Interviewer:  okay uh
Auxiliary:  {X} {NS} {X}
Interviewer:  How have the bad storms do y'all have done here? {X}
888:  Let me see bad storms we have uh
Auxiliary:  {X}
888:  tornado storms and thunderstorms and other types of storms such as
Auxiliary:  {X}
888:  winter storms.
Auxiliary:  {X}
888:  Fall weather storms, things like that.
Interviewer:  What's a tornado?
888:  What's a torna- tornado storm?
Interviewer:  Yes.
888:  Now tornado storm is something that knocks things {D: a loose} wind is real strong well We never had none around here lately because it didn't come in closer we never had a really bad storm here.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh, uh-huh.
888:  And you take other places they get their house tore up and things.
Interviewer:  okay have you ever seen one?
888:  Have I ever seen one?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Ah yes I seen one before.
Interviewer:  {NW} It's exciting isn't it?
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
888:  #2 not #
Interviewer:  yeah.
888:  It's scary {X} but you know when I was in Snellville wind was blowing I thought we was going, you know our house was going to blow away.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Cause we was living let's see over there on Miller over here and wind was getting strong.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Was blowing a little hit the windows look like they was going to blow the windows out or something like that but it feels it's really sometimes frightening when you're real small.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
888:  #2 Because # you think something's going to happen and you're going to have to grab hold to a tree. #1 everybody's leaving #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah # Um what do you call those things that that come in at the gulf you know and they come in and across Galveston and Houston and Galveston periodically gets torn up by one and it causes a lot of rain and stuff up here but um
888:  Twister. What you mean?
Interviewer:  Uh it's a big storm you know it's huge like it has a name you know just Carla or something like that.
888:  Oh a name.
Interviewer:  Yeah it's usually a girl's name and and uh I think Carla was the one that was I can't remember if it was {X} or where but #1 it tore up so bad a few years ago #
888:  #2 Yeah I know # I heard about that I don't know where it was at but I heard about one like that called, I think called they did give a name for it that's for sure.
Interviewer:  Yeah yeah. #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 I don't know what that # called what
Interviewer:  um what do you call the kind of storm where um {NS} I mean do you have a name for this kind of storm, you know it rains and then as soon as it hits the ground the stuff freezes?
888:  Uh icicle?
Interviewer:  What?
888:  Icicles.
Interviewer:  Okay do you have a name for that kind of storm?
888:  Oh I just say hail. Well a hail and icicles I, I wouldn't say they're the same thing but something hit the ground and it freezes well I'd call them hail.
Interviewer:  Yeah, yeah. Well what if it what if it's um what if it's rain you know on the way down it doesn't freeze until after it hits the ground.
888:  And do I got a word name for it?
Interviewer:  yeah.
888:  When it freezes on the ground?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  I call it just be- below, below weather I guess.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 Cold. #
888:  #1 Just freezing. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # um Oh yeah something I forgot, if a person gets arrested for being drunk, where would they take him?
888:  Where would they take him to the police department.
Interviewer:  Okay. Well if uh somebody gets arrested for robbing a ban would they put, put you in the same place or would it be a different place?
888:  Same place.
Interviewer:  Okay. uh okay what does the policeman carry for protection?
888:  Thirty eight special.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  That's pretty specific.
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  uh what other what other kinds of uh handguns are there do you do you know?
888:  Twenty two caliber, midnight special
Interviewer:  Yeah what's a midnight special?
888:  Midnight special is the gun that pretty big gun the reason I know about it is because this dude used to have one he used to take it everywhere he go.
Interviewer:  Oh really?
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Did he have ammunition for it?
888:  Yeah he did have ammunition and
Auxiliary:  {X}
888:  but he didn't use it on nobody he just had it for protection
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  We're using where when we went out of time Friday this {NW} this friend of mine he took his 22
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  because you know we don't know what we're going to run up against.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  We ain't going up there looking for no trouble.
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  But he takes his twenty-two.
Auxiliary:  {X}
Interviewer:  What is that? Is it a revolver or what?
888:  Revolver.
Interviewer:  Yeah. okay if it's not a revolver what is it? What do you call it?
888:  It's not a revolver it's not a gun.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay, mm-kay. uh let me see um what do you call that stick or club or whatever the the policeman carries?
888:  Billy club.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. But anything else anything other #1 other kind of #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  thing like this that he might carry?
888:  a jack.
Interviewer:  What
888:  #1 a jack #
Interviewer:  #2 What's the #
888:  huh
Interviewer:  What's the difference?
888:  What's the difference?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  It's the same name but they just got different names for it.
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay.
888:  Same thing.
Interviewer:  Okay. uh Okay. um What would you call somebody who was oh drunk all the time and and couldn't hold a job and you know just sort of doing a good for nothing.
888:  #1 couldn't #
Interviewer:  #2 um #
888:  hold a job?
Interviewer:  couldn't hold a job yeah cause he because he's drunk all the time what would
888:  #1 D-W #
Interviewer:  #2 you call #
888:  I'd call him a D-W-I. #1 Intoxicated. #
Interviewer:  #2 what's that stand for #
888:  Well I don't I don't know if he you say if he was drinking all the time I wouldn't put I'd just say intoxicated.
Interviewer:  Okay, okay. would you have a name for that kind of person?
888:  Would I have a name a name for it?
Interviewer:  Yeah like sit around all the time and drinks and doesn't do anything else
888:  I'd say whiner or a bum.
Interviewer:  Okay, okay. What about a kind of person who drinks too much really
888:  oh, you talk, you I'm not trying to say the people that sits around and drinks cause I drink myself.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  And I'm you know you can take a few drinks sometimes but don't overdo it just hold your limit.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Where you don't get all drunk.
Interviewer:  Okay now I'm talking about the kind of guy who really's just drunk #1 most of the time #
888:  #2 oh # Well I'd just say that he's just a {D: whiner}.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. um Okay now there's this another kind of person who who also drinks too much #1 here he doesn't always limit #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  but he manages to hold a job and you know to stay with his family and stuff like that. {NW} You have another name for that kind of person?
888:  That that holds his job?
Interviewer:  Yeah. But still he's sort of on the edge. You know I mean he #1 he's sort of #
888:  #2 well #
Interviewer:  drunk most of the time anyway.
888:  I just say he's getting into it he's getting into it little by little.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. Okay. Um Okay, what do you call a kind of cheap hotel that that caters to people like the kind of guy who can't hold his job because he's drunk all the time?
888:  Rehabilitation.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay um what is that? Could you explain to me?
888:  Well it's a place that when you're {D: too tired to} break the habit and you think you can't quit and you want help.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  That's the place to go. {NS} #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah #
888:  and place where you can that you want help and you go down to the uh you know rehabilitation place and they help you out try to break your habit they'll put you on different stuff and see that you know make you take different medicine and stuff like that. #1 to break #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah #
888:  your habit. that's if you want to you can always get of it if you want to. Some people claim they can't get off of it but you I I don't know but I say you want to break up something you can break it. Quit the habit or kick the habit or one. If you don't kick the habit you're going to kick the bucket.
Interviewer:  {NW} #1 {NW} #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  That's good.
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. um Okay there's some kind of hotel you don't really do anything to these people you know they don't try to help him or anything they just just give him a place to stay and that's it.
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  You know I mean it's barely do that just give him a bed and
888:  #1 oh #
Interviewer:  #2 like # you know I don't know cost fifty cents a night or something like that #1 you have a #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  name for a place like that? They always do a ratty rundown looking place.
888:  I'd call it the ghetto. {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay.
888:  They fifty cents a night. {NW}
Interviewer:  to what?
888:  I said these the place called {NW} charge fifty cents a night. It must be
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. Okay um Do you have some other names for a prostitute?
888:  Do I know some other names for them?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  {NW} Why did you ask me that?
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  Because it's on here.
888:  um I just say
Interviewer:  Nobody will ever know that you said it. {D: The recording is confidential.}
888:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
888:  I just say H-O-S. {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. do you um {NS} Do you really when you say that do you say H-O or do you say the whole you say
888:  I say the word but
Interviewer:  Why, why don't you go ahead and say it so they can hear how you say it?
888:  I just say hoes.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. Are there any other names for it?
888:  {NW} B-H.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  B-H-S.
Interviewer:  oh go ahead and say it.
888:  Bitches. #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # {NW}
888:  I
Interviewer:  um Okay what do you call a building where some of them might work? You know like a a bunch of them might work there.
888:  What what would I call a building?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  The whorehouse.
Interviewer:  Okay. um sometimes there's a a-a-a woman who who runs the house
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  You know um sort of in charge? What do you call her?
888:  What do I call her?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  Same thing I just call the rest of them.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  And this is under the man. Who goes out like on the street and solicits and gets people for these women. Uh what would you call him?
888:  The pimp.
Interviewer:  Okay. #1 anything other #
888:  #2 {D: dynamite.} #
Interviewer:  what?
888:  {D: Dynamite.}
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay. {NW} Okay. oh {NS} Okay what do you call the kind of uh shop where like I could take my watch and leave it you know for a certain amount of money? #1 and #
888:  #2 Who do I call # Oh a pawn shop?
Interviewer:  Okay. um what would you call the worst section of town? Like downtown where drunks would be sitting around on the street and uh {NS} you know and just sitting there not doing anything there'd be a bunch of cheap hotels and just a real bad section of downtown
888:  Travis Park. That's where all of them hang out.
Interviewer:  Okay. #1 Okay. where is that? #
888:  #2 {NW} # That's on the corner of Travis right on the corner of Travis {NW} by the San Anthony's hotel on the corner of Travis street. #1 Right off of Travis. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay # I'll keep that in mind next time I'm downtown.
888:  {NW} #1 yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # Get away from there.
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  um what would you call Okay um what do you call a kind of movie theater a movie house that shows uh dirty movies?
888:  What do you call them?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Just call it a rated X theater. Rated X theater.
Interviewer:  Okay. um Do you know of any other names for uh wine?
888:  Booze.
Interviewer:  Okay. Does booze include um {NS} an does booze include other kinds of liquor too?
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. um What's some other words for money?
888:  What's some uh other words for money?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  Dust. Give me some dust. Bread
Interviewer:  #1 what's the first one? #
888:  #2 give me some bread. # Dust.
Interviewer:  How do you spell that?
888:  D-U-S-T.
Interviewer:  I haven't heard that.
888:  You never heard that?
Interviewer:  No.
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Where have I been all my life {NW}
888:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
888:  It's a really old saying. And then another one is got some bread on you. #1 you heard that before. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # Yeah I heard that.
888:  Yeah and another word is green.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  Give some green green.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. um what do you call a person who's hooked on drugs?
888:  A drug addict.
Interviewer:  Okay and what do you call the person you know not a drugger but somebody who who sells drugs directly to the addict on the street illegally?
888:  Pusher.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. um {NS} What do you know about marijuana?
888:  What do I know about marijuana?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I know it's bad for your health and I know it's it could kill you if you {NW} take so much of it and it's no good for your health it's all
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Messes up your lungs and brain.
Interviewer:  Do you know um any different kinds of it?
888:  Any different kinds of heroin heroin?
Interviewer:  Um marijuana.
888:  Marijuana?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  No I don't.
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  I wouldn't know because I don't I don't never mess with the stuff.
Interviewer:  Yeah. That's good. um does it usually come in what a powder or a look like a
888:  It comes in a powder. pallet of white.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. um have you ever heard anybody talk about what's the best kind of marijuana to get?
888:  Have I heard anybody talk about it?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh
888:  Well I heard people talk about uh things like you know where they ship it at you know stuff like that and I never heard from them what kind is the best kind or you know
Interviewer:  Yeah. Yeah. Okay. um what other kinds of drugs are there? that are illegal you know?
888:  L-S-D dope weed and
Interviewer:  What did you say after dope?
888:  Dope, weed.
Interviewer:  Weed? what is that is there another name for that?
888:  Another word for weed?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  Not that I know of. #1 It's weed. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
888:  You know what that is don't you?
Interviewer:  Mm-mm.
888:  You don't know what weed is?
Interviewer:  Mm-mm.
888:  Was a lot of them smoking in San Antonio.
Interviewer:  Mm
888:  That's on that's about the weed is about the baddest not the baddest drug but the most popular drug in San Antonio right now.
Interviewer:  Yeah. It's not the same thing as marijuana?
888:  Well you can say it's the same thing but you know you smoke it just the same.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  and
Interviewer:  What else is there?
888:  What else what other drug?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  I said L-S-D right? They got uh All the drugs I know of that's I know of
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Are all those that you named are they uh stuff you smoke or are any of them pills or
888:  weed is just smoke you uh talk you talking about pills? You want me to name some pills?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Yeah.
888:  Well they got they got some pills called downers they got some called reds and then they got some yellow then they got some uh uh black yellow jackets. Yellow jackets.
Interviewer:  Yeah. #1 what do #
888:  #2 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  What do the different ones do? Do you know?
888:  Well the downers they take your mind all the way off. They take your mind you know you don't have a mind on you. You'll be tripping out you don't know what you're doing.
Interviewer:  {NW} That's bad. What are reds?
888:  Reds?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  Uh reds if you take enough of them they'll really get you get you going but reds is mostly when you you know try you know when you get really knocked out. You know you get yourself knocked out.
Interviewer:  Yeah. are they more like uppers or are they downers?
888:  It's something like downers.
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay. uh anything else?
888:  That's all I can think of I can think of a lot more but I think I named enough.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  Okay. uh Okay what do you call the the uh guy who who brings letters to your house?
888:  Bring what?
Interviewer:  Letters.
888:  Letters? Oh. A mailman.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the people who come and pick up the trash the garbage in the back.
888:  Trash man.
Interviewer:  Okay. And what do you say a person has if he's able to gain favors like from politicians and city hall?
888:  he's able to gain what do you call him?
Interviewer:  Yeah. What what would you say he has?
888:  Legal legal rights?
Interviewer:  What?
888:  The legal rights?
Interviewer:  Okay. anything else?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  um What would you call sometimes there's a city employee no no sometimes there's a guy who works in the city but he's on the payroll you know but he doesn't do anything {NW} he's not really he doesn't really have a job. and he's just on there probably for because of political reasons. #1 you know. #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  would do you have a name for a person like that?
888:  That sits on the sits in for for political reasons?
Interviewer:  Yeah. He he has a job or at least on the books you know he has a job but he doesn't really do anything he just he just draws a salary and that's it.
888:  Do I have a name for it?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I would just call him easy pay.
Interviewer:  Okay. um uh other than a brand name like A-T-B or something what would you call a large food store like that?
888:  What would I call it?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Henry E Butts.
Interviewer:  Okay. uh if you didn't call it by its name you'd say I'm gonna go down to the
888:  food store.
Interviewer:  Okay. You have another name besides food store?
888:  super market.
Interviewer:  {NW} {NS} what would you call oh a little neighborhood store, I've seen some around here I can't can't remember where but like it'll they'll be on the corner you know and they're usually run by family.
888:  Oh
Interviewer:  they cater to kids that come by the school and that kind of thing.
888:  that's a little grocery store then it's a little grocery store
Interviewer:  Okay. and then what about the kind that well they're kind of modern and they're usually all glass across the front and they're open real early and open real late or sometimes they're open 24 hours.
888:  Oh stop and go?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Do you have another do you know another name for one of those?
888:  Another name for {NS} uh like {D: A-D-N A-D-N} they open twenty-four hours a day mostly.
Interviewer:  Okay. um
888:  I say uh graveyard shift. The graveyard store. cause they stay open almost all night.
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay. {NS} um what would you call a a store where you might get some kind of expensive special kind of foods like um specially cooked meats and bunches of different kinds of cheese and pickles maybe certain kinds and uh expensive kinds of salad and stuff like that?
888:  What would I what?
Interviewer:  What would you call a place like that?
888:  I just What would I call a place like that?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  A store.
Interviewer:  Okay. um What are some things that people have in the kitchen to heat food if they don't want to bother with the stove or the regular oven?
888:  They call it what do they a heater. bunsen burner.
Interviewer:  Okay bunsen burner what else?
888:  um {NS} {NW} The oven
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  Think when anyone turns the stove on right?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  They get I guess they just keep it in the oven.
Interviewer:  Okay. um
888:  and then turn {X}
Interviewer:  um anything else electric you know that might be smaller than the oven? {NS}
888:  uh I guess a bunsen burner that's all #1 I can think of. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # um what do you call a coin operated self service place where you go and do your clothes? #1 {X} #
888:  #2 {X} # {NW} Washateria
Interviewer:  Okay. uh you know another name?
888:  Laundry.
Interviewer:  Okay. um {NS} what do you call a thing it, that you have at home has a lid you know and you throw your dirty clothes in there.
888:  Clothes rack.
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay. Okay. it it this
888:  a damper
Interviewer:  what?
888:  what you say?
Interviewer:  it it's you know just a thing where you pile your dirty clothes in it. It's usually made out of some kind of woven stuff usually has a lid you know and
888:  We call ours the damper.
Interviewer:  Okay. um if you're gonna clean the rug you usually use a
888:  A vacuum cleaner.
Interviewer:  Okay. And attached to the vacuum cleaner there's this thing that you have to change cause it fills up with dirt and stuff
888:  the dirt catcher.
Interviewer:  Okay. um have you ever heard of those machines that some people have at home that reduces the size of their trash or garbage
888:  Do I know the name of it?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Trash compacter.
Interviewer:  Okay. um what do you call those big round metal things that you have you probably have out back that you put the trash or garbage in? {NS}
888:  uh dumper? Dump? You're talking about a trash can or trash can.
Interviewer:  That you have at home?
888:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about the kind that that's bigger it's a big square thing like a
888:  oh you're talking about the the dump. Dump in the back that's what we call it the dump.
Interviewer:  Okay isn't that's the that's
888:  #1 dump can #
Interviewer:  #2 the big # Okay and the kind the truck comes along and picks up
888:  Yeah, picks the whole thing up
Interviewer:  Yeah. that's neat cause like
888:  Yeah. they got easier you know some trash you know just sit in a truck and just let the truck do the work #1 you know #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
888:  You don't have to get your hands dirty at all.
Interviewer:  Yeah. #1 That'd be a good job. #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  uh do you know any other names for cigarettes?
888:  {D: guave} and smoke that's all I know
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} uh what do you call the uh the car {NS} where they take {NS} that they used to take a a dead person from the uh like from the funeral home to the uh cemetery in?
888:  A hearse.
Interviewer:  Okay. And what do you call the guy who prepares the a dead body for burial?
888:  What do I call him?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  The embalmer.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other thing that you call him?
888:  {NW} uh {NS} no
Interviewer:  Okay. Um sometimes instead of burying the body in the ground they'll just take the body and put it in a building you know and they just sort of stack them up cause it's building what do you call the buildings?
888:  Don't bury them?
Interviewer:  Yeah they just they don't bury them. They just put them in a in a vault kind of thing and they just slide the it's like a drawer.
888:  Oh you're talking about
Interviewer:  and the whole building you call a
888:  the heating you know keep them cold
Interviewer:  #1 I don't think it's still cold I think it's just #
888:  #2 talking about a #
Interviewer:  it's just sealed you know.
888:  I don't call it nothing cause I never seen none.
Interviewer:  It's creepy. #1 I don't like the idea. #
888:  #2 {NW} # {NW}
Interviewer:  When you think of them you know they're all stacked up #1 there like #
888:  #2 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  sardines sort of.
888:  I never seen that so I don't know. {X}
Interviewer:  My mother in law's mother died last spring and that's that's the way she wanted to be buried was like that.
888:  Oh inside a tomb?
Interviewer:  Yeah in in one of these drawers. You know just slide them in.
888:  Why she wanted to be buried like that she wanted to be cremated #1 or what #
Interviewer:  #2 no # {NW} she wasn't cremated the whole body you know you just put it in there like that. I don't know why she would be buried like that she was weird when she was alive too.
888:  that's very weird
Interviewer:  {NW} her sister in law whatever {NW} grand {X} what what is she to you? She's my my grandmother-in-law I guess you'd say.
888:  Oh grandmother-in-law. #1 well she's really weird then. #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. # My husband's grandma.
888:  She wants to sit up in a drawer and be dead in the ground.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  I mean I wouldn't I wouldn't want to you know be in nobody's I wouldn't want to be in no drawer without any ground.
Interviewer:  I know I wouldn't either. I think it's creepy. #1 Really. #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  {X} Um Okay. tell me about rooms in a house um how would you call a room that was enclosed but it was sixteen o {X} you get the most sunlight possible like they have glass walls or something
888:  What would I call it?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Repeat that again please.
Interviewer:  Okay you got a room that's got a bunch of glass so it'll get a lot of sunlight and you might put plants out there
888:  Oh you talking about the it's the the sun room. #1 I say that's the #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-kay. #
888:  {D: some really big name of it but} I'm comfortable with the sun room.
Interviewer:  Okay. um what do you call the kind of an informal room with a couch where you might just watch TV and relax and
888:  What do I call it I call it a living room.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. um what would you call a room that has a a toilet and a sink but it doesn't have any bathtub or shower?
888:  What do I call a house?
Interviewer:  That that kind of room
888:  it's got a toi- it's got a bathroom
Interviewer:  It's got it's got a it's got a toilet and a sink.
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  But it doesn't have a bathtub or shower.
888:  What do I call it?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I would say unsanitary.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  Cause I have to {D: have a bath}
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay. um what kind of a what do y'all use to heat your house? What kind of furnace do y'all have?
888:  To heat our house?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  only thing we got is a stove you know a heater.
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  We don't have no you know central heating or
Interviewer:  Yeah. what was it uh is it gas or is it
888:  Gas. It's gas heater it's a gas heater.
Interviewer:  {NW} um when you say heater does it like an open flame where you can see the {NS}
888:  Open Yeah. open flame it just come up {C: Lots of noise 26:41 to 26:45}
Interviewer:  Yeah, yeah. Okay. um let's see do you remember any other kinds of heating stuff that you had in different houses or have you always had kind of the same thing?
888:  Um we had wooden stoves back in those days long time ago.
Interviewer:  Okay, okay. um {NS} In the winter how does the air circulate? {C: Lots of noise in previous line} #1 you know how does #
888:  #2 how does it # How does the air circulate?
Interviewer:  Yeah how does the heat get around to the rest of the house?
888:  I guess it goes to the ceiling and then when it goes to the ceiling it goes everywhere.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. um do y'all have air conditioning?
888:  Yes.
Interviewer:  How do you make the air go through the house in the air conditioning?
888:  It just goes through just like the oxygen.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
888:  #2 It just # goes through the house to keep it you leave all the doors open it'll be all through there.
Interviewer:  What I'm sorry what?
888:  I said if you leave all the doors open it'll be all through the house the air in different you know
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 the air conditioner. #
Interviewer:  y'all ever use a fan or anything like that?
888:  Yeah. we use a fan. We got one in the {X} room and
Interviewer:  um have you ever seen a house that just has like three rooms. and they're the rooms are just in a straight line like this, straight back and like if you open the front door you could look all the way through all three rooms. Have you seen a house like that?
888:  Yeah. we like in a house like that.
Interviewer:  Okay. what do you call that kind of house?
888:  I call it a a a duplex because our house has got three doors on the front.
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  And my room is the first one and there's another room going my sister's room is the next room.
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  Then we got a we don't have no it's just say a guest room all the way straight back the last room.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  And we got some other rooms on the side the dining room stuff like that.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. Okay. But yours has more than just the
888:  Three rooms.
Interviewer:  straight. Yeah. Okay. um Have you ever seen a house that has like uh two big rooms just two rooms. A room here and a room here and then in the middle there's this long hallway and it's got a roof over it but it's open {NW} you know it's open at both ends like the wind can just go right through there. It's built you know to make it real cool Do you have a name for that kind of house?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. um there's another kind of house that has just two rooms and it's got like a long entry hall and then a ninety degree angle you got the a big room right here. #1 Just one room like that #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  Do you have a do you have a name for a house like that?
888:  Do I have a name for a house?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  no
Interviewer:  Okay. uh Okay what would you call a large building where uh Scratch that let me ask you something else first. #1 {NW} #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  what kind of buildings would house more than one family? You know lots of families?
888:  Lots of families?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
Auxiliary:  {NW}
888:  What what kind of house would I call that?
Interviewer:  Yeah, what kind of building would you call it?
888:  Call it the house.
Interviewer:  Okay. um what's an apartment? Would an apartment be something like that?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  What's an apartment? Can you describe an apartment for me?
888:  Apartment is about {D: now it depends} how many people live apartment has one room I believe no apartments have one room some have two but Apartment is when you by yourself or {NS} You're just two persons {D: with your unit} you're husband and wife but it's not for a for a family.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. Okay. What would you call an apartment that occupies like the whole floor of a building?
888:  the whole floor of the building?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  What would I call it?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
Auxiliary:  Hi.
Interviewer:  Hi.
888:  What would I call an apartment that occupies the whole building?
Interviewer:  Whole floor. #1 whole floor. #
888:  #2 the whole floor, like #
Interviewer:  the whole fifth floor or something.
888:  Um just a whole big uh duplex apartment. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay. um sometimes you got an apartment where the where the people who live there
Auxiliary:  {X}
Interviewer:  actually own
888:  Uh-huh. {NS}
Interviewer:  actually own their apartment you know they don't just rent it they really own it. {C: Lots of noise in previous line} #1 um #
Auxiliary:  #2 pass me that #
Interviewer:  #1 and like they #
Auxiliary:  #2 pass me the ball #
Interviewer:  #1 they all chip in to have uh #
Auxiliary:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 grass mowed and stuff like that #
Auxiliary:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 do you know the name for something like that? #
Auxiliary:  #2 {X} #
888:  {X} no I sure don't I haven't
Interviewer:  Okay. um What do you call houses where you know they're regular houses maybe a two stories or something
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  but they're all jammed up together and they share a wall. You know like #1 there's no #
888:  #2 Oh #
Interviewer:  space between them.
888:  You're talking about um uh together apartment.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 they # You know duplex are duplex hooked on each other.
Interviewer:  What
888:  Duplex apartments hooked on each other.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. Side by side?
888:  Yeah side by side that's what my grandmother lives in.
Interviewer:  Okay. um most apartment buildings have a guy who does you now does some of the plumbing he does electrical repair and stuff like that. What do you call a guy like that?
888:  I call him a janitor
Interviewer:  Okay. #1 and #
Auxiliary:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Sometimes there's a guy who lives in the apartment and he shows uh vacant apartments to people who might want to move in and and he works with the apartments owners you know and
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  and uh he helps the other people who live there what would you call somebody like that?
888:  {D: Tenor.}
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  {D: Tenor.}
Interviewer:  um {NW} Okay on lawnmowers what would you call the kind of lawnmower that you drive sort of like a car?
888:  I say ride and guide kind of car.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  Ride and guide.
Interviewer:  Okay. and uh what do you call the kind that is has an electric motor or a gas motor but you still you know it has a power motor but you still have to steer it with your hands
888:  What do I call them?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  I say a walking mower.
Interviewer:  Okay. and then there's the kind that um old fashioned kind that doesn't have any motor at all it's just got a little rotary thing that
888:  Oh you talking about a push mower.
Interviewer:  Okay. uh if you were gonna plow up a garden in your backyard
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  You'd probably have to go and rent something to plow it with and what would you call that thing that you rent?
888:  To plow with?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I call that uh bulldozer I guess.
Interviewer:  A what?
888:  A tractor.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. um There's one thing that you might use in the garden that the it's shaped like a shovel except it's just instead of a long handle like a shovel it has it's just got a little hand handle and you use like this to get out weeds or something
888:  Oh you talking about a garden tool?
Interviewer:  {NW} #1 Yeah. #
888:  #2 garden # shovel.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. um {NW} have you ever seen the kind of garden tool that has uh it's got three prongs kind of like a claw like that
888:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 except they're long # Yeah they're longer like this and uh it's got a little hand handle and you use it like this to get up weeds
888:  uh What do I call that?
Interviewer:  Yeah you have a name for that?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. um what kind of a rake would you use to rake up leaves in the fall?
888:  What kind of rake would I call that, a leaf rake.
Interviewer:  Okay. um there's a what's it look like? Can you describe it to me?
888:  What it looks like?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  uh I just say a rake or a leaf rake.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. There's another kind of rake that that you might use um like in the garden like once you got it plowed up then you have to even out the dirt you know make it level.
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  And this kind of rake it's shaped sort of like a comb like if you take your comb and you know just like that and it's got these little short metal pieces about this long you have a different name for that kind of rake?
888:  Iron rake.
Interviewer:  what?
888:  It's a iron rake
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. um what would What do you call something that you'd use to keep your hedge level with?
888:  Trimmers.
Interviewer:  Okay would those be electric or would they be manual?
888:  Well oh auto I mean just manual.
Interviewer:  Mm
888:  Regular.
Interviewer:  Okay. uh if you had some that were electric would you call them anything different?
888:  Yes I'd call it electric clip- elec- electricity trippers. elec- electricity trip clippers.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  Clippers.
Interviewer:  Okay. um say uh say a big tree blew down say that tree right there blew down and blew across the street
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  they'd probably have to get somebody out here from the city #1 with a #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  a gasoline-powered thing to cut the tree up with because it's too big just to move you know in one piece.
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  What what would you call that?
888:  I'd call that a chainsaw.
Interviewer:  Okay. uh can you name and describe for me different cuts of uh beef?
888:  Different cuts of beef?
Interviewer:  Yeah. like you might buy at the store or
888:  Liver liver liver beef.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  Cow beef.
Interviewer:  Wait what was the last thing?
888:  Cow beef liver beef
Interviewer:  Okay. what else? Anything else?
888:  and rib beef.
Interviewer:  Okay what are the ribs?
888:  Ribs Ribs is the kind that has the little bitty bone I mean little flat bone in
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
888:  Yeah. All the way down you know every every place just about two fifths about say about two inches from the {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. What else?
888:  That's about all
Interviewer:  Okay. uh you have any cuts of pork?
888:  Pork? Yeah rib pork and {NW} rib pork they got steak pork pork chops #1 and #
Interviewer:  #2 and what do they # Do you know the difference in the way they look?
888:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 you know # how do they
888:  Well pork chops is is just regular like steak it's in a {D: try it} sort of like a four corners got four corners on the about four corners and pork meat is sort of like made like hamburger meat.
Interviewer:  #1 How does that #
888:  #2 Yeah. # pork meat
Interviewer:  Yeah is it ground up you mean?
888:  Yeah it's ground up. #1 Yeah. you've seen that before haven't you #
Interviewer:  #2 oh # Yeah.
888:  it's ground up Yeah that's about all I can tell you.
Interviewer:  Okay what about cuts of lamb, you know about, have you eaten different cuts of lamb?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. um what about different kinds of #1 poultry? #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  You know different kinds of chicken and turkey and stuff?
888:  uh Different kinds?
Interviewer:  Yeah. {C: Lots of noise 37:28 to 37:30}
888:  Well I call it they got turkey they got um the back they got the leg they got the stomach they got the neck
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  they got the wing.
Interviewer:  When you buy a a chicken usually you can go to the store and they'll have one kind that says fryer they'll have another kind that says hen or something like that. #1 Do you know the difference in those? #
888:  #2 {NW} # Yes.
Interviewer:  What's the difference?
888:  Well when they say some in the fryer What you want to know the difference?
Interviewer:  Well I mean that is there was there a difference in like the age of the chicken? or something like that?
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  which one's older do you know?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. uh what are some different kinds of sausage?
888:  oh different kinds of sausage? #1 uh #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
888:  Pork sausage and regular sausage.
Interviewer:  What's regular sausage?
888:  A link sausage link sausages.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  Barbecue sausages and that's all I can {X} chili sausage
Interviewer:  Okay. what's a chili sausage?
888:  A chili sausage is something that you cook in water and when you cooked all the water out of it, it's ready to eat. And you can mix like egg and stuff with it.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 it's {X} # It comes out of the the skin.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. uh oh what do you call that kind of thing that that you might get like a circus or at the at a football or baseball game?
888:  What kind of thing is that?
Interviewer:  Yeah uh what kind of a sausage and it's red you know and about this long and you put it in a bun you put mustard and relish on it.
888:  Oh hot dog?
Interviewer:  Okay. now when you say hot dog does that refer to the whole whole thing with the bun and all you know or does it just mean the the red thing?
888:  it's uh it's for the buns for all the relish and {C: Noise from 39:28 to 39:36}
Interviewer:  #1 what what say that again? #
888:  #2 and # Yeah. it it you know lettuce and ketchup and bread
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  It refers to the whole thing.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay so hot dog means the whole thing?
888:  Yes ma'am.
Interviewer:  what would you say if you were just talking about the red thing?
888:  I'd just say the hot dog.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay.
888:  Plain wing.
Interviewer:  Huh?
888:  Plain wing.
Interviewer:  Wing?
888:  Yes ma'am.
Interviewer:  Okay. Oh an ant. um Have you ever seen the kind of sandwich that comes in a big bun about like this and they {D: clock it} through this way and it's got two or three different kinds of meat and two or three kinds of cheese and usually lettuce and tomatoes on it?
888:  Mixed sandwiches I guess mixed sandwich.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. uh What would you have to drink with a sandwich like that?
888:  Um probably milk or soda water or something sweet to drink.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. uh you Do you know any other names for soda water besides soda water?
888:  Uh any other names?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Pop they call it pop soda. and sweet that's all I know kool-aid.
Interviewer:  Okay. #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  um Okay if you were if you were over 18 you instead of having soda water you might have a
888:  A beer.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NW}
888:  I always I always have a beer ma'am
Interviewer:  you might have one now
888:  Yeah I know I could do for one right now {NW}
Interviewer:  {NW} Yeah. {NW} that's the truth
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  that would be good. A Coors preferably that's my favorite kind
888:  Coors?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Oh yeah then they {X} lot of people drink it I never heard I mean you know I don't see too much of here in San Antonio.
Interviewer:  Oh well it's hard to get.
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  #1 they don't sell it everywhere #
888:  #2 only place # I don't think they sell it here because this dude where I used to work at?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  and he had to go all the way out of town I think it was
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  forget it cause he was giving a party Coors that uh they say it's a pretty good beer.
Interviewer:  Yeah. it is they sell it in Dallas
888:  that's what you like?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  oh that's good
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  well my kind of beer you know my kind of beer?
Interviewer:  what?
888:  Flex.
Interviewer:  Okay. #1 Yeah. that's alright #
888:  #2 that # #1 That's my kind of beer. #
Interviewer:  #2 I like that # I had some of that with the other night with some Mexican food that was good
888:  Oh you did?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  uh-oh
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  drinking on the job #1 you hear that #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # #1 {NW} #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #1 And here it is on tape for proof #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  um oh do you know any other names for beer besides just beer?
888:  Do I know any other names for it?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I would just no I don't.
Interviewer:  Okay. um Okay. let's see {NS} um a woman has a {NS} a ring that has a big stone in it I mean a big about like that
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  you know and like she has to take it off when she washes dishes or something like that and what would you call a ring that has a stone in it like that big?
888:  A birthstone?
Interviewer:  Yeah it might be a birthstone or whatever you know just just something big and pretty #1 you know just #
888:  #2 I just # call it a a diamond ring.
Interviewer:  Okay. um what do you call shorts either men or womens that would come about to your knee?
888:  What would I call them?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I just call them shorts.
Interviewer:  Okay. what would you call something that came down to about here? Some kind of pants you know came down to about here
888:  High waters.
Interviewer:  #1 High waters. #
888:  #2 {NW} # Yeah they {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. Are those for men or women?
888:  {NW} They for everybody when their pants outgrow them.
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  when they try to wear them
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay.
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  {NW} I love it
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  uh Okay. what do you call shorts that come to here about here?
888:  What do I call them?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  How far? uh well I say high pants when they come a little up to up too far up there
Interviewer:  Okay. #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  uh let's see what would you call clothes that had been owned by somebody else before you got them?
888:  what what what would I call them?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  I would call them secondhand clothes.
Interviewer:  Okay. what if you got them from an older brother or something? would you still call it secondhand or would you call it something else?
888:  I call it secondhand.
Interviewer:  Okay. um what do you call very fashionable or really good looking clothes?
888:  What do I call them?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Cool studs.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 uh #
Interviewer:  Cool what?
888:  Cool studs.
Interviewer:  Okay. alright cool studs. well is there something a girl could wear?
888:  No it I mean you know it's got a different name for girls.
Interviewer:  Yeah what would a girl wear? #1 I mean #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  if it was really good looking clothes for a girl what would you call it?
888:  I would say really skintight.
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay. {NW}
888:  #1 that's what I would call it #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # Okay. uh Okay if you were going some place on an airplane and you had some clothes that wouldn't fit in your suitcase you know and you had to carry them hanging up
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  You'd have a little bag with a zipper on it
888:  that's what I took up there to Houston.
Interviewer:  Yeah what do you call that thing?
888:  What call what do I call it?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Well uh I would just call it a suit bag.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. um what would you what do you call the kind of light weight plastic thing that you get at the cleaners when you get you know you take some pants or something to be cleaned?
888:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 or to #
Auxiliary:  {X}
Interviewer:  What do you call that kind?
888:  What do I call it I call it cellophane cellophane wax. I you know many pants I I put my pants in the cleaners and lady you know {NW} It's over I think it's over about sometimes around three dollars and she don't even put no st- wrapper on it. You know I I don't over there I asked her about that one time #1 and she said #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah? #
888:  Well it's so much you got to pay for so much you got to pay to just to get that wrap on there.
Interviewer:  Well that's weird I've never heard of that
888:  and you know it I don't care if the pants cost fifty cents you should still get the wrapper on it because you paying your money and you want you know dust could get on it you know on the outside.
Interviewer:  Yeah. I know
888:  And then she puts them on all the rest of them and I say well you said you started on all the rest of them, you should put it on all of them. I you know some places not like that.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  And some are
Interviewer:  Some places you'd get it anyway #1 just because it's good service. #
888:  #2 Yeah. # Yeah {NS} I guess she's tight. {NS}
Interviewer:  That's weird.
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Um What all different kinds of shoes would men wear?
888:  What different types? #1 Alligators #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
888:  and
Interviewer:  What are alligators?
888:  Alligator shoes are made out of alligator. And {NW} they got different you know designs on the front.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  And #1 they got Davy boots people #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
888:  few some people wear {D: Davy} boots. #1 some boots #
Interviewer:  #2 what kind of boots? #
888:  {D: Davy} boots
Interviewer:  What are those?
888:  {D: Davy} boots are something that's comfortable you've seen me wearing some {D: Davy} boots one day too, like at the black ones I wore.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Them was the {D: Davy} boots. They're they're not exactly them is they they they made just like {D: Davy} boots but they got more rubber than {D: Davy} boots do.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  and
Interviewer:  uh describe it to more for the you know.
888:  #1 The Davy #
Interviewer:  #2 you know #
888:  boots?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Well {D: Davy} boots is something to be comfortable in it's real light and not heavy and the rubber on them is real good.
Interviewer:  Cool.
888:  Oh Reynold cut that out.
Interviewer:  Kinds of shoes?
888:  Different kind oh {D: Davy} boots?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  uh {D: Davy} boots are light. {NW} They thin on the rub the rubber's not that thick. {NW} And it's good to work in when you want to work and it's all I could tell you about {D: Davy} boots.
Interviewer:  Okay what other kind of men's shoes are there?
888:  They got like I said they got alligator shoes they got uh Leather shoes they got tennis shoes
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 {NW} # sandals and they got {NS} uh let's see what else kind of shoes. That's all the kind of shoes I can think of. They got platform shoes some people don't wear platform shoes but lot of people wear them.
Interviewer:  Okay. um tennis shoes {NW} are those do you have to just play tennis in tennis shoes or
888:  Do you have to just play tennis in them?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  No you play basketball these are All Star I got on these tennis shoes I got on right here. You can play basketball you can play #1 tennis #
Auxiliary:  #2 {NW} #
888:  Anything you want to play as long as it's you know you want to be comfortable and get around and then play in.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay.
888:  Any kind of sport.
Interviewer:  And what kind of shoes would women wear?
888:  What kind of shoes women wear?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  They wear uh sneakers I guess. They got wear sneakers {NW} you know tennis and sandals.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  cotton level shoes maybe you know.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. Okay. um What would you call {X} dress up shoes that a girl might wear?
888:  What would I call dress up shoes?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
Auxiliary:  {X}
888:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 just # Dress up shoes or something else?
888:  I just call them uh dress up shoes.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. uh cool What grades are um grades are in grade school? Around elementary school now?
888:  What grades are they?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  From the first to the twelfth.
Interviewer:  Okay and this is in elementary school?
888:  Yeah. oh what grades to which?
Interviewer:  Yeah like
888:  Well the first first grade is to first grade is to right now I think to the sixth grade.
Interviewer:  Okay and then what do they go into?
888:  And junior school now they changed it now up here from sixth to eighth grade and to junior high school now when you go to high school you go from the ninth to the twelfth. They got it separated.
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
888:  #2 then on up #
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay. um do you have a name for a a real ugly man or a boy?
888:  A real ugly man or a boy?
Interviewer:  Yeah. what would you call him?
888:  He's just hurt {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay or would you s-
888:  #1 how are you doing there #
Interviewer:  #2 say you #
888:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 #
Auxiliary:  Hi
Interviewer:  Hi
Auxiliary:  Hi
Interviewer:  Or would you say he's ugly as {NS} anything?
888:  {NW} I guess I would just say he's just ugly
Interviewer:  Okay uh what about a real ugly girl? You have a name for a real ugly girl?
888:  A mug
Interviewer:  #1 a what? #
888:  #2 {NW} # A mugger.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  Okay. anything else?
888:  {NW} No that's all I can think of.
Interviewer:  Okay um what would you call a person who always has his nose in the books? You know they never do anything but read and they may not be particularly smart but they just read all the time that's all.
888:  Read all the time?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I call them a bookworm stuck to books
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay now you have a name for somebody who's just real smart you know whether they read all the time or not?
888:  For a person that reals that's real smart?
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  I just call them the brains.
Interviewer:  Okay. uh What would you call a kid in school who always trying to get the attention of the teacher and get the teacher's praise and you know
888:  what would I call him?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I'd call him just a nuisance.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  I just call it if he tries to get t- teacher's attention I would just say he just wants more attention for himself.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 or # You know he wants to get attention you know it don't have to be getting attention he might want to ask her something or something.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
888:  #2 {NW} # might get on their nerves something like you know.
Interviewer:  Okay. what would you call um sometimes this this kind of thing carries over you now when people grow up and they they get a job there's somebody who's always trying to get in good with the boss at work what would you call somebody like that?
Auxiliary:  {X}
888:  What would I call a person like that?
Auxiliary:  {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  uh that try to get in good with the boss?
Interviewer:  Yeah. but I mean uh more than just normal you know I mean they're
888:  it's got it's a it's a girl or what just anybody
Interviewer:  {NW} anybody
888:  I just say just trying to make you look get in easy with the boss so the boss can like him and {C: Reduced audio quality 51:33 to 51:37} appreciate him and try to get a raise.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 called bribe #
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. um let's see um what do you call that place in school where they usually have pep rallies and uh
Auxiliary:  {X}
Interviewer:  I guess they have Yeah pep rallies
888:  Pep rallies?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  What do I call it?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  A A outdoor fair for the school. Football game something like that.
Interviewer:  Okay what well what would {NW} We always had our pep rallies indoors. Now let me think about this uh {NW} they also have P-E classes.
888:  P-E classes
Interviewer:  Yeah in this big thing had basketball games in there {NS}
888:  uh gym
Interviewer:  what?
888:  Talking about the gym?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay what else is going in the gym?
888:  Basketball, tennis uh that's all I can think of
Interviewer:  Okay. um what do you call the place in school where the toilets are?
888:  Restroom.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  Restroom.
Interviewer:  Okay. um oh {NW} do you have do you know of a of a bad like a derogatory name or any other kind of nickname sort of thing for somebody who's a hippie?
888:  For somebody a hippie for a hippie?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  I call a weirdo.
Interviewer:  Okay. a what?
888:  Weirdo.
Interviewer:  Alright any anything else?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. um what would you call somebody you know probably another guy who like you grew up with you've known forever and he might be somebody you tell your problems to and stuff like that
888:  what would I call him?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I call him a close brother or a friend.
Interviewer:  Okay. um have you ever heard of somebody who uh like if somebody doesn't have a father or you know somebody's father's dead or or maybe his father's just not around much somebody who I don't know kind of takes over and acts like a father to somebody? You ever heard of somebody like that?
888:  The guardian? Guardian?
Interviewer:  what?
888:  The guardian? Father.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay.
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  um at school there are a bunch of y'all that that go around together and always you know do things together and stuff like that?
888:  um bunch of us?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  and do things together?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  We just say we're all together and we friends and we always be together.
Interviewer:  {NW} #1 Okay. #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #1 do you call #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  do you call it anything like you know a bunch or a
Auxiliary:  {X}
888:  Sigmund watch out {NS}
Interviewer:  or I mean you'd say I'm gonna go up well if you tell your mother where you're going you say I'm gonna go out with a {NW} do you have a name for that group?
888:  Oh do I do I have a name for that?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I just say when I go out I'm going out with a couple of friends of mine
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. uh {NW} if um
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  the new kid moves in the neighborhood especially if it's a younger kid uh would would he have any kind of I mean would would the other kids in the neighborhood have any kind of um initiation that he'd have to go through?
888:  No that's all that's in the past.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. Do you have anything like that for people who are like born in the neighborhood?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. uh um um um um Okay I've I've {X} What would you call a man or a boy who acts kind of girlish or womanish?
888:  What would I call a girl boy that
Interviewer:  #1 uh #
888:  #2 a girl #
Interviewer:  No a man um a boy
888:  Oh #1 what would I call him? #
Interviewer:  #2 who acts kind of #
888:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 #
888:  Faggot. I would call him
Interviewer:  Okay now uh would that would that apply to someone who's really a homosexual? {NS}
888:  Yeah. {NS}{C: Loud noise from 55:58 to 56:05} probably like
Interviewer:  You said you talk me on this
888:  Oh I did say #1 I forgot #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # thank you
888:  So like Yeah a homosexual and sort of on the girl's side a punk
Interviewer:  it Okay Okay what was that word you used again?
888:  A punk.
Interviewer:  Okay and the other one was
888:  Homosexual.
Interviewer:  Yeah or a
888:  Fag.
Interviewer:  Okay. um Okay all those people are real sure homosexuals is that right?
888:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Okay now you have a word for somebody who's not really a homosexual but he's just sort of {NS} you know sort of I don't know he just acts sort of girl-y.
888:  I just call him a just call him a punk.
Interviewer:  Okay um Okay what about what about a a girl?
888:  #1 a girl? #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # homosexual
888:  I call her horny. Horny. Horny.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. And you know any other names?
888:  uh {D: harlot}.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay. um what about a girl who's not you know real sure enough homosexual but she's just sort of
Auxiliary:  {X}
Interviewer:  acts like a
Auxiliary:  {X}
Interviewer:  sort of
Auxiliary:  {X}
Interviewer:  like a boy or like a man or something, what would you call someone like that?
888:  A try to act like a boy and what?
Interviewer:  Yeah she she she acts like a man sort of you know sort of 'un- in an unpleasant sort of way but she's not a real homosexual do you have a name for somebody like that?
888:  Tries to act like a man.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  I'd just say she wants to be a
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  I say that she she's kind of horny and she wants to be a man.
Interviewer:  Okay. uh say do you um what would you call a sexually overactive woman or a girl?
888:  A overactive girl what you mean by that?
Interviewer:  Oh just has sex all the time.
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  Sex all the time.
Interviewer:  Every thirty minutes or something I don't know
888:  What would I call a girl?
Interviewer:  Yeah who did that.
888:  I'd just say she's she just likes it I guess.
Interviewer:  Okay. what about a boy who did that? Same thing or something different?
888:  What do I would I call a boy that likes sex all the time?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Well I would just say he just likes sex.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. What about what would you call a girl who would just go do it with just anybody? I mean you know she didn't care and she didn't care who knew about it either. What would you call someone like that?
888:  Dynamite.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  Dynamite.
Interviewer:  Okay.
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  What about a boy who's the same way? He'd go to bed with anybody he didn't care who knew about it.
888:  He'd go to bed with anybody
Interviewer:  What?
888:  I wouldn't say I would call him uh unclean
Interviewer:  Okay
888:  because no telling what the girl got and what she who she's been having way before that you know.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. um do you know of a rough
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 kind of word games where #
888:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  you know that like teenage boys might play where one tries to insult the other one more and then you know somebody comes up and insults you and you try to insult them back more.
888:  oh I call it cut down.
Interviewer:  What?
888:  I call it cut down you know you get cut down by another friend you get you know {NS} cursed out and {NS} I call it a cut down
Interviewer:  Okay. um is that the same thing as
888:  to get down on your case you know really getting down on your case
Interviewer:  #1 on your what? #
888:  #2 about you. # your case
Interviewer:  what's that
888:  we call it the ca- {NW} your case. Like somebody rides your case and you know you don't you don't {X} and something they ride real bad and they might ride your family and then that's called they riding your case.
Interviewer:  I get it okay. uh is that the same thing as playing the {X}
888:  Playing the what?
Interviewer:  {D: The doggone}? You ever heard of that?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. what about {D: founding or} signify or ranking?
888:  No.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay you never heard #
888:  #2 Just riding and # getting on your case.
Interviewer:  Okay. Can you give me an example?
888:  Of riding?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  well riding was the same thing as when somebody's getting down on your case
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
888:  and somebody says something funny somebody talking about your clothes and getting on your case and then you I won't- it means about the same thing getting on your case.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
888:  Cause you know like we be talking to a couple of my friends like I say hey man you got black socks black socks on with yellow pants something or green socks on yellow, yellow pants and he might say aw you're getting on my case man stay off my case man.
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  Another one might say he cutting you he cutting you hard man real low down you know. So #1 that's what I think. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # Okay. um Okay would anybody ever insult somebody else's mother?
888:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Okay can you give me an example?
888:  Well like I was riding the bus home from school {NW} you know they was riding each other's case him and this other dude and they was sitting down on the bus so and I knew something was going to happen but I didn't know the dude was going to get you know they was talking about each other at first
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  and then they said this other dude told this told this other dude he said hey man I know your mother lift weights and then the other dude started talking about his got on his daddy talking about his daddy you know {X} that he didn't know what he you know tried to pick up things out the trash can something like that I didn't really get it but I well anyway that's what she was that's what he was riding him about.
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  Then he got mad and one pushed the other one then they got up and then wanted to fight {NS} on the bus.
Interviewer:  {NW}
888:  And the bus driver had to come back and try to break it up.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
888:  #2 {NW} # #1 and this #
Interviewer:  #2 well #
888:  pregnant girl was sitting right by me. And she said oh watch out watch out she was going to school at the time you know and she was pregnant. {NW} They was almost. I sat right next to her you know and they almost fell on her and she was trying to get out the way and I. I had to try and move my legs out the way they was falling all down.
Interviewer:  Yeah. oh man
888:  {NW}
Interviewer:  um well does that kind of thing usually end in fights?
888:  Ends a fight, starts a fight.
Interviewer:  Ends it or starts does it usually start
888:  Yeah it starts a fight riding each other's cases and getting down on each each other real hard.
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay uh do people ever say things that are real dirty?
888:  #1 Yeah #
Interviewer:  #2 like about #
888:  Real dirty?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  Uh they might say that your family is I don't want to say it to you you want me to say them words?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Go ahead
888:  They might say uh your mother's a whore and your sister's a bitch or something like that.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
888:  Or someone might say you whore you seen you on the street last night. {NW} Or something like that.
Interviewer:  #1 Would they say that to a girl? #
888:  #2 you know # Yeah they'll say it to the girl or and they they you know mostly you want me to talk to you about now I'll tell you about the boys they might say that well they they'll probably tell a boy you know boy tell another boy he'll probably get down and signify get down and signify case or something like that.
Interviewer:  Yeah signify a case? Is that what you said?
888:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Does that mean the same thing as?
888:  riding you know signify getting really down real down on it
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay.
888:  And talking bad they'll use the profanity language.
Interviewer:  Using what?
888:  Profanity language.
Interviewer:  Okay. um let's see what else was I going to ask you about that do girls ever play it? #1 or do you say #
888:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Do you call it playing it?
888:  They don't play it they I mean they some of them can take it and some can't.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  And some get mad #1 because #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
888:  others be riding them harder.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
888:  And.
Interviewer:  Well do girls do it?
888:  Yeah the girls do it they call each other like I said they call each other whores and they say like. I seen you know one day I seen this girl and she's walking downtown and she told the girl to wait up she said wait up and I forgot her name said wait up and said other girl said you you come on bitch if you want want me to wait up for you and then they started arguing and going on. {X}