interviewer:  say you ran into somebody an old friend of yours that you hadn't seen for a long time what would you probably say to 'em
741:  #1 I'd say I haven't #
interviewer:  #2 you'd #
741:  say I haven't seen you in a thousand years
interviewer:  or if you were inviting somebody to come over to your house uh what might you say uh you know something to do with regard to how you would feel and having them come over
741:  Oh why don't you just come on over to our house I would just love to have you.
interviewer:  have you ever heard people around here say something like well we should sure would be mighty proud to have you over?
741:  Mm-hmm yeah.
interviewer:  heard that
741:  #1 Uh my f- #
interviewer:  #2 {X} #
741:  grandfather would would've said that.
interviewer:  {X} be something that an older person would be more likely to #1 {X} #
741:  #2 Well there's # still a lot of people around here that probably do still say exactly that. But that that just sounds like my grandfather exactly I mean so- just mighty mighty proud mighty proud for you to come over.
interviewer:  uh-huh well let's say uh uh if a young boy keeps going over to the same girl's house pretty regularly to see her and people figure he's getting serious about her they'd say that he's doing what
741:  Getting serious or going steady.
interviewer:  uh-huh have you ever heard uh anybody say well so and so's courting this young #1 lady? #
741:  #2 Not anymore. #
interviewer:  don't hear that anymore
741:  No that's that is a lot these younger generation doesn't even know what that means.
interviewer:  Is that right? have you ever heard anything uh like that probably just as antiquated? meaning the same thing as courting
741:  Sparking.
interviewer:  sparking
741:  That's really even way before my #1 time but I've heard it. #
interviewer:  #2 {NW} # uh-huh well what about uh him you'd say that he is her
741:  Her boyfriend.
interviewer:  and she is his
741:  Girlfriend. Or steady. And my grandmother would have said beau.
interviewer:  Beau.
741:  {X} Beau the {D: the} you know #1 that he's her beau and. #
interviewer:  #2 right right #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 # say uh if he came home late at night and his younger brother caught him coming in and his he had lipstick all on his collar and all of this he little boy his little brother might say a-ha you've been
741:  Making out.
interviewer:  or say if if he asked the girl to marry him and uh she uh doesn't want to you'd say she did what to him
741:  Refused.
interviewer:  but if she didn't refuse him you'd might you'd say well they went ahead and got
741:  Engaged.
interviewer:  and after that they got
741:  Married.
interviewer:  at a wedding ceremony the man who stands up with the groom that's the
741:  Best man.
interviewer:  and uh woman or girl who stands up with the
741:  #1 Maid of #
interviewer:  #2 bride #
741:  honor.
interviewer:  have you ever heard of any type of uh uh activity taking place after a wedding where uh uh a lot of people uh go over to the couple's uh house and just start making uh just have a ruckus you know a really raucous affair ever heard anything like that are you familiar with the term shivaree?
741:  um Oh yeah I am in reading. I've I've never even ever heard of one around here.
interviewer:  I see.
741:  Now there may have been but not anybody I know or have even heard anything about.
interviewer:  the the only time that I've have had any success with that uh has been in Arkansas with old timers
741:  Really? They had shivaree?
interviewer:  {X}
741:  Seems like something like a movie seven brides with seven brothers or something. I don't know some movie there was a shivaree But uh I've never ever heard of it.
interviewer:  I had I had when I first ran across it I didn't know what it was either so foreign to me
741:  Wedding receptions are the only thing I know anything about and in Clark county they're usually dry.
interviewer:  yeah
741:  #1 So there's not
much of a ruckus #
interviewer:  #2 pretty tame #
741:  #1 much of a ruckus. #
interviewer:  #2 {NW} # {NW}
741:  In the church parlor.
interviewer:  {X} well say if uh uh party is going on somewhere and it got a little uh rowdy say a neighbor called the police and the police came down and didn't arrest just one person but arrested the
741:  The whole crowd.
interviewer:  and at a party uh some if there's uh a band uh you they'll probably be having a you know getting around when you move to the music
741:  Oh a dance.
interviewer:  what about some of the different dances that you can move with
741:  I'm familiar with lots of dances I'm a choreographer.
interviewer:  ah oh I forgot gold mine {NW}
741:  Well {D: show eh fell} the foxtrot and the waltz and any kind of rock dancing you want to think of. Everything from the robot to the to the twist to the oh heavens any just jillions of them even the dog the alligator the.
interviewer:  I'd be hard pressed to say what's being done
741:  #1 Right #
interviewer:  #2 {X} #
741:  it doesn't look like anything much.
interviewer:  Yeah.
741:  #1 uh #
interviewer:  #2 Suppose # it has a name
741:  #1 I just #
interviewer:  #2 {X} # #1 I guess it bump's out isn't it #
741:  #2 {X} # Bump is {X} really out #1 right now. #
interviewer:  #2 The hustle. # that out too?
741:  Uh they still do the hustle but they do a di- uh different variety of it they don't call it the hustle anymore they call it something else um there's the tango and the Charleston and the uh just what we call slow dancing.
interviewer:  mm
741:  Which is not really anything at all except just kind of moving around to the slow music. No particular steps to it. Rumbas and sambas and polkas and.
interviewer:  yeah do you know that dance group called the lockers?
741:  Oh aren't they wonderful.
interviewer:  what is that they do? do they have a
741:  They do one of the guys does the robot but um I think the lockers I don't if they may have a name for what they do but uh the kids that do a similar step I think they just say they're doing a lockers. Do you want me to ask Richard? He probably knows. If if course I don't imagine that would be
interviewer:  {NW}
741:  #1 regional. #
interviewer:  #2 {X} # {X} what ab- uh this is really not all that relevant but talking about uh the robot this type of mime thing have you ever seen that couple on TV shield and Darnell
741:  #1 No I haven't my kids #
interviewer:  #2 {X} #
741:  have watched #1 that. #
interviewer:  #2 {X} # Pretty good.
741:  Yeah. I ha- but uh I had not seen it. I don't watch television.
interviewer:  what about this expression say if uh the children get out of school at three o'clock you'd say that at three o'clock school does
741:  #1 Let out. #
interviewer:  #2 what #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 # and school has been out here in summer toward the end of summer you might ask well when does school
741:  Start.
interviewer:  say if uh a boy left home to go to school but he never got there on purpose you'd say he did what
741:  Skipped. Played hooky.
interviewer:  and you'd say uh a person goes to school to get an
741:  Education.
interviewer:  and after high school some people go off to
741:  College.
interviewer:  and after kindergarten a child goes into the
741:  Primary. First grade.
interviewer:  and these things that a child sits behind in the classroom
741:  The desk.
interviewer:  and the plural form is
741:  Desks.
interviewer:  and uh it's a building around town say if you wanted to check out a book you'd go to the
741:  Library.
interviewer:  and if you wanted to mail a package you'd go to the
741:  Post office.
interviewer:  and if you had to stay overnight in a town you'd stay at the
741:  Hotel.
interviewer:  or a
741:  Motel.
interviewer:  or if you wanted to see a play or go to a movie you'd go to
741:  Theater.
interviewer:  and if you've gotten very sick you might have to go into the
741:  Hospital.
interviewer:  and uh uh woman who would take care of you in the hospital would be
741:  Nurse.
interviewer:  if you had to catch a train where would you go
741:  I'd go to the depot. {NW} Or the train station. I'd have to go to Little Rock actually if I wanted to catch a train
interviewer:  {NW} That's good.
741:  But when I was little we called it the depot.
interviewer:  {X}
741:  {X} Most people call it the train station here.
interviewer:  ever heard it called the rail something with rail
741:  Railroad station. I've heard that.
interviewer:  what about bus
741:  Bus station. Bus station's a bus station to me they'd have another burs- bus terminal is the only other #1 thing I can think of #
interviewer:  #2 uh-huh #
741:  it called.
interviewer:  here in the south a lot of small towns have uh you know uh uh a place in the center of the town around the courthouse with a
741:  Square.
interviewer:  what about these things that were used uh for uh transportation within the city really long time ago uh on rails and kinda
741:  #1 Oh the trolley? #
interviewer:  #2 {D: wide} #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 # or say if you were riding on the bus you might tell the driver well now the next corner's where I
741:  Stop. Or get off.
interviewer:  or here in uh Clark county in Arkadelphia where you have the courthouse this is the of the county
741:  Oh county seat.
interviewer:  and uh a person who has a civil service job doesn't work for the state but he works for the federal
741:  Government.
interviewer:  what what would you say that the police in the a town are supposed to maintain
741:  Maintain? I wouldn't say they're supposed to maintain I guess order if they had to maintain anything. {NS} #1 They're to #
interviewer:  #2 {X} #
741:  protect us honest citizens. {NW} Supposed to do from all of those wild souls out there.
interviewer:  {NW} what about uh before the electric chair was in operation murderers were
741:  Hung. I guess.
interviewer:  what about uh say say if you were at an intersection uh downtown where streets went like so if you were at one corner and you wanted to get
741:  #1 Across #
interviewer:  #2 to #
741:  the street?
interviewer:  well really
741:  Oh jaywalk?
interviewer:  yeah uh is that what you call it {NS} would it be would it be possible for somebody to describe that as crossing caddy cornered
741:  Caddy cornered yeah.
interviewer:  Heard that.
741:  I've used caddy cornered a lot. I thought I thought maybe you m- didn't mean.
interviewer:  yeah
741:  I see what you m- #1 what you you #
interviewer:  #2 diagonal #
741:  #1 you #
interviewer:  #2 right #
741:  went across on a diagonal. #1 All right #
interviewer:  #2 right right #
741:  caddy cornered right. Now I I've used that word I probably say that's probably what exactly what I'd say
interviewer:  tell me this have you ever heard of the Denver system?
741:  No.
interviewer:  that was a new one on me I ran into that in in Fayetteville and uh somewhere else and it must might have been burial but they say the guy told me well now you'd be jaywalking unless the city used the Denver system said what Denver system you never heard of that and apparently it's he said that uh at some intersections at certain times you can just go across anywhere you want to it's legal and that's called a Denver system
741:  Oh.
interviewer:  I had never heard of that I'm gonna ask you about a few uh cities and states uh just for pronunciation mostly if you were in uh the state with the largest city that would be in this country it'd be
741:  Oh dear geography I tell you what why don't you s- if you want me to say a certain word just spell it and let me pronounce it #1 for you. #
interviewer:  #2 well # the the
741:  #1 oh like the Uni- #
interviewer:  #2 the state #
741:  like N- New York if I wanted to be in New York that's right.
interviewer:  and if you
741:  #1 Or #
interviewer:  #2 were #
741:  Los Angeles I think is actually isn't it.
interviewer:  is that right?
741:  It's about to beat it at least. Course Los Angeles itself I mean with all the suburbs and #1 stuff I #
interviewer:  #2 yeah #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 # if you were in Baltimore you'd be in
741:  In what state? Maryland.
interviewer:  and if you were in Richmond you'd be in
741:  Virginia.
interviewer:  and Raleigh you'd be in
741:  North Carolina.
interviewer:  state below that is
741:  South Carolina.
interviewer:  if you were in Atlanta
741:  Georgia.
interviewer:  Miami
741:  Florida.
interviewer:  if you were in New Orleans
741:  Louisiana.
interviewer:  and Louisville
741:  Kentucky.
interviewer:  Knoxville
741:  Tennessee.
interviewer:  if you were in St. Louis
741:  Missouri. and my husband says Missouri. {C: pronunciation}
interviewer:  if you were in uh Biloxi
741:  Mississippi.
interviewer:  if you were in Dallas
741:  Texas.
interviewer:  and if you were in Tulsa
741:  Oklahoma.
interviewer:  Boston
741:  Massachusetts.
interviewer:  have you ever heard the states uh say from Maine to Connecticut as a group referred to
741:  uh New England states.
interviewer:  uh
741:  That's where our son goes to school. New Hampshire.
interviewer:  the capital of this country is
741:  Washington D-C.
interviewer:  and the biggest city in Maryland is
741:  Annapolis I don't know what is the biggest #1 city Baltimore? #
interviewer:  #2 {X} #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 # and biggest one in Missouri
741:  I don't know St. Louis what?
interviewer:  what about uh little seaport in uh South Carolina
741:  Charleston?
interviewer:  and what about the big uh steel uh uh producing city in Alabama biggest city in Alabama
741:  Is it Mobile? No. uh What's it start with?
interviewer:  B.
741:  B. Birmingham? Let me see who's at the #1 door. #
interviewer:  #2 okay #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 #
741:  {D: Over here.} {NS}
interviewer:  uh let's see oh what about the big city in uh Illinois
741:  Chicago.
interviewer:  and the capital of Alabama
741:  Capital of Alabama #1 hmm now #
interviewer:  #2 {X} #
741:  What is the capital of Alabama? Uh is it #1 Montgomery? #
interviewer:  #2 uh-huh #
741:  Montgomery? okay
interviewer:  you mentioned Mobile a minute ago do you know what what that gulf is called that Mobile is on
741:  The Gulf of isn't it on the Gulf of Mexico?
interviewer:  what about a few big cities in Tennessee
741:  Knoxville. Nashville. Uh that's about all I'm familiar with in Tennessee uh there's
interviewer:  you heard of the so and so choo-choo.
741:  Chattanooga?
interviewer:  uh-huh or what about the city I think Elvis Presley lives there now
741:  Memphis. Oh heavens I g- I've I almost think of Memphis being in Arkansas #1 it's so #
interviewer:  #2 yeah #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 #
741:  it's just hard to think of it being in Tennessee #1 to me. #
interviewer:  #2 Right. #
741:  I'm sure they would have a stroke.
interviewer:  {NW} well what about uh uh this is a resort city in western North Carolina
741:  Western North Carolina resort city.
interviewer:  I think Thomas Wolfe born there. {D: all uh can't go home yet}
741:  Yeah but I I don't know. You're not
interviewer:  Asheville.
741:  Asheville? I'm not familiar with that.
interviewer:  well what about uh the biggest city in Georgia that would be
741:  Atlanta.
interviewer:  what about the Georgia big Georgia seaport
741:  uh Is it Savannah?
interviewer:  or what if have you ever heard of Phenix City Alabama
741:  Mm-mm.
interviewer:  {X} what about Fort Benning
741:  I've heard of Fort Benning Georgia. #1 isn't it #
interviewer:  #2 {X} # A city that's very close to it?
741:  No.
interviewer:  Columbus.
741:  Columbus.
interviewer:  what about uh biggest city in Louisiana
741:  New Orleans or
interviewer:  and the other one you were thinking
741:  #1 Baton Rouge. #
interviewer:  #2 about # or what about the biggest city of southern Ohio with the professional baseball team the Reds
741:  Cincinnati?
interviewer:  and the city in Kentucky with the horse racers
741:  Louisville.
interviewer:  and just a couple of foreign countries if you were in Moscow you'd be in
741:  Russia.
interviewer:  and if you were in Paris you'd be in
741:  France.
interviewer:  and if you were in Dublin
741:  Ireland.
interviewer:  what uh
741:  It's hard to say France I've had fourteen hours of French and I'm doing a French role in this play and it's France. {C: pronunciation} You know I'm just all {C: laughing} {NW} automatically all of a sudden a French accent {C: laughing} #1 on the stage. #
interviewer:  #2 Right. # {NW} well what about uh the largest uh Protestant denomination in the South that would
741:  Baptist.
interviewer:  and people become members of the church you'd say they
741:  Joined.
interviewer:  and when one goes to church one goes to pray to
741:  God?
interviewer:  and the preacher preaches a
741:  sermon
interviewer:  or somebody might say well I don't care about listening to the sermon I just go to hear the
741:  Music. Choir. Whatever.
interviewer:  uh outside looking at uh at a sunset you might say my goodness that sure is a
741:  Beautiful. Gorgeous.
interviewer:  well say if I were on the way to church and had a flat tire had to change it I might say well by the time I get or church will be over
741:  By the time I get there.
interviewer:  yeah or what is supposed to be uh the uh opposite of God that's the
741:  Devil.
interviewer:  ever heard it called anything else
741:  Oh Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub um probably heard him called all kinds of things. uh
interviewer:  you ever heard parents uh try to scare their children if they're misbehaving by saying boy if you don't behave the old is gonna get you
741:  The boogerman? But I didn't know that was supposed to be the devil.
interviewer:  I was gonna ask you that if you associated it with.
741:  Hmm-mm.
interviewer:  what about these things that people might claim to see around a graveyard they're called
741:  Ghosts.
interviewer:  heard that called anything else?
741:  Shades.
interviewer:  really?
741:  I mm not I may have gotten that out of a book. I don't know. {C: laughing} uh {X} had some interesting shoot well some of 'em called them dead things.
interviewer:  {NW} ever heard people call 'em haints?
741:  Haints?
interviewer:  uh-huh
741:  In mostly in books. I'm I've ne- {X} think I've ever really heard #1 anyone call 'em that. #
interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
741:  Mo- they say ghosts around here. or ghosties.
interviewer:  ghosties {NW} well what about uh a house that's infested with these things you'd say
741:  #1 A haunted #
interviewer:  #2 it's a #
741:  house.
interviewer:  or say if somebody was asking you to do something that you were particularly crazy about doing you might say well I'll do it if you insist but I'd not
741:  I'd rather not.
interviewer:  or say a man who owns a thousand acres of land talking about the quantity you'd say he owns a
741:  The bunch. A bunch of land.
interviewer:  have you ever heard people around here use the expression right smart? if you're at right smart land he's got
741:  That probably but I'm it's I don't think it's real common or at least it's not I haven't heard it that much.
interviewer:  now what if say if uh
741:  How I'm trying to think how they would say {X} it's man he owns passel of passel of land or
interviewer:  mm-hmm
741:  more.
interviewer:  Yeah.
741:  Something like that.
interviewer:  well say if you wanted if you were agree with somebody uh and you want him to say something stronger more enthusiastic than just yes what might you say
741:  If I am agreeing strongly with somebody and I want to say rather than you bet or whatever.
interviewer:  would you ever say something like certainly
741:  #1 Certainly. #
interviewer:  #2 in that #
741:  #1 mm-hmm #
interviewer:  #2 case? #
741:  Absolutely.
interviewer:  mm-hmm well what about if you were agreeing with somebody uh rather than than just saying just yes if you were going to be say polite to another gentleman you'd say
741:  Yes sir.
interviewer:  and to a woman
741:  Yes ma'am. Or yes'm. #1 In fact #
interviewer:  #2 what about #
741:  it was very hard to break that habit.
interviewer:  {NW}
741:  As an adult that moving back here I had to break it because I'd say yes'm and yes ma'am and yes sir all my life #1 and #
interviewer:  #2 mm-hmm #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 #
741:  and boy the women say don't you ma'am me you're an adult too you know. {C: laughing}
interviewer:  {NW}
741:  Had to quit.
interviewer:  what about uh say if you went out in the morning and it's not just you might say well it's not just a little cold this morning it's
741:  Freezing.
interviewer:  or how cold is it it's
741:  How cold is it it's freezing. {NW}
interviewer:  would you ever say well it's just real cold this morning
741:  I'd say r- yeah I might say real cold but I would more likely say freezing.
interviewer:  if you had done something uh uh oh I don't
741:  #1 If I #
interviewer:  #2 know #
741:  were talking to my children I would say it was really cold. #1 I wouldn't #
interviewer:  #2 right #
741:  say re- #1 I might #
interviewer:  #2 right #
741:  say real cold #1 but I think I #
interviewer:  #2 uh-huh #
741:  I really would say really c- really cold. But otherwi- usually I'd say it's freezing cold.
interviewer:  alright okay what if what about if you had done something uh oh if you were a little peeved at yourself for breaking something or you know something like that what might you say to yourself after doing something like that
741:  {NW} #1 Profanity and all? #
interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
741:  #1 {NW} #
interviewer:  #2 {NW} # whatever
741:  Uh i- idiot I'd usually call myself an idiot when I do something that I shouldn't do. Just that I'm just really put out with myself I call myself an idiot.
interviewer:  well what would you be likely to say you suppose if you had heard uh that somebody had said something about you that you didn't appreciate quite hearing it do you have any idea what you might say
741:  Well I like that. Or something like that.
interviewer:  would you ever say something like well the idea
741:  mm-mm
interviewer:  you ever heard anybody say
741:  #1 mm-hmm #
interviewer:  #2 that #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 #
741:  My grandmother always said that. But uh {D: hmm as I would.}
interviewer:  well what about if you met a
741:  {D: I I would come up with something more like} well or {D: while I s-} that or #1 you know something #
interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
741:  like that.
interviewer:  well what about if you had if you met an acquaintance of yours uh on the street what would you say to them in a way of uh inquiring about their health
741:  I'd say how are you doing?
interviewer:  would you say that to somebody you didn't know at all?
741:  No.
interviewer:  would you say anything?
741:  About their health? {X} I would sa- when I'm like when I meet somebody how do you do I would say how do you do. Or hello. Or I might say how are you. Or or you know or something like that but uh how are you doing is for your friends.
interviewer:  yeah well how would you greet someone around December twenty-fifth you'd say
741:  Merry Christmas. Or Christmas gift #1 or #
interviewer:  #2 yeah #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 #
741:  if it's if it's a friend or family you might say Christmas gift.
interviewer:  well what about greeting somebody around January the first you'd say
741:  Happy New Year.
interviewer:  is there any equivalent to Christmas gift for New Year's
741:  Not that I know of. If there is tell me. {NW}
interviewer:  I have never heard of it some people that I ask claim that they say New Year's gift that was new to me say if uh somebody had done you a favor {NS} you might say well I'm much
741:  Obliged. Don't use that much anymore it's kind of obsolete.
interviewer:  {X} what would you say uh would be equivalent to that
741:  I really appreciate it. {D: or} I owe you one.
interviewer:  {X}
741:  Something like that. Much obliged my grandfather used that all much obliged he was all that's much obliged it's just #1 he used it #
interviewer:  #2 yeah #
741:  all the time.
interviewer:  uh-huh well what about if uh somebody had asked you uh about whether you had time to do something you might say well I'm not sure but I I'll have time
741:  I think I'll have time.
interviewer:  or say if you had to go downtown to get a few things in the stores you'd say you need to go downtown to do some
741:  Shopping.
interviewer:  and if you make a purchase perhaps the storekeeper uh took a piece of paper and
741:  Wrapped it.
interviewer:  and when you got home you
741:  Unwrapped it.
interviewer:  uh say if a store is selling things at less than what they paid for 'em you'd say they're selling how
741:  I'd say they were on sale.
interviewer:  would you ever say uh uh they're selling at a loss
741:  No. {C: laughing}
interviewer:  {NW}
741:  #1 I sure wouldn't. #
interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
741:  #1 {NW} #
interviewer:  #2 {NW} # not the case huh
741:  No way. {NW}
interviewer:  well what about if you were admiring something in the store window but uh you might say well I'd sure like to get that but it just too much
741:  Costs too much.
interviewer:  and you'd say uh usually around the first of the month the bill is
741:  Due.
interviewer:  if you were in a club you might have to pay your club
741:  Dues.
interviewer:  say if you wanted to buy a new car uh you might go to your banker to arrange to the money
741:  Borrow.
interviewer:  and you've probably heard that expression that uh good workers get mighty nowadays
741:  Scarce. {NW}
interviewer:  or say uh a boy uh
741:  I w- I don't now scarce I guess I use some I don't think it's a word I use very often.
interviewer:  say uh if a boy was in a uh swimming pool he runs down the springboard and goes in like so
741:  He dived.
interviewer:  and he what would the participle form of that be say he has
741:  Dived.
interviewer:  what would you say you did if you landed if you uh dived in the water and landed flat on your
741:  #1 Belly #
interviewer:  #2 stomach #
741:  buster.
interviewer:  or uh say if uh a boy was playing around in the yard and he tucked his head down and kicked out his legs and went over like that
741:  Did a somersault.
interviewer:  when you get in the water you begin to
741:  Swim.
interviewer:  and the past of that would be
741:  Swam. Swam.
interviewer:  and you have
741:  Have swum. swa- have swum I guess {C: laughing} I don't know.
interviewer:  {X} have you ever heard of uh a storekeeper uh say if you went down there to pay off your bill you ever heard one giving you a little gift or present or something like that just for paying it off
741:  Hmm-mm. #1 I don't #
interviewer:  #2 {X} #
741:  know of a single person that does that.
interviewer:  {NW} uh talking about swimming again if a person gets in trouble in the water he might
741:  Drown.
interviewer:  and the past of that would be
741:  Drowned.
interviewer:  what would you say a baby does before he learns to walk?
741:  Crawl.
interviewer:  and if there's something up a tree that I need to get I have to
741:  Climb it.
interviewer:  and the past of that is
741:  Climbed.
interviewer:  so say sometimes if before uh a child goes to bed says his prayers he'll sometimes
741:  Kneel.
interviewer:  or if if you're feeling tired you might say well I think I'll go in bed a while
741:  Get in bed I'd I'd probably say I think I'll go lie down a while.
interviewer:  or say uh well so and so is feeling really sick he couldn't even sit up he just had to in bed all day
741:  Just had to lie in bed all day.
interviewer:  what do you say you do when you begin to see these things in your sleep you say
741:  Dream. {C: background noise}
interviewer:  past of that would be
741:  #1 Dreamed. #
interviewer:  #2 yesterday #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 # or you might say well I was dreaming about so and so but all of the sudden I
741:  Woke up.
interviewer:  or what would uh you say I did if I brought down my foot very heavy on the floor
741:  Stamped it.
interviewer:  or
741:  Or stomped.
interviewer:  yeah or say uh uh if a boy met a girl at a party he wanted to see her home after the party was over what would he probably ask her say
741:  #1 If he can #
interviewer:  #2 well may #
741:  take her home. Can I take you home or.
interviewer:  or say if I uh got my car stuck in the mud I might ask somebody to tie a rope onto my uh bumper and try to
741:  Pull you out.
interviewer:  or get behind me and give me a
741:  Push.
interviewer:  is there anything you might say if uh other than just carry for hanging uh uh say carry very heavy suitcase a long distance
741:  #1 Lug it. #
interviewer:  #2 something #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 # lug it? uh-huh do you ever hear people around here say uh tote it
741:  #1 Some. #
interviewer:  #2 toted # that
741:  uh-huh {NS} It's kind of a it's not anything I hear
interviewer:  mm-hmm
741:  very often.
interviewer:  well what about if uh you were cooking something in the kitchen and a bunch of little children were uh around you getting in the way you might say well now that stove's very hot so
741:  Watch out. {NW} I don't don't touch or something.
interviewer:  what about uh these uh games that children sometimes play uh chase or something like that and there's usually a place that you can run to and be safe what did you call that?
741:  Home I guess. No.
Auxiliary 1:  Well base.
741:  Oh well you're saying baseball.
Auxiliary 1:  mm-mm
741:  Home base?
Auxiliary 1:  No just base.
741:  Oh really?
interviewer:  just run to base can't get you there or say if we're if we are throwing a ball around I throw it to you you're supposed to
741:  Catch it.
interviewer:  and the past of that would
741:  #1 Caught. #
interviewer:  #2 be #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 # or say if uh we were going to meet in town I might say well if I get there first I'll
741:  Wait on you.
interviewer:  if uh say your husband had a hired man who just kept loafing around uh and he might have to discharge him he might say well looks like I'm gonna have to get of that man
741:  Rid of him.
interviewer:  and if the man comes back after he's fired him uh he might say aw come on just give me another
741:  Chance.
interviewer:  say if somebody who uh is always smiling and has a nice word for everybody you'd say well well so and so sure seems to be in a good
741:  Mood.
interviewer:  anything else you've ever heard for that?
741:  Someone who's always like that? Usually say that they're have a good personality or they're real very friendly or something like
Auxiliary 1:  Sunny disposition.
741:  something.
interviewer:  have you ever heard people say so and so's in mighty good humor today
741:  Oh in a good humor yeah.
interviewer:  now what what about uh oh say if it's a kid left his best pen out on his desk and when he came back it was gone you might say well looks like somebody
741:  Stole it.
interviewer:  or I might say something like uh well I had forgotten about that but now I
741:  Remember.
interviewer:  or say if you wanted to get in touch with somebody uh without phoning them you might sit down and
741:  Oh write a letter.
interviewer:  and the past of that would
741:  #1 I #
interviewer:  #2 be #
741:  wrote a letter.
interviewer:  and you have
741:  Written.
interviewer:  and what do you call yourself doing {NW} always comes up there uh to the envelope after you've written a letter
741:  Lick it.
interviewer:  well and you
741:  #1 Seal it. #
interviewer:  #2 write #
741:  Oh address it. #1 Okay. #
interviewer:  #2 mm-hmm # you might say well I'd like to write so and so but I don't know his
741:  Address.
interviewer:  and after you write somebody you might say well after I've gone to the trouble of writing him I expect to get
741:  An answer.
interviewer:  or say if uh a little child is learning to whistle through his teeth and you wanted to know uh uh uh where he learned it you might ask him well who how to do that
741:  Taught you how to do that.
interviewer:  have you ever heard of uh oh children calling another child who's always running around and telling on other children anything in particular
741:  A tattletale.
interviewer:  now tattling and gossip is there any difference there? to you
741:  Gossiping is just talking about somebody. Tattling is telling the authority
Auxiliary 1:  #1 what someone did wrong. #
interviewer:  #2 {NS} {NW} # {NW} I see. what about these things that uh you might put in vases around houses uh
741:  #1 Flowers. #
interviewer:  #2 yeah #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 # or these things that children play with say they have a lot of
741:  Toys.
interviewer:  ever heard toys called anything else
741:  Playthings.
interviewer:  ever heard 'em called play pretties?
741:  Uh yeah I have. I've I never have called it that but that's uh I have heard it used.
interviewer:  well what about uh say if I have something that you need right now you'd say me that now
741:  Give me that now.
interviewer:  and the past would be yesterday I
741:  Gave.
interviewer:  and I have
741:  Given.
interviewer:  or say if uh I might say well I sure am glad I carried my umbrella because we hadn't gone a block before it
741:  Started raining.
interviewer:  or it to rain
741:  Began to rain.
interviewer:  past of that would be
741:  It began to rain.
interviewer:  and it has
741:  Started raining. It has begun to rain all right. {C: laughing} {NW} I don't use that #1 exactly #
interviewer:  #2 uh-huh #
741:  in that. It started raining it was #1 raining. #
interviewer:  #2 right #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 # well if you wanted to go somewhere in a hurry you wouldn't just walk you would begin to
741:  Run.
interviewer:  and the past would be
741:  Run. I'd say I ran. mm-kay
interviewer:  and I have
741:  Run.
interviewer:  or uh say uh if the highway department's working on a road had all the machinery out there you know uh you might tell somebody well you can't get through there the highway department's out there and the road's all
741:  Blocked.
interviewer:  or if they've been you know digging holes in it and
741:  Oh.
interviewer:  trenches and all that you'd say the road's all
741:  Torn up.
interviewer:  or say if uh your husband gave you a bracelet as a gift and you were just sitting there looking at it he might say well don't just look at it go ahead and
741:  Put it on. {C: laughing}
interviewer:  or oh how about if uh if you were to sit on the couch beside a friend of yours and all of the sudden he said what'd you say? you might say I didn't I said nothing he might say oh I thought you said
741:  Something.
interviewer:  if somebody asks uh uh how long have you lived here in Arkadelphia you might say me why I've
741:  Lived here a jillion years. All my life.
interviewer:  or if say if somebody did something you might say well that wasn't an accident so and so did it
741:  On purpose.
interviewer:  or if you're inquiring about something uh somebody might say well I don't know you better go so and so
741:  Ask.
interviewer:  and the past form of that would
741:  #1 Asked. #
interviewer:  #2 be #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 # or if boys get irritated with each other they might start to
741:  Fight.
interviewer:  and the past would be
741:  Fought.
interviewer:  and if uh I accidentally take a knife and do that that's a uh
741:  Stabbed.
interviewer:  or if uh say a teacher went into the classroom and a lot of funny pictures of her on the blackboard she might ask the class well now who on the board
741:  Who drew that on the board.
interviewer:  or if uh say some men had to lift uh a heavy weight up onto the roof of the house they might take a block and tackle and do what to get it up there
741:  Pull it.
interviewer:  ever heard any other way of uh I guess maybe if you were sailing have you ever heard an expression to uh have to do with uh
741:  Oh hoist.
interviewer:  yeah
741:  Okay.
interviewer:  what how would you uh greet someone around ten oh clock in the daytime you would say
741:  Good morning.
interviewer:  what would be the latest you would say that
741:  Oh well I certain wouldn't of course wouldn't say it past twelve noon but I probably wouldn't even say it past eleven. I usually I would say good morning like nine ten. Hello? Yes. Yeah. Oh uh well no I had just asked the the girls to and anything they want to uh drink in the way of {NW} liquor to bring themselves. Right. Oh no I'm not gonna be out much of anything because uh all the girls are supposed to bring uh you know some food and I'm just gonna fix a couple of dips and then have some ice and uh Cokes and Seven Ups and things so it's not gonna be anything worth. You know i- it's not gonna be anything at all. Okay. {C: laughing} Oh okay well thank you no I don't that won't be necessary if everybody just brings what what they particularly want to drink I think we'll be in pretty good shape. And all the women are gonna bring some kind of either chips or some kind of snacking something so we're gonna have plenty to eat. Uh no I think the cast members will be enough. I know s- uh Sherry's gonna bring um oh some kind of well she says it's a dip but it's really it's hamburger meat with uh beans and onions and cheese and all kinds of stuff it just sounds like a meal in itself so I think we're gonna have enough we'll have {D: Barkley dip} and then a cheese dip so we're gonna have a lot of kind of heavier type of dip so I think we're gonna have oh uh plenty to eat. Oh. {C: laughing} Oh right. Right uh-huh. Right. Okay. Okay that'll be fine. Okay well that that will just be fine. Okey-doke. Okay now bye-bye. We're having a cast party over here.
interviewer:  mm-hmm
741:  Tonight. {NS} And
interviewer:  is tonight the last run?
741:  right. With Richard feeling bad and I'm kinda.
interviewer:  well what about the part of the day after morning you call that
741:  Afternoon.
interviewer:  and after that?
741:  uh Well either evening or night. Evening and night's kind of different to me it's not to everyone. But it's kind of different to me. Late afternoon runs into evening which runs into night.
interviewer:  I see. well what about uh uh if you were leaving someone during the day what would you say to 'em?
741:  I'd say bye.
interviewer:  have you ever heard people around here say good day?
741:  Not really. Oh well I maybe some of the older generation may have. Or I'll see you. You know that's the or I'll see you later. Bye.
interviewer:  well what about the name of the meal that you eat early in the morning that's
741:  Breakfast.
interviewer:  and then you eat
741:  Lunch.
interviewer:  and then
741:  Dinner.
interviewer:  any meal that you could eat between breakfast and lunch?
741:  Oh brunch?
interviewer:  or what would you say to someone uh when you were leaving them at night
741:  Good night.
interviewer:  or say if on a farm a person worked started work before daylight you'd say that he started work before
741:  Dawn.
interviewer:  or before sun
741:  Sunup. But I would say dawn.
interviewer:  well what about say if a farmer were a little bit late getting out of the field uh he'd say well when we started out the field the sun had already
741:  Risen.
interviewer:  and if he worked until the sun went out of sight you'd say he worked until
741:  Sunset or after sunset.
interviewer:  today is uh Thursday that means Wednesday was
741:  Yesterday.
interviewer:  and Friday's
741:  Tomorrow.
interviewer:  what if somebody came to see you on Sunday uh the Sunday before this past Sunday you'd say he came
741:  Last Sunday. {NS}
interviewer:  or what about if he's coming to see you
741:  #1 Next Sunday. #
interviewer:  #2 {D: Sunday's} #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 #
741:  That there's more confusion on #1 these terms. #
interviewer:  #2 {NW} # {NW} you ever heard people the Sunday a week ago or Sunday worth a week ago
741:  mm-hmm Su- #1 a week uh-huh. #
interviewer:  #2 {X} #
741:  Sunday week and all kinds of funny strange things I always have when I to make it clear I always #1 give 'em the date. #
interviewer:  #2 bring 'em a calendar #
741:  #1 That's why I say the #
interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
741:  date because last Sunday to me is just the previous Sunday it wasn't a week ago Sunday it was just the previous whenever. And then next Sunday is the next one coming up.
interviewer:  Right.
741:  #1 But to #
interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
741:  some people it's just not that way at all.
interviewer:  right
741:  So you have to be careful.
interviewer:  say if somebody stayed at your house from about the first to the fifteenth you'd say they stayed about
741:  Too long.
interviewer:  {NW}
741:  They stayed about two weeks.
interviewer:  would you ever say do people around here ever use fortnight
741:  Mm-mm. Or if they do I've never heard it.
interviewer:  or say if you wanted to know what uh time of day it is you'd ask somebody
741:  What time is it?
interviewer:  and they'd say well just let me look at my
741:  Watch.
interviewer:  what time would you say it was if it's midway between seven and eight oh clock?
741:  Seven thirty.
interviewer:  and if it's fifteen minutes later than half past ten
741:  I'd say it's quarter of eleven.
interviewer:  or say if you had been doing something for a long time you'd say well I've been doing that for quite
741:  A while.
interviewer:  say if nineteen seventy-six was last year then nineteen seventy-seven is
741:  Next year. #1 This year. #
interviewer:  #2 for seventy-seven #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 #
741:  Nineteen seventy-seven is this year. {D: mm-kay}
interviewer:  or what about something that happened about this time last year you'd say it happened
741:  A year ago.
interviewer:  and these things these white puffy things in the
741:  Clouds?
interviewer:  yeah or say if you looked at up in the sky there aren't any clouds around and uh the sun's shining you say well I believe we're gonna have a
741:  Pretty day.
interviewer:  or say if it's if it's not very pretty and the sun's not shining and uh you say well looks like it's gonna be a
741:  Crummy day. {C: laughing}
interviewer:  {NW}
741:  #1 Or it just #
interviewer:  #2 {X} #
741:  or it's I'd say it looks like it's gonna be overcast or
interviewer:  have you ever heard people say oh looks like it's gonna be a gloomy day
741:  Gloomy right.
interviewer:  or or say if the clouds are beginning to get uh thicker and you figure you're gonna have some rain you'd say that the weather's
741:  Changing or turning or.
interviewer:  or say if the the clouds begin to break up and the sun starts shining you'd say the weather's
741:  Clearing.
interviewer:  or what about uh a heavy rainfall say about an inch in just an hour you'd say you had a
741:  Deluge I guess I don't know. Torrent.
interviewer:  have you ever heard people say a gully wash
741:  {X} I've heard it. mm-hmm.
interviewer:  now what about if you're having a lot of lightning along with the rain you'd say you're having a
741:  Electrical storm or a storm.
interviewer:  would that be the
741:  #1 Thunderstorm. #
interviewer:  #2 same # thunderstorm well is it possible to have a storm with just uh lightning and no rain?
741:  Oh yes.
interviewer:  would you call that something different
741:  I'd c- uh heavens. Mm uh I don't know.
interviewer:  that would
741:  U- there's usually some rain attached to it
interviewer:  I see.
741:  Uh I mean you somewhere I mean it may not be raining just then I I can remember some I guess you'd call it a electrical storm I don't know.
interviewer:  have you ever heard the expression uh used to describe say uh uh rain uh it's raining uh when the sun's shining? now no clouds or anything but it just begins to rain
741:  It just rains. Yeah no I I don't know of any expression for that
interviewer:  you're never heard people say the devil's beating his wife with a frying pan?
741:  No. {C: laughing} Huh-uh.
interviewer:  well what uh say uh you might say well I just got my clothes up on the line when the wind came along and 'em down
741:  Blew 'em down.
interviewer:  use the past participle would be the wind has
741:  Blown.
interviewer:  well what about if uh the wind was blowing from uh that direction it'd be blowing from the
741:  South.
interviewer:  and that would be the
741:  North.
interviewer:  that would
741:  East. West.
interviewer:  and between would be
741:  That way is southeast. Southwest. Northwest. Northeast. {NS}
interviewer:  or say if you went out on your porch and just could barely see the house across there because of these low-hanging clouds say you're having
741:  #1 Foggy. #
interviewer:  #2 a lot of #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 # you're just there's a lot of {NS}
741:  Fog.
interviewer:  or if it uh doesn't rain for couple of weeks you'd say you're having a little
741:  Drought.
interviewer:  or if it's not as
741:  #1 Yeah I #
interviewer:  #2 severe #
741:  called it a drought and I think my son looked it up and said it was a drought. #1 all these #
interviewer:  #2 yeah #
741:  years I had said drought.
interviewer:  {NW} is there something not as severe as a drought
741:  Dry spell.
interviewer:  or what about if the wind has been very gentle and it's gradually getting stronger you'd say the wind is
741:  Picking up. {NS}
interviewer:  or if it's
741:  #1 Rising. #
interviewer:  #2 just #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 # or if it's the opposite if it's been
741:  #1 Dying #
interviewer:  #2 strong #
741:  down.
interviewer:  well well how would you describe the weather if you went out in the morning and it ah it was uh little chilly but not bad you know just kinda you'd like to be out in you'd say it's real
741:  It's uh oh crisp or {NS} uh I don't know I can't think of anything right now just really. {NS}
interviewer:  for some reason I when I ask that question that old Lewis Carroll poem Jabberwocky
741:  Mm-hmm.
interviewer:  'Twas really {NS} really dismal
741:  Really.
interviewer:  whatever that is what are what about if uh say you have a light white coating on the ground you'd say you had a light
741:  Snow.
interviewer:  or
741:  Frost.
interviewer:  or you might say well it got so cold last night that the lake
741:  Froze.
interviewer:  or if it gets much colder the pond will
741:  Freeze. {C: background noise} {NS}
interviewer:  this expression uh you might hear people say well sometimes it seems that your good luck comes just a little bit at a time but it seems that your bad luck comes
741:  In bunches I don't know. {C: laughing}
interviewer:  or say if uh if a farmer got twenty bushels to the acre last year this year it was forty bushels you'd say this year's crop was
741:  Double.
interviewer:  or was as good
741:  Twice as good.
interviewer:  just for pronunciation if you don't mind count for me from one to twenty
741:  One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty.
interviewer:  the number after twenty-six is
741:  Twenty-seven.
interviewer:  and after twenty-nine
741:  Thirty.
interviewer:  and after thirty-nine
741:  Forty.
interviewer:  and after sixty-nine
741:  Seventy.
interviewer:  and after ninety-nine
741:  A hundred.
interviewer:  and after nine hundred ninety-nine
741:  A thousand.
interviewer:  and ten times one hundred thousand is one
741:  Million. I hope. {C: laughing} {NW}
interviewer:  what the day of the month that the bills are due is usually the
741:  Tenth.
interviewer:  and the one before that the tenth would be the
741:  Ninth.
interviewer:  then the
741:  Eighth. Seventh. Sixth. Fifth. Fourth. Third. Second. First.
interviewer:  and uh the months of the year
741:  January February March April May June July August September October November December.
interviewer:  and the days of the week
741:  Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday.
interviewer:  you ever heard Sunday called anything else?
741:  Besides the Sabbath?
interviewer:  Okay.
741:  The Lord's day. {NS}
interviewer:  I've got it
741:  The whole thing huh.
interviewer:  the whole thing
741:  I thought of what I call the dog besides a mongrel's a cur.
interviewer:  cur dog
741:  I knew there was something else that I called it that I had not
interviewer:  mm-hmm well I think there are several things uh talking to you that I had never run into before like flash and uh what else was it glisten
741:  Glisten.
interviewer:  is there an old uh
741:  {D: bar uh you we do we got bar}
interviewer:  yeah seems there's a a poem that uses that word glisten but not to mean sweat well is it Richard Cory you ever read that so and so glistened when he walked I'm not sure
741:  Glistens in a lot of things I think as far as literature is concerned.
interviewer:  well here
741:  You want me to get that judge's #1 name let me write it for you. #
interviewer:  #2 oh yeah that would #
741:  #1 #
interviewer:  #2 #