166:  {NS} {X} {C: laughter}
Interviewer:  {X} {C: laughter} Sometimes you use 'em when you planting flowers your gladiolas for example or {NS} you plant {NS} not seed but the little {NS}
166:  uh {NS} Roots?
Interviewer:  Bul- {NS}
166:  Bulbs. #1 Bulbs that's #
Interviewer:  #2 And that's a # {NS} {D: If put}
166:  That's what that is that's bulbs.
Interviewer:  Okay a light bulb #1 say that #
166:  #2 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  word for me please.
166:  Light bulb.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am okay When you carry the washing out to hang it on the line you carry it out in what? {NS}
166:  Baskets
Interviewer:  okay
166:  I got uh one of these big baskets about that high. {NS}
Interviewer:  And uh what do nails come in? {NS} Do you remember when they bought {NS}
166:  used to come in uh little boxes
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
166:  #2 used # to but it's changed now you go buy 'em and in just {NS}
Interviewer:  paper bag
166:  paper bags
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} uh have you uh ever heard it uh called a a keg? {NS}
166:  Yeah I heard it called a keg a great big uh keg a round {NS} keg and it'd be about that high.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 When you were # going to buy 'em for a house anything you'd buy 'em in that keg.
Interviewer:  okay
166:  But just what few I get I get in a paper sack.
Interviewer:  okay and a thing that looks like a #1 keg #
166:  #2 But you don't # ever see none of them now.
Interviewer:  No. Well that's what I was asking you about a thing that looks like a keg but was bigger would be a what? {NS} Ba {NS}
166:  {X}
Interviewer:  uh but a wooden thing like that not a bigger than a keg but a barrel.
166:  Barrel uh-huh
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 in big barrels. #
Interviewer:  Barrel that's the one I was wondering about cuz #1 you don't see them any more do you? #
166:  #2 {X} # no {NS} Okay and what is it that goes around the barrel or the keg to hold the wood together do you remember those little {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 Children used to like #
166:  #2 That's hoops # I call I used to call them hoops.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am #1 alright #
166:  #2 See # they would tighten it.
Interviewer:  Right. {NW} And what about a um {NS} what you put in the top of a bottle. {NS}
166:  Stopper. {NS}
Interviewer:  And uh it's made out of what material? {NS}
166:  Now I don't know now what's these Coca-Cola bottles' tops #1 made out of? #
Interviewer:  #2 Now that's # a metal isn't it.
166:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Do you remember a long time ago when they used to put one in that stuck inside and it was kinda softer and spongier like?
166:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What did they call that do you remember? {NS}
166:  No I don't.
Interviewer:  Uh {NS} Cor- {NS}
166:  Cork. {NS} Cork. {NS} Cord. {NS} Corpse. Something like that.
Interviewer:  Okay have you ever heard it called a stopple or a stipple or anything like that?
166:  Yeah I've heard of stoppers.
Interviewer:  Stoppers
166:  We use them lots.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} And what about uh a musical instrument children play with like this?
166:  Harp. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} and what about one that's held between the teeth and plucked? {NS}
166:  I don't know what that is.
Interviewer:  Okay #1 Uh #
166:  #2 I think # I ought to know but I don't.
Interviewer:  Uh well I I'm not familiar with it either but it you hold it between your teeth and pick it with your fingers and it'd make a twanging noise they say. Have you ever heard of a jew's harp? {NS}
166:  Yeah. {NS}
Interviewer:  Yeah? {NS} How would you call it? {NS}
166:  Yeah harps what I call #1 it. #
Interviewer:  #2 Um # just a just {NS} #1 but it's different from just a #
166:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  {NS} Okay and what do you drive nails with?
166:  Hammer. {NS}
Interviewer:  And uh {NS} what if you have a wagon. {NS}
166:  Yeah we had a wagon.
Interviewer:  Did you have a wagon with two horses what do you call that long thing that went in between the horses?
166:  That was uh. {NS} I don't know what to call that I ought to know raised with it. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh um Well evidently they called sometimes they called it a tongue or sometimes #1 a pole. #
166:  #2 Yeah # it's tongue you got that right #1 now. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay # {NS} And what about if you have a horse pulling a buggy what are the two things out beside him that you fasten to {NS} the buggy? {NS}
166:  Buggy {NS} {D: Oh now} right on in my tongue my head's got dizzy. {C: laughs}
Interviewer:  Uh is it uh shafts or
166:  Yeah #1 Buggy shafts #
Interviewer:  #2 How would #
166:  uh-huh.
Interviewer:  okay {NS} Alright well what about one of those buggy wheels or wagon wheel {NS} the uh the outside part do you remember what they call that the metal part? {NS}
166:  To a buggy {NW} {NS}
Interviewer:  To a wheel {NS} you know? {NS} Uh like the wheel in the in the very middle of it that big thing in the middle of it's called the? {NS}
166:  It's called a wheel is what I always called
Interviewer:  #1 Oh #
166:  #2 it. #
Interviewer:  yeah the whole {NS} thing is a wheel. {NS} And the things that go out like this are called spokes? {NS}
166:  yeah {NS}
Interviewer:  And what's that thing in the middle of it do you remember? {NS}
166:  No I don't.
Interviewer:  Uh I uh maybe hub? {NS}
166:  Well I think it #1 is I'm not sure. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay um # Uh what about uh you know this is {NS} may or may not remember might have ever never had any contact with it but something that outside uh {NS} part of the wheel do you remember that as being the rim? {NS}
166:  I sorta say that.
Interviewer:  Yeah?
166:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  uh the {NS}
166:  Just fixing to say it #1 {D: before you said.} #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay # uh what about have you ever heard uh {NS} uh {NS} of felly? {NS}
166:  What?
Interviewer:  Felly as a part of a wheel {NS} the felly? {NS}
166:  I don't remember that I #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 I didn't either # I didn't think there was one of the words in here and I wanted to see if you I
166:  {D: had um} {NS} We used to have the wheels but I never did mess with such as that #1 since my husband #
Interviewer:  #2 Sure. #
166:  fooled with it.
Interviewer:  Right
166:  Hub now I remember the hub part.
Interviewer:  Yes 'm Do you remember what when they were going to plow {NS} uh a piece of wood across the back that the animal was hitched to? {NS} A piece of wood {NS} like this it had a hook on each end and the harness or something was fastened to it and then you pulled on that. {NS}
166:  Yeah I remember but we now I don't remember us ever doing it but {NS} that's a level uh {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 uh #
166:  #2 a land # off I reckon
Interviewer:  Okay uh. {NS}
166:  That's what I
Interviewer:  A leveler did you call it or what about a singletree do you know what a single #1 tree is? #
166:  #2 Well a # singletree you hitch that to the mule you know.
Interviewer:  Yes.
166:  That's {NS}
Interviewer:  You remember anything else that might have been called? {NS} What about if there were two of them you know like there were two mules pulling? {NS}
166:  mm-hmm {NS} They called that singletree.
Interviewer:  okay {NS} #1 Okay #
166:  #2 That's # what we always called
Interviewer:  Alright and if you had apparently if you had uh {NS} like a singletree here and a singletree here and then there'd be a thing back here that pulled both of them together somehow {NS} apparently that was sometimes called a doubletree that doesn't uh {NS}
166:  It's double uh two mules do it at once.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah it was two mules? #
166:  #2 Yeah # that's double.
Interviewer:  Double tree. {NS} Okay {NS} and uh if a man had a load of wood on his wagon and he was driving along what would you say he was doing he's?
166:  Haulin- hauling wood.
Interviewer:  yes 'm {NS} And if there's a log across the road then you'd say #1 uh #
166:  #2 It's a log. #
Interviewer:  {NS} mm-hmm and you might say {NS} I tied a rope to it and {NS}
166:  Drug it out.
Interviewer:  Yes 'm {NS} and uh {NW} What about the thing you use to break the ground with in the spring? {NS}
166:  Harrow. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh okay and was that the first one that you used did you use something that kind of turned it went in a blade and {NS} sort of turned it over {NS} before the {NS} #1 Before the harrow #
166:  #2 They used to # {NS} have plows that would do that.
Interviewer:  bef- did you use that before you used the harrow? {NS}
166:  No use harrow first.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} and uh what do you remember and different kinds of {NS} harrows or different names for 'em? {NS}
166:  No that's all I've ever known.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} Uh {NS} You ever heard of a spring tooth harrow? {NS}
166:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  {NS} What is a spring do you know do your remember uh {NS} what a spring toothed harrow was? {NS}
166:  I we just called it harrow #1 I think. #
Interviewer:  #2 No there was it was a harrow. #
166:  It was a harrow.
Interviewer:  Okay {C: 166 laughs}
166:  {NW}
Interviewer:  And the wheels of a wagon fit onto that thing that goes across under it #1 it's in a cart. #
166:  #2 Under it across. # {NS} What is it cross {NS}
Interviewer:  uh {NS}
166:  Cross something. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh no a cross piece #1 crossguard #
166:  #2 a cross #
Interviewer:  What about the things that go between the wheels of a car? {NS} The {NS} axle or axe what do you do you know {NS} you know an ax- you know axle?
166:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  That's is that the same uh
166:  Just I say that's on the same thing that
Interviewer:  okay
166:  only it's different {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 {D: different} # material and everything.
Interviewer:  {NS} Do you remember a word for a thing that you might lay a log across to chop the end of saw it off? {NS}
166:  Saw. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} uh the the saw would be the thing you pulled back and forth well what about a frame like that you might have had two things like this and you'd lay a log across it and? {NS}
166:  Saw it up.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
166:  That's what we used to do.
Interviewer:  Okay you remember a {NS} it's uh a {NS} one like this {NS} that things were laid across you know a wooden thing like this that came to a point like there'd be a leg down this way and a leg down this way and they'd take two of 'em and lay a plank across it. {NS} No? {NS}
166:  No I don't I don't remember that.
Interviewer:  Yeah well when they saw the big logs up didn't they have to get them up in the air? {NS}
166:  Yeah. {NS}
Interviewer:  How did
166:  #1 Couldn't #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
166:  saw 'em on the ground.
Interviewer:  right
166:  and that's {NS} cross {NS} cross something.
Interviewer:  uh {NS}
166:  But they put it in there because I I've had to saw on 'em.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} You helped saw?
166:  Yeah
Interviewer:  yes?
166:  I ought to know what it #1 is. #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah # well easy to forget okay. {NS} You uh when you're when you get up you straighten your hair with a comb and uh {NS}
166:  Brush. {NS}
Interviewer:  And if you had a straight razor to sharpen it you'd use a leather {NS}
166:  {D: They had to use sharpen these old time razors} {NS} long then but after you got to electric it was different.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS}
166:  What do you call that thing? A strap?
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} And what what sort of ammunition do you put in a revolver? {NS}
166:  Shells. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay. and uh uh if they're they're the whole load things into the {NS} not the shells go in shotguns too is there #1 do you remember? #
166:  #2 That's what I was saying. #
Interviewer:  yes 'm The little ones for the revolvers might be called a cart- {NS} Remember one that starts cartridge? {NS}
166:  Cartridge.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} And what about a kind of toy that you might make for the children to play on a plank laid over a {NS} some sort of a support.
166:  A log and then
Interviewer:  #1 One'd sit on each end. #
166:  #2 jump up on mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  {NW} #1 What is- #
166:  #2 Seesaw. #
Interviewer:  Okay. What about one that you started telling me about I think it has a support here and a support here and plank across it and they'd sit on it and jump #1 up in the middle. #
166:  #2 {D: What?} # {NS} They'd um stand on it and jump you know.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
166:  Go up and down one on one end one on the other and one would go this way and {NS} the other one would go the other way and I don't know what you call it. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay you ever heard of a joggling board? {NS}
166:  It might be I don't
Interviewer:  You don't remember okay. {NS} Well what about a kind of homemade uh {NS} uh toy that would be like a post or something in a {NS} a plank nailed on it that would go around and around?
166:  We um {NS} we um {NS}
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard uh
166:  Wheel that's what I call a wheel.
Interviewer:  Okay
166:  just like grinding soap up
Interviewer:  And if the children uh-huh are playing uh {NS} on the seesaw what do you say they're doing they're {NS}
166:  Seesawing. {NS}
Interviewer:  And what do you the thing that is suspended from a limb of a tree {NS} with ropes and they sit in it and
166:  Swing. {NS}
Interviewer:  And uh what do you carry coal in?
166:  Bucket. {NS}
Interviewer:  And uh uh what goes from the stove out here up to the chimney up? {NS}
166:  Sto- um {NS} What is this? {NS} Stove flue no it's not the flute
Interviewer:  #1 Is the flue up in #
166:  #2 Pipe pipe. #
Interviewer:  Pipe okay what's the flue that thing up there that it goes into? {NS} Okay And what about a little small thing a little vehicle to carry bricks or other heavy things in it has a little wheel in front and two handles {NS}
166:  That's that's a {NS} wheelbarrow. {NS}
Interviewer:  And uh {NS} if you have a blade like a scythe or something {NS} uh that you had out on the farm maybe that you use to uh sharpen it with what would you call what you use to #1 sharpen? #
166:  #2 We just # we just sharpen on a {NS} turn it you turn it over
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What did you call that do you remember? {NS}
166:  Oh goodly I look like I ought to remember.
Interviewer:  #1 Well there are several names here #
166:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  whetstone rubstone whetrock?
166:  Whetrock.
Interviewer:  #1 Whetrock? #
166:  #2 Whetrock mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  {NS} Okay {NS} or what about if it uh {NS} is is I guess bigger and on a stand #1 and you can't #
166:  #2 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  move it around what about a grind stone #1 or a #
166:  #2 mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  grind you remember #1 that one too? #
166:  #2 Grindstone uh-huh. # You didn't do that with a wheel too.
Interviewer:  {NW}
166:  Have a hole in in it and it goes through {NS} wheel. {NS} I left mine out yonder {NS} ought to brought it with me.
Interviewer:  Yeah ha ha
166:  {D: it moves}
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and the thing that uh {NS} that you have to do if the car {NS} uh at intervals you have to take the car to lubricate it you say I have to {NS}
166:  Get it um {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 Are you #
166:  #2 Tuned up # I reck-
Interviewer:  Okay and what about if you cook {NS} or fry meat you have to pour off the
166:  Grease. {NS}
Interviewer:  and uh {NS} if you uh {NS} {C: audio quality changes} uh {NS} if you're cooking and you get uh grease on your hands you say oh what a mess my hands are all? {NS}
166:  Greasy.
Interviewer:  mm-kay And if you have a door hinge that's squeaking what do you say you ought to do to it? {NS}
166:  Put some grease on it
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 oil on it. #
Interviewer:  Some what?
166:  Oil put some oil on it. {NS}
Interviewer:  And what is it that you used to burn in lamps? {NS}
166:  Kerosene {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you still ever use that?
166:  No I don't 'em now I use current.
Interviewer:  The electricity never goes off here? {NS}
166:  No we didn't have electric then when I was coming on you talking about when I was
Interviewer:  #1 Yes ma'am. #
166:  #2 coming on? # We didn't have electric then. {NS} We used straight old lamps and we had wash 'em and put kerosene in 'em nearly every day.
Interviewer:  mm mm-kay {NS} Uh did you ever hear of a long time ago {NS} uh making uh {NS} a kind of makeshift lamp and you'd use maybe a {NS} a rag and a {NS} a bottle with some kerosene.
166:  Yeah mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What did you call that do you remember? {NS}
166:  I don't know what the name of it was but you could you'd get a {NS} thing and put in there wick what you put in there and you could burn it just like a lamb lamp. {NS}
Interviewer:  W- did you ever do that?
166:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Yes would you just call it a light or something?
166:  Yeah mother did when I was growing up I seen her do it lot of times when she was way back in the old times showing up.
Interviewer:  Sure did you ever hear that called a a torch or a flambone you ever hear it called a flambone? {NS}
166:  I been call a torch I never heard of flambone.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} and um {NS} toothpaste generally comes in a {NS}
166:  Tube. {NS}
Interviewer:  And uh if uh if somebody had a boat that they were going to put into the water then they might say they're going to uh {NS} to put it in the water {NS}
166:  Swim? {NS}
Interviewer:  uh {NS} What about if they're going to put the boat in the water how would they say that they're going down to the river maybe to put the {NS} the boat in the water how would they say that they're going to? {NS}
166:  Well in them days they didn't have boats.
Interviewer:  Right there weren't any boats #1 around? #
166:  #2 uh # There weren't any then when I was coming up course it got {NS} older I got they come in.
Interviewer:  Right.
166:  But they didn't have boats then.
Interviewer:  You didn't have river or a a stream near where you lived? {NS}
166:  Yeah they had streams {NS} creeks and #1 things #
Interviewer:  #2 Right. #
166:  but that's why they're going to go swimming
Interviewer:  #1 Right. #
166:  #2 {D: that's just what that} # that's as shallow as it take.
Interviewer:  Right {NS} and uh they didn't uh your your father never built a moat or anything to go fishing in?
166:  uh-huh {NS} He died when I was twelve years old and I don't #1 remember. #
Interviewer:  #2 Don't remember that's right. # {NS} #1 Um #
166:  #2 Remember him # but I mean don't nothing like that I know he didn't do nothing like that though.
Interviewer:  You never did go fishing yourself? {NS}
166:  One time
Interviewer:  Is that right?
166:  and I fell in the pond.
Interviewer:  Oh no {C: laughs}
166:  {D: I fell} {NS} year before last my sister wanted to go fishing so we went out there {NS} got in the boat {NS} and there's a lady {NS} and her husband up there start crying {NS} I caught a fish first one I ever caught. {NS}
Interviewer:  And you were excited?
166:  And then threw it back again and I caught another one {NS} it went dead and went over chair and all in the pond. {C: int laughs}
Interviewer:  like
166:  {D: threw me down yeah}
Interviewer:  yes and how long ago was that?
166:  It's a wonder I hadn't a drowned. {NW} I went up and the chair went with me.
Interviewer:  {C: laughs}
166:  But I got excited #1 and the #
Interviewer:  #2 sure #
166:  lady was talking to me {NW} you got it you got it {B} you got it and so {NS} that's how come me to get excited #1 you know? #
Interviewer:  #2 Sure. #
166:  I went over into the pond yeah I'll remember that the rest of my life. {NS} You ought to've seen me when I got home oh {X}
Interviewer:  {C: laughs}
166:  And I kept my glasses on and my teeth in my mouth too but I lost one shoe. {NS}
Interviewer:  {C: laughs} {NS}
166:  You didn't want all that in there though.
Interviewer:  Oh that's fine. {NS} If um {NS} if a child is learning to dress himself the mother may bring his clothes in to him and say {NS}
166:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay
166:  put 'em on.
Interviewer:  {NS} and uh {NS} If uh you're about to have an {NS} election and uh {NS} I ask you if you think uh {NS} oh uh {NS} uh Jimmy Carter is gonna be president you might say {NS} no I don't think so but. {NS}
166:  But the other one will
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 {D: Whoever running} #
Interviewer:  {NS} Or some people do or something mm okay. {NS} If you uh {NS} if you met a little boy in the street and he seems afraid you might tell him {NW} you're not going to hurt him you say don't cry I {NS}
166:  I'd try to find his mother for him.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} uh
166:  And of course I'd tell him not to cry too.
Interviewer:  Uh {NS} um {NS} If you want to say that uh oh its you want to pet a dog or something that belongs to child you might say {NS} send your dog over here I {NS} or hurt him I how would you say that I would I just want to pet him I. {NS}
166:  Want to pet the dog.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} uh {NW} if you're having an argument with someone and if you want to ask him if he didn't think you were right about this you might say {NS} well um you think I'm right {NS} and I'm right. {NS}
166:  I was I know I'm right.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you want to ask him if he thinks so too you might say don't or {NS} do you don't you {NS}
166:  He's liable to disagree.
Interviewer:  mm-kay {NS} If um {NS} if you were going into town with the uh eh your family and uh {NS} and someone you offered someone else a ride {NS} and they thanked you for it you might say oh don't mention it we were? {NS}
166:  Going anyway.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} and uh {NS} if you were talking about the old days when everything was different you might lean back and say oh {NS} the good old days {NS}
166:  That's right.
Interviewer:  The how would you say that? {NS}
166:  I still say that was good old days when we was coming up #1 it was hard days #
Interviewer:  #2 Alright. #
166:  but it was good days.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am alright. {NS} And uh if somebody says uh {NS} was that {NS} you I saw in town yesterday you might say no it {NS}
166:  s- s- somebody else
Interviewer:  okay {NS} it {NS} not me how would you say that it? {NS}
166:  Cuz I was home working.
Interviewer:  Okay it uh {NS} not me it {NS} it what it wasn't me how would you say that it what? {NS}
166:  I say it wasn't. {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 mm-kay #
166:  #2 It # wasn't me. {NS}
Interviewer:  and uh {NS} if a woman wants to buy a dress {NS} of a certain color {NS} she might take a little square of cloth with her to the store and she'd say she's going to use it as a? {NS}
166:  Sample. {NS}
Interviewer:  And uh if you're talking about a dress that you like very much {NS} and uh but then there's on that you like even better you might say well that's a? {NS}
166:  Pretty.
Interviewer:  But that other one is even? {NS}
166:  Prettier.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. {NS} And what might you wear over your dress in the kitchen? {NS}
166:  Apron house coat one.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you want to sign your name in ink you have to use a {NS} to write with?
166:  Pen. {NS}
Interviewer:  And to hold a baby's diaper in place you use a? {NS}
166:  Safety pin. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh how's that?
166:  Safety pins you have to pin them on.
Interviewer:  okay and
166:  They're different though now.
Interviewer:  You don't have to have a pin.
166:  {D: No you have to double the} I had to put three pins in 'em {NS} when I was raising my children. {NS} {X} {NS} {C: sawing?}
Interviewer:  And um {NS} uh soup if you buy soup you usually get it in a what? {NS}
166:  You mean a size?
Interviewer:  Uh a soup uh if you buy soup it comes in a what? {NS}
166:  Jar. {NS}
Interviewer:  Or a? {NS}
166:  Can. {NS}
Interviewer:  What kind of can what's it made of? {NS}
166:  Do what?
Interviewer:  What is the can made of usually? {NS}
166:  Aluminum isn't it?
Interviewer:  Aluminum or it might be just a? {NS}
166:  I don't really know but there's another {NS} that's a can about all I know.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} and uh it it the you might say {NS} well uh we had a drinking cup out there and it was made of {NS}
166:  {D: glassware} {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 {D: Glass alright} #
166:  #2 Y- Yeah # {D: If it's a glass whatever it it glassware.}
Interviewer:  And if it was one of those silver looking ones you might say hand me that? {NS} A kind of cup but not a glass one but a metal one {NS}
166:  Like right on down there?
Interviewer:  Right now that's uh plastic isn't it? {NS} No?
166:  No.
Interviewer:  Oh it's glass? {NS}
166:  yeah {NS}
Interviewer:  Oops. {NS}
166:  type of glass is that? {X} but it's a cup.
Interviewer:  Yes okay.
166:  From nineteen look on there.
Interviewer:  Oh it's uh the bicentennial cup.
166:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  That's right seventeen #1 years. #
166:  #2 I won # them playing bingo. {NS} uh-huh {NS}
Interviewer:  Well a long time ago maybe {NS} uh if you had a {NS} a cup that you uh {NS} drank water out of out on the porch {NS}
166:  Tin cup.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS}
166:  Yeah that's what you put out on the porch I imagine that's what we used to do.
Interviewer:  Right.
166:  We used to have dippers too.
Interviewer:  Right.
166:  Gourd dippers.
Interviewer:  Gourds?
166:  Gourd. {NS} Cut {NS} cut around you know and have a half handle. {NS} That's the best water you can drink.
Interviewer:  Right {NS} and uh you might say a dime is worth {NS} how much? {NS}
166:  What? {NS}
Interviewer:  A dime is worth? {NS}
166:  Two nickels.
Interviewer:  Or {NS}
166:  One piece.
Interviewer:  uh yes or if you're talking about how many pennies or cents you might say it's worth? {NS} A dime is worth uh {NS} two nickels or {NS}
166:  Two nickels is all I know.
Interviewer:  If you count how many pennies or how many #1 cents? #
166:  #2 Oh. # {NS} Ten #1 pennies. #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: No} # just want you know how you pronounce that.
166:  You better tell.
Interviewer:  Yeah. {C: laughs} Okay and when you go out in the winter time and it's cold you have to put on a? {NS}
166:  Coat on. {NS} Sweater. {NS}
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS}
166:  They gonna take you down and get through with me if we keep answering #1 {D: this fast. } #
Interviewer:  #2 No # no we're going fine you stop and tell me anything you want. {NS} Uh and you know what you uh you say talking about uh you might say oh look what pretty buttons that coat has. {NS}
166:  In front.
Interviewer:  How
166:  In front.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} and um {NS} sometimes a a man between his shirt and his coat he wears another little? {NS}
166:  A vest.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Okay and a man's suit consists of a coat and a vest and his? {NS}
166:  Shorts {NS}
Interviewer:  Alright uh but the suit #1 suit itself. #
166:  #2 Pants. #
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} and um {NS} you use any other words or remember any other words for a man's pants would you say any other way? {NS} What about the kind of uh {NS} uh uh man's wearing a pair of he used to wear to work out in the fields in? {NS}
166:  That's overalls.
Interviewer:  Alright. {NS}
166:  That's what my husband used to work in.
Interviewer:  Right.
166:  and of that they they {NS} Wasn't tied around here and that's all he wanted was overall.
Interviewer:  And they fastened up here?
166:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  What did he call those things that fastened? {NS}
166:  um {NS} What did he call 'em straps I believe.
Interviewer:  Some kind of straps or gallus? {NS} You ever heard 'em called a gallus or galluses? {NS}
166:  Must've been might've been galluses all along to overalls cross back here and come here you know and fasten there that's {C: int coughs} call that.
Interviewer:  Maybe uh maybe galluses or maybe just
166:  And there's hard washing cuz you gotta
Interviewer:  I bet so #1 {X} #
166:  #2 Overalls are # hard to wash. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about uh the uh {NS} the things that men wear sometimes they may wear around the waist to hold the trousers up and they wear a? {NS}
166:  Belt.
Interviewer:  And sometimes they wore those things over this way to hold them up with what did they call them? {NS}
166:  {X} {NS} #1 Vest #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
166:  uh under vest.
Interviewer:  Uh no I'm talking about the one that fastened on to the trousers here and in the back the a kind of strap like {NS} they held men's pants up with? {NS} #1 uh #
166:  #2 {X} # {NS} Called something I don't know what #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Sus- # Suspenders
166:  Yeah that's what it is.
Interviewer:  How would you say that? {NS}
166:  Suspenders.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} #1 And you #
166:  #2 I know # my husband used to wear 'em when I was
Interviewer:  right.
166:  but I couldn't think to save my life.
Interviewer:  And if you go outdoors in the winter time without your coat somebody might run after you and bring it to you and say here I've {NS} your coat I've {NS}
166:  I reckon if it's cold I take it.
Interviewer:  You take it you'd have to have it. {C: laughter} Okay but if you got it if you forgot it or one of the children forgot it then you might uh. {NS}
166:  Send it back.
Interviewer:  Right and you might say to uh {NS} Johnny come here I've brought your coat or I {NS} your coat to you how would you tell him that? If you had taken it you'd say sonny I've {NS}
166:  Take it back?
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} And uh if uh {NS} um {NS} Somebody wants to show you something one of the children wants to show you something it's in their hands and small you might say well I can't see it I can't see it. {NS} It here bring {NS} W- how would you tell him to uh that you want him to come closer with it you might say well bri- {NS} Bring it here? {NS}
166:  Br- What?
Interviewer:  Would you just say well I can't see it over there bring
166:  Bring it to me.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS}
166:  I'm hard of hearing in this ear here #1 over #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
166:  here and do alright but it's just a little bit harder to hear.
Interviewer:  Okay well maybe I'll sit over this way. {NS} And uh {NS} if you told someone to bring you uh {NS} something and uh the one they {NS} brought to you wasn't the right one you might say oh look you've {NS} the wrong one. {NS}
166:  Go back and get the right one.
Interviewer:  Right you brought the wrong one how would you say it to 'em tell 'em this isn't the right one you {NS} the wrong one. {NS}
166:  I'd tell 'em go get {NS} go get the other.
Interviewer:  Go get the other one. {NS} and uh {NS} if um {NS} you might say uh this coat won't fit me this year {NS} but last year it? {NS}
166:  It fit. {NS}
Interviewer:  okay.
166:  I got some clothes right now in the same sea I fell off so much
Interviewer:  #1 Is that right? #
166:  #2 I got some # that's too big and some that's {NS} too small.
Interviewer:  Right and they fit last year you said
166:  Yeah they fit last year but don't fit now.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
166:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  And if your uh if a man's uh clothes are worn out you might say well I've got to go to the store and buy a? {NS}
166:  I say what I'd have to save is kind of a while to patch 'em. {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 Hey uh okay {C: laughs} #
166:  #2 I patched a # fair many pair #1 of overalls #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh #
166:  pants too. {NS} Them days they'd patch 'em but now they throw 'em away. {NS}
Interviewer:  Alright and if a man has a matching coat and a pair of pants and he's just bought it {NS} it's not a new one it's not an old one it's a? {NS}
166:  New one.
Interviewer:  New what new? {NS}
166:  Suit.
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am. {NS} Alright and if you stuff a lot of things in the pockets of something it makes them {NS}
166:  {D: somehow that's um} {NS} That's uh pocket books.
Interviewer:  uh-huh and if you've got uh you know a pocket on your dress {NS} or your apron you stuff a lot of things in there and it makes them do what?
166:  Stick out?
Interviewer:  Okay and did you ever use a word like bul- {NS} To say look how {NS}
166:  Bulk? {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh bulge out {NS}
166:  uh-huh
Interviewer:  #1 How #
166:  #2 I # use that a lot.
Interviewer:  How do you say that? {NS}
166:  Bulge out. Okay {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 And #
166:  #2 I take 'em out # my pocket now I got dresses with them on 'em and they stick out I call 'em stick out.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} and uh if uh {NS} you wash something in hot water {NS} and it gets smaller you might say it uh would? {NS}
166:  Too hot. {NS}
Interviewer:  The water would be too hot and what would it do if it got smaller the dress or the sweater would {NS}
166:  Shrink.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} And if you washed it yesterday you might say look it {NS}
166:  {D: smalled up} {NS}
Interviewer:  It uh how? {NS}
166:  Drawed up.
Interviewer:  Drawed up alright #1 {X} #
166:  #2 I gave one # away the other day as I've learned putting in hot water.
Interviewer:  Yeah it's easy to do that isn't it? Alright and if you'd say that it it say it {NS} shrink yesterday you might say it sh- {NS} Another way would {NS}
166:  Shrunk?
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} and um #1 When you #
166:  #2 I don't know what I'm say # answer it right
Interviewer:  Yeah not it's just whatever you say is right. {C: laughter} It's the different ways of saying it you know. {NS} And um {NS} What are the different ways that maybe you might hear somebody talking about a {NS} a girl getting all pretty to go to a party you might say she's
166:  {X} Beautiful
Interviewer:  Alright and uh if she's enjoying getting herself ready you might say she really likes to {NS} what would you say about the way she does that she likes to {NS} to dress up any other ways you remember of saying that?
166:  Yeah {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 She likes to #
166:  #2 Long # time ago there wasn't much dressing up to it. {D: there was} You just put on what you got and on you went didn't have time for all this dressing up they do now.
Interviewer:  Right do you remember any ways that uh {NS} your mother or older people might say to dress up? {NS} pretty up or fix up or {NS}
166:  {D: they had to} Fix the hair.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
166:  They always wore it when I was growing you know they wore it back here. {NS} When I was small they wore it in pigtails {NS} plaited. {NS} And um {NS} then {NS} from then on you know they changed.
Interviewer:  Right you had it cut {X}
166:  Never did see mama with no no way that here hair just balled up back here and she lived to ninety-six years old.
Interviewer:  Is that right? {NS} Okay and what do you call the small leather container with a clasp on it that women carry their money in you usually you say its-
166:  Pocketbook
Interviewer:  Okay
166:  Billfold. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay what about um {NS} purse do you
166:  Purse?
Interviewer:  you use that?
166:  Yeah I use that too.
Interviewer:  Okay how do you call it? {NS}
166:  #1 Purse #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh # {NS} And what does a woman wear around her wrist? {NS}
166:  Watch?
Interviewer:  And if it doesn't tell the time it's just for decoration you might say it's a? {NS}
166:  Stopped. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay if it's not a watch if it's just something that looks pretty you know maybe it's pearls or something it's not a watch it's a? {NS} a bra- {NS}
166:  {NW} {NS} What is it now it's right on the end of my tongue.
Interviewer:  {C: laughs} {NS} Um bracelet do you say?
166:  Yeah you can say bracelet.
Interviewer:  mm-kay {NS} And what about dif- a little things strung together to wear around your
166:  Beads.
Interviewer:  How
166:  Beads.
Interviewer:  okay {NS} And if you're talking about them you might say {NS} put on this {NS} of beads how would you say
166:  Match the dress too.
Interviewer:  Okay would you call it a {NS} say uh that's a real pretty {NS} of beads real pretty what real pretty {NS}
166:  I say beads
Interviewer:  #1 okay #
166:  #2 that's what # we used to call 'em.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh would you be more likely to say a string of beads or a pair of beads? {NS}
166:  String.
Interviewer:  String of beads okay. {NS} And uh. {NS} Uh what do you hold over you when it rains? {NS}
166:  Parasol. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay or a you only say parasol? {NS}
166:  I just say parasol that's what we used them days but now they use {NS} these other things.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
166:  My days it was parasol. {NS} Okay
Interviewer:  #1 What #
166:  #2 You went to school # every morning and you thought it was going to rain you better take your parasol.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Well did uh {NS} did you have different kinds of them did you ever call 'em set of parasol call them an um- {NS} umbrella? {NS}
166:  Yeah they call 'em umbrella. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh {NS} It wasn't a matter of which one you wore to keep the sun off was it? {NS}
166:  uh-uh {NS}
Interviewer:  You just {NS} generally you said a parasol for when they're
166:  I just say parasol for sun and um {NS}
Interviewer:  Rain.
166:  Rain too.
Interviewer:  Right. {NS} Oh
166:  Use 'em for both. {NS}
Interviewer:  But now you were talking about they might wear a little plastic uh {NW} thing over your head
166:  I call 'em head rags.
Interviewer:  A head rag right. {C: 166 laughs} Okay
166:  That's too new though to put in that. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh what's the last thing when you're fixing the bed what's the last thing you put on it? {NS}
166:  On what?
Interviewer:  On the bed when you're making up the bed in the bedroom you put
166:  The spread last one.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS} And do you ever call that anything else ever if it's real fancy or something do you remember hearing it called anything besides a spread? {NS}
166:  No I don't.
Interviewer:  Do you remember {X} counterpane or? {NS}
166:  I got a new fancy one in there on that one my daughter gave me whether you call it a spread I reckon I don't know #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay #
166:  {NS} looks real nice the one that she gave me at Christmas.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh and at the head of the bed you put your head on the? {NS}
166:  Pillows. {NS}
Interviewer:  And on top of that uh the thing that you pull over the pillow is called a? {NS}
166:  Sheet?
Interviewer:  Uh the little thing that the pillow slips in?
166:  Pillow slips in.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS}
166:  Pillow cases is what we call 'em
Interviewer:  Alright what about a real large on mrs {B} do you remember a real one that went all the way across the bed you know usually we had two of them. {NS} Do you remember one that went all the way across the bed? {NS} A single thing. {NS}
166:  Quilt? {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh no up where the instead of two pillows {NS} You had a real long pillow. {NS}
166:  I don't
Interviewer:  You don't remember something called a bolster? {NS}
166:  Yes I remember bolsters
Interviewer:  #1 Bolster? #
166:  #2 Uh-huh #
Interviewer:  {NS} Um you don't use them anymore?
166:  No {X} {NS}{C: glitch?} People sleeps on two. {NS}
Interviewer:  mm-kay {NS} And uh {NS} um {NS} It may have either a blanket or a? {NS}
166:  Spread. {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 Or a quilt. # Blanket or a quilt either one. {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 And what #
166:  #2 {D: You just} # make our quilts.
Interviewer:  Right. {NS}
166:  I got some of 'em now. {NS} Give 'em gave away a whole lot of 'em when I moved here didn't think I'd ever use 'em #1 When I moved #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
166:  But I say the current must go {NS} you shouldn't need 'em. {NS}
Interviewer:  That's right.
166:  {NS} Oh we used to quilt we quilted {NS} piece up scraps and {NS} {D: cotton put in some} {NS} cotton in there #1 and quilt 'em. #
Interviewer:  #2 right. #
166:  {NS} Do you remember that? {NS}
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am vaguely I remember seeing them and I remember ladies used to come to my grandmothers and they sit around a frame {X}
166:  Have days of meeting and
Interviewer:  Right
166:  help one another.
Interviewer:  Right. {NS} Uh what would you call a {NS} a little make {NS} shift {NS} place to sleep that you might make down on the floor for the children to lay on. {NS}
166:  pallet pallet
Interviewer:  Okay {NS}
166:  You could put quilts down there {NS} double the quilt and put down there is what I used to do for mine. {NS}
Interviewer:  Right.
166:  Keep from getting hurt. {NS}
Interviewer:  And if you uh {NS} are talking about soil thats very rich and will grow many crops you might say were you expecting a big crop from that field because the soil is so? {NS}
166:  Not no soils uh it's not rich.
Interviewer:  uh-huh but if it is if it's #1 Very ri- #
166:  #2 If it is uh-huh #
Interviewer:  {NS} Do you remember another word to say that the soil is is uh especially this is really good soil it's very {NS} Fert- {NS}
166:  Lets see what do they call that? {NS} Fertilize.
Interviewer:  uh-huh #1 It's very #
166:  #2 uh-huh #
Interviewer:  fertile?
166:  It make good fertilize.
Interviewer:  Okay {NS}
166:  I know we used to mix up cotton seed and compost together {NS} and put that in our cotton rows. {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 And that made it #
166:  #2 It was um #
Interviewer:  That made it #1 good soil? #
166:  #2 Oh yeah. # {NS} That's way the farmers used to do it. {NS} Put it up and let it rot good and then you'd have to put it in something and tie it around you {NS} put it out I done it many time.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} Okay and um what do you call the {NS} flat lowland uh {NS} along the stream? {NS}
166:  Flats. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} uh and the part that would be flooded in the springs maybe {NS}
166:  That would be um {NS} holes. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
166:  Um washers. {NS}
Interviewer:  Right well it's pretty good {NS} in general land is pretty level and flat around here in Americus {NS} and so forth isn't it?
166:  But down here they had to move out {NS} right down here in town down there people had to move out when they had all them floods
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
166:  #2 down in a bottom. #
Interviewer:  Yes.
166:  #1 That's what you #
Interviewer:  #2 Bottom is that what you call 'em #
166:  call 'em there bottoms there. {NS} low {NS} Now see I'm up high but now some places is down low.
Interviewer:  yes 'm
166:  {C: cough}
Interviewer:  Uh what would you call a field that might be a good for raising grass or clover alfalfa for uh {NS} Oh maybe uh
166:  {C: cough}
Interviewer:  Having the cattle to graze on. {NS}
166:  mm-hmm great for cattle to graze. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh would you be likely
166:  Oats and {NS} Rye and wheat that {C: coughs} things like that.
Interviewer:  Did you use that did you use meadow? {NS} Or would you say down in the meadow? {NS} A meadow {NS}
166:  Meadow?
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} And use meadow to mean a {NS} pasture field {NS}
166:  Not not that I remember.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Uh if it's low lying
166:  We used {X} as a fertilizer in fields
Interviewer:  Right that's uh {NS} uh a kind of fertilizer how'd you call that? {NS}
166:  {X}
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 That's # fertilizer.
Interviewer:  mm yes {NS} If water stood on a area for a long time like a part of the year every year there was water there you might call that a what that's just a?
166:  Call that a pond.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 It turns # green the water gets green and mosquitoes raise in it. Okay. Uh did you ever say swamp or marsh or bog for that? Yeah I say swamps and lakes. {NS}
Interviewer:  uh {NS} What do you do you remember hearing people talk about how it was what did they call that when it was down to the sea or the ocean it was a? {NS} uh the place where salt hay grows along do you remember anybody talk about that? {NS} That's a long way from here isn't it? {NS}
166:  No I don't.
Interviewer:  Salt marsh or something
166:  Long time ago there wasn't nothing like that we could hear or did I was a kid and I forgot it.
Interviewer:  Right you didn't travel much. {NS} What different kinds of soil might you have besides very rich soil {NS} uh if it was part sand and part clay for example would have a certain name that you remember for that? {NS}
166:  Part sand and part {X} {NS} We just called it rich dirt.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Uh {NW} Around here do you have anything you call buckshot {NS} or loam or gumbo? {NS} Loam you remember calling it loam saw or loamy? {NS}
166:  Yeah I've heard of loamy but I don't remember fooling with any of it. {NS} Now they using guano putting it out and you don't know what they using now.
Interviewer:  {D: right}
166:  When I was coming up the {NS} biggest {NS} fertilizer they had was {NS} in the lot they go to the lots take the stuff in loads out of lots
Interviewer:  #1 Right it was land where they had the cattle in there? #
166:  #2 {X} uh-huh #
Interviewer:  What did you call that then?
166:  Compost.
Interviewer:  Compost.
166:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  #1 Uh compost #
166:  #2 {D: it had} # mules and
Interviewer:  The horse?
166:  mm horses and cows and all and they made the best gardens you ever seen I wish I could get a hold of some now. {C: glitch?}
Interviewer:  Would you say compost rather than manure? mm-mm just call that compost. {C: comical glitch} I see {NS} uh what would manure {C: another comical glitch} {NS}
166:  {X}
Interviewer:  okay {NS} Okay if something that you don't have any of these around here but up in north Georgia they do {NS} bigger than hills a great big? {NS}
166:  Mountains.
Interviewer:  How's that?
166:  Mountains.
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} and uh {C: another glitch} {NS} {X} the mountains uh like the road goes across through a low place that would be a? {NS}