025:  Middle Tennessee and east #1 Tennessee you #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah #
025:  know. Yeah well it's yeah I know where it is that's just beyond beyond uh uh over there around Fentress county and
Interviewer:  #1 just. #
025:  #2 Well now would # you happen to #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Cumberland. #
025:  what county Mount Pleasant's in?
Interviewer:  Now Mount Pleasant. I haven't come across Mount #1 Pleasant. #
025:  #2 Well there's a # man come here and he wanted to see. He bought some land over #1 here. He's a #
Interviewer:  #2 All right. #
025:  {D: man that.}
Interviewer:  Oh in Mount Pleasant Michigan.
025:  #1 No this was in Tennessee. #
Interviewer:  #2 This oh. # {X} And over Mount #1 Pleasant Michigan. #
025:  #2 {X} # {X} It's in middle Tennessee. He's supposed to come back the first of July.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
025:  And wanted to put in the trailer down here. #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
025:  {D: If I'd have let him} #1 I told him #
Interviewer:  #2 Sure. #
025:  he could set it down there. He just bought some land {D: just down in the} {X} bought some land right across that mountain. #1 And he never come #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
025:  back. I don't know what happened to him.
Interviewer:  What do you call that uh in we talked about the uh freezing when they when the i- when the when the like a pond freezes over. Uh what do you call the uh that when the ice is just very thin? #1 Uh. #
025:  #2 Well you'd # just call it thin ice. You'd have to stay off of it. {C: background noise} but if it #1 gets #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
025:  thick enough people'd get in there and skate. {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 Do you ever call that mush #
025:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  mush ice or?
025:  Yeah mush ice is ice that's #1 not #
Interviewer:  #2 Right. #
025:  froze #1 solid. #
Interviewer:  #2 Right and when it gets # good and hard you say the lake is all? #1 Fr- #
025:  #2 Froze # over.
Interviewer:  All right now these are just things for pronunciation this has no this is not a test. Uh but would you just count for me up to fourteen?
025:  One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen. #1 Now that get you? #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # Okay and then the number after nineteen?
025:  Would be twenty.
Interviewer:  And after twenty-six?
025:  Twenty-seven.
Interviewer:  And after twenty-nine?
025:  Thirty.
Interviewer:  After thirty-nine?
025:  Forty.
Interviewer:  After sixty-nine?
025:  Fifty.
Interviewer:  Yeah after and then sixty-nine se-
025:  Seventy.
Interviewer:  And then the and then after nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine is a mil- would be a mil-
025:  A what?
Interviewer:  A million. Not a not a hundred or a thousand but a?
025:  Million you #1 mean? #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. # Yeah.
025:  Oh well that's #1 getting #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
025:  {D: up and} getting too many #1 too many high. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # All right now would you name the months of the year?
025:  January February March April May June July August September October November December.
Interviewer:  All right and the days of the week?
025:  I don't know which'd be first. Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday.
Interviewer:  All right and and do you ever use the term sabbath?
025:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  For what does that uh?
025:  Well sabbath's Sunday. Sabbath day Sunday. That's #1 what the Bible mentions you know. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. Yeah. What what # time of day would you call this?
025:  Well at twelve oh clock it'd be noon.
Interviewer:  All right what would it be after that?
025:  Evening.
Interviewer:  All right and what uh how would you greet a person say about ten A-M? like when I got here you might say good?
025:  Well I don't know now just what you mean there you just {D: as I always} understood you know you talk about your meals. Used to we'd call it morning is breakfast.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
025:  Twelve oh clock it is dinner. Six oh clock is supper. Now then it's something else. It's lunch.
Interviewer:  All right.
025:  Dinner's in the night. {NW}
Interviewer:  But I mean how would you say
025:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 say you know how you # might see a friend oh quite early in the day and you'd say good?
025:  {D: Well now all that out here they'll pass on out in the front} #1 you'd say you would #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
025:  be here this morning at eight thirty and be here at eighty thirty.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
025:  #2 Or nine # thirty or ten thirty or whatnot.
Interviewer:  #1 Now what do you? #
025:  #2 Well uh # on up before twelve oh clock it's A-M #1 and it's #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
025:  after that it'd be P-M and after six again I reckon it'd be P-M I don't know #1 in the night. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # Sure and then what uh you'd say the um the time when the sun first appeared is you call that?
025:  Sunup.
Interviewer:  And when it disappears?
025:  Sundown.
Interviewer:  All right and say uh um I saw the sun?
025:  Rising.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And yesterday it uh it I saw it yeah what what you might say at at six A-M the sun?
025:  Is up?
Interviewer:  Or ro- yeah.
025:  #1 Up. You'd #
Interviewer:  #2 Or the sun r- #
025:  just say sunup you know.
Interviewer:  Okay and if um if Saturday is today Friday was?
025:  Yesterday.
Interviewer:  And Sunday'll be?
025:  Tomorrow.
Interviewer:  All right and if I if someone wasn't coming tomorrow that's tomorrow would be next Sunday. How about if someone was coming the following #1 Sunday? #
025:  #2 That'd # be Sunday week.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you wanted to know the time you might ask somebody?
025:  Well if somebody had had a watch or something.
Interviewer:  All right and what what might you say to them?
025:  Huh?
Interviewer:  What might you say to them?
025:  Say have you got the time?
Interviewer:  Okay and what time was it uh oh about five minutes ago?
025:  {NW} Be ten thirty.
Interviewer:  All right and and in about ten minutes what time will it be?
025:  It'll be ten 'til ten. Ten to eleven.
Interviewer:  Or how about when the just in about ten minutes nine minutes when it's?
025:  It'd be a quarter. Some people call it quarter to eleven. #1 Quarter after #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
025:  eleven.
Interviewer:  All right and if uh if uh if nineteen seventy-two was last year nineteen seventy-three is?
025:  {NW} This year #1 I reckon. #
Interviewer:  #2 All right. # And if you saw somebody you you uh you you something happened exactly on this day in nineteen seventy-two. You'd say that happened just a?
025:  A year ago today.
Interviewer:  Okay and then if in those those big uh white things up in the sky are?
025:  Clouds.
Interviewer:  All right and on a day how would you describe the day today?
025:  Well it'd be clear to partly cloudy.
Interviewer:  Okay. #1 But it might if it if it? #
025:  #2 If it ain't a # cloud to be seen nowhere it's a clear day.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
025:  #2 But now # these weather people. I listen to the weather every night every day. And a day that where it's a little cloudy it's partly cloudy. Clear to partly #1 cloudy they would say. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. # All right.
025:  And some days that sun never shines #1 you know. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
025:  Been one or two of them {D: last} round lately.
Interviewer:  How bout a day where it's very um uh where it's very cloudy and it's how would you describe a #1 day like that? #
025:  #2 Well that # {D: got us a} few days like this week {D: at the first of the week.} I'd say it's an awful gloomy day.
Interviewer:  Okay and if if um the weather's been pretty nice but then rain or snow might be expected? It's been nice then you say the weather's?
025:  #1 I never understood #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
025:  that exactly what.
Interviewer:  Well if the weather say it's say the weather's been been very it's it's been all right but now rain or snow might #1 be expected? #
025:  #2 Well # say we've had pleasant weather or #1 something another #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm. #
025:  but we're in for it now or
Interviewer:  #1 I see. Would you ever use #
025:  #2 something like that. #
Interviewer:  something like the weather is changing or #1 breaking? #
025:  #2 Yeah # changing you know you get out here and it'll be a raining and like the other day now after you left here you know. #1 It was cloudy a little #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
025:  rainy well after a while it began to clouds begin to break up.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
025:  #2 It lightened up # and the sun shined #1 and whenever #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
025:  them clouds goes to breaking up #1 well the #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
025:  sun's gonna come through directly if they don't
Interviewer:  Yeah. #1 Say. #
025:  #2 But the best # {D: that I uh the} best way to to judge the weather is when she goes to when it goes to clearing up in the north.
Interviewer:  Is that right?
025:  It'll come clear up quicker. This a way it'll clear up and maybe a hour it'd be a raining. #1 Now when it #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
025:  goes to clearing in the north it'll stay {X} coming from the north
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
025:  you can figure on some better weather.
Interviewer:  If you're talking about a rain. We were talking before about a rain. The rain just keeps coming down a little bit at a time not very much at all but just keeps coming and doesn't doesn't let up. You might call that a?
025:  Oh I'd call that a sprinkle or shower #1 or something #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. #
025:  another. If it ain't much #1 rain they'll say it #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
025:  coming round smart little sprinkle or a little shower. Then through dog days when it comes like it's been a coming for the last day or two they'll say that's dog days weather. #1 It'll #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
025:  clear up and rain then after a while it'll cloud up and rain again #1 you know. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh. # Now you call would you call that a uh uh ever call that a drizzle or a or a
025:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 or a mist? #
025:  Drizzle. When it ain't a raining too hard you know just enough that you can't get out in it.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
025:  And not hard enough to
Interviewer:  Uh.
025:  {D: to mud you'd} call that a drizzle.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
025:  #2 Soggy # {D: you know. If it gone and} drizzled you know. Maybe drizzle thataway all day.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
025:  Just not {NW} enough to raise the waters or #1 anything #
Interviewer:  #2 Sure. #
025:  but it just enough to dampen the ground #1 you you know. #
Interviewer:  #2 Right. # Um just a couple of other things what do you call that uh the thing that you put a baby in? When you take it out for a walk.
025:  Well I don't know unless you're talking about a baby buggy or #1 something like that. #
Interviewer:  #2 Sure. #
025:  #1 Used to have them #
Interviewer:  #2 And then and. #
025:  little thing here you push 'em and call 'em baby buggies #1 or something. #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. # That's that's what I meant. And then the thing that a minister preaches on on Sunday you'd call that a? He preaches the gospel but you might say he preached a good? This Sunday the minister preached a good?
025:  Sermon.
Interviewer:  All right.
025:  A good sermon. Some would call it a good message but
Interviewer:  Okay.
025:  most people in this country'd call that a sermon.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And if you uh um if you had to when you're going into the mount you come you had a big heavy load and you're let's say that you had a big big bag of meal or something and you were gonna you had to take it from one place or another you'd say that thing was really heavy I? On my back for two miles I? Would you say I packed it or I toted it or I lugged it?
025:  Eh I guess they'd go packed it that towed it you hear a lot of that. #1 Towed it #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
025:  but that's {NS} not uh #1 you know #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. #
025:  I'd just old saying.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah more like uh. #
025:  #2 {X} # mean that you packed it.
Interviewer:  Packed it would be more likely here #1 huh? Okay. #
025:  #2 Carried it or something another. #
Interviewer:  Well I think that's about it. I think you're finally gonna give 'em to me.
025:  #1 Well now. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
025:  Turn that off and play a little of little of it #1 back at me and let me see what it sounds like. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} I'd be glad to. #
025:  {NW}