Interviewer: Going to Chapel Hill 027: I'd probably go over, across the mountain to Chapel Hill. Interviewer: Yeah now you wouldn't 027: I'd go over to Chapel Hill and I'd go over to Asheville. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 027: I'd go over to Spartanburg and Columbia. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 027: I sure would. Interviewer: But the, but But you couldn't You couldn't You said over to Columbia too? 027: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: And that's #1 Because # 027: #2 Because # we go through {D: Newfoundaya}. Interviewer: Uh-huh. We'd be going over there. I see. 027: It's an over. Interviewer: Yeah, that's That is interesting. Uh But you don't there isn't there isn't enough Distance East to make it out, I suppose. to make it out one out Because in Chicago they really say sometimes {D: Southeast} in the Southeast 027: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: as well as out West. 027: I don't think we'd go out West as much as we'd go East. Interviewer: Alright. Uh. And you're talking about someone living just at say the Brown's house, would you, how would you How about over? Up? Down? 027: Uh I say, over it. Over {D: ruse} Um Which is across the road our other Marshalls, which is just beyond route which is up the hill. and I go over to Kitty's, which is all the way over in the other part of town. I use to go over to my mother's. Interviewer: Now it's over, what, what, what determines that? 027: Distance. I go up to the neighbors, or across the #1 neighbors # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # 027: but when I go out on my subdivision and into Marehall, which is someone's house I'm going over to #1 their house. # Interviewer: #2 Alright well # What makes What's the difference between over and, or going up and going across? 027: I never go across. I guess I haven't learned that. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 027: And I go up uh to places that really are North of me. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 027: Or seem North of me, they may be Northeast. Interviewer: But if you went to a neighbor's house in the South you wouldn't you say I went down to? 027: No. Uh. I might go down the hill to someone's house if they were down the hill but it would be it's more a matter of Ruth and Marshall live up the hill. Interviewer: Do you ever, do you ever distinguish, this is an interesting distinction that I got in Cleveland and that was 'up and down' on the basis of social- 027: No. Interviewer: -uh difference in that I thought that was 027: Um, no. You may here someone say you're uh Uh, you're keeping exotic company matters or something like that. Interviewer: I didn't mean that. I didn't mean that. I mean living, I mean saying that a person lives down in whether it's 027: Oh! Down in such and such subdivision. Interviewer: Which is a lower or up-end 027: I don't think so, because uh we kept trying to did about a Park Side, which is our housing, uh federal housing, where Rose lives. {NW} I'd just say Rose lives in Park Side. Interviewer: But would- I want, would you say up,down, over there? 027: No, Rose lives in Park Side. I live in Westwood. Interviewer: Alright, let's say you went there. Would you say "I went over there," "I went up there," or "I went down there"? 027: Um, no. I went to Rose's home in Park Side. Interviewer: {X} 027: Nuh-uh. Interviewer: Okay. Um. We talked about all the people kind of in appreciative terms or all the kind of 027: The great mass. Interviewer: Yeah. Well we talked about your friends, let's say, and you were just using appreciative sentences were there. But using the whole something was there. The whole? 027: The whole group. The whole gang. Interviewer: Alright. um And music played, people got out on the floor, and that's the 027: The dance. Interviewer: Alright and at you have to be when you're driving around the school zone going around three or four o'clock, you have to be careful because the school- 027: Children are crossing. Interviewer: #1 Yeah and people # 027: #2 And school # was out. Interviewer: Yeah and you might have to call um when a uh at uh you want to find out, if a child begins school in September and you want to to know the exact dates you might call the principal and ask when does school. 027: Start. Interviewer: And a boy doesn't attend one class, you might say he? 027: He cut or he laid out. Interviewer: Alright, now what is there a difference between those two? 027: Uh, cut would be more on the college term and laid out would be someone the truant officer would go after. Interviewer: I see, and laid out would be all day rather than just one #1 class? # 027: #2 Not # necessarily. I have heard the children say he laid out of Chemistry. Interviewer: Oh that would be in high school? 027: It'd be in one period, Uh-huh.. Interviewer: And a person goes to school in order to get a good? 027: Education. Interviewer: Gets out of high school and goes to? 027: College. Interviewer: Gets out of kindergarten and goes into? 027: Grade school. Interviewer: And then first year is called? 027: The first grade. Interviewer: Yeah. And a child sits at a? 027: Desk. Interviewer: The plural? 027: Desks. Interviewer: And you check books out of the? 027: Library. Interviewer: And you mail a letter at the? 027: Post office. Interviewer: And in a strange town you might stay in a? 027: Hotel or a motel. Interviewer: And if you want to see a film, you might go to a? 027: Movie. Interviewer: And? 027: A theater. Interviewer: Yeah and if you have an operation, you'd go to a? 027: Hospital. Interviewer: And there there's a doctor and a? 027: Nurse. Interviewer: Okay, a place you get on a train. 027: {D: A base park?} Interviewer: Well for a train ride, where do you go to get on a train? 027: Oh to the depot. Interviewer: Alright, and uh 027: {D: by a train.} Interviewer: Yeah, that's right. In the, around the courthouse, Is there a lawn around the court- 027: #1 Yes. # Interviewer: #2 house? # What do you call that? 027: {D: The Kerniaflam.} Interviewer: Okay. #1 {C: laughing} # 027: #2 {C: laughing} # Gotta love that. Interviewer: You don't, no you don't use green colored squares, though? 027: Not here, no. uh let's see, Cleveland has a town square, I believe. Interviewer: Now, if you're walking across something in this direction, you know, you don't walk this way you kind of walk. 027: You're going diagonally or catty-cornered. Interviewer: Do you ever call that anything else? 027: Jaywalking? Interviewer: Well, I was- Do you have the term {D: andy goggling or andy goggling?} 027: No. Interviewer: Yeah, andy goggling is one that um uh they like that one so much that I told them they wrote this up in a survey they were doing several years ago. and uh uh {D: Neandy whistling was a term that we got.} {D: Meaning we got up to North Georgia and we were going neandy whistling.} kind of throwing a cock eyed 027: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: you know fashion across the field. {D: It was going.} Or planting something, Andy Goggling just #1 kind of cat that # 027: #2 I heard of that # Sky Goggling. Interviewer: Pardon? 027: Sky Goggling. Interviewer: Does that mean the same thing? 027: Uh-huh. Interviewer: Meaning 027: Yes. Interviewer: kind, planting things were you 027: Just every which way. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 027: going, moving, or planting or #1 sewing # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh # 027: or what have you. Interviewer: I just Well, could you use that in a sentence so I could get a. 027: um That field is laid out so that it's actually sky goggling. Interviewer: Okay, that's seems to have the same, that must be from the same kind of family of terms. And now in most big cities they have buses but before they used to have. 027: Oh, street cars. Interviewer: And if you were riding on a bus you might tell the driver "I want" at the next stop, I want 027: I want off the next stop. Interviewer: Alright, and Maryville is the what of blank? 027: The seat of Blount County. Interviewer: Alright. um, would you call it the county? 027: Seat. Interviewer: Would you say that together though. 027: County seat. Interviewer: Yeah And if you work for the post office, you work for the federal? 027: Government. Interviewer: And the police department as a job is? 027: I mean it's #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Yeah # And the police department is supposed to maintain? 027: Law and order Interviewer: Yeah, and the War of eighteen-sixty-five that was over in 1865 was the? 027: War between the states. Interviewer: Do you ever call it anything else? 027: Um Yes. #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 I was just trying to. Yeah yeah! # And uh If they use the rope to execute murderers they say the murderer was? 027: Hanged. Interviewer: But he didn't wait until he was carried out, he did it himself in his cell, you'd say he? 027: He hanged himself. Interviewer: Alright Now, here's some geography and this is strictly for pronunciation. #1 {X} # 027: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Okay. uh The uh um, Rochester is in? 027: New York. Interviewer: New York? 027: State. Interviewer: Alright. And Baltimore? 027: Maryland. Interviewer: Roanoke? 027: Virginia. Interviewer: Asheville? 027: North Carolina. Interviewer: Uh, um. Colum- Columbia? 027: South Carolina. Interviewer: Uh Atlanta? 027: Georgia. Interviewer: Uh Tampa? 027: Florida. Interviewer: Birmingham? 027: Alabama. Interviewer: Uh. New Orleans? 027: Lousi- Interviewer: Yeah 027: Louisianna. Interviewer: The state just North of here? 027: Uh, there's four of them. North Carolina, Virginia uh South Carolina and Kentucky. Interviewer: Is-is-is South Carolina North of here too? Is that it comes up that far? 027: Uh-huh. Interviewer: Yeah 027: Sure does. Interviewer: Um and the state The two states that that uh Tennessee touches on the West? 027: Um Mississippi and Arkansas. Interviewer: And just North of Arkansas is? 027: Missouri. Interviewer: And 027: No, do we go straight into Missouri? No, we go into Kentucky and then to Missouri. Interviewer: Yeah And the state West of Louisianna? 027: Texas. Interviewer: And North of Texas? In, in the 027: Oklahoma, I guess. Interviewer: Yeah, that's right. Now the big city in Maryland is? 027: Baltimore. Interviewer: And the seat of the federal government is? 027: Washington, D.C. Interviewer: And the largest city in Missouri? 027: Saint Louis. Interviewer: The court in South Carolina? 027: Is Charleston. Interviewer: There's some cities in There's some big big cities in Alabama. 027: Oh, well Other than Birmingham, there's Montgomery. And um Interviewer: There's court city, it's the only other one. 027: #1 Mobile. # Interviewer: #2 Down. # Yeah. And the big city in Illinois? 027: Is Chicago. Interviewer: And the city across here in North Carolina's mountains? 027: Asheville. Interviewer: And, The uh four uh big cities in Tennessee? 027: Oh. Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville, Memphis. Interviewer: And the big and four big cities in Georgia? 027: uh Atlanta, Columbus Is Macon a big city? And Brunswick? Is Brunswick a big city? Interviewer: Yeah, that's There's a fourth city though. 027: Is Brunswick? Interviewer: In North. 027: Oh, Augusta! Interviewer: No. 027: Savannah! Savannah. Savannah. Savannah. Savannah. {X} Interviewer: Maybe Augusta are the middle and fourth now. I said. 027: It must be, because it Interviewer: #1 said an important. # 027: #2 {X} # Interviewer: See uh And two big cities in Louisiana? 027: Oh um Baton Rogue and New Orleans. Interviewer: And the river city in Ohio? Cin- Cin- 027: In uh A home on the river? Interviewer: Uh-huh.. 027: I'm sorry, Cincinnati? Interviewer: Sure. And then and then if you continue down the river or towards the Mississippi you'd get to the city you come to in Kentucky. 027: Oh it's {X} That's right out of Cincinnati, but that's not what you're thinking of. Interviewer: It's the one near the Church of Dallinger. 027: Oh, Lexington. Interviewer: No, over. 027: Louisville. Interviewer: Yeah. 027: Okay, I always get those two mixed. Interviewer: If you're talking about how far uh, if someone says how far it is from here to Knoxville you say "oh it's about 14..." 027: Uh, sixteen miles Or sixteen miles Southeast of Knoxville. Interviewer: Okay. Uh, if someone wants to know if after you do something you "say well I don't know" I want to do that or not. I don't. 027: I don't know if I would like. Interviewer: Alright. And if someone's been sick for a long time and say "it seems what he'd never pulled through." 027: It seemed like a miracle. Interviewer: Ah. And if you had said I You refused to go by yourself you might tell a friend, "I won't go, you go too. I won't go." 027: I won't go unless you go too. Interviewer: And the other choice of doing two things, you say "I did this doing that. I did this." 027: Instead of doing that. Interviewer: Yeah. And someone says "why do you like him so much?" and the answer is that he's so funny so you say "I like him." 027: I like him because he's so funny. Interviewer: Uh um. And someone, someone's going to leave and you say "I won't stay. You go, I-" 027: I won't stay if you go. Interviewer: Yeah. And the largest church in the South is the. 027: The largest church in the South? You mean building? Interviewer: #1 No, just- # 027: #2 Or # denomination? Interviewer: Denomination. 027: I guess it would be the Catholic church. Interviewer: The largest Protestant church... 027: Would be the Baptist. Interviewer: Yeah. And they, if a person becomes a member, you'd say he... 027: He joined the Baptist church. Interviewer: Alright and the uh the church where one worships... 027: Uh. Interviewer: The Supreme Being. 027: Oh, the one worships God. Interviewer: Yeah. And If an old person says "My..." 027: My God. Interviewer: And a minister preaches a... 027: Sermon. Interviewer: And the organ plays... 027: An anthem. Interviewer: And an anthem is a kind of. 027: Hymn. Interviewer: And a hymn, an anthem all of those are different kinds of... 027: Of um Interviewer: You know a symphony would also be another kind of variety of 027: Classical music? Interviewer: Yeah! Just-just-just music. 027: Music. Interviewer: Um. And the song from Oklahoma, "Oh, What a..." 027: Beautiful Morning. Interviewer: Yeah. And what's a ballad? 027: A ballad? Interviewer: Yeah. 027: It is a story about a person who actually lived telling what he did and has been uh carried down by uh word mouth, by hearing not by having been written. Interviewer: Have you ever heard the term 'ballad' used for a hymn? 027: No, I don't think so. Interviewer: Alright, if um if you're going to church and you get a flat tire and you have to fix it, there's a lot of flat tires that day, you might say "Church will be over..." 027: Before we get there! Interviewer: Okay. And the uh proprietor of hell is... 027: Satan. Interviewer: Any other terms for. 027: Saint Nick. Lucifer. um. Interviewer: How about one beginning with "d." 027: The devil. Interviewer: Yeah. 027: The devil do I see. Interviewer: Alright. Any other uh um uh jocular terms? 027: I can't think of anything. Interviewer: There's a house in a neighborhood that children are afraid of to go in to. You might call that a... 027: A haunted house. Interviewer: And what's supposed to be in there? 027: Oh spooks and ghosts and something that'll get them. Interviewer: You say "I think I'm going to put on a sweater because it's a..." #1 What? # 027: #2 It's a little chilly. # Interviewer: Alright and you say "oh, I'll do that if you insist but I'd really..." 027: I'd really rather not. Interviewer: And if you're If someone comes in that you haven't seen in a long time, you might say "glad to see," you might say "I'm..." 027: Glad to see you. Interviewer: Yeah, So if you were going to use "delighted" or "glad," what um... 027: I'm so glad to see you. Interviewer: That's- okay. And once again we're back to right smart, if uh you're talking about someone owning a large amount of land, now you might say we talked about right smart as probably being appropriate there, but you said you don't use that facetiously. What would you probably say? "He owns a..." 027: He owns a large tract of land or he owns half of Blount County or something like that. Interviewer: Alright, would you ever use a good deal? 027: No. Interviewer: Um, if there's a slight difference between two things, you might say "well they're not- they seem about the same, but if but this one is..." 027: Just a little better than that one. Interviewer: Alright, okay. Um, if you're- someone asks you if you're able to do something, you say "why can I..." 027: I certainly can. Interviewer: Alright. And , um, someone- you want to use something to modify "he dreaded the place" to indicate forcefully "he what dreaded the place?" He? 027: Oh, he really dreaded that #1 place. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # And if it's the Is it Someone says "is it very cold?" do they always say "oh yes it's..." 027: I would say it is just you know, real cold. Interviewer: Yeah 027: When we had um A-S-T-P students here doing World War Two, they'd say it's colder in hell and I thought that was funniest #1 thing I'd ever heard # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Where's A-S-T-P? Is that 027: Oh, Army Stephen Pilot Training. Interviewer: Oh I #1 see. # 027: #2 Then # they had them in colleges Interviewer: Uh-huh. 027: to finish their college education. Interviewer: Yeah. Uh, and was used "real" in the sense of "good" too? 027: Yes, that's real good. Interviewer: Yeah. And did you ever- Have you ever heard the expression "Those are-" Speaking of indicating if something is of high quality saying for instance those "those are real dogs" or... 027: Um. That's real class. Interviewer: Yeah. 027: Something like that, perhaps. Interviewer: But not with a- with a specific thing that is like 027: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Um 027: That's the real thing. Interviewer: Yeah, okay. Now some expressions of um that you might use of- let's say I hit your thumb with a hammer. What might you say? 027: {NW} I'd say "Ow!" Interviewer: #1 Yeah, alright. # 027: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: But any but a kind of a of a, a most a specific word that you might use there. 027: Oh darn. Something. Interviewer: Okay. And is that about is that's about the most severe that you've used? 027: Yes. Interviewer: Alright. And then- Alright and then- Do you ever use the expression uh "shucks" or "lamb steaks"? Either of those? 027: No, I for goodness sakes. Now I've heard those. Interviewer: And if something- If somebody did something that was really weird you know and you might say "why the is that?" 027: Why in the world would you do that? Interviewer: Did you ever use the expression "the idea"? 027: Uh-huh. #1 Years ago I # Interviewer: #2 How many- # 027: The very idea. Interviewer: Okay. Um. And. How would you, um, greet a close friend that you saw for the first time and you hadn't seen them for a while, you might say? 027: Hello! I'm so glad to see you. Interviewer: Alright. And how would you uh- Uh Uh How would you- How would you greet a stranger? Someone introduced you to someone, you might say... 027: How do you do? I'm so glad to meet you. Interviewer: Alright. Now what- How about the expression "how are you"? 027: Ah, yes. uh Interviewer: Would that be more for strangers or for... 027: Uh, that- is just a greeting. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 027: A lot- Hi, how are you? Interviewer: uh-huh 027: That's just all sort of the same. Interviewer: Yeah. 027: It doesn't require an answer really. Interviewer: Okay, they um- uh Yeah that's- Somebody gave that as a- As a definition of a bore someone gives you an answer to #1 "how are you?" # 027: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Um, uh If a person who, um uh uh Someone leaves and you might say "come..." 027: Come again. Interviewer: Alright. And the usual greeting on December twenty-fifth? 027: Merry Christmas. Interviewer: Alright. Was there anything else you might have said when you were younger, a child as a as a... 027: No. We always said "Merry Christmas." Um. My cousins used to say "Christmas Gift." Interviewer: Ah, okay. 027: But that always seemed to me as if it were implying that they expected you to be #1 bringing something. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah now # where, where was- Where did they live? 027: They were right here in Blount County. Interviewer: Uh-huh. #1 Did they # 027: #2 They had got # it from colored people. Interviewer: uh-huh yeah That's kind of a game they play, you know. The Christmas gift thing. It's kind of like when you say Christmas gift then you have to #1 {D: give them something.} # 027: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: And then the usual greeting on January first? 027: Happy New Year. Interviewer: And if someone does a great favor for you you might say "I'm much..." 027: Uh, you're thinking "I'm much obliged." Interviewer: Yeah. Uh, what would you- How would you pronounce that, but now that you have pronounced it what might you say? What would you- 027: I'm very grateful. Interviewer: Okay. 027: Thank you so much. Interviewer: Alright. If someone uh asks you if you could do something, you say asks you if you have time to do something you say "well I..." 027: I think so. {X} Interviewer: And if you had to buy some um uh some food, you would go to the... 027: The grocery. Interviewer: And you say "I have to go uh uh into town today, I have to do some..." 027: Shopping. Interviewer: And you go #1 outside- # 027: #2 Or some # errands. Interviewer: Okay and you had to- you bought a package and and the clerk, he... 027: He wrapped it. Interviewer: And then you took it home and you... 027: Unwrapped it. Interviewer: And they The man who owned the store lost money because he had to sell it at... 027: At cost or uh below cost. Interviewer: What would you say if he hadn't sold it at below cost, he sold it at a... 027: At a loss. Interviewer: Yeah. And you say "I'm going to buy but it what too much?" It? 027: It costs too much. Interviewer: And on the- On the uh first of the month or the tenth of the month {X} On the tenth of the month the bill is... 027: Due. Interviewer: And if you belong to a club you have to pay your? 027: Dues. Interviewer: If you don't have enough money you might have to go to a bank and... 027: Borrow. Interviewer: And in the thirties, money was? 027: Very scarce. Interviewer: Uh Do you- uh- Are you familiar with the use of the expression "anymore"? Or would you use it saying "anymore money is scarce" in the same sense as you- 027: No. I would say I don't go there anymore. Interviewer: #1 Yeah, but would you # 027: #2 Not anymore money is scarce. # Interviewer: Have you heard- You hear that a lot around here? 027: Uh, no. Interviewer: uh-huh 027: You might hear out- More out toward the mountains. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 027: I haven't heard it uh in a long time. Interviewer: Um Someone got up on the diving board and then he... 027: Dived. Interviewer: He has... 027: He has dived. Interviewer: And he will? 027: Dived? Interviewer: And to dive in the water and land flat on your stomach is a? 027: Belly flop. Interviewer: Okay when the child is on the floor, he turns a? 027: Flip. Interviewer: Or a? 027: Cartwheel. Interviewer: Yeah, or a som- 027: Somersault! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Interviewer: And he j- he he jumped in the water and he... 027: Dog paddled. Interviewer: And or just he 027: Swam? Interviewer: Yeah He will... 027: {D: Swim} Interviewer: He has? 027: Swum. Interviewer: Alright. And a bonus or a gift that might be tossed in with a purchase When a purchase is made or a bill is paid. 027: Uh, didn't get that here but it's lagniappe. Interviewer: Yeah A lagniappe is in- 027: In Louisiana. Interviewer: In Louisiana and in Texas it's {D: peon}. 027: Yes Interviewer: But But the 027: You don't get it here. Interviewer: {D: pirogues} is the only term that I think that That uh Is the You might get into at some parts, but if you get I hadn't uh uh {X} If someone went down to the third time in the water you'd say he was? 027: He was going down for the third time, he was drowning. Interviewer: Yeah, he uh he? He did? 027: He drowned. Interviewer: Alright. And a baby gets down on all fours and? 027: Crawls. Interviewer: And. Uh. The squirrel what up the tree? 027: Climbs. Or runs. Interviewer: Yeah. Yesterday the squirrel? 027: Climbed up the tree. Interviewer: Has? 027: Has climbed the tree. Interviewer: Alright the child would stand behind the chair some people might say he? down behind the chair? 027: Oh, he crouched down. Interviewer: Alright And uh In church, uh especially in a Catholic church, would say that the parishioners- 027: #1 Kneel. # Interviewer: #2 Pray. # 027: #1 Yes they. # Interviewer: #2 Kneel to pray. # 027: They knelt to pray. Interviewer: Alright, and uh If I'm tired I think I'll what down for a while? 027: Lie down for a while. Interviewer: Alright. Say that lazy, lousy, he what in bed all day? He? 027: He lay in bed all day. Interviewer: Right. If I didn't, I- I slept the uh last night but I I already have- 027: But, I'm still tired this #1 morning? # Interviewer: #2 No no. # Stop. {NS} 027: {X} #1 I dreamed. # Interviewer: #2 I slept. # Yeah. 027: I slept. Interviewer: "I dream" is what I was getting at. I I I knew I was going to. 027: Dream. Interviewer: I have? 027: Dreams. Or I have dreamt. Interviewer: And what I And Early in the morning, I? 027: Awoke. Interviewer: Alright and to do this on the floor. {NS} Hard is to. 027: Stomp. Interviewer: Yeah. Alright and first, after a date or dance, a boy might say to a girl "May I?" 027: May I take you home? Interviewer: Yeah. And get on a rope and you? 027: You pull. Interviewer: When you're buying a cart and stuff and you have to? 027: Push. Interviewer: You have a heavy bag of meal or luggage. You say you what that up the stairs? 027: Oh, lugged it up. Interviewer: Okay, now how about tote? 027: Um, I don't believe we tote anymore. And we never did carry. You have to go to Georgia to be carried. #1 Which just # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh. # 027: fascinated #1 me when I was # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh # 027: a little girl. Interviewer: uh-huh And if a child is running around getting into all kinds of things, you might say now don't- don't be alarmed but don't? 027: Just, just don't do that. Don't touch things. Interviewer: Yeah. And if you wanted to see one of the a knife or uh scissors {X} You might ask someone go? 027: Go in my bedroom and get me the scissors out of my sewing basket. Interviewer: And uh In a Now would you say "go get" rather than "go bring"? 027: Yes. Interviewer: Alright. In a game- 027: But I would say "please bring me" if I weren't instructing to go get it. Interviewer: uh-huh. Okay. In a uh Uh in a game that plays where people want to tag or touch 027: Is tag? Interviewer: Yeah, the place while in a In a game You know the place where they end? Where they? 027: Oh, home base. Interviewer: Alright. Now how about in football, they cross the what line? 027: The goal line. Interviewer: Alright. And throw a ball up in the air and you try to? 027: Catch it. Interviewer: Did you? You say "yes, I..." 027: Caught it. Interviewer: I have? 027: Caught it. Interviewer: If someone's in a big rush, you say "take it easy, I'll wait..." 027: For you. Interviewer: And if a child has been misbehaving and punching, the child might say "please, please give-" 027: {D: Please don't.} Interviewer: Give me a? 027: Give me another chance. Interviewer: And if a person's in You might say he's in good spirits or you might say he's in good? 027: Oh, good mood. Good humor. Interviewer: Yeah. Uh and so we have to get the {D: working} man out because I want to what those bugs? I want to? 027: I want to kill those bugs. Interviewer: Yeah or get? 027: Get rid of those #1 bugs. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # And person uh putting on the diff- um say he knew it all, you might say he what he knew it all? 027: He thought he knew it all. Interviewer: And alright and um a child in school might say who what {D: mom} Interviewer: Someone tells you something that you hadn't you know reminding you of something you say "oh yes now I..." 027: Now I remember. Interviewer: And if you didn't you say "well I don't..." 027: I don't remember that at all. Interviewer: If they had {D: attitude?} 027: I had to write. Interviewer: Yesterday, I? 027: Wrote. Interviewer: I had? 027: Written. Interviewer: And now I expect? 027: To write. Interviewer: You expect a reply, you might say reply or when you when you uh uh or you might say you expect an? 027: Answer the letter. Interviewer: Yeah, but using an analogy saying "now I expect..." you know an answer using it that way. 027: I expect a reply or I expect a letter in return. Interviewer: Yeah and so you put a um on the envelope, you put the person's name and? 027: Address. Interviewer: And you might have to ask someone "what is his..." 027: Zip code. Interviewer: Or his? 027: Address. Interviewer: Uh and when you do that, you say "I'm going to what the letter"? Would you ever use 027: I'm going to mail it. Interviewer: Would you ever use address or address {C: pronunciation} there for the "I had to..." 027: Oh, I'm going to address the letter, yes. mm-hmm. Interviewer: And if I was doing something strange, my mother might say "who?" 027: Who taught you that? Interviewer: Yeah, and if you haven't gotten around you say "we haven't gotten around to doing that yet but we?" 027: We will. We expect to do it soon. Interviewer: Alright. And then, you say that someone I had uh I'm not going to do that but you can if... 027: If you wish. Interviewer: Alright. And children's nicknames were one of the tattles... 027: Tattle, tattle, tat. Your tongue will be slit. Interviewer: Okay And you might go out in the garden and put these in a vase. You go out? 027: Cut flowers. Interviewer: Alright. Uh. Something a child plays with? 027: A doll? A ball? Interviewer: Yeah, or a general term for anything? 027: Toys. Interviewer: Yeah anything else? The term we talked about yesterday? 027: Plaything. Interviewer: Yeah. 027: A play pretty's your thing, huh? Interviewer: If something happened that you uh the child would play around or fall down and that was going to happen you say "I just?" 027: I just knew that was going to happen. Interviewer: If someone says um uh uh you had um Which one um did you receive from someone, you would say "well that's the one you?" 027: That's the one you gave me. Interviewer: Yeah and uh You um I hadn't even asked for it and you had already. You had? 027: Already brought it to #1 him. # Interviewer: #2 You had? # 027: Given it to him. Interviewer: Yeah uh And if you wanted to know what time someone um you might say started work or another ways you say we? 027: We began work or we went to work. Interviewer: Yeah and the work had before we? 027: Had begun. Interviewer: Alright. And we will? #1 Now that we # 027: #2 We will begin. # Interviewer: Yeah And he had what along the path before? He had? 027: He had walked. Interviewer: And moving more rapidly? 027: Run. Interviewer: Yeah. 027: He had jogged on the path. {C: laughing} Interviewer: Yesterday he? 027: Yesterday he ran. Interviewer: Yeah. um and um he Over to tell me his news he? 027: He ran over and he came over. Interviewer: Yeah and tomorrow he will? 027: Will run over. Interviewer: Or will come? 027: Will come over. Interviewer: Yeah. And with your eyes you? 027: You look. Interviewer: Alright and you? 027: See. Interviewer: Yeah and yesterday you? 027: Saw. Interviewer: You had? 027: Seen. Interviewer: Alright and you had to take a detour on a downtown road but it was all? 027: Torn up. Interviewer: Okay and uh you give someone a bracelet and then like say go ahead and? 027: Put it on. Wear it. Interviewer: Right. And you say "that's nothing new, he had that before." He had? 027: He had done that before. Interviewer: Yesterday, he? 027: He did that yesterday. Interviewer: And he will again. He will? 027: He will do it tomorrow. Interviewer: If someone says "what's new?" you'd say? 027: Nothing. Interviewer: You say come now there must be. 027: Something. Interviewer: Yeah, I think I'll go out because it's what a nice day? It's uh? 027: Such a nice day. Interviewer: And how long has it been that way? You say "as far as I know, it's?" 027: Always. Interviewer: And I've lived here nineteen? 027: Fifty-two years. Interviewer: I've lived here ev- ever? 027: Ever since nineteen-hundred Interviewer: Okay and if someone says why why did why did uh he Did he do that accidentally? And you say "no he did it?" 027: Absolutely on purpose. Interviewer: Right and uh do you make it a distinction between these two expressions: "I think so" and I think so. Do those have two different meanings? 027: No. Interviewer: Um. uh. Someone Have a question, you don't have the answer to it yourself you say "well, I have that many times myself." I have? 027: I've asked that question #1 many times # Interviewer: #2 And I probably will? # 027: Ask it again. Interviewer: And those little boys can't get along together they what all the time? 027: They fight. Interviewer: Yesterday they? 027: Fought. Interviewer: They have? 027: Fought. Interviewer: And a large knife that's made for a large knife that might A hunter knife you would use it in killing a wild hog is a? 027: Oh hunting knife? A dagger? Interviewer: Yeah. Alright he what the hog with the knife? He? 027: I suppose he struck him. Interviewer: Or stu- 027: Stuck him? Interviewer: Yeah. 027: You stick a pig when you're going to slaughter him. Interviewer: Alright well a man who's Another man you might say he what him with the knife? In the back. You say? 027: Oh, he stabbed him in the back. Interviewer: Yeah. And then he what the blade out? He? 027: He pulled it out. Interviewer: Alright. 027: And wiped it off. Interviewer: Alright if one dropped- Yeah. {NW} Alright. 027: {X} Interviewer: Okay. And if something. That you, you If you had to lift something up A heavy Well a safe, let's say you're going to lift a safe up and you have to get it into a a room you know up on the third floor or something uh. For the elevator, they put it on something and. 027: The block and {D: tow} Interviewer: And then they what it up in the air? 027: Pull it up. Interviewer: Or what? 027: Hoist it up. Interviewer: Yeah. And you have an orange and your two children there and you want to give one a part. You say "I'm going to?" 027: I'm going to divide it in half. Interviewer: Yeah Do you ever say "I'm going to cut it?" 027: In two? Interviewer: Yeah. Or cut half in two? 027: Cut it in two or divide it in half. Interviewer: Alright. And if someone's bothering someone else, you say "don't!" 027: Don't bother me. Leave me #1 alone. # Interviewer: #2 Don't sat # say to him don't. uh You say "don't listen to him,""don't pay attention to him," or "don't pay him..." 027: I would never say "don't pay him no mind." Interviewer: No. Don't pay him no {X} nevermind. 027: Never. Interviewer: Yeah. um If something didn't irritate you, you'd say "well that's alright, he didn't?" 027: He didn't bother me at all. Interviewer: Alright. And uh Someone might say "women, you better watch out for her because she'll what you out of bed?" She'll? 027: Oh, she'll kick you out of that. She'll do you out of #1 bed. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah that, that # But doing out of it in a kind of could you hold it you know you say- 027: Oh, she'll talk you out of it? Interviewer: Yeah or would you say "sweet talk" or or is that at all used just the words you do? 027: No, um sweet talk something see in the fun paper. Interviewer: Oh what's- 027: You see it in the funny paper rather than Interviewer: #1 {X} # 027: #2 {X} # Interviewer: I see. Uh-huh. 027: Is it crazy how he. Interviewer: Okay, now um if a teacher might say to um to students about the bell you know um uh uh 027: Is it time for the #1 bell to ring? # Interviewer: #2 yeah because # Well you should listen? 027: Listen for the bell? Interviewer: Yeah. And when we talked before about the child sitting down behind something. And when the child jumped up, he might say? 027: Surprise! Interviewer: Okay. And then you'd say Think about that same thing someone is say something like "you needn't be so?" 027: You needn't be so surprised? Interviewer: Yeah. 027: You was there all the time. Interviewer: Well, okay. Or like the other word is "snatched." But you ever You know that? You needn't be snatched or snatched or surprised? Um and if someone asked you if you had come over to A neighbor was going to borrow something and um some oil and say "well I've got," go ahead and march it, say "I've got?" 027: A little bit. Interviewer: Alright. And you're trying to do two thing, you'd say "well I'd rather do this..." 027: Than that. Interviewer: And had If a stranger you might you might Someone who wants to meet a stranger you say "well I'll..." 027: I'll introduce you. Interviewer: Have you ever heard the expression "knock you down?" Meaning introduced? 027: No! {NW} Interviewer: Um, that's in Huckleberry Finn. 027: It is. Interviewer: To knock you down. And I {X} In the In Hannibal. The old man 027: Is that right? Interviewer: Knock you down, he gets knocked down to get away. I'll give you a knock down. 027: I don't remember it in Huckleberry Finn. Interviewer: Um {NS} Now, someone gives you all sorts of reasons you know for doing something. And, but despite everything with you, you say "despite everything you said, I still won't go." How might you say it. 027: You couldn't talk me into it. Interviewer: Would you say something- Would you ever use "yet" and "still" or "for all that," "nevertheless" or something like that? 027: No, not even "nevertheless." Interviewer: Okay, well that's it. Interviewer: But thank you very much. 027: #1 {C: laughing} # Interviewer: #2 {C: laughing} #