation would my mother's sister be to me?
330:  Uh your mother's sister?
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
330:  #2 Your aunt. #
Interviewer:  Okay. Um the name of the wife of Abraham
330:  I couldn't I couldn't tell I couldn't say for my life {X}
Interviewer:  It's a girl's name starting with an S.
330:  Uh her name starts with S?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or Sally is a nickname for
330:  Oh Sally is {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah it's a nickname for what?
330:  Sally is?
Interviewer:  Sa-
330:  Sarah.
Interviewer:  Okay.
330:  Sarah.
Interviewer:  Um okay the if someone's nicknamed Bill his full name is
330:  Someone nicknamed Bill is William, full name William.
Interviewer:  Okay if your had a brother by that name you'd call him
330:  Uncle Bill.
Interviewer:  or
330:  Uh Uncle William.
Interviewer:  By his full name, call him by his full name, "Uncle..."
330:  Uncle Uncle uh I'd call that name uh William or Bill.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh, William.
330:  I called my uncle Bill.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um let's see what let's see the highest rank in the army.
330:  A general
Interviewer:  Okay. What about a little bit lower than that?
330:  Major.
Interviewer:  What else?
330:  Well there's a there's a well of course sergeant's on down below that way down below it isn't it?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  I guess a a lieutenant.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  I'd say.
Interviewer:  The old man that introduced Kentucky Fried Chicken what's his?
330:  Colonel.
Interviewer:  Colonel?
330:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um what do you call the man in charge of a ship?
330:  Uh yeah I can't think of anything in my life.
Interviewer:  C cap
330:  Captain?
Interviewer:  Okay. Um did you ever hear that word used by colored people talking to white people?
330:  About captain?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  {X} They say that?
330:  I heard 'em call cap many times so and so old cap old cap.
Interviewer:  Old cap?
330:  Mm-hmm old cap called 'em old cap. I have a lot of 'em call me old cap. It says they think a lot of me you know
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  They call me sit down and take your hat off call me old cap come out I'll talk to you. {NW}
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  You know they want something
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  {D: you know when they come up like that} Yeah always wanting me to do something for 'em.
Interviewer:  Yeah. The man who presides over a court what do you call him?
330:  He's attorney general.
Interviewer:  Okay yeah.
330:  Or foreman. There's a foreman of the grand jury {X} course the guy who {X} court is a would be the attorney general wouldn't it?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Go back to the one who decides the case
330:  Judge.
Interviewer:  Yes. You sound like you know pretty much about courts.
330:  Hmm? Me?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  I I ain't never been in court now don't get {NW}
Interviewer:  It's been what I was wondering when you said attorney general you just been watching Watergate? #1 A lot? learn with that or what? #
330:  #2 {C: 330 mumbling sounds in denial of interviewer's statement} # No I never watched Watergate. I well I've seen it come on and I'd get up and go {X} and turn it off.
Interviewer:  {NW}
330:  I told her I ain't gonna be watching it I ain't gonna do it. {X} ain't none of my business, I ain't had nothing to do with it I ain't too worried about it.
Interviewer:  Tell me huh?
330:  {X} You take a judge had a lot to put up with and a lot of the times the judges caused a lotta this stuff.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
330:  It goes on they don't they don't get nothing {D: finally} {D: like mister} {X} before you came in.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
330:  And and nothing that he did she's talking about {X} daughter down in there colored guy come out followed her around there the other night she got all worried.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
330:  And uh she finally got in the car {D: even got in the car} and locked the car and she sat sit there and he set and set and watched her.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
330:  So finally she decided to start the drive round and go around the block or two
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
330:  #2 something or other. #
330:  then come back see if he's still around.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
330:  #2 And she # She then come back and he wasn't then she run on home. And she said there's gonna have to be something done about it. {X} asked me if I {X} I said I'd definitely do it. {C: tape overlaid} We gonna have to have something done you see before we can lay down and sleep.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  It's dangerous now to even uh I thought about it last night maybe somebody might stop you and do something to you you know you don't ever know.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
330:  It's just awful. It ain't as bad in the country as it is in these big cities you know of course but still we have a lotta stuff go on. I tell you. And there's got to be something done with 'em not just arrest 'em then turn 'em loose don't they gonna just keep getting worse and worse.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
330:  Robbing banks, steal robbing people. They're snatching people. I read about it this week {X} people were shopping and and those uh {X}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
330:  Why And they grabbed those poor women's pocketbooks and run with 'em take 'em out just check 'em off snatch 'em {X} snatch 'em. And that's all. You can't go in and look to try to buy you a dress or something or other you know without somebody one of them grabbing your
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  purse. Course I wouldn't want to kill nobody for that but I mean there's a lot of things they do do and killing people and all like that I think you should take some of 'em's lives like #1 they took #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
330:  that poor man and woman's life. And you know we didn't have things this bad back uh a few years ago it wasn't like this. It just got outta hand the last two or three years it got worse and worse.
Interviewer:  What would they do with people then? Well you had the electric chair.
330:  Uh they well some of 'em gas 'em. Course {X} but now we passed a law {X} {X} {X} passed it you gonna they gonna kill 'em. For certain crimes you know.
Interviewer:  Yeah
330:  I believe it's three or four crimes they do.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  They will kill 'em.
Interviewer:  But when you were growing up they didn't gas 'em then did they?
330:  No they they way back little when I was real small they they I uh you know they'd hang 'em.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
330:  But then they got to electrocuting 'em. And electrocuting 'em what they say is I don't know I never been in the penitentiary but they sit down in the chair they strap these things around 'em
Interviewer:  yeah
330:  and they have a uh quite a lotta buttons and they have quite a several different ones push 'em or push a button and nobody knows which one pushed the right button {X} you #1 see. #
Interviewer:  #2 Hmm. #
330:  Anyway nobody knows who killed him.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  So that wouldn't be too bad. I couldn't stand {D: folks who'd kill that way} kill him if I knew I killed him you know.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  But uh well they well that's what they told me of course. Now I may be wrong but #1 I been #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
330:  told that's the way it is in there. There are a whole bunch of buttons then and several punch a button but they don't know which one punched the right button.
Interviewer:  Yeah. So you um before before they had the electric chair murderers were {C: tape overlaid}
330:  Well they'd just they they they they thought about a lot of stuff, you know and all and {D: nobody was really} gonna be something done with 'em. Put in the pen for life or kill 'em #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
330:  something be done.
Interviewer:  If they tied a rope around 'em they were
330:  Swung up hung
Interviewer:  they were
330:  I've seen 'em hung. pictures of 'em where they're #1 hung #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
330:  you know. {NS} You let one string up let 'em see it it it it'd shake up the country you know, they ain't gonna they gonna think about that before they go do some of that stuff.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay someone who goes to school would be called a
330:  somebody that goes to school? #1 Pupil? #
Interviewer:  #2 Yes. # Okay. Any other name for that?
330:  Well
Interviewer:  Talking about college
330:  You talking about going to college?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Uh college student.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um woman who works in an office, takes care of the mail and does the typing and stuff well she's called
330:  Secretary
Interviewer:  Okay. And a man on the stage would be an actor, a woman would be {X}
330:  A man on stage is actor, then a woman would be
Interviewer:  Yeah what? You wouldn't call her an actress an actor you'd
330:  Actress. Wasn't it?
Interviewer:  Okay um if you were born in the United States you'd be called a
330:  American.
Interviewer:  Okay. And um let's see what names are there for colored people? What different names are there?
330:  For colored
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Well well the one that I reckon {X} as a nigger you know.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  And colored people too of course some of 'em call 'em I never do call him a nigger right to his face. Always call 'em colored. And uh some of 'em call 'em Negroes some of 'em nigger. And colored black people.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
330:  {X} I've heard 'em called.
Interviewer:  What about joking words or insulting words?
330:  {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah referring to colored people. Or something worse.
330:  I don't know what you mean, what you what you'd say to 'em, something?
Interviewer:  Well like um say I've heard the word coon.
330:  Oh well I've heard niggers say we call 'em coons. Somehow I never heard nobody call 'em coons in my life.
Interviewer:  Yeah. You've heard colored people say
330:  I've heard them say that yeah I've heard colored people say so and so call 'em coons.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
330:  And you know I've read in the paper you know they'd say that man or person called 'em a coon.
Interviewer:  Any other words like that?
330:  Well no I don't know. I guess probably they have been called to me some devil.
Interviewer:  {NW} Mm-hmm.
330:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay but so you you were or me would be called a
330:  Uh what are we called?
Interviewer:  Yeah we wouldn't be colored we'd be
330:  We'd be white.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other names for white people?
330:  Well um yeah there's uh uh white people there are Jews and Indians and {C: pronunciation as injuns} {X} I guess you would have to be wouldn't called white.
Interviewer:  Indians are white?
330:  Mm-hmm. They're they're a little brown #1 I mean but #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
330:  {D: they stay out uh live out in the open}
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
330:  #2 like uh # but their color's a little bit different. But as far as that goes I'd call 'em a white
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  person.
Interviewer:  Would you call people from Japan white?
330:  Japanese.
Interviewer:  are they #1 white? #
330:  #2 Yeah # I'd say so uh they uh they uh are a little different in the face and all
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  talk different of course but I guess you'd have to call 'em as a kind of a white person.
Interviewer:  Japanese and Chinese and
330:  Mm-hmm they look a little funny in the eyes and face but I guess you'd call 'em a white.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Um what about a a child where one parent's white and one of 'em's colored?
330:  Well I don't know what you'd call it. I guess a {NS} um {X} it would be mixed. I don't know what you'd call it I I guess there would be something out there to call it I know I know some I know a few that was raised in this country.
Interviewer:  One parent's white and one parent's black?
330:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  What do they think of themselves then?
330:  well they they they had to go most of 'em {D: to be with the colored people}
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  And uh they each time the ones I'm talking about their father was wealthy the man had a colored woman stay with him cook for him #1 you know #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
330:  And uh one of 'em had one child boy one of 'em had two boys and a girl. And both of 'em were wealthy men.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
330:  And uh one of 'em sent his kids off you know to go to school because they wouldn't let 'em go to white school in this country you know.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  And sent two of 'em went off and the girl married some {X} She was the pretty girl now that you ever looked at.
Interviewer:  She married a what?
330:  she married a white fellow {X} something {C: tape overlaid}
Interviewer:  What's that?
330:  {X} farmer some kind of
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  guy that I don't know what you'd they call him {X} {C: tape overlaid} Well they come from a foreign country.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  He didn't he uh she was a good-looking girl now this other a brother of hers was smart as a whip too and this third child they had was wasn't too smart but he was a good boy there wasn't ever {X} a better boy.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  But this other guy {X} and busted 'em all to pieces spent every bit the money {X} and this boy wasn't wasn't too smart uh his daddy came home at uh {D: never could get any weight on him} and uh this sister here went in and got all in debt for her mother kind of mother like that was her some way or another and uh she died {X} all the expenses and they didn't have it so they'd come back here and sold {C: tape overlaid} or both brothers farm to get the money to pay the expenses. I I uh I heard I heard {X} It's a shame that poor boy had to give up {X} sell his farm. today
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  {X} to never be bought sold or nothing. and he got a little old shack {X} two room thing lives in {X} I reckon he make a good living {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  {X} {X} best boys I ever knew, real friendly. But it's right funny they said they didn't know what they were called didn't know #1 what #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
330:  they'd be called that's right. {X} I told him I don't know what to call 'em.
Interviewer:  {NW}
330:  I don't. They the the white people didn't want 'em, the colored people didn't want 'em
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  neither one of 'em wanted 'em with 'em you know.
Interviewer:  That's really sad.
330:  And one of 'em this one did never did marry, the one I'm telling you about until he finally got {X} finally married a colored girl.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Then she wouldn't live with him, she left him went run off with another nigger. And uh had left him all with a house full of children and his wife's mother then {X} and I guess {D: she got the} children raised 'em.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Course I don't know if she still got 'em. Her husband died and his uh wife mother husband was the other one man didn't have one boy.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
330:  they were only married boy boy he was {X} and a good boy too.
Interviewer:  What's um {C: tape overlaid} colored people call the white men they worked for?
330:  Boss. Old boss.
Interviewer:  Boss?
330:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Did they ever use a word like master marse
330:  Yeah I've heard 'em call 'em master too.
Interviewer:  Who'd they call who'd call that
330:  {NW} the colored guy call his his white boss or master or boss or master, something or other. and it mighta been that they may have called him other things but
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  but like I said your colored guy that lived with a white fellow and they was good to him. They never turn in against him. No uh colored person never turn in against his boss.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
330:  They would never believe that but it was true you know.
Interviewer:  What names are there for different types of white people
330:  #1 Huh? #
Interviewer:  #2 like # What names are there for different types of white people like white people that don't have any money but they don't seem to care
330:  #1 they don't care about anything #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah they don't work # they you said that
330:  common trash
Interviewer:  Okay.
330:  I guess you'd call it. They don't care about nothing you know.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Yeah we got a lot of those country. Just like I got some good colored friends talked to me about it here a while back said Mr Johnny says I tell you say our country's getting in a tough seat.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
330:  He says that uh uh uh "my class of people just robbing and killing stealing and doing everything {X} want the government to keep 'em up, just oughta get 'em {X} railroad {X} ready to retire" {X} {X} And and uh he said "then you've got a bunch of you white colored trash ain't they just as low down as my folks" I said "that's right. That's right." We have a terrible bunch of 'em and you could give 'em a million dollars today let's say
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
330:  and in thirty days they wouldn't have a dime of it. They'd go out and throw it away do something with it.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  {X} don't want nothing {NS} Wouldn't happen. You couldn't give it to 'em. {C: tape overlaid} {X} that they really commoner than the colored person. {X} Course there's no cure in the world for nobody be that common. Way I see it #1 shouldn't be #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
330:  that common.
Interviewer:  What do you mean common?
330:  Don't care don't care nothing about nobody just live like cats and dogs
Interviewer:  Yeah. What'd you call someone who lives way up in the mountains?
330:  #1 Well uh #
Interviewer:  #2 Does #
330:  what I call 'em?
Interviewer:  Yeah is there an expression for them?
330:  I don't know much about up in the mountains now I couldn't tell you too much on that I never have been up in there.
Interviewer:  Maybe a word like Hoosier or hillbilly or cracker.
330:  Something like that?
Interviewer:  Yeah have you ever do you use any of these words?
330:  Well I never like I said I never have been there up up in those I don't know what I guess you'd maybe some of 'em are called hillbillies, I don't know or mountaineers or something.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Mountaineers I'd guess you'd call 'em. {C: tape overlaid}
Interviewer:  Okay suppose someone was waiting for you to get ready to go somewhere. They call out to you to ask if you'll be ready soon, you'd say oh I'll be with you in
330:  In uh fifteen minutes.
Interviewer:  Or in
330:  {NS} or in a minute
Interviewer:  Just a
330:  a little while {NS} {NS} {NS}
Interviewer:  {NS} Okay or if you were just fixing to be ready you might say I'll be with you in a
330:  In a in a in a {X}
Interviewer:  or just
330:  a little while
Interviewer:  just a minute
330:  minute
Interviewer:  what's that
330:  a minute, a shortly, a little while uh which'd be the best? Shortly?
Interviewer:  yeah I was I was thinking of expressions just I'll be with you in just
330:  Just a jiffy.
Interviewer:  {C: tape overlaid} Um {NS} so if someone said {C: tape overlaid} offered you a choice of two things asked you which one you wanted you say oh it doesn't make any difference to me just give me you want
330:  This one.
Interviewer:  Or just give me {C: tape overlaid} I don't
330:  Give me that one or something.
Interviewer:  Yeah I don't care I'll take
330:  I'll take this one.
Interviewer:  Or I'll take
330:  I'll take uh this one or that one, either one, wouldn't make any difference to me I'd say.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um talk about parts of your body this part of your head is called your
330:  Forehead.
Interviewer:  Okay. And this is your
330:  Hair.
Interviewer:  And on a man this is uh
330:  Whiskers
Interviewer:  or
330:  beard.
Interviewer:  Okay and this is my
330:  ear
Interviewer:  Which one?
330:  Uh your your left ear.
Interviewer:  Okay and this is my
330:  Right ear.
Interviewer:  Huh?
330:  Right ear.
Interviewer:  Okay. And this is my
330:  Mouth.
Interviewer:  Okay and this is the
330:  {D: toe}
Interviewer:  or the whole thing is the
330:  {D: nape}
Interviewer:  Okay. What about this?
330:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay um that little thing that sits
330:  Swallow?
Interviewer:  yeah it's what what's {D: guzzle} mean?
330:  well that's a that there's I I'd say that the thing right there what #1 I call it #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah # it moves up and down
330:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Okay this is a
330:  Teeth?
Interviewer:  Or just one
330:  Gum? {C: tape overlaid} The teeth there?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Teeth
Interviewer:  Yeah this is my front
330:  front teeth
Interviewer:  Or just one is a just my front
330:  Tooth.
Interviewer:  Okay. And these are my
330:  Front teeth.
Interviewer:  The flesh around the teeth is the
330:  Your gum.
Interviewer:  Okay and this is the what part of my hand?
330:  Palm of your hand.
Interviewer:  Okay this is a
330:  Fist.
Interviewer:  Make two
330:  Two fists.
Interviewer:  Okay um and where the bones come together you call that a
330:  Joint.
Interviewer:  Okay. And on a man this is the
330:  Breast?
Interviewer:  What about
330:  Shoulder?
Interviewer:  Yeah on a man do you say breast?
330:  Chest? Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Okay um these are my
330:  Shoulders.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um and this is a
330:  Hand.
Interviewer:  Two
330:  Two hands.
Interviewer:  Huh?
330:  Hand, right hand and left hand.
Interviewer:  Or two
330:  Two hands.
Interviewer:  Okay um this is my
330:  Knee.
Interviewer:  The whole thing's the
330:  Leg.
Interviewer:  Okay and this is one
330:  Foot.
Interviewer:  Two
330:  Two feet.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um and this bone here
330:  It's that's your shin.
Interviewer:  Okay. What if I get down in in this position?
330:  Squat?
Interviewer:  Yeah any other expression for that?
330:  Just uh sat down squat uh
Interviewer:  Yeah. Do you say get down on your
330:  Hunkers.
Interviewer:  Hunkers?
330:  {NS} That's what I'd say I don't know.
Interviewer:  Um is that different from squatting #1 down? #
330:  #2 Yes # well they're probably the same thing but I told you get #1 down #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah #
330:  on your squat would be hunkers.
Interviewer:  Okay. If I'm someone who's been sick for a while, can you say well he's up and about now but he still looks a bit
330:  Pale.
Interviewer:  Or okay any other word for that he still #1 looks a bit #
330:  #2 Well he # still looks thin.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um someone who's in real good shape can lift heavy weights and stuff what do you say?
330:  Strong strong as a giant.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other expression for that?
330:  Well he's strong as a ox.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um would you say he's big and
330:  Strong.
Interviewer:  Okay do you use the word stout?
330:  Stout? I'd say stout as a ox or giant or something or other.
Interviewer:  What does the word stout mean?
330:  {D: just strong} strong, big stout. That's what I'd say.
Interviewer:  Okay um would you ever use the word stout talking about butter that was turning bad?
330:  Butter?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Talking about butter that was turning bad would you say it was stout?
330:  I don't know what we called it it would be smelling stout or something you mean?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  I don't know. I never heard it called stout. Of course it's sour you might smell you might say smell rank
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  instead of stout. I'd say it smelled rank.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um someone who's real easy to get along with never loses his temper you'd say he's very
330:  He's he is very pleasant.
Interviewer:  Okay. Would you use that word about a horse?
330:  Huh?
Interviewer:  Would you use that word about an animal? Like a horse?
330:  If it's quiet?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
330:  Yeah a horse I'd say is is is often good and gentle.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Would you say the horse is pleasant?
330:  Mm-hmm yeah I think {X} when he's gentle and quiet you know I'd say he's pleasant.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay say a teenage boy who just seems to be all arms and legs always stumbling over things dropping things how'd you describe him?
330:  {NW} Awkward?
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other words like that?
330:  Well he'd kinda be unbalanced I'd #1 say #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
330:  couldn't exactly handle himself like sure.
Interviewer:  Someone uh that just keeps on doing things that they just don't make any sense you say that person's just a plain
330:  Plain fool.
Interviewer:  Okay. Is that a nice word to use?
330:  Well it wouldn't be uh no I wouldn't think it'd be too nice but that's what I'd have to say if he done kept doing something bad and wouldn't stop
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  you asked him to stop. {NS} I'd say he was {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah. Someone who doesn't spend any money at all you say they're
330:  A miser.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other word for that?
330:  well {X} I guess {X}
Interviewer:  Okay so let's say an old person still gets around real well still is active and so forth you say that they're
330:  {X} still uh active uh getting around being {X} or something like that you would say
Interviewer:  Do you use the word
330:  remarkable.
Interviewer:  spry or #1 happy? #
330:  #2 Spry # #1 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  #2 or something? #
330:  remarkable spry to be old
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  I'd say
Interviewer:  Do you use that word about children?
330:  say {X}
Interviewer:  say would you say that about children that children were spry?
330:  Well I I actually I might say the the children were active quick or something #1 like #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm. #
330:  that I'd say.
Interviewer:  It sounds funny to say that they're spry?
330:  Well I think it would.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Say say your children were out later than usual you'd say well I guess there's anything wrong but still I can't help feeling a little
330:  worried worried about 'em.
Interviewer:  Or a little
330:  uneasy about 'em.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um you say I'm not going upstairs in the dark I'm
330:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay.
330:  {X}
Interviewer:  Huh?
330:  Little scared to go up in the dark.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um you say you know that song the old gray mare she ain't
330:  {NW} what she used to be.
Interviewer:  Okay. You say I don't understand why she's scared of the dark now she
330:  Can't see.
Interviewer:  Yeah or say um I don't see why she's afraid now she's
330:  Gotten old?
Interviewer:  Yeah. What's the opposite of used to be?
330:  Opposite of what you used to be?
Interviewer:  Yes. You say she
330:  Has gotten
Interviewer:  So she used to be or didn't used to be or
330:  Be scared?
Interviewer:  used not to be? Yeah how would you say that? {NS}
330:  Well she uh used to didn't be scared.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  And then and she gotten old she shouldn't be scared now.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  I'd say.
Interviewer:  Okay and someone who goes out and leaves a lot of money on the table then goes out and doesn't even bother to lock the door you say that he's {X} what?
330:  {D: honest}
Interviewer:  Yeah or he's mighty what with his money?
330:  Mighty careless with his money.
Interviewer:  Okay.
330:  The guy that left the money
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  mighty careless.
Interviewer:  Um what about someone who's you say there's nothing really wrong with that lady but sometimes she acts kinda {C: tape overlaid}
330:  Crazy?
Interviewer:  Okay. What about another word for that?
330:  Acts kinda silly sometimes I'd say.
Interviewer:  Okay what about the word queer or quare?
330:  Yeah queer I guess I guess that would be alright.
Interviewer:  What's that mean?
330:  {D: that's something same thing doing something that} {D: was just a little bit} funny to you.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Queer.
Interviewer:  Has that word changed meanings recently? Do you still use that word?
330:  Uh yeah I guess so. Guess it would be used.
Interviewer:  Would you ever say someone is you'd say would you ever say he's a queer? To mean that he's
330:  He's I wouldn't say that he's a queer boy, or so lot of people say it I don't know if I'd ever say it. I've heard other people say it about you know boys hey that's a that's a that's a terrible queer boy.
Interviewer:  What does that mean?
330:  just peculiar and funny I imagine {X} curious kinda what I think.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Set in his ways you know little different different than the most average other boys.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Kinda funny. We got a boy {X} here is funny acts like a boy {X} hold a sign and talks carries on acting
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
330:  funny {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  {X} {X} {X}
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
330:  {X} exact right boy I mean talk like he does sixteen year old boy
Interviewer:  yeah
330:  he's not {X} he said somebody {X} this week he {X} kill his dad something I told him yes son that's something you don't never wanna see anybody doing killing your father and mother just forget that you can't do it. And he left home was staying with his grandparents
Interviewer:  Mm.
330:  and wasn't wasn't for {X} and I said a long time I betcha something ain't {X} and he just couldn't get along with his daddy and left left you see somebody look like he gonna have to kill him or something. I hate to hear that.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  You just don't want to hear don't want to think about such things, somebody talking about killing their father and mother.
Interviewer:  Yeah. That is sad.
330:  Bad, really bad.
Interviewer:  Um what about someone who who's just very sure of his own ways and won't listen to anyone else?
330:  Set set in his ways.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other expressions like that?
330:  Well oh I I don't know.
Interviewer:  Say something headed
330:  Had his way {X} couldn't nobody change
Interviewer:  Yeah would you say mule headed or
330:  #1 mule headed #
Interviewer:  #2 hard headed or #
330:  bull headed, one of 'em.
Interviewer:  Bull headed?
330:  I've heard 'em called bull headed cuz they're set in their ways. we had it either one now I don't say bull headed though.
Interviewer:  What's that?
330:  If you say when somebody's set in his ways you couldn't change 'em I'd just say bull headed.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Couldn't change. {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah. What about someone that you can't joke with without him losing his temper?
330:  Flying all to pieces? Flying mad?
Interviewer:  Yeah say uh um just any little thing will set him off.
330:  Came all to pieces.
Interviewer:  Yeah you'd say he's awfully
330:  Nervous.
Interviewer:  Okay.
330:  That's what I'd say
Interviewer:  Would you use the word tetchy or
330:  Tetchy mm #1 no. #
Interviewer:  #2 Huh? #
330:  yeah he's mighty testy, he can't take anything.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  I've had some I know quite a few in my time you just couldn't say anything to 'em people go and get mad want to fight you right now.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Um someone who's about to lose their temper you'd tell them just keep
330:  Keep calm.
Interviewer:  Okay um say you've been working very hard you'd say you're very
330:  Tired.
Interviewer:  Okay if you were very very tired you'd say you're just completely
330:  Wore out.
Interviewer:  Okay.
330:  Exhausted's one.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say someone has been perfectly healthy all of a sudden there's some disease you say well just last Sunday she
330:  {X}
Interviewer:  sick she she
330:  {X} last Sunday she was she was alright seemed to be alright. And just tooken sick all of a sudden you say.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  Got sick all of a sudden. She'd had a probably a stroke or heart attack or something I think that's what you'd
Interviewer:  Yeah. You said she just
330:  Took sick all at once.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay let's say um well he's sick now, but he'll be well again {X}
330:  shortly or soon well
Interviewer:  Say someone had been out in the um rain you know they came in and started sneezing and coughing you'd say that they had
330:  Turn cold tooken cold taken cold being out in the weather.
Interviewer:  Okay and if it affected their voice you'd say that they were
330:  Make 'em hoarse.
Interviewer:  Okay and go like this you'd say {NW} What's that?
330:  Hacking cough.
Interviewer:  Okay you say, "oh I better go to bed. I'm feeling a little..." what
330:  Groggy?
Interviewer:  Okay. Or another word for that. A feeling {D: a little}
330:  Sleepy?
Interviewer:  Okay. You say six o clock in the morning I'll
330:  Time to get up.
Interviewer:  But before you get up you have to
330:  Have to have have at six o clock?
Interviewer:  Yeah. When your alarm goes off you
330:  Have to wake up.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say he's still sleeping, you better go in there and
330:  And rouse him up.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say if someone was sick and you'd got them some medicine you went in by their bed and said "why haven't you
330:  "Why haven't you taken your medicine?"
Interviewer:  Okay and the person might say, "well I already..."
330:  Have.
Interviewer:  I what's um
330:  Well uh maybe some of 'em would say well I forgot it something
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  like {X} or said something {X} nasty {X} took his medicine always forgot it. {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  and that's happens pretty often.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  You get it you know, you getting back in the habit of it, I I hadn't taken much medicine since I had my heart attack. I took a good while for a year
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  and uh last time I was back down there he told me that uh need to come back he kept me coming for every five months but two years better. Then he {X} told me he believed I got well enough not come back no more. #1 {D: I assume that's happened} #
Interviewer:  #2 you have # still have the medicine?
330:  I don't take anything. Well I keep some little tablets if I get nervous can't sleep I'll take a little tablet.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Someone who can't hear at all you say that they're
330:  Deaf.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say you'd been out working in the sun and took off your shirt and it was all wet you'd say
330:  Sunburnt?
Interviewer:  Huh?
330:  #1 Hot? #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
330:  what
Interviewer:  You say um well yesterday I worked hard and I what a lot in the sun what about sweat?
330:  Uh I got hot and {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah and I sweat I what a lot in the sun?
330:  {X} blood I guess some of 'em say, well I {X} blood today.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um
330:  {X}
Interviewer:  What do you call a little sore that comes to a head?
330:  {NW} A ball? {NW}
Interviewer:  What do you call the stuff that comes out when
330:  Corruption?
Interviewer:  Okay um you say a bee stung me in my hand
330:  and left the stinger in there
Interviewer:  and my hand did what?
330:  swollen up swollen.
Interviewer:  Okay.
330:  Swelled up.
Interviewer:  My um yesterday my hand
330:  swelled up bad.
Interviewer:  Um when you open a blister the liquid that comes out you call that
330:  Water.
Interviewer:  Okay. And um say if someone got shot or stabbed you'd have to get a doctor to look at the
330:  Their wound.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if some wounds don't heal back right what do you call that?
330:  Some wounds what?
Interviewer:  They don't heal back #1 right? #
330:  #2 Oh. # it's just um they don't they don't heal up right there'll have to redo it
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
330:  #2 something or other #
Interviewer:  Do you call it some kind of flesh?
330:  Mm-hmm probably probably flesh yes.
Interviewer:  What's that?
330:  {X} {X} turn out
Interviewer:  Yeah.
330:  take out cut it out #1 right #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  okay {X}