Interviewer: Well 185: Okay well it's not really that much about them I don't I don't I may have told you about the hard shells I don't know Interviewer: Mm-hmm 185: Mentioning about funerals That um When they die That um They don't believe that you go to heaven right then Um What they do is they they go out and put you out in the cemetery they bury you And you just wait there for Gabriel to blow his horn on the day of judgment And on the day and um On the day of judgment is when you go to either heaven or hell But until then you're just out there these these are the hard shell kind of baptists The ones without any music in the church Interviewer: Yeah 185: Something that they used to do that I'm not sure if they still do anymore especially at country funerals Is that at the end of the service they'd open up the casket for one last look And that got to be There just got to be some really Bad scenes at them People would like would have been holding up pretty well through the service {NW} But that would just be the end of it Interviewer: I went to a have you ever been to a service 185: Yes Yes I've been to Interviewer: My first fundamentalist service this summer guy this guy was having a {X} Said well I'll keep talking if you go to church with us no big deal have mercy were kind of the shouting variety amens holler up and down you know this kind of thing I was embarrassed you know pretty conservative but subdued kind of methodist 185: Mm-hmm Interviewer: Crazy {NW} 185: Did anybody talk in tongues Interviewer: No there wasn't a lot of that 185: They did get up and shout though did anybody walk on the back of the pews Interviewer: No 185: Or start or start prancing in the aisles Interviewer: No 185: Nothing I was wondering Interviewer: {X} 185: Um I It's something it may be because when we were at a family reunion one time And um It was during the business meeting afterwards and they always Singing like One woman got up and wanted everyone to pray for her brother who was a preacher who had been sick {NW} Said that she was just talking to him the other day about the lord And about death and dying and going to heaven {NW} And so she started shouting And um {NW} After the meeting after she calmed down and sat back down the meeting was over and we left we were talking about it on the way home {NW} And my grandmother this was my Paternal grandmother {NW} Said that well that the only thing she wanted To see was for the woman to either Prance in the aisles or walk on the back of the pews Interviewer: {NW} 185: And so obviously she has seen this happen before Interviewer: You mean from going to the back of the overflow coming back over where 185: I don't know I don't know if she knew like going like walking on them like Interviewer: Yeah 185: Like Going from the front to the back or walking on them long ways because they were home made pews that had two before turned there was about a three inch space there So a very agile person could probably maneuver it Interviewer: Now you've seen it all 185: And my father used to um He and his friends would go the holy roller church Just to watch them roll Interviewer: {NW} Did you see that documentary on Marjoe Gortner 185: No I didn't Interviewer: Ever heard of him 185: Yeah I've heard of him Interviewer: People get the shakes you know have you ever been to a black church ceremony 185: No um we can't do that anymore Since integration that is not possible {NW} Um my parents have been my grandparents have been blacks used to go to our church we'd go to the methodist church in Ocilla {NW} And um Since integration No The whites would be horrified if there if if a black came to worship Interviewer: Hmm 185: Um And Whites don't go to the black church Um There were blacks at my cousin's wedding at the baptist church their maid came Interviewer: Mm-hmm 185: But um I think everyone just would have realized that this was a special occasion And um And accepted it That's that that's not that uncommon to have one or two blacks at weddings {NW} And at funerals If like the like the maid for years and Their um Their mistress or the That they worked for died Interviewer: Charismatic movement 185: Mm no Interviewer: So well I don't know a whole lot about it but if you've ever heard on TV it's always {X} Show 185: I've seen it advertised I never watched it Interviewer: {X} 185: No Interviewer: {X} 185: Oh God Interviewer: That was I don't know there seems to be there seem to be some pressing you know intellectual side of religion 185: Mm-hmm Interviewer: You know it's all this faith healing and that kind of stuff it seems like {X} To me 185: It's probably what it is Interviewer: Every time I would turn that on and see the emcee for that show I think of {X} Nathaniel Hawthorne described uh Hester that he had not only called her {X} 185: That's very good I like that Interviewer: Well let's see I don't know if Ocilla is this but anyway the town in the county in which you have a courthouse you call that the 185: That's the county seat and that is Ocilla Uh-huh Interviewer: And uh what would you say that the police in a town are supposed to maintain 185: Law and order Law and order one word Interviewer: {NW} Part of the plank of Wallace's platform 185: Definitely Definitely Interviewer: Or say uh in the days before you had the electric chair murderers were usually 185: They were hanged Interviewer: Asking 185: Or lynched one or the other depends on who gets there first Interviewer: Really ask you some uh some names of uh states and cities mainly just for pronunciation 185: Okay Interviewer: Uh the largest city in the country state that's in that's called 185: New York Interviewer: And uh Baltimore is in 185: Maryland Interviewer: And uh uh uh the volunteer state that's 185: Tennessee Interviewer: And uh where Truman's from 185: Missouri Interviewer: And Little Rock's in 185: Arkansas Interviewer: And uh Austin is in 185: Texas Interviewer: And uh Tulsa 185: Oklahoma Interviewer: And Boston 185: Massachusetts Interviewer: What about a name for states you know from uh Maine to Connecticut all together 185: New England Interviewer: And uh the capital of this country that's 185: Washington D C Interviewer: And probably the biggest city in Missouri that would be 185: Saint Louis Interviewer: And in Maryland probably 185: Be Baltimore Interviewer: And the old sea port in South Carolina 185: Charleston Interviewer: What about the sea port here in Georgia 185: Savannah Interviewer: And the biggest city in Alabama would be 185: Birmingham Interviewer: And uh the capital of Alabama would be 185: Montgomery Interviewer: And the port city is 185: Mobile Interviewer: What the the what about the uh the body of water down there that's referring to is the 185: The gulf The gulf of Mexico Interviewer: Could you name uh uh oh just two or three bigger cities in Tennessee 185: Knoxville Memphis Nashville Interviewer: What about the choo-choo city 185: That's Chattanooga Interviewer: In North Carolina are you familiar with any with uh resort city 185: Asheville Interviewer: Or uh the capital here where we are this is 185: Is Atlanta Interviewer: And uh uh a very large city might be the second largest in Georgia uh close to the Alabama line 185: Columbus Interviewer: Any other you know fairly prominent cities in Georgia that come to mind 185: Macon Augusta Savannah Interviewer: And the city in Louisiana where L-S-U 185: Baton Rouge Interviewer: And the big city in Southern Ohio has the reds baseball team 185: Cincinnati Interviewer: And the city of Kentucky has the derby 185: Louisville Interviewer: And uh there's a few part of the countries if you were in Paris you'd be in 185: France Interviewer: And Moscow 185: You'd be in Russia Interviewer: And Dublin 185: Ireland Interviewer: What about uh uh say talking about church again somebody who becomes a member of the church you say he did what 185: He joined the church Interviewer: And when you're in church you you pray to 185: To God Interviewer: Any other names 185: For God Interviewer: Yeah just commonly used 185: The Lord Interviewer: Or when you go to church you listen to 185: To the To the preacher To the minister Interviewer: And he preaches a 185: A sermon Interviewer: Or you might somebody might say well I don't care too much about the sermon I just come to listen to the 185: To the music Interviewer: And you uh an adjective that you might use when describing music it's very that sure is 185: Pretty Interviewer: Or something besides that you might call a a very uh impressive sunset that sure is a 185: Beautiful Interviewer: Uh say if you're on your way to church and you have a flat tire you might say something like well church will be over 185: When I get there Interviewer: Or in referring to the process of having to change this thing in fact it's going to slow you up church is going to be over 185: Before I change the tire Interviewer: And what would you say uh the uh the opposite say of God would be is supposed to be 185: The devil Satan Lucifer Interviewer: Any other terms for that you can remember uh the devil Satan Lucifer you ever hear parents uh well not threatening their children but uh you know if you keep that up then 185: The boogeyman Interviewer: Yeah 185: Oh I never knew that that the boogeyman was the devil Interviewer: Well I I probably suggested that it was what about the boogeyman did you think it was some 185: {NW} I thought I thought that the boogeyman was just sort of like Had this great big Sack And he came by like Interviewer: {NW} 185: This great big white sack and like stuffed naughty children in it and hauled them off Interviewer: {NW} 185: I didn't know where they went Interviewer: Yeah what about these things you know some people claim they see them around graveyards uh 185: Ghost Interviewer: Any other name for for ghost 185: Haints Interviewer: Haints 185: Spirits Interviewer: Spirits mm-hmm what about uh spooks 185: Yeah spooks Interviewer: Does that mean anything else 185: Oh yeah a spook is also a black person Interviewer: Spook or a a something else that begins with S might call a shovel a 185: A spade Interviewer: Yeah 185: Yeah Interviewer: What if these ghosts get in the house you might say that the house 185: Is haunted or hainted {NW} That happened to my father one time he was at his um His grandfather's {NW} And it was one of these old houses with the H- Big hallway through the middle Interviewer: Mm-hmm 185: And they had had the laundry out To dry they had been washing clothes {NW} And I guess they were all asleep by this time and I guess they didn't bring the laundry in or something {NW} But um The goat Got out And ran through the laundry and got a sheet wrapped around him and somehow came up those steps {NW} And went charging down through that central hallway {NW} And everyone thought that it was a ghost The grown-ups the children everybody Interviewer: Mm-hmm amazing what about uh say uh somebody asks you to do something that you're not particularly crazy about doing I'd say well I'll do that if you insist but 185: Don't really want to Interviewer: Would you ever use the word rather then 185: Yeah Interviewer: I'll do that but I 185: But I'd rather not Interviewer: Or say if you see a friend of yours that you haven't seen in a long time what what may might you see say in way of greeting him when you see him 185: How are you doing it's sure been a long time since we've seen you Interviewer: Mm-hmm or say if uh if you're inviting somebody over to your house you you might say something like well we'll be to have you 185: We'll be glad we'll be happy Interviewer: Ever heard anybody use proud there be mighty proud to have you 185: Mm-hmm I have um My grandmothers do Be proud to have you stay proud to have you over Interviewer: Or say a man who owns oh let's say several thousand acres of land talking about the quantity there you'd say oh so and so owns a 185: A lot of land Interviewer: Ever heard people use the expression right smart for that he's a right smart 185: I have yeah Ol- older people Older people Interviewer: They'd say 185: Mm-hmm Interviewer: Say something that you could say that would be stronger than merely yes uh as far as affirmation is concerned can you do that 185: Hell yes Interviewer: {NW} Right well do you ever hear of do you ever hear people use the word certainly in that context certainly 185: Mm-hmm Certainly yes Interviewer: Do you ever use it yourself every now and then I guess it would be more like 185: Um Hell yes is probably more likely or I'd just say sure Interviewer: Sure or say uh if you wanted to be that concept to be polite to an older person say to them you'd say not just yes 185: Yes sir Interviewer: And to a woman 185: Yes ma'am Interviewer: Or uh oh if you were provoked with yourself for doing something stupid you know like accidentally you know knocking over a plate of food or something like that do you ever say anything to yourself or say anything like that at all 185: Yeah I talk to myself I I'd probably say that was a stupid thing to do Interviewer: Or uh if you had heard that somebody had something about you that's not particularly flattering and this gets back to you {X} All that you might say well what might you say you know just anything in that situation 185: I'd probably think of something to say about the person that said it about me Interviewer: {NW} 185: Or I'd say well it's not true Interviewer: Do you ever hear of people nowadays saying anything like oh yeah the idea of that guy 185: Um I had an English teacher In high school Um Who was very fond of saying well the very idea Interviewer: {NW} But you don't hear it too much 185: No Interviewer: Or say uh if you meet someone that you know on the street what might you just say to them in the way of greeting them 185: Hello how are you how do you feel Been good to see you What you doing Interviewer: Would you ever say that to a stranger 185: Someone I've never ever seen before Interviewer: {X} 185: No Interviewer: Or uh would you say anything at all to a stranger just you know passing on the street 185: Probably not Interviewer: Or say if somebody has {X} They're about to leave and you'd like them to come back sometime might say well now why don't y'all come 185: Come back Interviewer: Come back or come 185: Come later or Interviewer: Or let's do this 185: Again Interviewer: Talking about greetings how would you greet someone on December twenty-fifth you'd say 185: Merry Christmas Interviewer: And around Ocilla in this part of the country uh on Christmas day do you ever say anything uh besides that for example when you see a person for the first time on Christmas morning is there anything you're supposed to say before they say it to you kind of like a little game 185: Don't think so Interviewer: Do you ever hear of people saying Christmas gift 185: {NW} Um I've heard of Christmas gift but I read it about Somebody and their slaves Interviewer: Hmm 185: Maybe it was about um Reading about um I don't know who but it was About slaves Interviewer: And around January first you greet somebody by saying 185: Happy new year Interviewer: Ever heard of the equivalent of that Christmas gift for new year's 185: No Interviewer: Say if somebody has done you a favor you might say well I'm much to you 185: I'm much obliged Interviewer: Or if somebody is asking you to do something and you're not sure about whether you'll have time to do it you might say something like well uh I have time 185: I think Interviewer: When well when a woman say has to go to town to get a few things she says that she has to do some 185: Some shopping Interviewer: And when she makes a purchase you say that the storekeeper took some paper and 185: And wrapped Interviewer: And when she gets home she 185: Unwraps Interviewer: Or if a store is selling things for less than what they paid for them you'd say they're selling how they're selling how 185: At a loss Interviewer: Or if there's something that you admire that you'd like to have you might say well it sure would be nice to have that but it just too much 185: Just costs too much Interviewer: And you say that usually on the first of the month the bill is 185: Is due Interviewer: And you're in a club you have to pay 185: Dues Interviewer: Or if you wanted to buy something that costs a great deal of money you might go see your banker to see if you could 185: Get a loan Interviewer: Or 185: Borrow Interviewer: And uh if you go down to the pool you might go off the end of a board like so you'd say that you 185: Dove off Interviewer: And the present would be 185: Dive Interviewer: And I've many times 185: I've dove Interviewer: What about if you do that you dive in and you land flat like that pop what'd you say you're doing 185: Um you did a belly flop Interviewer: A belly flop you ever heard that called anything 185: A belly buster Interviewer: Or say when you get in the water you begin to 185: To swim Interviewer: And the past would be yesterday 185: I swam Interviewer: And I've 185: Swam Interviewer: Have you ever heard of uh if you went into a store and bought something or maybe paid off your monthly bill the store keeper might give you something a little extra or some little gift or something uh you ever heard that called anything in particular 185: I've never heard it called anything in particular Interviewer: Have you ever heard of a lagniappe 185: No Interviewer: Or say uh talking about swimming if doesn't know how to swim he might 185: He might drown Interviewer: And uh you might say that uh that uh he's 185: He's drowned Interviewer: Or or yesterday he 185: He drowned Interviewer: A baby before it's able to walk you say it 185: It crawls Interviewer: And if there's something up a tree that I threw my frisbee up a tree I'd have to 185: Climb Interviewer: And the past would be yesterday I 185: I climbed Interviewer: And I've 185: Climbed Interviewer: Uh uh say if I'm feeling tired I might say well I think I'll go to bed for a while 185: Rest Interviewer: Or talking about actually you know in a prone position I believe I'll 185: Lie down Interviewer: Or talking about somebody else who was sick he couldn't he would sit he just had to 185: Had to lie down Interviewer: When you go to sleep sometimes these things that you you know see in your sleep you see your 185: A dream Interviewer: Okay the verb form 185: I dreamed Interviewer: And the past would be like you said 185: I dreamed Interviewer: I've 185: Dreamed Interviewer: Uh what would you say it is I if I brought down my foot you know real hard on the floor like 185: You stamped Interviewer: Or say if a boy uh met a girl at a party something like that and he wanted to uh see her home after the party what would he probably ask may I 185: Take you home Interviewer: And uh say if my car got stuck in the mud I might ask somebody to get behind me and give me a 185: A push Interviewer: And um if you were and say some children were in the kitchen and uh the mother was at the stove she might say something like well now that stove's hot so 185: Don't touch Interviewer: And now if there were something in the the room say that uh I wanted I might tell you to go 185: Bring it Interviewer: And the past of that would be 185: Brought Interviewer: And I've 185: Brought Interviewer: Children uh say games that you might play uh oh it might involve chasing you know 185: Mm-hmm Interviewer: Playing tag 185: Mm-hmm Interviewer: Was there usually a place that you could run to and be safe where you wouldn't be tagged 185: Mm-hmm Interviewer: What did you call that 185: That was home or home base Interviewer: Was it ever called a goal or just home base 185: I don't know if it was called a goal or not I don't believe it was I believe it was just home or home base Interviewer: I see or say if uh I threw you a ball you're supposed to 185: Catch it Interviewer: And the past would be after that 185: I caught Interviewer: And I've 185: Caught Interviewer: Or say if we're supposed to to meet in town I might say something like well now if I get there before you do I'll 185: I'll wait Interviewer: Or say if uh if your father had to get rid of a hired man he might come back a few days later and say oh come on just give me another 185: Chance Interviewer: Or say somebody who always has a pleasant word for everybody you might say well he sure seems to be in a good 185: A good humor A good mood Interviewer: Or somebody who who really doesn't know what's going on well you might say he like he did doesn't really know what's going on but he 185: Acted Interviewer: Or if a boy left his left his pencil on his desk left the room but came back and it was gone you might say well looks like somebody 185: Stole it Interviewer: Anything besides that stole 185: Swiped it {NS} Took it Interviewer: Ripped it off 185: Yeah Interviewer: Or say if you wanted to get in touch with somebody that you uh that you uh haven't seen don't have a telephone you sit down to 185: To write them Interviewer: And the past would be 185: Wrote Interviewer: And I've 185: I've written Interviewer: And after you go to the trouble of writing them you say you expect to get a 185: An answer Interviewer: And you take the letter put it in an envelope and 185: Address it Interviewer: You might say well I'd like to write so and so but I don't know his 185: Address Interviewer: {X} 185: Okay Interviewer: Um 185: Okay Interviewer: Tired appreciate it 185: That's quite alright Interviewer: What uh say if a little boy has uh has acquired uh a new skill like whistling something uh you might say well who how to do that 185: Who taught Interviewer: And uh say if somebody asks you if you've put up that new fence you've been talking about putting up you might say well no but I pretty soon 185: But I will Interviewer: Have you ever heard of uh any particular names for a child who goes around telling on other children 185: A tattle tale Interviewer: Tattle tale 185: A blab Interviewer: Yeah to you is there any difference between tattling and gossiping 185: {NW} Mm-hmm there is Um Interviewer: Kind of a hard thing to put your finger 185: It's kind of yeah it is but but there's a difference and it's not so much {NW} A substantive Difference as one of degree Interviewer: Yeah 185: But there is gossip Gossip is for like two is is usually involve Well tattling is just someone going around And telling {NW} Gossip usually involved two people sitting down and just dissecting someone Interviewer: Do you usually associate one or the other with uh children or adults 185: Yeah Tattle being a tattle tale I I usually associate with a child and gossiping {NW} Gossiping starts at high school On up Interviewer: Right well what about these things that you you pick out of your yard and put in vases 185: Flowers Interviewer: And these things that children play with they have a lot of 185: Toys Interviewer: Heard that called anything else 185: Play things Interviewer: Or say uh uh I think I've asked you this but but say if I have something that you need right now you'd say me that 185: Bring me that give me that Interviewer: And the past would be yesterday I 185: Gave Interviewer: I've 185: Given Interviewer: And say oh you might say something like well glad I I got my umbrella I'm glad I had my umbrella we had gone a block before it 185: Rained Interviewer: Or it 185: Began to rain Interviewer: Uh what about the present form there say you to do something to 185: Wait Interviewer: Yeah just you said began or past present it 185: Begins Interviewer: Yeah to rain and I've already 185: Begun {NS} Interviewer: Uh if you want to get somewhere in a hurry you wouldn't just walk but you'd begin to 185: Run Interviewer: And yesterday I 185: Ran Interviewer: And I've 185: Run Interviewer: Or if you don't know where somebody was born you might ask well where does he from 185: Come from Interviewer: Yesterday I 185: Came And I've come Interviewer: Or perceiving something with your eyes you say that you 185: See it Saw Seen Interviewer: Or say if uh the highway's impassable because the road crew is out there uh the highway department you say you can't get through there because the road's all 185: Torn up Interviewer: Or if uh a man gives his wife say a bracelet as a gift she's just sitting there looking at it he might say well why don't you go ahead and 185: Put it on Interviewer: And uh talking about uh asking somebody if he's able to perform some function might say well can you 185: Do that Interviewer: Yesterday I 185: Could Interviewer: For do 185: No do did Interviewer: And I've 185: Done Interviewer: Yeah uh say if you you're sitting on there on the couch and somebody {X} Somebody might say uh what'd you say to me I said 185: Nothing Interviewer: Might say well I thought you said 185: Something Interviewer: Or something somebody tells you something really strange you might say wow I never heard of 185: That before Interviewer: Or I never heard of things 185: Of those Interviewer: Or maybe such things I never heard of such things 185: I've heard that I don't think I use it Interviewer: What about uh if somebody asks you if you lived in Ocilla uh uh all your life you might say I've lived here 185: I've always Interviewer: Or say talking about riding horses you might say well I got thrown from a horse once and I've been afraid of horses ever 185: Since Interviewer: Somebody who did something that wasn't accidental you say he did it 185: On purpose Interviewer: Or uh say if you were trying to find out something from me and I say well I'm not your man go him 185: Go ask him Interviewer: And the past would be yesterday I 185: Asked Interviewer: And I've 185: Asked Interviewer: And if uh boys begin to get annoyed with each other they might begin to 185: To punch Interviewer: Or 185: Hit or fight Interviewer: And yesterday I 185: Fought Interviewer: And I've 185: Fought Interviewer: Somebody did this with a knife I got 185: Stabbed Interviewer: And uh say if a teacher came in the room and there were a lot of funny pictures on the board she might turn and say who 185: Who drew those Interviewer: Or if you had to lift a a very heavy weight say up on the roof of a house you might dig up a a you know pulleys 185: {X} Interviewer: And all that sort of thing 185: And hoist it Interviewer: Yeah what would you say to somebody uh in the mor- in uh about ten o clock in the day time you'd in the way of greeting you'd say 185: Good morning Interviewer: How late would you say that 185: Until noon And then after that you'd say good afternoon Interviewer: Is there anything later than afternoon 185: There's good evening Interviewer: Or when you're leaving somebody during the daytime what do you say 185: Goodbye Interviewer: Ever heard uh any other greeting that would fit in there 185: Bye bye Interviewer: Do you ever hear people say good day 185: No Interviewer: Or say the names of the meals that you eat the first one in the morning that's 185: Breakfast Interviewer: Later 185: Is lunch Interviewer: When do you usually eat that 185: Lunch around noon Interviewer: And after that 185: Is dinner Interviewer: And that's about 185: That's Night Or is around six to eight {NW} But at home The Noon meal is dinner Interviewer: Mm-hmm 185: And your night meal is supper Interviewer: That must be a transitional sort of 185: It is It is Interviewer: I find myself saying lunch more and more 185: I say I say lunch and dinner {NW} And um I had to call Somebody up and I was inviting them To supper This was at home this summer And I said dinner And um We got it straightened out {NW} Before before they showed up at twelve the next day when they were supposed to be there Interviewer: Yeah 185: Six Interviewer: Very practical problem well if you were leaving somebody at night you would say 185: Good night Interviewer: Could you conceive of ever saying that when you were meeting somebody at night 185: No Interviewer: Say if some {X} You're on a farm when you start to work before daylight you say you started before 185: Before dawn Or before day Interviewer: Any other way of saying that 185: Before sunrise Interviewer: Before sunrise uh and say if you were a little late getting out in the field you might say by the time you got out there the sun had already 185: Risen Interviewer: And yesterday it 185: It rose Interviewer: And it begins to 185: Rise Interviewer: Or if you worked until the sun went out of sight you say that you worked until 185: Sunset Interviewer: Uh let's see uh today is uh what Thursday 185: Mm-hmm Interviewer: That means that Wednesday was 185: Yesterday Interviewer: And Friday's 185: Tomorrow Interviewer: If somebody came to see you on Sunday uh you know a week earlier than last Sunday 185: Mm-hmm Interviewer: You say he came to see you 185: Sunday before last Interviewer: Or if somebody's coming to see you a week beyond this Sunday he's coming to see you 185: Sunday after next Interviewer: Or if a person uh stayed at your house from about the first to the fifteenth you'd say he stayed about 185: About two weeks Interviewer: Any other thing that would work there 185: No Interviewer: Is fortnight ever used 185: No Interviewer: Do you know what it means 185: Fortnight is what two weeks Yeah but fortnight is not used Interviewer: Or if you wanted to know the time of day you would ask me 185: What time it is Interviewer: I might say well just look at my 185: Watch Interviewer: And say if it were midway between seven and eight o clock you'd say it was 185: Seven thirty Interviewer: And if it were fifteen minutes later at half past ten you would call that fifteen minutes later 185: Later than half past ten would be a quarter of eleven Interviewer: Or say if if you've been doing something for a long time you might say well I've been doing that for quite 185: Some time Quite a while Interviewer: Hear people say quite a spell 185: Mm-hmm I have I have Interviewer: Or say if uh if nineteen seventy-six was last year then nineteen seventy-seven is 185: This year Interviewer: Or do you have a brother 185: Mm-hmm I do Interviewer: How old is he 185: He's twenty {NS} Four Interviewer: Is there anything that uh you know if you were to elaborate if you were to elaborate on that a bit you'd say he's twenty-four 185: Years old Interviewer: Or something that happened around this time last year you'd say it happened 185: Last year a year ago Interviewer: And uh say talking about the weather now if you went out no clouds in the sky at all just blue sky you might say well I believe we're going to have a 185: A good a fair day today Interviewer: Or if it's not that the sun's not shining or pretty dark you might say well 185: Rain Or or cloudy Interviewer: Hear anybody say uh kind of gloomy outside 185: Mm-hmm Interviewer: Or say if the weather's doing this the clouds are getting thicker and thicker you're going to have some rain you'd say the weather is 185: It's getting worse {NS} The clouds are building up Interviewer: Heard anybody say the weather's changing 185: I don't think so Interviewer: Or say if it's been cloudy and they start pulling away and the sun starts shining through you say the weather's 185: Clearing Interviewer: Heard anybody say it's beginning to fair up 185: Mm-hmm Interviewer: Or uh a very heavy rainfall say a couple inches in just an hour you'd say you had a regular 185: Gully washer Interviewer: Heard anything besides that 185: A flood Interviewer: Flood 185: Um A storm Mostly a gully washer though I think Interviewer: Downpour 185: Yeah a downpour Interviewer: That's another interesting one people have told me that they call it a toad strangler 185: {NW} Interviewer: Stump mover all pretty good descriptions you mentioned the other time uh uh a thunderstorm what do you mean by that 185: A thunderstorm Interviewer: Going on 185: Thunder and lightning lots of thunder and lightning {NW} And lots of heavy rain Interviewer: Is it possible to have a storm with lightning no rain 185: Just an electrical storm Interviewer: Electrical 185: Yes Interviewer: Any particular terms for uh say a a regular nice sunny day then it starts to rain out of nowhere you ever heard that described any particular way 185: Is the sun still shin- Interviewer: Still shining 185: The devil's beating his wife Interviewer: With anything or just beating his wife 185: Just beating his wife Interviewer: My version of that has always been beating his wife with frying pans {NW} Interesting though uh what about say so and so had just got some uh uh clothes hung up on the line the wind came along and 185: Blew them off Interviewer: And you say the wind begins to 185: Blow Interviewer: And it's 185: Blown Interviewer: Have you ever had any uh bad winds around Ocilla 185: Yes Yes we had some this summer There were Probably some High tornadoes going over Interviewer: Mm-hmm 185: Um one night I thought some jets were flying over {NW} And um Daddy said no It sounded like a freight train going through {NW} But there's no freight train that {NW} And um The roof Got blown the roof's got blown off two barns And Some trees were uprooted On down in another section of the county Interviewer: I hate those I had nightmares about them I never seen one don't want to see one 185: Well I'm I'm glad that it {NW} That it was dark Interviewer: Yeah really say uh if the wind is is coming from that direction you say it's coming from the 185: East Interviewer: And that's the 185: West The north And the south Interviewer: And between that that would be the 185: The northeast The northwest Southwest Southeast Interviewer: Say uh if it's not raining very hard just you know barely raining at all just a few drops you say you're having a 185: A sprinkle a shower Interviewer: Heard anybody say drizzle drizzling 185: Mm-hmm Drizzle is is not Drizzle is more than a few Well the reason I said a sprinkle and a shower because you said we just had a few drops Interviewer: Mm-hmm 185: A drizzle I think of as a light rain Interviewer: I see 185: Somewhat steady Interviewer: Ever heard anybody say it's misting outside 185: Yes Interviewer: Where where would that 185: Misting {NW} Um Misting are very fine Interviewer: Mm-hmm 185: Very very fine drops not enough to be a drizzle And not a sprinkle where you have bigger drops Interviewer: Mm-hmm 185: Just Fine drops you have to run your windshield wipers and It's just very fine drops Interviewer: What do you call you know very low hanging clouds you say you got outside you could hardly see through the you having to drive through the 185: Through the clouds Interviewer: Or the 185: The fog Um Interviewer: What kind of day would that be 185: It'd be a foggy day Interviewer: And say if you've gone two or three weeks without rain you'd say you're having a little 185: A dry spell Interviewer: And worse than that would be 185: A drought Interviewer: About how long would it have to be before it became a drought 185: Um I think we had about Four months of it this summer Interviewer: Say if uh if the wind has been very gentle but it's gradually getting stronger 185: Mm-hmm Interviewer: You'd say the wind's doing what 185: It's it's picking up Interviewer: And if it's just the opposite 185: It's it's dying down Interviewer: Or if you you know get out in the morning in fall and you go outdoors and it's just the kind of weather you'd like to be out in you say it's really it's 185: It's Nice it's pleasant Interviewer: You ever heard anybody say something like uh uh it's kind of brisk out here or it's kind of airish or something like that you ever heard any of those 185: {NW} I've heard brisk but I think it's been since I've gotten to school Interviewer: Yeah I see meaning about the same thing I was talking about 185: Um Interviewer: {X} 185: Brisk is a little chillier Interviewer: Or say if you go out in the morning this light covering white on the ground 185: Frost Interviewer: Can you have one that's pretty severe 185: Yeah Interviewer: Any particular name 185: Um It'd be It'd be a heavy frost or a killing frost Interviewer: I see or you might say that it got so cold last night that the lake 185: Froze Interviewer: And that verb it begins to 185: Freeze Interviewer: And it has 185: Frozen {NS} What what we what we say a lot of times at home Instead of brisk {NW} When it's Cooler Than pleasant Interviewer: Mm-hmm 185: Is it's right nippy out Interviewer: Nippy 185: #1 Yeah # Interviewer: #2 Yeah # Yeah or say just for pronunciation uh would you just count for me slowly from one to twenty 185: Okay One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Twelve Thirteen Fourteen {NS} Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty Interviewer: And the number after twenty-six is 185: Twenty-seven Interviewer: And after twenty-nine is 185: Thirty Interviewer: And after thirty-nine 185: Forty Interviewer: And after sixty-nine 185: Seventy Interviewer: And after ninety-nine 185: One hundred Interviewer: And after nine hundred ninety-nine 185: A thousand Interviewer: And ten times one hundred thousand is one 185: Million Interviewer: Say uh the day that the bills are due that's usually the 185: The first of the month Interviewer: And after the first comes the 185: The second Third The fourth The fifth The sixth The seventh The eighth The ninth The tenth Interviewer: And this expression you might have heard somebody say it seems that your good luck comes just a little bit at a time but it seems that your bad luck comes 185: A lot at the time Interviewer: Or all 185: All the time All at once Interviewer: Mm-hmm and say a farmer got twenty bushels to the acre last year this year he gets forty bushels so he says that this year's crop is 185: Twice as good Interviewer: And the months of the year 185: January Interviewer: And then 185: February March April May June July August September October November And December Interviewer: And the days of the week 185: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Interviewer: Have you ever uh heard Sunday called anything else besides just Sunday 185: We jokingly refer to it as the Sabbath Interviewer: The Sabbath why do you say jokingly 185: Um Well we weren't too religious in my house Interviewer: Oh I see 185: Um that and um It's sort of an old term We just always have Interviewer: Yeah okay and say uh you know receiving something with your ears you say you 185: Hear Interviewer: And yesterday you 185: I heard Interviewer: And I've 185: And I've heard Interviewer: Any other old stories you want to tell me for the record 185: I can't think of any other old stories right now Interviewer: Okay appreciate it 185: You're quite welcome {NS}