Interviewer :  Okay, it looks like it's recording. Um, th- these are some questions about types of land, and so forth. Th- a farmer might say I'm gonna get a big yield from this field because the soil is very
100:  Soft? Uh.
Interviewer :  It's a word that means rich when you're talking about soil. Starts with an F.
100:  Fertilizer.
Interviewer :  #1 Alright, #
100:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer :  okay. Uh, what would you call low land along the stream?
100:  A valley?
Interviewer :  It's mostly farmers who'd know these things. Would you ever hear of bottom land? {NS} No? Okay. How about, uh flat land where nothing really grows but maybe grass or flowers?
100:  Plain.
Interviewer :  Alright. And how about, I know you know this word, wou- a where there're a lot of water and um bog, and alligators and
100:  Swamp.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Do you know what you'd call one that was salt water that was by the sea?
100:  Stream?
Interviewer :  Um, how about marsh. Do you know that word? {NS} Okay, um. {X} Do you have any names for different kinds of soil?
100:  Dirt.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. How about that red stuff that Georgia's famous for?
100:  Red clay.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. {NW} Okay. Did you ever hear of loam? Alright, uh. If you're getting water off the swamp, you'd say your doing what?
100:  S-
100:  {X}
Interviewer :  Draining it or draining it?
100:  Draining.
Interviewer :  #1 Alright. #
100:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer :  And what would you call a thing that you would dig to drain the water?
100:  A hole.
Interviewer :  Or a th- a long thing that the water runs along.
100:  Gully, or som-
Interviewer :  Word starting with a D?
100:  Ditch.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Okay. {X} How about I, I don't think you'll know a word for this because Atlanta's not on the sea. But do you know what you'd call a place where the water flows in and out with the tide?
100:  Current.
Interviewer :  Well it's kind of a l- uh, s- name of a stream.
100:  Gulf stream?
Interviewer :  Hmm, alright, well, {NW} Uh, then how about a deep, narrow valley that's cut by a stream of water?
100:  River. {NS}
Interviewer :  Mm. Not the river, not the stream of water itself but the, the valley. {X} walking along and then there were a place where it just dropped down about ten feet and there were maybe water in the bottom, would you, have a name for it?
100:  Trenches?
Interviewer :  Alright. Would the- would you ever call anything like that a gulch or a canyon or a ravine or #1 anything like #
100:  #2 Yeah. #
Interviewer :  that? What?
100:  A ravine.
Interviewer :  Alright. {NW} And um, you had said gully before, would you describe a gully?
100:  Uh, like, like going around the house. Like it's {NS} made like, sorta like a U but it's going like a tunnel
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm.
100:  #1 and stuff. #
Interviewer :  #2 Mm-hmm. # Mm-hmm, okay. Uh, s- if uh, {X} what do you call a little body of water that's just flowing along?
100:  Stream.
Interviewer :  Any other name for that?
100:  Pond. {NS}
Interviewer :  Does a pond flow?
100:  Oh, no.
Interviewer :  Or it, it's just sitting there?
100:  Yeah.
Interviewer :  Anything smaller than a stream?
100:  I guess so, but I don't, I can't think of a word.
Interviewer :  Are there any uh, streams in your neighborhood?
100:  No.
Interviewer :  How about, any rivers that you know about?
100:  Mississippi river.
Interviewer :  Well how about in Atlanta though?
100:  Um, Chattanooga river.
Interviewer :  #1 Okay #
100:  #2 Chattahoochee. #
Interviewer :  Yeah, that's it. Uh, then, let's see, what would you call a small rise in the land?
100:  Mound?
Interviewer :  Anything bigger than a mound?
100:  A mountain.
Interviewer :  Well what's sort of between a mound and then a mountain?
100:  Hill.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Alright, good. Uh, and the thing you turn to open the door with is a?
100:  Door knob.
Interviewer :  Would you ever call a hill a knob? Mm, they don't do that in this, that part of the country and you're not supposed to know that. Uh, then you mentioned gulf stream before. What do you call that big body of water that's south of the United States?
100:  Uh, Pacific?
Interviewer :  It, no gulf something.
100:  The gulf, the gulf stream?
Interviewer :  It's the gulf of
100:  Mexico.
Interviewer :  Okay. And uh, if your getting back to the mountain again. If the, there's a place where the mountain drops off, you'd say don't fall off the
100:  The hill?
Interviewer :  Well it's the rocky #1 side of #
100:  #2 The cliff. #
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And so you'd say the mountain has two
100:  Cliff.
Interviewer :  Okay. And uh, up in the mountains where the road goes through in a low place, would you have a name for that? Would you call that anything like a notch or a pass or a gap? Nope? Not at all. Then ah, in the mountains too, where there's water flowing along and all the sudden it drops off, that's a?
100:  Waterfall.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. How about a place, uh, where boats stop and freight is unloaded?
100:  Sea port.
Interviewer :  Or just the place where the boat comes in?
100:  Port.
Interviewer :  Okay, that's good enough. Um, what are roads made of?
100:  Uh, asphalt.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm, what else? What is asphalt made of? I don't even know.
100:  I guess coal, I don't know.
Interviewer :  What's that black sticky stuff?
100:  Tar.
Interviewer :  Uh-huh. How about a road that's not paved at all?
100:  Dirt road.
Interviewer :  And how about the one that's got those little rocks on it?
100:  A rock road? {NS}
Interviewer :  Gravel, do you know that?
100:  Yeah, gravel.
Interviewer :  Okay. And then the thing that people walk along is the?
100:  Sidewalk.
Interviewer :  What's that made of?
100:  Concrete.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay. Uh, then, what would you call a big main road?
100:  Highway.
Interviewer :  And how about a smaller road, a little road that goes off the highway?
100:  Street I guess.
Interviewer :  Alright, fine. Uh, how about a road that g- n- it's not really a road but it goes from the street up to your house?
100:  #1 Driveway. #
Interviewer :  #2 Mm-hmm. # And what would you call the strip of grass that's between the sidewalk and the street? {NS}
100:  Weed.
Interviewer :  Well, you know that strip, you have to mow it. But it's between the sidewalk and the street. You have a name for it? That's funny, people in some parts of the south have names for it and other parts don't, and they don't have a name for it in Atlanta so it's right that you don't. Uh, okay, if you were walking along and a dog jumped out at you, you might pick up a
100:  Rock.
Interviewer :  And you would say I
100:  Threw it at it.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. {NW} And uh, if you went to somebody's house and knocked and nobody answered, you'd say I guess he's not
100:  Here.
Interviewer :  Or he's not at
100:  Home.
Interviewer :  Okay. And uh, if somebody came to see your mother and say you were out in the yard and you, they ask you is she home y- and we would say yes, she's
100:  In the house.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And if she's in the room where you prepare food, you'd say she's
100:  In the kitchen.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm good. Uh, and then that black stuff that people sometimes drink for breakfast is
100:  Coffee.
Interviewer :  And uh, there are two ways that you can drink coffee in terms of putting milk in it. You can say I drink it blank milk or blank milk.
100:  With milk and without milk.
Interviewer :  That's it exactly, good. And if somebody's not walking away from you, you say he's walking {NS}
100:  Towards you.{NS}
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And if you saw somebody that you hadn't seen in a while and you were telling somebody else about him and you might say guess who I ran In to #1 Mm-hmm. #
100:  #2 today. #
Interviewer :  And uh, if you gave a child the same name as her mother, you'd say we named the child
100:  After her mother.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. {NS} Okay. And then, the next few questions are about animals. This is mostly farm animals, but not completely. The kind of animal that barks is a
100:  Dog.
Interviewer :  If you wanted your dog to attack another dog what would you say to him?
100:  Sic 'em.
Interviewer :  Good. And um, what would you call a dog that's not any particular breed?
100:  A mutt.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm, anything else? Ah, what would you call a very noisy little dog?
100:  A runt.
Interviewer :  Okay. Did you ever hear of a feist? No, okay. Ah, then if he were a mean dog you'd say you better look out he might
100:  Bite you.
Interviewer :  And yesterday he {NS}
100:  Bit you
Interviewer :  And he has?
100:  Bit you. {NS}
Interviewer :  Okay. And then, uh, the animal that you milk is a?
100:  Cow.
Interviewer :  And, uh, a male is a?
100:  B- bull.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And a baby one is a?
100:  Calf.
Interviewer :  You have different names for male and female?
100:  I don't think so.{D} {NS}
Interviewer :  Okay, how about um, uh, if a, a cow is about to have a calf she, say she's going to what?
100:  Have a calf.
Interviewer :  Would you ever say anything like freshen or come fresh or drop a calf or there's some more too but I can't remember 'em. They're, those are old country terms. And then the animal that looks kind of like a horse but its got long ears is a
100:  Donkey.
Interviewer :  Or?
100:  Mule.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh, if you had two of those you'd say you had a what of mules?
100:  Two mules? {NS}
Interviewer :  A something of mules. Two of them pulling a plough?
100:  Couple of mules.
Interviewer :  Okay how about um that animal that looks kind of like a bull? that they sometimes use for ploughing?
100:  Ox.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm if you had two of those what would you have?
100:  A couple of ox.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh then if uh, well the animal that you ride is a
100:  Horse.
Interviewer :  And two of those are two
100:  Couple of horses.
Interviewer :  Okay. And a female is a Starts with an M.
100:  M- mare.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And a male is a
100:  Colt.
Interviewer :  Starts with an S.
100:  Stallion.
Interviewer :  Good. Uh then if you uh were getting up on your horse you say I'm going to?
100:  Ride my horse
Interviewer :  And yesterday I
100:  Rid my horse
Interviewer :  And I have
100:  Ridden my #1 horse. #
Interviewer :  #2 Okay. # And if he couldn't stay on you'd say he fell
100:  Off.
Interviewer :  Alright and if a little child was in bed and then woke up on the floor he'd say gee I must've
100:  Fallen off the bed.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh the things you put on the horse's feet are the?
100:  Horse shoe.
Interviewer :  Okay. And uh the game you might play with those is?
100:  Horse shoe.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Uh do you ever see anybody play that with rings instead of horse shoes? What would they call that?
100:  Ring I don't know. I just seen it I ain't hear them call the name.
Interviewer :  You ever play that? Mm-kay. Um. I think I just skipped one. I did. The horses feet are called what? Starts with an H?
100:  Hooves.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm and if yo- just one of them would be one?
100:  Hoof.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. A- do you know what you call a male sheep?
Interviewer :  Alright now the male could be a ram or a buck. Would you use one of those?
100:  Ram.
Interviewer :  Alright and the female is spelled e-w-e, how would you say that? {NS}
100:  Ear- {X} ewe.
Interviewer :  Did you ever hear of that? Nope? Okay. Um then on their backs they have what?
100:  Wool.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh then the animal that uh well the the animal that you get pork from is a what?
100:  {D: What'd you say}
Interviewer :  That you get pork from?
100:  Pig.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And a baby one would be a?
100:  Hog?
Interviewer :  How about a big one?
100:  Hog.
Interviewer :  Same thing weather it's big or small? Okay a female?
Interviewer :  How about a male? {NS} Alright suppose you had a hog and you didn't want it to be able to breed what would you do to it?
100:  Sterilize.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Okay, would you say the same thing about any animal?
100:  Yes. #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer :  #2 Okay. # Uh then do you know what you would call a male hog after you had sterilized it? Alright. That's something very few city people would know unless they really lived on a farm and seen it done. Uh what do hogs have on their backs that stiff hair that stands up?
Interviewer :  It's the same stuff you have in a hair brush. Bristle, do you know that word? Nope, okay. How about the uh big teeth a hog has? An elephant has them too.
100:  Tusk.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And what would you call a hog that's grown up wild?
100:  Bore.
Interviewer :  Alright and what is the um trough? I just said the word. Alright well the thing you put the food for the hogs in is a?
100:  Trough.
Interviewer :  And several of those are?
100:  Troughs.
Interviewer :  It's awfully hard to s- to ask these things without saying the word sometimes. And um these are sounds that different animals make. What wou- noise would you say a calf makes?
100:  Moo?
Interviewer :  How about a cow?
100:  Same thing.
Interviewer :  Alright how about a horse?
100:  Hee-haw {D: somethin-}
Interviewer :  How about whinny or nicker or wicker or anything like that?
100:  Whinny I #1 guess. #
Interviewer :  #2 Alright. # And if you had some horses and mules and cows and they were all getting hungry you'd say uh I guess I'd better go feed the?
100:  Animals.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm and suppose you had some chickens and turkeys and geese you'd say I'm gonna go feed the?
100:  Poultry.
Interviewer :  Good. Uh then a hen on a nest of eggs is called a
100:  What you say?
Interviewer :  A hen on a nest of eggs.
100:  I don't know.{D}
Interviewer :  Another I'm still on the country terms here but I will get through with them pretty soon. A sitting hen or a setting hen or a brooding hen? Any of those? Do you know what you call the place that, where chickens live? Little shelter. A #1 chicken- #
100:  #2 Hen house. #
Interviewer :  Alright how about uh c-o-o-p, how would you say that? {NS}
100:  C-o-o-p?
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. A chicken-
100:  coop.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Did you ever hear of that? Okay. Uh then the, the bone on a chicken that children like to break?
100:  Wishbone.
Interviewer :  What happens when you break it? Tell me about it.
100:  Mm-
Interviewer :  Why do they do that?
100:  For wish.
Interviewer :  #1 And then #
100:  #2 Wish- # wish for something.
Interviewer :  And who wins?
100:  The piece with with the uh the end on it.
Interviewer :  The big piece?
100:  Yeah.
Interviewer :  Okay. Does anything happen to the small end?
100:  Break I guess.
Interviewer :  But you don't get anything if you get the small end? Okay. A- do you know what you call the inside parts of a chicken? Like the liver and the gizzard and the heart and all that? Did you ever hear of haslet? Haslet? How about the inside parts of a pig? I think it's the small intestine.
100:  Chitlins.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm {NW} you ever eat chitlins? I keep asking people if they have and some people have and some people haven't. The people that have eaten it say it's good but I I've never had, known anybody that knew how to cook it. If it was time to feed the animals and uh do the chores and all that you'd say it's what time?
100:  Feeding time.
Interviewer :  Good. And um do you know how to call a cow? Or how to make a cow stand still? Do you know how to call a calf? Uh what are some of the others. Do you know how to call a mule or a horse? {D: Mm, faster} Do you know how to make a horse turn left and right, or a mule?
100:  Talking about when you're on it or {D}
Interviewer :  #1 Hmm? #
100:  #2 {D: telling} # When you're on it?
Interviewer :  When you're uh ploughing.
100:  Pull the string right or left?
Interviewer :  Okay mm-hmm. And how do you make a horse get started when you ride him? Or drive him? What would you say to him?
100:  Giddy-up.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm and how would you stop him?
100:  Ho.
Interviewer :  Okay and do you know how to call pigs?
100:  Sooey I guess.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm and you know how to call sheep? How about chickens? Alright if you're going to um get the horses ready to go somewhere you'd say I'm gonna do what to the horses? Meaning put all the stuff on them.
100:  Dress.
Interviewer :  And uh so that you can attach him to the buggy you have to put the what on him? I need to hear how you say it so I'm gonna spell it h-a-r-n-e-s-s?
100:  Ha- harness.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm.
100:  #1 Harness. #
Interviewer :  #2 Okay uh-huh. # Uh then when your driving the horse when you're in the buggy what do you hold in your hands?
100:  Whip.
Interviewer :  Well the things that make the horse go. The things that are attached to the horse?
100:  {NW} Harness?
Interviewer :  How about when you're ploughing?
100:  Rope.
Interviewer :  Alright and uh when you're riding the horse what do you hold?
100:  Rope I guess.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay uh then what do you put your feet in when you're riding? Those things on each side of the saddle. Stirrups?
100:  Stirrups.
Interviewer :  You know that word? No? Okay uh do you know if your, if you had two horses what you'd call the one on the left or the one on the right? Other than left or right. Which is all I would call 'em cuz I don't know. Okay um that's something people know that live out in the country that plough. They sometimes have special names for 'em. If something were not really close by you'd say it's just a little?
100:  Farther away.
Interviewer :  Alright suppose it's, it's a quite a distance you say we still have a what to #1 go? #
100:  #2 Long # ways to go.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. If uh something very common, you didn't have to look in a special place, you'd say oh you can find that just about
100:  Anywhere.
Interviewer :  And if you slipped and fell that way you fell
100:  Backward.
Interviewer :  And that way you fell-
100:  Forward.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. If uh you went fishing and had no luck and I said did you catch any fish you would say no blank a one.
100:  I didn't catch n- no- {X} no one.
Interviewer :  Okay thank you. Uh let's see a school boy might say of his teacher why is she blaming me? I-
100:  Didn't do nothing.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh if somebody apologizes for breaking something of yours, say he broke you're pencil and you'd say oh that's alright, I didn't like that
100:  Pencil anyway.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh if a child was crying and you said what's the matter he'd say why he was eating candy and he didn't give me
100:  Any.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. {NW} And um just a few more farm questions and then I'm through with that. Ah the f- trenches that are cut by a plough, do you know what you'd call those? Starts with an F. Furrow? You don't know that word? Okay. Uh if you had a good yield you might say I raised a big?
100:  Farm.
Interviewer :  Um starts with a c-r a big
100:  Crop.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh if you got rid of all the brush and the trees on the land you'd say you did what?
100:  Cleared the land.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. A- do you know what you'd call it if you cu- you harvested the crop once and then enough came up to harvest it a second time? {NS}
100:  Second harvest?
Interviewer :  Good. How about a crop that you planted, that you had not planted but it came up anyway, maybe it was left over from a year ago or something? Did you ever hear of a volunteer crop? Okay. Uh then do you know what wheat is tied up into?
100:  Barrel. I mean-
Interviewer :  If you just took the wheat and tied it up what would you call that? Well um {NW} do you know then what you'd call it if you stacked those things up?
100:  Stacks of wheat.
Interviewer :  Alright. Uh then if you this is a, a measurement you'd say we raised forty something of wheat to an acre. It's a, a weight. It's, more than a peck would be a?
100:  Pound.
Interviewer :  Starts with a B. It's an old song. I love you a something and a peck. It's from Guys and Dolls. {NW} The word I'm looking for is bushel. You'd say we raised forty
100:  Bushels.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh then do you know what you'd do with oats to separate the grain from the chaff? There's a word that s- it means beat 'em I think and it starts with t-h-r?
100:  Thread?
Interviewer :  Thresh or thrash?
100:  Thrash.
Interviewer :  Okay. The- so you'd say the oats
100:  Thrashed.
Interviewer :  Starting a sentence with the oats you'd say the oats?
100:  Were thrashed.
Interviewer :  Okay good. Then uh these, this next section is about pronouns. Yeah the, a lot about pronouns. And um, if I s- was talking to you and talking about a job I would say to you blank and blank have to do this interview.
100:  Me and you have to do this #1 interview. #
Interviewer :  #2 Mm-hmm # and it's not for just you or just me, it's for?
100:  Him.
Interviewer :  It's not for just you or just me, it's for blank of us.
100:  Both of us.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And if uh if you're talking about yourself and another person you'd say blank and blank are going.
100:  Him and I. I- him and I are going somewhere.
Interviewer :  Alright. And uh if you knocked on the door and somebody said who's there and you know they know your voice so you don't use your name you just say it's-
100:  Me.
Interviewer :  Okay and if a man knocked on the door you would say oh it's just
100:  A man.
Interviewer :  Using a pronoun again.
100:  Him.
Interviewer :  Pardon?
100:  Him.
Interviewer :  Okay and if it's a woman it's
100:  Her.
Interviewer :  If it's two people it's
100:  The- w- him. I don't #1 know. #
Interviewer :  #2 Two # people.
100:  Them.
Interviewer :  Okay. And um comparing how tall you are you'd say he's not as tall as
100:  I am.
Interviewer :  Or the other way around, I'm not as tall as
100:  He is.
Interviewer :  Or he can do it better than
100:  I can.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And if uh somebody was running and he ran two miles and then he had to stop you'd say two miles is the blank he could go.
100:  The farthest that he can run.
Interviewer :  Very good. If something belongs to me you would say it's
100:  Hers.
Interviewer :  Or? If you're talking to me you say it's
100:  It's your.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm and if it belongs to him it's?
100:  His.
Interviewer :  And if it belongs to two people it's?
100:  Their.
Interviewer :  And belongs to both of us it's?
100:  Their.
Interviewer :  To us.
100:  Oh.
Interviewer :  #1 It's #
100:  #2 Ours. #
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Uh then if several people were leaving and you wanted 'em to come back you'd say I hope blank will come again.
100:  Hope they come again.
Interviewer :  You're talking to them. #1 I hope #
100:  #2 Hope # y'all come again.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And supposing uh you were, look out the window and there was a car out there that belonged to two people and you'd say uh-oh somebody's about to hit
100:  Y'all- your car.
Interviewer :  You started to say what?
100:  Y'all car.
Interviewer :  Okay is that, do you say that? Okay. Uh then if uh there'd been a party or something and you weren't, you weren't able to go and you wanted to know what people had been to the party you might ask somebody what blank had been there?
100:  What you said? {NS}
Interviewer :  Alright you, you're trying to find out who went. You couldn't go yourself so you ask blank was there?
100:  Was he there?
Interviewer :  You're asking about all the people.
100:  Were they there? Was it, was they there.
Interviewer :  Ah would you ever say who all was there?
100:  Yeah who all there.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Alright now suppose you missed class or something and you wanted to know what the teacher had said you would say well blank did she say?
100:  What did she say.
Interviewer :  Would you ever say what all did she say? No? Okay. Then uh if no one else will look out for them you'd say they got to look out for
100:  Themself.
Interviewer :  And if no one will do it for him he's got to do it
100:  Himself.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. {NW} And uh what is made of flour and baked in a loaf?
100:  Bread.
Interviewer :  And can you name some different kinds of bread?
100:  Raisin bread, {NS} roll.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. {NS} How about those little round things that you'd
100:  #1 Muffins. #
Interviewer :  #2 {D: use} # You sometimes have 'em for breakfast? You might put butter or jam on 'em?
100:  Biscuit.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And what's made out of corn meal?
100:  Cornbread.
Interviewer :  Anything else? Are there any?
100:  Muffins.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm.
100:  Corn muffin.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Did you ever hear of a corn dodger? How about those things that are round and you eat 'em with fish?
100:  Uh, I know that
Interviewer :  Hush-
100:  Hush puppies
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Uh did you ever hear of eating something made out of corn meal that you boil with greens?
Interviewer :  Usually called a corn dumpling. This is something I've never had so I don't know much about it. Did you ever hear of a corn pone? {NW} How about, um Something made in the ashes out of cornmeal? {NW} Okay that gets {NS} I think that gets all the corn stuff. There if- might say that two kinds of bread, there's homemade bread or there's the kind you get at the store and you call that
100:  Ready made bread.
Interviewer :  Okay. Fine. Uh then the thing with a hole in the middle is a? Sweet thing.
100:  Donut.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Uh then something- when you make up a batter you might fry some of 'em in a skillet and eat 'em for breakfast?
100:  Pancakes.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. {NW} Any other name for those?
100:  Flapjack.
Interviewer :  Are they the same? Did you ever hear of hear 'em called flitters or fritters meaning pancake? How about batter cake? No? Alright uh then uh ah weight. You might go to the store and say I need to buy five something of flour.
100:  Five pounds of flour.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. {NW} And uh what would you put in bread to make it rise? Uh #1 Starts with a #
100:  #2 baking soda. #
Interviewer :  Well it's something it's like that but it's it comes in little cakes or little envelopes? Starts with a Y.
100:  Yeast.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. {NW} And then the two parts of the egg are the?
100:  Yolk and
Interviewer :  {D: I} think they just call it the white, the other part. #1 What color is #
100:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer :  the yolk?
100:  Yellow.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay. And um when you cook eggs, if you cook 'em in hot water in the shell what do you call that?
100:  Boiled #1 eggs. #
Interviewer :  #2 Mm-hmm. # Suppose you break the shell and then let 'em fall into hot water?
100:  Hot water poached egg.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Yeah uh then what would you call the kind of fat meat that you might boil with greens or beans?
100:  Fat back.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm any other name for that?
100:  Ham hocks.
Interviewer :  Is that the same? Mm-kay. Uh and if what- if you cut the side of a hog what would you call that?
100:  Side of the hog?
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm ever hear of middling? That's another old fashioned name. Uh and then the meat that some people buy sliced that you eat with eggs
100:  Bacon.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm wou- do you have a name for it if it was unsliced? How about the tough edge that you cut off the bacon? I think that's if it's unsliced that you can't eat.
100:  Oh {NS} hmm mm I know it but I just can't #1 can't #
Interviewer :  #2 {D: No} # Some people say rind and some people say skin.
100:  I guess skin.
Interviewer :  Alright. Then the kind of meat that comes in little links on a chain
100:  Weiners.
Interviewer :  {D: R-} these are little bitty things that you fry for breakfast.
100:  Sausage.
Interviewer :  Alright and uh the man in the store who sells meat is a?
100:  Butcher.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh if the meat had, was bad and you couldn't eat it you'd say its?
100:  Spoil.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. What would you say if butter had gone bad?
100:  Spoil.
Interviewer :  Alright. And if you um, what would you make with the meat from a hog's head?
100:  {D: I don't know}
Interviewer :  Did you ever hear of souse?
100:  Souse, souse meat?
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm, what's that?
100:  It's some kind of meat made out of all different kind of sausage. Cut it in half and make sandwiches out of it.
Interviewer :  Is it good? Mm, mm-kay. Um and what would you call d- you, would you have, know a name for a dish that's made out of cooking and cutting up hog liver, grinding it up? How about hog blood?
100:  {D: Mm}
Interviewer :  Mm-mm. How about uh taking souse, juice from souse and cornbread, and let me read the description cause I don't know what it is. Uh stirring it up with corn meal and maybe hog meat and cooking it and then slicing it and frying it, did you ever hear of doing that?
100:  What? {NW}
Interviewer :  Did you ever hear scrapple that's what I'm trying to dis- describe. Okay uh I don't think they do that in this part of the country. Uh do you know what you call thick sour milk that you might keep on hand?
100:  Buttermilk.
Interviewer :  Did you ever hear of clabber?
100:  Yeah clabber.
Interviewer :  What is clabber?
100:  When it's spoiled or something like that.
Interviewer :  Mm so it's no good if it's clabber? Ah do you know what kind of cheese they used to make out of clabber?
100:  Chedder cheese?
Interviewer :  Well it's the kind of cheese that you can still buy in the store. It's a diet food?
100:  Uh cheddar, I mean
Interviewer :  It's that #1 {X} #
100:  #2 Cottage cheese. #
Interviewer :  Yeah. Tha- that's made out of clabber. A lot of people don't know that. Uh then if you just milked the cow what would be the first thing you'd have to do with the milk to get the impurities out? You'd have to
100:  Pour it out.
Interviewer :  To pour it through a cloth to do what to it?
100:  To get all the fat out?
Interviewer :  What would you say you're doing? You're str-
100:  Straining.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh then do you know what you would call a it's like a pie but it's in a deep dish and it has layers of fruit and dough? {X} It doesn't have dough on the bottom.
100:  A pie.
Interviewer :  It's might be an apple something or a peach something?
100:  Peach cobbler.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm yeah that's it. And uh if somebody has a good appetite you say he sure likes to put away his
100:  Food.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh b- a sweet liquid that you might pour over cake or pie would be?
100:  Um
Interviewer :  Might, you might say if
100:  #1 Icing. #
Interviewer :  #2 you might po- # have lemon something?
100:  Icing.
Interviewer :  Okay good enough. And um {NW} a little bit of food that you might eat between your meals would be a?
100:  Snack.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And how about um what you do with food? You say every morning I
100:  {NW} Eat.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm yesterday I
100:  Ate.
Interviewer :  And I have #1 {NW} #
100:  #2 Eaten. #
Interviewer :  Okay. And uh you were talking about well I was talking about coffee earlier, how do you prepare coffee?
100:  Sit in the pot. {NS}
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm {NS} {NS} I think that's the your lunch bell right? Well why don't you go ahead to lunch. {X} Think I've even not forgotten where we were in s- the space of half an hour. Um, if you were thirsty you might go over to the sink and get yourself a what?
100:  Drink of water.
Interviewer :  And it wh- you'd put it in a?
100:  Glass.
Interviewer :  And if the glass fell off the sink it would?
100:  Break.
Interviewer :  And yesterday it?
100:  Broke.
Interviewer :  And it has
100:  Broke.
Interviewer :  Okay now talking about the water, what you would do with it, you would
100:  Drink it.
Interviewer :  Yesterday I
100:  Drank it.
Interviewer :  I have
100:  Drink.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And if uh you had company for dinner and they were all standing up and you wanted them to be seated, you would say
100:  Please be seated.
Interviewer :  What's another way of saying that?
100:  You may sit down.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay. And so then they all
100:  Sat down.
Interviewer :  And they have
100:  Sat down.
Interviewer :  Alright and if uh you wanted them to start the food moving you would say go ahead and
100:  Eat.
Interviewer :  Go ahead and blank yourself.
100:  Go ahead and serve yourself.
Interviewer :  Or if, another word. Starts with an H.
Interviewer :  Go ahead and
100:  Have dinner.
Interviewer :  Ah if you were if somebody was chasing you, you might shout
100:  Hold it.
Interviewer :  If you were in trouble you might shout
100:  Help.
Interviewer :  Yeah #1 so if you go ahead and #
100:  #2 Help yourself. #
Interviewer :  Yeah alright so he, then he {NS}
100:  Helped his-self.
Interviewer :  And he has
100:  Helped himself.
Interviewer :  Good. Uh then um food No I've se- about to skip one there. If you were passed something and you didn't want it what would you say to {X} the food. What would you say to refuse it?
100:  I pass.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh then suppose uh you've had something for Sunday dinner and there was enough left to serve it again on Monday, you'd say we're having
100:  Leftovers.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And you put your food in your mouth and you begin to
100:  Chew.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm and then after you chew it you
100:  Digest it.
Interviewer :  Well first you have to
100:  Swallow.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm, okay. Uh then uh did you ever have food that's made out of corn meal and water that's boiled? And you eat it with a spoon? Mush, did you ever hear that? Or cush? No. Uh then things like beets and peas and carrots are all
100:  Vegetable.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm and you would grow them in a
100:  Vegetable uh vegetable garden.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay good. And what uh do you call that food that's made from corn that's ground up and you eat it for breakfast? It's white.
100:  Rice.
Interviewer :  It's ground.
100:  Grits.
Interviewer :  Yeah that's it. And how about stuff that's also made from corn that's whole grain? It can be white or yellow. And it's served as a vegetable sometimes and
100:  Corn?
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. I think you make it with lye.
Interviewer :  You know about hominy? Do you ever eat it? No? Alright um {NS} what would you call a homemade whiskey or a really cheep whiskey?
100:  Booze. Uh
Interviewer :  Anything especially if it was homemade?
100:  Moonshine?
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm okay. Anyth- anything for any kind that was really strong or, or really dangerous. Okay. Uh if something made a good impression on your nostrils, something that was cooking you might say to a friend just {NW}
100:  Smell it.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh, then what would you pour on pancakes?
100:  Syrup.
Interviewer :  {NW} Is there uh something that's like syrup but it's blacker.
100:  Molasses.
Interviewer :  Yeah. And if you were
Interviewer :  at the difference between molasses and syrup you might say the molasses
100:  Is black.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh then if uh something was not imitation you might say it's not imitation it's
100:  Original. And another word meaning the same thing, it starts with a G. It's gen- Gen- genuine?
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm, that's it. Uh then sugar bef- this is an old term, before it was sold in packages it used to be sold how?
100:  In sacks?
Interviewer :  Well i- but even before that it would be, they just weigh up a certain amount it would be sold and they'd scoop it up when you ask for it. Or it's it's a word that means any large amount if you're ordering a large amount of something, you'd say I'm going to order in {NS} You might not know the word, b-u-l-k?
100:  Plunk. Pl-
Interviewer :  Bulk or bulk. Bulk. Do you know that word? {NW} No. Okay uh and then the stuff that you might spread on your toast, that sweet stuff.
100:  Butter?
Interviewer :  Sweet. Made out of fruit?
100:  Jelly.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Ah and you would season your food with?
100:  Salt and pepper.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm and if there is a bowl of apples and a child wants one he might say to his mother
100:  Can I have an apple?
Interviewer :  Well he's not even asking permission he's just saying #1 {X} #
100:  #2 {X} # Give me an apple.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. That's it. And if it wasn't one of these boys you might say it must have been one of
100:  #1 Those boys. #
Interviewer :  #2 Mm-hmm. # And if something is uh not here it's
100:  #1 There. #
Interviewer :  #2 or # or over
100:  There.
Interviewer :  Okay, would you ever say yonder? Over yonder? Okay I think that's an old time expression. Don't do it that way, do it
100:  This way.
Interviewer :  Alright and if uh somebody said something and then you couldn't hear 'em what would you say to make 'em repeat?
100:  Beg your pardon. {NS} {NS}
Interviewer :  Kay. {NS} Uh if um the opposite of rich is {NS}
100:  Poor. {NS}
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm and if um you might say this just finish the sentence. If a man had plenty of money he has nothing to worry about but life is hard on a man
100:  when he's poor.
Interviewer :  Okay. Or putting that another way leaving out the when life is hard on a man
100:  When he's
Interviewer :  Leave out the when. Life is hard on a man
100:  Poor. That is poor.
Interviewer :  Yeah that's good Uh then a group of trees, a big group of trees would be a
100:  Forest.
Interviewer :  Or uh you might, say you have a peach
100:  Uh
Interviewer :  Or an apple
100:  Orchard.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm and uh this is another finishing the sentence. If somebody ask you is that your orchard you'd say no I'm just the neighbor and you point and say he's the man
100:  That owns the orchard.
Interviewer :  Good. And another one. Uh When I was a
Interviewer :  father was poor but next door was a child
100:  That father had, was rich.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh then uh what would you call the inside of a cherry?
100:  Pit.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm and inside of a peach?
100:  Pit.
Interviewer :  Okay. Now the two kinds of peaches really there's one kind where the meat breaks away from the stone and one kind where it sticks to the stone what do you call those? {NS}
100:  {X}
Interviewer :  Do you know d- have you seen the two different kinds?
100:  Yeah I seen 'em but I don't I just call both of 'em peach.
Interviewer :  Alright. Uh what's the part of an apple that you don't eat?
100:  Core.
Interviewer :  Okay. And um what would you call it if you cut up apples or peaches and um dried them?
100:  Preserve.
Interviewer :  Did you ever hear the word snitz or dried apples? Good. I think that's a German word nobody ever seems to know that one. Then uh the kind of nut that Jimmy Carter grows is
100:  #1 Peanuts. #
Interviewer :  #2 Okay. # Do you know any other name for peanuts? How about goobers or ground peas? No?
100:  {X}
Interviewer :  Um what are some other common kinds of nuts?
100:  Walnuts. {NS}
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm.
100:  A- acorns.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm.
100:  Almonds.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm.
100:  Pecans. {NS}
Interviewer :  Mm good. Those, that's
100:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer :  #2 fine. # Uh, ah talking about the walnut when they are on the tree they've got a soft covering outside
100:  #1 uh #
Interviewer :  #2 what would you call that? #
100:  A shell.
Interviewer :  Uh what would you call the hard cover you have to crack?
100:  Shell.
Interviewer :  Alright And then the kind of fruit that's about as big as an apple that they grow in Florida is
100:  Orange.
Interviewer :  Alright and um if there had been you had had some and you wanted one and you went and looked and there were not anymore you would say the
100:  Oranges are gone.
Interviewer :  Good. Uh then the little red vegetable that's white inside, it's peppery?
100:  White vegetable.
Interviewer :  It's red but it's white inside you cut it up in salads?
100:  Pepper?
Interviewer :  It's, starts with an R.
100:  Radish.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And then another kind of vegetable, I guess it's a vegetable that is kind of mushy that you slice for salads or sandwiches?
100:  Tomato.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Wha- do you have a name for little bitty tomatoes? Did you ever hear those called tommy toes? Okay. And then the, the stuff the thing you might eat with your meat. You might have a baked
100:  Potato.
Interviewer :  And uh what is the kind that's yellow inside? Or orange?
100:  Sweet potato?
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Uh do you know what a yam is? Okay. Then the, the kind of vegetable that when you cut it makes you cry?
100:  Onion.
Interviewer :  Do you have a name for the little ones? {D: Where y-} you eat the stem too?
100:  Green onion.
Interviewer :  That's it uh-huh. And how about a vegetable that's kind of long and it's slimy if you boil it?
100:  Celery.
Interviewer :  You can cut it up and fry it it's much better if you cook it that way.
100:  Uh okra.
Interviewer :  Yeah that's it. {X} Uh then if you leave uh an apple or a plum around the skin might dry up and
100:  Wilt.
Interviewer :  {X} There's a word beginning with an s-h.
100:  Shrink?
Interviewer :  It's like that. It's um hmm.
100:  Shrivel?
Interviewer :  That's the word. Um and then the kind of vegetables that come in heads?
100:  Lettuce.
Interviewer :  And there's another one. That you make coleslaw out of.
100:  {X}
Interviewer :  Starts with a C.
100:  #1 Cabbage. #
Interviewer :  #2 Mm-hmm. # {NS} And um if you were buying several of those you {X} you'd say I want several
100:  Heads of lettuce or cabbage.
Interviewer :  Okay. Then um to get beans out of the pod by hand you would what?
100:  Break 'em.
Interviewer :  {D: X} you'd, actually getting 'em out of the pod you're opening the pod, I'm gonna do #1 what? #
100:  #2 Splitting. #
Interviewer :  Um what do you call that kind of bean that's kind of shaped like an ear? It's flat. And #1 {X} #
100:  #2 Butter bean. #
Interviewer :  That's it. {D: Well} how do you get butter beans out of the pod? What do you say you do?
Interviewer :  You ever say shell beans? You don't say shell. Okay. Uh then what is the kind of bean that you don't have to get out of the pod? You eat the pod too.
100:  String bean.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm, any other name for them? {NS} Would you ever call 'em green beans or snap beans?
100:  Oh yeah.
Interviewer :  What?
100:  Green bean.
Interviewer :  Would you call 'em snap beans? {NS} No. Okay uh then the tops of turnips would be, if you cooked them? Or it could be the could be mustard or it could be um um, there are others too.
Interviewer :  You say you're making a mess of
100:  Greens.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm okay. Um you mentioned heads of lettuce would you ever say if you had a big family that you had so many heads of children? Did you ever hear that? {NS} Suppose they did have a lot of children like fourteen in one family you'd say he sure has a whole-
100:  Bunch of children.
Interviewer :  Okay. Would you ever say passel? {NS} Did you ever hear that word? Mm-mm. And then the outside part of an ear of corn is called the- {NS}
100:  Shell. uh shilling.
Interviewer :  Uh husk or shuck.
100:  Shuck.
Interviewer :  Okay. What would you call the kind of corn that's tender enough to eat off the cob?
100:  Fresh corn. {NS}
Interviewer :  Mm-kay. Did you ever hear of roasting ear? Yeah that's funny because I d- I don't know that term myself and I'm, I think it may just be because we're from the city. People out in the country know that. Uh then this, the thing at the top of the cornstalk is the what? It's the thing on a graduation cap too.
Interviewer :  Starts with a T.
Interviewer :  Uh tassel or tassel?
100:  Yeah tassel. {NS}
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh the stuff that you have to brush off the corn?
100:  Hair.
Interviewer :  Stringy stuff?
100:  Hair. {NS}
Interviewer :  Would you ever call it silk? #1 Corn silk? #
100:  #2 Yeah silk. #
Interviewer :  Okay. Then the large oh. The fruit that's associated with Halloween, that's a
100:  Pumpkin.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh a yellow, crookneck thing is a?
100:  It's a vegetable?
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. It's got a crooked neck. It's yellow. The different kinds #1 of, mm-hmm. #
100:  #2 Squash. #
Interviewer :  That's it. Uh then how about types of melons?
100:  Watermelon,
Interviewer :  #1 Mm-hmm. #
100:  #2 honeydew melon #
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm.
100:  Cantaloupe.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Are there different kinds of watermelon?
100:  Not that I know of.
Interviewer :  Did you ever see a kind with yellow meat?
100:  Yellow meat melon, yeah.
Interviewer :  I've never seen one of those.
100:  That what I, that what I call honeydew melon.
Interviewer :  Oh, I see. That's not the same as a watermelon then.
100:  No.
Interviewer :  Okay. Then how about that little um shi- thing that's shaped like an umbrella that grows up in the woods?
100:  Mushroom.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Can you eat those?
100:  Some of 'em.
Interviewer :  What do you call the kind that you can't eat.
100:  Toadstool.
Interviewer :  Alright and you might say don't eat those because they might be
100:  Poison.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Uh then the things that people smoke are
100:  Cigarettes.
Interviewer :  And then the big brown ones are
100:  #1 Cigars. #
Interviewer :  #2 Mm-hmm. # A- um, hmm.{NW} If uh somebody ask you if you were, about a certain job, and if you were able to do it you would say sure, I
100:  Can do the job.
Interviewer :  But if you were not able you'd say no I
100:  I can't do the job. {NS}
Interviewer :  And if they ask you if you were willing to do the job you would say no I
100:  Can't do the #1 job. #
Interviewer :  #2 No you, # #1 you can't #
100:  #2 Will not # do the job.
Interviewer :  What's another way of saying will not. I no matter how many times you ask me I
100:  Won't do the #1 job. #
Interviewer :  #2 Mm-hmm. # Mm-hmm. {NS} Uh mm, and if uh, somebody offered to do you a favor but you didn't want him to because then you thought you that uh you might have to do him a favor, you'd say no thank-you I don't wanna be
100:  {D: Bought} Helped.
Interviewer :  Because I don't wanna be blank to you.
100:  Owing you.
Interviewer :  Would you ever say obligated or beholden? {NS} Mm-kay. Um If uh the corn if you were a farmer you might look at the corn and say th- it's not as tall as it blank be. As it
100:  Looks.
Interviewer :  Well it blank to be taller. It
100:  Should be taller.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. that's good. And um {NS} if {NS} one little boy was daring another he says I dare you to go to the graveyard at night but I bet you
Interviewer :  I dare you to go but I bet you
Interviewer :  Any sort of negative of dare would you say {D: darrowed or dassent} or anything like that? Okay. Um again talking about a word that's a means kind of the same thing as should. You say I bet he did something he #1 have {X}. #
100:  #2 Did. #
100:  What'd you say?
Interviewer :  It means the same thing as should, he- I bet he did something he blank #1 have done. #
100:  #2 Should've done. #
Interviewer :  Or not. He
100:  Shouldn't, shouldn't have done.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. How about ought. Do you ever say that, he oughtn't to or ought not to? Okay. Uh then if uh you done something that was hard work all by yourself and you could've used help you, might say to a friend after you finished, well you
100:  Coulda helped me.
Interviewer :  Yeah. {NS} And um {NS} suggesting the possibility of something you might say um If it quits raining by Thursday I blank do that.
100:  I'll do that?
Interviewer :  I, the, it's possible, I
100:  Will finish the job.
Interviewer :  I don't know if I will but I
100:  Might.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm that's the word. Then what is the kind of bird with big eyes that can see in the dark?
100:  Owl.
Interviewer :  Do you know any different kinds of owls?
100:  Uh {X} they call it a hawk but some kinda hawk {X}
Interviewer :  Do you know a big owl that um has a very deep voice? How about a little bitty owl with a very high, shrill voice?
100:  I just know 'em {D:names are}
Interviewer :  Mm-kay well I don't think there're many owls in the city so think there wouldn't be a problem. Uh what's the kind of bird that drills holes in trees?
100:  Woodpecker.
Interviewer :  Do you know another name for him? Did you ever call him a peckerwood? Did you ever hear the word peckerwood? What is a peckerwood?
100:  I guess it's the same thing.
Interviewer :  Did you ever hear of a person called a peckerwood? Mm-mm. Okay how about uh a great big woodpecker. Did you ever see one that was about as big as a chicken? {NS} Okay. How about the kind of animal that's black and white and smells bad?
100:  Skunk.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh what would you call the the kinds of animals that were were pests? It's another word for pests. All the animals that might get your chickens, you might say I'm gonna get my gun and shoot #1 those #
100:  #2 Weasels. #
Interviewer :  Well meaning all k- different kinds of animals. I'm gonna shoot those
100:  ro- rodents.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Do you know the word varmint?
100:  Yeah.
Interviewer :  How would, how do you say that?
100:  Varmint.
Interviewer :  Okay does that mean animals or people?
100:  Animals I guess.
Interviewer :  Could it mean people?
100:  If you really wanted it to.
Interviewer :  What ki- what would the people be if they were varmints?
100:  Talk too much {X} {X}
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh then the, the little bushy tailed animal that runs around the trees is a?
100:  Squirrel.
Interviewer :  What color is that?
100:  Brown.
Interviewer :  Did you ever see any that were any other color?
100:  A gray squirrel.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Okay, which one's bigger?
100:  A gray one's big.
Interviewer :  Bigger then the brown one?
100:  Yeah.
Interviewer :  Okay. What's the little animal, I think it's in the same family, that runs along the ground? It doesn't have a bushy tail.
100:  Oh a woodchuck? Uh.
Interviewer :  It's got stripes on it's back?
100:  Um {NW} Wi- I know what you're talking about.
Interviewer :  Chip-
100:  Chipm- chipmunk.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay mm-hmm. Uh and what kind, do you do you fish ever?
100:  Yeah.
Interviewer :  What kinds of fish do you get around here?
100:  Moll- not mollusk uh mussels what's it called? Guppie. Little bitty fish. Unless you go way out {D: you get cod} and uh catfish.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
100:  {D: about most}
Interviewer :  Mm-kay what kind of snakes do you know about?
100:  Rattle snake. Green snake. I don't seen grass snakes in a while That's about the only kind I know. Cobra.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm.
100:  Python.
Interviewer :  Well, those you don't have around here do you? Mm-kay. Uh ha- what is the uh thing that pearls grow in?
100:  Uh oyster.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. {X} And there's another kind of sea food that's pink and kind of curled around with a tail that you often eat fried.
Interviewer :  It's like that.
100:  Shrimp.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm that's it. Uh and you might, if you had several of those you'd say I have several
100:  Shrimp.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh then the animal that croaks is a
100:  Frog.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. What do you call the great big one?
100:  Bullfrog.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. How about the uh little tiny one that might live in the trees?
100:  Little frog. {D: I guess} {NS}
Interviewer :  I don't know if they have those here. I've seen 'em in Tennessee.
100:  I seen 'em {X} I went to camp one time I seen 'em.
Interviewer :  Mm where was the camp?
100:  In in Lovejoy, Georgia.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm yeah I've heard of that. Uh Now that's south of here though isn't it, Lovejoy? That's
100:  #1 I saw a l- #
Interviewer :  #2 {D: Mm} #
100:  {X}
Interviewer :  Mm but, do you know what to call 'em? Mm-kay. What is the kind of it's a kind of frog that lives in on the ground. They say it gives you warts.
100:  {X}
Interviewer :  Would you call that a toad?
100:  Oh yeah toad.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. {NS} Uh then what do you use for bate when you're fishing?
100:  Worms.
Interviewer :  What kind?
100:  Big one.
Interviewer :  Do you know any, any different kinds of worms? Alright. And then the animal with a hard shell that can pull in its head and legs?
100:  Turtle.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Uh what would you call one that lived on dry land?
100:  Turtle.
Interviewer :  Would you ever call it a tortoise or a terrapin or a gopher or a cooter?
100:  Terrapin I guess.
Interviewer :  Okay. Any of the others? Does gopher mean anything to you?
100:  It's a something that dig in the ground.
Interviewer :  #1 Is it a #
100:  #2 Uh #
Interviewer :  turtle?
100:  Naw.
Interviewer :  It- i- wh- is it a furry animal?
100:  Yeah.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh that yeah that's what I mean too. But they're, in south Georgia they call it land turtle or gopher. Really they do, and also in Mississippi and Alabama. What would you call something that looks like a lobster but it's fresh water it's a little thing. And it swims away backwards if you
100:  #1 Clam. #
Interviewer :  #2 {D: are} # No um it's more like a lobster then a
100:  #1 Clam. #
Interviewer :  #2 Clam. # It's craw or {D: creu-}
100:  Crawdad.
Interviewer :  Okay. Good. And then the thing that, an insect that flies around around a light it might try to fla- {NS} to fly into the light is a?
100:  Moth.
Interviewer :  Alright h- and if you had several of those you had a bunch of
100:  Moths.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh the thing with the light in its tail?
100:  Uh lightning bug.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And a long, thin bodied insect that has two pairs of wings and uh they say it eats mosquitoes I don't know if that's true.
100:  Dragonfly.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. You know another name for that? Did you ever hear of a snake doctor or a mosquito hawk?
100:  Snake doctor.
Interviewer :  Is that the same?
100:  Yeah.
Interviewer :  Okay. What are some insects that sting?
100:  Mosquito.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm.
100:  Bees.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And there's one that starts with an H that's supposed to be really bad.
100:  Hornets.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh one that starts with a W.
100:  Wasp.
Interviewer :  And if you had a lot of those you'd there're several
100:  Wasps.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay. And uh the Georgia Tech football mascot is
100:  Yellow jacket.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh then there's a kind ah I think it's in the wasp family but it makes holes in the ground? It's a dirt something. Dirt dauber, mud dauber? Heard dirt dauber, I ain't
100:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer :  #2 Do they sting? #
100:  I ain't never seen them before.
Interviewer :  Mm. I don't think I've ever seen 'em I don't know what they are if I saw one. And then there's a little tiny insect that'll bite you if you um walk in the grass. It'll get under your skin.
100:  Tick.
Interviewer :  It's not exactly #1 the same thing #
Interviewer :  #2 Flea. # as a tick I think they're red. And they raise welts in your skin. Red bug or chigger?
100:  Chigger.
Interviewer :  Okay. And then the animal that hops in the grass is a? #1 I mean #
100:  #2 Grasshopper. #
Interviewer :  Yeah. I should have said the, the bug. Ah did you ever call that a hoppergrass? How do you say that?
100:  Hoppergrass.
Interviewer :  Do you say that sometimes? Okay. And how about a small fish that might have been used for bait?
Interviewer :  I wish people would stop using that pencil sharpener. Do you know the minnow? No. Um and what do spiders make?
100:  Webs.
Interviewer :  Would you call it web whether it was inside or outside?
100:  Yeah.
Interviewer :  Any difference?
100:  No.
Interviewer :  Okay. And then the part of a tree that's under the ground would be its?
100:  Roots.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Uh do you know of anything that's made from roots? Any kind of folk medicine? Alright. Do you know the kind of tree that you get syrup from?
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh now this is a kind of tree I'm not sure that I know what it is so I'll just read what the description is. It's got broad leaves which are shed all at one time with bark that peels and it has little knobs or balls with tough wood.
100:  Oak.
Interviewer :  No. Um its the tree, I don't know how much you know about Bible stories but it's the tree that Zacchaeus climbed in the Bible to see Jesus. And I don't even know if they have 'em in this part of the city. It's called sy-
100:  Sycamore.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm do you have those anywhere around?
100:  Not that I know of.
Interviewer :  I don't know what they look like. What are some common trees around your neighborhood?
100:  Oak. That's probably {D: all of them, and some} couple of dogwood tree.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Okay. What is the tree that George Washington cut down?
100:  Cherry tree.
Interviewer :  Okay. And a, a shrub that has red leaves and uh has berries. The leaves turn red in the fall. Some people say it's poison. Um usually grows along by the roadside this is something else I don't think I've ever seen.
100:  Oak tree?
Interviewer :  It's a bush. Some people say sumac some people say shoemake or sumac. You never heard of it? Kay, I've heard of it but I don't think I've seen it. Oh what are some kinds of bushes or vines that make your skin break out?
100:  Uh poison ivy, poison oak.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And what are some kinds of berries?
100:  Um- #1 {D: I don't know.} #
Interviewer :  #2 {X} # #1 Well how about red #
100:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer :  Well how about red berries? I don't mean that make your skin break out but I just mean berries that you eat.
100:  Oh. Uh blackberries, blueberries,
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm.
100:  mm
Interviewer :  What are the ones you put on shortcake, red ones?
100:  Strawberry.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay. There's another kind that's red. They're, they look like blackberries. Starts with an R.
100:  Raspberry.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm.{NS} And uh you probably have not seen these because they grow in the mountains but it's a tall bush with clusters of pink and white flowers? Did you ever hear of laurel or mountain laurel? Did you ever hear of rhododendron? How do you say that?
100:  Rhododendron.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay. And how about a big tree, they do have these in Atlanta, great big thing that has a shiny leaves and big white flowers? Think it's the state flower of Mississippi. {NW} Mag-
100:  Magnolia
Interviewer :  #1 Mm-hmm. #
100:  #2 tree? #
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And this is, these next ones are about family relations. A married woman might say I have to ask my
100:  Husband.
Interviewer :  And he would say I have to ask my
100:  Wife.
Interviewer :  Are there any joking names that a husband and wife might call each other?
100:  Not that I know of.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay. Um. A woman who has lost her husband is a
100:  Talking about a divorce?
Interviewer :  Well if he's dead.
100:  Deceased.
Interviewer :  Well she is a
100:  Oh. K- widow.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay. Do you have a name for it if she's divorced if her husband has left her?
100:  Difo-, divo-, divorcee.
Interviewer :  Did you ever hear of a grass-widow? Okay uh then the man whose son you are is your
100:  Father.
Interviewer :  And his wife is your
100:  Mother.
Interviewer :  What do you call your father?
100:  Dad.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay what do you call your mother?
100:  Mother.
Interviewer :  Okay and your father and mother together are your?
100:  Parents.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay. And uh your father's father would be your
100:  Grandfather.
Interviewer :  And your father's mother would be your
100:  Grandmother.
Interviewer :  What do you call them?
100:  Grandparent.
Interviewer :  No I mean e- what do you say when you're talking to 'em?
100:  Granddad and grandmom.
Interviewer :  You call them both the same thing? Mm-kay. Uh then your sons and daughters would be your
100:  Children.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm.
100:  And uh, a name that a child is called by maybe just in the family that is not his real name it's his Play name.
Interviewer :  #1 Or what's another name #
100:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer :  or another word for that?
100:  Nickname.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And um something that you could put a baby in and it would lie down it's got a top #1 and wheels. #
100:  #2 Oh. #
Interviewer :  Y-
100:  Carriage.
Interviewer :  Okay and you, if you put the baby in the carriage, you'd take him out and say I'm gonna do what to the baby?
100:  Stroll the baby.
Interviewer :  Good. And uh your children would be your sons and your
100:  Daughters.
Interviewer :  Or a boy and a
100:  Girl.
Interviewer :  Or a man and a
100:  Woman.
Interviewer :  Okay and what would you say about a woman who was going to have a baby, she's
100:  Pregnant.
Interviewer :  Is there another way to say that?
100:  Not that I know of.
Interviewer :  Any old-fashioned ways? {NS} Uh how about um what would you call uh the woman that you might send for if you didn't have a doctor?
100:  Nurse.
Interviewer :  It's, it's an old-fashioned kind of thing. More out in the country I guess then in the city. {NS} Did you ever hear of a midwife?
100:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer :  #2 Or a {X} # What would #1 you call #
100:  #2 Mi- # Midwife.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh then if a boy and his father had the same appearance you'd say the boy
100:  Resemble his father.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay. Supposed they just acted the same you'd say the boy
100:  Acts like his father.
Interviewer :  Okay. And if a mother had to take care of three children, and say the father died, all by herself, you say she had to what the children herself?
100:  Raise the children herself.
Interviewer :  Good. And uh what would you say to a naughty child. You're gonna get a
100:  Whooping.
Interviewer :  Anything else?
100:  Spanking.
Interviewer :  Which is worse?
100:  Whooping.
Interviewer :  Why is it worse?
100:  It just sound worse.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh lets see. If uh Bob is five inches taller this year you'd say Bob
100:  Grew five inches.
Interviewer :  And uh next year he will
100:  Grow five
Interviewer :  #1 Mm-hmm. #
100:  #2 inches. #
Interviewer :  And he has
100:  Grown five
Interviewer :  #1 Okay. #
100:  #2 inches. #
Interviewer :  What would you cha- call a child that's born to an unmarried woman? #1 You know #
100:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer :  parents are not married then the child is a
100:  Bitch.
Interviewer :  I think that's what the mother is. The child is a? Starts with a B. Bastard? Would you #1 use that? #
100:  #2 Oh yeah. # Bastard. {NS}
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh then um, your brother's son would be your {NS}
100:  Your u- your uh your nephew.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm, okay and you'd be his you started to #1 say it. #
100:  #2 Uncle. #
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh let's see and- Uh wa- child whose both, both his parents have died. He's a
100:  Orphan.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. And uh wha- the court might appoint somebody to look after him. That would be his?
100:  Guardian.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm.
100:  Guardian.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh then uh all the people that are related to you, you'd say this town is full of my
100:  Relative.
Interviewer :  Would you ever say anything else? Like kin-folk or kin-people or{NS} Kay. And if somebody had the same family name as you and maybe looked a little like you you'd say no, he's no
100:  Kin to me.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. What would you call somebody who came into town that you'd never seen before?
100:  A foreigner.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay. Um even if he's {NS} would you call him a foreigner if he's from say another state?
100:  He's from outta state.
Interviewer :  He's a foreigner if he's out of state?
100:  Naw I just say he's
Interviewer :  #1 Just out of state. #
100:  #2 out of state. #
Interviewer :  What does foreigner mean then?
100:  From out of the country.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh then a, a name for a girl beginning with M?
100:  M-
Interviewer :  Well the mother of Jesus is named
100:  Mary.
Interviewer :  And George Washington's wife?
100:  Mary. Uh, Martha?
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Okay now there's, this one's harder to get, is a, it's a nickname for Helen beginning with an N. Nobody knows it's a nickname for Helen though and there's an old song that goes wait till the sun shines
100:  Nelly?
Interviewer :  That's it. Yeah, have you heard that song? Hmm.
100:  Yeah.
Interviewer :  Oh. That was a very good guess if you were just guessing. Okay well Jimmy Carter's brother is named?
100:  Jimmy.
Interviewer :  His brother.
100:  Jimmy? #1 Oh no. #
Interviewer :  #2 He's #
100:  Billy?
Interviewer :  That's it. The one that {X} the one that can't keep his big mouth shut. Uh the four gospels were written by Mark, Luke and John and
100:  Abraham?
Interviewer :  Starts with an M.
100:  Mark.
Interviewer :  It's the first one of the gospels. Blank, Mark, Luke and John. Matth-
100:  Matthew.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. Um a woman who teaches school is a
100:  Teacher.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay. Um Do you know the name of a novelist who wrote uh the Last of the Mohicans? His name is James Fenimor- Okay well his name is well if you ha- saw the name C {D: it's} o-o-p-e-r, how would you pronounce it?
100:  The name?
Interviewer :  C-o-o-p-e-r.
100:  Sycamore?
Interviewer :  Cooper or Cooper, which would you say?
100:  Cooper.
Interviewer :  Okay. If there were a married woman and you didn't know her first name you would call her
100:  Miss.
Interviewer :  Alright, her last name is Cooper so #1 call her #
100:  #2 Oh. # Miss Cooper.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh then do y- what would you call a carpenter who didn't really do a good job? He's not really trained, he's a?
100:  Um, amateur.
Interviewer :  How about a preacher that didn't really have a regular pulpit. He just preached around different places?
100:  Amateur.
Interviewer :  Did you ever hear of a jackleg? Okay. Uh then my mother's sister would be what relation to me?
100:  Your n- aunt.
Interviewer :  Okay. Uh the wife of Abraham in the Bible? Starts with an S.
100:  Uh Sa- uh S- {NW}
Interviewer :  It's also a company that makes bakery products. Something Lee?
100:  Sarah.
Interviewer :  Uh-huh. Uh then if your father had a brother named William you'd call him {NS}
100:  Uncle William?
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm and if his brother was named John you'd call him
100:  Uncle John.
Interviewer :  Mm-kay the highest rank in the army is?
100:  The president?
Interviewer :  In the army.
100:  Company commander.
Interviewer :  Uh the whole army.
100:  Secretary of
Interviewer :  {D: He said} he's a five star what?
100:  General.
Interviewer :  Okay and then uh the man that owns Kentucky Fried Chicken, he's?
100:  A colonel.
Interviewer :  Okay and uh the man in charge of a boat is a
100:  A admiral.
Interviewer :  Uh lower than an admiral. Just of one ship. I think the admiral is kind of in charge of the whole thing. It's an army rank I think. It's got general, colonel, major and then
100:  {NW} Mm.
Interviewer :  Well the uh, uh the head of a football team is the
100:  Coach.
Interviewer :  No the head uh player.
100:  Captain.
Interviewer :  Okay that gets it. Uh then the man who presides over the court is a
100:  Judge.
Interviewer :  And the man who argues in front of the judge is a
100:  Lawyer.
Interviewer :  Okay and a person who goes to school is a
100:  Student.
Interviewer :  Would you use the same word regardless of what age he is? Even if he's just a little child in grammar school? Mm-kay. And uh the, the person that works for a m- businessman and opens his mail and types his letters is his
100:  Secretary.
Interviewer :  Mm-hmm. {NW} I think this tape's about to go. {NS} I've got another reel ready to go on. I'm also about to lose my voice. {NS} We haven't got much longer today anyway. {NW}