Interviewer:  {NS} Some kind of rock or stone you could sharpen a knife on? {NS}
548:  Wet rock.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Yeah. Have you ever seen a bigger one? {NS} That turned around and you could sharpen an ax on?
548:  Mm-hmm. {NS} I sure have. {NS} Grind rock.
Interviewer:  Grind rock. Yeah. Did y'all have one of those? {NS}
548:  Nuh-uh
Interviewer:  Just seen one of those?
548:  Just seen 'em.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} And uh {NS} That thing that I just drove up in you call that a?
548:  A car. {NS}
Interviewer:  Anything besides that? {NS}
548:  Automobile. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} And uh. {NS} Say that uh {NS} if you were going to cook something {NS} you were gonna maybe make a {NS} pie or something like that. {NS} What would you say you did to the pan so it would not stick to it? {NS}
548:  Greased the pan. {NS}
Interviewer:  What do you use? {NS}
548:  I I use an oil. {NS} Or butter. {NS} But I like to sprinkle my meat in that pan and then let it brown you know before I put my bread in there.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. That's good. Did y'all ever make a a temporary lamp or a makeshift lamp? Just take a bottle and some coal oil and something for a wick?
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  For a light? {NS}
548:  Did that one time I remember. {NS}
Interviewer:  So did you have a storm or something or?
548:  Nah we thought we was going fishing but we didn't go. {NS} And that's what we fixed it for. But a I I I can take a button and a piece of cloth and make a light just as good.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  but you put tie that button in that piece of cloth and put it down in a glass. {NS} And or a jar or something and pour grease in that glass {NS} up up to the top
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  and just set that set that rag a fire. {NS} And that will burn and burn and burn. Just pure grease. {NS}
Interviewer:  Did you ever call that thing that bottle with a coil in it anything like a torch or? Flame or something like #1 that? #
548:  #2 Yep # It would be a torch. Uh-huh. {NS}
Interviewer:  What would you say toothpaste comes in? It comes in a?
548:  Tube.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. Uh say if a man just had bought himself a new boat. And he was going to take it down to the water and try it out. {NS} When he's putting the boat in the water you say he thought he did what? He's going?
548:  Try out his boat. {NS}
Interviewer:  Yeah. Could you say anything else there or like uh he's going to try it out or he's gonna?
548:  Take a ride.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. Ever hear people say they are going to launch their boat? {NS}
548:  Mm-hmm. I hear that too.
Interviewer:  How would they say that? {NS}
548:  They say uh {NS} So-and-so is going to launch their boat. {NS}
Interviewer:  What kind of boats would people use to fish in? {NS}
548:  Well it's mostly just {NS} just little old ones. {NS} Uh. {NS} Flat boats like with a motor on it. {NS That's the kind they use to fish in.
Interviewer:  {NS} Do people ever use row boats? {NS}
548:  Uh-huh. I don't know when I ever see a row boat. {NS} One that you paddle?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm {see any of} those around here? {NS} Ever heard of thing called a Jon boat?
548:  No.
Interviewer:  {X} Okay. Uh when you are working in the kitchen what might you wear around your waist?
548:  Apron.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh this thing I am here writing with you call that an ink?
548:  Ink pen.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh you would say that a dime is worth how much?
548:  Ten cents.
Interviewer:  Okay. What would you say uh when talking about clothes. What would a man's three pieced suit consist of?
548:  Well shirt and coat and pants.
Interviewer:  What about something that he might wear between his #1 shirt #
548:  #2 His vest! #
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. You ever heard a man call his pants anything else?
548:  Trousers.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. What about britches?
548:  Well I'll be too {NW}
Interviewer:  Would you say it like that?
548:  Yeah. Britches.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. What about these things that farmers use to work in that had the straps that came over {and had a }?
548:  Gases
Interviewer:  Yeah #1 well #
548:  #2 suspenders #
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah I know what you're talking about. {D: go ahead} and have something to cover it you know? The the things had straps on and a build to 'em. And he wore the whole thing to cover his clothes. Over
548:  Ov- Overalls.
Interviewer:  Right right. Your daddy wear those?
548:  My husband
Interviewer:  #1 did. #
Interviewer:  #2 Husband # still do? Yeah a pretty handy thing.
548:  Yeah they sort of cooler than anything else.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. Say a guy was trying on a coat. I might say well uh this coat won't fit this year but last year it?
548:  It did.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. It fit this year but last year it?
548:  Last year it fit. But not this year.
Interviewer:  Okay. And say if I needed some more clothes to go to church in on Sunday. Uh my clothes that I had are getting old I'd say I need to go to town to buy a?
548:  A suit.
Interviewer:  Not an old one but a?
548:  A new suit.
Interviewer:  Okay. And sometimes you see little boys they pick things up and put them in their pocket
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  their pockets begin to?
548:  bulge out.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Right. Right. Okay. What would you say would happen to a shirt if you put it in water that was too hot for it? It would do what?
548:  It'd draw up.
Interviewer:  {NW} Did you ever do that?
548:  I sure did.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  It wasn't a shirt though. It was a a one of my dresses.
Interviewer:  Mm.
548:  The kind of material it was and it was hot water. Woo boy it drawed up.
Interviewer:  Did it draw much?
548:  I couldn't I couldn't use it no more.
Interviewer:  {X} What if you if a young girl was getting ready to go out somewhere on a date.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  And if she was spending a lot of time in front of the mirror.You know. What would you say she was doing?
548:  Primping.
Interviewer:  Yeah. {NW} Wha- what would you call a boy who's getting ready to go out and he was spending a lot of time in front of a mirror too. What would you say he was doing?
548:  Fixing his hair.
Interviewer:  Fixing his hair. Yeah. Would you say the boy is primping?
548:  Well I don't know whether to say a boy primps or not.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
548:  But they do like to look in the glass when they're getting ready to go.
Interviewer:  Right. {NW} Sure do. Okay. What do you call this thing that some women like to wear on their wrists?
548:  Wristwatch.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or something else?
548:  Bracelet.
Interviewer:  Okay. And something they might wear around their neck?
548:  Necklace.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm or?
548:  Locket.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay or some kind of beads maybe?
548:  Yeah could be beads.
Interviewer:  {NW} Would you just call 'em that? Beads or? String of beads or something like that?
548:  Yeah. Yeah uh a big part of 'em is wearing beads. Yeah.
Interviewer:  Alright. Okay. And wha- wha- what would you call something that you would take out if it was raining, cover your head?
548:  Parasol.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Hear that called anything else?
548:  Umbrella.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Is there any difference?
548:  Nuh-uh.
Interviewer:  Same thing?
548:  Same thing.
Interviewer:  Okay. When you make up your bed what's the last thing that goes on it?
548:  Bedspread.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. And what about something heavier than that?
548:  After I make it up?
Interviewer:  Well maybe in the winter time people used to get together and patch #1 these? #
548:  #2 quilt. # Cover.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And #1 did you ever #
548:  #2 is that #
Interviewer:  did you ever make one of these things were you put different squares and material and?
548:  Quilt.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Yeah. You got one of those? {NW}
548:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Do you still hear about people making those things?
548:  Oh yeah. This woman down there in the front makes 'em. She's got about eight or nine made already.
Interviewer:  Hmm. Yeah that's nice. What about the thing you rest your head on in bed?
548:  Pillow.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Have you ever heard of something that was a longer than a pillow? Maybe about twice as long and people would put it on their bed maybe for looks?
548:  I've seen it but I. I really forgot what it was.
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard it called a bolster?
548:  Bolster?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
548:  {X}
Interviewer:  Did you ever use one? #1 Was it just #
548:  #2 I don't I # I don't think I've ever owned one. Nuh-uh. Mm-hmm. But I've used it.
Interviewer:  Yeah that's it. Was it just for looks or can you sleep on it?
548:  You can sleep on it but it's mostly for looks. You know it goes all the way across the bed.
Interviewer:  Yeah. I see. Okay. What about this expression. Say if a farmer might say that Well I expected to get a big crop this year because the soil is very?
548:  Rich.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Or something else he might say besides rich? It's very a? Oh fertile?
548:  Fertile?
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. Meaning is good soil
548:  Good soil uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about uh low lying land. Maybe across a stream around here. What would that be called? Might have had water on it at one time but plowed up later on and things planted on it?
548:  I reckon you call it a slew.
Interviewer:  A slew?
548:  A slew you know used to be water there ain't none there now.
Interviewer:  Is that the same thing as bottom land?
548:  Mm-hmm. I think it is.
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard of that? Bottom land.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Is that the way people would say it?
548:  Yeah. Bottom land uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Okay but what about a place that's got water on it all the time? Got trees growing in it and bushes growing in it?
548:  {NS} Well I think that'd be a lake.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. You ever hear people around here say swamp?
548:  Yeah. Well yeah it could be a swamp. Either yeah.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. {NW} What about the marsh? What would that be? Do you ever hear that used?
548:  Yeah but I seem many like that so a bayou of a thing or place stays mighty muddy and nasty.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Yeah. I see.
548:  Y-
Interviewer:  So like about
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  I see. Okay. Have you ever heard of any kind of soil called buckshot?
548:  Oh yeah.
Interviewer:  What is that?
548:  I don't know. Some kind of black land that gets so hard that you know? Your stuff don't grow good on it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And they call it?
548:  Buckshot.
Interviewer:  Yeah uh. What about gumbo?
548:  Well tha- that's still hard. And you know hard to do anything with.
Interviewer:  Mm.
548:  But nowadays they got something you know they put in like dirt and it comes on out. You know
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. So that's not so good for growing things on?
548:  Uh-huh. It- it's pretty good now but used to you couldn't.
Interviewer:  And you call that?
548:  Uh
Interviewer:  Buckshot or
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Some
548:  Well buckshot buckshot or gumbo-dirty.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. I see. Okay. Say if you are going to drain some water off a piece of land. What would you have to do to take the water off?
548:  If you wanted to drain it off?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  You would have to dig a ditch.
Interviewer:  Oh yeah dig a ditch
548:  Mm-hmm. Alright. What what would people around here call the little bit of freshwater flowing along? {NS} {NS} Well sounds like a spring. But it wouldn't be around here.
Interviewer:  Hmm.
548:  {NW} It would have to be a ditch or just just some clear water flowing along?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  {NS} I don't know.
Interviewer:  What about a creek?
548:  Yeah. Yeah it could be a creek. Yeah I hadn't thought of that.
Interviewer:  Do creeks around here have names? Uh Nah. No ma'am.
548:  Nah. Uh
Interviewer:  Okay. What would uh you call a place that's been uh eaten out by water? So that along so it's about ten feet deep and ten feet across? Place in the land?
548:  I don't know a gorge.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Gorge or ever hear people say around here gully?
548:  Gully.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  Yeah I've heard lots of people say gully.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And it would be something like that?
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Just a washed out place with water?
548:  Mm-hmm. Yeah
Interviewer:  Okay. Ever heard people around here use the word ravine?
548:  Yeah I've heard that too.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Would that Would that be about the same thing?
548:  Well really I don't know.
Interviewer:  Mm. But you've just heard the word?
548:  Yes. I just heard it but I think it's the same thing.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Alright. And what about something that's a great big old thing not a hill. Much much bigger than a hill. You call that a regular? They're around they're around here really.
548:  Much bigger than a hill? I don't know what it would be.
Interviewer:  Mountain. {NW}
548:  Yeah. {NS} A mountain that's right.
Interviewer:  Okay. Have you ever been to a mountain? Been in the mountains before?
548:  I believe I did go through there one time.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  Going to Harrison Arkansas to my niece's house.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah you probably did.
548:  There's one big one up in there.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. Do you happen to remember what you call that rocky side of a mountain that drops off real sharp? Have you heard people call it a cliff?
548:  Yeah. What you see I I I don't know much about the mountain part.
Interviewer:  It's okay. Just wanted to ask you anyway.
548:  Mm-hmm. Well
Interviewer:  Could you say it for me since you've heard it?
548:  A cliff?
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am.
548:  Well that that's what it is.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Have you ever seen a place in the mountains where water falls a long distance you might have seen it on TV.
548:  Mm-hmm. Waterfalls.
Interviewer:  Alright. Those can be pretty can't they?
548:  I saw one between here and Arkansas. That was pretty.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. They sure are. And what about a place maybe along the river where boats would stop and unload their trade What would you call that?
548:  The landing I guess.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. With a dock would you think so?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about uh most of the roads around here. Are they pretty good the surface?
548:  Well nah. Some of them is some of them ain't. Some of is 'em real bad.
Interviewer:  What what are most of them made of?
548:  Well some of 'em have haven't even got no uh concrete on 'em yet.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh. You know going way out of town. And each {D:slipping} road to go down they're bad. Mm-hmm. You got any uh gravel roads around here? {NS}
548:  Mm-hmm. Yeah I believe they they got one way down there. Way out from uh Between here and Le- Leland you know out on back in there Somewhere. But I know I've seen one back in there somewhere. Yeah lately.
Interviewer:  What's that?
548:  Gravel roads.
Interviewer:  Okay. If you were driving along out in the country and you came to a little road that went off the main road
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  What would you call that little road?
548:  Side road.
Interviewer:  Side road. Okay. And what about a a road that goes off the street going up to a man's house?
548:  I I'd still say a side
Interviewer:  #1 side road #
548:  #2 road. #
Interviewer:  Okay. What about a driveway?
548:  Well.
Interviewer:  Or something like that?
548:  Yeah that'll be that'd really be what it was. Driveway.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. And if you are on a farm sometimes when the cows come in from the pasture They walk along the same way.
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  And they'll beat down a place. What what would you call that?
548:  Pave.
Interviewer:  Pave. Okay. And a a I didn't notice any around here but sometimes around residential areas and towns there will be a place where you can walk alongside the street.
548:  Sidewalk.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Is there ever a a strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street? {NW} Around here.
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Is that called anything?
548:  I don't know. But it just belongs to the city. That's all I know.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  That part from the sidewalk that place of grass that that belongs to the city.
Interviewer:  They don't cut it or anything do they?
548:  Yeah they're supposed to keep it cut.
Interviewer:  Oh really?
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  I see.
548:  From the sidewalk to the road.
Interviewer:  Yeah. I was just wondering if you've ever heard people call that a banquette or a tree lawn or anything like that Okay.
548:  Mm-mm
Interviewer:  Alright. Say this expression. Somebody's not going away from you he's coming straight?
548:  To you.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or straight toward?
548:  Towards you.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Alright and if I was telling you about somebody that I met in town.
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  I might say well I wasn't looking for old so-and-so I just sorta ran?
548:  Run into 'em.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
548:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  Alright. Do that a lot?
548:  I do.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay.
548:  Sure do.
Interviewer:  Say if a if a child was given the same name that her mother has you'd say they named the child?
548:  After its mother.
Interviewer:  Okay. Did you ever have any pets? Keep any pets? {NS} {X} Which one were you talking about?
548:  The woman that we rent from.
Interviewer:  Oh I see. Yeah. Thought it might have an effect on your rent?
548:  Mm. I thought we had to go and uh you know and let her know. We got a raise cuz more than likely they'll raise our rent.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Yeah. But you don't have to?
548:  Mm-mm. Well she said they couldn't raise it nohow in a year. Not on me.
Interviewer:  Yeah
548:  You know sixty plus. Nuh-uh.
Interviewer:  Well that's good.
548:  We signed up for a year and we th- they can't do nothing about it.
Interviewer:  That's good. Okay. I was asking you did you ever have any pets?
548:  Yeah. Well I remember we had some old white rats.
Interviewer:  {NW}
548:  Oh man them things. We about never got shed of them things. {NW} And and they just kept well finally we got them away from the house. And uh there was some a {D:brace} pile something pile at the barn And and they went a denned it up in there and I'm telling you they kept uh having rats {NS} and you've never seen such a bunch of rats in your life. {NW} And
Interviewer:  When was the last time you had white rats?
548:  No. I didn't want no more. {NW} But we I always had dogs.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  Well plenty of cats out in the yard but I don't want no cats in the house.
Interviewer:  Mm. Did you ever a hear of a dog that wasn't a pure breed but he was just a lot of different types all mixed up?
548:  Yeah. But I don't know. I don't know what you'd call 'em
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear it called a mongrel dog? Or cur dog or? Something like that.
548:  Oh yeah I hear all kinds of dogs but. Just a mixed up breed I don't know what you'd call it.
Interviewer:  I see. What would people say to their dog if they wanted it to get after another dog?
548:  It's get it.
Interviewer:  Yeah {NW} Uh okay. And if he is a bad dog you might tell somebody well you better watch out for that dog cuz yesterday?
548:  He bit somebody.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And he's a lot of people?
548:  He he might bit you.
Interviewer:  Alright. Okay. Have you ever gotten?
548:  I ain't gotten bit {D: by a dog}. Uh-uh. I watch them things.
Interviewer:  {NW} Keep your distance. Yeah.
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  What about in a heard of cattle some call the male?
548:  A bull.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Can you ever can you remember a time when it wasn't polite to use that word?
548:  That's right Sure do.
Interviewer:  What did people say? When they didn't say bull?
548:  I really don't remember what they said. And I I just don't remember but they sure didn't say that.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Maybe male animal or
548:  They might say male.
Interviewer:  Yeah they wouldn't say bull?
548:  Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say if you have a cow and she was expecting a calf?
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  You'd say my cow is going to?
548:  Going to have a calf.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Ever heard people say she is uh gone fresh or come fresh?
548:  Yeah. Gonna come in fresh.
Interviewer:  Come in fresh. Means she's a?
548:  With calf yeah.
Interviewer:  I see. Okay. And what about talking about horses. What would you call a male horse?
548:  A jack.
Interviewer:  I think that's a mule. {NW}
548:  Well you got me now. I {D:know}
Interviewer:  So you ever heard it called a stallion or st-
548:  Stallion yeah. I heard that.
Interviewer:  Okay. And what about the female?
548:  She's mare.
Interviewer:  Mare. Yeah. Okay. What have you ever gotten on a horse and?
548:  No. Nuh-uh. I never did try to ride a horse cuz I was scared I would fall.
Interviewer:  Hmm. If you were telling you did do it though so if you were telling somebody about it you would say yesterday I?
548:  I rode the horse yesterday.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you couldn't stay on you'd say uh I fell?
548:  Fell off the horse yesterday. {NW}
Interviewer:  Alright What do you call those things that you put at the bottom of their feet to protect 'em?
548:  Shoe.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. Did you ever play a game with those things?
548:  Mm-mm. I saw people that did but I didn't
Interviewer:  What did they call that?
548:  Horseshoes.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Just horseshoes?
548:  Uh-huh. I see. Wha- what do you call the part of the horse's foot that those things go on? Hoof.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. And you say a horse has four?
548:  Four feet.
Interviewer:  Or four?
548:  Legs.
Interviewer:  Yeah when you are talking about a hoof.
548:  Four shoes.
Interviewer:  Have you got one hoof but four? Where you said it you called it
548:  He's got four hoofs.
Interviewer:  Yeah right.
548:  Four shoes.
Interviewer:  Alright. Are all those shoes the same size?
548:  Mm. {NS} They fit all their feet you #1 know? #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah I #
548:  They make um to fit.
Interviewer:  Yeah I was wondering about that. Were they all the same size. Do people around here raise sheep?
548:  Oh well I see a few of 'em way out in the country.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. But not too much anymore though?
548:  Not too much. No.
Interviewer:  Do you remember what uh people raised sheep for around here?
548:  For their wool?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about their meat? Do they ever eat 'em?
548:  I don't know. What they do with that cuz I wouldn't eat it.
Interviewer:  Why not?
548:  {X} I don't believe in no uh-uh I don't want it.
Interviewer:  Say what?
548:  {NW} They tell me you just gonna lay 'em down there and just lay there and let you cut the head off.
Interviewer:  Oh.
548:  They won't move or nothing.
Interviewer:  Hmm.
548:  And if they are I don't want none of their meat.
Interviewer:  Mm. I didn't know that. That's interesting. Do you remember what the male sheep is called?
548:  I never did know.
Interviewer:  Mm. You ever heard of a ram or buck?
548:  Ram.
Interviewer:  Yeah What about anything else?
548:  Mm-mm.
Interviewer:  You ever heard it called a {D:hue} or {yue} or something like that?
548:  Not really hear that.
Interviewer:  Anywhere?
548:  I just hear sheep.
Interviewer:  Just sheep. Okay. {NW} Alright. {NW} Yeah and we were talking about hogs yesterday.
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  You know these things that you pour the hog's feed in?
548:  Trough.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. And if you had three or four of those say you had three or four.
548:  Hog troughs.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. Did y'all have those on your place?
548:  We sure did.
Interviewer:  Would they hold a lot of feed?
548:  Mm yeah.
Interviewer:  Pretty good bit.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Yeah. I see. Hogs will eat a lot of feed, won't they?
548:  Oh boy. They they never knew when they get enough feed.
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay. What would you say if a if a cat was hungry? And it was making a noise? You'd say listen to that cat?
548:  A bell
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. What about a cow? That's hungry. You'd say listen to that cow?
548:  Mooing
Interviewer:  Moo? Yeah. Right. What about a horse, you'd say?
548:  {Neighing
Interviewer:  That horse neighs yeah okay. Uh say uh If you have a lot of animals like horses and mules and cows and so on you'd say you got a lot of?
548:  I got a lot a I got a lot of animals I reckon the way I'd say it.
Interviewer:  Okay. Or maybe a livestock or something like that?
548:  Well that'd be the best. Got a lot of a lot of livestock. Yeah.
Interviewer:  That'd cover the whole thing?
548:  That'd cover the whole thing. Yeah.
Interviewer:  What about animals feathered out like chickens and ducks and geese. You'd say you got a lot of?
548:  A lot of chickens and geese I guess.
Interviewer:  Ever hear people call it a fowl? A lot of fowl.
548:  Yeah they are fowls yeah. {NW} Well anyway I have a lot of fowls. #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Right. Okay. # Where where do chickens stay on a farm?
548:  Well they just stay out there scratching in the dirt or
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  and then they at night they come in and a go in a little house and there are some roost polls you know they get up on there. at night and sleep and get down in the morning {D:to walk}
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard of a coop or chicken coop?
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  What's that {D:like}?
548:  That's what that's a little chicken coop. You talking about you put your {D:babies} in.
Interviewer:  Oh.
548:  Young chickens. Well you can put big ones in there but mostly for young ones. You take 'em off the nest when hatch put that old hen and the little ones in that coop.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  And keep now your little ones gets old enough to keep up with the mama.
Interviewer:  I see. Okay. You know when you're frying chicken there is usually a piece that the kids like to get so one can grab one end and one grabs the other way
548:  #1 Pulling bone. #
Interviewer:  #2 Right # {NW} Why do we like to do that?
548:  I don't know. I alway heard you make a wish.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  And uh so uh hold it like you I take one end and pull the bone and you the other and pull it pull it and break it. And the one that gets the shortest end will get married first.
Interviewer:  Oh {X}
548:  #1 That's what I heard. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # Okay. Yeah. What about the inside parts of the hog that you can eat? What would you call that?
548:  Liver and likes.
Interviewer:  Liver and likes. Yeah. Yeah. Ever heard of people using the word hassle it or {D:hassle} it or something like that? Hassle it?
548:  And and uh chitlins
Interviewer:  Mm.
548:  That kind of hog
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. You ever eaten any of those?
548:  Mmm uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Don't like that huh?
548:  Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Why not? You ever heard, you hear people that like it?
548:  Yeah. I know several at least. My sister over there man she loves it. And uh Bobby one of my son's step- stepsons
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am.
548:  They just gather up and buy a lot of them things and cook 'em and eat it. They invite me over sometimes but uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Well. I heard those things don't smell too good when they cook it
548:  Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Pretty bad huh?
548:  Just a scent gives me a no. {NW}
Interviewer:  Is it talking about smelling bad is there a paper mill around here? I smell something and it smells kind of like a paper mill. Early this morning I didn't know what it was.
548:  Well it ain't no paper mill. You know right around here.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. I can't figure out what it was. Well say if you are on a farm and hear your cows mooing and horses carrying on they probably getting hungry. You might say well my goodness I didn't know it was so late. It its getting right on to?
548:  Dinner time.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if your animals are hungry it's getting right on to?
548:  Supper time.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or you got to take care of the animals you say its just about?
548:  Lunch time.
Interviewer:  Alright. Or feeding time for the animals?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Is that what you would call it?
548:  Yeah that's right.
Interviewer:  You would say what it's?
548:  I- I said well it's getting feeding time for the animals. They are getting hungry.
Interviewer:  About what time of day was that?
548:  Well that that would be over in the evening or? Or early in the morning.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
548:  At least they look for two meals a day.
Interviewer:  Alright. Alright that's it. Okay. Say if I wanted to get my horses ready to go somewhere if I had a buggy. What would you say I had to do to get my horses you know?
548:  Put the gear on the harness on it.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Yeah.
548:  Harness on the horses.
Interviewer:  {X} If you're plowing with mules.
548:  Yep.
Interviewer:  what do you call that thing that you hold in your hand to guide it with?
548:  Pl- the plow or the line?
Interviewer:  Yeah right the line. I see. And what if you ride the horse. Those things you hold in your hand.
548:  Bridle reins
Interviewer:  Oh reins. I see. And those things you put your feet in?
548:  Stirrups.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Say if you got two horses hitched to a wagon. You ever heard the horse on the right called anything in particular?
548:  What when you say yee-haw one? #1 Is that what #
Interviewer:  #2 No. #
548:  you're talking about?
Interviewer:  I meant you know something like you ever heard it called the lead horse?
548:  Yeah I've heard that.
Interviewer:  Which one is that?
548:  The one on the right.
Interviewer:  The one on the right? And he's called the?
548:  The lead horse.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say uh if I accidentally fall down in the yard and I fall that way say I fell?
548:  Backwards.
Interviewer:  Right. If I fall that way?
548:  Forwards.
Interviewer:  Okay. Yeah. Alright. And talking about plowing what would you call those things that are cut out by the plow? Those are the? You know those trenches that are cut out?
548:  Oh. {X}
Interviewer:  Alright. Okay. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Say if a man has been growing some hay and he's cut it off for the first time and then it comes back up again the second time. Is that called anything?
548:  I don't know that now.
Interviewer:  Mm. Like second cutting or second growth or?
548:  Second cutting it'll have to be second growth.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Have you ever heard the like uh something that comes up easily even though you didn't plant it? Ever heard that called anything in particular?
548:  Nothing but weeds or grass or
Interviewer:  I was thinking about like if you got a stalk of corn coming up in your uh bean field or something like that
548:  Oh yeah.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
548:  Or stop oh free or something like that. Yeah.
Interviewer:  Yeah. What would you call what would you call that? Volunteer?
548:  Yeah that's what it is a volunteer.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Quite a lot of people say that. That uh
548:  Uh as a a volunteer stock open you know or? Two or three stocks open or Whatever come up down there in the field.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. Does that happen often?
548:  It happens pretty often. It sure do.
Interviewer:  {NW} Do people ever grow wheat around here?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  What do if they just cut their wheat you say they tie it up into a?
548:  Bundle.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. Does the term {D:sheaf} mean anything to you? A {D:sheaf} of wheat or they're {D:sheafing} wheat? Haven't heard that? Okay. Alright. What about uh Talking about oats. What would you say you did the oats to? You know you have to grain uh away from the chaff
548:  Thrash 'em out.
Interviewer:  You ever done that?
548:  Mm-mm.
Interviewer:  I don't I don't know anything about it so.
548:  You have to thrash it out though.
Interviewer:  Right. Okay. Say uh if your comparing how tall you are you might say well he's not as tall as?
548:  as I am.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or the other way around you might say I'm not as tall as?
548:  As he is.
Interviewer:  Okay.Or comparing how well you do something well he can do it better than?
548:  Better than I can.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about this expression? Say if if we have to do a job together.
548:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  #2 You'd # say that and have to do it?
548:  You and me is is going to do a job.
Interviewer:  Right. Okay. In other words the job is not just for one of us its for?
548:  It takes two.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Not just one of us but
548:  It takes me and you to do one job.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say if uh you and another uh say when your husband was living Say if you and your husband were coming over to see me.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  And he was in the room. You'd tell me that and what for coming over?
548:  That that me and my husband is coming over.
Interviewer:  Alright. Okay. And if you were say knocking on the door
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Coming to see me.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  And you knew that I'd recognize the sound of your voice.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  And if I said who's that? Instead of calling out your name you might say well open the door it's just?
548:  It's just me.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. {NW} Alright Uh. Say if something belongs to me you'd say that's?
548:  I I'd say that belongs to you.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Right. It belongs to me you'd that's?
548:  What I said it belongs to you?
Interviewer:  Yeah you wouldn't say it's his you'd say it's?
548:  It's yours.
Interviewer:  Right. Okay. If it belongs to you you'd say that's?
548:  That's mine.
Interviewer:  Right. And if it belongs to him you'd say that's?
548:  Mm that's his.
Interviewer:  Sure that belongs to her you'd say it's?
548:  It's hers.
Interviewer:  Right and if it belongs to them you'd say it's?
548:  Belongs to them yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh let's see. You were telling me uh yesterday about different kinds of cornbread. What about other things you can make with flour? Not necessarily bread.
548:  Well I don't know too much about flour. Cuz I never did have no time to mess with it much.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
548:  No more than this biscuits or whole cakes or {NS} Things like that.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  Batter cakes.
Interviewer:  Yeah. I see. You ever make muffins?
548:  Mm-mm I never do do that.
Interviewer:  Never make muffins. Okay. Alright what about this expression? If a man can lift real heavy weights
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  You'd say he sure is mighty?
548:  Stout.
Interviewer:  Alright okay. Or what about somebody that always has a smile on his face and he's got something nice to say about everybody. You'd say he sure is?
548:  Friendly.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Nice to find people that way you know?
548:  Oh that's nice.
Interviewer:  Yeah. What about a boy when he is growing up? Sometimes he just reaches an age where he just trips over things and runs into things and stumbles over his own feet you know?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  You'd say he sure is mighty?
548:  Clumsy.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah right okay. What about a person that just keeps on doing things that don't make any sense. You'd say he's just a?
548:  Well I'd say he's just a he's just terrible that's all I know.
Interviewer:  {NW} Alright. Have you ever heard people use the word fool like that?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  He's just plain fool.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Is that a strong thing to say?
548:  Well it's sort of a strong thing yeah. But it's a it's alright to say it I guess.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. I see. Nothing in the bible about that thing?
548:  Nah. Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  What what how have you heard people use that? They'd say?
548:  Oh. Well I don't know too much about fool but hear 'em say crazy all the time.
Interviewer:  Crazy.
548:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
548:  Well that's all the same thing.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. Alright. What about a man who's got a lot of money but he likes to hang out it? You'd say he's a?
548:  Stingy.
Interviewer:  Yeah. {NW} Ever heard of a tightwad?
548:  Oh good lord yeah.
Interviewer:  {NW} Yeah. {NS} Is that the one you
548:  Tightwad yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about if I said this? Talking about somebody. Uh say old so-and-so is common as he can be. What would you what would that mean?
548:  Well you just just plain you know and friendly and That's all I would say.
Interviewer:  Just an ordinary average {X}
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about an older person? Say in his nineties? That can still do for himself like cook and get around #1 pretty good? #
548:  #2 Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  You'd say well I don't care how old he is he's still mighty?
548:  Spry.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay alright. Yeah. Or what about somebody that leaves a lot of money lying around with doors unlocked and it's just in plain sight? You'd say he sure is mighty?
548:  Oh I don't know. My mind ain't working right today I don't reckon.
Interviewer:  No it's okay. Uh Careless?
548:  Careless. That's right.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say if I had an aunt named Lizzy I might say well there really is nothing wrong with aunt Lizzy it's just that every now and then she acts kinda?
548:  Silly.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. {NW} Have you ever heard people say well so-and-so just acts kinda queer?
548:  Yeah I guess
Interviewer:  Is that the way they'd say that?
548:  Yeah. That weird.
Interviewer:  Or queer?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Would that be alright there?
548:  Yeah that would be alright.
Interviewer:  Did you say it like that?
548:  Yeah. Say that that queer.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. Meaning they act kind of strange
548:  That's what it was.
Interviewer:  Has that word changed meanings? Over the years does it mean anything different nowadays?
548:  Not that I know of.
Interviewer:  Just strange?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about somebody who makes up his mind? And just won't change it. You'd say he's just?
548:  Bullheaded.
Interviewer:  Alright. {NW} Alright okay. Or what about a person that you just can't joke with without him losing his temper? You might say he sure is? {NS}
548:  Mean I'd say. Quick-tempered.
Interviewer:  Quick-tempered yeah sure. Talking about somebody like that you might say well uh I was just joking with him. I didn't know he'd get?
548:  Mad.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Or somebody's about to get mad lose his temper and you don't want him to?
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  you might say well now just?
548:  Just a minute.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Alright. And say at the end of the day you've been working hard all day. You'd say I sure am?
548:  Tired.
Interviewer:  Okay. But what if it's you know just an extreme case of it? You'd say I'm just all?
548:  Tuckered out.
Interviewer:  Yeah. {NW} Okay. Alright. Or Say if somebody's a got overheated and then got chills and their eyes started running and nose started running you'd say he probably did what?
548:  Got too hot.
Interviewer:  Or he caught?
548:  A bad cold.
Interviewer:  Alright okay. And if it affects his voice you'd say he's a little?
548:  Got a sore throat.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or I'm a little bit?
548:  Horse.
Interviewer:  Right. That ever happen to you?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay or it'd be {NW} {X}
548:  Cold.
Interviewer:  Or? {NW} He had to?
548:  Cough.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. And at the end of the day you might say well I'm just gonna go to bed. I'll see you in a little bit.
548:  Sleepy. {NW}
Interviewer:  Right. Right at six o'clock in the morning I'll?
548:  Get up. Wake up.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about somebody that can't hear anything at all. Say their stone?
548:  Deaf.
Interviewer:  Yeah. And if a man has been working out in the hot sun all day he might come in take off his shirt lay it out and say look how I?
548:  How wet my shirt was.
Interviewer:  Or look how I?
548:  How tired I am?
Interviewer:  What what was he doing? What did he in that hot sun and began to?
548:  Wipe his sweat.
Interviewer:  Yeah
548:  Look how he's sweating
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay. Have you ever seen in any of these places people might get on their skin? They've got a a a lump with a big hole in it you know?
548:  Oh lord yeah. That's rise.
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard people call that anything else?
548:  Boil.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. What about a carbuncle?
548:  Yeah. They're called that too.
Interviewer:  Is that all the same thing?
548:  Mm-mm. I don't think so My husband had a carbuncle along the back of his neck. Had eight heads on it.
Interviewer:  eh.
548:  On the back of his neck. Now they call that a carbuncle. But a regular rise has one.
Interviewer:  Oh.
548:  Head on it.
Interviewer:  I see.
548:  You know one pore in it.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. Yeah. And that white stuff inside it. You call that?
548:  Corruption.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. Say if I got stung in the hand by a bee and my hand got bigger. I might say well. Look how my hand.
548:  Swelled.
Interviewer:  Right. If I get bit again my hand is gonna?
548:  Get bigger.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Or it's gonna? That same word swole say my hand is gonna?
548:  Swell again.
Interviewer:  Right okay. Yesterday my hand?
548:  Is better.
Interviewer:  Okay. You know sometimes when people get uh blisters on their hand?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  There is some kind of stuff inside that thing?
548:  Water.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Water blister.
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Ever heard of a blood blister?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  What is that?
548:  Well it is blood isn't it? In a blood blister.
Interviewer:  Just got blood instead of water in it?
548:  But you pin- pinch your finger with a hammer or something you know? An and you miss. Miss whatever you hit and pinch your finger. And that's be a blood blister.
Interviewer:  I see.
548:  But you do have to hurt yourself to make a blood blister.
Interviewer:  Alright. Okay Say in a war somebody got shot or stabbed. You taken 'em to the doctor so the doctor could treat the?
548:  The wound.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. Yeah. Have you ever heard of a type of {D:broom} that people clean with? Uh maybe it gets kind of grainy around it you know? What kind of {D:flesh} would you call that?
548:  proud flesh
Interviewer:  Yeah. Is that what that is? Got infected or something?
548:  Yeah. It's infection but I call it proud flesh
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  It it gets worse yeah.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. I see. What if I got cut my hand and I didn't want it to get infected
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  What would you put on it? To keep it from getting infected. Some kind of brown liquid
548:  Yeah uh.
AUX:  #1 What time is #
548:  #2 I put the on it #
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
AUX:  {X}
548:  Something like that
AUX:  Now we are going to
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear people give you the eye?
548:  Iodine.
Interviewer:  That's right.
548:  Well that is good that that I believe that. Well I do know its good. Yeah.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. You keep any around?
AUX:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # Have you heard have taken any white bitter tasting powder that people used to get for malaria. {NS}
548:  Mm-hmm. Quinine.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
548:  Oh lord that quinine.
Interviewer:  {NW} Yeah. Pretty rough stuff.
548:  {NW} I just wonder what they haven't done about uh you know People don't have malaria now like they did then.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Probably just better sanitary conditions or
548:  And we all take shots.
Interviewer:  That's true. {X}
548:  That might be it.
Interviewer:  Let me ask you about this. Talking about a person who had died. Have you ever heard of somebody a talking about it kind of joking about it if it was somebody he didn't like?
548:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  #2 He might # say well a that old that old tightwad finally?
548:  Kicked the bucket. {NW}
Interviewer:  Alright. {D: alright alright} And you might say well old so-and-so has been dead for a week now and nobody yet figured out what he?
548:  What he died with.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. Okay. What do you call the place where people are buried? That's a?
548:  Graveyard.
Interviewer:  Anything besides that? Cemetery?
548:  Yeah cemetery.
Interviewer:  Same thing?
548:  Yeah same thing.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about the box that they're buried in?
548:  Coffin.
Interviewer:  Mm okay. And the ceremony for the dead person you say that you're going to so-and-so's?
548:  Funeral.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. And people who are dressed in black at a funeral. You'd say they are in?
548:  They're mourners.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And they're in?
548:  In their family. That is you see that is one of their family that's dead.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  And like if some of my family I am supposed to wear something black but I do not.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. You'd say those people who were dressed in black are in mourning?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  That how they say it?
548:  Yeah. They say they were mourning for their dead.
Interviewer:  Do people still do that? Dress in black.
548:  Yeah. Some of 'em do.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  But really {D: people hardly don't now} They just wear what they got and go on.
Interviewer:  That's it. Okay. Say if uh. Somebody met you on the street in town uh just on an average day and said how are you doing? What would you probably say?
548:  I I say doing alright.
Interviewer:  Whether you are or not?
548:  Yeah. I just I just say well I am
Interviewer:  Yeah.
548:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 said #
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say this expression. The children are out late at night. And uh the wife is getting a little bit excited. The husband might say well they'll be home aright just don't?
548:  Don't worry.
Interviewer:  Yeah. {NW} Say if uh somebody ate something that disagreed with 'em and it hadn't come back up You'd say he had to go?
548:  Vomit.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. Have you ever heard anybody say anything else? For that?
548:  Yeah. Uh-huh. Puke.
Interviewer:  Yeah. {NW} Alright alright. Is that a is that kind of a joking word?
548:  I don't know but it's both the same thing. Stands for the same thing.
Interviewer:  Yeah. I see. What about throw up?
548:  Yeah that's the same thing too.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Another way you'd say it? {X}
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  {X}
548:  I say vomit. Sounds a whole lot better.
Interviewer:  Then what?
548:  Then puke or {NS} or
Interviewer:  Throw?
548:  Throw up either.
Interviewer:  Okay. And somebody who's that way. You'd say he's sick where?
548:  Sick to his stomach.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. Okay. {NW} What about a boy who keeps going over to the same girl's house pretty regularly? You'd say he is doing what? If maybe he was serious about her. You'd say he's?
548:  Yeah. I I say I say well must be getting serious about her or he wouldn't stay over so much.
Interviewer:  Would it be would it be right to say maybe he was courting her?
548:  Well that'd be right too.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. How would you say that he is a?
548:  I say well I say well he's a he's a courting uh girl over behind there. They're getting mighty serious about it.
Interviewer:  Okay. And you would call you would say that he was her?
548:  Boyfriend.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and she would be his?
548:  Girlfriend.
Interviewer:  Okay. What if the boy came home late at night and his little bother stayed up to catch him?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  When he came in he saw that he has lipstick all over his collar. {NW} Uh-huh you've been?
548:  Kissing somebody. {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. What if the boy asked the girl to marry him but she doesn't want to? You'd say she did what to 'em?
548:  Turned him down.
Interviewer:  Okay. But uh say if they went ahead and got married and they were having the wedding the man who stands up with the groom. You call him the? Ever heard him called the best man?
548:  Mm-hmm. I've heard it. Yeah. He's best man alright.
Interviewer:  Okay what about the woman who stands up with the bride? Ever heard her called anything?
548:  Bridesmaid.
Interviewer:  Okay. Yeah. Around here do you ever hear of a kind of a noisy celebration? After the wedding a lot of people will follow 'em back to the house and kind of get a little bit rowdy?
548:  Yes sir.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And and throw rice on 'em and tie tin cans kettles and everything else they can find to the car you know? Uh-huh. Yeah. What is that called? Anything in particular?
548:  Just married.
Interviewer:  {NW} Have you ever heard of shivaree or serenade?
548:  I've heard of serenade yeah.
Interviewer:  What would that be?
548:  Well it'd just be a bunch used to just a bunch get all tin pans or buckets or whatever they could get and go around somebody's house. Beating them buckets and tin pans and things till the night was over {NS} {X} you don't know music you know that's what they had
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. But it wasn't necessarily have to do with the wedding?
548:  Mm-mm.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
548:  They'd just serenade somebody anyway. {NW}
Interviewer:  That's just for gentlemen?
548:  Uh-huh. That was way back then.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. What about uh your boys and girls just getting together and they're playing music and they get out on the floor and they begin to move around and say their having a?
548:  Dance.
Interviewer:  Yeah. That's right. Did you ever do much of that?
548:  Yeah when I got married I did.
Interviewer:  What kind of dances did you like to do?
548:  Charleston mostly.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  But I never I never did even see a step of dancing done 'til I got married.
Interviewer:  Is that right?
548:  My brother-in-law kept trying to get me to dance but I wouldn't do it cause I couldn't. I thought I couldn't but he pulled me out there on the floor and I went straight on to dancing from there on out {X}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
548:  My husband played music for dancing. {X} so I wouldn't hit 'em.
Interviewer:  I see. Yeah. Let me ask you about this expression. Say if uh if at three o'clock in the afternoon
548:  #1 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  #2 the # the children get out of school. You say that at three o'clock you'd say school?
548:  Bus.
Interviewer:  Beg your pardon?
548:  Bus.
Interviewer:  Oh well. You say school does what at three o'clock? It
548:  School's out at three o'clock.
Interviewer:  Okay. And say if it's uh. If it's been in the summer time and school hasn't been in toward the end of summer somebody might ask well when does school?
548:  Start.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. Well say a boy left home and he was supposed to go to school
548:  Okay.
Interviewer:  But he never got there on purpose.
548:  #1 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  #2 You # say he did what?
548:  Played hookie.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Alright. {NW} And uh sometimes after a person finishes high school he might go on to?
548:  College.
Interviewer:  Okay. And in a schoolroom each child sits behind his own?
548:  Desk.
Interviewer:  Yeah. You got a room full of those things you say you have a room full of?
548:  Desks.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. Okay. Ask you about a few buildings around town. If you wanted to check out a book you'd go to a?
548:  Library.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you wanted to mail a package?
548:  Go to the post office.
Interviewer:  Alright and if you had to stay overnight in a strange town?
548:  Go to a motel.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. What about if you wanted to see a play or a movie you'd go to the?
548:  Theater.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. Okay. And if you got sick and had to go in the hospital the woman that would look after you would be called a?
548:  A nurse.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. And what about if you had to catch a train here in town?
548:  You have to buy your ticket.
Interviewer:  And go down to the?
548:  Bus station.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or the train?
548:  Oh. Train station.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Uh here in town. Well I don't know if you have it here in {X} but in a lot of little towns where you got the court house
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Sometimes you got the businesses arranged around the court house.
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  What do you call that area? Right in the middle of that stuff?
548:  Well I don't I don't know. Court house is all I know.
Interviewer:  You ever hear people call it the square or court square or courthouse square or something like that? Haven't heard that?
548:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about if you got a building sitting right here. And you got another one right over #1 here #
548:  #2 Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  you'd say this one is right across from it.
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  But what about if it's sitting over here? You'd say it's?
548:  In front of that building.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. But it is not exactly in front it is off to one side. You'd say it's?
548:  {NW} It's off to the side of the other building.
Interviewer:  Okay. Ever hear people use the the word catty-corner?
548:  Yeah. Catty-corner.
Interviewer:  Would that be right to say that there?
548:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Have you ever seen these things people used to use 'em for transportation? They run on rails in town have something like a wire overhead?
548:  Yeah. Uh streetcar.
Interviewer:  Ever ridden on one of those?
548:  Nah. I've seen 'em but never did ride one.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Or your riding on a bus you might tell the bus driver the next corner is where I want?
548:  Want off.
Interviewer:  Alright. Okay. Okay. What about uh what would you say the police in a town are supposed to maintain?
548:  They're they're suppose to maintain peace. Keep peace in town.
Interviewer:  Okay or law. {NW}
548:  Uphold the law in town. And uh keep keep the people well just keep peace in town. That's all I can say.
Interviewer:  Alright. Okay. What about in the day before they had the electric chair. You'd say murderers what?
548:  Hung.
Interviewer:  Alright. Okay. Or talking about a man who committed suicide and say he went out and?
548:  Hung himself.
Interviewer:  Alright. Okay. Talking about church again.
548:  Mm.
Interviewer:  So you might say after church was over that preacher sure delivered a fine?
548:  Message.
Interviewer:  Okay. Ever heard people call it anything else?
548:  Sermon.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. And talking about if you were listing to the music in a church or something like that you might say that sure was
548:  Nice.
Interviewer:  Or it was beau-
548:  Beautiful music.
Interviewer:  Okay.
548:  I love music in my church.
Interviewer:  What do you have uh to make the music?
548:  Well they they got a organ and a they got two organs. And three or four guitars and and a bass guitar and a drum.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Alright.
548:  They really make music.
Interviewer:  {X}
548:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Let me ask you about this expression. Say if somebody has said something about a another woman?
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  And she hears about it and she doesn't like it. She might say well the very?
548:  Idea. {NW}
Interviewer:  You ever said that?
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Oh okay. What would you say if you met a friend of yours you were just walking along downtown and happen to meet a friend of yours.
548:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  What about you say in the way of greeting them? You know? Asking about their health.
548:  A friend of mine? I'd say well h-how you feel? Probably hug their neck. You know. Shake their hand.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah. What if you were walking on downtown and suddenly you met somebody walking the other way that you didn't know would you ever say anything at all to 'em?
548:  Uh-huh. I'd say hi.
Interviewer:  Okay. A lot of people won't say anything.
548:  Yeah but I do.
Interviewer:  Yeah. {X}
548:  If they look like they'd speak back I will. {NW}
Interviewer:  Right.
548:  They look like they got their head stuck up in the air I don't say anything.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay. What how would you greet somebody around December the twenty-fifth. Say you hope you have a?
548:  A good Christmas.
Interviewer:  Or merry?
548:  Happy new year.
Interviewer:  Or hope you have a merry Christmas?
548:  A merry Christmas.
Interviewer:  Okay. Have you ever heard people say Christmas {D:gift}? Or Christmas morning?
548:  Yeah I've had it pulled off on me a few times.
Interviewer:  How do they do that?
548:  They'd say Christmas gift And they'll They'll say Christmas gift and then I'm supposed to give them something.
Interviewer:  Mm I see.
548:  That They generally get that on me I don't never get to get that off on somebody else. {NW}
Interviewer:  Way too quick huh? Okay. What about if somebody does you a favor you might say well I sure am much?
548:  Surprised.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or if you're expressing you know the fact that you appreciate it. You might say I sure am much to you?
548:  Much obliqued to you.
Interviewer:  Sure. Okay. And say if you have some things that you want to get in town you say you need to go up town to do some?
548:  Shopping.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you bought something you'd say the store keeper took a piece of paper and he?
548:  Wrapped it up.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And when you got home you?
548:  Unwrapped it.
Interviewer:  Alright okay. And say if a store is selling things for less than what they paid for? you say they are selling at a ?
548:  At a bargain.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Or I guess maybe that would be a loss?
548:  Yeah. They're taking a loss.
Interviewer:  Okay. Thank you. {NS}