Interviewer: Okay. An older person who is very active and interested in everything you might say well he's still very? 165: Active in his age. Interviewer: Okay any other uh ways of saying that? to spry? 165: He's smart and spry. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 165: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Uh what about uh how would you uh what word would you use to describe children that are just busy all the time and interested in everything and always excited about life what would you say about them? 165: {X} That child there is loves to play. Interviewer: Okay uh. If uh if the children are out later than usual and maybe you're a little bit worried you might say well I feel a little bit? 165: I feel worried about 'em. Interviewer: Okay. Uh would you use easy that way? It'd be easy on your mind about something or I might say I'm a little bit 165: Word look like I'd hear something Interviewer: #1 Mm-kay. # 165: #2 {X} # You're gonna get cold or something Interviewer: #1 Do you ever use uneasy? # 165: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: to mean when you worry about something? 165: I just say I'm worried. Interviewer: Okay. Oh What would somebody say if they they they don't wanna go upstairs in the dark? 165: #1 I ain't # Interviewer: #2 Um. # 165: going up there in that dark. Interviewer: I'm a 165: I'm afraid. Interviewer: Okay. And uh if you were to say well When she was a little girl she Uh She isn't afraid now but she? 165: Was when she was little, she'd go anyway. Interviewer: Okay. And uh Maybe well say she's not a bit afraid now but when she was a little girl she was, she? 165: She was afraid when she was little, she been afraid all her life. Interviewer: Uh-huh. She uh uh she used to be afraid but she's oh you said she used to be? 165: She used to be afraid but she ain't now she'll go anywhere. {NW} {X} Interviewer: Okay how would you talking about maybe an older person you might say nothing really wrong with Aunt Lizzy but sometimes she acts kind of? 165: She act kind of silly. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 165: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Any other ways you might say that? 165: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Just # 165: She's always been mean Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 165: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Any other word kind of like silly that you might use? Uh when you just you know she's likely to do one thing 165: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Would you use queer to talk about uh If she di- if you don't know what she's going to do. What what does the word uh uh queer mean? Uh the the younger people now think maybe use it to mean like homosexual do you know what uh to mean silly or uh. 165: {X} acting silly. Interviewer: Uh-huh. But you've never used the word queer? 165: Uh no I wouldn't cuz I hadn't thought of it. Interviewer: You hadn't 165: #1 {D: Yea no} # Interviewer: #2 thought of that word. # Alright you ever hear the younger kids use it? 165: No they hear them say everything Interviewer: Yeah. 165: you don't know Interviewer: Uh Okay. 165: Anything. Interviewer: Okay w- have you ever heard some of them talk about oh Mr. so and so well he's a queer. 165: I hear {X} say uh Mr. so and so is a mean man or Interviewer: Okay. Okay. What about if um If you're talking about a man who's so sure of his own ways and he never wants to change he doesn't want to change his mind or anything. You might say to him well don't be so 165: Don't be so sure you're right all the time. Interviewer: Okay. What about a word like uh ornery or? pigheaded or bullheaded or muleheaded you ever say anything like that to mean that? 165: {NW} You say he's a A pighead man he's pigheaded. Interviewer: Okay. Uh what about somebody that you can't joke with um because he might lose his temper all the time. you might say you can't joke with him he's mighty 165: Easy to get mad. Interviewer: uh And you might say well I was just kidding with you I didn't know you'd get uh? 165: Mad. Interviewer: And if somebody's about to lose his temper you might say don't get mad just keep? Keep? 165: Keep quiet don't Interviewer: Okay what about to keep calm? Would you say that? 165: Yes. Interviewer: How would you say that? 165: You gotta keep quiet about it that's how you get you can get mad in the head. Interviewer: Uh-huh would you use calm? 165: No I'd say quiet. Interviewer: #1 Oh. # 165: #2 {D: They} # They all gone I have to shut this back door I don't want nobody Interviewer: If you've been working very hard You wanna tell somebody you're just completely 165: Tired and wore out. Interviewer: Okay. And if a person has been quite well and you hear suddenly that they have some disease or that they just went very suddenly at the hospital you might say well just last night she 165: She was talking to me just last night. Interviewer: And what happened how would you tell about her getting sick, she all a sudden she? 165: I didn't think nothing would ail her Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 165: But you'd never know. Interviewer: How would you if you phoned somebody you heard last night uh Mary? 165: her sick Interviewer: Okay was sick? 165: Got sick. Interviewer: Okay. Well you And uh But you wanna say well uh Uh she's right sick now but she'll be better by? 165: In a few days I think. Interviewer: Okay uh. And if a person sat in the uh uh draft and uh began to cough and sneeze and everything you might say well last night he? 165: {X} I know you were going to have a cold. Sitting out there in that {X} Interviewer: Mm-kay and uh You might say well don't uh don't stay out there and get wet you may 165: Have a cold. Interviewer: Okay. Would you uh be more likely to say take a cold or catch a cold or get a cold 165: Catch a cold. Interviewer: And if somebody's suddenly they're voice is changing because of the cold you might say well he caught a cold and it affected his voice he's? 165: Hoarse. Interviewer: And uh uh if he is always going {NW} You might say well you've got a bad? 165: Cold. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 165: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Okay and this right here you call a {NW} 165: A cough. Interviewer: Okay. How was that? 165: Call it a cough. Interviewer: Okay. And if somebody says well I just gotta go to bed I'm feeling a little bit? 165: Bad. Interviewer: #1 Well just like you need to go to sleep. I? # 165: #2 {NW} # sleep or something. Interviewer: Okay. You could say well I'll take a little nap I'll wake up at? At six oh clock I'll 165: I may feel better. Interviewer: #1 Okay and the # 165: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Just say you're going to sleep but you're I'll just go and tell the children. Now you slept long enough. You've got to 165: Get up. Interviewer: Okay uh. And if you tell somebody to go in there to uh to awaken someone who is asleep you might say well go in and her up now. 165: {NW} And wake 'em up. Interviewer: Okay. And uh If uh somebody's sick and the medicine's by the bed you might say well why haven't you The medicine's that they should have 165: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 already had # 165: took your own medicine. right out your hand. Interviewer: Okay. And the patient might answer and say well yesterday I? 165: Taken it. Interviewer: Okay and I'll some more later I'll what? some more later? 165: Taken it. Interviewer: Okay I don't wanna take it right now I'll 165: Take it later Interviewer: Okay. And if you can't hear anything you might say well I'm just completely stone 165: deaf right in head Interviewer: Okay uh. And if he's not quite all the way deaf you might say well he's just a little bit 165: hard of hearing Interviewer: Okay. And if someone began to to swim and he was working by the time he's finished you might say well he was out in the sun and he a lot he 165: Yeah he sweated a lot. got wet all over Interviewer: Okay. And uh what do you call a some kind of a sore that comes and has a drain in it it might have a hard place in the middle of it. Uh 165: He got some kind of itch. Interviewer: Okay but if it's just one place you know and it uh gets hard and swells up and maybe finally starts draining 165: #1 a # Interviewer: #2 Uh # 165: rising. Interviewer: Okay a rising or what about a word that begins with a b that's uh that's like a rising? 165: {NW} Interviewer: And what do you 165: Carbuncle? Interviewer: Okay. 165: I had one of them once. Interviewer: Yeah? And if a is there another word for a rising or a carbuncle? She's got a lot of 'em. D'you ever know Boil? 165: Boil yes I- Interviewer: And what when a boil opens, the stuff that drains out is called? 165: Corruption. Interviewer: Okay. And if you have an infection in your hand so that your hand got bigger than it was you might say my hand is all? 165: Swelled up. Interviewer: Okay. And you might say to somebody well if it's not infected it probably won't won't get bigger it probably won't 165: Get any bigger. Interviewer: Okay it won't s-? 165: {X} warm salty water that's good. That's what I'd say. Interviewer: Okay. And if you got a blister what do you call the liquid that forms inside of it? 165: Water. Interviewer: And in the war for example if uh a soldier gets a bullet in his arm you say he's got a? A bad? 165: Arm? Interviewer: Right and what do you call the actual place? where he has the bullet in or the uh the hurt uh If somebody got shot or stabbed you'd say we've gotta go get a doctor to look at that? 165: That's a bad cut. Interviewer: Okay uh. Do you ever use wound? 165: Wound. Interviewer: Okay. And what about if there's a wound and it doesn't heal and it gets a hard granular kind of white substance around it and sometimes it has to be cut out or burned out with oil on it some kind of You ever heard of some kind of flesh? No? You ever heard of proud flesh? 165: Yes ma'am. Interviewer: #1 Proud what is? # 165: #2 Proud flesh. # Interviewer: What is how is that? 165: {X} proud flesh they say Interviewer: Oh yeah? 165: #1 from # Interviewer: #2 From a injury or a # 165: Bad teeth you know and th- Interviewer: Okay If you just had a little cut on your finger what might you put on it to keep it from getting infected? 165: I always put curocome Interviewer: Okay. And is there another one like uh curocome that's red too 165: And iodine. Interviewer: Uh-huh. And what are the used to be given as a tonic for malaria? 165: Uh. {X} Interviewer: Why? Where or? 165: {X} Interviewer: Uh-huh. And uh. If a man was shot And he didn't recover you might say well he? last night he? 165: He died. Interviewer: Okay. Any ways that are not quite not a little bit nicer way of saying that you might say to the person's family or reverend? 165: He passed. Interviewer: Okay. And uh. What about a kind of joking term uh that for somebody to say that somebody died? A humorous way Or somebody might say about somebody they didn't like or maybe someone was real stingy or something I'm glad that old skincliff finally? 165: {NW} Died. Interviewer: Okay you- what about kick the bucket? 165: That's right. Interviewer: You've heard of kick the 165: #1 Kick # Interviewer: #2 bucket? # 165: the bucket I sure have. Interviewer: Okay and uh. If somebody died and you wanna know why you might say well I don't know what he died? 165: with but Interviewer: Okay. And uh. The place where people are buried is usually called the? 165: Cemetery. Interviewer: Okay and Are there any other words for cemetery that? 165: Graveyard. Interviewer: And what When do you use one and when do you use the other? 165: Uh Interviewer: Cemetery and graveyard? Or they about the same? 165: They're about the same it's the same. Interviewer: And the box that people are buried in is the? 165: Coffin. Interviewer: And uh. The old time ones that used to be made out of wood uh maybe that were wider and tapered towards the ankles were they called anything else? 165: That's what they called the coffin ain't it? Interviewer: Okay that's a coffin. What about the word casket? 165: Yeah that's right. Interviewer: #1 Use the # 165: #2 That's right casket. # Interviewer: Okay if you say well so and so is a very important man or everybody liked him just everybody turned out for his? 165: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 When he died # 165: His funeral. Interviewer: And if the family are dressed in black and are very sad or maybe just get out of control lose control when someone dies you might say they are? 165: I say they took it mighty hard. Interviewer: Okay. What about a word to describe just when they all dress in black? How do you say that they're dressed in? 165: All of them dressed in black. Interviewer: Mm-kay uh. Do you use uh the word for if they're dressed in black are uh at the- the matter of grieving for somebody do you use the word mourning? 165: Yes mourning. Interviewer: Okay. How would you use that in a sentence tell me how you'd 165: The- they're mourning all of them are dressed in black. Interviewer: Okay. And uh. If somebody says to you well uh how you doing today and you might say oh 165: Oh very well. Interviewer: Okay. And if somebody's uh very troubled about something you might say oh it'll come out alright don't 165: Don't worry Interviewer: And the disease in the joints older people sometimes have is called 165: Arthritis. Interviewer: And 165: {X} Interviewer: Rheu-? 165: Rheumatism that's all the same which I have. Interviewer: Uh-huh that's bad. 165: Can't hardly get about {X} Interviewer: Okay and what about a very sore throat uh? People used to get an infection with blisters in there and it was very serious. 165: Say they had their tonsils need mostly taken out when their sore throat gets so Interviewer: #1 right. # 165: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Well a lot of the time I think they have uh uh a shot or a vaccination now that takes care of one that uh children used to die of. 165: Diphtheria. Got a niece that dry with it Interviewer: Yeah? Now what about a disease that makes your skin look yellowish? Your eyes turn yellow? 165: Yellow jaundice? Interviewer: And if you have your appendix taken out you say well I had an attack of 165: Appendicitis. Interviewer: And if somebody ate something that didn't agree with it wouldn't stay down you'd say well he had to? 165: Uh he had indigestion. Interviewer: Okay and if the food came back up he? 165: Vomit. Interviewer: Okay and any other ways that you might say that or the children might say that? 165: She gonna {X} Interviewer: Mm-kay you what about throw up or? 165: Yes throw up. Interviewer: But you'd be more likely to say? 165: Vomit I would. Interviewer: Okay uh and you don't you don't know of a joking way to say that? 165: I can't stand vomit. {NW} Interviewer: Okay. And uh uh vomit and throw up does one word sound uh uh a little more like a politer word? 165: I think I'd rather say vomit Interviewer: Okay and uh If a person vomited you'd say he was sick 165: On the stomach. Interviewer: Okay. Sick where? 165: On the stomach. Interviewer: Okay and If you were talking about someone who was sharing a piece of news you might say well as soon as she got the news she came right over 165: And told me. Interviewer: And if you invite someone to come to see you and you wanna tell them that you'll be real disappointed if they don't come you might say now he don't come I'll? 165: I'll sure be disappointed. Interviewer: Okay and uh If uh if you're you're telling me that you and you're daughter are would uh- would both be very glad to see me you might say well we we be glad to see how would you say that? 165: I'd be glad to see you. Interviewer: Okay. What about any other word besides glad? We'll be real? 165: Proud. Interviewer: Okay. Would you use both of those? 165: Either one. Interviewer: And if a child is naughty you might say if you do that again I'll? 165: Whoop you. Interviewer: Uh If uh Would you ever say I'm gonna go and whip you or I'm gonna 165: I'm gonna whoop you. Interviewer: And how would you say Uh if a young man is very interested in a young girl how would you say that he's what her? He's? 165: He and her are mighty close together. Interviewer: Okay. Would you you- think of any old ways that they might say that uh he's talking to her he's keeping company with her or sparking or paying 'em attention any ways? 165: Uh they say he's be saying he's must be they must be fixing to get engaged {X} Interviewer: Okay. And what do they call him they say he's her? 165: Boyfriend. Interviewer: And she's his? 165: Girlfriend. Interviewer: Okay and if he comes home with lipstick on his collar his little brother might say oh you've been? 165: Kissing. Interviewer: Okay. And if they were going together and he asks her to marry him but she turns him down how would you say that? He asked her to marry him but she? 165: Turned him down. Interviewer: And if they were going together and just for no reason and for no reason at all and quite suddenly and she said no I'm not going see you anymore how would you say that she what him she? 165: She quit him {X} Interviewer: She quit him okay. And uh uh if somebody comes to see you and you didn't you thought they were just engaged but they say no we just got 165: Married. Interviewer: And at a wedding the man who stands up with the groom is the? You know a friend who stands up with him what do they? 165: have a friend uh just to be there to stand up with him Interviewer: Uh-huh. And a girl that stands up with the bride would you have a? 165: She have a friend of her Interviewer: Okay well the word uh uh the bridesmaid? 165: Yes. Interviewer: And what about the guy who stands up with the groom is he the? 165: He the Interviewer: Best man? 165: Best man. Interviewer: groomsman 165: Best man. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 165: #2 The best man. # Interviewer: What about do you remember a long time ago I don't think they do it much anymore when somebody got married and went to live in their new home might have a real noisy crowd of people come and stand around outside and maybe sort of make noise and uh maybe even shoot pistols or rifles off you ever he- remember anything like this? 165: No. Interviewer: No? You ever heard of the word chivaree? 165: No. Interviewer: Okay. uh And uh how would you describe uh going to the town around here like if you were in Americus yesterday you might say well I was? 165: In Americus yesterday. Interviewer: Okay well would you ever say I was uh up to or down to 165: Uptown. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 165: Yesterday. Interviewer: Okay would you use down for another town down 165: Yes. Interviewer: #1 How would you use give an example? # 165: #2 {X} # Downtown. You going downtown? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And is there a town near here that you might say well I'm going over What's the nearest town on out this way uh? This is highway uh this this 165: #1 Preston # Interviewer: #2 road # 165: I'm going to Preston. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Would you say I'm going over there? 165: oh yes I say I'm going over to Preston Interviewer: Okay. And uh what about when you were going to, you getting coffee? 165: No that's a they coming back {X} Interviewer: Oh. Okay. Uh What about uh Okay and uh what about if I uh was asking you about someone and uh he is you know at the Browns uh uh uh living with them you might say well He lives the Browns. 165: Say he live over there with the Browns. Interviewer: Okay and if the Browns lived a good way away how would you say that? 165: #1 He live # Interviewer: #2 He lives # 165: He live with the Browns Interviewer: What if its ten or twenty miles away? 165: I say well he live with the Browns you have to go about ten miles to get there. Interviewer: Okay. Would you be likely to say down to the Browns or up to the Browns according to which way it was? 165: Yes. I say over down. Interviewer: Okay. And uh if there was a party and there was trouble there maybe the police came you might say well the police came and arrested the 165: Whole crew Interviewer: Okay. {NS} And uh If where young people like to go out to in the evening where they have music and maybe move around on the floor you might say they went to a 165: Dance. Interviewer: And if uh- if uh children get out of school at four o'clock you might say well its four o'clock school does what? 165: Be out at four. Interviewer: And uh after vacation when they're asking about the time to go back they might say well when does school? 165: Start back. Interviewer: And if a kid wa- left home to go to school but really didn't go what would you say he did? 165: He stayed home this morning. I don't know how come. Interviewer: Okay well what if his mother thought he went to school? And he uh 165: And he didn't go. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Would you say uh skipped or played played 165: Hooky. I say he played hooky today. Interviewer: Okay uh and Why do they go to school you say well people go to school to get an 165: Education. Interviewer: And after high school you may go on to? 165: College. Interviewer: And after kindergarten the children go to school go to kindergarten they're five years old, Well then when they're six they go to the 165: School and they Interviewer: #1 and they # 165: #2 be more prepared. # Interviewer: Right and they'll be in after kindergarten they'll be in which grade? The- 165: First grade. Interviewer: Okay and if you're sitting in school you're sitting in a? 165: School. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And the thing you sit at like if I say somebody left a note on my? 165: Desk. Interviewer: And the whole room there has a lot of new? 165: Desks. Interviewer: And the building is especially made for books is called the Place where you go to check out books? 165: Library. Interviewer: Okay how's that? 165: The library. Interviewer: And you go to mail a post well to mail a letter or a package you have to go to the 165: Post office. Interviewer: Okay if you go to another town and you don't have family or friends there it's a strange town you probably stay over night in a? 165: Motel hotel. Interviewer: And if you go to see a play you'll go to the? or a movie? 165: {X} {X} Interviewer: Theat-? 165: Theater. {X} Interviewer: And if you have a operation you have to go to the? 165: Hospital. Interviewer: And you're taken care in the hospital you're taking care of a? you're taken care of by 165: #1 to the doctors # Interviewer: #2 someone # 165: #1 nurses # Interviewer: #2 the doctors? # Okay and uh. A doctor and a? 165: Nurses. Interviewer: And you catch a train at the? 165: Station. Interviewer: Okay and what's another way of saying station? Older word maybe down to the? 165: Depot. Interviewer: And a open place in the city and there's not one down in the Americus downtown but a square like maybe where there are uh maybe grass and trees maybe the area around the courthouse What would that be called? 165: Park. Interviewer: Okay. And if somebody walks across where two streets come together instead of walking across this street and across that one if he goes diagonally across you might say well he's walking? 165: Across the street. Interviewer: Okay. Have you got a word that would mean that if instead of going just straight across the street he angles off and goes that way? He's not walking the right way going straight across he's going? You ever heard of kitty-corner catty-corner? 165: Catty-cornering Interviewer: And you wouldn't say it? 165: No ma'am Interviewer: Okay. And uh The vehicles that used to run on tracks with a wire up ahead Did you have that around here. 165: No. Interviewer: They they call 'em city streaks they go on a rail sometimes. 165: What they call 'em trolley? Interviewer: Tro-? 165: Trolley. Interviewer: Okay. And you might tell the bus driver the next car is where I wanna? 165: Get off. Interviewer: And uh there may be several small towns in a county but the principle one where the government is is goes on is called the 165: Capital. Interviewer: Okay or the county? You might have heard them say the county capital or the county seat or? You might say well Plains is where I live but Americus is really the You'd say the capital? 165: Atlanta the capital Interviewer: of capital the state right 165: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Just of Sumter County # {X} 165: Sumter county {X} Interviewer: Uh-huh. Okay. 165: {X} Interviewer: And uh you might well say in Atlanta is where all of the what takes place? 165: {X} Interviewer: The state? It's not the federal but it's the state 165: Capital Interviewer: Okay. And uh if you work at the post office you say well I'm working for the 165: Government. Interviewer: Okay. And the police in the town are supposed to keep what? 165: Oh Supposed to keep a record. Interviewer: Okay and uh to keep a maybe from uh there being uh traffic violations and uh fights you might say well they keep uh uh they maintain maybe put something with order they maintain 165: the order law and order. Interviewer: What? 165: Keep the law and order. Interviewer: Okay. And that uh that fight between the Northern and the Southern states back at uh uh at the- the time of freedom is called the what war? {NW} forgot that one? Well have you heard any of these used for it? The Civil War, the War of the States, the Confederate War? 165: Yes ma'am I heard of them. Interviewer: Which one would you think you heard most? 165: Confederate War. Interviewer: Okay. And if uh Before they had the electric chair a murderer was uh was what he was? 165: Electrocuted. Interviewer: Before they had the electric chair. 165: They hung 'em. Interviewer: Okay. And you might say well uh. If someone killed himself that way you might say he went out and 165: Murder hisself. Interviewer: Okay and to say he did it this way you'd 165: He hung hisself. Interviewer: Alright. Okay now here are a few uh a few states uh What's the the name of the biggest, oh well, the state that's got the biggest city in it is what, in- in America? Is- New? 165: {X} New York. Interviewer: Okay. And uh Baltimore is in? 165: Maryland. Interviewer: And uh Richmond is the capital of? 165: Virginia. Interviewer: And uh uh Raleigh is in? Mm 165: North Carolina Interviewer: Okay uh can you talk a little louder? 165: North Carolina. Interviewer: Okay that's {X} Scoot that up a little bit more there. Okay. And uh Columbia o- is uh Not North Carolina but 165: South Carolina Interviewer: Okay and our state is? 165: Georgia. Interviewer: And just uh just south of us where everybody goes for vacation is? 165: Alabama? Interviewer: And uh the one down that's where all the oranges grow? 165: Florida. Interviewer: And uh Down uh Baton Rouge is the capital of? Loui-? 165: Louisiana. Interviewer: And uh the Bluegrass state is up north of here on the other side of Tennessee is? Ken- 165: Kentucky. Interviewer: Okay and between us and Kentucky is the one I just mentioned? T-? 165: Tennessee. Interviewer: And uh uh the state uh there's a wall it's uh that was {NW} the state was real famous for and there was a President who was from this state and he played the piano They say do you remember the Show Me State it's called, Mis-? Miss-? Missouri? Missouri? 165: {X} Interviewer: Say it. Will you say it out for me? 165: Missouri. Interviewer: Okay. Little Rock is the capital of? 165: Kansas. Interviewer: Okay and there's one uh that's kinda like Kansas but its has Ark in front of it Ark? 165: Arkansas. Interviewer: Okay and uh uh Jackson is the capital of M- Miss-? 165: Mississippi. Interviewer: And the Lone Star State out west the big western state where all the ranches and cattle are, the cowboys as- Te- 165: Tennessee. Interviewer: uh the great big one out there Tex- 165: Texas. Interviewer: And Tulsa is in O- O- 165: Oklahoma. Interviewer: Okay and Boston up east is in? Ma- 165: Massachusetts Interviewer: And all of the states up there not the southern states or the western states but those up east are called the N-? New E-? New England? 165: New England State. Interviewer: Okay. And the biggest city in Maryland is? Ba-? Balt-? 165: Baltimore. Interviewer: Okay. And the capital of the whole United States is? Wash-? 165: Washington. Interviewer: And what are what after that 165: #1 D-C # Interviewer: #2 they say? # D-C Okay. And uh the biggest city in Missouri it's got a real famous blues song named for it, it's Saint? 165: Louis. Interviewer: Okay how is that? 165: Saint Louis. Interviewer: Okay and then in South Carolina big town that has a sea port is? Ch-? Charle-? 165: Charleston. Interviewer: And the big town in Alabama is? Bir-? 165: Birmingham. Interviewer: And in Illinois is the big city is? Ch-? 165: Chicago. Interviewer: How's that? 165: Chicago. Interviewer: Okay. And the capital of Alabama is? Mon-? 165: Montgomery. Interviewer: And the one, another big town in Alabama is down in the Gulf is Mo-? Mobile? 165: Mobile Alabama. Interviewer: And uh another city over in North Carolina in the mountains? Ash-? Ash-? You know Asheville? 165: Asheville. Interviewer: You heard, how is that? 165: {X} Interviewer: Uh You ever traveled up in there? 165: No. Interviewer: Uh Asheville did you would you say that one for me? 165: Asheville. Interviewer: Okay. And in- in Tennessee there's uh. What are some towns in Tennessee? Kno- 165: Knoxville Tennessee. Interviewer: And the one up there on the border Ch-? 165: Chattanooga. Interviewer: Okay how's that? 165: Chattanooga Tennessee. Interviewer: Okay. And uh the big city in west Tennessee where the blues was started, Beale Street Blues you know about that one? Mem-? 165: Memphis. Interviewer: #1 And # 165: #2 {X} # Interviewer: The city where Martin Luther King was killed? The capital is? N-? Na-? 165: Nashville. Interviewer: Okay. And of course the largest city in Georgia is? 165: Atlanta. Interviewer: Okay and our seaport over there is S-? Savan-? Still in Georgia, Sav-? 165: Sylvester? Interviewer: Syl- uh-huh and over on the coast is another one sounds kinda like that Savan-? 165: Savannah Georgia. Interviewer: And uh then the biggest city in southern Georgia is? Still kinda north of here, M-? Mac-? 165: Maconville. Interviewer: uh then there's another one that's named for uh the uh guy that discovered America, Co-? Colum-? 165: Columbus. Interviewer: And uh The biggest city in Louisiana is famous for the Mardi Gras New? New Or-? 165: New Orleans. Interviewer: And the capital of Louisiana is? Baton baton? 165: Baton. Interviewer: Rouge? And the biggest city in Ohio is where the Reds and the Bengals play their home games is? Cin-? 165: Chicago. Interviewer: Cinci- 165: Cincinnati. Interviewer: Okay and the biggest city in Kentucky that's famous for the Derby is? Loui- 165: Louisiana. Interviewer: Loui-? 165: Louisville. Interviewer: Yeah. And uh If you're talking about going from this town to that town Somebody wants to know the distance you might say oh from Plains to Americus is about? 165: Ten miles. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And if somebody asks you to go with him somewhere and you're not sure whether you want to go or not you might say oh I don't know it 165: Just look on the highway it's on the highway. Interviewer: #1 Yeah well that's # 165: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Right. Now if someone's inviting you to ride somewhere and you don't know whether you want to go or not you might say well I might I'm not sure whether I really? 165: #1 Oh # Interviewer: #2 I'm not sure if, I'm not sure what # {X} 165: Whether I wanna go or not. Interviewer: #1 Okay # 165: #2 go or not # Interviewer: Okay. And if you have a very sick friend and he's not likely to get any better You might say uh it seems like to me that he 165: Not doing well. Interviewer: Okay and if you wanna Make it a little worse than that you might say, it seems like to me he's 165: Won't be long now. Interviewer: He's not gonna? 165: Make it. Interviewer: Okay. And uh Uh if you were asked to go somewhere and maybe make a long trip without your daughter or somebody you might say well I won't go They go, I won't go 165: {X} trying to take the trip by myself I won't go that Interviewer: I won't go what? 165: I won't go without my daughter go Interviewer: Okay. And uh If uh uh you were doing some work and uh one of the girls was here with you and uh uh she didn't offer to help at all and you went on and did it but then you might say Well why did you sit around When you could a been helping me? Why did you sit around and 165: I got it bout done and it didn't go to heck. Interviewer: Okay well maybe she didn't even help at all and you wanna know why she did one thing instead of the other thing. Why did you sit around blank helping me? 165: and didn't help for any of it Interviewer: Inst- instead how would you? 165: Instead of sitting there reading. Interviewer: Okay. If a man is uh, if a person is funny and you enjoy talking to them you might- you might say why do you like him you might say I like him because? 165: He gets funny. Interviewer: Okay. 165: Friendly. Interviewer: Okay. And what are the names of the say some of the larger churches around here, what's the biggest church around here? Probably. 165: {B} Interviewer: Okay and if people become church members you might say well last Sunday they? 165: {X} Interviewer: Okay when they actually became members of the church they say last Sunday Ms. Jones what the church they? 165: Joined the church. Interviewer: Okay. And in church you pray to? 165: Heaven. Interviewer: Okay and the person the being you pray to is? 165: Jesus. Interviewer: Okay or his father is? 165: The Lord. Interviewer: Jesus is the son of? 165: The living God. Interviewer: Okay. A little louder? 165: Son of the living God. Interviewer: Yes ma'am. Alright and you say well Sunday the preacher preached a a good? 165: Sermon. Interviewer: And somebody will say I didn't so much enjoy the sermon I usually go to church to listen to the? 165: I'd say well better examine yourself sometimes you Interviewer: Okay. {NW} And maybe he uh maybe they have a very good pianist or organist in the choir and you might say well I don't really enjoy the sermon but I like to go listen to the 165: Singing. Interviewer: Okay. And uh somebody might say the choir and the organist provided good m-? 165: Music today. Interviewer: And uh talking about music you'd say that music is simply? 165: Good. Interviewer: Okay any other way you might say that? More than good it was just? 165: Fine. Interviewer: Beu- 165: Beautiful. Interviewer: Okay. And if somebody was maybe on the way to church and they thought they had plenty of time but maybe they had a flat tire or something and they might say well for goodness sakes church will be over 165: When you get there. Interviewer: Okay. Or uh uh by the by the time I get there would you that? Alright. And the uh the enemy of God or the opposite of God is called the? There's God in heaven and then and 165: The Devil. Interviewer: Okay and he is uh uh uh Okay the opposite of God and oh If there's a na- uh a graveyard or an old house that's been empty uh. And uh People might be afraid to go around there and you say well there's nothing to be afraid of what are you afraid of? And they're going to say well I don't wanna go around there because there might be 165: {X} Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 165: #2 {NW} # That what they used to say. Interviewer: Okay. And uh If there's a old house and uh they're afraid to go in they say don't go there that house is? 165: Haunted. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 165: #2 {X} # Interviewer: And uh if it's beginning to be winter and somebody's going out you might say well you better put a sweater on it's getting? 165: Cool. Interviewer: Alright it's it's getting? 165: Cold. Interviewer: A little bit uh chilly how would you say getting ra- getting? 165: Chilly out there today Interviewer: If somebody asks you do you wanna go and you say oh I might but I guess I'd r- 165: {X} stay home today Interviewer: How's that? 165: I'd rather stay home today. Interviewer: Okay. Um And if you uh {X} What do you say to a friend that you haven't seen for a long time how do you tell them that you're How do you 165: {X} so glad to see you Interviewer: Okay. And uh. How do you describe the amount of land that a man owns if it's a considerable amount you might say Well Mr. so and so owns Say he has five hundred acres of land how would you say that? That's a of land. 165: A lot of land. Interviewer: Okay. 165: {X} Interviewer: so and so 165: Mister so and so. Interviewer: Okay any other ways of saying that? {X} just besides saying a lot you might say well he owns a 165: He owns just about all the land all the biggest the land around here. Interviewer: Okay would you ever use a right smart or something? 165: Yes. Interviewer: How would you say? 165: {NW} He owns the right smart of it. Interviewer: Okay. Would you ever use right smart any other ways? Uh besides maybe land would you use it to talk about uh pain? 165: Yeah Interviewer: #1 How? # 165: #2 I'd # say he right smart, he seems like he in right smart of pain today. Interviewer: What about the weather? Would you ever say it rained uh 165: A right smart. Interviewer: Uh-huh okay. Uh. If you wanna say uh more than just well yes to something you might uh say a lot more enthusiasm for if somebody says Well will you be glad to see your- your grandson and daughter when they get back and you say why? 165: Sure I'll be glad Interviewer: Okay. And uh How would you if somebody says can you uh Can you take this recipe and fix it and you wanna say well Indeed so you might say why 165: Sure Interviewer: Okay. 165: I can fix it. Interviewer: Okay and uh. If somebody particularly disliked to go somewhere. You might say well now we've always enjoyed going over there but my grandson just 165: Don't wanna go Interviewer: Okay. He just disliked that place tremendously, he just the place he 165: #1 He just # Interviewer: #2 just what? # 165: don't like it over there. Interviewer: Okay more than dis- more than don't like it uh he just 165: Just don't like over there. Interviewer: Alright. And uh What uh are the different uh old little sort of uh exclamations that you make might make if you do something that you don't mean to uh uh to do or if you hurt yourself accidentally, like if you're trying to hammer and you hit your finger you slam your finger you might say? 165: Ow. Interviewer: Okay. And what about uh uh sort of uh of of cussing maybe you wouldn't say it but maybe some of the men would something goes wrong when you hurt yourself would you ever, what else would a man would be likely to say? Little stronger than oh or ouch? 165: {NW} Hell I hit my hand. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 165: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: What about anything uh exclamation oh da- it? 165: Damn thing hurt. Interviewer: Okay. And uh. What other uh if you're just a little bitty excited about something you might say for goodness sake's or what other ways would you say that, oh? 165: {X} What is all that? Interviewer: Okay. What about if you're a little bit aggravated with yourself for doing something silly maybe you were cooking and you spill something and you might say oh 165: I messed the hell {X} Interviewer: Okay. Alright and if you're really surprised somebody suggests something to you and. Uh you're uh just disgust you you certainly wouldn't do that and you don't think they should've mentioned it or somebody says Well uh uh would you take something that belongs to somebody else? You might say why the? of course I wouldn't the? 165: That's a no I wouldn't take it. Interviewer: Okay the very? 165: {X} I don't I wouldn't do that. Interviewer: Okay I wouldn't do that the very I? 165: I'd rather not do it Interviewer: Mm-kay. Would you ever say the idea, the very idea or? 165: That's The wrong idea I wouldn't do it Interviewer: Okay. And uh. If you meet uh Somebody and uh they say good morning to you what would you probably say next to them? 165: Good morning. Interviewer: And then you might say well how? 165: How you do this morning? Interviewer: Okay If you're introduced to a stranger What might you say? 165: Glad to meet you. Interviewer: {X} and you might uh uh and if and he might say I'm glad to meet you and you might say? How 165: How are you? Interviewer: Okay. And if someone has been to your home and you've enjoyed having them you might say to them well come? 165: When you coming back? Interviewer: Okay. 165: #1 Come any # Interviewer: #2 Come {X} # 165: anytime. Interviewer: Come agai-? 165: Come again. Anytime. Just glad to have you. Interviewer: Okay and when you see somebody on the twenty-fifth of December you're likely to say to them? 165: Christmas {X} Interviewer: Okay or M- 165: Merry Christmas. Interviewer: And if you see somebody on the first of January you're likely to say? Ha-? 165: Happy New Year Interviewer: And uh By way of appreciation in addition to saying ar- Instead of saying thank you what else might you say I'm much? 165: obli- Interviewer: And uh If you're not sure whether you have time to do something or not you might say I? I'll have time I? 165: I don't know Interviewer: Okay. 165: whether I have time or not. Interviewer: Okay. Uh and if you're just wondering whether or not you have time you might say well I- I um I? I guess I? 165: I guess I will if I have time. {X} Interviewer: And if you uh if you need to go to the grocery store you might say have to go downtown to do some? 165: Shopping. Interviewer: Okay. Any other word for shopping? Uh trading would you 165: #1 trading I go # Interviewer: #2 eve- # 165: {X} it's trade day {NW} Interviewer: Trade day? Okay if you make a purchase and a storekeeper might take a piece of paper and and what would he do with it? if you go buy something you take a piece of paper and put it around it he did what? 165: He wrap it. Interviewer: Okay. And you might say well Uh uh this is all torn up he? When I bought it he? 165: Wrapped it. Interviewer: Okay. And uh if a s- uh man Um. Buys something to sell And then uh if you say he buyed he bought uh something for five dollars but he he had to sell it for two fifty you might say well he had to sell it? 165: Cheaper than he Interviewer: oh 165: Bought it. Interviewer: Okay. Uh Below cost or at a loss? Would you say 165: I'd say he had to sell it at a low cost and he lost. Interviewer: Okay. And if you look at something in the store and you think well I'd like to have that and then you ask about the price and you ci- decide that that you can't afford it then you might say well I'd like to have it but it? 165: It's too much. Interviewer: It what too much 165: costs too much Interviewer: It what? 165: Costs too much. Interviewer: Okay. And uh you might say well time to pay the bill, the bill is due the bill the first of the month you pay the bill, the bill is what? 165: Due the first. Interviewer: Okay. If you belong to a club you have to pay the? 165: Dues. Interviewer: And if you don't have any money you might go to a friend and try to 165: Borrow it. Interviewer: and uh if the banker is asked uh about uh making uh a loan and he might say now well I like to lend it to you but money is Uh money is? Uh if something is is hard to come by he might say well I'd like to lend it to you but uh Money is not uh easy to uh to find or what about this, if somebody goes hunting. and they come back and the didn't get anything and they say well hunting is not what it used to be, game is getting? 165: Scarce. Interviewer: Okay. and uh in swimming uh somebody might go up on the the springboard and into the water. 165: Dive in. Interviewer: Okay. And uh You might say uh Well as soon as he got there yesterday he? 165: {X} right on to the pool Interviewer: Okay. 165: dived in Interviewer: And, alright. And what? 165: Dived in. Interviewer: Okay. And if somebody, if kids dive into the water and hit flat the they may say they call that a what do you know? 165: No. Interviewer: Uh. Uh you ever heard the kids talk about a belly flop, belly bust? 165: No. Interviewer: Okay. If uh the children, little children are playing and they like to do something which is to put their head on the ground and then kick their feet up and go on over in a circle you say he turned a? 165: Wheelbarrow. Interviewer: A what? 165: Wheelbarrow. Interviewer: Okay. Uh. Uh you ever heard what they call somerset? 165: No. Interviewer: Wheelbarrow when he goes like this? 165: {NW} Interviewer: {NW} And if somebody wanted to go across the river and it was too deep for him to wade across you might say well he he's going to have to 165: Swim across. {NW} Interviewer: And uh If someone went to the uh uh the river yesterday you might say well he went down there and yesterday he? 165: He swam alright yesterday. Interviewer: Okay and He had gone down there everyday this year he has gone down there and 165: Swim. Interviewer: Okay. Okay do you remember maybe a long time ago when {NW} people used to uh uh have an account at the the store at the grocery store and maybe just pay it after the crops were uh were harvested and maybe when they sold the things Do you remember anything about a storekeeper giving some kind of a little present when they payed the bill? 165: Yes. Interviewer: What did they call that? Do you remember? 165: Nah no I don't remember but I know he used to give my dad {X} you know and then I w- Interviewer: What would they give him? You remember? 165: Out on the farm I know one thing he always brought to us a sack of can and uh hand lotion any little thing but he'd always hand the children a sack of peppermint. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 165: #2 {X} # we was so glad I just look at the children these days Christmas all the time and we just Interviewer: Yeah. 165: Worked so hard. Interviewer: Yeah but that was pretty great to get the 165: #1 yea # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 165: I'd say we lived it pretty good. We had to work though but I enjoyed that life Interviewer: #1 Right # 165: #2 We # had a plenty to eat. And uh Raised it you know Interviewer: #1 Sure # 165: #2 We had to # plenty We were a family Not all families live like my family did {X} There's a big family of us and my daddy worked it hard and {X} Interviewer: How uh where were you and your brothers and sisters Ruth you told me but I forgot Were you one of the older ones or one of the younger ones? 165: I'm one of the younger ones. My oldest sister dead, oldest brother ain't but two of us living. {X} All them dead. One died in Savannah My baby brother died in Savannah {NW} Fell dead {X} Interviewer: Yes I think you told me about it. 165: And my oldest brother Died in Jacksonville a few years ago. Next one died in Americus. And my next brother died in Augusta. My oldest sister died in Milledgeville. She had {X} Interviewer: She had what? 165: {X} they call it Interviewer: Oh. 165: You know that breaking out on your hands Interviewer: Oh. 165: I don't think that they call it that now. Interviewer: I don't know. 165: And uh She was a good woman. She taught school and my oldest brother wanted to come She's- her mind was getting bad you know and he Didn't want her to go to Milledgeville so he taking her to Jacksonville and he um was scared so bad you know they took her anyway. Interviewer: Yes. 165: And my Next sister died in Detroit she had two twin that low blood. {X} Interviewer: Oh was she young? 165: She died young. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 165: Yes. {X} Interviewer: Well are your uh parents buried 165: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 165: And I've been here all my {X} our home been here all my life. Interviewer: {X} 165: But uh I had a brother that be buried in Detroit. He died up there. And my Oldest brother I buried in Jacksonville they'd been gone so long we see that's where his friends were. We all went there the people had moved ending up in different counties And my baby brother we buried him in Savannah. It wasn't but three us to go, we went there. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 165: And bury him. Interviewer: Well are most of your children and grandchildren, well I know they're scattered out a good bit 165: #1 I got # Interviewer: #2 Some of # them here? 165: I got four children here and four away. My baby boy is in Brooklyn, New York and my oldest son in Syracuse. And they told us {X} Florida. And my {X} daughter. Is in Delray Um I, my baby daughter live near Whitney. My oldest daughter live up there in the project. And I gotta son live in south Plains. I told him go away Interviewer: Well Let's see. {NS} Um {NS} If um After you buy uh uh {X} man at the market wraps up a package when you get home you got to say well now I got to 'un- to what? 165: Undo it and put it up in the freezer or put it up in {X} frigerator. Interviewer: Okay. And uh {NS} Uh. If someone was swimming in the river And uh and maybe just couldn't swim very well and couldn't get out you might say well he was? 165: He got drowned Interviewer: Okay. And uh. {X} 165: Oh that them coming back {NW} {NS} Interviewer: And you might tell the children to don't get in that water I'm afraid you'll 165: Get drowned there. Interviewer: Okay. And uh you might say well every year someone has in that pool 165: They got drowned in there. Interviewer: And what does a baby do before it's able to walk? 165: Crawl. Interviewer: And uh if you see something in a tree you watch you'll say well somebody will have to that tree 165: Have to get it down. Interviewer: Okay and what do you call it when you go up a tree you say? 165: Climb. Interviewer: #1 Okay and you'll # 165: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Alright say well yesterday he 165: Climbed that tree. Interviewer: A- or everyday he has 165: Climbed that tree. Interviewer: Okay. And if a man wants to hide behind uh something that's low you might say well if you're going to get out of sight there you'll have to 165: Squat down. Interviewer: Okay. And uh if somebody's going o- if one of the children's going over behind the chair and uh he was going to jump out and play a trick he might uh uh jump out and go what would he say to surprise you he might say? 165: Boo. Interviewer: #1 Okay # 165: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: and uh What about when when little children play this trick you know with uh this way peeping what do you call that? 165: Peeping. Oh. Hide and seek. Interviewer: Okay Uh And if in church if somebody if you're saying somebody went up to the altar and she? to pray what would she do? She would? 165: Kneel down {NS} Interviewer: Okay. And uh you might say yesterday she went up to the altar and 165: Prayed. Interviewer: Okay and what did she do to get down on her knees? 165: She knelt down. Interviewer: Okay how's that? 165: She knelt down on her knee Interviewer: Okay. 165: to pray Interviewer: And if someone if you're tired you might say well I'm tired I'm going to 165: Rest. Interviewer: Okay I'm going to in bed and I'm- 165: Lay down and rest. Interviewer: Okay. And uh Uh you might say well talking about someone he he was really sick, he couldn't even sit up he just in bed all day he? 165: I know he sick cuz he stayed in bed and didn't like it Interviewer: Okay. And uh Uh you might say all morning he? le- in bed? 165: Laid down all morning. Interviewer: Okay. And if you talk about something that you sort of saw in your sleep you might say well last night I all night. 165: I dreamt all night. Interviewer: Okay how was that? 165: I dreamt. All night. Interviewer: #1 Okay # 165: #2 about something # Interviewer: I hope I don't tonight I hope 165: I hope I don't have that tonight. Interviewer: Okay I hope I- 165: That's a nightmare. Interviewer: Okay. Don't dr- 165: dream tonight. Interviewer: Okay and Every night this week I have 165: Been dreaming. Interviewer: Okay I have d- I have dr- 165: dreamed every night. {X} Interviewer: Okay. Uh alright you might say well I dreamed such and such and all of a sudden I 165: Woke up. Interviewer: Okay. And if you bring your foot down heavy on the floor you do what, you say you? Your feet on the floor you? 165: bring your feet down Interviewer: Okay but the noise when you go plump down your foot you say I'm going to or the the children say the the teacher at school was scolding she her foot on the floor. 165: Yes. Interviewer: She s-? 165: Stomped. Interviewer: Okay. And uh If a man meets a girl at a dance and he wants to uh to go home with her he might say to her may I? 165: Have this dance? Interviewer: Okay. And may I 165: #1 take you home? # Interviewer: #2 home with me # How? 165: Take you home. Interviewer: Okay. And if you have uh um. A big box out there and you wanna get it in here you might say you have to 165: Pull it in. Interviewer: Alright and if your car's stuck in the mud you might ask somebody in another car to get behind you and 165: Push it. Interviewer: Okay. And uh if you carried uh something that was very heavy and {X}