490: He was wanting to to play and then he'd get up there and he couldn't and it irritated him and it's just really more hassle than it's worth. Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {D: Oh man} well talking about fencing if you're putting up a barb wire fence what do you call these. The wooden things the round things that you 490: #1 Post. # Interviewer: #2 string from. # Post. And you call more than one you'd have two. 490: Posts. Interviewer: Yeah. 490: Posts? Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {X} 490: That's like {X} Interviewer: Yeah. Wh- what would you say that your uh best dishes are made of 490: China. Interviewer: Have you ever heard of uh an egg made out of something like that? 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: That a farmer might put under a hen trying to get it to lay. 490: That's Oh I can't remember what grandmother used to call 'em. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 490: What are they called? Interviewer: Ah they're called artificial eggs. Uh nest eggs. 490: Nest egg. That's Interviewer: #1 That's what it is? # 490: #2 what she used to call it. # Interviewer: Oh if you were going to milk the cows what would you probably take with you to catch the milk in. 490: Pail. Interviewer: A pail. Is there anything else that you might call it? Well what would it 490: #1 Bucket. # Interviewer: #2 be made of? # Bucket. What would it be made out of? 490: Um. Aluminum I guess. Interviewer: You ever seen {D: anything} made of anything else. 490: Yeah uh they used to be made out of something else. That real heavy but I don't know what material that was. Uh Grandmother had a wooden one, but she didn't use that th- that's an old well. Interviewer: Mm. 490: That wooden bucket but it i- some steel alloy of some kind because it wasn't aluminum cause they didn't have aluminum I know Interviewer: #1 Hmm. # 490: #2 then # Cuz this was long time ago that I remember. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Well a bucket and a pail are they the same? 490: Yeah. Interviewer: {D: Kay} What about a type of bucket that uh {D: morn} might keep in the kitchen to throw scraps in for the hogs. 490: Slop jar. Interviewer: Slop. 490: No not slop jar. Slop Interviewer: #1 Slop bucket. # 490: #2 bucket I guess. # {NW} Slop jar used to be in the ba- bedroom used to #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # 490: #1 Okay. # Interviewer: #2 Right. # Well what about the the bigger one did you just throw any kind of general waste or refuse in it. That you're 490: #1 The garbage can. # Interviewer: #2 just take out. # 490: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 Garbage can. # What about the the thing that you would use to oh fry eggs or ham or something like that in. 490: Skillet. Interviewer: Skillet. Is that called anything else? 490: Frying pan. Interviewer: Frying pan. Have you ever heard of an old fashioned one that uh might have been used in the fireplace. Might've had legs on it. 490: Mm-hmm. An iron skillet with legs. Interviewer: Iron skillet with #1 legs. # 490: #2 Uh-huh. # That's what I always called it. {C: laughing} Interviewer: Well what about this uh great big black metal thing that you occasionally see in people's yards used for boiling and all that. 490: It's a kettle. Interviewer: It's a kettle. 490: Grandmother called it a kettle. {C: pronunciation} Interviewer: Kettle. {C: pronunciation} 490: #1 Mm-hmm. # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh. # Have you ever people call it a wash pot? 490: Yeah. When I was a child I remember her washing them in the backyard over a fire. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 490: Killing hogs and using those big kettles to Interviewer: Yeah. 490: boil the meat in and everything. Interviewer: Yeah. I used to work at a meatpacking house during the summers when I was in Junior High, high school had monstrous uh big ol' black kettle you know they used for the melting the lard and #1 all that kind of thing. # 490: #2 Mm-hmm. # Interviewer: {D: Thank the} monster. 490: They uh usually put uh had 'em full of water and they'd dip those big old pigs down in 'em and get the #1 hide {D: hanging} off of them you know and everything. # Interviewer: #2 Oh yeah. Yeah. # Yeah. 490: I used to like hog killing when I was a child. I miss things like that. They used all this area back here like I told you yesterday was was gr- granddaddy's barnyard and pasture and everything. There's a big old log barn that was up there and they always used to kill hogs #1 right out in the # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # 490: in the barnyard of that. And that was the most fun. # 490: #1 {D: It'd be} cold and crisp that day # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 490: you know cuz they always waited 'til it got #1 cool you know {D: and} hog killing time. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. {D: Yeah} # 490: And then we we'd eat the my cousins would get a long handled iron skillet Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 490: #2 and hold over the # fire. You know building a little fire out there and put some lard in it. And they they would fry the um cracklings. Now not chitterlings Cuz I'm not eating those chitterlings. Interviewer: {NW} 490: #1 But the {D: cracklings} # Interviewer: #2 You don't like chitlings? # 490: No way. Interviewer: Yeah {D: you not gonna} be a true Southerner if you don't like chitlings. {NW} I don't like the smell of them cooked but uh you know. 490: now I don't remember ever eating them but I'm not going to. #1 Just some things I'm not going to put in my mouth and that's one of them. # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # {NW} {X} chitlings. Well uh let's see oh yeah you were talking about hog killing. Oh yeah that sound pleasant enough without the place where they kill hogs in that uh the meat packing plant was really a dreary place. 490: #1 I can imagine. # Interviewer: #2 So # It was uh you know just concrete slab floor 490: #1 {D: Old washing it down oh boy.} # Interviewer: #2 {D: They had hogs}. Yeah. # It was mass production you know. We had them strung up on pulleys and all this and it was uh oh they had the big vat you know with hot #1 water. And when # 490: #2 Uh-huh. # Interviewer: they got through with that they flopped them over. They call this thing called the de-hairer you know. 490: Mm. Interviewer: Got all the hair off. It was just really gross. I didn't like going through that place. 490: Oh. Interviewer: What do you call these uh fancy containers that you put cut flowers in that's uh 490: a vase. Interviewer: And you wouldn't grow flowers in a vase you'd say you grow 'em in a 490: Pot. A flower pot. Interviewer: Pot. And what about some of the utensils that you use to uh eat with 490: #1 Okay. Knife # Interviewer: #2 for a meal. # 490: fork spoon. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 490: Um. of course fancy dinners you have all kinds of utensils, but I'm not familiar with them enough to. Grapefruit spoons and Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 490: Oyster forks and Interviewer: {NW} 490: #1 Things like that. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # If you had a a set of say for for steak you say you have a set of steak 490: Knives. Interviewer: What about uh after you eat a meal uh you have to do what to the 490: #1 Clean the dishes. # Interviewer: #2 dishes. # 490: #1 Clean the wash the dishes. # Interviewer: #2 Clean up the dishes or wash the dishes. # 490: Put 'em in the dishwasher. Interviewer: #1 Put 'em in the dishwasher. # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {X} 490: {NW} Interviewer: Well what about uh if you don't have a dishwasher uh to get the soap off you have to 490: Rinse. Interviewer: Mm. And the the cloth that you use when you're 490: Wash rag. Interviewer: #1 Uh-huh. # 490: #2 Washcloth. # Um dishrag. Interviewer: Is that wha- uh is one that you use for drying? 490: Drying w- uh dry uh what would I call it. Um dishtowel I guess that's Interviewer: Dishtowel. Mm-hmm. 490: I don't call it drying cloth or anything like that. Dishtowel I guess. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Okay. And what about the uh the cloth that's about that size that you would use when taking a bath. 490: Washcloth. Interviewer: And the bigger one that's used. 490: Towel. Interviewer: {D: Okay.} If what about this thing on the kitchen and the sink {D: of} the water comes out of. 490: Faucet. Interviewer: Call it the faucet. And if it's outside 490: J- hydrant. Interviewer: The hydrant outside. Well what about you seen these uh metal portable water containers you know that you might see them out on the road. The highway department they {X} give 'em some water. 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: The thing that the water comes out on those 490: Spigot. Interviewer: That's a spicket. {D: Yeah.} You might s- if it was very cold during the winter you might get up one morning and turn on the water in the kitchen uh in the sink, but nothing comes out. And I say well heck 490: #1 Pipes are frozen. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 490: {NW} Interviewer: As a matter of fact they 490: Burst. Interviewer: If you b- bought a a lot of flour uh it would probably come in a what? 490: Sack? Interviewer: A big sack. 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Or if you very large amount it might come in one of these wooden things. 490: Barrel. Interviewer: In a big barrel. 490: Mm-hmm Interviewer: What do you call the uh the metal thing that goes around the barrel? 490: Stave. Interviewer: Kay. 490: No the stave is Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 490: #2 the wooden part. # Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 490: #2 That's # Interviewer: #1 The thing that goes around to keep the staves together. # 490: #2 I don't know. Yeah. # Um. I don't know. I guess I'd call them a ring. I don't Interviewer: A ring. 490: Yeah. Bands. Interviewer: #1 Bands. # 490: #2 I don't know. # Interviewer: Or what about these things that uh they used to be a fad you know they're called hula 490: Hoops. Interviewer: There you go. 490: #1 Barrel hoop. # Interviewer: #2 Well w- # 490: #1 Of course. Alright. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # 490: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # What if you had to buy a large amount of lard or molasses. What would they probably come in? 490: In a big can. Interviewer: #1 In a can. # 490: #2 Mm-hmm. # Interviewer: You ever heard that called a stand? A stand of lard. 490: Huh-uh. #1 Don't think so. # Interviewer: #2 never heard that # 490: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # If you wanted to pour some um molasses let's say into a small mouth bottle what would you probably use to keep from spilling all over the place. 490: {NW} I'm laughing because I did that the other day {C: laughing}. Interviewer: #1 Oh really? # 490: #2 I tried to # pour maple syrup into another thing without using m- well what am I trying to say. Wait a minute. Um oh Well I'll declare. Interviewer: {NW} Can't think of it. 490: I can't think of what I call it. Interviewer: {D: It's} a big white mouth 490: #1 Yeah it's got a # Interviewer: #2 thing you {D: taper} # 490: Um. I got all different sizes in there. Interviewer: Whatever they are. 490: #1 Whatever they are I've got a whole bunch of them # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 490: And I use 'em when I'm canning like #1 crazy. # Interviewer: #2 uh-huh # 490: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # 490: What are they called. Tell me. Interviewer: Funnel. 490: Funnel. Interviewer: Yeah. 490: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 Oh. # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Well what about if uh you have a buggy uh with horses and all. The thing that you use to crack around the ears. 490: Whip. Interviewer: {D: A new} whip. Mm-hmm. And when you go to the grocery store. The grocer probably puts yours purchases in 490: Sack. paper sack. Interviewer: Paper sack. Is there any other type of uh sack that you know about maybe uh made of uh coarse rough 490: Burlap bag. Interviewer: #1 Burlap bag. # 490: #2 {X} # Interviewer: You ever heard that called anything else? 490: Burlap. I'm now thinking potato sack. Cause that's what I use to drag potatoes {D: you know you're digging} potatoes Uh no I don't think so. burlap Interviewer: Have you ever heard of something called a croker sack? 490: Uh-uh. Interviewer: Haven't heard of that. 490: A what now. Interviewer: croker sack 490: croaker Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 490: #2 Uh-uh. # Never heard of it. Interviewer: Well what about tow sack. 490: Yeah tow sack. Yeah. Interviewer: Is that the same #1 thing as a burlap. # 490: #2 Mm-hmm. Burlap. # Interviewer: {NW} What would you call uh the amount let's say of corn that a farmer might take to the mill at one time. Any particular name for that? Maybe the amount of corn you can take at one time or the amount of wood that he could carry in his arms at one #1 time. # 490: #2 Load. # Interviewer: Just load. 490: Load of corn. Load of wood. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Have you ever heard of a {D: turn} of corn. 490: Turn. Interviewer: #1 Something like that. Haven't heard of that. # 490: #2 Huh-uh. Never. # Interviewer: {D: Okay.} And this thing right here you have to replace if it burns out that's the 490: Bulb. Interviewer: A light bulb. Kay. When you take out your clothes to uh hang them up to dry what would you probably if you don't have a dryer what would take them out in. 490: A hamper. Interviewer: A hamper or a clothes 490: {X} Bag Clothes old hamper is what I call it. Interviewer: Or it might be a oh made out of plastic or 490: Yeah. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 490: #2 They're hampers. # Interviewer: Hampers. 490: {NW} Interviewer: What about a clothes basket? 490: Yeah. Interviewer: #1 Call it that? # 490: #2 Basket. We usually call it # a hamper. Interviewer: Yeah. What about something like a barrel except maybe smaller that nails might bec- might come in. 490: Keg. Interviewer: Keg. And if you had just bottled something some liquid. Something that you might put in the mouth of the bottle to keep it from spilling out. 490: Cork. Interviewer: Cork. And what about this saying that's a musical instrument play with your mouth. 490: #1 Harmonica. # Interviewer: #2 {D: With a backboard} # Heard that called anything else? 490: Jew's harp. Interviewer: #1 Is that the same thing? # 490: #2 No a juice harp's a Blues # Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 490: #2 No. A juice harp's # Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 different. # Harmonica and mouth organ. Interviewer: Mouth organ. {X} {D: And} this thing a tool that you use to drive nails. 490: Hammer. Interviewer: {D: Wanna} ask a few questions about wagons. See what you know about wagon. That uh wooden thing that goes between the horses a long wooden thing. Do you know what that's called? 490: Um. That's not the tongue. Is it the tongue? #1 Okay # Interviewer: #2 yeah # 490: I was thinking harness and stuff. Yoke and all that alright tongue. Interviewer: Let's the wagon will pull you over. {D: Parts a little} You have a hub and uh spokes #1 come out of the hub. # 490: #2 Mm-hmm. # Interviewer: What would you call the uh the outer part of the wagon wheel you'd say that's the 490: Rim. Interviewer: The rim of the wheel. Do you know what the traces are? 490: #1 That's the # Interviewer: #2 {D: The wagon} # 490: lines that go from the driver to horses' harness {X} Interviewer: Do you know what uh well what are the traces come back and attach to. It's kind of a horizontal #1 wooden block. # 490: #2 Yeah. # Interviewer: #1 Sort of thing. # 490: #2 {D: I know} # I've seen it, but I don't know what they're called. Interviewer: Single tree. 490: Single tree that's right. Interviewer: And of course if you have two horses both single trees would be attached to a a doubletree. 490: #1 Double tree. Yeah. # Interviewer: #2 You heard of that? # Okay. Well what about uh 490: Let me get Ben. Interviewer: #1 Sure. # 490: #2 I need to # get him to something to eat. Interviewer: Let's see where was I oh yeah. If you saw a a man riding by on his wagon and he had a he had a little wood in it. Came back a little later {X} came back few minutes later with a thing full of {X} you say he's doing what? 490: Working hard {C: laughing} Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {NW} # Uh I would say that he was. I don't know Interviewer: Or maybe some some #1 expression that {D: have} # 490: #2 I'm not sure that I # Interviewer: {D: has} to do with what he's doing with the wood. He's just hauling wood. 490: #1 Hauling. Okay. # Interviewer: #2 Say something like that. # Yeah. #1 What about # 490: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Uh If a let's say a tree had fallen across the road uh blocking your way you might have to take a rope and try to do what to get that thing off? 490: Pull. #1 Pull it off. # Interviewer: #2 Pull. # Pull or you might say uh maybe drag it off. 490: yeah drag it. Haul it off. {NW} Interviewer: {NW} What about that word drag. Th- the past form of it {D: would be} yesterday you 490: Dragged. Interviewer: And you have 490: Have dragged {D: isn't it} Interviewer: What about uh I was asking you asking you about uh fields a minute ago. What do you say you do when you break up the ground in a field for planting? 490: Plow it. Interviewer: Plow it. Okay is there uh a particular type of plow that you use to uh to break up the ground the first time? {C: baby noises} 490: Yeah. There's all different kinds, but I don't know what they are. Uh breaking plow. And uh then the hayer and they- there's a cultimulcher now and there's all kinds of stuff, but I don't what to use when. But I do know that the breaking plow has very sharp things that go in there and then they break it up the first time. And then they've got different si- different kinds. Some of the blades are turned it o- at a at an angle and everything but I don't Interviewer: {X} Well what about the uh getting back to the wagon for just a minute the uh {D: the} kind of shaft that goes on the wagon that the wheels turn on. That's the 490: Axle. Interviewer: Axle. Have you ever seen these uh wooden frames that carpenters use. The ends of 'em are kind of shaped like the letter A. 490: {X} Interviewer: #1 {X} # 490: #2 Horses. # Interviewer: Horses. Is there something uh similar to that another wood frame except it's shaped like the letter X. You might place a log right in the middle of it. {D: Saw thing} 490: Yeah. I don't know what that's called, but I've seen that. {NS} I don't know what it's called. Interviewer: Do you ever heard of it called {D: the storm buck} 490: #1 Yeah. # Interviewer: #2 You ever heard of that? # 490: I've heard of the term, but I didn't know that it ap- applied to that. Interviewer: Okay. Or when you get up in the morning the things that you use on your hair. Might use a comb or a 490: Brush. Interviewer: And you say you're 490: Brushing your hair. Interviewer: And s- when men used to shave with these straight razors they would sharpen the razor on this long leather thing. What was that called? 490: Leather strap. #1 Granddaddy # Interviewer: #2 Leather # 490: called it a strop. Interviewer: A strop. 490: Uh-huh. {C: baby} Interviewer: So what about if uh you were going to load a shotgun you put a shell in the what would put in a a pistol or a rifle. 490: #1 Bullet. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Bullet. Anything else you heard that called? 490: Um. Interviewer: Well let's say if you have a tape player in your car. What do you call the you say you have a you're gonna put a tape with Son: {C: baby noises} 490: Put a tape what it Interviewer: Say you have a those plastic things that have a the the reels of tape inside. 490: Uh-huh. Interviewer: That play. 490: Uh-huh. Interviewer: What do you call those things? 490: Uh just a tape. #1 A cassette. I call it a tape. # Interviewer: #2 Just a tape. Just a tape. # Trying {D: to get you to} say cartridge. 490: Oh. Interviewer: You ever heard 490: Yeah cartridge. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 490: #2 Yeah. Okay. # Interviewer: What about uh these things that the children play on uh wooden board. Two kids can sit on the end. You know 490: #1 See-saw. # Interviewer: #2 the {D: white one} # What do you say you're doing? 490: See-sawing. Interviewer: See-sawing. Well what about one that's uh maybe a a long board that would go around instead of up and down. 490: Hmm. Son: {NW} 490: I don't know. #1 Merry-go-round. # Interviewer: #2 Merry-go-round. # 490: But I don't think that's really a merry-go-round. Interviewer: You ever heard that called a {D: flying unit}? 490: Huh-uh. Interviewer: {D: Haven't heard of that} Have you ever heard of oh maybe a board anchored on both ends. It would be pretty limber so it could th- kid could just jump up an down on the 490: #1 Yeah. # Interviewer: #2 middle of it. # 490: Don't know what they're called. Interviewer: {X} Son: {NW} 490: Ben what a mess. {NW} Interviewer: {NW} 490: What that was good. Interviewer: Better go in after him. 490: {NW} Interviewer: Now what about this thing that would be suspended say from the limb of a tree by ropes you have a place you're gonna sit 490: Hammock. Interviewer: Or 490: #1 Swing. I know w- {X} # Interviewer: #2 This {X} # What about {D: if} this container if you were burning coal uh for heat that you would keep the coal in right next to the fireplace {D: or just a little} whatever. 490: That's not the grate is it. Interviewer: #1 Uh. Yeah. # 490: #2 The grate's what {D: there yeah} # {D: it's what the the burned in} Uh coal bucket. Interviewer: Coal bucket. You ever heard that called stubble? Coal stubble. Is that just the shape of a bucket or is it different. 490: No it has a uh the back part of it is round but the front part of it is scooped out so that it pours loosely Interviewer: Mm. Well what about if you have a free standing stove uh you know in some old houses. The pipe that goes up from the stove up to the ceiling you call that the 490: Stove pipe. Interviewer: And the part outside. What is that? 490: Flue Interviewer: The flue. And this thing that you might have on a house when you're working in the yard to carry things in with handles and wheel {X} 490: Wheelbarrow. Interviewer: Ever heard that called anything else? 490: Wheelbar. Interviewer: #1 Wheelbar. # 490: #2 {NW} # Um Can't think of anything else but wheelbarrow. Interviewer: What about Georgia buggy. 490: No a Georgia buggy. No I've never heard of that before. Interviewer: What if you you wanted to uh sharpen your ax. What would you probably use to put a edge in? 490: Um a file. But they use electric files now. file i guess. Interviewer: You ever heard of anything called a grass hoe. 490: Uh-huh. {X} turn the wheels Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 490: #2 and there's a huge {C: baby noises} # stone and it turns. Interviewer: Yeah. 490: #1 It's the same principle # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 490: now and Interviewer: Yeah. 490: electric. Interviewer: Well what about a small one uh that you can hold in your hand. #1 {X} # 490: #2 Yes. # Interviewer: #1 Is that the same thing? # 490: #2 Uh-huh. # {X} Interviewer: Ever heard that called a {D: whip rock}? 490: #1 Mm-hmm. # Interviewer: #2 Rolling stone. # 490: Stone. Interviewer: What about this uh vehicle that I drove up in. {D: What's that?} 490: Car. Interviewer: Anything else? 490: {X} {C: baby noises} Interviewer: That's not right {C: baby noises} 490: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 490: {NW} Interviewer: Well what if uh maybe my car started squeaking. I might take it into a a service station tell 'em {X} {C: baby noises} what to it. 490: {X} Interviewer: You got all that stuff on your hands you'd say your hands were. 490: Greasy. Interviewer: Or talking about you know having your car serviced you might ask the attendant to look up under the hood and maybe tell you what your {X} 490: Oil. Interviewer: {D: Yeah} before you had these electric lamps they t- you had to burn uh well what would you {D: burn} {X} {C: baby noises} 490: #1 Oil or kerosene. # Interviewer: #2 Oil. # Or kerosene. Have you ever heard of uh a makeshift lamp or a temporary lamp that would be made from a bottle and stick the kerosene and a wick or something like that. 490: Molotov cocktail {C: laughing} #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # 490: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # That's {D: something} yeah I know what you #1 mean. {X} explode. That you use for light. # 490: #2 {NW} # Um I #1 I suppose # Son: #2 {X} # 490: that I have heard of of that of kerosene {X} Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {X} # Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Have you ever heard something like that called a flambeau? 490: Uh-uh. Interviewer: Never heard of that. 490: {NW} I've heard of flambeau though of uh chateaubriand. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 490: #2 And all oo yummy. # I'm hungry. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {NW} So what about uh the inside part of a tire you that inflates you call it the inner Son: {X} Interviewer: Pin. Ta- you were talking about a boat {D: and then} if you uh when you put the boat in the water what do you call {X} Son: {NW} 490: I Son: {NW} Interviewer: Going down to 490: Yeah. the boat in the water. Uh launch. Interviewer: Launch the boat. Well what about the type of boat that you would have to use oars with. That would be what kind of boat? 490: Row boat. Interviewer: Row boat. Are most of the what do they have? Flat bottoms or curved or what? 490: Well um flat bottom boats usually around here are used for fishing. And then they have the the canoes with point pointed Son: {D: mama ma mama oh mama} Interviewer: So you won't get in a {X} {C: baby noises} 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: What about if you were going to buy some material for a dress or something or like that in town and you wanted to make sure that you got the right color right material. You might take a little piece 490: Swatch. Interviewer: Call it a swatch. 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Ever heard that called anything else? 490: it's just material. {NW} Swatch. Interviewer: What about sample. 490: Sample. Yeah. But I usually call it a swatch. Interviewer: Well what about if you saw a dress in the store window and you thought it was really nice you might say well my goodness that sure is a 490: Pretty dress {C: ring} Sharp. #1 Attractive. # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 490: {NW} Interviewer: What about what talking about pretty {C: phone ringing} 490: {NW} Interviewer: #1 {X} # 490: #2 'Scuse me. # Interviewer: Sure. {C: phone ringing} 490: Ben. Interviewer: #1 Want # 490: #2 {X} # Interviewer: to ask you about the the comparative of that word pretty. You might say well that's the first dress but I think this one's even 490: Prettier. Prettiest. Interviewer: And this thing that you would uh might put on when you're i- walking around the kitchen to keep your dress from getting dirty. 490: Apron. Interviewer: And this thing right here is a writing 490: Pen. Interviewer: Pen. And you would use a safety 490: Pin. Interviewer: Okay. Well what about uh you said a dime is worth how many cents? 490: Ten cents. Interviewer: And what about this metal th- 490: Tin. Interviewer: What would you say that a man thr- three piece suit you'd say it's a 490: Uh. Pants suit coat vest. Interviewer: Have you ever heard uh pants called anything else. 490: Trousers. Interviewer: Trousers. 490: Slacks. Slacks more casual #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: trousers are sort of a Son: {NW} 490: #1 antiquated # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 not antiquated I don't know that # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: but uh #1 more # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: formal term. Interviewer: Yeah. 490: Trousers. Interviewer: Well what about these things that you know farmers sometimes wears. Have straps it'll be a 490: #1 Overalls. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Are those usually bought or homemade or what? 490: Uh. Buy 'em from whatever that Smith Big Smith Big Smith overalls Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {NW} # My there's a funny story about overalls. My grandmother was gonna o- order uh overalls a pair of overalls for granddaddy and he said she said what size do you wear and he said I wear uh a thirty-four and so she ordered from Sears a fifty-four and she ordered fifty-four fifty-four and they wrote her back {C: laughing} He said I wear a thirty-four thirty-four length and she said uh uh fifty-four fifty-four and Sears wrote w- this was years ago wrote them back a letter and said Mrs. Crawford we uh regret to inform you that we do not s- stock fifty-four fifty-four overalls but we would be glad to have them made specially for you if you want them. Can you imagine. {C: laughing} What fifty-four fifty-four would be like? Interviewer: Oh whoa. 490: Wow. Interviewer: {NW} Like a tent. 490: {NW} Interviewer: Let me ask you about this uh expression. If there was something in the room let's say across the room and you wanted it you might ask me to go what 490: Bring it to me. Interviewer: And that past form would be 490: You brought #1 it to me. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: he has brought it to me Interviewer: What about uh if your husband were trying on a coat he might say well this coat won't fit this year but last year it 490: #1 Fit fine. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 {NW} # Son: #2 # Interviewer: Or if let's say it's if he needs some clothes uh to wear to church he might say oh I need to go downtown to buy a 490: New suit. Interviewer: W- what would you say if uh oh I don't know your son kept uh putting different things in his pocket till he got so many things in it that he kind of 490: Bulged. Interviewer: Or if you you put a shirt in water that's too hot for it it's liable to 490: Shrink. Interviewer: What about the past form of that. 490: Shrank. Shrunk. Interviewer: If a if a girl was getting ready to go out on a date and she spends a lot of time in front of the mirror you says she's doing what 490: Primping. Interviewer: Primping. W- what what if a boy is doing the same thing 490: Primping. Interviewer: {D: a guy is} primping 490: #1 Uh-huh. # Interviewer: #2 too. # {X} {C: baby noises} {NW} Have a good time. 490: {NW} Interviewer: #1 {X} # 490: #2 {D: It's} all the expressions he can get on his face. # Interviewer: {NW} {C: baby noises} 490: {NW} {C: baby noises} Interviewer: #1 See # 490: #2 {NW} # {D: He uh} getting that stuff all over you in your hair and everywhere. Mm-mm yummy The other day we were up at the lake and he was eating some of that zwieback toast and it got all over him and I didn't have a washrag so I just took him and put him in the lake washed him off Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: That does it. 490: Yep Interviewer: What wh- what do you call uh the thing that uh women carry all their thing around in 490: #1 Purse. # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 490: Handbag. Interviewer: #1 What # 490: #2 Purse mostly. # Interviewer: What about the small one that you might keep change in? 490: Uh billfold. Interviewer: Billfold. 490: Mm-hmm. Change purse. Interviewer: Change purse. Well what about the thing that you were wear around your wrist or 490: Bracelet. Interviewer: Bracelet. And around the neck 490: Necklace. Interviewer: These things that men might wear to hold up their pants you know that go over the shoulders 490: Suspenders. galluses Interviewer: {D: Galluses} {D: would this uh} 490: #1 Uh-huh. # Interviewer: #2 an older word for it. # 490: It's what granddaddy'd call it. Son: {NW} Interviewer: Well what about the thing that you would take with you if it's raining to keep the rain off of you 490: An umbrella. Interviewer: An umbrella. You ever heard that called anything 490: Parasol. Interviewer: Parasol. 490: This is {D: son Donald} Interviewer: Hello. Son: Hello. Interviewer: How you doing? Son: Fine. 490: Sleepy. Interviewer: #1 Did he just get up is he # 490: #2 Just rolled out of bed. # You hungry? Son: {X} 490: Just sit and listen for a little while then I'll fix you something after a while. But a parasol's not used for they'll just keep the sun off of you Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 490: #2 and umbrellas keep the rain # off of you. Interviewer: Fashionable ladies. 490: Right. Interviewer: {X} 490: Keep you from having freckles like I've got. #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Well what about uh if you're making up the bed the last thing that goes on the bed that's the 490: #1 Spread. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # Interviewer: What about something that might be used in the wintertime uh heavier than a spread you hear about people getting together and making these things. 490: #1 Quilts. # Interviewer: #2 uh # Quilts. And the thing that you rest your head on 490: #1 The pillow. # Interviewer: #2 the bed. # Something like a pillow except it's usually longer than a pillow uh might be used I don't know if it's functional or just used for looks that you put on the bed uh {C: baby noises} 490: A roll like thing Interviewer: #1 Yeah. {X} # 490: #2 {X} I don't know what that's called # Um #1 uh # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # 490: It's got a name but I don't #1 know what it's called # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: You ever heard it called a bolster. 490: #1 Yeah # Son: #2 {NS?} # 490: bolster. Interviewer: And what about this expression if it were a particularly long bolster you might say it didn't just go part way across the table but 490: #1 All the way across. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {C: baby screaming} Have you ever heard of uh a temporary bed you might put down on the floor for children who are s- {D: sleeping} overnight or something like that 490: #1 Old # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: beds had trundle beds #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW # 490: #1 and out like a cot or some # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 thing is that what you # Interviewer: #2 Hmm. # Son: {NW} 490: Yuck. Interviewer: {NW} 490: #1 Super Ben. # Son: #2 {X} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # 490: That's just great. #1 Here. # Interviewer: #2 mess # up your carpet? 490: uh nah. Interviewer: You ever heard that called a palette. 490: Pallet. Yeah. Make him a pallet everyday he'll lie down on the floor and put the quilt down on the bare floor and he crawls around well trying to crawl around Interviewer: {X} 490: on the pallet. Interviewer: What would you say uh you might say you expect uh a huge crop this year because the land is very 490: Fertile. Son: {NW} Interviewer: Any terms you use for very rich uh low ling land that might've been {X} {C: baby crying} 490: Bottom land. Interviewer: Bottom land. 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Well what about uh land that's not good for most anything. Some of it has water standing on it permanently. Beavers and {X} {C: baby noises} 490: Swamp. Son: {NW} Interviewer: Is there anything particular that you call very rich soil. Soil. 490: Um Son: {NW} 490: #1 {D: Better dollar maker} # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {NW} 490: {NW} Um loamy? #1 {D: I didn't know that they s-} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: some good loam l- loam loamy land down there around the river. Mm. I don't know just bottom land good fertile. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 490: Black soils. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Any particular term for poor soil. 490: Scrub land. Interviewer: Scrub land. {C: baby noises} Well what about if you wanted to uh put some land to cultivation {D: and it had some water on it} you'd say you {X} {C: baby noises} 490: Drain. Interviewer: Drain. 490: Drain the water. Interviewer: And the thing that you dug that would take {X}{C: baby noises} 490: #1 Drainage ditches. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Drainage ditches {C: baby noises} What do you call the, well if you have some land with some bushes and trees and 490: #1 Shh # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: And you wanted to put that to cultivation so you need to do what to it? 490: Clear the land. Interviewer: Any any particular names for land that's just been 490: Cleared. Interviewer: Cleared. 490: Um No not that I can think of I don't I don't know. Interviewer: You ever heard of something like that called new ground. 490: New ground. Yeah. Interviewer: Well what about uh {C: baby noises} {X} {C: baby screaming} names for different uh streams of water flowing along around here 490: #1 Creeks. # Interviewer: #2 just creeks # 490: Mm-hmm. Streams but most of it's creeks. Interviewer: #1 What is it # 490: #2 {X} # Interviewer: What's the difference between a #1 stream # 490: #2 A # stream seem like to me it'd be rocky #1 Have a # Interviewer: #2 rocky # 490: hard bottom. Where Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 490: #2 creeks have # got you know mud and everything in it. And there's a stream is um uh more like on on flat land with a stream running through it you know a wooded area and things like that where a creek is uh muddy banks Interviewer: #1 Mm. # 490: #2 and stuff like # that for some reason. I don't know #1 why. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: I Interviewer: #1 Well i- # 490: #2 {D: got} it that way # Interviewer: is there anything smaller than a creek to you that you'd have a name for? 490: Smaller than a creek. Stream of water I guess. Interviewer: Stream of water. 490: Yeah. Stream I guess but but nah I really don't that's when I think stream I think bubbly. You know. Interviewer: Yeah. 490: {X} Interviewer: {NW} What would you call a place in the land that's been uh say worn away by some water flowing along? 490: Eroded. Interviewer: Is there anything that you would call #1 th- that place # 490: #2 Uh. # Interviewer: #1 # 490: #2 # Hmm. Interviewer: Or maybe a place you know that's been 490: #1 {D: No} # Interviewer: #2 Um. # 490: Worn away like that I Interviewer: Might be done by heavy rainfall or something. 490: #1 Yeah # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # 490: uh No just eroded land is all I can think of. Interviewer: What about gully. 490: Gullies #1 Yeah. I'm # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: What about ravine is i- 490: Um. Know what it is but we don't use that Interviewer: #1 Don't use that term. # 490: #2 term. Mm-mm. # Interviewer: But you do use gully. 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: What would you call the uh this round thing that you would turn to open a door. 490: #1 {D: Doorknob} # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Have you ever heard people a {D: hill a knob}? 490: Uh-huh. Uh we have a place up on the lake called knob hill. Interviewer: Is that right 490: {NW} Two the two terms Interviewer: #1 Yeah yeah. # 490: #2 {D: but yeah}. # Interviewer: Well what about something very much uh larger than a hill {C: baby noises} {X} {C: baby noises} 490: #1 Mountains # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # Interviewer: You know what you call the uh rocky edge of a mountain that drops off very sharply? 490: Precipice. Interviewer: #1 Precipice or # 490: #2 Uh. # Cliff. Interviewer: {D: Good.} 490: #1 hmm. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: And what about {D: from one} place um between the mountains where a road might {X} {C: baby noises} {C: baby noises} 490: #1 Little place between the mountains. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: No. You ever heard people say a notch {C: baby noises} {C: baby noises} 490: Notch. like an opening in the mountains that you {D: navigate} Interviewer: What do you call a 490: Gap. That's what they Interviewer: #1 Gap. # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: What about the place where boats {X} and unload their cargo {D: and unload it on the shore}? 490: Dock. Interviewer: A dock. Ever heard that called anything else. 490: #1 Um. # Son: #2 {NW} # ma ma {NW} 490: hmm. Son: {NW} 490: #1 No. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: probably probably have but I ca- Interviewer: #1 can't think of # Interviewer: #2 What about wharf. # 490: #1 Wharf. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: Sure. #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 I just think it's for boats I think # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: ships. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Well what about uh the place in the mountains where water falls a long distance. 490: #1 Waterfall. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 490: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # Wha- what are some of the {D: special surfaces} that roads are made out of around here. 490: Asphalt. #1 Concrete # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # 490: and gravel #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: You're making a lot of racket. Son: {NW} Interviewer: {NW} {X} 490: {NW} Interviewer: What would you call a a road maybe out in the country that goes off the main road. {X} {C: baby noises} 490: {NW} Interviewer: Country road. 490: Country road. #1 County road. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: County road. 490: Apart from state roads. County road Interviewer: You ever heard that called a byway? 490: Hmm. Mm-mm. Interviewer: #1 Never heard that? # 490: #2 {D: I said} byway. # Interviewer: Well what about uh a road that goes up a plain road up to a man's house? 490: Driveway. Son: {NW} Interviewer: And the place where uh {X} side of the street {C: baby noises} 490: Sidewalk. Interviewer: You ever seen a {D: strip} of grass in the sidewalk in the street. 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Is that called anything? 490: Yeah a hard place to mow. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {NW} # Um I don't know what it's called. Interviewer: You ever heard that called a tree lawn? 490: Tree lawn? Interviewer: Uh-huh. 490: Huh-uh. Interviewer: Haven't heard of that one. That's a that's {D: another difference uh} south Alabama 490: #1 I don't think we call it anything. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Is that right. 490: #1 I always call it grass. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 {D: That's right. I know.} # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: What about let's say if uh you walk down in the country and you saw some crows getting after some farmer's corn. 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: You might reach up and pick up a 490: Clod. Interviewer: And. 490: Throw it. Interviewer: {D: Did you} ever {D: would you} say chuck it. 490: #1 Chuck it. Yeah. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # 490: Chucking is just you know #1 short distance. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: Throwing is really {NW} #1 {D: want it to go} {C: laughing} # Interviewer: #2 Oh. # Do you drink coffee? 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: What do you have? What do you like in your coffee? 490: Uh cream #1 and # Interviewer: #2 Cream. # 490: sugar. Interviewer: Do you {X} let's say you're ordering coffee and you wanted milk in your coffee you'd order it 490: Cream. Interviewer: Cream. 490: But I would order it uh not black. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 490: #2 What would I order it # Pretty sure but I don't use cream it's milk all the Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 490: #2 time # Interviewer: #1 Talking about # 490: #2 {X} # Interviewer: black coffee if somebody wanted their coffee {X} {C: baby crying} if they ordered it would they say just {D: leave it} black? 490: Mm. If they ordered it in a restaurant I imagine that it would #1 come black anyway # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 What they'd ordered. Just coffee I guess. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Have you ever heard black coffee called anything else you know just with nothing in it? 490: Straight. Interviewer: Straight. 490: {NW} Interviewer: Ever heard it called barefooted? 490: Barefooted. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 490: No. {NW} Barefooted #1 coffee. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # Yeah I have heard it called that. {NW} I was {X} 490: {NW} Interviewer: What about uh if somebody's {D: not calling the police} on you you say you say he's coming right 490: to you. Interviewer: Or. 490: #1 Toward. # Son: #2 {NW} # {NW} Interviewer: Let's say if you have to meet somebody that you weren't looking for you might say well I just sort of ran 490: Into or chanced upon. Interviewer: What about uh if a child is given the same name as his father you say that the child is named 490: After his father. Interviewer: {C: baby noises} {NW} This animal that barks. 490: Dog. Interviewer: Dog. Yeah. Some dogs are bad about 490: Barking all night. Interviewer: #1 Bark. # 490: #2 {NW} # Yeah. Biting. Interviewer: Biting. And the past tense of bite is {C: baby screams} 490: #1 Bitten. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {D: and bitten} {C: baby noises} Son: {NW} 490: Shh Interviewer: What do you call a dog that's not a pure breed. 490: Halfbreed. Mongrel. Um tramp. {NW} Nuisance. {NW} Interviewer: {X} 490: What do you want son? {D: Wayne} Son: It didn't sound like it. 490: Well it is. Interviewer: What about a small dog yapping dog that likes to make a lot of racket. {X} {C: baby crying} 490: #1 Mm # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: call them chihuahuas as far as I'm concerned. Can't #1 stand that dog. # Interviewer: #2 {D: Were} # Ever heard of people call 'em {D: little feistos} 490: #1 Yeah. # Interviewer: #2 dogs # 490: Feist. Interviewer: {D: Something like that} 490: Mm-hmm. #1 a boxer's a breed isn't it? # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {D: Yes it is} Interviewer: Some people use that 490: #1 Feisty. I u- feisty person # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 490: is somebody like that #1 too. # Interviewer: #2 yeah # 490: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # I tell you what we're going to eleven if that's alright? 490: #1 Okay. # Interviewer: #2 And then I'll # leave you alone. 490: #1 Okay. Alright. Okay. # Interviewer: #2 I know you've got things to do. # What would you call to another dog to make it attack another dog. 490: Sic 'em. Interviewer: Sick 'em. 490: {NW} Interviewer: And if you wanted it to stop what would you say? 490: Uh uh heel. Interviewer: #1 Heel. # 490: #2 Sit. # If it were trained. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Okay. What about uh Talking about in herding cows. What do you call the male? 490: {D: Three hole} what? Interviewer: The male. 490: Oh. In a herd of cows bull. Interviewer: Bull. Well what about uh oh sometimes farmers used to plow with these animals. 490: #1 Oxen. # Interviewer: #2 uh # Oxen. Or anything else they might 490: #1 Mules. # Interviewer: #2 plow # What would you call two of 'em together. {X} {C: baby noises} 490: #1 {D: Uh} # Interviewer: #2 {D: Strong two mules} # 490: #1 Um pair of mules or team of mules. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Ever heard of {D: like a} yoke of oxen? 490: Oh yoke of oxen. mm-hmm Interviewer: W- and talking about cattle uh wha- wh- {X} {C: baby and crashing} {X} {C: baby screaming} 490: #1 Bull and # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: heifer. Heifer if it's never had a calf and cow if it has. Interviewer: If you have a cow named Daisy and she was expecting a calf you'd say Daisy's going to 490: calf Interviewer: Going to calf. What about then let's say uh herd of horses what do you call a male? 490: Stallion. Interviewer: #1 Stay. You ever heard it # 490: #2 Mm-hmm. # Interviewer: called anything else? 490: Stud. Interviewer: Stud. 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: If {D: the man was left over} for the male horse that picks company will you go ahead and say stud or {D: would you} 490: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Say something else. # 490: #1 You would say stallion # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # Interviewer: What about a female horse. 490: Mare. {C: crashing} Interviewer: Mare {C: crashing} And what do you call yourself doing if you get on a horse and go around just 490: Ride #1 to gallop. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Yeah. The past of that word ride you, so yesterday 490: #1 Rode. Ridden. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah and I have # 490: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # And if you have trouble staying on a horse you say if you fell 490: Off. Interviewer: And if uh a little boy goes to bed at night and wakes up on the floor he says well my goodness during the night I must've 490: #1 Fallen off the bed. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: And these things that go on the horses feet to protect 'em. You call those 490: Shoes. Interviewer: {NW} Wh- what are the parts of the horses foot that are that you put on 490: #1 Hooves. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: The singular would just be 490: #1 Hoof. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # Interviewer: Do you ever {X} {D: Just a minute} {NW} {X} {D: ever} play games with those things? 490: #1 Horse shoes. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # 490: #1 Kids up the street were playing it yesterday afternoon. # Son: #2 {X} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # Interviewer: Well what about. I don't guess you have, there are any sheep raised around here are #1 there? # 490: #2 Not # #1 many. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {X} Well, do you happen to know what you call a male sheep? 490: Male sheep is #1 um # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: {NW} #1 Oh no. You use the female {X} uh # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: Well of all things. Interviewer: {D: Big things that} {X} call them veterans. 490: Ram. Interviewer: {D: Okay.} 490: {NW} Interviewer: What about {NW} The bushy gray part {D: on them} 490: #1 The wool likely. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # Interviewer: {D: Let's} talk about a lot of {X} {D: called when you own a farm} 490: #1 Uh. # Son: #2 {NW} # {NW} Interviewer: {X} when it's first born. 490: #1 Piglet. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # Interviewer: Is there anything in between there going from a pig and then something and then a full grown hog? 490: Boars. Sows. Piglets. shoat Interviewer: Shoat. What do you call what do you call a male hog that's been altered? 490: Um. I've forgotten. Gelding is a horse. Steer is a no steer's not #1 I don't remember what a # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {X} 490: #1 Back again. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {D: Barn} 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: {X} 490: Yeah. Interviewer: Talked about altering. You say you did what to it? 490: #1 Castrated # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: You ever heard that called anything else? 490: Uh. #1 # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 Cut. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Cut. 490: Ben #1 no # Interviewer: #2 got # These stiff hairs on a hog's back they're called a 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: Yeah. Interviewer: What about these teeth that some hogs have? 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: You ever hear them called tusks? 490: Tusks. Yeah. {C: pronunciation} {NW} Interviewer: Any anything else for a hog that's grown up wild? 490: Hmm. Wild pig. Interviewer: Just wild pig. 490: {NW} Interviewer: Well what about this thing that you put feed in for your hog. 490: Trough. Interviewer: More than one would be. Troughs. 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # This has ten. Interviewer: How how would you describe the gentle noises made by a calf or a cow when it's uh. 490: Moo. Interviewer: A moo. Ever heard that called a low? 490: #1 Mm-mm. Lowing of cows # Son: #2 {X} # Interviewer: What about the noises made by a horse? 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Neigh. Anything else? 490: Whinny. Interviewer: Whinny. Interviewer: You ever heard people say knickers? 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Oh what about if you have a lot of animals like chickens and geese and ducks and things like that. A general term would be what? You have a lot of 490: Animals? Uh Interviewer: Well specifically feathered animals. 490: Oh fowl. Interviewer: Fowl. What would you call a hen that's on a nest trying to hatch out something? 490: Nesting hen. Interviewer: Nesting hen. {X} 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: laying hen uh-huh. Oh setting hen that's {X} Interviewer: {NW} 490: They're the meanest #1 kind. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Well what about the place where you keep your chickens. You call that a 490: #1 Chicken yard. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Chick yard. 490: #1 Chicken house. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 490: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # What about chicken coop. 490: Chicken coop. Interviewer: {X} fried chicken the piece that your kids like to get so they can pull it apart. 490: #1 pully-bone # Interviewer: #2 pully-bone # uh what's the idea behind that uh what's supposed to 490: The longest bone gets to make a wish and the wish is supposed to #1 come true. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 {D: Make a wish} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 and the one who gets the gets the longest then they get their wish is supposed to come true. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {X} 490: #1 Pulling bone and wish bone. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Uh-huh. 490: #1 Those terms. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # Interviewer: {D: Is that a} #1 {X} # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Have you ever heard any uh {X} used to describe these {X} {D: or livestock that weren't edible}? 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {X} 490: Uh-huh. Interviewer: No or {X} 490: #1 Uh-huh. # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Have you ever heard people talking about the {D: haslet} 490: #1 Uh-uh. # Interviewer: #2 or something like that? # Never heard of that one okay. Oh if you're on a farm and a cow gets mooing and uh your horse is neighing and all that might say well {X} 490: Milking time. Interviewer: Milking time. {X} 490: #1 Feeding time. # Son: #2 {NW} # {NW} Interviewer: This has always been {X} have you ever heard what a farmer calls to his cows saying to get up and come in from the pasture. 490: #1 Uh. # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 {X} {C: baby crying} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 Ben I'm fixing to call cows here # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {NW} # #1 Uh. Daddy stands up and he goes # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 {NW} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 like that. {D: Get out} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 # Son: #2 # 490: #1 And they used to come to him # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # {NW} Interviewer: What is that called the horses {X} 490: #1 Uh let's # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 490: see yeah my my uncle r- uh uh raised horses and he'd whistle. He'd whistle #1 for them and they would come. # Son: #2 {NW} # {NW} 490: #1 {NW} # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: Like that. Interviewer: {X} Have you ever heard him say anything to 'em to turn left or right? 490: #1 U- I uh # Son: #2 {NW} # {NW} 490: #1 Uh # Son: #2 {NW # 490: gee and haw. Interviewer: {NW} 490: Okay. I don't know which is which Interviewer: Oh. 490: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 Well that's good to know. # What about if you were oh {X} #1 {X} # 490: #2 Shh. # Interviewer: Or something like that. What would you say to 'em to get 'em started from a 490: #1 Get up and walk. # Interviewer: #2 sitting position. Get up. # 490: #1 {X} # Son: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {X} do or say to 'em go faster. 490: Get up get up. Interviewer: Get up. Son: {NW} Interviewer: You ever heard any uh calls to uh calls to pigs when you're feeding 'em? 490: {NW} Sooie Interviewer: What about to chickens when you're feeding 'em? 490: Uh. {NW} And cluck #1 cluck cluck. And # Son: #2 {NW} # 490: uh Interviewer: #1 {X} # 490: #2 here chick chick chick. Chick. # Interviewer: #1 # 490: #2 # Interviewer: {X} calls to sheep? 490: Uh. Interviewer: {D: Got lots of} sheep. Okay. And if you need to get your horses ready to go somewhere you say you have to do what? 490: curry and comb and Interviewer: {D: Alright} when you put all that stuff on you #1 say you. Harness 'em up. # 490: #2 Harness 'em up. # Saddle up. Son: {NW} Floor yet. Interviewer: Is that right. He's lazy in the summertime. 490: #1 I've never seen # Interviewer: #2 Yeah he got # 490: an eight year old sleep like he does in the mornings. Course he wants to rock out all night {NW} he would stay up till two oh clock in the morning if you let him. Interviewer: Is that right. 490: he's something else. Interviewer: A night owl. 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Okay let's see we were talking about horses yesterday when we stopped. Uh what do you call these uh if you were plowing with animals uh the things that you hold in your hand to guide 'em. 490: Reins. Interviewer: Is alright. I guess that would be the same thing if you were just riding 490: #1 Uh-huh. # Interviewer: #2 a separate horse. # 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Have you ever heard those called plow lines. 490: Uh-huh. The lines. {D: Per} Seen pictures of women holding the lines in their {D: teeth} #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 490: Yeah. Interviewer: Gotta romanticize 490: #1 Uh-huh. # Interviewer: #2 I imagine. # And those things that you put your feet in when you're riding a horse. 490: Stirrups. Interviewer: {NW} When uh if you have two horses hitched to a wagon have you ever heard the horse on the left called anything special? 490: Mm. don't think so. Horse on the left. Interviewer: #1 Horse on the left okay. # 490: #2 {NW} # No. Interviewer: What about if uh if something's not right near at hand you say it's just a little 490: Farther. Interviewer: Okay. Get some a few more expressions I wanna ask you about. Uh if you've been traveling a long time and you've not yet finished you might say that you still have before dark. Still have 490: Little way to go. Interviewer: Little way to go okay. And if something is very common you might say well uh that's pretty common thing you can find that just about 490: Anywhere. Interviewer: And if a person slip down and he fell that way you'd say he fell 490: Backward. Interviewer: #1 how {D: about that way} # 490: #2 Forward. # Interviewer: #1 # 490: #2 # Interviewer: If you went fishing and didn't have any luck at all uh and somebody asked you well did you catch any fish? You'd probably say what? 490: hmm it was a dry run. Interviewer: Dry run. 490: {NW} Interviewer: You ever hear people round here say nary {D: nigh gainst nary one.} 490: Uh-huh. Older people all the time. Interviewer: Well what about uh let's say somebody accidentally steps on your rake in the front yard and breaks it. You might say you might say oh well that's okay I didn't like it 490: anyway. Interviewer: Oh what about uh if a child's crying and you ask him why he might say well my friend was eating some candy and he didn't give me 490: any. Interviewer: Okay get back to plowing. What do you call these uh trenches that are cut out by a plow? 490: A row. Interviewer: A row. 490: A ditch. Or well let's see now wait a minute um Furrow. Interviewer: Furrow 490: That's what I that's the furrow and that's the row okay. Interviewer: {NW} Let's see. Now what after after wheat has been cut when it's tied up what do you say it's tied up into or or 490: #1 A bale. # Interviewer: #2 what that process? # 490: A bale. Interviewer: Bale. Mm-hmm. Is there anything else that 490: #1 Um # Interviewer: #2 has to do with # Oh you know bundling wheat 490: #1 Stack. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Stacking it. 490: Stack of wheat. Uh-huh. Interviewer: Are you familiar with the term shock. 490: #1 Yeah. # Interviewer: #2 Shock of wheat. # And what is that? 490: That's um long time ago I don't think they use that process much anymore. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 490: But um with combines and everything. But the shock of wheat is when it's tied standing up in the fields. But that's um that's I don't know whether they still use that. They don't use it around here anymore anyway. Interviewer: {NW} 490: It's um they use a combine and then they Interviewer: What about what about how much wheat would you say uh is a pretty good yield per acre? 490: Oh golly. I don't know anything about that. I don't have any idea. I know do know I heard on television that wheat's gone down about two dollars a bushel and everybody's lamenting that Interviewer: #1 {D: Is that right?} # 490: #2 {D; these days} but I don't have any idea # what's a good yield. Interviewer: Okay. Oh. What do you say uh you you do to oats to separate the grain from the rest of it? 490: Thresh. Interviewer: {NW} A few {D: of the} expressions haven't been with pronouns. If uh uh we have to do something. Some sort of job together if you just use pronouns to refer to us you'd say that you and 490: I. Interviewer: Okay. And in other words not one of us has to do this but 490: We do. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Or one of us or 490: the other. Interviewer: Okay. Or if you and another man are coming to see me again using pronouns you could just say that and 490: He and I. Interviewer: Or let's say if uh you go knocking on somebody's door and they call out hello who's that again just using {D: regular} pronoun you would respond it's just 490: I. Interviewer: #1 Is that what you would {D: actually} say? # 490: #2 You're supposed to say # It's just I. I know that's proper but I say it's me. Interviewer: Yeah. 490: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 That's natural for me too # 490: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 I can't bring myself to say it's I. # Uh what about uh if uh if a if a man is knocking at the door you know who it is. You don't use his name just a pronoun you'd say oh that's just 490: He. Interviewer: #1 Is that what you'd actually say? # 490: #2 But I'd say that's him # Interviewer: say. #1 Okay me too. # 490: #2 Uh-huh. # {NW} Interviewer: What about if it's a woman you'd say it's 490: it's her. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And if it's two people or more you'd say aw that's just 490: Them. Interviewer: Okay. Let's say comparing how tall you are you might say well he's not as tall as 490: I. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Or the other way around you might say I'm not as tall as 490: uh he. I do do that #1 properly. # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 490: {NW} Interviewer: Whatever properly means. 490: Yeah {C: laughing} Interviewer: Uh comparing how well you can do something you might say well he can do it better than 490: I can. Interviewer: And if a let's say a man had been running for oh three miles or so and he couldn't three miles was as much as he could do. You would say that three miles is the 490: Limit. Interviewer: Talking about possessives in pronouns if uh something belongs to me I say that's 490: Mine. Interviewer: If it belongs to you I would say that's 490: Yours. Interviewer: And if it belongs to him I'd say that's 490: His. Interviewer: And to her. 490: Hers. Interviewer: And to them. 490: Theirs. Interviewer: And what about if uh several people own something together collectively uh and you wanted to know if they owned this particular thing. What would you ask them you might say well is that 490: Yours. Interviewer: #1 Is that yours. # 490: #2 Mm. # Interviewer: #1 Is that # 490: #2 Y'all's. # Interviewer: #1 Y'all's. Uh-huh. # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Have you ever heard that uh in another form maybe is that uh is that y'all's's? 490: Y'all's's Interviewer: You ever heard that? 490: Yeah. I've heard it but I n- not much that's usually it's just is that y'all's. Interviewer: Yeah. Okay. What about if uh I had been to a party and you didn't get to go uh and you wanted to know about everybody that was there you would ask me 490: Who all was there. Interviewer: And if I had uh gone to church and you didn't get to go one Sunday and you wanted to know what the preacher had to say everything he said you'd ask what? 490: What all'd he say. Interviewer: Let's say if uh if nobody else will look after them you might say they've got to look after 490: Themselves. Interviewer: Or if nobody else will do it for him he's gotta do it 490: Himself. Interviewer: Tell me about some different uh types of bread that you know about. 490: Uh well loaf bread that comes when you buy it in a loaf from the store. {D: Tom} my husband calls it white bread. Interviewer: Mm. 490: Um I've always said loaf bread and then um there's hard rolls and um brown syrup rolls and um bread. Bread. Rye bread. Wheat bread. Pumpernickel. Not much around here though I don't like it much. Black bread. Uh I made uh Sally bread. Cornbread. We eat cornbread a lot. Muffins. Cornbread muffins and cornbread in the skillet. And um yeast rolls I make them every once in a while and have luck sometimes and not luck other times. Um let's see. Um What other kind of bread do I make. Interviewer: What about these things you might have for breakfast? 490: Uh Interviewer: Cut up and butter 'em you know. 490: Cut 'em and butter 'em. English muffins? Interviewer: #1 Muffins are uh # 490: #2 I have those # Interviewer: #1 Uh sometimes you can # 490: #2 Cinnamon rolls sometimes. # Interviewer: buy these things uh with the dough already prepared you know. 490: #1 Oh. # Interviewer: #2 The tubes. # 490: Yeah. That's too expensive I don't waste my money that way {C: laughing} With the little uh Pillsbury man that comes out and you punch him in the stomach yeah. They're all the gimmicks that are on television my son's always wanting me to buy it but I don't I don't invest in those much. Cinnamon rolls or the things that come in a in the can cause they're rather expensive. Interviewer: You mentioned cornbread. Uh can you prepare that uh differently. Make different types of 490: Um. I have put like hot pepper in it Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 490: #2 you know # and corn for Mexican corn bread. But we don't care for that much and uh sometimes I put a little bit more sugar in it than I do like if I'm having something that I for instance if if we're having a a light supper and I just have vegetables and maybe fry some bacon or something I'm then I'll put a little bit more sugar in the cornbread because we use the cornbread sort of as a part of the you know main part of the meal. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 490: But if I have a large s- supper then I don't you know just very little sugar. It's just according to how I feel about it you know. But um I always use um buttermilk and eggs in my cornbread because I like the rich taste. I my mother-in-law takes meal and flour I mean meal and water and makes cornbread and that tastes like stone to me. Interviewer: {NW} 490: It's really bad. But that's what she always she likes it that way. She was you know that's the way she was raised and um but I like it with an egg and buttermilk and a little sugar and meal. Interviewer: Well what about these things uh they're fairly small kind of round uh have onion in 'em. 490: Oh yeah. Interviewer: People eat 'em with fish 490: #1 Hushpuppies. # Interviewer: #2 Hushpuppies. # 490: I love hushpuppies. When they're done right. Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 490: #2 They can # be sorry when they're not Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {NW} # Oh whee. And I can just eat hushpuppies by themselves you can tell by look- {C: slapping} {NW} Interviewer: Oh really. 490: Oh I love hushpuppies. Interviewer: What about uh um have you ever heard of any type of cornbread that uh perhaps used to be made uh in front of the fireplace or in the ashes or something like that? Cooked that way. 490: In the ashes. I know what you're talking about I've read that about th- {D: knows} but I don't know what they called it. Interviewer: Have you ever heard of ash cake? 490: No. Interviewer: Never heard of ash cake. 490: Johnny cake. Interviewer: Johnny cake. What's that? 490: I don't know. Interviewer: {D: That one} 490: #1 I've got a book named # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 490: Johnny cake hole. Interviewer: Oh. 490: I never read the book {D: though} in the library Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Well what about uh now what you're talking about is cornbread is this big round thing 490: #1 Mm-hmm. # Interviewer: #2 that you make and # 490: Well I put it in different molds. I sometimes i- I always use iron skillet when I make cornbread though. My grandmother when I married t- took three or four iron skillets and broke them in for me #1 cause you know you can't # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # 490: use them when they're new. I mean you can but it {D: the your} food sticks. And I have a small one that I pour and we like cornbread thin and crisp. We don't like it Interviewer: #1 I see. # 490: #2 real {D: ti- hall} {C: correcting self} # tall and doughy like. And I like it thin and crisp and then sometimes I also have a uh corn pone Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 490: mold. You know the oblongs like the pones have and then I have a muffin pan, so it's just according to whether how I feel or which one I reach when I {D: go out} which one I can touch when I get in the cabinet and pull it out. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Have you ever heard of a corn dodger? 490: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: What is that? 490: Uh I don't know that's a western you know isn't that more of a western term thing #1 And they uh # Interviewer: #2 {D: That's true} # 490: I think th- don't they they have a special mold for that. Like a dodger. Interviewer: I'm not a cornbread connoisseur so I 490: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 490: #1 I don't # Interviewer: #2 I{NW} # 490: I don't know. Dodgers. I'm no- do you know where hushpuppies got its name? Interviewer: Hmm-mm. 490: I read one time that um in the Southern part of the United States that they would have um go out on hunting parties you know like possum hunts and things like that. And at night then the men would like if they were fishing or night fishing or whatever then they would eat you know what they have like if they have possum then they'd eat the possum you know sit around early morning hours and everything and they build up a fire and they always took their dogs with them you know possum hunting. And they would take cornbread and water you know and mix it together. And fried any of the fish grease or the possum grease or whatever it was that they'd eaten {NW} And the dogs would sit there and bay you know and w- and want some of the cornbread and they'd throw 'em to 'em and they'd say hush puppy. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 And throw it to 'em. # Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 Now that's supposed to be # where the hushpuppy came from. Just meal and water fried in grease you know. And they'd give it to the dogs to make 'em hush. And I read that to be true. In P- in the Pat Gunn's tales of Tennessee. You know of Pat Gunn? Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 490: #2 {D: You know} well anyway # he's supposed to be Poet Laureate of Tennessee and that's one of his tales. Now I don't know whether that's true or not. Interviewer: Well it sounds uh 490: #1 It sounds uh-huh. # Interviewer: #2 reasonable {D: to me}. # 490: {NW} Interviewer: Talking about bread some people say there's just two types of bread. Uh the kind you make at home you call homemade bread and then the type that you buy at the #1 store called # 490: #2 Mm-hmm. # Store bought. Interviewer: Store bought bread. 490: {NW} Interviewer: #1 What about # 490: #2 Not store bought # Store bought {C: pronunciation} Interviewer: Store bought {C: pronunciation}. 490: {NW} Interviewer: #1 {D: Say again} # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 # 490: #2 # Interviewer: The folks in {D: Calguard} gotta go. 490: {NW} Interviewer: What about uh these things are round uh have a hole in the middle. 490: #1 Doughnuts. # Interviewer: #2 Fried. # You ever heard those called anything else? 490: Mm. Don't think so. Interviewer: Can you take just a a lump of that doughnut batter and cook it like that with no mold? 490: Uh-huh. Interviewer: What is that? 490: Doughnut with no hole. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 490: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 {X} # 490: #2 I don't know I never # A lot of my l- a lot of mine turn out that way. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 490: Without the hole. Interviewer: This is uh something that Donald said he wanted yesterday for breakfast. 490: Pancakes. Interviewer: You ever heard those called anything else? 490: Uh-huh. Flapjacks. but we call 'em pancakes. Interviewer: What about hot cake? 490: Hot cakes. Yeah. In restaurants I think you know they on the menu mostly they say hot cakes on the menu. Interviewer: About how much uh flour would you say comes in a sack about that size? 490: Five. No ten. That's a ten pound bag. Interviewer: {D: And the} what about uh the two parts of a of an egg. There's the 490: White and the yolk. Interviewer: And the yolk is what color? 490: Yellow. Interviewer: Could you tell me about a few ways of uh cooking eggs preparing eggs. 490: Alright. Uh scrambled eggs sunny side up. Um okay then the fried. And um poached. Um. Another way. Boiled. hmm. Scrambled poached fried, sunny side up. Mm. I don't know is that all I can think of I think. Interviewer: That covers it. 490: {NW} Interviewer: What do you call this piece of meat that you might uh cook along with your greens? 490: hog's jaw Interviewer: #1 Does that have # 490: #2 {X} # Interviewer: much lean on it? 490: No. It's mostly fat. Uh. I suppo- {C: faint, cuts off}