166:  Two three or four years it's been going on. We uh, year before last we went to {D: Dearmount} but last year come home and year before that we went to uh Santa Fe, New Mexico. I've been out there two or three times. Twice I know. We went to Denver once and then my daughter comes home the next year.
Interviewer:  Sure. Okay well uh the uh the state up north that's supposed to have the most people in it that has the largest city is what? New, New York. New York.
166:  I believe so {D: but that's it} you go head and name 'em {D: and I'll say}
Interviewer:  Okay uh now I just wanted your pronunciation of New York State, you know.
166:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  #2 You say that # for me.
166:  New York state.
Interviewer:  Alright I and uh uh Baltimore is in Maryland.
166:  Mm-hmm that's what they call it.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
166:  #2 Maryland. #
Interviewer:  How's that
166:  Maryland.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 And #
166:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # Right and what are some of the other states around, uh, well what's our state first is uh
166:  United States.
Interviewer:  Okay and the one that we live in here is uh Georgia.
166:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  And and what are some of the other states around here. Like near Georgia.
166:  What?
Interviewer:  What are the names of some of the other states around here.
166:  I'll tell ya I can't tell ya.
Interviewer:  Yeah well uh uh there's uh Richmond is the capital of Vir-
166:  Virginia.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh Raleigh is the capital of North
166:  North Carolina
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Uh can you talk a little louder I'm afraid I'm not getting it And uh then there besides North Carolina there's
166:  South Carolina.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
166:  {X} Granddaughter called me from the there the other night.
Interviewer:  Is that right? And uh the one down south of us is where they grow all the oranges and everything is
166:  Florida.
Interviewer:  And uh uh some of the other states down around uh Florida over to the west of us is uh Ala
166:  Alabama.
Interviewer:  And uh then Baton Rouge is the capital of Louis- Louisiana {C: tape weird}
166:  I don't know really {C: tape weird}
Interviewer:  Louisiana.
166:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  How you say it?
166:  Louisiana.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh the blue grass state where all the horses and so forth supposed to be the racehorses is Ken
166:  What?
Interviewer:  Ken- kentucky.
166:  #1 If you say so #
Interviewer:  #2 Kentucky #
166:  It's Kentucky.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay I just wanted your pronunciation of it.
166:  Kentucky.
Interviewer:  And um then uh just between Georgia and Kentucky is Tenn
166:  Tennessee.
Interviewer:  And uh uh then there's Missouri.
166:  {X} #1 Missouri #
Interviewer:  #2 Missouri # Okay. And Little Rock is the capital of uh Ark-
166:  Arkansas.
Interviewer:  And uh let's see uh Jackson is the capital of Mississ-
166:  Mississippi.
Interviewer:  And uh the largest state uh out west is Did you go through this state where the cowboys and so forth were supposed to be when you went out west?
166:  #1 I don't know #
Interviewer:  #2 The lone star state #
166:  What?
Interviewer:  They call it the lone star state.
166:  Lone lone star
Interviewer:  Yeah. Eh Uh Texas is the one I wanted you to say. Texas.
166:  Texas.
Interviewer:  Right you know that's the one they say where the the cowboys and so forth are. You didn't go through there when you
166:  No.
Interviewer:  {X}
166:  No we didn't go through {D: Let's see} where that place up by where that {D: manor.} Oh I can't think of it. No it wasn't Texas though I don't think.
Interviewer:  Uh what about uh up around Tulsa Tulsa Did you say you went to Oklahoma?
166:  Yes that's what I said Oklahoma.
Interviewer:  Oklahoma. And okay up east uh all of the states around Maine and Connecticut and in there are called the
166:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 They're #
166:  Maine.
Interviewer:  Yeah and uh uh Massa-
166:  #1 Massachusetts #
Interviewer:  #2 Massachusetts. # How's that?
166:  Massachusetts.
Interviewer:  Okay and they're all called the
166:  Kinda choked up I can't talk.
Interviewer:  Yeah well uh all those states up east in general are called the New England states.
166:  Nebraska now I've got a daughter in Nebraska.
Interviewer:  Is that right.
166:  Omaha, Nebraska
Interviewer:  Okay and then here are some cities that I I need to have you pronounce. Uh in Maryland the biggest city is called Balt- there's a
166:  #1 Called Baltimore. #
Interviewer:  #2 cape. # Uh-huh and the capital of where they make all the laws and everything is where the president is and all that business. The government is in Wa-
166:  Washington.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
166:  #1 My daughter has to #
Interviewer:  #2 And #
166:  call too.
Interviewer:  Is that right? And oh that's right in her job.
166:  She's a {X} she has ten states.
Interviewer:  Right.
166:  She's a {X} to 'em. She was transported down Nebraska. Omaha. {X} and she's got ten states. She's got
Interviewer:  She probably has to uh
166:  {D: parked}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. She flies probably a good bit.
166:  Yeah. They called expenses.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay and uh Washington there's Washington state that's way out of course way out west but when you're not talking about Washington state you might say well no she's in Washington.
166:  State.
Interviewer:  Yeah, but the one not Washington state the one where the capital is you say Washington D.
166:  Georgia.
Interviewer:  D.C. #1 You say D.C. #
166:  #2 {D: D.C.} # Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Okay and in Missouri the biggest city in it supposed to have a real famous blues song named for it. St. Louis.
166:  #1 Saint #
Interviewer:  #2 Saint #
166:  #1 I can't #
Interviewer:  #2 How #
166:  {X} #1 I don't know what #
Interviewer:  #2 St. Louis #
166:  {X} St. Louis I saw St. Louis that's what
Interviewer:  #1 And uh #
166:  #2 {D: I thought} #
Interviewer:  In in South Carolina the uh the big ol' historical seaport that was named for a king of England Charles. Charleston.
166:  Charleston.
Interviewer:  And in Alabama what uh what's uh
166:  Birmingham.
Interviewer:  And uh what what's another town in Alabama maybe. M-
166:  #1 {D: Norton Alabama} #
Interviewer:  #2 Mon- # Yes and.
166:  That right?
Interviewer:  Uh I think that's one and Montgomery.
166:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  How do you say that one.
166:  Montgomery.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh. The one down on the gulf is called Mobile.
166:  Mobile, Alabama.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh up in North Carolina some of the towns up there one way up in the mountains. A big resort city in western part of North Carolina. Ash Asheville.
166:  What?
Interviewer:  Asheville.
166:  Asheville.
Interviewer:  Or Asheville.
166:  Ashy.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
166:  #2 {D: Way I} # What I call it. I don't know it's right or not.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  #1 {D: Asheville} #
Interviewer:  #2 And that's fine. # And in uh Tennessee what are some of the towns up in there? Chatta- Chattanooga.
166:  {X}
Interviewer:  Chattanooga. Do you
166:  Chattanooga, Tennessee yeah.
Interviewer:  How do you say that?
166:  Chattanooga.
Interviewer:  Okay and Knox-
166:  Knoxville.
Interviewer:  #1 And uh #
166:  #2 Knoxville Tennessee. #
Interviewer:  Okay and uh then there's too there's Mem-
166:  #1 {D: Tennessee.} #
Interviewer:  #2 Mem- # Memphis. Memphis.
166:  #1 Memphis Memphis. #
Interviewer:  #2 Nother one in Tennessee. #
166:  #1 M-E-N something. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # Right. And uh of course the capital of Georgia is The capital of our state is At- Atlanta.
166:  Yeah. I started to say Atlanta.
Interviewer:  Yeah and then the one down toward the south that's a seaport in Georgia S- Savannah.
166:  {X} Georgia.
Interviewer:  Savannah.
166:  Savannah.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. You been down that way?
166:  Yeah I've been through Savannah
Interviewer:  Yeah it's a pretty town.
166:  Nine years ago. Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Okay and then uh what's the biggest town uh besides Americus around here what's the next good sized town you might go to. #1 Not all the way #
166:  #2 Atlanta. #
Interviewer:  Atlanta. but but not that far north. Might go to S- mm
166:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  Do you where do you go to the doctor? Here?
166:  The doctor down {X}
Interviewer:  uh-huh. Uh what about Macon.
166:  Well I've been to #1 Macon #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah # how far is that?
166:  really I can't tell you.
Interviewer:  Well
166:  #1 I'd say about ninety miles. #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: Sixty} # Is it that far
166:  Something like that.
Interviewer:  uh-huh.
166:  Just guessing at it.
Interviewer:  uh.
166:  I don't {x} Atlanta's a hundred and thirty-one.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
166:  That's on the other side of town. {X}
Interviewer:  Right. How do you go you go up nineteen?
166:  We go up the old old road.
Interviewer:  {D: The Thomaston}
166:  {X} Yeah through {D: Thompson Creek}
Interviewer:  Okay and uh then fort Benning is near what town in
166:  #1 Columbus. #
Interviewer:  #2 Georgia. #
166:  {D: I can answer that}
Interviewer:  Right. And uh over in New Orleans the biggest city in in uh {X} Uh the city known for the Mardi Gras then that I just said is Uh. New Or
166:  New Orleans.
Interviewer:  And uh the capital of Louisiana is uh Baton Baton Rouge or Baton Rouge how do you call that?
166:  {D: Bacon.} Baton. B-A-T I believe
Interviewer:  Yeah how do you say it.
166:  {X} How you spell that R-O-U-N-G
Interviewer:  R-U-G-E I believe how do you pronounce it around here do you reckon?
166:  {D: I've never said that}
Interviewer:  #1 Don't pronounce it okay. #
166:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #1 Uh #
166:  #2 We should go back to the # Lousy
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
166:  #2 chickens! #
Interviewer:  Okay well there's one more of these and we'll be back with them. Um the biggest city in Southern Ohio is just across the river from Kentucky there Cinca- Cincinnati.
166:  What?
Interviewer:  The the biggest city in southern Ohio is Cincinnati.
166:  #1 Mm. Cincinnati. C-I-N-C #
Interviewer:  #2 How do you say that? # Can you say Cincinnati? How?
166:  Cincinnati.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh the biggest city in Kentucky is Louis
166:  Louisville {C: pronounced like Lewis-ville}
Interviewer:  Oh how do you say it?
166:  L-O-U-S-V-I double L
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
166:  #2 E I believe #
Interviewer:  Okay. You you call it how?
166:  Loosen Loose {C: stuttering} #1 Louisville. #
Interviewer:  #2 Louisville. # okay okay. And uh oh uh and how far is it from uh from here to say {D: Ellaville} up there.
166:  {D: Fifteen} miles.
Interviewer:  Ah ah
166:  I answer that because you see the signs
Interviewer:  Sure.
166:  {D: Fifteen} miles from I reckon it's from the heart of town.
Interviewer:  Right and if uh if someone asks you to go with them say up to {D: Ellaville} you're not sure whether you want to go you might say oh I don't know How would you tell them that if he asks you to go
166:  #1 I'd try to show 'em #
Interviewer:  #2 with him # Yeah. What if he invites if somebody say your neighbor invites you to go with them and you're not really sure that you want to go you might say oh I don't know
166:  It's too far.
Interviewer:  Okay. Or you might would you be more likely to say I don't know uh if I want to go or I don't know whether or not I want to go Which of those would you probably be more likely to say.
166:  I don't know what I want to go
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
166:  #2 or not. #
Interviewer:  And uh if you had
166:  #1 I'm choked up #
Interviewer:  #2 And #
166:  #1 this morning #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: Yeah} #
166:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # bothering you we can stop. Much more to do this time though but we can stop for a little while any time you want to.
166:  Well I want to get through with it.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you have a very sick friend and he's not likely to get any better you might #1 say #
166:  #2 Say better off. #
Interviewer:  Okay it it seems
166:  Pass on that's what I said about this fella yesterday. He had tumor in his brains had cancer of the brains. They operated on him and he lived ever since {D: August I believe} {D: Died} I believe Saturday morning. {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah that's terrible.
166:  Is this {D: okay what I'm saying}
Interviewer:  No ma'am that's fine. Uh if uh if somebody asks you how he's getting along you might say well it seems like that uh that he won't pull through or it seems as though or seems as if how would you say that?
166:  Drag around I reckon.
Interviewer:  Alright.
166:  That's what I'm doing.
Interviewer:  {NW}
166:  Feel good {X} sometimes then again I don't feel like nothing.
Interviewer:  Sure. And if uh if someone invites you to go somewhere and uh you want uh you say well if they invite you to go by yourself but uh you uh you want someone to go with you you might say well I won't to go unless she goes or uh without she goes how would you say that? I won't go
166:  Unless she goes.
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh if uh one of the children one of your grandchildren were supposed to help you with the dishes and um and uh if she didn't help you maybe the child went off to play you might say oh she went off playing
166:  She ought to help me with dishes
Interviewer:  Okay would you say in instead of
166:  Playing
Interviewer:  Okay how would you say that. She went off playing instead of
166:  Helping me.
Interviewer:  Okay say the whole thing for me.
166:  #1 She went off to play #
Interviewer:  #2 She went off # Mm.
166:  Instead of helping me.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if a man is funny and you like him you might say uh he's clever he says funny things
166:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 You might say I like him. #
166:  Say he's friendly.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh what are what's the name of the biggest church. Which is the biggest church here in town.
166:  Well it {X} goes in between the First Baptist and the First Methodist. But I believe it's the first Methodist
Interviewer:  Okay. And if two people become members of the church you'd say well Sunday they
166:  Join the church.
Interviewer:  And uh in church you pray to
166:  God.
Interviewer:  And uh if uh if you heard somebody who talked ugly uh used god's name uh how how would they be likely to say it uh if you heard somebody using it saying you know like you are praying might use it uh in in an uglier way
166:  I say that {D: get ugly}
Interviewer:  Alright okay.
166:  #1 {D: And there's that preachers} #
Interviewer:  #2 And #
166:  You know a lot of time you talk about preachers. And they're not right.
Interviewer:  Mm.
166:  {X} The same thing the preacher brings up they don't want to {D: hear it, they don't like it}
Interviewer:  Sure. Okay and you say uh well I enjoy being in church the preacher uh preached a
166:  Good sermon.
Interviewer:  And {X} might say uh I uh I go to church to hear the sermon another one say well I don't care anything about the sermon I go to hear the
166:  Music.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh you might say if you really enjoyed it you might say oh that music is
166:  So good.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh uh it was just beaut-
166:  Beautiful.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh if you had uh say you were going to church and somebody came in and interrupted you and then you hurry on out and you say well I've got to really hurry church will be over
166:  Be over before I get there.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh and uh the opposite of God is called #1 the #
166:  #2 Devil. #
Interviewer:  How's that?
166:  Devil.
Interviewer:  And uh what are some of the things that people used to talk about they were frightened of that were not real you know uh they might see at night around a graveyard or old house. What'd they say I don't want to go around there there might be some
166:  What do you call those? Anyway I know we had niggers on the {D: right porch} getting scared of the light in the cemetery next to us. Scared I'd say.
Interviewer:  Sure and what are the things that they're scared of what are they called?
166:  Ghosts.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other word you remember for ghost they that might've said?
166:  No I don't.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if a house is supposed to have ghosts in it you say don't go near that it's a
166:  Ghosted house.
Interviewer:  Okay or did you ever hear haunted or haunted.
166:  haunted
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
166:  #2 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  Okay and uh if if um if you tell somebody that the weather's changing and it's getting say a little bit cold you might say better put a sweater on it's getting
166:  Getting cold.
Interviewer:  Okay it's getting uh uh a little bit uh
166:  Chilly.
Interviewer:  Alright rather would you say rather. Rather chilly would you ever say getting rather chilly? Or a little bit chilly?
166:  Little little bit chilly.
Interviewer:  Okay and if um if someone uh wants you to go and you say well uh but you have a choice you say well thank you I'd
166:  Can't go
Interviewer:  Alright would you ever say would you feel like saying I'd rather not go?
166:  No I never have said that to anybody I don't believe.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
166:  #1 I just say I can't go #
Interviewer:  #2 you don't use your # Okay. uh would you uh
166:  like to go
Interviewer:  Okay
166:  But I can't
Interviewer:  Alright but do you ever hear anybody say uh I'd rather I'd rather not around here
166:  Rather not
Interviewer:  Oh how's that
166:  Rather not.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if uh a friend comes in and you haven't seen them for a long time what do you say to 'em how would you tell 'em about about feeling about seeing them. You might say
166:  Glad to see you.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh and you were wanting to say it even more than just I'm glad to see you just
166:  Mm-hmm generally hug most of 'em.
Interviewer:  Okay a hug. Might say I'm I'm awfully
166:  #1 Glad to see ya. #
Interviewer:  #2 glad. # Or I'm very Would you ever say I'm right proud to see you?
166:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Proud. #
166:  I always say I'm glad to see ya.
Interviewer:  You ever hear anybody say I'm proud to see you.
166:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  They say that around here.
166:  Proud to see you.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if a man out in the country owns say four or five hundred acres of land how would you uh say he owns uh how much land would that be if you were telling
166:  #1 Five hundred #
Interviewer:  #2 somebody. # Okay but if you're not if you don't know exactly but you went to tell him it's a whole lot how would you say that? He owns a
166:  Lot of land.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh what about you ever hear anybody say your right smart of land.
166:  Yeah right smart of land.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah they say that #
166:  #2 {D: that's wild land} #
Interviewer:  okay and uh if somebody asks you something and uh uh you want to say you're more emphatic than just to say yes you might say well
166:  no.
Interviewer:  Uh if you want to mean yes indeed you'd say why certainly why of course
166:  Of course I
Interviewer:  Okay Uh if somebody asks you if uh if you could uh bake a certain cake uh you would say probably why
166:  No I can't
Interviewer:  Well {NW} if you could
166:  {X} {D: thirty years.}
Interviewer:  Oh really alright well let's say if you could cook some vegetables in a certain way then you might say well I
166:  Cook them.
Interviewer:  Okay I sure or I sure can. No just
166:  yeah I can cook vegetables.
Interviewer:  Okay you sure
166:  #1 I'm sure #
Interviewer:  #2 that #
166:  I can cook vegetables.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  That's about all I don't. Ever since Stewart left and nobody but me and Adam passed away I don't ever cook nothing {X} My daughter keeps me {X}
Interviewer:  Sure.
166:  She brought me {X} Saturday night to do me all this week.
Interviewer:  Yes.
166:  Whole week {X}
Interviewer:  {NW}
166:  {D: Corn stuff} Cake and everything else so I don't have to cook nothing
Interviewer:  #1 That's good. #
166:  #2 It's all her. #
Interviewer:  That's good.
166:  She does it every time she comes. She knows I'm not going to cook. I hate it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And uh if someone disliked to go somewhere very much you might say well he dreaded the place he would you be likely to say he purely dreaded it or he just dreaded it or
166:  I just say he purely dread it.
Interviewer:  Would you say pure okay and if it's a little bit it was not just a little bit cold it was extremely cold you might say oh this morning it was
166:  Cold.
Interviewer:  Okay but little more than that
166:  #1 Hot #
Interviewer:  #2 it was #
166:  Hot or cold.
Interviewer:  uh well it's cold it's bad but it's just worse than cold it's just freezing how would you say
166:  Freezing.
Interviewer:  Okay uh would you say real cold?
166:  #1 Yeah real cold. #
Interviewer:  #2 Oh okay. # And uh oh if you're surprised about something you might say oh
166:  I'm surprised at that.
Interviewer:  okay do you ever say land sakes or for goodness
166:  #1 For goodness sake. #
Interviewer:  #2 sakes #
166:  Yeah I say that.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you do something that you're a little bit annoyed with yourself about doing would you say oh
166:  I don't know whether to do it or not.
Interviewer:  Okay. Do you ever say shucks?
166:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  #1 Shucks. #
166:  #2 Shucks. #
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
166:  #2 Uh-huh #
Interviewer:  And if something uh shocking is surprising somebody says that you did you might why the very I
166:  Idea.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Uh and uh if you see somebody that you haven't seen for a few days and you want to ask 'em about their health how would you say that?
166:  How you get along?
Interviewer:  Okay. And if it's a stranger when you're introduced to them if somebody says ah Miss {B} this is Mrs. Jones how would you {X}
166:  Glad to meet you.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you've enjoyed somebody's visit when they're getting ready to leave you would say come
166:  Come back.
Interviewer:  And uh at uh bout uh what do you say to somebody when you meet them on the around Christmas you might say You meet somebody on the twenty-fifth of December you might say Merry
166:  Merry Christmas.
Interviewer:  And
166:  #1 That's the day #
Interviewer:  #2 uh #
166:  my sister died.
Interviewer:  Is that right.
166:  #1 Can't say that #
Interviewer:  #2 And on the first. #
166:  then.
Interviewer:  That's right. Uh what would you say on the first day of January.
166:  New Year.
Interviewer:  Okay {D: would you} say Hap-
166:  Happy New Year.
Interviewer:  And if uh if somebody does something for you and you wanna say thank you uh and you
166:  Sure appreciate it.
Interviewer:  Okay. I much You ever say much uh Much obliged.
166:  Much obliged.
Interviewer:  #1 Much obliged. #
166:  #2 and thank you. #
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you're not sure whether you'll have time to do something you might say well I
166:  in a hurry.
Interviewer:  Okay but I believe that I'll I'll have time you want to tell me that you think you can do it. You might say I think I'll
166:  Do it.
Interviewer:  Okay. That you'll I'll have time. Would you be more likely to say I think I will, I guess I will, or I reckon I will?
166:  I guess I will. {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if you have to go downtown to buy some things you'd say I have to go downtown to
166:  Get my groceries.
Interviewer:  okay to do some.
166:  Trading, shopping.
Interviewer:  Okay you use both trading and shopping.
166:  Trading or shopping either one I think would do wouldn't it.
Interviewer:  Sure which one do you reckon you'd be most likely to say.
166:  I'd say get groceries.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you buy make a purchase at a store and the storekeeper took a piece of paper you'd say he uh
166:  folded it up.
Interviewer:  Okay or he wrap
166:  wrapped it up.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
166:  #2 or put it in a sack. #
Interviewer:  And when I got home I 'un-
166:  Undone it.
Interviewer:  Okay And uh uh or unwrapped it.
166:  Unwrapped it.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you if a man has a store and he has to sell something for less than he paid for it he would say why I had to sell it at
166:  Cost
Interviewer:  Okay or if it were than cost he might say I had to. He didn't even get the money that he put in it I had to sell that at a
166:  {D: loss}
Interviewer:  Okay and if you uh admire something but you really don't have enough money to buy it. You might say well I like it but it.
166:  Too high.
Interviewer:  Okay or it co-
166:  What
Interviewer:  It costs too much.
166:  Costs too much.
Interviewer:  And uh on the first of the month the uh the electricity bill is
166:  Yeah that's coming in today I reckon.
Interviewer:  Yes and what generally say well on the tenth it's d-
166:  Due.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you belong to a club you have to pay the
166:  Due dues
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And if you don't have much money you may go to a bank and say I need to
166:  {D: borrow} borrow some money.
Interviewer:  And if the banker is is refusing a loan to someone he might say well now I would be glad to lend it to you but right now money is real
166:  Scarce.
Interviewer:  And uh if somebody were going to go swimming you might say well he ran and
166:  Dived.
Interviewer:  and uh uh if you were sitting watching them you might say well this afternoon thirty people have
166:  Been swimming.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm have jumped into #1 the water. #
166:  #2 Dived. #
Interviewer:  Okay. and uh do you know what the kids would call it if they uh dive in and hit the water flat
166:  No I don't know that.
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard it called uh heard it called uh uh belly flop
166:  #1 No I never #
Interviewer:  #2 or #
166:  have heard
Interviewer:  #1 Okay okay. #
166:  #2 that. #
Interviewer:  Uh and if children put their heads down and kick their feet up and go over his head you say he turns a
166:  Turn over.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about a somersault or somerset.
166:  Somerset they used to call it.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  Turned a somerset.
Interviewer:  Okay and if somebody wants to go across the river he he dived in and then he
166:  Swims across.
Interviewer:  Okay. And you might say yesterday he Yesterday he across the river.
166:  Swimmed across the river.
Interviewer:  Okay how's that.
166:  Swimmed.
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh you might say well uh the children like to swim in the big creek but I have never
166:  Been in it.
Interviewer:  Okay or never s-
166:  Never wanted them to.
Interviewer:  Okay or I've never s- there
166:  I never have swammed at all
Interviewer:  Okay And uh if do you remember way back a long time ago maybe when uh maybe people had bought their groceries a lot on credit and then at the end of the year they'd pay their bill. Do you ever remember a store keeper giving them any kind of little present.
166:  Yes I do.
Interviewer:  #1 What what would they #
166:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  call it? Do they have a word for that?
166:  Well they give out I know my sister they give her ham, big store that she traded at #1 every year. #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh uh-huh. # Uh do they just say
166:  Just buying regular groceries. Now I don't think they do it but just specials.
Interviewer:  #1 Sure. Sure. #
166:  #2 {D: I have heard that} #
Interviewer:  Well they don't have a word they use you just say a bonus or just a little present.
166:  Yeah bonus.
Interviewer:  Okay and if someone's uh swimming and didn't get out you might say well he got in the water. He got
166:  Drowned.
Interviewer:  Okay. and uh uh
166:  We have {D: had that happen around here}
Interviewer:  Is that right. A lot of people have
166:  Drowned.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh what does a baby do before it can walk it
166:  Crawl.
Interviewer:  And uh if you if the child see something up in a tree and he wanted to get it he would have to go up in the tree.
166:  {D: cut that tree down}
Interviewer:  Okay you say well you'll have to
166:  Put it down.
Interviewer:  Okay Um and if there was a a mountain and uh
166:  Like Stone Mountain
Interviewer:  Right and a lot of people go up there and do what Cl-
166:  They go up to the top of it but I don't know what they do.
Interviewer:  Well uh i- i- in going up there how do they #1 say that #
166:  #2 Have to climb # Used to have to climb up.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh you might say well last year several people
166:  Got killed.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh and if um
166:  You getting tired {X}
Interviewer:  No this is it's fine it's good because of where we have the microphone. I'm very comfortable. Uh if you were telling somebody uh last week my neighbor went up to Stone Mountain and
166:  Went up to the top.
Interviewer:  Or cl- Cli-
166:  {X}
Interviewer:  Climbed.
166:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Would you say it.
166:  Uh climbed it.
Interviewer:  Climbed it.
166:  Climb climbed it.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  Climbed up there.
Interviewer:  But I've never in my whole life I've never cli-
166:  Done it. Yes I have
Interviewer:  Yes?
166:  Yes I have.
Interviewer:  Stone Mountain?
166:  Stone Mountain.
Interviewer:  Is that right.
166:  {NW} We started at the bottom and went up to top. Bunch of us.
Interviewer:  Sure.
166:  {X} someone toted the baby I think my husband tote the baby up there Right to the edge and looked down.
Interviewer:  Yeah. I've never been up there. I've driven past it several times
166:  It changed it's been years and years of changing I don't know anything about it now but I sure we sure used to climb it. It was a bad climb too.
Interviewer:  I'm sure.
166:  We was determined to do it.
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay and if there's a low hedge or something and a man wants to hide behind it how would you describe the way he does to get #1 down there. #
166:  #2 Squat down. #
Interviewer:  How?
166:  Squat #1 down. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # And uh if uh someone goes up to the altar at the church and gets on her knees you say she
166:  Joining {X}
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah but how #
166:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  how would you describe just going down on her knees you's say she went up to the altar and bowed.
166:  Mm what do you call that I know
Interviewer:  #1 To kneel.No. #
166:  #2 they don't do it at our church and #
Interviewer:  #1 To kneel. #
166:  #2 What they do. #
Interviewer:  #1 Okay and #
166:  #2 Kneel uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  if you say she did that you'd say she went up to the altar and
166:  Kneeled down.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} And uh if you're tired you might say I'm going over to in bed. I'm going to
166:  Going to bed.
Interviewer:  Okay but to how would you say to
166:  Going to rest.
Interviewer:  Okay to lie down. I'm going up to lay down in bed.
166:  Lie down and rest a while.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  And I sure have that to do.
Interviewer:  Yes. Well if somebody uh is just a little bit lazy you might say well he
166:  #1 So lazy. #
Interviewer:  #2 in bed # Okay all morning he
166:  Don't do nothing.
Interviewer:  Okay he he stayed in bed all morning he what
166:  {D: got that right here under me}
Interviewer:  {NW}
166:  Woman down here {D: well a lady} her and her husband separated and her boy don't do a thing well {X} he shot himself one time in the bed been sorry ever since. Just just won't do nothing she's a widow {X} her and her husband separated so she {D: have to tie him}
Interviewer:  Okay and talking about him you'd say he just laid in bed or
166:  Just lay in bed.
Interviewer:  How
166:  Lies in the bed.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if you're talking about something about that while you were asleep it seemed like you saw you might say this is what I
166:  Dreamed.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh you might say I can't always remember what I
166:  Said.
Interviewer:  Okay or
166:  What I dreamed.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh and if uh you say well I dreamed so and so and then all of a sudden I
166:  Woke up.
Interviewer:  And if you bring your foot down heavy on the floor like this you say you do what
166:  {D: Got up}
Interviewer:  Yeah but if you you know if you do this with your foot or somebody does like that you say what is that gesture. You say well he his foot on the floor. He
166:  Heavy.
Interviewer:  Okay would you say he's stomped or he stamped or what
166:  {NW} Stomped I'd say.
Interviewer:  Okay and if uh if a man say meets a girl at a dance and he wants to go home with her he might say may I
166:  Go take you home.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh do they ever say carry you home around here?
166:  Yeah they say I care {X} I'll carry you home I'll take you home.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
166:  Take you home though is most #1 popular. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
166:  Course I don't. I'm not out. {NW}
Interviewer:  Sure.
166:  I just know what they're young people says so.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you've got uh a heavy bag in {X} yard you want to get it up to the porch you got to
166:  Drag it up
Interviewer:  Okay and uh if you had a uh one car that wouldn't run and they put a rope on it and put it behind another car you say they're going to
166:  Drag it.
Interviewer:  Or
166:  Pull it.
Interviewer:  Okay and if your car is stuck in the mud or the snow you might ask somebody in his car behind you to give you a
166:  Pull it out.
Interviewer:  Okay if he's behind you ask if you
166:  Push.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if you're carrying a very heavy distance a long way you might say I carried it or I you said it the other day your husband you said just a few minutes ago your husband would tote the child.
166:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  You would say both to carry something and to tote it
166:  Say what?
Interviewer:  Do you {NW} likely to say he carried it or he toted it either one.
166:  I say either one of 'em. Toted or carried it.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay you hear both of 'em around here? #
166:  #2 One either one. # #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 People. # And if somebody comes in the house and start playing around here and you're afraid something's going to get broken you might say don't you
166:  Don't do that.
Interviewer:  Okay or don't
166:  Don't touch it.
Interviewer:  Okay
166:  #1 Cause I've got that #
Interviewer:  #2 And #
166:  right here with these pictures.
Interviewer:  I'm sure so that must be very enticing.
166:  I got child {D: back here she loves me and everything} she comes over here and she {D: gets 'em} she don't tear 'em up but I'm I just stay uneasy you know #1 that she will. #
Interviewer:  #2 Sure. # Sure. Okay if you need a hammer you would say to me go
166:  Get the hammer.
Interviewer:  Okay uh uh and if children are playing a game and there's a tree that they go back to all the time where they're safe what do they call that? the in in children's games or in basketball they throw a ball through the
166:  It's called hit the tree.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh or uh what about in tag game. If children are playing tag they run back to
166:  The place.
Interviewer:  Where they're safe.
166:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Did that called that uh base or
166:  #1 Yeah base. #
Interviewer:  #2 goal. # Okay.
166:  Ball game.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  Going back to the base
Interviewer:  Uh when you were little what other kinds of outdoor games did you play, do you remember?
166:  When I was growing up? {D: Can can can do} and dropping the handkerchief. Things like that.
Interviewer:  What was the first one?
166:  {D: Can can can do} I don't know how you spell it but we used to play it all the time.
Interviewer:  And what was that?
166:  Dropping the handkerchief too
Interviewer:  #1 And how did you play that first one #
166:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  Can can can
166:  {D: Can can can do}
Interviewer:  How'd you play it? What was that
166:  We dropped drops drop a handkerchief you know and go round and round and drop it round somebody else and we'd run you know
Interviewer:  Yeah
166:  and let that next one pick it up
Interviewer:  #1 Sure. #
166:  #2 We get back around #
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you throw a ball you ask somebody to
166:  Catch it.
Interviewer:  You'd say I threw him the ball and he
166:  Caught it
Interviewer:  And uh you might say I've been fishing for trout but I haven't
166:  Caught anything
Interviewer:  And uh if you say to somebody let's meet in town if I get there first I'll
166:  Save you a place.
Interviewer:  Okay. Or I'll wait
166:  Wait for you
Interviewer:  And if you uh if somebody works for you maybe does something in the yard he's really lazy and you decide well you're just not going to have him and anymore you discharge him. He might come back to you and say well me give another
166:  {D: Dime}
Interviewer:  Okay and if he wants to work again he might say well I'll do better. Give me another
166:  Raise
Interviewer:  Okay or just just another chance.
166:  Chance yes chance you're right.
Interviewer:  Okay and if a man is in a good mood if he's very happy you might say he's really in a good
166:  In a good spirit.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh do you ever use humor or humor.
166:  #1 In a good humor {C: stumbles over last word} #
Interviewer:  #2 He's in a #
166:  Humor.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 He's in a good humor. # I don't how you spell it.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if you have a hired man who just keeps loping all the time and you decide you're just not going to keep him anymore you might tell a friend well I think I'm going to
166:  Let him go.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh do you ever say get to rid of him
166:  Get rid of him.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um And if you're in school and somebody took your pencil you might say who
166:  Got it.
Interviewer:  Okay uh have you got another word for to to to take it like that to who swiped it or who
166:  You can say who swiped it.
Interviewer:  Okay And uh and if you're recalling something you say oh I'd forgotten about that but now I
166:  Call.
Interviewer:  How what.
166:  Call. Now I call.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh if you're you're uh talking about something that happened a long time ago with someone you might they're recalling a thing might say well you must have a better memory than I do because I sure don't
166:  I don't remember it.
Interviewer:  Right. And uh if you uh have a friend that you keep in touch with by mail you might say well just yesterday I have
166:  Letter
Interviewer:  Okay and uh uh I'm going to
166:  Answer it
Interviewer:  Okay I'm going to write I'm going to Uh Yesterday he wrote he
166:  Wrote to me
Interviewer:  And tomorrow I'm going to
166:  Answer it
Interviewer:  Okay or uh
166:  Write back.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh you might say well every week I have her letter
166:  Her letter
Interviewer:  Okay and you send one to her
166:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 You say I have #
166:  I
Interviewer:  I have
166:  {D: pester to} answer it.
Interviewer:  Okay every week I
166:  {X}
Interviewer:  {NW}
166:  My daughter's every week and they give me every week so.
Interviewer:  Well that's good.
166:  I've got to answer it. I have certain times to write.
Interviewer:  Sure. Uh and if you write a letter then you expect to get an
166:  another one.
Interviewer:  Okay an answer.
166:  Answer.
Interviewer:  Uh and all the you put the letter in the envelope and then you take your pen and put the #1 name #
166:  #2 address it. #
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 put a stamp on it. #
Interviewer:  And uh if you don't know somebody's street and city you might say well now do you know what his is his uh
166:  What was the question?
Interviewer:  Uh if you wanna write to someone but you don't know #1 the street #
166:  #2 Address. #
Interviewer:  Okay. And if little boy's learn to whistle maybe you didn't know he could do this you might say well who
166:  Who learned you that.
Interviewer:  Okay
166:  Taught you that.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh if you're getting ready to go say you're going to visit uh uh your daughter you might say well right now we're
166:  #1 Getting ready. #
Interviewer:  #2 next week #
166:  #1 Packing #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay # Okay And uh what do children call another child who always goes and tells
166:  Tattle-tale.
Interviewer:  And if you want a bouquet of flowers for the dinner table you'd go out in the garden #1 and #
166:  #2 pick 'em #
Interviewer:  How's that?
166:  Pick 'em.
Interviewer:  And uh something that a child would play with is a
166:  Ball.
Interviewer:  Okay or just different kinds of 'em go get a if not just a ball it might be a game or a doll or anything. If he's bothering you you wanna say go on and play with your
166:  Doll.
Interviewer:  Okay. Or your toys.
166:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  You ever say play pretty. For toys. No?
166:  What?
Interviewer:  Play pretty.
166:  Yeah go play with your play pretty.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um and if something happened that you expected or that you were afraid was going to happen you might say I was gonna happen
166:  #1 I knew it was gonna happen #
Interviewer:  #2 I just # Okay and uh if uh uh you might say oh that's the book that you
166:  Keep pictures in.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh and if someone gives one to you might say well that's the book that she
166:  Gave me
Interviewer:  And uh then if you're going to hand it back to her you say here I'll {NW}
166:  Keep it
Interviewer:  Alright but you're gonna give it to her. You say I'll give it
166:  Give it back to me.
Interviewer:  Okay uh and then talking about might say well you have so many books. You have
166:  A lot of books.
Interviewer:  Give Would you say
166:  #1 give #
Interviewer:  #2 give #
166:  give a lot of books.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh if uh you pick up your umbrella and uh take it with you and then you say well I'm really glad I brought this umbrella because we haven't gone half a block when it
166:  Goes to raining.
Interviewer:  Okay uh would you say uh uh begins to rain.
166:  Begins to rain.
Interviewer:  okay.
166:  You say that.
Interviewer:  And we were we went we had just gone downtown and it began
166:  Poured.
Interviewer:  Okay. It started to rain. You'd say
166:  Hard.
Interviewer:  Uh it began or
166:  Wouldn't think say began.
Interviewer:  Okay. And everyday when we go downtown it seems like it
166:  You have a parasol.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you're going to see a program you might ask somebody what time does the show
166:  Comes on.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the usher might tell you that well it ten fifteen minutes ago it's already
166:  Started.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh and uh if you're hurrying around somebody says why are you out of breath and you might say well I was feeling good and I all the way home I didn't walk you went faster than that I
166:  Mm-hmm. Walk fast.
Interviewer:  Well more than that just this way.
166:  In a whirly burly I'd call it
Interviewer:  Okay. And if children are out playing they go hurrying around the house you might say look-y look at the children
166:  Playing.
Interviewer:  And run
166:  Run.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh then you might say uh well everyday those children come past here they have r-
166:  They run.
Interviewer:  Everyday and yesterday they a mile.
166:  {D: Yeah} They race bicycles or ride bicycles when they go by here now.
Interviewer:  That's right okay but if they weren't on a bicycle you might say well they. If somebody says where are the children you might say oh they r- up #1 the street. #
166:  #2 Running up the street. #
Interviewer:  How.
166:  Running up the street.
Interviewer:  Okay and yesterday they
166:  #1 Played up the street. #
Interviewer:  #2 up the street. #
166:  #1 Played #
Interviewer:  #2 Use that same word run # Yesterday they r-
166:  Ran.
Interviewer:  Okay they ran up the street. If you didn't know where a man was born you might ask somebody and say where does he
166:  Live.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you wanna find out where he was born. He's not from around here is he, where did he
166:  {D: Years.}
Interviewer:  Come come from would you say? You want to know where
166:  Yeah wonder wonder where he come from
Interviewer:  Okay And if you wanna if wanna if you say well uh he got here on the train last night uh he
166:  He got left.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh uh someone says when did come you would say well she Sunday she
166:  She come Saturday night.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you're talking about uh how often she comes you might say well she has every Sunday for ever she
166:  Comes by once a week or once a month or once every two months
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
166:  #2 sometime. #
Interviewer:  {NW}
166:  {D: I'm} so far away my closest one in Atlanta she's one down here the other day.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  {D: Lee} come bout every two months.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh {NW} And uh if you say if someone says when did you see your neighbor across the street you might say oh I
166:  Just saw 'em.
Interviewer:  Okay and I have every morning I have s-
166:  I've seen 'em.
Interviewer:  Okay
166:  Don't now though because all them in the hospital.
Interviewer:  Oh yeah. That's something.
166:  Two of 'em gonna be operated on this moment. Man and his wife both of 'em same time.
Interviewer:  And if the you uh if you wanna tell somebody now don't go by that road the highway department's got their machines in there and the road's all
166:  Rough.
Interviewer:  #1 okay. #
166:  #2 Tore up. #
Interviewer:  If you give somebody a bracelet and you want them to to you know wanna see how it looks on 'em you might say why don't you
166:  Fix it.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh but
166:  Fix it. Put it on.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And uh if you're asking uh uh if you're able to do something you'd say well can you
166:  Do that.
Interviewer:  And you might say well sure I all my life.
166:  All my life.
Interviewer:  I've what?
166:  I've done it all my life.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if you're sitting with somebody and you weren't saying anything and he turns around and says what did you say you'd say well I didn't
166:  {D: Like} I'm asking you I didn't say nothing.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh he might say oh I thought you said
166:  {NW} so and so.
Interviewer:  Okay I thought you said some something.
166:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  How's that?
166:  Thought you said something.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh uh you might if somebody tells you something that just really is scandalous then you might say oh I've never heard of
166:  #1 That. #
Interviewer:  #2 That. # I've never heard
166:  Heard of that.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh
166:  {X} #1 {D: can't stand 'em} #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay # If uh if uh if you if somebody asks you how long have you lived in Georgia you might say why I
166:  All my life.
Interviewer:  I've what?
166:  All my life.
Interviewer:  I've li-
166:  Was borned in Macon.
Interviewer:  Okay and I've lived here uh always?
166:  Uh-huh come here when I was a baby.
Interviewer:  Mm-k lived here all
166:  All my life.
Interviewer:  Always say always.
166:  Always.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh you might say well uh talking about horses I got thrown once and I've been scared of horses ever
166:  Since.
Interviewer:  And uh if somebody children were having a problem one of 'em might come around you and say he hurt me it wasn't an accident he did it
166:  On purpose.
Interviewer:  Okay. and uh uh you might uh say well I don't really know about that you'd better
166:  Watch out.
Interviewer:  Okay and and if somebody wants to to ask a question and you say well I don't really know about that you better
166:  Ask her.
Interviewer:  Okay
166:  Or somebody else.
Interviewer:  And so you uh you ask him and he says why you've
166:  You seen it?
Interviewer:  You've a- ask how would you say if if you want to tell him he's asked you that question so many times
166:  Several times.
Interviewer:  Yeah say you've asked say that for me you that
166:  You've asked that question several times.
Interviewer:  Okay and talking about children again every time they get together they have trouble you might say every time they meet they
166:  Gone fight.
Interviewer:  Okay and yesterday they
166:  Had.
Interviewer:  they
166:  fought.
Interviewer:  Okay. and uh those children ever since they small they were small they have
166:  Fussed.
Interviewer:  Okay and
166:  Fought.
Interviewer:  Okay and if someone injures someone else with a with a big knife you might say he
166:  Cut him.
Interviewer:  Okay or if he just went {D: flashed him}
166:  Punched him.
Interviewer:  Okay or s-
166:  {X}
Interviewer:  Uh okay but would you say stabbed?
166:  Yeah stabbed that's it.
Interviewer:  Okay and then if he took the right back out you'd say he
166:  Pulled it out.
Interviewer:  Okay or uh uh if a child puts a there's a funny picture on the blackboard and the teacher might say now who
166:  Done that.
Interviewer:  Okay or who
166:  Who drew that.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you have something like a piece of machinery up on a roof and you use a pulley and a rope to get it up there how would you say they do that? To hau-
166:  Hauled it up there.
Interviewer:  Or hoist.
166:  Hoist it up there.
Interviewer:  Do you ever use that, hoist?
166:  #1 No I mean #
Interviewer:  #2 What's hoist #
166:  No I haven't I don't know anything about it.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um there's just a few over that {X} Uh I need to have you uh Miss {B} say the numbers for me to begin with up to about fifteen.
166:  What numbers?
Interviewer:  Just like you know
166:  #1 One two #
Interviewer:  #2 Your clock. #
166:  #1 One two three #
Interviewer:  #2 Yes #
166:  four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh the number after nineteen is
166:  Twenty.
Interviewer:  And after twenty-six is
166:  twenty-seven.
Interviewer:  And two times ten is
166:  Forty. #1 Two time ten is #
Interviewer:  #2 Oh uh #
166:  Twenty
Interviewer:  Okay and three times nine
166:  Three nine is twenty-seven.
Interviewer:  Okay and after uh twenty-nine is
166:  twenty-seven twenty-eight
Interviewer:  #1 and then #
166:  #2 twenty # twenty-eight
Interviewer:  And then after twenty-nine is
166:  Thirty.
Interviewer:  And then after thirty-nine is
166:  Forty.
Interviewer:  And the number after sixty-nine is
166:  Seventy
Interviewer:  and after ninety-nine
166:  Hundred.
Interviewer:  And after nine hundred and ninety-nine
166:  Thousand.
Interviewer:  And after nine thousand and nine hundred and ninety-nine
166:  Is a thousand.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh uh if you after the thousands there's um
166:  Two thousand.
Interviewer:  Okay and after nine hundred thousand or something so you say there's a m-
166:  Million.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh if you've got a line of people standing up and you say there's oh maybe ten or twelve of them the man the in the at the head of the line is the f-
166:  What?
Interviewer:  Uh or you might say Sunday is the
166:  {D: King} day.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh uh if you're
166:  You getting tired {X}
Interviewer:  No I just around this is fine this way my voice doesn't sound so loud on that thing. I'm comfortable. Uh if you're talking about this line of people standing up there you might say well the one at the head of the line he's the
166:  Head of it.
Interviewer:  Okay he's the f- #1 First #
166:  #2 {X} # First.
Interviewer:  Okay and the one after him is the
166:  second
Interviewer:  And then the
166:  Third. fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth nine ten is that enough?
Interviewer:  Yes ma'am thank you. And if uh talking to somebody about how things happen maybe good or bad luck you might say well you feel like you get your good luck just a little bit at a time but your bad luck comes
166:  Often.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you say uh last year talking about a farm you might say I got twenty bushels to the acre this year I got forty bushels to the acre. This year's crop was just
166:  Fine.
Interviewer:  Just
166:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 uh #
166:  {X} good.
Interviewer:  Right but it was uh was exactly double what it was
166:  #1 Last year. #
Interviewer:  #2 before. # Yeah. Would you say twice as good twice?
166:  Twice as good.
Interviewer:  Okay. And um the first month of the year is
166:  January.
Interviewer:  And the next one
166:  February. March April May June July August September October November December.
Interviewer:  Okay thank you and then the day after Monday is
166:  Wash day.
Interviewer:  {NW} It's wash day. Okay and then uh would you just name the days of the weeks for me please.
166:  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Interviewer:  Okay and do you uh ever hear Sunday called anything besides Sunday
166:  No I haven't but I know that some of the people put them in some of the Jews. They put Saturday for Sunday that's all I've ever heard.
Interviewer:  Right well what about in the bible sometimes they use the word uh Sabbath
166:  #1 Sabbath. #
Interviewer:  #2 What's # What does that how does that mean? Just
166:  S- Sunday's the Sabbath.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you meet somebody in the early part of the day you generally say to 'em well good
166:  For you.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh you might just say hello you might say
166:  Well hello.
Interviewer:  Okay or good good m-
166:  Good news.
Interviewer:  Okay do you just good morning?
166:  Yeah {NW}
Interviewer:  Uh how is it?
166:  Good morning how you get along?
Interviewer:  Okay {NW}
166:  #1 You always say hi now #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
166:  something like that. they left the good morning off.
Interviewer:  Okay well if you say good morning uh up to about what time of day would you
166:  #1 Twelve o'clock. #
Interviewer:  #2 change? # Okay and then after twelve o'clock you might say
166:  Afternoon.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh if you're leaving people do you ever use good day?
166:  Goodbye.
Interviewer:  Just goodbye. Uh
166:  Hope to see ya.
Interviewer:  Okay do you ever say good day to somebody when you meet them?
166:  No I don't
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh #
166:  #2 I never do say that #
Interviewer:  #1 Never say it #
166:  #2 {X} # {X} so I'm still {X}
Interviewer:  Sure.
166:  Good morning and good evening.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh you you say good evening after twelve o'clock.
166:  Yeah after twelve o'clock.
Interviewer:  What about the part of the day after supper if you see somebody you might say
166:  Night.
Interviewer:  Okay. Well if you meet him would you say that or
166:  I don't know what.
Interviewer:  Say goodnight when you're leaving?
166:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. But not if you come in at night. You come somebody comes in after supper they say wouldn't say #1 goodnight. #
166:  #2 Say night. #
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  {X} cuz I don't ever I just say come in.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um. uh if uh a man has to get up and start working just as the sun comes up you might say well he had to start to working
166:  Early.
Interviewer:  Okay. At that certain time you'd say it was
166:  Five o'clock
Interviewer:  #1 Mm k. #
166:  #2 or six o'clock #
Interviewer:  Uh and uh uh this morning uh
166:  {D: usually} slept late.
Interviewer:  Okay and speaking of the sun you might say well we started to work before
166:  Sun up.
Interviewer:  And uh if somebody asks you what time did the sun rise this morning you might say the sun
166:  At seven o'clock.
Interviewer:  Did what?
166:  At seven o'clock.
Interviewer:  Yeah would you say it uh r-
166:  Early.
Interviewer:  Okay it rose or it {D: riz at} seven o'clock. How would you say that the sun
166:  Rise I believe.
Interviewer:  Okay uh we were out a little late this morning. When we started working the field the sun had already
166:  Rose.
Interviewer:  Okay and you might say well I was out working I saw the sun
166:  Rise that's what it is.
Interviewer:  Okay and if he worked until the sun went out of sight you would say
166:  #1 worked till sundown #
Interviewer:  #2 well he # Okay and uh uh if uh today is uh is Tuesday yest- uh Monday was
166:  A busy day.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you tell somebody well I didn't do that this morning I did it
166:  Yesterday.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh if somebody came to see you on Sunday uh say this past Sunday. If he came um a week earlier you might say well he came here Sunday you know not not this past Sunday but the #1 Sunday before. #
166:  #2 Last Sunday. #
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Would you ever say uh Sunday a week ago or a week ago Sunday
166:  #1 yeah you say #
Interviewer:  #2 or s- #
166:  week ago or Saturday ago.
Interviewer:  Saturday ago.
166:  Either one will do. Won't it?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Which one would you be more likely to say?
166:  {D: My Jen} comes on Saturday night.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Uh-huh
166:  So I just say Sunday.
Interviewer:  Okay say I went to Church Sunday, but I didn't get to go Sunday
166:  {X} Had to stay home with kids or {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah. Would you say Sunday is a week ago or Sunday week?
166:  Sunday week.
Interviewer:  {D: Just like okay} Uh what about uh talking about uh next Sunday. He's going to leave not this next Sunday but
166:  #1 Next #
Interviewer:  #2 a Sunday beyond that # How would you say that?
166:  Next Sunday
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. How would you say that? He's gonna leave
166:  Next Sunday is what I would say.
Interviewer:  You would, would you ever say Sunday a week?
166:  Yeah I say that too
Interviewer:  How would you say that for me.
166:  Say Sunday week.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if somebody stayed uh with you came to visit and they stayed from the first of the month to the fifteenth you might say well he stayed about
166:  Two weeks.
Interviewer:  Okay. Do you ever hear a fortnight used for two weeks?
166:  What?
Interviewer:  Fortnight. No.
166:  I never heard that.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if uh if today is Tuesday uh Wednesday will be
166:  Thursday.
Interviewer:  Oh okay and you might say well I'm not going today but I'm going
166:  Tomorrow.
Interviewer:  #1 And #
166:  #2 Put it off #
Interviewer:  Oh huh and if you wanna know the time of day you might say oh
166:  My clock's stopped
Interviewer:  Uh and ask 'em what the hour is you'd say what
166:  What time is it
Interviewer:  Okay and what would he somebody pull out his watch out of his pocket to look at
166:  Watch
Interviewer:  And it'd be made out of what maybe what metal?
166:  Your pardon
Interviewer:  What would the watch be made out of maybe it's uh he's a got a real nice it's a made of a yellow metal. You'd say that's a real fine
166:  Watch.
Interviewer:  Okay what's the metal that it's made out of? It's a what kind of watch a g-
166:  Gold.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh if it's midway between seven o'clock and eight o'clock you would say it's how would you tell somebody when it's halfway between seven o'clock and #1 eight #
166:  #2 thirty. #
Interviewer:  #1 You'd say what #
166:  #2 Seven thirty #
Interviewer:  Okay and if it's ten forty-five how would you say what time it is. It's about
166:  Quarter to seven.
Interviewer:  Okay.
166:  Quarter to eight.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you've been doing something for a long time you might say oh I've been doing that for quite a
166:  While.
Interviewer:  And uh you might say the farmers got a pretty good crop last year but they're not gonna get such a good one
166:  This year.
Interviewer:  And if a child just had his third birthday you'd say well now he's
166:  Going on four.
Interviewer:  And he's four
166:  Going on four.
Interviewer:  Four what?
166:  Years.
Interviewer:  Okay.