Interviewer : Okay this is side one. And we've just finished with two point for and now we're on I mean twenty four point four we're now on twenty four point five. Uh let's see we're just talking about um hey we were just talking about boats and uh after you just build them the different things you might do with them. You know when you when you get them in the water. 255: Caught in the water And I I can't think of the Anytime of watching it {X} I said I cannot think of a better term of launching it unless that launching it be the thing that you want {NS} We built a uh a a colored man lived with us uh all the time uh it was a very {X} colored man. He built He built a {X} so anxious {X} went fishing that same day. Interviewer : mm-hmm 255: row boat Interviewer : Okay uh beg your pardon what'd you say? 255: They called it a row boat that's what we built Interviewer : um was there any other type of name that you used for that type of boat or 255: No they called it a row boat so. Interviewer : You ever call it John boat? 255: no no Interviewer : {X} 255: no that's {X} in Louisiana now Interviewer : Okay uh if uh if I ask you when you were going you might say I was blank today. 255: {X} you ask me when I was going Interviewer : #1 yea if I ask # 255: #2 leaving today # Interviewer : Right and then there's a form of go to go and then 255: I'm Interviewer : #1 I was # 255: #2 I'm # ready to go Interviewer : Yea and I was Blanking um was Something today I was 255: Planning to go today or Preparing to go today Interviewer : mm-hmm the you know the jargon form of go 255: the what Interviewer : the jargon 255: no Interviewer : uh 255: {X} {X} I'm about to go or what Interviewer : mm-hmm right uh in the different forms of the of the word go uh then there is uh {NS} let's see uh the action of doing it let's say I I am what today 255: I'm going today. Interviewer : mm-hmm 255: I'm going today yes I'm planning to go today {NS} Interviewer : Yea if he said that he was going to get some uh cake or something like that uh and then said now oh wait you already already said that word {NW} we just ran over that uh if a child is learning to dress himself and the mother brings him the clothes and says yea and she brings in the clothes and she takes the clothes and says 255: {NS} Put your clothes on for one thing Interviewer : and just 255: Dress yourself Interviewer : mm-hmm and if you say uh for instance say you know the mother brings in the clothes and she directs the child's attention to the clothes and she says uh 255: Now dress yourself Interviewer : Yea or she wants the child to see the clothes and say points to him and says 255: there they are there are your clothes put them on Interviewer : mm-hmm and then she says now she brings him up and she has him in her hands and she goes to the child and she says 255: Here are your clothes {NW} Interviewer : If you meet a little boy on the corner and he's afraid of you and you might tell him you're not going to hurt him uh by saying don't cry I 255: Well I won't hurt you. Don't cry I won't scare you I won't Interviewer : If you haven't um If you're having If you're having an argument with somebody and you want to ask him if he doesn't uh see if you're having an argument with somebody and you wanted to ask him if he didn't think you were right about this you would say well I'm right I'm right blank 255: Don't you think so I'm right don't you think so I'm right Interviewer : Uh if someone thanked you for a ride to town you might say don't mention it we blank going 255: We were going that way anyway We were going over town anyway We were going this way anyway Interviewer : If you were talking about the old days when everything was better than it is now you might lean back and say 255: Good old times Interviewer : {NW} and blank the good old days like if I referred it you know to the 255: #1 those # Interviewer : #2 good old days # 255: those were the good old days Interviewer : right {NW} Uh did you ever slam the door {NS} yo if somebody If somebody asks Was that you I saw in the town yesterday? You might say no it 255: It was my brother Interviewer : Or if it was wrong and you say no it 255: Let's see Interviewer : If you said I definitely saw you in town yesterday and you wanted 255: You are mistaken Interviewer : mm-hmm And then if you uh or you might say No it uh blank me 255: And it wasn't me And that wasn't me {NW} Interviewer : OK {NW} {NW} If a woman wants to buy a dress of a certain color She takes along a little square of cloth to use as a 255: Sample {NW} Interviewer : If she sees a dress that she likes very much and is very becoming she says that's a very blank dress. 255: Neat Interviewer : mm-hmm Or she might also use other words {X} If it's very colorful and she thinks wow it 255: That's a very Nice dress Interviewer : mm-hmm and if it 255: It would look good on me Interviewer : Or if it's dainty she might say 255: {X} That would look good on me I've heard people say that a lot {NW} Interviewer : Or like sometimes they would say to a man uh that that that that certain gentleman uh that that the girl and the man are just perfectly matched because he's handsome and she's 255: Beautiful? Interviewer : mm-hmm Or if you might say uh Let's see Getting to know any other words for beautiful? It's sort of a dainty word 255: Attractive Interviewer : mm-hmm It's something with which we use sort of more particular to a women and then not that much a man sort of feminine 255: It's very {X} Interviewer : And then if there was another girl who even looks better than that girl then you might say that she is 255: Unusually attractive Interviewer : mm-hmm But even intensified as as being more pretty she is 255: She is more beautiful or she is uh she's really handsome Interviewer : But uh that is sort of a 255: handsome is a man's word Interviewer : right and then what you would call a woman is a what 255: Beauty? Interviewer : mm-hmm But if she's even more beautiful she is what would you call her she's 255: I'm lost for words for that Interviewer : Mm-kay What might What might you wear over the dress over your dress in a kitchen or like you know your wife she's 255: An apron? Interviewer : right what was that? 255: Apron {NW} Interviewer : You sign your name in ink you would use a 255: Pen Interviewer : mm-hmm. To hold up a baby's diaper you would plate uh. In place you would use a 255: Pin Interviewer : mm-hmm 255: {X} Interviewer : Soup you usually buy comes in a 255: What? Say that again. Interviewer : Soup you usually buy 255: Soup? Interviewer : Yea. 255: #1 oh. It a can # Interviewer : #2 Soup you know in a can of soup # {X} 255: Uh you mean when you buy it? Interviewer : mm-hmm yea {X} 255: In a can you buy soup in a can Interviewer : And uh a dimes worth is 255: Ten cents? Interviewer : Uh {NW} What do you usually drink from the uh from the pump or well? 255: Water. Interviewer : mm-hmm What is the device you use to drink it with? 255: Cup Interviewer : And what's that cup usually made out of? 255: Tin, tin cup Interviewer : What do you uh put on when you go out in the winter time? 255: Coat. Overcoat. Interviewer : Mm-hmm uh that Then you would say uh let's say um I'm like Uh Say I point to a jacket and I say that jacket has fancy what on it uh it has what {X} that jacket has fancy buttons. Like I might say point to your your nice suit and say Your suit has fancy uh buttons {NW} 255: I don't know. {NW} Fancy buttons and bows is that what you're trying to say? Interviewer : Or if it's placed Like if I if I put this pencil on here what am , what am I doing? 255: you You're putting it on your shoe or your? Interviewer : Mm-hmm 255: Putting, putting on your coat is that what you're trying to say? Interviewer : Yea and then so I would say the jacket has fancy buttons where, where they're placed. 255: On the sleeve {X} On the coat? {NW} Interviewer : Sometimes between your coat and your shirt you wear a? 255: Vest. Interviewer : A suit consists of a coat, vest and? 255: Trousers or pants? Interviewer : And what would you call if you're wearing uh what do you call yea that, the stuff that um What do you wear when you're working around the barn or shop and you got these old things that are made out of Levis you know? 255: Overalls? Interviewer : If you're going outdoors in the winter without your coats someone runs up after you and brings it to you and he said and he would say Here I, I 255: Here's your own coat, here's your coat Interviewer : Mm-hmm but he'd say here, you know runs up to you and he, he's got your coat and he's like I've got your coat no coming and then you turn around and you say okay and you turn around and when he reaches you he says here I. He's already completed the task and he 255: I put it on? Interviewer : No he's, he's up to and he say, he hands you the coat and he says here I 255: Here I brought your coat Interviewer : Good {NW} the coat 255: Here's your coat Interviewer : Right The coat wouldn't fit {X} Suppose you had come from work and your wife said uh said about packing uh said about a package lying there the delivery boy from Jones store just you said that 255: Brought this so delivered it. Interviewer : If it were the wrong uh yea if it were the wrong package Jones might call and say please blank it back 255: Take it back Interviewer : Or You've been using the word, form of brought Please 255: Please carry it back Interviewer : Yea but it's a form of the word brought that you just said. Please blank it back. 255: Take it back? No? Interviewer : No, it's a form of the word brought. 255: I don't know. Is returned? Interviewer : Yea but it's a form of the word brought? Okay. It's, it's uh, the present tense of the word brought 255: Bring? Interviewer : Mm-hmm. {NW} This coat wouldn't fit this year but last year it blank perfectly. 255: It fit perfectly. {x} Interviewer : If your old clothes wore out, if your old clothes wore out you would have to bring a or you would have to buy a what? 255: New suit? Interviewer : {NW} If you stuff a lot of things into the pockets it makes them? 255: Bulky? Interviewer : The call um. Let's say. Uh if I was washing and and I was washing in scalding hot water uh what would and I had a collar what would it do you know? 255: It's welt? Interviewer : Yeah. And uh, let's say if I bought a new cotton shirt and I 255: Shrink? Interviewer : Right. And say if the shirt isn't sanforized I hope it wouldn't what? Oh you already said that right. 255: Oh it would shrink. Interviewer : Right. The one {NW} The one I wash yesterday 255: Shrunk. Interviewer : Lately it seemed that every one I have washed has 255: Shrunk? Interviewer : Okay. {NW} When a girl goes to a party to get ready you say she likes to what? 255: When she goes to a party or gets ready to go to a party? Interviewer : Uh when a girl goes out to a party in getting ready 255: Oh in getting ready she what? Interviewer : She likes to what? 255: Prep? Interviewer : Yeah that's good, uh What would you call uh, what do you call the small letter container with a clasp in it that women would carry money in 255: Purse. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. You ever hear it refer to as a pocket book? 255: Oh yea as pocket book. Then their pocket book or purse. Pocket book particularly I guess any common use Interviewer : What does a women wear around her wrist? 255: Oh she wears a watch or she wears a wristband or she wears a bracelet. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Suppose there are a lot of little things strung up together and you use to go around your neck as an ornament what would these be called? 255: Necklace. Interviewer : And uh if they're, they're at And if they were uh made out of let's say pearls or something like that or some ornamental thing 255: The pearl necklace Interviewer : Mm-hmm. What do what do men wear uh to hold up there trousers? 255: Suspenders or belt? or belt? Interviewer : Mm-hmm. What do you hold over you when it rains? 255: Umbrella. Interviewer : What is the last thing you put on in bed? You, like the fancy top cover. 255: Quilt? Interviewer : Mm-hmm and sometimes uh 255: Bed spread? Interviewer : Right. {NW} At the head of the bed you would put your head on a what? 255: Pillow. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Do you remember uh using anything at the head of the bed that was about as twice as long as a pillow? 255: No. Interviewer : Okay let's say uh you ever hear of the term used bolster? 255: Yes I have and uh bolster would be on a uh {X} Interviewer : Let's say uh if the bolster didn't go part way across the {D: davenport} it went? 255: Halfway? Interviewer : Or if it went, if it covered the whole {D: davenport} it went, where, it went? 255: Completely, uh, over, I don't know. Interviewer : Okay, uh 255: {X} Interviewer : What do you put on a bed? Let's see we already went over that. What do you call a makeshift sleeping place on the floor that children would especially like to sleep on? 255: They sleep on the floor with let's say is uh I don't know what Pad? Interviewer : Um. Okay let's say we expect a uh big yield from the field because the soil is very 255: Fertile. Interviewer : The flat land, the flat low land on the stream overflowing in the spring and plowed later You know what that'd be called? 255: Little fertile land or uh Interviewer : Okay uh the low lying grass land what would you call that a low lying grassland? 255: Well in some areas it's called a meadow but uh we don't use that term down here {X} Meadow. Interviewer : What about a field that might be good for nothing other than raising grass {X} for hay? {NW} 255: Sound like dairy, dairy products, dairy land for cattle or what Sound good for rural crops or {X} Grain drops. Interviewer : Yeah. Suppose this uh this was some land that went that had Say suppose this was some land that had uh water standing in it for a good part of time what would you call it? 255: Swamp land? Interviewer : Would it be uh, would it be big or small? 255: Uh it would be a pond if it's small. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. And if it was big it would be? 255: Swamp. Interviewer : Okay the place where salt uh where salt hay grows along the sea. 255: Where what grows on the sea? Interviewer : Salt hay grows along the sea. 255: Salt hay. Interviewer : Yea we have um. 255: We don't have salt hay down here. Interviewer : Oh you don't. 255: We have sea oats and other grasses but not salt hay. Marsh grass we have those. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and what would you call that place there? 255: Marsh lands for the marsh grass grows. Interviewer : Yeah and you right you just have some north it here you know there's {D: sut.} Uh what are the different kinds of soil uh do you have in the field? 255: It varies of course depends upon what the, what the scientific check would be. You check it to find out. But it would be uh Uh. Mucks soil or it would be uh, sandy soil. It would be uh. A number of categories but that's two of them I know. Interviewer : Okay let's say suppose it had part sand and part clay in it. What would you call that? 255: That's uh. Interviewer : Would it be called uh just muck soil? 255: It could be called muck soil, muck lands, muck lands. If it had a lot of muck in it,a lot of clay in it. Interviewer : Uh let's say if they're getting water off the marshes, you would say they are? 255: If they're getting water off the marshes? Interviewer : Yea well let's say if uh if the territory around here a little bit higher you know and we, we could uh take the water off the marshes by uh making ditches and stuff like that and digging 255: and drainage Interviewer : Mm-hmm and so what, what would they 255: But you wouldn't really use the salt marshes here you would want to {x} onto your farm land Interviewer : Right okay let's say if you wanted to go at inland here and you wanted to well let's say if you had a pump and you put it in there and you, you, you're {x} 255: You want to irrigate? Interviewer : No you're taking the water out in order to make some nice land what would you be doing then? 255: Oh, draining it. Interviewer : What would you call the thing that you uh {NS} Okay now let's say you could use a pump and you had higher land and uh You would be cutting something there, what would you call that thing that you would cut the ground? 255: You'd cultivate the land Interviewer : Or if if you dug a certain thing 255: Ditch? Irrigate? Canal? Interviewer : Uh. {NW} What would you call a shallow arm of the sea? uh. Let's see a shallow arm of the sea a tidal stream? 255: Estuary? Interviewer : Or a tidal stream. 255: Uh, well a tidal stream would be a river. Interviewer : And smaller than a river? 255: Brook? Interviewer : You ever heard of any other 255: Stream, called it a stream. Branch. {X} Interviewer : What about that narrow bit of water that flows in and out of the tide? What would you call that? 255: Narrow bit of water? Interviewer : Yeah. 255: Come in a canal but I don't know what else it'd be. Interviewer : {NW} A narrow valley cut by a stream of water in the woods or in a field about ten feet deep and ten feet across. 255: Are you sure just repeat that uh Interviewer : Okay but uh a narrow valley cut by a stream of water in the woods or a field about ten feet across and ten feet deep {X} 255: You're not speaking of erosion. Interviewer : Mm. It happens in erosion. 255: Yea well that the uh Bate? No? Interviewer : Let's say uh 255: Estuary? Interviewer : Mm-hmm. Or uh like you know if you're a 255: Hut. Interviewer : Yea if you're up on let's say if it was up on a hill And it was raining very hard and this narrow valley was formed and all this water is flowing down it's ten feet across and ten feet deep and it's flowing down. What is that that kind again what's that making? {NS} 255: It's making a d- uh well it's a it's a ditch it has to be a ditch to carry water but it's eroding it eroding it And it's uh it's uh not a real healthy thing it's something devastating {NW} It's not good {{NW} Interviewer : If there has been a a heavy rain fall and the rain is cut out a can- a canal 255: Canon? Canal? Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 255: Better. {X} Interviewer : And if it's across a road or a field you would call the place a what? {NS} Canal, crossroad. 255: Not a rivulet Interviewer : No. 255: You mean the result after a thing is over what {X} What would you refer to the Interviewer : #1 Yeah. Right. # 255: #2 result of the # Interviewer : Yeah. What did what would leave there a {D: lil} 255: Well it would read uh uh the erosion what it would be it would be uh Uh I don't know how to express what it would be Interviewer : What about uh uh gully? 255: Oh my goodness yeah exactly that's exactly what it would be a gully that's good I couldn't think of that that's a real gully sir Interviewer : What do you call uh a small stream of water? You just mentioned one 255: Ranch? Interviewer : Mm-hmm And uh is there anything similar to that? 255: A branch, a stream uh plus a river Interviewer : What about something between a river and a stream? 255: A branch, a river, a stream. Creek. Interviewer : What about a did you mention a word in here a while ago a rivulet? 255: Yes I said rivulet. Interviewer : Mm-hmm just wanted to make sure {NW} 255: Yeah. {NW} Interviewer : Oh do you happen to know of any uh names for the stream in the in the uh neighborhood around here? 255: Yes Moccasin branch is the name of uh a creek that goes to Saint John's river it's also the name of a place where I went to school, where I was baptized, it was a Catholic church and we went to eat Sunday the time I lived at {X} We went from and I went to school there every morning uh on my blue wagon me and my, we had it was eight was in our family and uh five of us would be in that wagon going to school in daylight Going from Hasenton to Muscton branch to the Catholic school there and when we would get home at night it would be dark. and there are nine the name of the Muscton branches and the uh the Trup river is another deep uh deep creek that another branch of the Saint John's river and Coast North river, the Tanzes river Interviewer : Mm-hmm. 255: If I can f- {NS} Interviewer : Okay on a side one we just finished off with talking uh well in the middle of talking about the neighborhood streams around here and uh Let's see Okay you were talking about the Matanzas river what's 255: Matanzas river is the name of the river that's from Saint Augustine down to marine land to the south and it was names that because like uh technically the river of blood is where these Spanish uh killed the Rebold and his French settles who {X} Matanzas when Menendez found {X} September the eighth the French tried to stop them and uh they uh were roded by the Spanish at Mayport near Jacksonville they left there and they went down to uh to the end of the island yeah this is a island and nineteen miles long and Menendez found him down there and uh murdered all of them, murdered Rebold, murdered at the French. Interviewer : Amazing 255: And uh he was a they they they called him a {D: tangice} the place where they murdered them was called Matanzas and the river that leads from here to there is called Matanzas river M-A-T-A-N-Z-A-S Interviewer : Okay uh what would you call a sm- uh what would you call a very small rise in land? 255: Knoll Interviewer : Mm-hmm Is there anything uh smaller than that? 255: uh {X} A hill of course but that knoll is a small hill and you might say Interviewer : Right what about anything a little bit larger than a knoll 255: Uh well uh Or a hill certainly larger than a knoll {X} a hilly area like you would be able to Yea Tallahassee which is quite hilly hills hills fifty feet higher and higher Interviewer : Mm-hmm what would you call uh the thing on that door over there? 255: The knob? Glass knob Interviewer : Okay what do you call a very large what is something that is a lot larger than a hill? Sort of resembles a hill but it is great 255: You don't mean a mountain oh yea a mountain sure. We don't have mountains in Florida {NS} Interviewer : We sure don't I'll tell you that. Uh the rocky side of a mountain that drops off sharply. 255: Cliff. Interviewer : And up in the mountains where the road goes across the low place you would uh you would call it a what? 255: valley. Interviewer : They also have a uh Thing they called the Cumberland uh north 255: Cumberland gap. Interviewer : You ever heard that word uses very much? 255: Oh Cumberland gap yes I went through Cumberland gap many times. Interviewer : #1 You ever hear that # 255: #2 I reached from # Washington over to Allen, Pennsylvania through the Cumberland gap Interviewer : And what do you also call a place like that? 255: Like what? Interviewer : You you know the gap, yeah 255: Uh Cumberland that's a very large area um Interviewer : A place like 255: Valley uh Low lands Interviewer : Okay now around here I see there's are a lot of places that you have around here uh in the water Or a place where a boat would comes up what would you call that or a boat? 255: Slip Interviewer : Or uh the whole area or a whole bunch of slips are put together 255: {X} A shoreline Interviewer : But uh a whole bunch of slips make up what? {NS} 255: Port? Interviewer : Beg your pardon? 255: Port. Interviewer : Right and uh if there is within a port there is something smaller than a port but larger than one slip 255: We call uh well some areas call like the shrimp docks we call that's uh shrimp slang around Sebastian river that's the number of number of walks and places where shrimp boats tie up. Docks Interviewer : what would you call a place where a large amount of water falls over a long distance? 255: Waterfall. Interviewer : Let's see uh a kind of white, hard paved road like a uh like on the like on the sidewalks around here what are they made out of? 255: Uh concrete. Interviewer : And uh what would you called like the roads around here 255: Well there made of uh a few of them are made of concrete uh there made of uh uh black uh black top or uh I can't think of the name the stuff the {X} uh I'll think of it in a minute. Black top is descriptive of what it is but it's made up of tar on other things. Interviewer : What would you call a little road that goes off the main road? 255: Could be a trail be a country road {NS} Interviewer : Right uh. And like you know some places around here where you go off like I see a lot of the farmers around here I think also in the middle of the state they have um like you'll be driving along a highway and there's there's these little dirt roads that go right off the side there you know 255: There's dirt roads up there {NS} {X} Interviewer : Okay uh you ever of a called neighborhood road? 255: That's not a common expression here no. Interviewer : Uh gravel road? 255: Gravel road if it's gravel yea. Interviewer : Parish road? 255: What kind? Interviewer : Parish road. 255: Parish? Interviewer : Yes. 255: No that's you get that in Louisiana {X} We have county roads here and in Louisiana the counties are called parishes. Interviewer : What about a lane? 255: A lane yes a lane would be more like in a in a city. Uh you tell a back lane back of a back of houses. Interviewer : Or a by path. 255: By path {NS} Like through a country meadow might be a by path I don't know short road of to somewhere Interviewer : Uh suppose to came to a man's farm down the public road and camed a little turn off down to the man's house what would you call that that's specific little turn? 255: That would be a typical lane take the lane turn off the lane. Interviewer : Mm-hmm what the track where you drive your cattle down when you carry them to the pasture? 255: I did technical name I don't know. Interviewer : What about a uh cow pass? 255: {X} Interviewer : You ever you you ever heard of that being used very much around here? 255: Well {X} No. Cow Pass. Thats like a pass means {X} You take them to the carry them to the field. It wouldn't be expressive calling, honored by calling it a cow pass. Interviewer : What are are if it was uh big plantation with a long tree line pathway leading up to the entrance what would you call that road? 255: I've seen some of those very attractive places in Louisiana um there is one particularly I can think of now Long lane with serve uh nice tress on each side up to the main house I think they were called heritage houses I recall uh I can't think of the appropriate name of that uh other than take the lane up the there's a name for it but I wouldn't know. Interviewer : I I saw that you had something right outside of your house here, what do you call that? 255: Alley. Interviewer : Yea and 255: There's an alley back of my house here. Interviewer : Right and where you drive your care up there what do you call that? 255: Uh well that's that's in the alley {NW} That in the alley {X} Interviewer : Uh sometime along the side of the street uh there is something along the side of the street where people walk on you have 255: Sidewalk. Interviewer : Uh {NS} You know of any other terms for that? Sidewalk? 255: No Interviewer : Okay 255: Sideway that's what I've always called it. Interviewer : Uh you're walking along the road and a jog dog jumps out at you And he scares you what you do uh what do you pick what do you pick and throw? What would you pick and throw like if you know if you taking something and that dog was coming at you and you pickup a 255: Picks up a stick? Interviewer : Mm-hmm 255: If ones handy Interviewer : Or if there is something thats more solid than that 255: Well uh A rock would not be as handy as a stick if a dog's coming at you Interviewer : #1 Right # 255: #2 to you on a # Stick. Interviewer : And so if if you took that and you're you're you're doing an action with that what would you do with that with that? With that stick. 255: Course you would throw it at him or Interviewer : Uh if If a say if you um Go to someone's house and he isn't there and they say no he is not 255: Home? Interviewer : Okay. And let's say if you go to uh If you go to visit a I would say if someone came to visit your wife and you met the person in the yard you might say she's {X} Or she's blank in the house blank uh she's Uh 255: In the yard? Interviewer : Okay alright if someone came to visit your wife and you met the person in the yard you would you might say she's blank the house 255: She's in the house? Interviewer : Uh-huh 255: If she was in the house if she was not in the yard she was in the house Interviewer : Uh-huh and Okay right {X} Okay uh talking about putting milk in coffee some people have it Some people like it uh blank milk and other like it uh blank milk like you know some people like like how are the different ways that people like their coffee? 255: Now well my wife takes uh milk in hers and I don't take anything in mine I take it black. Interviewer : Mm-hmm so you would you would have uh your wife would like it 255: Have cream cream in her coffee or milk in her coffee or Interviewer : Okay lets say fill in the blank in here your wife would like it blank milk and you would like it blank milk 255: {X} mine black and she wants hers with milk {X} Interviewer : Like she wants hers uh 255: With cream or milk Interviewer : And you like yours 255: Black. Interviewer : Right or 255: Less expression Interviewer : If I were to say you like yours like milk 255: Without milk Uh If someone is not going away from you he is coming straight blank you Head on? Interviewer : Or if somebody someone is going not going away and he's coming straight blank you also 255: Straight toward me? Interviewer : Right. Uh if someone's uh If you saw someone you have not been uh seen for quite awhile you might say this morning I 255: I saw oh I saw John. Interviewer : Uh right or if you met someone in town instead of saying I met him you might say I 255: Saw him. Interviewer : Or instead of saying you saw him you You I 255: Ran into him. Interviewer : Right {NW} 255: I ran into John this morning when I left town Interviewer : Mm-hmm 255: That's a common expression. Interviewer : Right.If a child is given the same Uh if a child is given the same name that her mother has you say that the child name that the named the child blank her mother. 255: That's a name sake Interviewer : Uh-huh or they name the child blank her mother 255: After her mother Interviewer : Mm-hmm What kind of animal barks? 255: Dog. Interviewer : If you wanted your dog to attack another dog or person what would you say ? 255: Sick him. {NW} Interviewer : That's uh that's a code {NW} I've heard that that's um 255: #1 You've heard that before # Interviewer : #2 I haven't heard that # in a while but I've heard it That's true. 255: That's exactly what you say say Interviewer : Okay if you have a mixed breed dog uh what would you call you would call him a what? 255: Mongrel? Interviewer : If the dog likes to bite you say the boy was blank the dog. It was 255: It was afraid of the dog Interviewer : Right and if the dog likes to bite you would say the boy was blank by the dog. 255: Bitten by the dog. Interviewer : And then that dog would blank anyone 255: That dog would bite anyone. Interviewer : Yesterday he blank the mailman 255: He bit the mailman. Interviewer : The mailman had to go to the doctor and after after he got uh um the mailman had to go uh the mailman had to go to the doctor after he got 255: After he was bitten by the dog Interviewer : Right In a heard of cattle uh what would you call the male? 255: Bull? Interviewer : What would you call uh him when there are women around? Like you know something 255: Call a bull when the the {X} were around or the cows Interviewer : Right and uh is there Is there any special word that women would call them? 255: That women would call cows? Interviewer : Yea would call cows. 255: Uh Interviewer : like you know is there is {X} I don't know I think bull is is appropriate but uh are there any is there any special term? 255: Of course there's a steer which is not a bull. A steer is a bull has been cut altered and uh cows are heifers Interviewer : Uh what are what are uh the different words thats wording for cut? 255: Uh castrate. Interviewer : Are there are there any supposedly polite or 255: Uh {X} Interviewer : for that 255: Let's see there's uh altered yea a bull has been altered Those have been altered. Interviewer : Um and the kind that you would keep for milk what would you call those? 255: Those are milk cows. Interviewer : Uh Now uh talking about a different type of thing uh that's still an animal the ones that you would drive carts with if you had four then there would uh driving 255: Oxen Interviewer : Right Or if you had uh a team of the four oxen {X} 255: Team of oxen yea you would have a team of oxen. Interviewer : Uh you ever heard of any other words for that? 255: Uh Yea it was a lot of common certain I didn't know I never had much experience with oxen they had we had uh oh no we didn't but one of our neighbor farmers had oxen Interviewer : Mm-hmm they ever call if a spare? 255: A what? Interviewer : A span. 255: A span well yea I guess it was a span but horses I know they call Interviewer : Um What would you call a little cow when he was first born? 255: Calf. Interviewer : And a female uh is called a what? A female calf 255: Well a cow is a female animal. A bull is not a cow. Interviewer : Right okay so what would you call what would you call 255: Heifer? Is a is a young calf Interviewer : Is there any distinction between a young calf that was a female is there any name that you call a young calf that is 255: A bull calf and a and a and a {x} I don't know I really don't know. I know you would call them a bull calf if they were a male. Then so it must just be calf Or or a female Interviewer : What would you call a male horse? 255: Stallion. Interviewer : Uh and riding animals are called? 255: Riding horses. Interviewer : And you would call a female one is called a 255: Mayor. Interviewer : Uh but a but But male or female Uh what's a plural of of a horse? 255: Horses. Interviewer : If you didn't know how uh If you didn't know how to ride you would say I have never blanked a horse. 255: I have never ridden a horse. Interviewer : And everyone around here likes to What? 255: Ride ride Interviewer : Last year he blank his every morning 255: Last year he rode his horse every morning Interviewer : Mm-hmm. If you couldn't stay on you'd say I blank the horse 255: I fell of the horse which I have done. I pulled the hor- I pulled the horse over on me. And I was little I was about seven years old riding and the horse ran ran up and and instead of leaning forward I just pulled back and the horse came right over and fortunately I wasn't hurt. {NW} Interviewer : Wow that's amazing I'm glad sometimes that can that can seriously 255: Oh yeah I fell off the horse fell and missed me. Interviewer : And uh you'd say To some uh to a little child uh Let's see you would say a little child went to sleep in bed and found himself on the floor in the morning he said I I must have {NW} 255: Fallen out of bed. Interviewer : Right. {NW} Uh Things that you would put on a on a horse's feet to protect them from the road 255: Shoes. Interviewer : Mm-hmm. What would you call that Let's see Oh yea uh what are there any other names you would call it the shoes? 255: Horseshoe. Interviewer : Mm-hmm Uh The pair of horse's feet that you would put uh the shoes on onto let's see the the pair of the um the pair of the horses feet that you put the shoes onto would be called what? Uh the horse's feet. 255: Huffs. Interviewer : Right and the singular of that is? 255: Huff. Interviewer : Right. The game you would play uh lets see with these things that you that you put on the uh on the horse's feet 255: The horseshoes. Interviewer : Mm-hmm and uh Let's see what would you call the male the male sheep 255: Male sheep Interviewer : Yeah. 255: Ram I guess. Interviewer : Mm-hmm And what would you call a female sheep? 255: Uh Uh we never had a sheep down here they grew some sheep out in Bakersfield that was the only area that kind of had sheep. Goats and sheep. Let's see uh I I just don't know I forgot. I would recognize it I guess. If I heard it. Interviewer : You ever hear it called a ewe? 255: Ewe exactly yes. {X} That's what they call it. Interviewer : What would you have on their backs would they have on there? 255: Wool? Interviewer : Mm-hmm. What would you call a male hog? 255: Boar. Interviewer : #1 What would you call # 255: #2 {X} # Interviewer : I beg your pardon? 255: A male hog has been altered as an shoat. Interviewer : Huh is that what they, is there any other names you happen to know? 255: S-H-O-A-T is a shoat. Interviewer : Interesting. {NW} What would you call the one that was is um what is uh What do you call the uh uh 255: Sal Interviewer : What would you call one when it was first born? 255: Oh. Huffs you call them {X} but there's uh There's probably not a name for it. Interviewer : Yea the little one when it's first born what would you call it? 255: I don't know but I'll never forget. I was chairman of uh bond drive during the war And it wrap it off various things people would buy bond and we bought some bonds and we won a a little pig and we brought him home and it was in February he was freezing to death he had been out in the weather and we've had him in the oven we'd give him milk and he died the next morning but he was just just a little thing {NW} that's what you're talking about but I don't want you to call it except a little pig Interviewer : I think I may have heard it referred to uh are you familiar with the term piglet? 255: Piglet? Yes I've heard piglet that's you get that on television And I've heard stories. Interviewer : Oh so that's a that's a new term sort of isn't it? 255: I would think so but I wouldn't I would rather call them pigs. Little pigs, baby pigs, not piglets. Interviewer : What do you call it when it's a little big older than that? 255: I don't know let's see Of course a shoat is a small pig and that's a shoat yea I think it's a shoat is a a half grown hog and I don't think that I don't think one has been altered. It's called a shoat uh I think I was mistaken there. There's another name for one {X} Just like an altered bull is a steer Interviewer : Mm-hmm did you ever hear the uh the word for the one that's altered have you ever heard it called a stag? 255: No I {X} Interviewer : What about a rig? 255: No. Interviewer : Uh uh barrel hog? 255: Barrel? Yes. That's uh that's barrel you're right. Barrel. Interviewer : Um. Okay so when a hog is full grown what do you call them? When they are full grown what do you call them? 255: Porky? A pork? Porky? But it's a they call it hog what's you call them {NW} Interviewer : Uh {NW} How big how big must a pig get to be called shoat do you think? 255: I would say a pig eh if it was twenty-five pounds, thirty pounds it would be a shoat. Interviewer : What what is an unbred female called? 255: Uh Uh I can't think of that technical name either now Interviewer : These uh big t uh let's see Yea uh the big teeth that uh 255: Tusks tusks Interviewer : What about the things that a elephant have would they be called the same thing? 255: A what? Interviewer : An elephant. 255: A elephant has uh ivory tusks. Interviewer : Right. Okay now the thing that you would put the food in for a hog uh would be called a what? {NS} You know talking about the soil soil bucket and the slob 255: It's uh Uh we we we used to have it made of wood it slept down here Uh I can't think of the name for it now I recognize it if I heard it but I can't think of it Interviewer : Uh {D: trock} 255: {D: Trock} Interviewer : What's uh 255: {X} Interviewer : What's a plural of that? 255: Troughs {X} Interviewer : Do you uh ever have any names for a hog that's uh grown up in the wild? 255: Uh Well they have uh a wild hogs they have them now and they yes they call them uh I forgot my {X} I've never hunted them by I have, my my relatives have I know Caught them in the swamps Interviewer : Do you ever call them a piney woods rooter? 255: Nope that's not what Interviewer : Piney in piney woods rooter I mean 255: Piney woods rooter could be called here but that's They just call it wild hogs here Interviewer : What about mountain rooter? 255: No that's not a common name around here. Interviewer : Uh the one that's made by a calf when it was being weened you would say the calf began to 255: Bellow Interviewer : A general low noise made by a cow during feeding time 255: Moo Interviewer : A general noise that a horse makes the horse began to 255: {D: Wimmer wimmer wimmer} Wouldn't he {D: wimmer} I guess {D: wimmer} Interviewer : You have uh let's say you've got some horses, mules, cows, so forth Uh now when they are getting hungry you would you would have to go out and 255: Uh There's a common phrase for that {X} Stock of call them stock Feed the stock is the name for it {X} Interviewer : Um let's see um You've got some horses, mules, let's see right we've already said that {NW} If you're going to uh feed the hens, turkeys, geese, and so forth do you have any other name for all of them? Uh yeah {NW} For all of them for all for 255: Course you're feeding the chickens but if you've got turkeys and geese and things of that Uh uh I've never had the opportunity to feed those cuz I've never had those flock like that but you'd feed the feed the chickens Interviewer : Let's say yeah right and what would you call all of them together? You know all those that you'd 255: You'd call them a flock Interviewer : Right or you would call of all different types of birds what would you call all of them? 255: Cubby? Interviewer : Right.Or a general terminology covering all birds? 255: Uh Interviewer : You ever heard the expression fish and 255: No Interviewer : No you haven't 255: No Interviewer : Okay well let's say that 255: Uh fowl? Interviewer : Right {NW} 255: Oh yeah you call it fowl sure You if you have {X} Be a proper name for a mixed Uh what you said but the chance I say I'm going to feed the chickens {NW} Interviewer : How about the hand setting on a {X} is called a? 255: setting