Interviewer:  {NS} Someone who's in, in real good shape who's {NS} you know {NS} muscular and so forth you'd say he's big and?
595:  Stout or
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
595:  {D: hailed and hardy.}
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Um would you ever use that word stout, talking about butter that was turning bad?
595:  No I wouldn't I'd say it was rancid.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. What about someone who's always smiling, doesn't lose his temper. You'd say that he's?
595:  Easy going I would say.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Any other?
595:  Well could be another expression but {NS} I would mostly say he was easy going.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. What about someone like a a teenage boy who just seems to be all arms and legs?
595:  I'd say he was lean and lanky. {NW}
Interviewer:  Or what if he's always knocking things and stumbling? You'd say he's?
595:  Clumsy.
Interviewer:  And a person that just keeps on doing things that don't make any sense, you'd say he's just a plain?
595:  I don't know what you'd call that now. I don't know what you'd call that.
Interviewer:  Well he just he does things that there's no sense in them at all? He goes ahead and does 'em and?
595:  I would say it was senseless to do such
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
595:  #2 things. #
Interviewer:  Do you ever call him a fool?
595:  I wouldn't uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Wouldn't?
595:  Uh-uh never. I don't think that would be nice to do that. {C: laughing}
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Would, would people say that though?
595:  Some would. I imagine some would yes.
Interviewer:  How how would they use that?
595:  Well m-, they'd probably say he was a fool for doing such things.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And a person who has a lot of money but never spends any money he'd be a?
595:  A miser I'd say.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay any other? Expression for him?
595:  Tightwad.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And when you say that a person is common, what does that mean?
595:  Well, the way we would express it it would just mean plain ol' everyday person.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm you say that they're?
595:  Just an everyday person. #1 {D: That's all.} #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. # Huh?
595:  Is all.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {NS} How how would you use that word, you'd say?
595:  He would just {NW} be a plain everyday person.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh if he's a? So you'd call him a? {NS} A co-? {NS}
595:  A common.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  Everyday person I guess is what it.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What if you said that a girl was common? Would that have a special meaning? {NS}
595:  {NW} I wouldn't think so.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And say an old person maybe around.
595:  Robert. Robert. Get your feet off the book. Now quit.
Interviewer:  Maybe around eighty or so still gets around real well, still does all their work. Still, you know real active for their age you'd say that that they're awfully?
595:  I would say they would be awfully active for their age, yes.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Well what else might you say?
595:  #1 Mm well #
Interviewer:  #2 You know always # busy, always doing something.
595:  I'd say they'd be very active.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What about spry or brash or chipper?
595:  Well I have heard the expression being spry.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What does that #1 mean? #
595:  #2 {NW} # Well active.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Um you say well a child might say, well I'm not gonna go upstairs in the dark, I'm?
595:  Afraid
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
595:  #2 or probably # scared. {NW}
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. You say well I don't understand why she's afraid now, she? {NS} What? Meaning in the past she wasn't afraid, you'd say, I don't understand why she's afraid now she?
595:  Wasn't before.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {NW} Would you say she used to be or didn't used to be or? How would you say that?
595:  Well I hadn't thought about that. #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
595:  Hadn't thought about that. Let's see now.
Interviewer:  You'd say I don't see why she's scared now she?
595:  Hasn't been in the past. #1 I think I #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
595:  would say. {NS} Robert Lee. Robert. Imma send you home now. Now quit.
Interviewer:  And say if your children are out later than usual, you'd say well, I don't guess there's anything wrong, but still I can't help feeling a little?
595:  Uneasy.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And someone else might say, oh they'll get home all right just don't?
595:  Don't worry about it.
Interviewer:  And someone leaves a lot of money on the table and then goes out and doesn't even lock the door. You'd say he's mighty? What with his?
595:  Brave or tempting.
Interviewer:  Or with his money he's awfully?
595:  Loose with it.
Interviewer:  #1 Or awfully care- #
595:  #2 That's what we. # Mm-hmm careless.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And someone who makes up his own mind and then won't listen to anybody else, won't ever admit he's wrong. You'd say, you'd tell him, don't be so? He's gonna do things his way, you know.
595:  I don't know what I'd say about that.
Interviewer:  Well say if if I was gonna do go about a certain job, you know, doing it one way. And you said look you know that's that's not the way to do it but you know my way would be better, but I wouldn't listen to you at all you know I I was just gonna do things the way I wanted to do them
595:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  #2 you know? # And even if I was wrong I wouldn't ever admit it. You'd say that I was awfully?
595:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  #1 Would you ever say #
595:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  sot or stubborn or ornery or pigheaded or?
595:  Well, {NW} maybe stubborn.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  That would probably be the most
Interviewer:  Mm-kay
595:  used word.
Interviewer:  And somebody that you can't joke with without him losing his temper you'd say that he was mighty?
595:  Let me see now I've got a brother-in-law like that.
Auxiliary:  {NW}
595:  {NW} Oh well I would say that uh
Auxiliary:  {NW}
595:  uh he can dish it #1 out #
Auxiliary:  #2 {NW} #
595:  but he couldn't take it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Say that there was one subject that
Auxiliary:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 you couldn't #
Auxiliary:  {NW}
Interviewer:  that you couldn't tease him about. You'd say that um well you'd better not mention that subject to him because when it comes to that he's still mighty?
595:  Let's see now. Sensitive, I reckon.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. What about #1 to touch? #
595:  #2 {NW} # Well, he could be touchy about it.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And you'd say well I was just kidding him I didn't know he'd get so?
595:  Upset.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or all of a sudden he got really?
595:  Mad.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if someone's about to lose their temper, you might tell them to just keep?
595:  I'd just say tell him to keep quiet.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
595:  And just wait a little bit.
Interviewer:  Or another word you'd say just keep?
595:  Calm.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. {NS} And you say there's nothing really wrong with Aunt Lizzy, but sometimes she acts kind of?
595:  I don't believe I believe I know what I'd say there.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Well you could say she acts kind of funny but, any other words?
595:  Well, another word I guess would be kind of goofy according to the way
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
595:  #2 it was done. #
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What about the word queer or {D: quare?}
595:  Queer, well now I've heard that expression.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What does that mean?
595:  Um well just n- acting in a different way than I would, I guess.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Do you ever hear people um say so-and-so is a queer? Do you ever hear it used that way?
595:  Yes. I have.
Interviewer:  What does it mean then?
595:  Well, I guess you would say that it would be uh different than any other person.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Has the word?
595:  Out.
Interviewer:  Hmm?
595:  Outrageous I {NW} #1 {D: I would} {C:laughing} #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
595:  {D: seem so.}
Interviewer:  Has the word changed meanings recently?
595:  I've not heard about #1 anything. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. # Does I was wondering if the word, you ever use the word to mean homosexual? You ever heard heard it used that way?
595:  No {D: I'm sure it had.}
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And say if you had been working very hard, you'd say you were very?
595:  Tired.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Any other expressions?
595:  Well, some would say pooped.
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-kay. #
595:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #1 Or #
595:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  you'd say or I'm just completely?
595:  Given out.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Or using the wear out, you'd say I'm just completely?
595:  Worn out.
Interviewer:  And say if someone had been well and suddenly you hear they have some disease you might say well, yesterday when I saw them they were fine, when was it that they? What sick? When wa-?
595:  Took sick or had taken sick.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And someone who went outside in bad weather and came in with sneezing and eyes were running, you'd say that he?
595:  Was taking a cold.
Interviewer:  Or if that had happened you'd say that he?
595:  Took the cold.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if it affected his voice you'd say he was?
595:  Hoarse.
Interviewer:  And {NW} if you go like that you have a?
595:  Cough.
Interviewer:  And say if you got someone some medicine, you went in there and {NW} saw the medicine standing by the bed you'd say, why haven't you?
595:  Taken your medicine?
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And someone might say well I already?
595:  Have.
Interviewer:  Or I already what some?
595:  Taken some.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And in another hour I'll?
595:  Take another dose.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And somebody who can't hear anything at all, you'd say they're?
595:  Deaf.
Interviewer:  And say if a man had been out working in the sun, and he takes off his shirt and it's all wet he'd say look how much I?
595:  Sweated or have sweated.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And a um sore that comes to a head is called a?
595:  A boil.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Any other?
595:  Well some calls them a carbuncle.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Is that the same thing?
595:  Mm-hmm. Yes.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about the stuff inside the boil it drains out?
595:  Well, {NW} we always called it pus.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about in a blister?
595:  Now I don't know what you'd call that, we always called it water.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Say I'm if you say a bee stung me and my hand?
595:  Swelled.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And my hand's still pretty badly?
595:  Swole.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if a bee stings you your hand will?
595:  Swell.
Interviewer:  And if someone got shot or stabbed, you'd say you have to get a doctor to look at the?
595:  Wound.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. You know sometimes a wound won't heal clean, and you get a sort of a granular substance around the edge that's gotta be cut out or burned out. {NS} Do you know what I mean?
595:  {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 Sort of like a #
595:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  skinless growth over the instead of healing back right, the the skin doesn't grow back right. Do you ever hear some kind of flesh?
595:  {NW} I've heard it called proud flesh.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  But that's all.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Say if you had a cut on your finger, a brown liquid medicine you could put on it would be?
595:  Iodine.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. What about a real bitter medicine people used to take?
595:  Quinine.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if someone was shot and didn't recover you'd say that he? The doctor did all he could but the man?
595:  Died.
Interviewer:  Any nicer ways of saying that?
595:  Well, I I don't know. {NW}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
595:  {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
595:  #2 Or # passed away
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
595:  #2 is #
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  maybe the nicer words.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Any any crude way of saying that? Any way of saying that that's not very nice, or just sort of joking or something?
595:  {NW} No, I guess not.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. You say, well he's been dead a week and nobody's figured out yet what he died?
595:  Of.
Interviewer:  And a place where people are buried?
595:  Cemetery.
Interviewer:  Any other name for that?
595:  Oh yeah. I don't know if I know how to say it or not. {NW}
Interviewer:  Well is is cemetery what you used to call it when you were little?
595:  {NS} Well, graveyard.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What about what they put the body in?
595:  Well, some says casket and some says coffins.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And you say he was an important man, when he died everybody went to his?
595:  Funeral.
Interviewer:  And if people are dressed in black, you say that they're in?
595:  In mourning.
Interviewer:  And um on an average sort of day, if someone asks you how you're feeling you'd say I'm?
595:  I'm fine.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And when you're getting old, and your joints start giving you trouble you'd call that?
595:  Arthritis or #1 rheumatism. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # Mm-kay. And
595:  {NW}
Interviewer:  a disease that children used to get um they'd get a real bad sore throat, and they'd choke up. A lot of children died from it.
595:  {NW} Uh diphtheria, I think.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. What about a disease where your skin and eyeballs turn yellow?
595:  That would be the yellow jaundice, I think.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And um if you have a pain down here and you have to have an operation, you'd say you have?
595:  Appendicitis.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if um you ate something that didn't agree with you and it came back up, you'd say you had a?
595:  Sick stomach.
Interviewer:  Or you did #1 what? #
595:  #2 Vomited. #
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Is vomit a very nice word to to use?
595:  Well, I believe that would be the appropriate {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
595:  #2 word to # say but some says upchuck.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Is upchuck nice to to say? Or does it sound?
595:  Well, the first time I heard the expression, I didn't know what they were talking #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
595:  cause we always said vomited.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. If a person vomited, you'd say he was sick?
595:  On his stomach.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And um say if someone had about five hundred acres of land you'd say he really had a what of land?
595:  I would say a nice plot.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Do you ever say a right smart?
595:  Uh-uh. I don't think so.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Did you ever hear that expression around here?
595:  I don't no.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Say if a boy was spending a lot of time with a girl, he kept on going over to her house and seeing her, you'd say that he was?
595:  {D: Seeing how} I would say he was wearing out his welcome. {C: laughing} #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # #1 Well what if he was #
595:  #2 It it may not # be what you wanted.
Interviewer:  Well if he was seriously interested in her, like #1 maybe? #
595:  #2 He was # courting.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Is is courting sounds like they're seriously interested? Or is it just?
595:  I wouldn't think so.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Any other terms besides courting?
595:  Wooing maybe.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Did people used to say that?
595:  Long time back they did. I #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. # {NS} And he would be called her? {NS}
595:  Fiance.
Interviewer:  Or?
595:  Boyfriend.
Interviewer:  And um she would be his?
595:  Oh, now what do they call that? Well if they had planned on marrying it'd be his bride-to-be.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. But what if they were just, you know good friends?
595:  Well he'd b- she would be his girlfriend. #1 I guess. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. # And if a boy comes home with lipstick on his collar, his little brother would say that he had been?
595:  {NW} Well, uh he'd probably say they had been smooching. #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-kay. # And when a girl stops letting a boy come over to see her, you'd say she?
595:  They had broken up, I #1 guess. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-kay. # And he asked her to marry him but she?
595:  Refused.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Any other expressions? Turned him down, or {D: threw him?} #1 {X} #
595:  #2 Well maybe in- # jilted him.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And they were engaged, and all of a sudden she?
595:  Well, she probably jilt him then. #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-kay. # And but if she didn't jilt him, you'd say they went ahead and got?
595:  Married.
Interviewer:  Any joking ways of saying that?
595:  Or hitched.
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-kay. #
595:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  And at a wedding the boy that stands up with the groom is the?
595:  Best man.
Interviewer:  And the woman that stands up with the bride?
595:  Well she'd be a bridesmaid or maybe um
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
595:  matron.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And um do you remember a long time ago people would get married other people would make a lot of noise, fire off rifles and ring cowbells and do things like that? Do you remember hearing about that?
595:  I don't believe so. If I did, I don't remember what they called it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And um talking about the words up and down and over say if um you had been in New Orleans last weekend you'd say last week I went?
595:  Went to New Orleans.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Would you use down or up or over?
595:  {NW} I- I don't believe I would.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  I don't think so.
Interviewer:  Do you use those words at all talking about traveling?
595:  Well yeah, I probably would. Went over to so-and-so.
Interviewer:  What what would over mean?
595:  Well, maybe if I say if I crossed the river, I'd say I went over the river but I- #1 I know that #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm. #
595:  or we crossed the river
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
595:  to so-and-so place.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Say um if there'd been trouble at a party, you'd say the police came and they arrested the? They didn't arrest just one or two of them, they arrested the?
595:  {NW} I would say the troublemakers.
Interviewer:  Or now they didn't arrest just just a few of them, they arrested the?
595:  They arrested all of 'em.
Interviewer:  Or the what group? They arrested the?
595:  I'd probably say the whole group.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Any other word besides group?
595:  Or the whole gang.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
595:  I'd probably say.
Interviewer:  And when young people go out in the evening, and move around on the floor to music that'd be called a?
595:  Dance or dancing.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Do you remember um what they'd call a a dance that they'd have at home?
595:  Well, a party.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
595:  I guess would.
Interviewer:  And um say if children get out of school at four o'clock, you'd say at four o'clock school?
595:  Lets out.
Interviewer:  And after vacation, children might ask when does school?
595:  Start.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if a boy left home to go to school and didn't show up that day, you'd say he?
595:  {NW} Oh, now shoot. {NW} He skipped school or.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
595:  Now what do?
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear play?
595:  {NW} Yeah, played hooky.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. That's if you're trying #1 {X} #
595:  #2 Playing hooky, # yes it is.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  Sure is.
Interviewer:  And you go to school to get?
595:  An education.
Interviewer:  And after high school you go on to?
595:  College.
Interviewer:  And after kindergarten you go into the?
595:  Elementary #1 school #
Interviewer:  #2 Or which- # which grade or class?
595:  First. First grade.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Is that what y'all used to call it when you were going to school? First grade?
595:  Mm-hmm. We did.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And years ago children sat on benches, but now they sit at?
595:  Desks.
Interviewer:  And each child has his own?
595:  Desk.
Interviewer:  And if you wanted to check out a book, you'd go to the?
595:  Library.
Interviewer:  And to mail a package?
595:  Post office.
Interviewer:  And you'd stay overnight in a strange town at a? Motel or a hotel. And you'd see a play or a movie at a?
595:  Theater.
Interviewer:  And if you were real sick, you might have to go to the?
595:  Doctor.
Interviewer:  Or go into the?
595:  Hospital.
Interviewer:  And the woman that'd look after you?
595:  Was a nurse.
Interviewer:  And you catch a train at the?
595:  Depot.
Interviewer:  Or you might call that the rail?
595:  Railroad station.
Interviewer:  And um say if two streets cross, and you know instead of you're at at one corner and you want to get over to the other corner. {NS} Say if you're at this corner here, you want to get over to this corner. Instead of walking like this like you're supposed to, you walk just like this, you say you're walking?
595:  Jaywalking, I believe is what we call it.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Did you ever hear catty-wampus or antigodlin or kitty-cornered or?
595:  Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And uh before they had buses in town, they used to have?
595:  A taxi.
Interviewer:  Or something that would run on a {NW} tracks and have run on rails and have a wire overhead, that would be a?
595:  Wouldn't they call that an L?
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Do they have those around here?
595:  Uh-uh. They- that's the reason that I don't really
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
595:  #2 {NW} # know what I'm talking about. #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
595:  No, we don't have those around here.
Interviewer:  Where did you hear it called an L?
595:  Read it.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. You'd tell the bus driver this next corner is where I want?
595:  Want to get off.
Interviewer:  Huh?
595:  Get off.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And um you're in um Jefferson County um Fayette is the?
595:  County seat.
Interviewer:  And if you were a postmaster, you'd be working for the federal?
595:  Government.
Interviewer:  And the police in town are supposed to maintain?
595:  Law and order.
Interviewer:  And um before they had the electric chair, murderers were?
595:  Hung.
Interviewer:  And you say that man went out and what himself?
595:  Hung himself.
Interviewer:  And the fight between the north and the south was called the?
595:  {NW} Let me see now {NW} I don't- {NW} #1 don't recall the #
Interviewer:  #2 You know it woulda had the Confederates # and the Yankees and?
595:  Yeah, but I don't remember what they called it.
Interviewer:  It was the Civ-?
595:  Civil War?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Any other names for that?
595:  {NW} Not that I know of.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Um. These are some names of some states and some cities and the biggest city in this country is in? What state?
595:  Would it be Washington?
Interviewer:  Or up?
595:  Oh the biggest city in uh a state would be the capital, I guess of the state.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Well, what's um {NS} you know the the state where um the state up north uh where they have {D: let's see the} well Fifth Avenue and Wall Street it's?
595:  New York.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And Annapolis is the capital of?
595:  Maryland, I think.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. What's the biggest city in Maryland?
595:  {NW} I don't know.
Interviewer:  #1 It'd be Balt-? #
595:  #2 I don't # Baltimore.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Um and Boston is in?
595:  Massachusetts.
Interviewer:  And the states from Maine to Connecticut are called the? That section of the country is the new?
595:  New England states.
Interviewer:  And um Tulsa is in?
595:  Oklahoma.
Interviewer:  What are some of the um Richmond is in?
595:  Virginia.
Interviewer:  What are some of the states in the South?
595:  Well, Louisiana Alabama Texas Tennessee.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
595:  Florida Georgia, and I imagine the Carolinas.
Interviewer:  Which #1 {D: did your?} #
595:  #2 North # and South Carolina.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. North?
595:  North and South Carolina.
Interviewer:  {NW} Say the full name is?
595:  Oh North Carolina and South Carolina.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What about the state um just above Tennessee, that's?
595:  I think that's Kentucky.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And this state is? The state you live in is?
595:  Mississippi.
Interviewer:  And Little Rock is the capital of?
595:  Arkansas.
Interviewer:  And the state just above Arkansas is?
595:  Missouri.
Interviewer:  What's the largest city in Missouri?
595:  Would it be Kansas City?
Interviewer:  Or another one is Saint? Saint Lou-?
595:  Saint Louis.
Interviewer:  Huh?
595:  St. Louis.
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-kay. #
595:  #2 Or # some say St. Louis.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the capital of the United States is?
595:  I guess that would be Washington D.C.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And the big city in Illinois?
595:  Springfield, I believe. {NS}
Interviewer:  Or another one is Chi-?
595:  Chicago.
Interviewer:  And the old seaport in South Carolina?
595:  I don't know that.
Interviewer:  Do you know any of the cities in in South Carolina?
595:  No
Interviewer:  It'd be Char-?
595:  Charleston.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What are some of the cities in Alabama?
595:  Well, Montgomery and Birmingham and Talladega, I guess you would say it that way.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about the the one down on the Gulf? {X}
595:  Uh.
Interviewer:  Starts with an M? Mo-?
595:  Mobile.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And the city up in the mountains in North Carolina is?
595:  I- I don't know that.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about the the biggest city in southern Ohio? Starts with a C.
595:  Cincinnati.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What in Kentucky? Biggest city there?
595:  Mm.
Interviewer:  Where they run the Kentucky Derby?
595:  I don't remember now what they call that.
Interviewer:  #1 That's- #
595:  #2 What it is. #
Interviewer:  Lou-?
595:  Louisville.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And um some of the biggest cities in Tennessee?
595:  Well, be Nashville and Memphis.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And in east Tennessee? Up in the mountains?
595:  I wouldn't know what to.
Interviewer:  It'd be Kno-?
595:  Knoxville.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What about where Lookout Mountain is?
595:  I don't know, I'd have to get my map and look at it. {NS}
Interviewer:  Well, that'd be Chat-?
595:  Chattanooga.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What about some cities in Georgia?
595:  Well, there'd be Macon and Atlanta I guess would be the capital of it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
595:  Yeah. Oh.
Interviewer:  The one um the seaport in Georgia is Sav-?
595:  Savannah.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And the city um Fort Benning is near?
595:  Fort Benning {D: why} I know.
Interviewer:  Or the the name of the person who discovered America?
595:  Um Columbus.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And the biggest some of the cities in in Louisiana?
595:  {NW} Well, Baton Rouge New Orleans.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And Belfast is in what country?
595:  Ireland.
Interviewer:  And Paris is in?
595:  France.
Interviewer:  And Moscow is in?
595:  Now I know that too if I.
Interviewer:  You could call it USSR, or you could call it?
595:  Russia.
Interviewer:  And say if you want somebody to go with you somewhere. You might say well I won't go what he goes. I won't go?
595:  Unless he goes.
Interviewer:  And um say I had a choice of two things I- I was gonna do this but I decided to do to do that? What?
595:  This or the other. {NW}
Interviewer:  I was gonna do this but I decided to do that in?
595:  Instead.
Interviewer:  And one of the um largest churches in the South is? One of the large Protestant churches denominations is?
595:  The baptist or #1 yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 Huh? #
595:  Baptist.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if two people become members you'd say they?
595:  Joined the church, I guess.
Interviewer:  And you go to church to pray to?
595:  God.
Interviewer:  And the preacher preaches a?
595:  Sermon.
Interviewer:  And the choir and the organist provide the?
595:  Music.
Interviewer:  And if you really liked the music you'd say the music was just?
595:  Grand or fine.
Interviewer:  Or just beau-?
595:  Beautiful.
Interviewer:  And the enemy of God is called the?
595:  Devil.
Interviewer:  Any other names for him?
595:  Satan.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What would you tell children was gonna get 'em if they didn't behave?
595:  {NW} Boogeyman. {NW}
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
595:  {NW}
Interviewer:  What do people think they see around a graveyard at night to scare 'em?
595:  {NW} Ghosts.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
595:  Or spooks.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Did you ever hear of a house that people were scared to go in?
595:  Yes, they're you'd call those haunted houses.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And say if you hadn't seen a friend of yours in a long time. What might you say when you see 'em? How might you express your feeling?
595:  Well it would one way would be it's nice to see you.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Or I'm? What to see you I'm?
595:  Glad.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Do you ever say proud to see you?
595:  {NW} Um {NW} I seldom ever hear it #1 said. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. # Uh-huh.
595:  It was mostly always glad to see you.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And um {NS} you might tell someone, you better put a sweater on it's it's not really cold, but it's getting?
595:  Cooler or cool.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Any other expression besides cool or?
595:  Well, we say nippy sometimes.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
595:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  And um you'd say I might ask you if you know a person. And you might say, well no I don't know him but I've?
595:  I've heard of him.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And um I might say well some- talking about something that you do every day. If I ask you do you do it frequently, you'd say yes I?
595:  Do most every day.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And if you wanted to know if he does you'd say?
595:  Yes, he does.
Interviewer:  Or you'd ask me? If you wanted to know whether he does that sort of thing you'd say? What if he did that you'd ask?
595:  Does does he do that?
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. You say well, I don't smoke cigarettes but he?
595:  Does.
Interviewer:  And um s-say um you might say well I I think that's right, but I'm?
595:  I'm not sure.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if you wanted to know um why someone did something, you'd say well what?
595:  I I believe I'd say what caused him to do that or why did he do that?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And you say well, I don't know if he actually did that or not but people?
595:  People says he done did.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And um if a child's just had his third birthday you'd say he's?
595:  Three years old.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And um talking about um rooms and in the house it this room here you'd call the?
595:  Living room.
Interviewer:  Any old-fashioned name for that?
595:  {NW} Uh, not that I know of.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  Yeah #1 it could be. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # Mm-hmm. How tall would you say this room is? It's about?
595:  Mm. About twelve feet
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
595:  high. {NW}
Interviewer:  And if someone says something kinda shocking and you sort of resented them saying it, you might say why the very? What?
595:  {D: Idea.}
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you'd say, it wasn't just a little cold this morning, it was?
595:  Cold.
Interviewer:  Or it was? What cold, it was?
595:  Real cold I probably say.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And when a friend of yours says good morning, what might you ask 'em then?
595:  How are you or how are you feeling?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about when you're introduced to a stranger? What might you say then?
595:  I don't know, I don't think {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
595:  #2 think I've seen # {NW} many new strangers. #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # Um and if some people had been over to visit you, when they leave you might say well I hope y'all come back?
595:  Again.
Interviewer:  And how do you greet someone around December 25th?
595:  Merry Christmas.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And happy?
595:  New year.
Interviewer:  Anything else you'd say?
595:  {NW} Well, I don't think so. About That would #1 that'd be it. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm. # Do you ever hear people say Christmas gift?
595:  {NW} Oh yes. That sounds to me like asking for something. {NW} #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
595:  {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 How would they say that? #
595:  #2 {NW} # Well, they'd just say Christmas gift.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Who would say that? Would would you ever say that?
595:  I wouldn't.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Did?
595:  Cause the way it sounds to me, I I would imagine it would that it would sound like that to another person.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Who would say that when you were young? Would colored people say it or white people or?
595:  {NW} Both. Both races.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
595:  Both races would say it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. You might say, I had to go downtown to do some?
595:  Shopping.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Say if you bought something, you'd say the store keeper took out a piece of paper and?
595:  Wrapped it.
Interviewer:  When I got home I?
595:  Undid it.
Interviewer:  #1 Or he wrapped it and then I? #
595:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  I 'un-?
595:  Undid it.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if you had to sell something for less than you paid for it, you'd say you had to sell it?
595:  {NW} Well, for less I guess or.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. #1 Say if you like #
595:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  something but don't have enough money for it. You'd say well I like it, but it what too much?
595:  Cost too much.
Interviewer:  And on the first of the month, the bill is?
595:  Due.
Interviewer:  If you belong to a club, you have to pay your?
595:  Dues.
Interviewer:  And if you don't have any money you'd go to the bank and try to?
595:  Borrow some.
Interviewer:  And you say in the thirties money was?
595:  Scarce.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And say you ran down the springboard and what into the water?
595:  Dove off.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And several children have already? What off?
595:  Well I believe I'd say they. {NW}
Interviewer:  They've already?
595:  {NW} Well would it be right to say {NW} diven or dove off?
Interviewer:  Well what what would you probably say?
595:  I might would say dove off.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you say but I was too scared to?
595:  Dive.
Interviewer:  And if you dive and then hit the water flat, you'd call that a? Hit the water just flat and?
595:  Oh well we call that a belly splash.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
595:  {NW}
Interviewer:  And um say he he dove in and what across?
595:  Swam across.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And I have what there myself? I have?
595:  {NW} Um I'd probably say I s- {NW} swam across.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Huh? You'd say I have?
595:  Well I'd probably {D: let's see} I have I don't know. {NW} Swum some would say. #1 But I #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
595:  I don't know what I would say. Maybe the same thing. {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay.
595:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Um you say children like to?
595:  Swim.
Interviewer:  And if you can't swim you get and you get in the water you might?
595:  I would sink. {X}
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  Usually go under.
Interviewer:  Or if you die in the water you say you?
595:  Drowned.
Interviewer:  Huh?
595:  Drowned. Die in the water?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Yeah. If you if you can't swim you get in the water and you might?
595:  Drown.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And you say yesterday he?
595:  Drowned.
Interviewer:  And um I wasn't there so I didn't see him when he got? Or when he was?
595:  When he was drowned maybe?
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And a child puts their head on the grass and then turns a?
595:  Somersault.
Interviewer:  And when you buy something or pay your bill, some storekeepers will give you a little present and say that it's for?
595:  I don't know, that never happens either. #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # Did you ever hear of lagniappe?
595:  Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. What does a baby do before it can walk?
595:  Crawl.
Interviewer:  And um you'd say that'd be a hard mountain to?
595:  Climb.
Interviewer:  But last year my neighbor?
595:  Climbed it.
Interviewer:  But I have never?
595:  Climbed I, I guess.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you say she walked up to the altar and she? What down?
595:  Knelt.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if you were tired, you might say I think I'll go? What? Go over to the couch and?
595:  Lie down.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you say he was really sick he couldn't even sit up all morning he just? What in bed he just?
595:  {NW} I think I he laid in bed I reckon would.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And talking about things that you see in your sleep, you'd say this is what I?
595:  Dreamed.
Interviewer:  And often when I go to sleep I?
595:  Dream.
Interviewer:  But I usually can't remember what I have?
595:  Dreamt. Now I've heard that expression, but now {NW} whether it's right or not
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  Is that what you would say? What I have?
595:  I'd {NW} I'd say I always say I dreamed this that and the other.
Interviewer:  You'd say I have?
595:  Dreamed. #1 That's the way I #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
595:  that's the way I say it.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {NS} You'd say I dreamed I was falling, but just when I was fixing to hit the ground I?
595:  Woke up.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. If you bring your foot down heavy on the floor, you say you what the floor? {NS}
595:  Stamped.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
595:  Or stomp.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. {NS} And to get something to come towards you you? Take hold of it and?
595:  Pull.
Interviewer:  And the other way would be?
595:  Push.
Interviewer:  And say if you um had a sack of groceries and didn't have your car you'd say I picked it up and?
595:  Carried it.
Interviewer:  Any other word you'd use besides carry?
595:  Well, tote is a slang word I guess you'd call it. #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-kay. # And if a boy sees a girl at church and he wants to go home with her, he'd say may I? What you home? May I?
595:  Escort or #1 maybe #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
595:  accompany.
Interviewer:  What if he had a a car? He'd say may I?
595:  Drive you.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  #1 Drive you #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: What if} #
595:  home.
Interviewer:  What about carry or take?
595:  {NW} Well, {NW} take. May I take you or could I take you?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And um you say I'm glad I carried my umbrella cause we hadn't gone half a block when it?
595:  Started raining.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you might ask what time does the movie?
595:  Start or begin.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you'd say um it must've already?
595:  Started or begun.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And it what ten minutes ago?
595:  Began maybe.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you'd say that's the book that you? What me?
595:  {D: Say what?}
Interviewer:  That's the book that you?
595:  Gave
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
595:  me.
Interviewer:  And you say you have what me many books? You have?
595:  Given.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And when I'm finished with it I'll what?
595:  Return.
Interviewer:  Or what it back, I'll?
595:  Bring it back #1 or. #
Interviewer:  #2 Or? # What it back to you?
595:  Give it back.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Say if there was something bad that you had #1 expected to happen, #
595:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  like say if there's {D: a child is} walking along the top of a fence, and you had expected him to fall off fall off. {NW} Then someone comes running in the house and tells you they just fell off, you'd say I just? What that was gonna happen, I just?
595:  I just knew it was going to happen.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if you wanted to brighten up your room for a party and have a lot of things growing in your garden, you'd go out and?
595:  Gather flowers.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And something that a child plays with you'd call a?
595:  Toy.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Any other expressions people use?
595:  Playthings. {X}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about play-pretty?
595:  Well yes a play-pretty.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Does that mean the same thing as a toy?
595:  I think so uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NS} And say if I ask you um {NS} when are you going to Miami, you might say, well right now we're? What to go next Wednesday we're? {NS}
595:  Planning.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Anything else? {NS}
595:  Well, I believe that would be about all.
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
595:  #2 {D: I believe.} #
Interviewer:  Do you ever say we're, we're aiming or fixing to go?
595:  No.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NS} What about #1 fixing? #
595:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  Would?
595:  Well, I guess that expression is used.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Do you use it yourself?
595:  Very seldom. I may but I probably don't catch myself {D: at it.} {C: laughing}
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  Or maybe don't uh think anything about it when I do say it.
Interviewer:  When you say?
595:  Fixing.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Um. If a child's just learned something new, like maybe learned to whistle, you might say well who? You want to know where he learned it you'd say who?
595:  Who taught
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  you to do that?
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
595:  #2 Maybe who # taught you to whistle or.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And a child that's always running and telling on the other children, you'd call him a?
595:  Tattletale.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
595:  {NW}
Interviewer:  And um you'd say horses gallop, but people?
595:  Jog.
Interviewer:  Or.
595:  Maybe.
Interviewer:  He didn't walk, he?
595:  Ran.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you'd say, they have what a mile every day this week?
595:  Have run a mile.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And um to get some place in a hurry, instead of walking you might?
595:  Run.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And say if you give someone a bracelet and wanna see how it looks on her, you'd say why don't you?
595:  Try it on.
Interviewer:  Or why don't you? The opposite of take it off is?
595:  Put it on.
Interviewer:  And um you'd say, you can't get through there cause the highway department's got their machines here and the road's all?
595:  Closed.
Interviewer:  Or all? Tor-?
595:  Torn up.
Interviewer:  And um you'd say, well he moved here in nineteen-sixty and he's been living here ever?
595:  Since.
Interviewer:  And that wasn't an accident, he did that?
595:  On purpose.
Interviewer:  And you might tell a child not that stove is very hot so?
595:  Don't touch it.
Interviewer:  And you'd throw a ball and ask somebody to?
595:  Catch.
Interviewer:  And I threw the ball and he?
595:  Caught.
Interviewer:  And I've been fishing but I haven't?
595:  Caught.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And um {NW} say if you needed a hammer, you could tell someone go?
595:  Go bring me that hammer.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And um do you remember a game that that children used to play, where one child would be it and the other children would hide?
595:  Hide-and-seek.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Anything you used to call that?
595:  Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
595:  That's all we ever called it here.
Interviewer:  What um what about the tree maybe that you could run and touch and be safe? You'd call that?
595:  That'd be the base.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And in football they run toward the?
595:  Goal.
Interviewer:  And say if if we were planning to meet in town, you might say well, there's no need to hurry, if I get there first I'll?
595:  Wait.
Interviewer:  Wait?
595:  For you.
Interviewer:  And um if you were about to punish a child, he might tell you not to punish him just give me another?
595:  Chance.
Interviewer:  And if a man was in a very good mood, you would say he's in a very good?
595:  Mood I guess.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about someone who always catches on to a joke, you'd say he has a good sense of?
595:  Humor.
Interviewer:  And you say well, we've got termites now, but I'm sure the exterminating company will get?
595:  Rid of 'em. {NW}
Interviewer:  And say a child left their best pencil on the desk and came back and didn't find it there, they'd say I bet somebody?
595:  Stole it.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Anything else?
595:  Took it.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And you'd say, I have just what him a letter?
595:  Written a letter.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And yesterday, he?
595:  Wrote.
Interviewer:  And tomorrow I will?
595:  Write.
Interviewer:  And you'd say I wrote him and it's time I was getting a?
595:  An answer.
Interviewer:  And you put the letter in the envelope, then you take out your pen and you?
595:  Address it.
Interviewer:  Any old-fashioned expression for that?
595:  Well, I have heard the expression of backing a letter.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Is that pretty old-fashioned or?
595:  Oh yes. #1 Long ago. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
595:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
595:  {NW}
Interviewer:  You'd say well I was gonna write him, but I didn't know his?
595:  Address.
Interviewer:  And you say well, I don't know the answer to your question, you better go? What somebody else?
595:  Ask.
Interviewer:  And you said, so then I went and?
595:  Asked.
Interviewer:  And you say, you're the second person who's? {NS} You say, why you've already?
595:  Asked.
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-kay. #
595:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  And you say, those little boys get mad and what?
595:  Fight.
Interviewer:  And ever since they were small, they have?
595:  Fought.
Interviewer:  And yesterday they?
595:  Fought.
Interviewer:  And you say she what him with a big knife?
595:  Stabbed.
Interviewer:  Say if a teacher walked into a room and there was a funny picture on the blackboard, she might ask who?
595:  Drew.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And say if you were gonna lift something heavy, like a piece of machinery up on a roof, you could use pulley blocks and a rope to?
595:  Hoist it.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And now could you start counting for me slowly?
595:  Just just count?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen #1 Fifteen. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-kay. # And the number after nineteen is?
595:  Twenty.
Interviewer:  And after twenty-six?
595:  Twenty-seven.
Interviewer:  Twenty-nine?
595:  Thirty.
Interviewer:  Thirty-nine?
595:  Forty.
Interviewer:  Sixty-nine?
595:  Seventy.
Interviewer:  Ninety-nine?
595:  One hundred.
Interviewer:  Nine hundred ninety-nine? Is one?
595:  One thousand.
Interviewer:  And ten times one hundred thousand is one?
595:  Million.
Interviewer:  And say if you had a line of people, the person you'd say if there's eleven people in line, the last man would be the eleventh. What about the person at the head of the line, he'd be the?
595:  First.
Interviewer:  And behind him would be the?
595:  Second.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Keep going.
595:  Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you say sometimes you feel you get your good luck just a little at a time, but your bad luck comes all?
595:  At once.
Interviewer:  #1 And. #
595:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  Cause say if, last year I got twenty bushels to the acre, this year I got forty, I'd say this year's crop was?
595:  Better.
Interviewer:  Or was? What as good?
595:  Just as good. Or probably best.
Interviewer:  Or you say it's two times as good, you'd say it was?
595:  Twice as good.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And would you name the months of the year slowly?
595:  January February March April May June July August September October November December
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And the days of the week?
595:  Does it make any difference which one I start with?
Interviewer:  Doesn't make any difference.
595:  I'll just start Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. What does sabbath mean?
595:  {NW} Well, it should be the day of rest, #1 but it's #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm. #
595:  seldom observed here.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
595:  It's just a regular work day with the light on.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Which which day is it the?
595:  Well we always observed Sunday.
Interviewer:  As?
595:  As the sabbath day.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. If you meet someone during the early part of the day, what do you say as a greeting? You'd tell them?
595:  Good morning.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. How long does morning last?
595:  Well here it lasts 'til twelve noon.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And then you have?
595:  Evening.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Um how long does evening last?
595:  {NW} Well, I guess till dark here.
Interviewer:  #1 And then you'd call it? #
595:  #2 {X} # Night.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. If you were leaving somebody around uh eleven
595:  {NW}
Interviewer:  in the day, would you have any special thing you'd tell him as you were leaving?
595:  {NW} I wouldn't think so.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Well what about good day? Do you ever hear that?
595:  Yes {D: good day.}
Interviewer:  Well when do people say that?
595:  {NW} Mostly in the evening.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
595:  #2 Cause # {NW} the day's gone.
Interviewer:  When they #1 see the person, or when they're leaving? #
595:  #2 {NW} # {NW} When they're leaving.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Do you say that yourself?
595:  Sometimes, uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What about when you're um leaving somebody after dark, you'd tell 'em?
595:  Goodnight.
Interviewer:  And you say, we have to get up and start work before?
595:  Daylight.
Interviewer:  Or before sun?
595:  Sunrise.
Interviewer:  And we worked until?
595:  Sunset.
Interviewer:  And you say, this morning I saw the sun?
595:  Rise.
Interviewer:  And at six o'clock this morning, the sun?
595:  Rose.
Interviewer:  And when I got outside the sun had already? {NS}
595:  Risen. {NS}
Interviewer:  And say if someone came here on a Sunday, not last Sunday but a week earlier than that? It would be? You'd say he came here?
595:  Well, I'd say a week ago today.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Or to know if it was say not not last Sunday, but a week earlier than last Sunday. It would be? In other words two Sundays ago it would be?
595:  Two weeks ago.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Do you ever say s- Sunday a week or Sunday before last or?
595:  No. I I always say Sunday was a week ago.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And if someone was gonna leave on a Sunday, not next Sunday but a week beyond that, it would be?
595:  A week from Sunday.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Do you ever say Sunday week then?
595:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  And if someone stayed from the first to the fifteenth, you'd say he stayed about?
595:  Two weeks.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you say today is is Tuesday, so Monday was?
595:  Yesterday.
Interviewer:  And Wednesday is?
595:  Tomorrow.
Interviewer:  And if you wanted to know the time, you'd ask somebody?
595:  We just say what time is it.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you might look at your?
595:  Watch. {NS}
Interviewer:  {D:And if it was} midway between seven o'clock and eight o'clock, you'd say that it's?
595:  Well, half past seven or seven thirty.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What if it's fifteen minutes later than that, you'd say it was?
595:  Either seven fifteen or a quarter after.
Interviewer:  Or it's it's seven forty-five or?
595:  Quarter 'til seven.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if you've been doing something for a long time, you might say I've been doing that for quite a?
595:  While.
Interviewer:  And nineteen-seventy-three was last year. Nineteen-seventy-four is?
595:  This year.
Interviewer:  And if something happened on this day last year, you'd say it happened exactly?
595:  A year ago today.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And talking about the weather, you'd say you look up at the sky and say, I don't like the looks of those black?
595:  Clouds.
Interviewer:  And on a day when the sun's shining and there aren't any clouds, you'd say that's a?
595:  Clear day.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. {NS} What about a #1 day like today? #
595:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  You'd say it was?
595:  Partly cloudy.
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-kay. #
595:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  And a day that's real cloudy and overcast would be?
595:  Cloudy.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Or real the sun isn't shining, you'd say it was a? It's a real dark sort of it say it was a?
595:  {NS} {D: I don't know}
Interviewer:  Would you ever say gloomy or?
595:  Well, we usually say mostly overcast.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Say if the clouds were getting thicker and thicker, and you think maybe it's going to rain in a little while, you'd say that the weather was?
595:  Bad.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Do you ever say gathering or threatening or changing?
595:  Well, threatening yes.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Meaning it's fixing to rain?
595:  To rain, uh-huh.
Interviewer:  And say if it had been cloudy and the clouds pull away? You'd say, oh it looks like it's finally going to?
595:  Clear.
Interviewer:  Hmm?
595:  Finally going to clear.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And you'd say all night long the wind?
595:  Blew.
Interviewer:  And you'd say, well the wind was bad last night, but in years past it has what even harder than that?
595:  Had blown.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you say, it started raining the wind began to?
595:  Blow.
Interviewer:  And if the wind's from this direction, you say it's?
595:  From the south.
Interviewer:  And a wind halfway between south and west, you'd call a?
595:  {NW} Well we'd always say southwest
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
595:  wind.
Interviewer:  What about between south and east?
595:  Southeast.
Interviewer:  And east and north?
595:  Northeast.
Interviewer:  West and north?
595:  Northwest. {NS}
Interviewer:  And um {NS} if the wind had been gentle and was getting stronger, you'd say it was?
595:  Rising.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. What if it was had been s-strong and was getting weaker, you'd say it was?
595:  {NW} Beginning to calm down a little.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And um Say if you have a choice of two things, you'd say I what do this and that I?
595:  Rather or prefer.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Say the whole thing, I'd?
595:  I'd rather do this.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you say it was so cold last night that the pipes?
595:  Froze.
Interviewer:  And?
595:  Burst.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. {NS} And {NS} you say um the pipes have already? {NS}
595:  Burst. {NS}
Interviewer:  Because the water has already?
595:  Frozen. {NS}
Interviewer:  And if it gets much colder the pipes might? {C: background noise} {NS}
595:  Burst.
Interviewer:  Or the water might?
595:  Freeze.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. {NS} And um {NS} say it was so cold last night that the lake?
595:  Froze.
Interviewer:  What if it, it wasn't a real solid ice, but just thin ice around the edge, you'd say that the lake?
595:  {NW} Partially froze.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if it was cold enough to kill the tomatoes and flowers, you'd say last night we had a?
595:  {NW} Frost.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. What if it's harder than that? It'd be a?
595:  Freeze.
Interviewer:  And a whole lot of rain that just suddenly comes down would be a?
595:  Downpour.
Interviewer:  Any other expressions for that?
595:  Well, a flood.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
595:  We call it if it rained real hard.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
595:  {NW}
Interviewer:  What if there's thunder and lightning in it? Then it'd be a?
595:  Thunderstorm.
Interviewer:  And if it's lighter than a downpour? It would be just a?
595:  Shower.
Interviewer:  Anything else? {NS}
595:  Sprinkle I reckon.
Interviewer:  What's the difference between a shower and a sprinkle?
595:  Well, one be- wouldn't be as hard as the other.
Interviewer:  #1 Which one? #
595:  #2 Just a few # drops of rain would be a sprinkle.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What if it's real fine? It'd be a?
595:  Mist.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NS} And if you get up in the morning and you can't see across the road, you'd call that a?
595:  Fog.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And a day like that would be a?
595:  Foggy day.
Interviewer:  And if no rain comes for weeks and weeks, you say you're having a?
595:  Drought.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. {NS} Well, that's all. {NS}