Interviewer:  Uh what was that word? {C: distorted pitch}
625:  I said they used to uh people w- uh white people in Mississippi call them people from Virginia redneck.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  But I guess they call 'em the Mississippi peoples don't say anything but a name you know?
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Um now what would you call the man you worked for maybe a
625:  Well they be the uh boss or
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Um and uh let's see now um what did you ever hear negroes call black men call a a white man you know a poor white man a different name? Um
625:  No. I I've always heard a a nigger uh a nigger call a white peop- white man mister all my life until the uh lately as far as I know on the coast here there were people uh niggers raise they still do.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  You know?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  They still do.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um what would you call a man who lived out in the country and who never got into town? You know somebody maybe who lived up way outside of {D: Kiln}
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  You uh you know who never never came into town or something like that?
625:  Well I've heard 'em call people like that country hoosier you know?
Interviewer:  Country hoosier?
625:  Yes. Country hoosier who never would go anywhere. {X} never been to town, nowhere you know?
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  I had a store one time whe- back when I was a little boy there's the {X} boy uh about twelve years old. Something like that that had never been to town, you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And one day when I went to town with his daddy you know? And they uh they they parents had always tell them people those boys not to use tobacco, anybody use tobacco wasn't smoke chew or uh smoke the type of things wasn't a gentleman.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And the boy went with him went to his daddy one day and he come back the next day he him and the the boyfriend he's telling him all about it. He said you know I counted a hundred and five men today and counting they were just five gentlemen in the bunch that the all the others uh hundred were smoking. They're just five gentlemen out of a hundred-and-five.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. Um so did you ever have any other words for it maybe? Did you call just anything like that? {D: not that} #1 {X} #
625:  #2 Okay. #
Interviewer:  Alright, a country hoosier you know a might call 'em a you ever call 'em a hillbilly or?
625:  Well s- something like that yeah. Hillbilly. {X} uh they come from way out in the sticks the country.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NW} Okay. Now um if it's not quite midnight, somebody was asking you what time it was and it was just it was getting near that time you'd say it's
625:  Nearly twelve, nearly midnight.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Um now you slip maybe on a on a wax floor and you catch yourself just before you hit the ground, you say this is a dangerous place I
625:  I slipped and and hurt my my back.
Interviewer:  Yeah
625:  #1 Or #
Interviewer:  #2 or #
625:  hip my hip.
Interviewer:  I- if you didn't hurt yourself but you just barely caught yourself you'd say this is a real dangerous place I
625:  I slipped. S- slipped down and
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. Or or I almost or I
625:  Almost broke my hip or
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Leg.
Interviewer:  Now if somebody was waiting for you to get ready so uh you had to go somewhere he'd say uh will you be ready soon and and you you might call back you might say I'll be with in
625:  Just a few minutes.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh now if you know you're on the right road somewhere but you're not sure how far the distance is uh you see somebody you might call out uh to the next town you'd say hey uh how
625:  How far is it to the next uh {NS} place I'm going to?
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if you're pointing out something nearby to somebody you might say uh you might say to 'em uh you'd say loo- you know something like
625:  {X} Look a- look a- look at this over here.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh if you wanted to know how often somebody did so- I mean uh how many times somebody did something you might say how
625:  How often do you do you do uh do you do do that thing?
Interviewer:  Okay. Now you might wanna agree with a friend when he's saying to you uh when he's saying something like I don't wanna do that uh you say well
625:  Uh if that's the way you want it uh
Interviewer:  Okay
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 or # you wanted to express your approval with that friend you'd say well
625:  I'll I'll
Interviewer:  Uh
625:  If that's the way you want it, I'll I'll go along with you.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright say you know say you were out somewhere uh and uh you were out with a couple of couple of men and couple of them wanted to go to a go to a bar uh one of your friends didn't want to go and he said he didn't want to go and you you wanted to express your approval that you didn't want to either you say well
625:  Well y- I I I
Interviewer:  Well
625:  I'd stay with him I I
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 I # would go I'd stay with him and I don't care about
Interviewer:  #1 You ever #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  say need it?
625:  Need it ah Yeah. Care about going
Interviewer:  Okay. Might say uh me
625:  Me too, I don't care about going.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Now um uh what do you call this part of your head? Uh part of your this
625:  Fo- forehead.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now this is your
625:  Skull.
Interviewer:  Yeah but
625:  #1 hair. #
Interviewer:  #2 this #
625:  hair.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you had some on your face you'd call that your
625:  Beard.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now which ear is this? This is your
625:  Left ear.
Interviewer:  And this is your
625:  Right ear.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if somebody's mumbling you might say take that chewing gum out of your
625:  Your mouth?
Interviewer:  Okay. Now you might say somebody got a chicken bone stuck in his
625:  Throat.
Interviewer:  Okay. And what do you call this your this is called your
625:  Your neck.
Interviewer:  Alright. Um uh what about the you know what goozle means? Uh
625:  Yeah. {X}
Interviewer:  Okay what's that?
625:  That goozle right here. They call 'em Adam's apple too. Uh
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
625:  #2 {X} # {X} Yeah that's what they call the Adam's apple.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now you might have the dentist look at your
625:  Your uh your your pallet? Your uh throat
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  the dentist looks at your
625:  Your your your tongue your your mouth your throat and make your
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  Hold your mouth you know?
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  you chew with your
625:  The teeth?
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh say you you might go to the dentist and he says I've got to take out a
625:  A tooth out of your mouth?
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now what do you call this? This is the
625:  Palm of the hand.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you double it up you might make a
625:  Fi- fist
Interviewer:  And two of 'em you'd say you made two
625:  Two fists.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now what about any place where you bend your finger or your hand or arm you'd call that your
625:  {X} elbow.
Interviewer:  Yeah but any place where you'd bend you
625:  Joi- joint. {D: and uh}
Interviewer:  #1 okay. #
625:  #2 Call that # a joint.
Interviewer:  Now the upper men's part of his body is is
625:  chest.
Interviewer:  Yeah you might say he's got real broad
625:  Broad shoulders.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now uh Mr Moran, don't they measure the height of a horse in how
625:  By hand yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  How many hands high.
Interviewer:  Alright. Now if you got a pain in your toe maybe you say it ran all the way up through your through your
625:  Through the foot.
Interviewer:  In all
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 the way up through your #
625:  uh uh it went through my {D: foot there} of my leg.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now you say you have two {NS} two
625:  #1 three #
Interviewer:  #2 You got # one foot two
625:  two shoes.
Interviewer:  Yeah but if you got one you got one foot and you got two feet.
625:  T- two feet.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. Now um you might say I stumble over something in the dark and I bruised my
625:  #1 My ankle. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
625:  my ankle or my
Interviewer:  Yeah what do you call this area right here? Your
625:  My my leg? {X} the shin?
625:  #1 Shin #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
625:  #1 bone. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
Interviewer:  Alright. Um when you're squatting down you say you squatting down what do you call this area right here? You
625:  Oh the hip.
Interviewer:  No you might say you're getting down behind somewhere you're you're you're kinda you're doing what? If you if you're waiting for a friend to come by and you're gonna scare him you say you're
625:  You squat down.
Interviewer:  Squat down and and you call this your what? Your back here you might call this your
625:  Rump.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  your your okay {NW} alright.
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Alright. {NS} Um let's see if somebody had been in bed for a while and you say they didn't look well uh they'd been sick but they just got up again you'd say he might he still looks kinda he looks a little bit
625:  He he look he still look a little bit {NS} pe- uh uh peaked but he he he I I think he'll pick up again.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Um but a person who's big and strong you'd call him you might say that he's
625:  A big robust man.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now what would you call a man who was real easy to get along with?
625:  Well he you uh you you you call him a good kind man.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  He's good natured.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Alright. Um now uh a boy who's say in his teens and he's apt to be knocking things over all the time this there are you know who's always tripping over things you'd say he was
625:  Rou- rough-and-tumble-guy. {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
625:  #2 Yeah. # Yeah.
Interviewer:  Yeah but if he didn't mean to do it, he always did it on accident you know?
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  What would you say about him if he was if he was just a little bit
625:  A lil- little bit full of mischief.
Interviewer:  Well no if he if he didn't mean to do it you know he was always just accidentally bumping into things or
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 running over #
625:  be careless.
Interviewer:  Careless
625:  #1 careless #
Interviewer:  #2 or #
Interviewer:  Careless or you might say he was he was awkward or
625:  Yeah you could say he was jealous or awkward or uh not realizing what he was doing.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um {NS} now {C: tapping on microphone} a person who just did things all the time that didn't make any sense just never seemed to make sense you'd call {NS} you say he's just a plain
625:  Plain ignorant person. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay you might say uh {NS} you ever just say he was just just a a outright uh maybe a you ever say fool?
625:  Well uh uh no personally I never did call anybody a fool, uh because I
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  {X} according to the Bible says not to call anybody a fool you know?
Interviewer:  Is that so?
625:  That's right. Thou shall never call a person a fool.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Alright. Um {NS} well then would you have any other names you might {NS} you'd say well other names you might call him? Call a person like that?
625:  Well uh that'd that'd be a person that uh careless and not uh they might not realize what they're doing and not good uh sound judgment or something {X} a lack of little uh judgment. You know may- Maybe not {NS} necessarily normal you know?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
625:  Maybe just a little off, not crazy but just be not normal.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  I've heard 'em talk of people like that, say that person is not normal but they at that time they'd be alright but then they uh at the same time you could tell that people {X} they wouldn't know what to be doing you see?
Interviewer:  Okay. Did you ever call somebody uh maybe they were just a little bit queer or anything?
625:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 You ever say #
625:  Yeah we had a yeah. That's what we called people there {X} like that you know? Queer you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  {D: but}
Interviewer:  Um his i- when you say um he is uh he's a queer fellow he w- uh would you mean he's just a bit what? He's
625:  Well uh {X} I've heard 'em used a lot of times more uh than any other way to say he's a peculiar person.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  You know?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. Well gimme a few examples give me can you give me an example maybe of the way you'd use that word? You'd say
625:  Well you find somebody w- uh people that like uh uh not too many but you'd you'd talk to 'em about something it look like they're always uh would want uh would rather be uh a little bit uh different.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  That disagree with you. Like one time a a man told me about I was working for a man and another man was about to take his place. And he uh uh {X} and this friend uh about to leave he's he's uh retired. And this a guy he was uh he come there and he was hired by the big shot, the headman. {NS} And he was kind of peculiar. It'd take me too much to tell you about all but uh uh and this fella uh been working there with him for about fi- four years and uh he and I n- never had a cross word and he never told me I'd done anything wrong but and uh we was talking about it one day, he says you know what? He says he was he was a peculiar man, he says you got a need for a for a man like that. And I I say yeah, I said I can't what it is it's all uh I started to say it's arbitrary.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  He said he he says what the hell you talking about, {D: And I says} somebody uh just disagree with him and say he ain't different than anything you {D: want}
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And uh later he went home, he looked in the office {X} dictionary he find, he come back and say's you right. That's what it is arbitrary, just different than anybody else.
Interviewer:  Okay and you might call a man like that you'd say he's just a little bit would you call him kinda queer or what
625:  {X} no I I'd I I'd call him a a l- a just different than any- body else, see? He's
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  peculiar it would be pecu- peculiar, uh more peculiar than ordinary of course.
Interviewer:  Okay. Would you ever use the word queer about somebody?
625:  Uh personally I don't remember that I ever did.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. What about a man who never spends any money? Never spends of his any of his money you'd call him a
625:  Oh they call him a a a tightwad.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about somebody who could was able to get money out of somebody else all the time, he'd be called a
625:  A a bum.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
625:  #2 {NW} # {NW}
Interviewer:  Or or just a man who you know he had a lot of money of his own but he always just liked to try and get money outta other people you'd call him a
625:  I don't know, I never {X}
Interviewer:  You ever call him maybe a a
625:  I never
Interviewer:  Chisler or?
625:  I don't remember anybody had uh too much people that had little money trying to borrow something from anybody else. Unless it's some fellow h- uh had a little money {X} uh
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  {X} Uh most people now would know that they wanna borrow some money with somebody to drink whiskey with or something like that you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. Now when you use the word common about a person, what would it mean?
625:  Well i- {NW} just common, ordinary they just uh {NW} {NW}
Interviewer:  Ordinary per-
625:  #1 Ordinary #
Interviewer:  #2 son? #
625:  person just like you know ordinary person you know?
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  #1 common #
Interviewer:  #2 If you # said maybe a girl was was very common you'd #1 say #
625:  #2 Yeah. # Yes yeah, very common just like ordinary people {X} just common people you know?
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now if an old man like you is still strong and active uh doesn't show his age people might say you're still
625:  uh
Interviewer:  still quite
625:  uh uh quite uh physical in good shape.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  #1 {D: Some of 'em} #
Interviewer:  #2 Di- #
Interviewer:  Did you ever have any adjectives you might use for it? You know you might say they're still
625:  #1 A lotta #
Interviewer:  #2 Still # real
625:  young a lotta life left in y- left in you uh
Interviewer:  Yeah or
625:  Or
Interviewer:  Still quite lively or
625:  #1 quite #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  quite uh
625:  Just qui- still getting around good for your age.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright um did you ever say maybe spry or? Quite ne- never used that?
625:  No if I was tell me you still uh look very active and young I've had people {D: not like} uh here lately that I've seen they still look good and get around good, I say yeah but I say you know looks uh s- uh {X} a look is deceiving sometimes.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
625:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  {NS} Okay. {C: tapping on microphone} Now uh {NS} if somebody he might say to you I don't want to go upstairs in the dark I'm {NS} I hate to go upstairs in the dark I'm
625:  Scared to go up there?
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh and you might say she's not she isn't afraid now but she {NS} she isn't
625:  #1 she she #
Interviewer:  #2 afraid now #
625:  #1 but she's #
Interviewer:  #2 but she's #
625:  afraid at night?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
Interviewer:  Alright. You ever say she the old gray mare, she ain't what she
625:  Oh yeah the old gray mare is not what she used to be.
Interviewer:  Al-
625:  #1 right. #
Interviewer:  #2 That's what #
625:  Uh there is a song played about that you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah. I know, I bet you can play it on that violin too.
625:  I I I If I could think about it, I I know I could, I do know.
Interviewer:  Uh {NS} now you might say uh um {NS} she uh she's she's not afraid of the dark any uh wait you you might say I can't understand why she's so afraid she
625:  she uh uh afraid of the dark he's uh
Interviewer:  She
625:  she she's not afraid in daytime.
Interviewer:  Okay or well maybe uh she you might say now she's afraid of the dark but she
625:  She used to she wasn't afraid.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Um now if a man is very sure of his ways and never wants to change or never uh never wants to listen to anybody else you'd say he was
625:  He's an old grouchy.
Aux:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Grouchy? #
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Yeah but you know if he was just he was real set in his ways and he never wanted to never wanted to listen to anybody else or or do something he always wanted to do it his way
625:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 you'd say he # was
625:  He he was contrary.
Interviewer:  Contrary? Okay. You might say he was obstinate or or
625:  #1 Well #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
625:  I've heard people call people that wouldn't agree with people call 'em contrary you know
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 and uh # uh just uh you different than anybody else and they'd
Interviewer:  #1 O- #
625:  #2 call # 'em contrary or disagreeable.
Interviewer:  Okay you ever hear 'em called stubborn or
625:  Stubborn, they call 'em stubborn yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Anything else any you know any other words along that line?
625:  Hateful.
Interviewer:  Okay. What would call a person you never could joke with without him losing his temper all the time? You'd say he he uh somebody loses his temper when they get when things get {D: wrong} real easily you'd
625:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 say # he's he's awfully
625:  He- he's awfully easy to get mad, he don't take can't take a joke.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 too # selfish
Interviewer:  O-
625:  #1 He's #
Interviewer:  #2 kay #
625:  too independent.
Interviewer:  Alright. Now you might say somebody like that you'd say uh I was just kidding him, I didn't know he'd get so
625:  Uh so so mad about it or get offended.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if somebody's about to lose his temper you might tell him you might tell him to just
625:  Just quiet down and uh
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  uh
Interviewer:  Or j-
625:  Be be calm. And
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 uh #
Interviewer:  Alright.
625:  Well now wait 'til you understand me good.
Interviewer:  Alright. Now if you've been working very hard all day you might say you you're very
625:  Very tired
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 and you #
Interviewer:  #1 You #
625:  #2 You #
Interviewer:  you're very very tired you just say you're all
625:  All give out.
Interviewer:  All give out okay. Um and uh you might say somebody's completely I'm just completely
625:  Relaxed.
Interviewer:  Yeah or #1 {X} #
625:  #2 or completely # completely give out.
Interviewer:  Okay. Or wor- or you
625:  #1 w- #
Interviewer:  #2 might say #
625:  worn out?
Interviewer:  Okay wo- worn out. Now if a women had been, I mean if a person has been quite well and suddenly you hear that they have taken some disease they they got some disease you might say last night they
625:  They they took they t- took sick all at once?
Interviewer:  Okay. All at once?
625:  Uh-huh yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now you might say somebody is sick now but they'll be well by
625:  by tomorrow, the next day.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Um or by
625:  By a few days a a week or so.
Interviewer:  Alright.
625:  It's
Interviewer:  Uh you might say uh if somebody sat in the {D: draught} or sat out in the rain and began to cough you'd say last night he
625:  He he he he caught a cold and made him sick.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now {D: if there thing in his voice} you'd say he was
625:  Hoarse.
Interviewer:  And uh you you might say {NW} I've got a little
625:  A cough.
Interviewer:  And uh then now you might say I better go to bed I'm feeling a little
625:  Little sleepy. {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh then the next morning you say uh I'll the next morning you'd you'd
625:  Uh I well {X} you uh uh I'll have s- {D: seen me down} about to get up I said I've I slept so hard last night I I I still feel sleepy.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
625:  #2 And # sometimes on the other hand sometime I I'd say I felt pretty good last night but uh I didn't I didn't rest too good, I slept didn't sleep too good.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now what if you were what if you were sleeping in there somebody would be in here they'd say well it's about time for him to to uh get up, I'd better go
625:  Uh wake him up.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 Call him. #
Interviewer:  #1 #
625:  #2 #
Interviewer:  Alright. Um if the patient if the medicine is still by a patient's bedside you might say to him why haven't you
625:  Taken your medicine.
Interviewer:  Okay and and he would say to you uh well yesterday I
625:  I forgot.
Interviewer:  No.
625:  Yesterday I took
Interviewer:  I took
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 some # and I'm going and I will and tomorrow I'll
625:  Take some more.
Interviewer:  Okay, can I turn the light on?
625:  Yeah that's right
Interviewer:  {X} alright. Um now a person a person who can't hear at all you'd say he was stone
625:  Stone deaf.
Interviewer:  Alright. Now a man begins to sweat when he's out in the har- hot sun you'd say by the time he'd finished he had
625:  {X} uh what, how does that end?
Interviewer:  If a person person begins to sweat while he's out in the hot sun you'd say by the time he's finished he had
625:  he's uh uh wet with sweat?
Interviewer:  Okay he had by the time he's finished he had sure s-
625:  Sweat a lot.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um uh you might take off your shirt and you'd say look how I look how much I
625:  I sweat.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now what would you call a a discharging sore that would come to a head?
625:  Call them a rising.
Interviewer:  A rising?
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay and what would you call the stuff that would come out of it Mr?
625:  A core.
Interviewer:  #1 Core? #
625:  #2 {X} #
625:  Core uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Uh this stuff that you know the white stuff that might come out of the
625:  Of a a rising. And sometime you had to cut one open you know and they'd come a big core outta that.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  That stuff would ooze out it would
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  You call
625:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 that # the core?
625:  Core, you had to wait and you had to wait 'til they'd get ready to open it too you know?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
625:  I had one on my leg there one time, right along here somewhere that and I was riding horseback.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  I had a horse and I I could uh uh get on the saddle and ride pretty good. It wouldn't hurt me. But uh when I went uh I was out in the woods looking at some cows, cattle and the when I got on it something or other the horse turned turned left with me. When he did it just throw me to the right. And I fell right on that thing and boy it popped. I heard it pop you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  When I got home I had to change clothes, all that stuff come out but I tell you one thing, the next morning it was alright. Yeah.
625:  It healed up. I found out that was the good way to s- uh get rid of 'em but I never did try it
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
625:  #2 {X} # {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if you got an infection in your hand and it got bigger your hand got bigger than it's supposed to be you'd say my hand
625:  Infection is swelling. {D: it's moving a lot}
Interviewer:  You say my hand did what? It it my hand just
625:  Got got sore and it just
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  swollen and {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. If it's not infected you'd say it wouldn't it wouldn't
625:  It wouldn't be uh it wouldn't be too bad if as long as it's not infected.
Interviewer:  Okay. What would you call the uh the water in a in a in a blister um inside the blister you get a liquid and it forms
625:  Well it it uh it well they form a type of kind of a bloody bloody sh- water you know?
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  {D: put 'em out}
Interviewer:  Alright. Um In a wound if a boo- in a in a excuse me in a if a bullet goes through your arm you'd say you got a
625:  A bullet hole through your arm.
Interviewer:  Yeah you call that a you call that a what a
625:  Well uh a a shot uh through through your arm.
Interviewer:  Yeah in a war maybe you'd get a bullet through your arm you'd say I'm I got me a w-
625:  A bullet through my arm?
Interviewer:  Yeah did you ever call it a wou- Wound?
625:  Wou- wound a wound yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. What was the kind of skinless growth that might grow on a wound and it's got to be burned out? Did you ever have any of that? You know did you ever
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 hear of # some kind of flesh?
625:  That's a war again
Interviewer:  No it's someth- kind of a skin growth that would you ever {NS} had
625:  #1 Oh yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
625:  You talking about a skin cancer?
Interviewer:  No um this was some kinda flesh you'd call it p- did you ever hear of proud flesh?
625:  Oh yes yeah proud flesh. Yeah. Yeah. We had uh they have to do something for that and then uh
Interviewer:  Okay um now if you got a little cut {NW} in your finger you might put what would you put on it, you'd put
625:  You uh put a little salve in the cut that'll ease it adhesive tape over it.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about a little brown liquid, you'd call that
625:  Oh mercurochrome? Or iodine.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now did you ever have to take anything, what was it you'd take for malaria?
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 You might # for malaria you might take what? What was that qui- did you ever have to take it?
625:  Uh uh I don't remember, it been so long I don't remember
Interviewer:  #1 Did you ever have #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  take quinine?
625:  Oh yes we used to take quinine fill that with capsule. #1 You know? #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
625:  {X} Yeah I forgot about that we I took a many of them
Interviewer:  Um now if a man was got ill and didn't recover you'd say he what he {NS}
625:  #1 You'd say #
Interviewer:  #2 He'd uh # the doctor did everything he could
625:  {D: And I} doctor did everything he could and then he couldn't couldn't save his life.
Interviewer:  Yeah you
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 say the man #
625:  couldn't get his well
Interviewer:  You'd say the man finally
625:  Died.
Interviewer:  Died okay. {NS} Um did you ever have any other words for that? You know maybe a crude word or something, you might say he well that old guy he finally
625:  He finally served his time well but he passed away.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now you might say uh he's been dead a week but nobody's figured out what he what he
625:  What he really uh what he really died with what had caused him to die.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now what do you call a place where people are buried?
625:  That's a graveyard.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh and the box people buried in
625:  Coffin. Casket.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh now you might say he was an important man, everybody turned out for his
625:  Fun- {C: unnatural speech} for his funeral?
Interviewer:  Okay. The people dressed in black you'd say they're in
625:  uh they're in mourn mourning. Mourning for the people.
Interviewer:  Alright. {NS} If somebody if you meet somebody on the street {C: tapping on microphone} and {NS} and he says well how are you today? If you're feeling just about average you'd say oh well I'm
625:  I'm I'm I'm feeling {NS} fine, how are you feeling? Now talking about mourning if they have to put a black uh uh sling around they're arm too you know? Like a coat or something like that a
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
625:  #2 {X} #
625:  Put that around
Interviewer:  Yeah. {NS} I hear they don't do that as much anymore.
625:  No one even put it around a hat you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And people used to now they don't even wear black or nothing you know the {X}
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Whatever just an old custom but still it's not thinking it was a good one myself, I think the old uh uh it was bad that you had to quit it you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Um now if if somebody is uh is is troubled you might say oh it will come out all right. You might say oh it'll come out alright.
625:  Yeah everything will work out all right.
Interviewer:  Just just
625:  Take time.
Interviewer:  Just don't
625:  Don't rush it.
Interviewer:  Or don't well you might say don't uh or
625:  Don't aggravate too
Interviewer:  #1 It'll #
625:  #2 much? #
Interviewer:  be okay just don't you know don't wor-
625:  Work too hard.
Interviewer:  Or worry, you ever say don't
625:  Don't worry about it too much.
Interviewer:  Okay alright. Now the disease of the joints you call that what?
625:  Rheumatism.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Or uh uh they used to call it that, now they call it arthritis.
Interviewer:  Arthritis?
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh what was that disease that folks would get they had children'd get it, you know real severe blisters in the throat?
625:  You mean a {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah no blisters in the throat get a blisters in your throat and uh they used to choke to death? D-
625:  Diphtheria.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Now what was the disease that made your skin turn yellow? {NS}
625:  Uh yellow fever.
Interviewer:  Okay. Yellow
625:  #1 uh #
Interviewer:  #2 Y- #
Interviewer:  your skin and eyeballs turn yellow you'd say you you got yellow
625:  Yellow fever.
Interviewer:  Well what about jau- uh did you ever get did you ever get
625:  Yellow jaundice. Yellow jaundice. Yellow
Interviewer:  Okay alright. Um if you got a pain down here you gotta have an operation you say you got what? You got a real big pain down here you know
625:  #1 It- #
Interviewer:  #2 when #
625:  it'd be a a uh be uh appendcit- uh uh apen- appendicitis way down there.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if somebody swallowed something that didn't agree with him you'd say he had to he'd have to do what with it, he had to
625:  Have to vomit or throw it up.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Did you ever have any uh any crude na- words for that or you know any words about you can say you went to he had he ate too much lunch and he had to go in and and uh
625:  And throw it all uh throw it up.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Um which is the which is the more crude term vomit or throw up? You'd say
625:  Well uh I guess uh vomit would be most
Interviewer:  Most what? Most
625:  Most uh commonly you know and you don't
Interviewer:  Commonly used?
625:  Yeah. Common-
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 -ly #
Interviewer:  It would be more polite?
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Um now if a person vomited you'd say he was sick
625:  To his stomach.
Interviewer:  Sick on his stomach alright. Um if if a boy comes home with a with lipstick on his collar his little brother says you've been
625:  He he he he's been loving a girl he's been kissing a girl or she been kissing him with red lip- re- red uh uh
Interviewer:  You might say they've been what? They've been
625:  Been uh uh loving each other.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
625:  #2 {D: Or they} #
Interviewer:  Did you ever have any old-fashioned terms for it maybe?
625:  Well if if you see it on a boy's face you'd say you been kissing your girl with red li- lips.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  Alright. Now uh um you you might say a boy who's paying serious attention to a girl you'd say he's he's doing what with her, he's
625:  He's courting her.
Interviewer:  Courting her? Okay. Did you ever have any other terms for it? Maybe you know your grandmother might say well
625:  Well they they the the this this uh {X} her sweetheart you know?
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 Sweetheart? #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 {D: yeah and they'd be} #
Interviewer:  Okay and uh what was what did he call her? He is her
625:  {X} her
Interviewer:  She is his what?
625:  She uh his his sweet darling
Interviewer:  Okay and
625:  #1 {D: His darling.} #
Interviewer:  #2 what would she #
625:  Or girlfriend they they use that term yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  {D: Girlfriend} they might say.
Interviewer:  What were what would she call him? He she he would be her?
625:  Uh her sweetheart. {X}
Interviewer:  Okay or or her
625:  her her boyfriend, they usually use sometime one to 'em but mostly now they use, they'll say it's my boyfriend you know?
Interviewer:  Now if a child was misbehaving you'd say to him if you do that again I'll
625:  I'll spank you.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if a if a girl doesn't want to marry a man what would she do with him, she's she doesn't want him you'd say she
625:  She tell him she don't want to get married or {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  Um did you ever have any uh did you ever have any words for it or you know she'd say she she just kinda what?
625:  Well I don't know if she just decided I guess she just decided she decided she wouldn't marry, she
Interviewer:  #1 Okay or #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 #
625:  #2 #
Interviewer:  she'd turned you down or sh-
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 -e # what? She
625:  She turned him down cause she uh didn't know if she she ought to marry him or not.
Interviewer:  Okay. You ever say maybe she she {D: upted} him or
625:  Yeah. Well yeah maybe she sh- sh- {X} maybe sometime she decided well she didn't know if she really love with him she was {X} best thing to do is to not to marry him you know?
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now uh what do you call that big noisy party maybe you have a big noisy thing for after a couple's been married you might get a bunch of people to come around the house and play a band or shoot off a gun
625:  Uh tha- tha- that's uh that's uh chivalry.
Interviewer:  #1 Chivalry? #
625:  #2 {X} # if it's {X} that you have a wedding and d- don't invite everybody {D: you see?}
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Did it did it so it's often sometimes it might be you know the people that are made that that don't that weren't invited? {D: Threw out there that did that?}
625:  Well they they they they they'd end up mad that {X} real friends you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  Sometime you know if if a couple of girls and get married but they don't they don't expect it and the the because they'd always have a whiskey at the house.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And uh {X} went off for a couple days. And they knew when they st- {X} always knew when they come back, as soon as they come back they'd get they'd uh they'd get ready that night and the next night they might give 'em a {X} time to prepare for it.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  But they could get ready and they knew it was gonna go and they'd have a big old tub {D: fill} somebody come round they'd g- gather round them, the first thing they'd do is they shoot a gun and then they'll shoot a rifle shotgun you know and go all around the house and all and shoot ring bell, hit tubs and holler and Used to hear it for miles. I got a uh I got a ca- uh {D: art fill} there that {D: sing me outta Bruin's} you could hear it five miles. And uh and uh I had my m- my daddy used to take it, my brother used to take it to chivalry you know? And things like that. And they'd they'd make racket you know? Then they'll they'd uh they'd make a few round they'd come at the door and knock and they and asked if we were gonna open it, we'd say no. They'd go around again. Well finally after a while there when they'd come they'd open the door said well put all your bells away and come on in and they'd have everything ready for them to eat and drink and you know? And the whiskey the wine and the cakes and everything.
Interviewer:  #1 Well I'll #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  be. Now uh
625:  {NW}
Interviewer:  If you're talking about seeing somebody in say in Jackson, Mississippi you'd say well I saw him where? Would you say I saw him
625:  I saw him in Jackson, Mississippi.
Interviewer:  Okay would you ever say up or
625:  I- up yeah I s- I'd saw him up in Jackson, Mississippi.
Interviewer:  Okay. When would you say you you saw somebody down in you might say
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 say I saw him in #
625:  down in in in New Rockport.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright or or you might say you saw him over you saw him where? You saw him did you ever did you ever see if you saw him in uh in you saw him say in in Vancleave you say you saw him
625:  Oh yeah I saw I saw him over in Vancleave or
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Uh over in {D: Wakin} something like that.
Interviewer:  Alright okay. Uh now what would you call you say there was trouble at the chivalry and the police came and arrested the whole you might say they arrested
625:  Well uh I know they s- uh never had knowed that to happen but they {D: give you they ha-} have {D: been uh} {X} they'd have to arrest the whole crew you know? Because
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 we # all, all implicated.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um did ya what would you call the thing where wo- young folks would go out to eat and then all get together, did you ever have any of those uh?
625:  Well uh I we'd have call that a party I guess.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  They might all get together and and do what? They'd all
625:  {D: Well} get together and go some of them play games or even get together and go to a place and have a dance. Used to be a school dance, you know?
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Did you ever play any you played those uh didn't you a lot?
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Did they ever have any other names for 'em, those dances? A
625:  Well when I was a young boy up until uh uh people out in the country they could get out on a Saturday morning and they'd go to a place and ask them if they could have a dance there that night.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And they'd and they'd tell 'em alright, they maybe they had a big room and and uh people'd at one time they had pretty good size room there and they'd two uh uh {D: partition} a and uh it was easy to take partition out. And they'd make a big place for them to dance and they had rooms on the side you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And uh they'd go there and and used to let the words outta uh few places and by that night there'd be a lotta people there {X} would be a lotta people there and and uh they'd dance all night. But like myself, I played a fiddle and uh uh
Interviewer:  You never played a hoedown?
625:  Oh yeah. We know that I I'd I'd I call 'em {X} breakdown, square dance they call it.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And we you'd we there'd there'd always be five or six people could play the fiddle, somebody's taking the guitar. We didn't hire but nobody got paid but back then they they just played uh uh for fun you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And I seen 'em many time, I wished I never knew how to tune a fiddle. For I'd rather dance than to play you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  There weren't any wasn't too many people that could play and I had to play that made it bad you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah. What'd you call those? Uh you know where people would all get together and and have one of those things where you have a fiddle? You w- you call that a
625:  We used to call that a frolic.
Interviewer:  Frolic?
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Yeah. Everybody'd gather there and you'd communicate and and uh and they had us one uh and on the s- on the sixth day of January they used to call that old Christmas Day.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And uh many time we'd have a dance on that night. And it never went by when I was a boy and uh uh {X} before I old enough to go to dances {X} for years even after we I was married. And while I was a young boy many time uh uh the girls would take a little piece of ribbon about that long and a pin and they'd pin it to a a boy's coat you know?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
625:  And uh they'd call that his uh that'd be her her king and she'd be the queen you know? And they'd get yeah they'd be get even couples they'd get eight, ten or twelve. Well right then the people would get together. And uh they'd uh they'd give these girls uh money, they'd make uh what they call teacakes. And they'd uh ma- and and they'd buy sugar coffee and some of 'em would make punch and things like that. And they'd have these teacake and coffee and punch, somebody didn't want to drink coffee, they'd drink punch. And uh a- all night we have enough uh uh of those things to last all night and when we danced all night long and then that night the first dance danced the square dance and of course the man the {D: gre- then then} girls would make a big old bow like that and pin it to the king the night of the dance you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  {X} they'd dance together for a square dance, the first thing they'd do and then of course then they'd dance with one another you know? But they they had that and the girls had one on 'em too to represent the who they were you see?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And then uh they'd they'd they'd pin that on s- on New Year's Day, I mean the sixth of January three or four week they'd find a place where they'll have a dance and they'd and uh get all that {X} have an and then dance all night, sometimes they'd drink coffee, they'd be alright and go home
Interviewer:  {NW}
625:  The people in the people used to enjoy themselves better than they do now but you tell some people there they'd think you were crazy.
Interviewer:  Really?
625:  Some people wou- would some people would walk three or four miles to go up to a dance the other day. Now then uh some people well they they couldn't join that and {D: going to these strumhouses uh uh now that's} uh {X} they don't enjoy themselves like we did when the uh we went to a dance like that. But you tell some people that night they think they enjoy themselves, they get in the car, they brought the girl, they {D: going over to the wheel, to the Kiln} to a dance and go some place you know and {X} all they do they spend their time with her in the car {D: going uh} in the car you know they call that a good time, you know? People used to enjoy themselves better than they do now. Cuz they'd walk three or four miles to go up to a dance, when the dance was over they'd go back home.
Interviewer:  Now uh if children get out of school at four o'clock you'd say uh at four o'clock school does what?
625:  C- close.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  {D: Let's out.} The children
Interviewer:  Now uh after vacation you might say what time does school
625:  Start again?
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now if a boy left school or or didn't show up for school for a class one day you might say he did what?
625:  He he uh uh he he he played uh uh
Interviewer:  Hoo-
625:  What? What? Uh he played hooky that day.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Hooky hooky alright.
Interviewer:  Alright.
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Now you might say people go to school to get a
625:  Education.
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh after kindergarten you go into the what? The
625:  The {X} they go into {D: preliminary}
Interviewer:  Preliminary?
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 {X} # or uh I believe now they call it the first grade, {X} well back then they didn't and uh it started with prim- but now days they they'll after kindergarten they go to
Interviewer:  #1 To primi- #
625:  #2 {X} #
625:  To primary yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now the classroom has what is i- what do you have have in a classroom? You have The children sit in
625:  In desks.
Interviewer:  Okay. You might say somebody let him left a note on my
625:  My desk.
Interviewer:  Alright. What do you call the building where you keep books?
625:  Uh library.
Interviewer:  And you mail a package at the
625:  Uh the post office.
Interviewer:  Okay now in a strange ho- in a strange town you'd stay overnight in a
625:  Motel.
Interviewer:  Or a
625:  Or a hotel.
Interviewer:  Okay. You see a play at the what? At the What do you go to see a play at? Or maybe a
625:  Uh at a
Interviewer:  A movie?
625:  Movie theater or movie uh
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 Uh #
625:  ball ball game?
Interviewer:  Okay. Did you ever go to see a movie? What would you call that when you go see a movie?
625:  A picture show.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um you have a hof- an operation in the Where do you go to have an operation?
625:  Uh the hospital.
Interviewer:  Okay and who takes care of you there? You're looked after by the woman who is a
625:  A nurse.
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
625:  #2 {X} # I would've know I've had s- uh six of 'em. Six operations in my life.
Interviewer:  You have?
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  What'd you have?
625:  I had two hernia operation, I had a gall bladder operation, I had a uh uh dropped retina in my left eye. Operation and uh and I had a cataract removed in my right eye and I've had a prostate operation.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now you catch a train at the
625:  Depot.
Interviewer:  Okay you might call that the rail the ra-
625:  Railroad.
Interviewer:  R-
625:  The railroad.
Interviewer:  #1 Railroad #
625:  #2 {X} # depot.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. What would you call an open place maybe in the middle of a city where right near the courth- court yard you know court- right near the courthouse? It was all green and uh had grass with trees around it?
625:  A a
Interviewer:  You have a name for that?
625:  A a a a
Interviewer:  The place
625:  Yeah
Interviewer:  #1 the center of #
625:  #2 uh #
Interviewer:  town around
625:  #1 yeah the #
Interviewer:  #2 the courthouse? #
625:  Uh wha- what do you call that I I I that's a uh my goodness alive. I I I don't I don't remember it. Don't know what that is, I can't
Interviewer:  You know old folks maybe get out there and
625:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 sit in the #
625:  Place for recreation area it's a it's a {X} I don't know, I can't think about things anymore
Interviewer:  You call it the townsq- town uh
625:  {X} uh uh uh town park? {X}
Interviewer:  #1 Park #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  or a squa- did you ever call it the public Okay you call it the park?
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Town #
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now if two streets cross like this like this and you started on the end of one street you know and you walked say you walked from from one street across through the other uh let's see if it's a vacant lot maybe uh we- uh say if if two streets cross and a man starts out at one corner of the streets and he walks across to the opposite corner of the streets you say he walks how?
625:  Uh across the way street? Or intersection?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Yeah you say the streets are like this and the man walks through 'em like that. Straight through the middle of 'em.
625:  {X} walks across the street?
Interviewer:  Yeah but how would you say he walked across the street? Would you say catty maybe you say walked catty-corner to
625:  Yeah. Uh well yeah catty-corner if he went across there yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  Alright. Now what'd you call those vehicles tho- those one that used to run from Biloxi and run all the way down to Gulf Port? You know, it had electric wire? Uh overhead.
625:  Streetcars.
Interviewer:  Streetcar? Okay. Now you might tell a bus driver in the streetcar uh if you're riding it you say the next corner's where I want
625:  Wanna get off.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now uh Gulf Port is uh uh Bis- of Harrison County, Gulf Port is the
625:  The the county seat.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Now # if you're an FBI agent you work for the
625:  #1 feder- #
Interviewer:  #2 federal #
625:  federal government.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the police in town are supposed to uphold law uh uphold
625:  city law.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 Up # hold the law of the city.
Interviewer:  Yeah they're supposed to the word order goes with it you're supposed to they're supposed to uphold la-
625:  Law.
Interviewer:  Yeah and then what would you say wha- order you know kinda, what do they say?
625:  Or- law and order?
Interviewer:  Okay. Now what do call the the war between uh the northern and the southern states?
625:  #1 Ci- #
Interviewer:  #2 A #
625:  Civil War.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now before they had an electric chair murderers were
625:  Hung.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  You might say the man went out and
625:  {X} and uh hung a man?
Interviewer:  #1 {D: They} #
625:  #2 They # got hung?
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now uh what do you call that big state up there? Albany's the capital of it. The biggest city in the country is in is in where?
625:  Is in uh New York?
Interviewer:  Okay. And Baltimore is in
625:  Maryland.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now Richmond is the capital of
625:  Virginia.
Interviewer:  And uh Raleigh is the capital of
625:  South Carolina? Uh
Interviewer:  #1 No the one #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  north of that is It's a Carolina it's
625:  North Carolina.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now um what's uh uh Sherman marched across what state? He marched through uh this state has Atlanta in it. What state is has Atlanta in it?
625:  Uh
Interviewer:  Geo- It's it's two states across from here.
625:  California?
Interviewer:  No Atlanta is in what state?
625:  Oh Georgia.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Had to think of it.
Interviewer:  Now Tallahassee is the capital of the state uh th- goes down that peninsula down there. Near here.
625:  Geo- Florida.
Interviewer:  Okay and George Wallace is the governor of
625:  Alabama.
Interviewer:  Now Baton Rouge is the capital of
625:  Louisiana.
Interviewer:  And the Bluegrass State is
625:  I- Al- Alabama.
Interviewer:  No the one that's north of it north of it. Here.
625:  Uh uh Tennessee?
Interviewer:  No
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 just # north of Tennessee K- the Bluegrass State? Ke- It starts with a K.
625:  Kentucky?
Interviewer:  Okay. Now Little Rock is the capital of
625:  Arkansas.
Interviewer:  Okay. That's good. And uh what's the capital of this state?
625:  Uh Jackson.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now the two states to the directly to the west of us are first comes
625:  Uh Louisiana.
Interviewer:  And the second one is?
625:  Uh Tennessee?
Interviewer:  No we're the second one past Louisiana is Uh Texas? Okay.
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Now Tulsa is where? In what state?
625:  Oklahoma.
Interviewer:  Okay. And Boston is in
625:  Baltimore.
Interviewer:  No Boston
625:  Maryland.
Interviewer:  No it starts with an M, that's close, it's up in Mass-
625:  Massachusetts.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  {D: that's right}
Interviewer:  Now the states from Maine to Connecticut are called the of what? The New
625:  New England states.
Interviewer:  Okay. now the biggest city in Maryland is what? It was that city you were talking about, Ba-
625:  Boston.
Interviewer:  No Bal-
625:  Baltimore.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 {X} # {X}
Interviewer:  #1 And #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  and the capital of the U.S. is ?
625:  Uh uh Washington, D.C.
Interviewer:  Alright. Now that big city in Missouri is uh called what?
625:  St. Louis.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now uh
625:  I landed there uh uh the second day going to Minnesota and coming back on the twenty-sixth I landed in St. Louis, Missouri.
Interviewer:  You did?
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Hey. Now what's that big steel-making town in Alabama?
625:  Uh uh it's in Birmingham.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the place where Al Capone used to run the rackets that's called it's in Illinois, it's called Ch- That big big western city. Chic-
625:  Chicago.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now the capital of Alabama is Mo-
625:  Montgomery.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now what's that one on the on the gulf here? The uh
625:  The
Interviewer:  one on the gulf right next to us is no- it's past Pascagoula it's Mo- you ever
625:  Mobile?
Interviewer:  Okay. Now what do you call that big body of water south of us there?
625:  Uh uh the the Pacific.
Interviewer:  Yeah but it's the Gu-
625:  Gulf.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
625:  #2 {X} # Florida. South is the Gulf of Mexico.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um what do you call that big resort city in western North Carolina? You ever heard of that?
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  #1 A- #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  You ever heard of Asheville?
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  What what's the name of that city? Can you pronounce it for me? North Ca- A- You ever heard of Asheville?
625:  Yeah I believe I did uh {X} I I can't remember exactly but I guess that what it is
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Now uh can you tell me some of the cities in Tennessee you know about?
625:  Well Memphis, Nashville
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 and # uh
Interviewer:  What about Chatta- you ever
625:  Chattanooga?
Interviewer:  Okay, you ever heard of Kno-
625:  Knoxville.
Interviewer:  Alright.
625:  Tennessee.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay and Georgia uh you know any cities in Georgia? What about one by the sea there in Georgia? Sa-
625:  Near Augusta. And uh
Interviewer:  You ever heard of Sa- Sava-
625:  Savannah, Georgia?
Interviewer:  Yeah Ma- Maco-
625:  Macon, Georgia. I've been through there, I've been through
Interviewer:  Colu-
625:  Columbus. I've been through Columbus.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Georgia.
Interviewer:  Alright now on the Ohio River there are a couple of big cities, one is Cin-
625:  Cincinnati.
Interviewer:  Okay and the other one is where they run the Kentucky Derby that's Lou-
625:  Lou- Louisville.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um uh now one of the biggest Protestant the biggest Protestant church in the south is what? It's the Bap-
625:  Baptist.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if two people become members of a church you'd say they just
625:  Uh uh joined joined the church.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now uh in church we all pray to
625:  God.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the preacher delivers preaches a a
625:  Sermon.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now som- somebody might say I don't go to church to hear the sermon, I go to listen to the
625:  The preacher.
Interviewer:  Or I don't
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 go to # hear the sermon, I go to listen to the what? The You might sing a hymn and you'd call that the The The mu-
625:  Music? Music yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. And you say that you might say that that service, that preacher sure preached a beau-
625:  Beautiful sermon.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Now if you had a flat tire you had to change a flat tire on the way to church one Sunday morning you might say church will be over
625:  When we get uh uh tire changed and get to church.
Interviewer:  Time I get the tired changed, okay. Now the enemy and the opposite of God is called the
625:  Uh the the uh the the idiot
Interviewer:  The who?
625:  The idiots and uh
Interviewer:  No. uh The enemy and the opposite of God. D-
625:  #1 Well #
Interviewer:  #2 Be called the # De-
625:  The uh The Devil I guess.
The:  Okay. Did you ever have any other names for it?
625:  Old Satan.
The:  Okay. Um now people at night, they might see things that'd frighten them something you'd say the what would you call them? You know white things maybe?
625:  Oh th- they call them ghosts.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
625:  #2 {X} # Yeah. But there's no there's no so such thing as a ghost, you know?
Interviewer:  Oh really?
625:  No there's no there's no such thing as that.
Interviewer:  You know there are a lotta folks from down around this area that that claim they get picked up by 'em or they
625:  I know. But uh
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
625:  #2 {X} # I think a lot of them is in their head. {X} they believe in one of those things.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um you might say if you had a dream at night you say uh I can't remember what I
625:  I I I I can't remember what I dreamed. I had a dream but I can't remember and th- and that's the truth too, I get to where I dream I can't {D: like that} Here lately I make some dreams I really don't don't remember 'em well.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  Yeah. {D: I make something that I can't remember.}
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if there's a lonely house out in the dark you know or people think strange noises come from it at night you'd say the house was
625:  Was haunted.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um you might say to somebody if you insist I'll do it but I'd I'd
625:  I'd prefer not to.
Interviewer:  Or I'd ra- I
625:  I'd rather not.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um Now what would you say to a friend that you hadn't seen him in a long time?
625:  I'm sure glad to see you. It's been along time since I saw you.
Interviewer:  Okay. Or uh if somebody owned a lot of land uh uh you might say uh he he owns five-hundred acres of land you might say he owns a
625:  A a a lo- a uh a lotta land.
Interviewer:  Okay did you ever did you ever say hear right smart or
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  Some might say he owns a
625:  Uh yeah, some people say he own right smart of land.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Now if you wanted to say something more enthusiastically than yes you might say why
625:  Why of course.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh or
625:  With joy.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um what would you say to a to a uh you're introduced to a stranger, how would you meet him? You might say
625:  I alw- I usually always says uh uh good to meet you. It's
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Mighty glad to meet you.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  #1 I think #
Interviewer:  #2 Now #
625:  uh uh uh one of the best words to say uh always practice. Meeting in a a person, I think about the best thing you could tell a person, it's really good to meet you.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you see an old friend and you're inquiring about their health you might say
625:  How have you been doing?
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if if somebody had come to visit you and enjoyed you enjoyed their visit you might say come
625:  Come back again, I really enjoyed having you.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you saw what would you say to somebody if you met 'em on Christmas, you might