027:  {X}{C:watermelons is what she is saying. The reel is slow here.} and cantaloupe and um market we can buy honeydew and we can buy persian melons and uh
Interviewer:  are persian melons different from a honeydew melon
027:  It's a much larger um more fragile meat in the melon It's it's a larger melon with more fragile meat than a honeydew
Interviewer:  I see
027:  It's a sweeter Melon
Interviewer:  uh And have you have you ever heard {X} a cantaloupe uh uh uh but a cantaloupe and a ever heard a cantaloupe called anything else
027:  um musk melon and I think there is some difference but I don't know what it is
Interviewer:  have you ever heard a uh a cantaloupe called a nutmeg
027:  no now a nutmeg is something entirely
Interviewer:  #1 yup #
027:  #2 different to me #
Interviewer:  that's {D: ya know} that's a a spice
027:  #1 yes #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: is that what it is?} # ya know what and um missus {X} said thats uh a nickname for uh a cantaloupe
027:  #1 I didn't know it #
Interviewer:  #2 oh {X} # I'd never heard that um when you talk about uh other do you distinguish among different varieties of watermelon
027:  {X} {D: no} I don't
Interviewer:  alright You wouldn't distinguish one with a light green skin from a dark green skin or with uh stripes
027:  no
Interviewer:  they're all just waterm uh these things look like little little umbrellas and they grow close to the ground it's a kind of fungus I guess it's
027:  oh mushrooms
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 toadstools #
Interviewer:  They're poisonous the ones uh
027:  #1 toadstools #
Interviewer:  #2 alright # um {D: Clay uh} uh something he had something stuck in his throat he couldn't
027:  swallow
Interviewer:  and two things people smoke are
027:  cigarettes cigars
Interviewer:  and if you didn't owe anything to anyone you might say I
027:  am free of debt
Interviewer:  or to to anyone you might say
027:  I am not beholden to anyone
Interviewer:  Would you use that
027:  No
Interviewer:  um and if someone asked you like you what would you probably say seriously rather than beholden you would probably say I'm
027:  I owe no one
Interviewer:  alright and if someone asks you if you are able to do something and you say yes I
027:  {D: Yes I am} {C: Tape distortion}
Interviewer:  #1 I #
027:  #2 I # am able
Interviewer:  alright can you do that you say
027:  #1 Yes I can #
Interviewer:  #2 {X) # No I
027:  No I can't
Interviewer:  alright and suppose he's tired he says I am really tired because I what all day I
027:  I worked hard all day
Interviewer:  alright and by the time the a person a guy {D: but the story}{X} they called an ambulance and by the time the ambulance arrived he was
027:  He was dead
Interviewer:  alright um would you use something like already there um
027:  if you did I think uh you'd be more likely to say he was already gone because you didn't want to use the word dead
Interviewer:  okay and if someone {NW} a child doesn't uh {D: is is} isn't very careful you might say he what to be careful he
027:  He should be careful
Interviewer:  um and uh if you're warning a child not to go across the street you might say you go across the street you
027:  Don't go across the
Interviewer:  #1 {D: yeah} #
027:  #2 street #
Interviewer:  Did ya ever use {D: Dast or dastened} or
027:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 darened #
027:  No
Interviewer:  okay um and if a child you thought a child uh um a child doesn't know something and you're really surprised say why you to know that you
027:  you ought to know that
Interviewer:  and do you ever use hadn't ought
027:  no
Interviewer:  in any situation
027:  #1 no #
Interviewer:  #2 how bout # alright if someone asks if you will do something you say no I I do it I
027:  uh you say no I won't if you really want to make it very clear you say no I will not
Interviewer:  okay {D: and if a person if if uh} you're a uh uh you get a flat tire and you have to get out and change it youself and someone's just standing there watching you might say to a person well you, it'd help me you
027:  You should've helped me you could've helped me
Interviewer:  Yeah #1 yeah oh yeah or might #
027:  #2 but why didn't you help me #
Interviewer:  uh you might have
027:  You might've helped me
Interviewer:  yeah um and if someone asks you if you if you you're you're going to be able to to do something and you're not really sure but you say well I'm I might #1 do it #
027:  #2 um # possibly I could but I'll have to check I'm not sure yet what's on our calendar
Interviewer:  Would you ever use might could
027:  #1 no #
Interviewer:  #2 I might could do it #
027:  uh-uh
Interviewer:  oh {X} if you were gonna say it you'd say I might do it
027:  I might or I might be able to
Interviewer:  mm-mm but not might could. Does might could sound foreign or strange to you
027:  uh it sounds um put on. I've never heard anyone use it It sounds like two words put together that don't belong together
Interviewer:  Is that right
027:  #1 uh-huh but now #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: very fascin} #
027:  now I have heard I couldn't ought
Interviewer:  uh I couldn't ought?
027:  uh-huh
Interviewer:  now
027:  #1 I #
Interviewer:  #2 what is #
027:  couldn't ought to have done that or I shouldn't ought to have done that
Interviewer:  Is that right?
027:  uh-huh
Interviewer:  That's one {D: I've} never heard that before
027:  #1 that's a fairly common #
Interviewer:  #2 uh uh might could is # uh uh very common in the lower south um a bird that uh makes a screeching sound is uh
027:  Screech owl
Interviewer:  And one that makes a hooting sound
027:  Is an owl.
Interviewer:  alright do you make any distinction between the {X} the- screech owl is usually kind of a smaller one
027:  It's a dear little thing about so big and it makes the most delightful #1 screeching sound #
Interviewer:  #2 and what do you call the # big ones you just call that an owl
027:  uh yes um He has a lotta little Hoo that's very soft and he's a big owl then there are barn owls there are various
Interviewer:  uh-huh Are there any others kinds you can think of?
027:  um There is a horned owl and there is a white owl. A great white owl There is a horned owl And a barn owl And i think just the owl is sometimes called a hoot owl
Interviewer:  How many of these are found around here?
027:  The barn owl, the horned owl The owl that goes {NW} and the screech owl that I can think of having seen
Interviewer:  How about the white owl is that
027:  I don't remember having seen one I don't know
Interviewer:  Alright Uh an animal that, a bird that gets up on a tree and
027:  oh a woodpecker
Interviewer:  Now what different kinds of these are there uh we have an ivory billed one in the woods by the barn and we have a poleated one that has been up here and next door on the house which is aluminum siding We have them redheads just pecking their hearts away on that aluminum
027:  #1 siding #
Interviewer:  #2 Is that right # And getting nowhere but they
027:  That's right and I saw one last fall I was very interested to see one go in a whole in a tree apparently he was nesting
Interviewer:  #1 hmm #
027:  #2 she was nesting # #1 and I had never seen this before and #
Interviewer:  #2 huh very #
027:  I was sitting in the car waiting for Bill and
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
027:  #2 in someone's wooded lot #
Interviewer:  uh-huh
027:  And saw the owl go right down the tree
Interviewer:  uh and animal that gives off a bad odor is a
027:  Oh a skunk
Interviewer:  Do you ever call it anything else?
027:  um Bill says sometimes some days {X}
Interviewer:  oh {NW} {C:laugh} Did uh you never used pole cat though or
027:  #1 I heard it. No we don't use it #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # and uh a king of a compre- comprehensive name for a small predator is a small animal is a
027:  varmints
Interviewer:  Alright Now is that uh uh is that just facetious or might you use that uh
027:  No that could be used
Interviewer:  #1 {NS}{C:sounds like a jacket} #
027:  #2 by someone that was in position to have them that # wouldn't know what whether it was foxes or or um uh what kind of little animals were coming in like and getting #1 chickens #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh # and if um I ever used it in relation to people
027:  Now I have heard it used in relation
Interviewer:  #1 what kind of people? #
027:  #2 to people # uh just the lowest dregs of society.
Interviewer:  okay and now this is a little animal that eats nuts and runs around in trees
027:  oh that's a squirrel
Interviewer:  Now what kind of squirrels do you have around here?
027:  I don't know their names we have many
Interviewer:  #1 are they all the same color? #
027:  #2 squirrels # yes they're little grey squirrels
Interviewer:  you don't have any red ones?
027:  I don't think so
Interviewer:  And this is something like a squirrel um They're small and they run around on the ground
027:  And they're chipmunks and they're delightful
Interviewer:  Do you have those around here?
027:  uh In the area. I have seen them in Bristol
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 AND i HAVE # seen 'em in Chattanooga
Interviewer:  About this big They're just {X} and what kinds of fish are are caught in the streams around here
027:  uh at {D: at Talcoe} and uh Little River you catch trout uh they are stocked with Rainbow and sometimes you catch natives and um in the lakes you catch bass brim {NS} perch excuse me there's my
Interviewer:  Okay
027:  {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah, {X} that's the worst pain I ever had in my uh and it wasn't crushed I just uh tore the cartilage
027:  #1 oh that is #
Interviewer:  #2 into my knee and # that's the worst pain I ever felt
027:  #1 It #
Interviewer:  #2 felt in my life #
027:  really is painful, but he gave me uh you know #1 a #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh #
027:  massive dose when he gave me the cortisone so I don't need it yet but he just wanted me to have it
Interviewer:  Well thats uh
027:  It's uh very helpful
Interviewer:  Well that's uh you gotta sleep if you can
027:  I didn't last night I couldn't I uh took uh {D: A namprim} at eleven and {D: a namprim} at 3 {X} between
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
027:  #2 no I # couldn't get a position
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
027:  #2 If I could've gotten a position I would've been alright # #1 but i get position today because he's #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah yeah #
027:  aspirated
Interviewer:  Oh that's good
027:  That'll be fine
Interviewer:  Is the swallowing going down or is it
027:  He uh he got as much out as he could but then he put that much cortisone in It's softer
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm #
027:  #2 but it's not # smaller
Interviewer:  uh {D:They got to} To brim I think talking
027:  Oh yes uh Brim and then we have uh Oh on the bottom there the scavengers the carp and uh sometimes there's some people like catfish everybody likes to catch catfish
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm #
027:  #2 because # they're fun
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  and uh We have large mouthed bass and small mouthed bass and striped bass which are sometimes called white bass
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  And we have gar and drum
Interviewer:  What's that drum
027:  It's uh big ugly almost blind thing that feeds right on the bottom and has a big flat head like a big Catfish
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  Except it it isn't a catfish and it's a white fish and oh when you catch one it's like pulling a barrel out of the water
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm #
027:  #2 It's usually # a twelve or fourteen or sixteen pound
Interviewer:  you don't eat them though
027:  Uh some people do Uh they catch them more on trout lines or when trolling
Interviewer:  uh-huh
027:  than when casting
Interviewer:  uh now Do you have uh anything that you'd call either a poagie or a porgie or a those terms mean any
027:  #
027:  #1 nothing #
Interviewer:  #2 thing # The brim is it uh the brim a fairly small fish
027:  yes had a little uh black dot right on its cheek as it were
Interviewer:  Now they uh uh the shell they open the shells sometimes there's pearls in there
027:  Oysters
Interviewer:  And this is something that hops along the ground and makes a croaking noise
027:  Well he could be a toad or he could be a frog If he's brown he is a toad if he is green he's a
Interviewer:  #1 now what do ya #
027:  #2 frog #
Interviewer:  Great big ones
027:  Well they're bullfrogs
Interviewer:  Alright and what about the small green ones the very the very small green ones
027:  Well tree frogs aren't they
Interviewer:  yeah Now have you ever heard them called rain frogs
027:  yes and I have seen 'em
Interviewer:  #1 yeah is that the same thing #
027:  #2 just dotting the ground after a rain #
Interviewer:  As a tree frog do you
027:  I don't know I have an idea that a tree frog is perhaps uh more in the woods and less near the water
Interviewer:  uh-huh
027:  So he's probably more like a toad
Interviewer:  alright so you might be a difference then
027:  #1 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  #2 between uh # tree frog and a rain frog um these things that you use for bait you dig out the ground
027:  {NW} those are worms
Interviewer:  alright. do you call them anything else besides just worms
027:  Now Bill would probably have names for them
Interviewer:  yeah
027:  The ones that he releases out here are just about the color of our terrace so that you have trouble seeing 'em
Interviewer:  Do you ever call 'em red worms
027:  I don't know I I stay as far from 'em as I can
Interviewer:  You would call 'em red {X} term red worm then does it
027:  I have seen a sign outside of a um a fishing
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  place or a bait place red worms crawfish lizards
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  usually lizard is spelled with two Zs
Interviewer:  uh-huh yeah or the "z"s are back #1 wards #
027:  #2 {NW}{C:Laugh} #
Interviewer:  uh they um uh do you ever call them anything other than crawfi- crawfish
027:  um they call 'em crawdads I don't I think maybe that's a bigger thing
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
027:  #2 I'm not sure #
Interviewer:  but uh uh around here are the ones they
027:  yes that you seen up in the creek
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
027:  #2 for # crawdads
Interviewer:  okay now how do you what's that now
027:  You seen
Interviewer:  now was that using a
027:  #1 a net #
Interviewer:  #2 a net #
027:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  uh these uh have a hard shell large and move very slowly on the ground
027:  Yes they are turtles
Interviewer:  And uh now the ones that live in the water what do you call them what do you call. Are those the ones you call turtles
027:  Uh yes they're turtles. They're mud turtles and the others are tortoise the land ones.
Interviewer:  alright and uh these are something like crawfish they're probably related you know when you when you boil them they get kind of pink
027:  Now you're not talking about shrimp
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 now you're talking bout # Thought you'd moved to saltwater
Interviewer:  #1 right #
027:  #2 okay #
Interviewer:  um uh this is a uh a kind of uh an insect that flies around a candle or a light
027:  yes um now I call them canna flappers
Interviewer:  call 'em what now
027:  canna flappers
Interviewer:  is that right yeah
027:  uh this is what I always heard it called as a
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
027:  #2 child # and uh I'm sure it comes from candle flappers
Interviewer:  oh yeah
027:  um Many people call them miller moths
Interviewer:  uh-huh now that's different from the kind that get into the into clothing
027:  oh yes
Interviewer:  what are those those are?
027:  those are moths
Interviewer:  #1 and the #
027:  #2 {NW}{C:Laugh} #
Interviewer:  the sing- yeah and the singular is
027:  moth
Interviewer:  and the kind of an insect that you see out in the- uh night and it uh lights up
027:  lightning bugs
Interviewer:  alright and this is a kind of long slender insect that has so many wings
027:  #1 oh um like a mayfly #
Interviewer:  #2 {NS} # {NS} Yeah but i think I think we will see if thats the same thing these are um kind of long and and long
027:  oh you're thinking of moths
Interviewer:  no no this this is has a very narrow slender body and long wings
027:  And it's an insect?
Interviewer:  mm-hmm sometimes they are called snake doctors or snake feeders
027:  #1 oh yes #
Interviewer:  #2 or just #
027:  #1 oh #
Interviewer:  #2 mosquito hawks or dragonflies #
027:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  and which of those terms would you
027:  #1 dragonfly #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Do you know either snake doctor or snake feeder
027:  Snake doctor I have heard
Interviewer:  but uh that isn't
027:  uh that's when I was a child
Interviewer:  {X}
027:  I don't think so
Interviewer:  Uh what um uh other kind of stinging insects are there
027:  oh we have bees, wasps hornets uh yellow jackets oh um uh gnats and there are mosquitoes and and uh little ants
Interviewer:  alright now what about these things that dig under your skin
027:  chiggers
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear them called anything else?
027:  mm-mm oh ye- red bugs uh-huh
Interviewer:  they use that term around here?
Interviewer:  Or is that something from texas
027:  I don't know if I picked it up some place else or here
Interviewer:  uh
027:  Because we call 'em chiggers
Interviewer:  okay um Have you ever seen a nest a um a um a hornets nest
027:  yes there's one right up here on the {D: clear story}
Interviewer:  out on the outside
027:  #1 uh-huh yes #
Interviewer:  #2 and and is it #
027:  we had the windows wa- had service master to wash 'em this spring and we had a terrible time getting the man to go around by
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
027:  #2 'em #
Interviewer:  now what about it. what does a hornets nest look like
027:  It is a very intricate interesting thing that almost like it's made of grey paper. very thin, and it's um cylindrical but elongated at the ends and its um it's almost mystical looking It's beautiful I think
Interviewer:  {X} a wasp what is a wasps nest like
027:  If a wasp is the same as a dirt dauber and I think it is we have 'em all around out here. They get into where I water the flowers They get a little bit of the mud and come up and they will even run all the way down a crevice in the house where there's a corner
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  make a little uh triangular crevice and they will build this all the way down
Interviewer:  now those are the ones. dirt daubers that do you think of a dirt dauber as a stinging insect or not?
027:  um none of them bother me
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm #
027:  #2 very much # So I'm the one that gets to uh tear down the nest
Interviewer:  uh uh uh yellow jackets. Have you seen a yellow jackets nest?
027:  a uh no not the nest I have petted a yellow jacket when I was a small child that was the saddest day
Interviewer:  oh really?
027:  Yes. {C:Laughter}
Interviewer:  ah um these things hop alo- hop in the grass
027:  The grasshoppers
Interviewer:  alright
027:  and also crickets
Interviewer:  yeah uh small fish used for bait
027:  minnows
Interviewer:  and a spider. something a spider weaves
027:  his web
Interviewer:  now would you call this it it same thing indoors or outdoors?
027:  spider web? yes.
Interviewer:  would you ever use the term cobweb
027:  uh it comes out of my nursery book uh-huh
Interviewer:  but it isn't uh
027:  #1 sweeping the cobwebs out of the sky no #
Interviewer:  #2 it isn't natural tho huh alright # uh and the parts of the tree underground are
027:  the roots
Interviewer:  now what kind of trees grow around here just
027:  um mainly we have many hardwoods and uh we have pines cedars we have the laurel family, the magnolia family and the deciduous trees we have many varieties of fruit uh well not citrus fruits and uh the berries
Interviewer:  #1 what about in the #
027:  #2 the berries #
Interviewer:  what about in the laurel family. What are some of the trees in the laurel family
027:  oh we have mountain laurel we have azaleas um we have um the tulip magnolia which is a laurel and we have um oh I think there are seven varieties of laurels in the smokies
Interviewer:  What about is a the one that um um the rhododendron is that uh is that related to the
027:  #1 the azalea #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # is that is that uh is that of the
027:  #1 yes #
Interviewer:  #2 laurel family to? # Would you pronounce that word?
027:  azalea
Interviewer:  no
027:  rhododendron
Interviewer:  yeah now uh do you have any sycamore trees?
027:  yes
Interviewer:  would you pronounce that?
027:  sycamore
Interviewer:  now and uh this is a kind of sometim- I don't know if it's a bush or a tree or a vine this is loved the same as a vine today but it's a uh something like well first what are what do you call those things you get a ra- rash from the uh kind of vine
027:  Poison Ivy
Interviewer:  oh small
027:  poison oak uh-huh
Interviewer:  now this is um this is something something else that she talks about that is like that has the same effect as poison ivy or poison oak
027:  I don't know what it would be
Interviewer:  uh the you know sumac or shumac or
027:  uh-huh but I didn't know that it gave you a rash
Interviewer:  does that grow around here
027:  yes it's a big tree right down the road here has the um the pods on it
Interviewer:  alright is it called just a
027:  Sumac
Interviewer:  alright and you mentioned the uh uh well its George washington chopped down a
027:  cherry tree
Interviewer:  And the tree that you that that the uh syrup is taken from
027:  Maple
Interviewer:  and if a if a number of these maple trees if they are there any maple trees in the mountains
027:  um not in the mountains I think they're all cultivated We have several in our yard. Most everybody has them in the yard. they're so pretty in the fall when the leaves turn
Interviewer:  Uh a number of these growing together though-
027:  #1 would be a #
Interviewer:  #2 yes #
027:  Grove
Interviewer:  alright um what kinds of pine trees?
027:  oh we have white pine. We have long leaf. We have mountain scrub pine We have uh yellow pine
Interviewer:  you call all the small ones scrub pine?
027:  No scrub pine is one that grows at a high elevation and can't make a very big tree
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
027:  #2 because there's not much # um soil
Interviewer:  Is that the same thing as a jack pine?
027:  I don't know. I've never heard that term.
Interviewer:  uh they uh Jack I uh wondered if that was a Now is square pine isn't very good lumber or is it uh?
027:  um I wouldn't think so because just a little at a lower elevation you can get all the tall straight #1 big #
Interviewer:  #2 mm-hmm #
027:  fat pine you want
Interviewer:  And you talked about berries. What kinds of berries?
027:  oh um on the trees uh we have uh
Interviewer:  not so much on the trees but on the {X}
027:  on the on the ground?
Interviewer:  {X}
027:  strawberries blackberries blueberries raspberries
Interviewer:  And if you're out picking berries with children you might tell them better be- or mushrooms you might say you better be careful because some of these are
027:  Are poisonous
Interviewer:  uh did you read an article in the paper today about uh two families
027:  #
027:  #1 oh yes #
Interviewer:  #2 that # ghastly eh um talk to me about the uh {X} say I must ask my You know someone asks you something and you say well I'm not sure about that I'm going to have to ask my
027:  My husband.
Interviewer:  And he might say I must ask my
027:  wife
Interviewer:  and a woman who's husband is dead is a
027:  a widow
Interviewer:  and you're male parent is your
027:  father
Interviewer:  What did you call your father when you were a child?
027:  bobby
Interviewer:  Was that his name or uh
027:  his name was robert
Interviewer:  oh and what did you call your mother?
027:  Johnny that was her
Interviewer:  #1 okay #
027:  #2 name #
Interviewer:  and
027:  #1 {NW}{C:Laughter} #
Interviewer:  #2 together #
027:  #1 friends did #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah okay and and # together they were your
027:  Bobby and Johnny my parents.
Interviewer:  Alright and what about your um uh um your your uh their parents were your
027:  grandparents
Interviewer:  and what did you call them?
027:  uh Grandfather {D: Flonzi} had died before I was born Grandmother {D: Flonzi} was grandmother Grandmama Grounds was grandma Grandpa Grounds was grandpa but they both died when I was four so grandmother is the only one that I really called anything
Interviewer:  I see
027:  for long
Interviewer:  uh-huh and uh and if someone speaks of uh their offspring they say our what are still still in school
027:  Our children
Interviewer:  yeah and a name that is given to a child um a uh kind of a name of endearment or something
027:  a nickname
Interviewer:  alright and uh something a baby is put in and taken out in a
027:  uh a crib a buggy a
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 a basonet #
Interviewer:  a buggy now do you think of a buggy as the thing with a a hood on it
027:  {NW} yes
Interviewer:  okay and if you take a baby out you say you are going to do what the baby you're going to
027:  I'm gonna push him around the block
Interviewer:  alright would you ever use wheel, ride, roll or
027:  uh possibly ride but I think if I were gonna ride the baby I'd put him in the car
Interviewer:  #1 oh oh okay #
027:  #2 and take him for a ride #
Interviewer:  and talking uh different degrees of the state of being grown up you're talking about uh several boys say some of them some of their boys are being uh pretty grown up but you say he is the most
027:  Mature
Interviewer:  or using a form of grown up though
027:  oh he's uh the most grown or
Interviewer:  #1 no #
027:  #2 the biggest or #
Interviewer:  #1 no we're talking about in terms of #
027:  #2 the most grown up I would say #
Interviewer:  um and a um uh a a um a boy would be a son and his sister would be a
027:  daughter
Interviewer:  and she's not a boy but a
027:  girl
Interviewer:  and a women who's gonna have a baby she's
027:  pregnant
Interviewer:  and someone who assists in the birth of a of a child not a
027:  #1 who's not #
Interviewer:  #2 who's not #
027:  not a doctor
Interviewer:  yeah
027:  is a midwife
Interviewer:  okay and if a boy has facial features very similar to his father's you might say that boy
027:  is the image of his father
Interviewer:  alright and now that would be in looks what about in disposition or behavior
027:  oh you would say he's his father over and over or he acts precisely like his
Interviewer:  #1 okay #
027:  #2 father #
Interviewer:  and if some has say uh she had a hard life she what six children she
027:  she raised
Interviewer:  alright and if a child is bad some might say you're gonna get a
027:  you gonna get a spanking
Interviewer:  alright now uh something more sever than a spanking
027:  would be a whipping
Interviewer:  anything more sever than that
027:  you would be punished
Interviewer:  okay And a spanking is the least uh
027:  #1 I think in common terminology yes to me it was the most #
Interviewer:  #2 corporal of corporal #
027:  The most corporal
Interviewer:  #1 okay yeah #
027:  #2 coulda happened but I think thats um # only an individual case
Interviewer:  okay and speaking of a small something my how you've
027:  oh how you've
Interviewer:  #1 {NW}{C:Laughter} #
027:  #2 grown #
Interviewer:  {NW}{C:Laughter} uh and and uh a lot this year he really
027:  He really has grown this year or grown up
Interviewer:  #1 yeah he #
027:  #2 up this year #
Interviewer:  just
027:  shot up
Interviewer:  yeah or he just he uh
027:  grew up
Interviewer:  yeah um and uh an illegitimate child
027:  is an illegitimate child
Interviewer:  any other
027:  oh a bastard
Interviewer:  #1 yeah in in #
027:  #2 in in elizabeathean #
Interviewer:  yeah any other terms uh that you you heard
027:  um there are terms uh cute little terms like {D: Woods Colt} but you never hear them
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm #
027:  #2 you read them #
Interviewer:  those are things you just
027:  uh mostly you would say that uh he has is the father of an illegitimate
Interviewer:  #1 okay #
027:  #2 child # she has an illegitimate
Interviewer:  #1 now #
027:  #2 child #
Interviewer:  now talking about degrees of lovingness to say that uh um Nellie is a loving child but Mary is even
027:  More loving
Interviewer:  alright and if your um your brother your brother's son would be your
027:  my nephew
Interviewer:  and um a child who's parents are dead
027:  an orphan
Interviewer:  and a person who the court who appointed by the court to take care of a
027:  #1 is a guardian #
Interviewer:  #2 an orphan # and you speak of all the people related to you, you call these people your
027:  my relatives
Interviewer:  and say uh he is no what to me
027:  no kin to me
Interviewer:  alright and a person never seen before from another town. you'd say he's a
027:  stranger
Interviewer:  and under what circumstances would you use the term foreigner
027:  someone who came from another country
Interviewer:  alright now you mentioned yesterday talking to your husband you were talking something about
027:  #1 oh he's a flatland foreigner yes #
Interviewer:  #2 flatland {X} # now you talk what what about his the uh
027:  #1 came from uh #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah uh #
027:  Mississippi the flatland
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
027:  #2 and # and therefore he's a alien to our
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
027:  #2 mountains #
Interviewer:  so a flatland foreigner would be anyone outside
027:  #1 outside the mountains #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh yeah #
027:  course it's it's used as a
Interviewer:  #1 fun term #
027:  #2 sure well uh #
Interviewer:  a friend of mine at the university of Minnesota who's form Chattanooga he used to they used to talk about flatland foreigners and say that they used to drive they used to go up when they were in high school drive around these mountains around the mountains very fast and the flatland foreigners would be going {NW}{C:shutter} I think that's uh their way to drive
027:  {NW}
Interviewer:  if uh uh uh massive ceremonies might say ladies and
027:  gentlemen
Interviewer:  now under what circumstances would you use the word gentlemen
027:  when I enter a room
Interviewer:  mm
027:  like uh when we have a dinner
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 party # And I take the ladies to the parlor and then we come back in I say
Interviewer:  #1 uh yeah #
027:  #2 uh greetings gentlemen #
Interviewer:  #1 but yeah but would #
027:  #2 keep your seats or something #
Interviewer:  would you use the term gentlemen in any other sense would you use the term
027:  #1 is a gentlemen yes #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah # uh but would you use the term gentleman for you'd say There is a gentlemen at the door for example would that
027:  I doubt it. Rose might.
Interviewer:  uh
027:  if she came in and said {B} there is a gentleman at the door to see you
Interviewer:  I see uh the mother of Jesus was
027:  Mary
Interviewer:  and her sister was
027:  Sarah Martha
Interviewer:  I wanted that uh those I wanted both of those
027:  #1 Well good you got 'em #
Interviewer:  #2 uh uh yeah Martha's right but # Sarah I uh Sarah's kind hard to get I sometimes use have to {X}
027:  #1 uh-huh #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # In the song uh Wait 'til the Sun Shines
027:  Nellie
Interviewer:  and uh uh boy named Bill his real name is
027:  William
Interviewer:  And when he's a small boy they might call him
027:  Billy
Interviewer:  Okay and the first book of the new testament is
027:  Matthew
Interviewer:  And a woman schoolteacher might be called
027:  Misses so and so
Interviewer:  yeah or yeah or um I mean any kind of a term that would be a a distinction for um um for a you know to distinguish a woman teacher like a school school ma'am school miss school mom
027:  School marm I guess
Interviewer:  alright and talking about the um say this teachers name was Cooper um and shes married you'd call her
027:  Misses Cooper
Interviewer:  alright now would ya would yous you ever say that rapidly and just say miss
027:  Miss cooper
Interviewer:  #1 yeah mea and thats #
027:  #2 yeah mm-hmm if you're not #
Interviewer:  #1 and #
027:  #2 careful you you #
Interviewer:  #1 and and #
027:  #2 you will #
Interviewer:  still she she would that would
027:  She would understand that is was misses
Interviewer:  #1 okay #
027:  #2 Cooper #
Interviewer:  and go back to that that you don't you know times you don't like uh that that uh uh uh nickname for William
027:  #1 {NW}{C:Laughter} #
Interviewer:  #2 just pronounce it without #
027:  #1 {NE}{C:Laughter} #
Interviewer:  #2 the pejorative intonation #
027:  Billy
Interviewer:  yeah uh now um that a a uh untrained part time minister what would he be might be called
027:  a lay preacher
Interviewer:  alright have you ever heard it called anything else? They sometimes use this for the term for a carpenter or a lawyer
027:  #1 Oh a Jackleg preach #
Interviewer:  #2 okay #
027:  #1 -er #
Interviewer:  #2 you ever #
027:  heard that for a preacher huh
Interviewer:  What have you heard you haven't heard it for
027:  For a preacher I know uh uh I know of Jackleg lawyers
Interviewer:  uh-huh You never heard it for preachers tho
027:  uh-uh
Interviewer:  Oh it its uh um uh more common with preacher
027:  #1 is that right #
Interviewer:  #2 than lawyer # Same thing when they talk about jackleg carpenters or
027:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Or your electrician i supposes {NW}{C:Laughter} not necessarily but it it What does Jack leg mean a Jackleg lawyer
027:  {NW} uh an upstart. untrained.
Interviewer:  its someone without formal
027:  #1 yes except you #
Interviewer:  #2 formal training #
027:  can't have that anymore
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  because you have bar
Interviewer:  uh
027:  regulations
Interviewer:  mm-hmm now if I were to introduce you to two people a man and a woman. And I said now this um uh this this man he is my uncle and you'd say then the woman he is she is
027:  your aunt
Interviewer:  yeah and they uh uh President Kennedy's first name was
027:  John
Interviewer:  and the highest rank in the army is uh say the man's name of this uh Jackson or something
027:  #1 General #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
027:  Five star General
Interviewer:  yeah or or and well use the last name
027:  General Jackson
Interviewer:  Alright and and the rank below A brigadier general is a
027:  a Major general
Interviewer:  alright alright yeah going down from from gene- out of the general rank
027:  colonel
Interviewer:  alright and Using it with let's say his name is brown
027:  colonel brown
Interviewer:  Alright and a rank
027:  #1 Major Jones #
Interviewer:  #2 a rank that is down in the #
027:  Jones
Interviewer:  Kind of going down tho you have a have a major and then you have a a white colonel and then a major and then a
027:  captain
Interviewer:  yeah now is the word is the word captain ever been used in other words can you ever think of the word captain used in any kind of a of a uh uh a uh uh in any kind of a social uh
027:  My father used it as a familiar term when he wanted to ask directions
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm #
027:  #2 of someone # My uncle always called everyone George but my father always said captain
Interviewer:  uh-huh is that right? And the man who presides over trial is a
027:  Judge
Interviewer:  and if uh um a person who's attending school he's a
027:  student
Interviewer:  now what would you call, in first grade would you still say student
027:  I would call him a pupil
Interviewer:  alright and um what does the word scholar mean
027:  One who is engaged in serious study research
Interviewer:  {X} so you you wouldn't use the word scholar for student you would just
027:  #1 no #
Interviewer:  #2 just #
027:  #1 No I think a #
Interviewer:  #2 a scholar #
027:  scholar goes beyond a
Interviewer:  #1 alright #
027:  #2 student #
Interviewer:  and uh in An office a man might have a private
027:  secretary
Interviewer:  and in a the members of the what are the town officers in maryville called
027:  the city council
Interviewer:  and and so each on is a
027:  is a councilman
Interviewer:  alright and a man on the stage is an actor a woman is a
027:  actress
Interviewer:  and Speaking of a nationality because a Your nationality you are
027:  an american
Interviewer:  and A person of black black race is a
027:  Is an american
Interviewer:  #1 yeah well yeah uh #
027:  #2 oh a # negro
Interviewer:  alright now what uh derogatory or jocular or for neutral derogatory and jocular terms
027:  uh I don't know uh by now I don't know uh how they actually
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 weigh on the # scale because they go from
Interviewer:  #1 right #
027:  #2 time to # time. When I was a little girl um negro
Interviewer:  mm
027:  was the nicest thing you could say
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  then later I had a maid that informed me that she was colored
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  now no matter what color they are they prefer to be called black
Interviewer:  yeah
027:  but nigger has always been.
Interviewer:  #1 yeah mm-hmm #
027:  #2 very derogatory and # pickaninny or coon
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  uh I suppose are derogatory jocular perhaps and black boy
Interviewer:  yeah
027:  or high yeller or
Interviewer:  you that would be different degrees of uh well high yellers uh that would be uh uh
027:  mulatto
Interviewer:  yeah that would be in in having to do with the difference than color rather
027:  #1 yes #
Interviewer:  #2 than # okay um uh How do negroes usually address whites um you know in uh if they are in a in a um uh position of you know working for them or something
027:  well they always call me misses Faulkner
Interviewer:  uh-huh
027:  And Bill Mister Falkner and we had one maid who called bill Lawyer Falkner and she answered the telephone Lawyer and Misses
Interviewer:  #1 {NW}{C:Laughter} #
027:  #2 Faulkner's residence and all our friends #
Interviewer:  #1 {NW}{C:Laughter} #
027:  #2 called daily just to hear it #
Interviewer:  great and now a uh Words for uh for poor whites
027:  poor whites? Poor white trash
Interviewer:  yeah okay any other terms
027:  Uh no I think that's what we mostly use here
Interviewer:  Alright now what about the term the term redneck or
027:  Uh to me that indicates south Georgia
Interviewer:  Alright and cracker
027:  Georgia and Florida
Interviewer:  alright um have you ever ever heard the term Jackson whites
027:  no
Interviewer:  uh well I'm not sure what it is I think it might {X}
027:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Andrew Jackson or Kind of a # um uh now terms for a rustic
027:  oh uh Hick
Interviewer:  yeah now that sort of thing are there any
027:  um There are oh Mountaineer actually and uh hick and hillbilly are um There is something uh that refers to the farm boy I can't think uh
Interviewer:  Well have you ever heard the term {X} They still use the term Hoosier um Mountain hoosier
027:  no-
Interviewer:  #1 A hoosier usually means some of many #
027:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  or a um One of the terms is a jack pine savage I think that
027:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 that jack pine you know # uh I was just wond- I thought about that when you mentioned the scrub pine being up high in the in the in the maybe the jack pine savage could be one of the
027:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 you know up there really up in the hills # And uh uh terms like mountain boomer?
027:  #1 no mountaineer and #
Interviewer:  #2 uh yeah uh-huh #
027:  and uh of course your bootlegger
Interviewer:  yeah have you ever heard the term uh Pud
027:  no
Interviewer:  Now I heard that in In Dayton and uh uh misses Love
027:  Did she
Interviewer:  gave it to me too yeah pud. another one is Sager and uh is a term that blacks frequently use for poor whites a sager
027:  oh
Interviewer:  And I had no information at all on the etymology but its uh pretty interesting its It's not quite midnight but you'd say it's all
027:  it's almost midnight
Interviewer:  alright and you'd say I went out on the ice and I what felled on it well didn't quite fall down but I
027:  I almost fell down
Interviewer:  alright would you ever use like to or
027:  I have heard it
Interviewer:  yeah and if someone's rushing you and you might say to them just
027:  take your time don't hurry me
Interviewer:  alright just uh I'll be
027:  take it easy
Interviewer:  Yeah and I'll be with you in just
027:  in just a minute
Interviewer:  okay and you uh you You're driving the car and you want to know the distance from from here to to um uh Cleveland or something you might ask someone how
027:  How far is it to Cleveland
Interviewer:  do you use the expression what what might you say to a child if you wanna kind of reprimand a child in case he the child is acting up and you want the child to get serious you might say now
027:  uh You're thinking of now cut that out
Interviewer:  No I was thinking more its you you look here
027:  uh-uh I would just call a child by name
Interviewer:  alright you would look here or see here
027:  #1 now I would #
Interviewer:  #2 or #
027:  just say now lauren sharp
Interviewer:  okay
027:  stop that {NW}
Interviewer:  If you wanted to know the time someone Does something goes to town you might say how
027:  how often do you
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 go to town #
Interviewer:  And If I tell you I'm not gonna do something and you agree with me and you're gonna behave the same way you say I'm not gonna do that
027:  either
Interviewer:  #1 uh alright #
027:  #2 I'm not gonna do that either #
Interviewer:  this is my
027:  forehead
Interviewer:  and this is
027:  your hair
Interviewer:  and If I let my And If I didn't shave I'd grow a
027:  Oh you'd grow a beard
Interviewer:  okay and this is my
027:  ear
Interviewer:  which one
027:  your left ear
Interviewer:  and this is a
027:  your right ear
Interviewer:  and this is my
027:  mouth
Interviewer:  And this is one
027:  tooth
Interviewer:  tooth
027:  teeth
Interviewer:  and above the teeth are the
027:  lips or the gums
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 I suppose #
Interviewer:  and then this is my
027:  throat
Interviewer:  and the whole thing is my
027:  neck
Interviewer:  and what's this called
027:  your adam's apple
Interviewer:  have you ever heard it called anything else
027:  I don't believe so
Interviewer:  have you ever heard it called a goozle
027:  Now I thought your goozle was uh your inside your throat
Interviewer:  that's okay uh that's
027:  #1 burned my goozle #
Interviewer:  #2 okay # okay alright in in I see okay and um uh this is the what of my hand
027:  the palm
Interviewer:  And I make a
027:  a fist
Interviewer:  two
027:  fists
Interviewer:  and get pains in the wrists elbows shoulders
027:  #1 joints #
Interviewer:  #2 are pains in the # alright say that again please
027:  joints
Interviewer:  and this is my
027:  chest
Interviewer:  and these are my
027:  shoulders
Interviewer:  the one
027:  hand
Interviewer:  two
027:  hands
Interviewer:  and this is my
027:  leg
Interviewer:  and one
027:  foot
Interviewer:  two
027:  feet
Interviewer:  and get kicked her its kicked in the
027:  shins
Interviewer:  and a person kind of sits down in his heels you know kind of
027:  #1 uh he either #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
027:  squats or hunkers
Interviewer:  okay now that's they both mean the same
027:  #1 yes #
Interviewer:  #2 thing #
027:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 # alright if a person is uh has been ill for a while and then uh he looks kind of uh kind of white you see he looks
027:  #1 a little peaked #
Interviewer:  #2 kind of # alright do you do you ever use puny
027:  #1 not seriously no #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # um now if a person is able to lift a great weight you might say he's really
027:  strong
Interviewer:  would you ever use Stout in that
027:  Stout to me would mean someone who was too fat
Interviewer:  okay and if a person is very easy to get along with you might say he's very
027:  easy-going
Interviewer:  alright would you ever use um uh uh the term good natured
027:  yes
Interviewer:  is that is that the same thing
027:  yes
Interviewer:  would you pronounce that
027:  good natured
Interviewer:  yeah and uh um an an adolescent who say uh speaking especially here about physically appearance say he he looks awfully
027:  {D:Gangling}
Interviewer:  yeah that's right and if uh and if someone just cant do anything right you might
027:  #1 {NW}{C:Laughter} #
Interviewer:  #2 say oh #
027:  {NW}
Interviewer:  yeah or that everything he does is wrong
027:  #1 butterfingers #
Interviewer:  #2 say that # yeah well uh some kind of uh a term such as uh uh well goof dumbbell
027:  #1 idiot or stupid #
Interviewer:  #2 or something #
027:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah #
027:  Dumbox and that sort of
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 thing #
Interviewer:  #1 and {X} #
027:  #2 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  A person who is um uh uh who holds onto the money he has doesn't part with it easily you call him?
027:  Think it'd be a skin foot or a tightwad
Interviewer:  is there a difference between the two?
027:  I don't think so
Interviewer:  do you have a special distinction for a person who tries to get the most out of others for his um Like a boss you know who might work his
027:  #1 a slave driver uh-huh #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah okay # and what about what does the word common mean in the talking about people
027:  um ordinary
Interviewer:  and what does ordinary mean?
027:  You see I'm gonna give you back common
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 just # run of the mill
Interviewer:  alright Is that is that uh in your mind more nearly pejorative or um I mean if someone said you were common would you be flattered
027:  #1 no #
Interviewer:  #2 or or not # and now if you said someone was common uh uh
027:  I would be careful not to say it
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 where anyone would hear me #
Interviewer:  okay okay so it it
027:  it it I it doesn't uh have to do with the norm or the average
Interviewer:  #1 alright #
027:  #2 it it's #
Interviewer:  #1 oh #
027:  #2 um um # descriptive state
Interviewer:  and it wouldn't be used in a complimentary
027:  #1 no #
Interviewer:  #2 sense # that's okay and if if uh an older person gets around a lot you'd say she's really
027:  real spry
Interviewer:  alright and what about a younger person
027:  lively
Interviewer:  alright now well now what adjective would you use that she's what lively she's
027:  very lively
Interviewer:  alright and if something bothers you and you're not really sure just what it is You'd say I don't know what's wrong but I just feel a little about that
027:  uh a little uncertain
Interviewer:  yeah that's the uh would ya ever
027:  I'm just not sure
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 about that #
Interviewer:  would you use the expression uneasy?
027:  uh yes possibly
Interviewer:  how would you use that would that be used in the same?
027:  yes uh particularly if I was thinking about someone's health He says he's fine and yet I'm I'm just not quite certain he really is. I'd be a little uneasy about that
Interviewer:  would you like to stop and move uh
027:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 uh your leg around #
027:  #1 no It's fine i may have #
Interviewer:  #2 totally okay #
027:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 that's what I was wondering about # wondered today If I kept ya #1 yeah I shouldn't have #
027:  #2 no cause I moved yesterday #
Interviewer:  #1 yeah {X} #
027:  #2 put my foot on the table ya know #
Interviewer:  well if someone is uh a little boy wants the light on at night because he's He's what of the dark
027:  He's afraid
Interviewer:  and uh the boy says I'm not afraid of the dark his mother says maybe you're not now but you
027:  you used to be
Interviewer:  alright and The negative of used to be is
027:  You didn't used to be
Interviewer:  yeah does that sound uh
027:  It sounds very
Interviewer:  #1 okay #
027:  #2 strange #
Interviewer:  you wouldn't used usen't to be
027:  no I I think I'd say you weren't
Interviewer:  alright
027:  before
Interviewer:  Before you'd say didn't used to be
027:  uh-huh
Interviewer:  The opposite of careful is
027:  careless
Interviewer:  and A person that uh some if something happens you might say thats a very peculiar thing or you might say it's very
027:  strange
Interviewer:  or other words
027:  #1 or out of the ordinary #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah #
027:  or uh what did you say peculiar?
Interviewer:  yeah
027:  okay odd
Interviewer:  yeah what about a word beginning with q
027:  queer
Interviewer:  yeah now would you how do you use that in any special way
027:  that has come to have a rather unpleasant terminology and it's never used just in general
Interviewer:  #1 okay #
027:  #2 conversation anymore #
Interviewer:  in what sense is it used
027:  uh a person who is homosexual
Interviewer:  #1 now would you avoid #
027:  #2 or what have you #
Interviewer:  or what have you now
027:  #1 I would avoid using the word queer for fear someone would misinterpret it #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # but you don't you don't do you limit it to to to do you do you limit it in your mind to homosexual or just
027:  just to a word that I better not use
Interviewer:  #1 I see yeah #
027:  #2 because I might be misunderstood #
Interviewer:  You know its interesting because {D: now your husband might...} {X}
027:  plain queer
Interviewer:  you know he's talking about about the I think daily queer a queer town and you see that is really {C:He is imitating her husband} that you see you know it really is that is it's a shame someone told me about fifteen years ago he said it was really too bad because that is such a good word
027:  #1 uh-huh #
Interviewer:  #2 you know and its #
027:  #1 it's getting a bad thing uh-huh #
Interviewer:  #2 and its really been and well it's been that way for uh # I'll tell ya one of the funniest things {C:He must have cut the tape here to tell a story} um a person who just you try to convince a person about something but no matter what you say he still won't come around and you say don't be so
027:  so stubborn or so bull headed
Interviewer:  okay and what might you call a person who's easily offended
027:  oh um
Interviewer:  you might say that person don't be so
027:  so sensitive there's a there's something better than sensitive though can't think of it it begins with a P
Interviewer:  with a with a
027:  a P
Interviewer:  uh-huh um how about touchy
027:  that's good or touches I have heard
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
027:  #2 many times #
Interviewer:  would you use that
027:  no
Interviewer:  what would ,would you use the other one
027:  touchy?
Interviewer:  yeah
027:  not really
Interviewer:  is the word that starts with a 'P' you can't think of might you use that
027:  Yes but I can't think of it so I {NW} I don't know what I'm thinking uh
Interviewer:  I can't think of it either Uh if a person if a person who is that way say he got awfully what when he was teased he said he got awfully
027:  oh he got awfully upset
Interviewer:  alright um how about um uh more than just upset he really was
027:  irritated oh I've heard the term we really got him
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm #
027:  #2 or he was #
Interviewer:  #1 yeah yeah #
027:  #2 got or he was uptight #
Interviewer:  Well if if someone cuts you off on the you were driving and someone just pulled out in front of you you'd say You were really what then
027:  burned
Interviewer:  okay now but now when I was there's a word. There's a very common word that you might use not awfully
027:  I was furious
Interviewer:  yeah {X} mad and angry would you use either of those? or both
027:  um I've stopped using mad because of the the connotation of madness
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  and um and I seldom use angry
Interviewer:  okay uh a person who is all wound up you might say then just
027:  #1 simmer down #
Interviewer:  #2 he he #
027:  keep calm
Interviewer:  alright and a person who worked all day says I am really
027:  tired
Interviewer:  now do you have any different words for degrees of tiredness
027:  worn out
Interviewer:  alright
027:  exhausted pooped
Interviewer:  alright any others
027:  #1 that's all I think of #
Interviewer:  #2 those are all fine # um and uh uh uh young man might be tired out but come home and take a nap and then get up and go out and he's what to go out and he's what to go
027:  #1 raring to go #
Interviewer:  #2 okay # and do you ever do you know the expression torn down in the sense meaning very or we have as uh
027:  #1 no #
Interviewer:  #2 you know we had a torn # down good time
027:  no
Interviewer:  yeah thats uh huh I don't get that much around here um a little girl has to come home from school the nurse sent her home. She what sick at school-
027:  she got sick
Interviewer:  alright And he is sick now but he'll be well again
027:  tomorrow
Interviewer:  or
027:  #1 soon #
Interviewer:  #2 a little longer time # do you ever use by and by
027:  no It's a lovely a lovely #1 expression #
Interviewer:  #2 mm-hmm # uh uh uh didn't wear enough someone didn't wear enough clothing went outside you'd say he might
027:  #1 {X} a cold #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah alright # now would you say um and yesterday he what a cold he
027:  he caught a cold
Interviewer:  alright and or he or he has
027:  has a cough
Interviewer:  and a person talks like this he's
027:  very hoarse
Interviewer:  and he has a {NW}
027:  cough
Interviewer:  and a person can't keep his eyes open he's
027:  sleepy
Interviewer:  and you might go in in the morning and someone you might go in and someone is asleep and you want you have you have to go in and
027:  and wake them
Interviewer:  yeah because they want to uh #1 {X} #
027:  #2 get up at a certain time #
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
027:  #2 {D:to be called} #
Interviewer:  they want to what
027:  wake up
Interviewer:  yeah uh and you doctor might give you some pills and then he comes over and visits you and the pills are all there and he might say haven't you
027:  taken any
Interviewer:  and you say yes I've
027:  took some
Interviewer:  and tomorrow i will
027:  #1 not take another one #
Interviewer:  #2 okay {NW} # uh and if a person can't hear you might say he's
027:  he's deaf
Interviewer:  and yesterday uh a man was working, he worked very hard. You say he really
027:  he really he uh put in a good day's work
Interviewer:  yeah but there's waters pouring down and
027:  oh he was just sweating
Interviewer:  mm-hmm now what about that in the past tense. Yesterday he really
027:  He was sweating he did sweat
Interviewer:  oh or just taking out the did yesterday he really
027:  he sweat
Interviewer:  okay and a large discharging sore that has a core in it
027:  I think that's called a canker
Interviewer:  alright now is that um well if um uh
027:  #1 are you thinking of #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
027:  something's infected
Interviewer:  yeah no i'm thinking of something with a core in it that the core has to be removed
027:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 you know # yeah uh and what do you call the other stuff inside there besides the core
027:  pus
Interviewer:  alright and person has a infection is in his hand and his hand is
027:  #1 swelled #
Interviewer:  #2 or your knee take #
027:  #1 yes its #
Interviewer:  #2 your knee your knee is #
027:  swelled
Interviewer:  yeah um I uh it is it is what up would you say it it uh it is
027:  it is swelling
Interviewer:  yeah yeah and uh do you use the expression or know the expression buck fever
027:  #1 I have heard it #
Interviewer:  #2 does that have any meaning # what does it mean
027:  {NW}
Interviewer:  what do you associate it with
027:  um {NS} Spring been couped up all winter
Interviewer:  oh
027:  Let's get out and be gay
Interviewer:  I see Oh I see you don't associate it with someone uh no uh You see it has another meaning too it has a meaning of Of someone who's inexperienced
027:  #1 oh yes #
Interviewer:  #2 at at # getting
027:  no that doesn't
Interviewer:  frightened
027:  #1 uh-huh #
Interviewer:  #2 and and you know # this person goes hunting and doesn't doesn't have uh is inexperienced and fires too soon or something They say he has buck fever or buck {D:ague} and thats another one they its uh uh the same thing uh they they the um the liquid inside a blister is called
027:  water
Interviewer:  alright and a person is uh hit by a a bullet he suffers a bullet
027:  wound
Interviewer:  and they don't use the term much anymore but a wound that doesn't heal right and the skin is up around it
027:  yes a doctor told me that once it's um proud flesh
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  I had never heard it
Interviewer:  no I it It was a long time it was hard for me to explain because I didn't know it's hard to to illicit something you can't
027:  #1 {NW}{C:Laughter} #
Interviewer:  #2 describe. I didn't know what it was # um They used to use a lot of mercurochrome and something else that burned more
027:  Iodine
Interviewer:  yeah and something they use for to cure malaria
027:  Quinine
Interviewer:  yeah And of course if he's no longer alive you say he
027:  he's dead
Interviewer:  yeah he
027:  #1 passed #
Interviewer:  #2 yesterday # Alright now what about some neutral and or veiled and crude terms for this see if we can separate {NS}
027:  oh um let's see pushing up daisies um deader than a doorknob
Interviewer:  yeah {NS}
027:  um
Interviewer:  I've heard doornail I've never heard
027:  #1 doorknob #
Interviewer:  #2 doorknob but #
027:  doorknob
Interviewer:  yeah it's good and just what might you say if you're talkin- you mentioned before you wouldn't you might want to soften it or veil the expression for members of the family or something you might say
027:  He's gone
Interviewer:  yeah
027:  That's a euphemism that is used so
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 much # My husband is gone
Interviewer:  yeah
027:  oh when will he be back
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh yeah #
027:  #2 {NW}{C:Laughter} #
Interviewer:  well all of these terms, passed on and
027:  #1 yes #
Interviewer:  #2 so forth #
027:  #1 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  #2 or left us # uh departed um someone died you say I don't know what he
027:  died of
Interviewer:  alright and the place where a person's buried is a
027:  cemetery
Interviewer:  and the box is called a
027:  now are you speaking of the mausoleum or the vault
Interviewer:  #1 no I'm just talking yeah that's #
027:  #2 the casket #
Interviewer:  and the the um uh the ceremony is called a
027:  a funeral
Interviewer:  and the family is in
027:  mourning
Interviewer:  and someone might ask how are you feeling and it's it's you know a positive response you might say
027:  now are you referring to mourning mourning
Interviewer:  #1 no this is about that we are a little #
027:  #2 {X} okay #
Interviewer:  #1 okay alright #
027:  #2 I'm fine #
Interviewer:  alright and um uh how about just not quite fine you might say oh I feel
027:  {NW} so so
Interviewer:  alright and if someone's troubled about something you might everything will be alright don't
027:  Just don't worry its it'll turn out alright
Interviewer:  {X} And if you have pains in the joints you might be suffering from
027:  Arthur- Arthritis
Interviewer:  #1 alright #
027:  #2 which is # often called Arthur-itis
Interviewer:  yeah
027:  Or rheumatism
Interviewer:  yeah now uh you never use rheumatism the term
027:  no grandmother used
Interviewer:  #1 alright #
027:  #2 rheumatism # And a man came to the door the other day and saw me on crutches he says oh you on crutches, you've got arthritis?
Interviewer:  {NW}{C:Laughter} uh a disease that took the lives of a lot of children a generation or two back starts with a D
027:  The Diphtheria
Interviewer:  and uh disease that causes a yellowing of the skin
027:  Jaundice which is really um Hepatitis
Interviewer:  #1 is it a liver ailment or not #
027:  #2 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  uh they uh get a pain in the side that might be
027:  appendicitis
Interviewer:  and um person can't keep food down you might say he is sick
027:  uh to his stomach #1 I #
Interviewer:  #2 alright #
027:  I would not say to his stomach I would say he's uh he's nauseated
Interviewer:  yeah but if you were going to use sick if you were gonna use something a preposition with stomach is to the one you'd use rather than at in on or of
027:  uh neither sounds right to me um I'd think I'd probably say he must have eaten something that upset him
Interviewer:  but the term but the preposition of those that comes
027:  #1 I don't know #
Interviewer:  #2 comes closest #
027:  if it would be at or to I think i would be more likely to say in {NW}
Interviewer:  okay and a person who is who can't keep food down he might
027:  uh he might vomit
Interviewer:  now any any uh crude terms for that
027:  oh yes um heave
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm #
027:  #2 is uh # the original
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 good term #
Interviewer:  uh-huh
027:  as we were taught
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 uh in # school and then uh regurgitate
Interviewer:  uh well it is an interesting thing there I'll bet I was over twenty one before i knew that I always thought that vomit was the crude term
027:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 and throw up was the throw up was the uh was the uh # I really did I thought throw up was the
027:  oh how about spilled his cookies
Interviewer:  yeah that's right I heard one that uh from a uh a college senior there uh uh in cleveland last week blow lunch
027:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 was not the most vigorous one I've heard so far # I'd uh never heard of that before
027:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 and I've heard a lot of 'em. Yeah it must be # uh Someone had some news and you know you say why did he come? over you'd say well he came over
027:  To tell you the news
Interviewer:  yeah and if someone uh uh gives you something, lends you something you say that's really nice I'd like
027:  Oh I'd like to have one of those
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 myself #
Interviewer:  oh yeah you you can keep though
027:  I'd like to keep
Interviewer:  #1 yup #
027:  #2 this #
Interviewer:  and you'd say
027:  #1 that's not very polite #
Interviewer:  #2 if uh no no that's # is what the idea here is is whether you'd say you wouldn't say I'd like for to keep this
027:  no
Interviewer:  um You say if that doesn't happen I'd be disappointed I
027:  I'd be sorry
Interviewer:  well using uh uh Something before be I what be
027:  I'd really be
Interviewer:  #1 yeah not #
027:  #2 disappointed #
Interviewer:  no but using the part of the uh shall or will be disappointed
027:  oh I shall be
Interviewer:  #1 uh and #
027:  #2 disappointed #
Interviewer:  glad to see you we
027:  uh we shall be glad to see you
Interviewer:  okay and if a child a child misbehaves you might say I'm gonna what you uh I'm going to
027:  gonna spank you
Interviewer:  do you ever use go and spank, take and spank or up and spank
027:  just spank
Interviewer:  alright a young man is seeing a lot of a girl they say he is what her he is
027:  courting
Interviewer:  alright and she is um his
027:  #1 girl #
Interviewer:  #2 They're not # yeah and uh and uh he is her
027:  her date her friend her young man
Interviewer:  alright yeah alright well I was just thinking boyfriend girlfriend any other
027:  #1 mm #
Interviewer:  #2 kind of terms that uh # um
027:  no we've been interested some of the college neighbors
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm #
027:  #2 that have gotten # back from school have come to see us and brought friends and this is so and so she is a friend of mine from school
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  so and so he is a friend of mine from
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm #
027:  #2 school # very carefully
Interviewer:  that's interesting
027:  I I thought so too. The child may have come two hundred miles to visit
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
027:  #2 and this is a friend #
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh yeah #
027:  #2 from school #
Interviewer:  Just one of the boys
027:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  yeah um they uh um uh after a date a boy might uh um bring a girl home and have uh he might at the door he might
027:  #1 he might kiss her goodnight #
Interviewer:  #2 uh yeah # now what what are some other terms for that sort of thing in uh uh uh that is some terms some when you were young what terms were used
027:  #1 I resent that when you were young #
Interviewer:  #2 uh yeah #
027:  uh
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
027:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
027:  #2 I think kiss is uh is a very good #
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 term um # I think uh such terms as um necking implying more than kiss
Interviewer:  yeah
027:  #1 and uh #
Interviewer:  #2 okay #
027:  my mother used uh sparking
Interviewer:  yeah
027:  and that sort of thing
Interviewer:  yeah and then but spooning then
027:  #1 went back to #
Interviewer:  #2 probably came but #
027:  #1 grandmother's time #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah right #
027:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah that's the that # necking yeah um
027:  #1 and now they make out #
Interviewer:  #2 uh # yeah that's right but the the trouble with that is that these terms and making out are different than
027:  #1 they they I think #
Interviewer:  #2 I mean you know it's #
027:  #1 so #
Interviewer:  #2 you know you know and I really don't uh # uh uh you know it its hard especially hard to talk to kids about this because you know they
027:  #1 they have definite distinctions #
Interviewer:  #2 you know they they got uh # right sure uh and if a a man has ask a woman to um um uh to marry him and she decides not to but shes all but she'd agreed before you might say she did what she
027:  she broke her engagement
Interviewer:  yeah or she any any kind of jocular term there that might be used
027:  she went back on her word
Interviewer:  yeah or anything like gave him the mitten threw him {X}
027:  #1 oh #
Interviewer:  #2 uh turned him #
027:  #1 possibly turned him #
Interviewer:  #2 off or #
027:  #1 down but I would #
Interviewer:  #2 right #
027:  think of that more in terms of
Interviewer:  #1 yeah right #
027:  #2 not accepting in the first place #
Interviewer:  #1 but if she did yeah if #
027:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  she didn't they went ahead and
027:  got married
Interviewer:  alright and the man a man who uh attends a uh uh a um uh uh at at a wedding who stands up with the groom is called
027:  The best man
Interviewer:  and the woman counterpart is the
027:  maid of honor or matron of honor
Interviewer:  or just one of a number they're yeah
027:  a bridesmaid
Interviewer:  yeah uh a noisy serenade after a wedding
027:  well it's called a chivaree
Interviewer:  did they ever call it a chivaree around here?
027:  Yes my mother uh told of attending chivarees
Interviewer:  uh-huh could ya describe it for me what you
027:  the dean of the college married and brought his bride back and the children all got out of the dormitory. The college at that time uh took you from first grade through college
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  and so the children were various ages
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm #
027:  #2 and they took # whistles and spoons and bells and what have you
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  and they went and hid on the lawn and as soon as the lights were turned out in the apartment then they started the
Interviewer:  #1 {NW}{C:Laughter} #
027:  #2 {D:wild and nuts} # and then they serenaded
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm #
027:  #2 them #
Interviewer:  now the ser- but it it is serenade and uh uh a serenade then is part of the chivaree?
027:  It was in this case
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 I # do not think it always was. I think they sometimes ended up with things like
Interviewer:  #1 yeah #
027:  #2 fireworks and # horseplay
Interviewer:  yeah well they sometimes call that uh they call the the whole thing a serenade
027:  oh
Interviewer:  uh but I mean you
027:  #1 to me the serenade is #
Interviewer:  #2 {D:That's great} #
027:  the music
Interviewer:  yeah chivaree is uh yeah the chivaree is uh very this is about I think this is the first as far south as I've
027:  #1 as you've heard it? #
Interviewer:  #2 I've uh # it's very common in uh you know up uh and this is a very distinct regional
027:  #1 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  #2 uh term # uh if you're talking about being in knoxville yesterday you said I was
027:  I was in Knoxville
Interviewer:  #1 if you're gonna put a #
027:  #2 yesterday #
Interviewer:  put a preposition in there what would you use?
027:  I went to Knoxville oh I'm I would not say I was over in or up in or down in because it's too close
Interviewer:  alright if uh uh under what circumstances do you use up down and over?
027:  oh I go down uh to Atlanta
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  Or over to Nashville or down to Memphis
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
027:  or out to Houston
Interviewer:  Alright out to Houston
027:  uh-huh
Interviewer:  and then um uh where did and and uh and up to
027:  oh Roanoke Washington.
Interviewer:  and north would be north south and then over is east and west but out is is
027:  #1 is out West #
Interviewer:  #2 is east? # Out west you would say out to I went out to New York
027:  no
Interviewer:  #1 out is #
027:  #2 I went up to New # York
Interviewer:  yeah How about uh um if you went to um Richmond
027:  I go up to Richmond
Interviewer:  alright let me think uh I think my geography If you went to Chapel hill
027:  I'd probably go over across
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm yeah #
027:  #2 the mountain Chapel Hill #
Interviewer:  now you wouldn't
027:  #1 I'd #
Interviewer:  #2 You #
027:  Go over to Chapel hill and I'd go Over to Ashe-
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
027:  #2 Ville # I'd go over to Spartanburg and
Interviewer:  #1 mm-hmm #
027:  #2 columbia # I sure would
Interviewer:  but the but but you couldn't you couldn't you'd say over to Co-