Interviewer: {NS} Okay this is uh side two of the {C: background noise} fifth reel. We eh just ended talking about a person who is considered uh he's at a party and he just can't take a joke and you tell him a joke and he just he's you know the type of guy who just gets angry at the first first time y- you tell uh you make a joke about him. What type of person would you call that? 255: {NW} {NS} Interviewer: If he's very sensitive what would you call that type of person? {NS} 255: I'm sure there's a word for that I would know very well but I just can't think of it. I know the opposite c- certainly. Unreasonable? No. Interviewer: You ever hear the word testy? 255: Testy yes I would say that. Interviewer: Dreadful? 255: Uh I think uh {X} be what I would use there must be another word Interviewer: How about uh feisty? 255: Feisty yes that's the word I wouldn't use but that about that would would cover it to some extent. Interviewer: Uh-huh. How about short patient? 255: Yes short #1 short patient. # Interviewer: #2 Okay if I was kidding about him and I didn't know # uh he would get what. 255: Angry? Interviewer: Okay. And if he's got if he's If he ha- if he has a uh a bad temper all the time he's {NS} 255: Crotchety? Interviewer: Okay. Somebody's about to lose his temper you would tell him just 255: Cool your peace or keep your mind or let's see just {NS} Interviewer: Okay if you are very very tired you would say you are all 255: In. {NS} Interviewer: Um. {NS} When you uh when you're in you would say he let's say our p- person is Uh you have no any other terms for that? 255: I'm tuckered out. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Or when a person is all tuckered out you would say he's uh {NS} or I'm completely 255: Exhausted? Interviewer: Okay. Um. If a person has been quite well and you hear that suddenly he has some disease you'd say just last night she {NS} 255: {X} Interviewer: Uh-huh. Or uh if she is sick today and started last night you'd say last night she blank sick. 255: She got sick. Interviewer: Okay. Do you happen to know are there any Minorcan terms for someone who is let's say well let's see {NS} yeah a person who is uh where do y- where do you usually get sick? #1 Sometimes if # 255: #2 Stomach? # Interviewer: Right. 255: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 In your stomach. # In uh you happen to know any uh Minorcan terms for a pain in the stomach? 255: No. Interviewer: {D: Mpatchka?} 255: Never. Interviewer: Or uh {D: Sankrisa?} 255: No. Interviewer: Okay. Okay but let's say if this person were sick and then you say but she'll be up again by {NS} 255: She'll be up again soon. Interviewer: Or you would say but you don't have to worry uh he'll be well again 255: Soon? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NS} Or we'll get there 255: Early? #1 Or soon or late. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # We'll get the work done {NS} 255: {NW} We'll get the work done before we leave or we w- we will get the work done soon. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. If a person sat in a draft and began to cough last night he 255: Caught a cold? Interviewer: Right. Uh and if his uh if it affected his voice you would say he is 255: Hoarse? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And then you might say I have a little {NW} {C: coughing effect} like that. 255: Tickle in my throat. Interviewer: Or if I had a cold and I uh constantly did that I had a 255: Cough? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And then sometimes some people say I'd rather go to bed I'm feeling a little 255: Queasy? Interviewer: Or if they're okay and they're just so tuckered out you would just say I'm feeling a little 255: Weary? Interviewer: Uh-huh. Or if it or if it just late at night and it constantly happens to people and you just {NW} {C: yawning effect} just yawn and you say well I feel a little 255: Tired? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NS} And then when people go to bed they what do they do? {NS} 255: Depends on how old they are. They go to sleep. Interviewer: Uh-huh. And then th- just before you go to sleep you feel 255: Sleepy. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. At six oh clock um you might say I'll 255: Get up? Interviewer: Uh-huh. And uh he's been sleeping or you might say he's been sleeping better go like if it's if it's eleven oh clock in the morning and the guy is went to bed at nine oh clock the night before and then you say well he's been sleeping just better go and 255: Wake him up? Interviewer: Right. If the medicine um okay now let's say another expression if the medicine is still uh by the patient's bedside you might ask why haven't you blank your medicine. 255: Why haven't you taken your medicine. Interviewer: And the patient might answer I blank some yesterday. 255: I took some yesterday. Interviewer: And now I'll blank some #1 more later on. # 255: #2 I'll take some tomorrow. # Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And if you can't can't hear anything at all you would say you are stone 255: Deaf. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. If you've been working hard and you take your wet shirt off and say look how I 255: Look how I'm sweating? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And uh a discarde- a discharge discharging sore that comes to a head is a 255: Boil? Interviewer: Right. When a boil opens the stuff that drains out of it is 255: {NW} {C: laugh} {X} had boils they had carbuncles by the dozens for several years when I was young Interviewer: #1 And what was the stuff that came out? # 255: #2 I don't # A lot came out too. Interviewer: What is it called? 255: I don't know {X}? {D: Uh fetid fetid} it's a corruption? Uh something else what else I can't think of another name. Interviewer: If you have got some infection in your hand so that your hand got so big that it ought to be it ought to be uh you se- you would say my hand 255: Big as a barrel? Interviewer: Right or but if it got bigger it ought to be you would say my hand {NS} 255: Will bust? Interviewer: Yeah or if yo- if you burned your hand and you burn the whole thing and it's not really charred but it it just starts to get bigger what's it what's it do? 255: Swelling? Interviewer: Uh-huh. And then you would say my hand 255: Is swollen? Interviewer: Right. Uh a bee stung me and my hand oh we already said that. Uh it's pretty badly {NS} 255: Still my hand? {NS} #1 My hand is uh still uh # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. Pretty badly. # 255: Uh. {NS} Swelled? I mean you're speaking of na- It's spilling out. Interviewer: Or you might say it probably won't what much. {NS} 255: Probably won't get any worse. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. When you get a blister and the liquid that forms under the skin is called {NS} 255: Water? Interviewer: Uh-huh. In a in a war a bullet goes through your arm you would say you have a {NS} 255: Wound? Interviewer: Uh-huh. A kind of skin skinless scrub in a wound that that's got to be burned out {NS} Okay the what kind of flesh grows in it? #1 Like um # 255: #2 Proud flesh. # Interviewer: Beg pardon? 255: Proud flesh. Interviewer: If you get a little cut in your finger what do you uh what do you put it into uh to in order to prevent 'em uh infection? 255: S-C thirty-seven or alcohol or #1 something of that nature. # Interviewer: #2 Or the brown liquid that stings? # 255: Yes that's uh uh {D: Povidone} iodine. Interviewer: Right. If it if it is uh been given sometimes as a tonic for malaria then it would be or something uh th- there is something that they used to use uh 255: {X} Interviewer: Right. {NS} Do you happen to know of any um 255: You haven't you've never taken any {X} have you? Interviewer: No {C: laughing} 255: Ah. Interviewer: #1 I never I never had that. # 255: #2 That's {D: spring} you take {X} # uh to keep the fever down if you're having malaria fever. Interviewer: That's interesting. Huh I di- I never really needed that much I mean Emory has a medical school there but never got around to that section. Uh {C: background hammering} are there any uh crude and humorous ways that you would talk about uh if a person died. 255: Person died? Interviewer: Yeah. 255: Well I would hear all sorts of things {X} yeah. {NS} Checked out. Interviewer: What would you call a place where people are buried? 255: A cemetery. Interviewer: Uh what do you call the box that people are buried in? 255: Vault. Interviewer: #1 And uh # 255: #2 Coffin? # Interviewer: Beg your pardon? 255: Coffin. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 255: A coffin a vault. Interviewer: {NW} {C: cough} What is the cere- uh ceremony at the cemetery called? 255: Funeral service. Interviewer: If people are dressed in black you would say they are in ` 255: Mourning? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Some people somebody asks you on an average day how are you feeling you'd say {NS} 255: Uh {NS} {X] or you could say better or you could say I'm doing quite well or you could say uh like I say quite frequently {NS} uh what's th- what's the expression I use I use uh tolerable. I use that quite frequently just jokingly. {X] ah I'm tolerable. #1 {NW} {C: laughing} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} {C: laughing} # If uh if the children are out late and uh your wife's getting a bit excited you'd say they'll be uh and you might go to her and you'd say they'll be home alright the- just don't 255: Worry? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Uh the disease of the joints is called 255: Rheumatism? Interviewer: #1 {X} # 255: #2 or arthritis? # Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 255: When I was younger it was rheumatism and now it's arthritis. Interviewer: Oh wow. That's interesting. 255: Everything it- when your joints hurt when I was a little fella the older people oh my rheumatism my rheumatism and it was the same thing {X} arthritis. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. That's interesting. Um in the ti- in speaking of diseases I was wondering the type of uh disease a very uh that you'd have a very uh sore throat with blisters inside the throat. 255: Scarlet fever? Interviewer: Yeah and then there was the disease where children used to choke in the night 255: Whooping cough? Interviewer: Uh-huh. Uh or around world war one thereafter they uh used to give people the #1 the # 255: #2 Flu shots? # Interviewer: or the the uh Schick test in order to see if they needed shots or {NS} 255: Influenza? Interviewer: Or a disease that uh a disease that you hardly ever heard of now uh because they have given shots for it but it uh #1 used to kill lots of children they used to choke to death. # 255: #2 Polio? # Uh what's it called? Interviewer: Uh 255: Uh choke to death oh diphtheria. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 255: Oh yes my gosh I was when I was young they that was a frightening thing {X} diphtheria and they'd put a sign contagious and you had to stay away from that a long time. Interviewer: Wow that's interesting. Yeah I heard stories but I never really 255: {X] diphtheria in the in the neighborhood they helped come put a big red sign over the door quarantine diphtheria. Interviewer: That's interesting. #1 And the people weren't allowed to have any contact with anybody? # 255: #2 And then they had to be then the- the people who were inside would take care of their child. # It was usually a child's disease. They would have to uh wash their hands and take all sorts of precautions um protect themselves and keep and keep children away all the children {X} disease and uh uh growing up it was not as likely to contract it. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 255: So it was qui- oh that was a bad thing diphtheria. {NS} Interviewer: Uh when your skin in your eye valves turn red you're getting {X} when they turn yellow pardon me when they turn 255: Jaundice. Interviewer: Right. Uh when you have a pain and it's right here and you have an operation it's uh 255: Appendix? Interviewer: Uh-huh. And what do you call uh the operation? 255: Appendicitis. Interviewer: Right. #1 Do you remember the # 255: #2 Appendectomy is the operation. # Appendicitis is the di- is the disease I guess or the affliction. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Do you remember what people used to call it before they knew it was appendicitis when people used to die of it? {NS} 255: Course if they let it go it would bust and s- and cause uh kill you pretty quickly. Interviewer: Do you happen to know of any Minorcan terms for sicknesses? 255: No. Interviewer: How about uh {X}? 255: No. Interviewer: When you eat and drink things that uh don't agree with you and they come up and yo- you say you 255: #1 Oh you mean if y- you throw up you mean? # Interviewer: #2 Right. # 255: Oh. Sick of my stomach? Interviewer: Right. What was that? Beg your pardon? 255: Sick of my stomach. I'm sick of my stomach. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. If a person's pretty bad this way you might say he was leaning over the fence and 255: Vomiting? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. If she hardly uh got the news when she c- uh when she came right over or if she hardly got the news when she came right over {NS} or when she came over ri- okay and um this one of those fill in the blank sentences. She hardly got the news. When she came right over {NS} 255: Oh she hardly got the news and she came right over to help? Interviewer: #1 Uh-huh. # 255: #2 To # Interviewer: And when she relates that news she came right over 255: {X} Interviewer: Or uh if a woman's been speaking on the phone across the street and she heard some news that she wanted to tell you And she came right over and she said and then you might say she came right over 255: Uh with gossip is that what you're trying to get? Or uh news or what. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Or a form of talk. 255: #1 Mm-hmm. # Interviewer: #2 Came right over. # 255: And spread the news. {NS} Interviewer: If you invite somebody to come and see you this evening and you want to tell and you want and want to tell them that you will be disappointed if he hasn't come you'll say now if you don't come I 255: I'll never forgive you. Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 255: #2 {NW} {C: laughing} # Interviewer: #1 Or- # 255: #2 Yeah. # Interviewer: Or you might say uh if he doesn't come I blank disappointed. 255: If he doesn't come we'll be very disappointed. Interviewer: Or if you just say yourself I #1 I okay. # 255: #2 I will be disappointed. # Interviewer: If you're going uh to be glad to see me you would say we blank be glad to see you. #1 Oh you already said that. # 255: #2 We would all be glad too see you. # Interviewer: If you do it uh okay and then if you say if you do that again I'm going to {NS} like if you're like saying to a child you say if you do that again I'm going to 255: I'm gonna spank you. Interviewer: Right. Uh if a boy is beginning to pay uh serious attention to a girl he is 255: Flirting? Interviewer: Uh-huh and if he's a little bit more serious than that he is 255: Courting? Interviewer: Right. Any other terms? 255: Huh. {X} around would be sparking. Interviewer: That used much around here? 255: N- no but it wa- when I was young it used they used to do that quite a bit. So uh um Peasant way of talking was that that is uh he we- he's he's out sparking. Interviewer: {NW} {C: laugh} {NS} Uh and and uh let's say what would you c- um what would they call him after after he is uh he is her what he is the girl's 255: Uh beau? Boyfriend? {NS} Interviewer: And she is his 255: Girl? Sweetheart. {NS} Interviewer: A boy comes home with lipstick on his collar and his little brother says you've been {NS} 255: You've been courting or you've been kissing. Interviewer: Other t- are there any other terms? Old-fashioned terms? {NS} 255: Um {X} Interviewer: If she ask um ask her to marry him and she doesn't want him what do you say uh she did to him? 255: Turned him down. {NS} Interviewer: Uh also a man to a woman. {NS} 255: Uh {X} Interviewer: Uh-huh. And if a girl stops letting her boy come over you would say she {NS} 255: If a girlfriend stops her boyfriend from coming over to see her Interviewer: Yeah. #1 And that they were engaged and all of a sudden she # 255: #2 Well she {D: jolted} him that certainly could be used there. # {NS} Or she {NS} Interviewer: And if she accepted they would be 255: Married. Interviewer: Are there any uh humorous terms for that? 255: Well sorts of terms for marriage get hitched and all that business but that's that's so common. Interviewer: A wedding the man who uh who stands up with the bride is the besides the uh besides the u- the the the man who's being married you know to her the man. 255: Well of course he's the best man for the groom he would be by the bride. Interviewer: Right. 255: #1 He by the best b- by the groom he'd be by the groom yeah. # Interviewer: #2 Okay by the groom right {X} you know the groom. # Other terms for that? #1 Or any old-fashioned # 255: #2 Stood up for # He stood up for me? He I use that quite frequently he stood for me. Interviewer: And the girl that stands up with the bride is the 255: Maid of honor? Or Uh a number of names for it uh attendant but maid of honor is uh {X} Interviewer: A noisy burlesque band playing that comes round to the house after a wedding is a 255: Shivaree? #1 {NW} {C: laughing} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} {C: laughing} # 255: Well I don't have guys they don't have shivarees but they used to when I was young. They give shivarees to Y- you don't give shivarees to people that they're married. You give a shivaree to a man who's married a second time. Interviewer: {NW} 255: You don't give it to 'em when they're first married. Interviewer: Is there any Minorcan terms for that? 255: Uh well uh {NW} well I'm sure there would be. Yes I'm sure because {X} The {X} people used to do it all the time they'd give a shivaree they'd take pans and beat 'em and make noise and all sorts of things they'd come in the house and just have and then they'd eat have food to bring food somebody would bring food and they'd eat it and drink but they would give a man a man who is married a second time he'd get a shivaree but the uh the first time no. You just said when they get married is that what you were asking? Interviewer: Yeah. 255: Well I I don't think that's I think shivaree is a would would really only apply to the name the the name shivaree applied to a person who's married before I don't believe it's Interviewer: You ever hear the word {D: sansoresa}? 255: {D: Sansoresa} no that's probably a Minorcan word. Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm.{C: laughing in background} # 255: #2 Sound very proper while I'm talking just like you. # It tickles him he enjoys that. Interviewer: #1 Uh if uh if you # 255: #2 {X} and he # he {X} and uh Interviewer: #1 {X} # 255: #2 {X} # You go When I was young whenever my father and mother paid their monthly bill at the grocery store we always tried to go with them because the man would give us {D: kutra}. Some cakes or cookies or candy. It's it's {D: kutra.} {X} Interviewer: Any other names do you happen to know for that? 255: {X} Interviewer: And if I and then let's say also uh you might be somewhere and then you came back and you would say let's say you were up in Atlanta. 255: {NW} Interviewer: Uh uh let's see right we're gonna forget that one I messed that up. 255: #1 {NW} {C: laughing} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} {C: laughing} # Uh then you might say he blank the Browns. He lives blank the Browns. 255: Near? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 255: He lives near the Browns. Interviewer: Or if they're far away you would say 255: He lives uh across town from the Browns or he lives uh far away from the Browns he lives Interviewer: Uh-huh. 255: #1 He lives uh he lives uh on the other side of the river from the Browns. # Interviewer: #2 On the other side of the mountain or something like that. # 255: {NS} Interviewer: If they uh let's see {NS} okay uh let's say if there was trouble at a party and the police came and arrested {NS} like you know they came and there was and there uh police came in and they stormed in a house somewhere and they arrested 255: #1 Everybody? or what's # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. And what would other words you would say for that? # Or you know another word you would say they came and arrested everybody they could arrest would you call uh a group of {X} What would you call everybody? #1 Uh {X} # 255: #2 Arrested the whole group? # Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 255: Arrested everybody. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Or a crowd of people. 255: Arrested the whole crowd. Interviewer: Okay. Um what do people uh what do young people like to go out by in the evening when they move around uh on the floor what do they like to do? 255: Dance? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. #1 Any various kinds or any names that you have that # 255: #2 Tango waltz two step three step. # Interviewer: If children get out of school at four you would say At four oh clock school does what 255: Lets out? Interviewer: After a let's see After a vacation uh they say when does school blank again? 255: Begin. Interviewer: {NW} {C: cough} A boy left his home to go to school and didn't show and didn't show he what 255: #1 The boy left home and went to school. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah he was gonna go t- he was supposed to go to school and he didn't show up for school but what did he do then? # 255: Played hooky. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. What about college or any things like that? Any terms they would say? 255: Uh he uh skipped skipped the classes. Interviewer: {NW} You go to school to get an 255: Knowledge. Interviewer: Mm-hmm and uh you s- um it's the kind that the it's the kind of school where almost everyone can get a good what 255: #1 Education? # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # After it uh {NW} {C: cough} after kindergarten you go into the 255: First grade. Interviewer: Other terms? 255: First grade uh you say you say are there other terms? Interviewer: Yeah right. 255: Uh Interviewer: #1 Are there older terms of # 255: #2 Primer? # Interviewer: Uh let's say if someone like at your uh when you're working in the bank and you came in what what uh what thing would you sit down at? 255: A desk. Interviewer: Right. And uh what's the plural of that? 255: Desks. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Where do you mail a package? At the what? 255: Post office. Interviewer: And if you stay overnight in a strange town you you stay at a 255: Hotel or motel {X}. Interviewer: And you see a play at the 255: Theater. {NS} Interviewer: And when you're in a hospital you're taken care of by you're taken care uh someone takes care of you is a 255: Nurse? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And you catch a train at the 255: Station. Depot. Interviewer: An open place in the city where the green grass and trees grow 255: Park? Interviewer: Uh-huh. And uh one that's like if we go straight down the street and cross the bridge and right in front of Flagler what would you call that? Right there. 255: {X} Flagler college? Interviewer: Yeah literally there's a thing there's a thing in front of Flagler #1 college there is a whole open area what do you call that? # 255: #2 Yeah {X} # Uh {NW} {NS} Esplanade? {NS} Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NS} 255: {X} Interviewer: {NW} {C: cough} {NS} Or a place at the center of the town round a courthouse what would you call that? 255: Square? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Any other terms? 255: That's a general term for the square. and well certain towns old towns particularly they always have a square at the center of town the courthouse. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And where there's if there's a vacant lot at the corner and you go and you go across it instead of going around it on the sidewalk you're walking {NS} #1 Or- right. # 255: #2 Walking on the grass or are you walking or cutting # uh taking a shortcut? Interviewer: Right. Where two streets cross if a man starts out from one corner and walks to the opposite corner you say he walks how 255: {X} Interviewer: Right {C: laughing afterwards} If he uh cuts across the field instead of following the road how do you say he walked? {NS} Okay. Uh vehicles that used to run on tracks with a wire overhead 255: Trolley? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. If you tell the uh bus driver the next quarter I wa- I want 255: To get off? Interviewer: Right. {NS} The uh cart the cat goes over the r- uh the door and meows and and the cat like you know the cat here r- runs out to the door and he starts meowing {X} 255: He wants to get out. Interviewer: #1 Right. # 255: #2 {NW} {C: laughing} # {X} Interviewer: You're at uh Saint John's county uh {NS} {X} here at Saint John's county there is uh what is the center of it called? 255: {X} {X} County seat in Augustine. Interviewer: Uh who pays the uh postmaster the federal 255: Federal government? Interviewer: The police in town are supposed to maintain 255: Order. Law and order. Interviewer: Uh the fight between the North oh wait we already went over that. When they had uh the electric chair murderers were 255: Exe- electrocuted. Interviewer: And before they had the electric chair they were 255: Hung them. Interviewer: And the man went out and blank himself. 255: And the man went out and hanged himself? Interviewer: Yes. Albany is the capital of #1 what state Albany is the capital of what state? # 255: #2 Albany New York and # maybe some other I know New York. Interviewer: Annapolis is the uh capital of 255: Maryland. No. Annapolis let's see {NS} I guess it is. Maryland. Interviewer: Richmond is the capital of 255: Virginia. Interviewer: Raleigh is the capital of 255: North Carolina. Interviewer: #1 Columbia is the capital of # 255: #2 South Carolina. # Interviewer: Sherman oh you already mentioned that. Uh {NS} The volunteer uh state is 255: Tennessee. Interviewer: The show me state is 255: The what? Interviewer: The show me state is 255: Show me? Interviewer: Yeah. 255: Uh Oklahoma? {X} Show me show me state. Oklahoma doesn't seem to be correct. ```` Uh {X} Show me state. Oh that's up New England. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 255: Yes. Show me state. Interviewer: Jackson is the capital of 255: Of uh Jackson is the capital of Mississippi. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And the Mississippi ru- river runs along what state? 255: It runs along uh Alabama. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. #1 And for the um # 255: #2 Louisiana # and uh Iowa? Interviewer: #1 And saint # 255: #2 Missouri. # Interviewer: Saint Louis is in 255: Saint Louis Missouri Interviewer: Uh Little Rock is the capital of 255: Arkansas. Interviewer: The lone star state is 255: Texas. Interviewer: Tulsa is in 255: Oklahoma. Interviewer: Boston is in 255: Massachusetts. Interviewer: The states from Maine to Connecticut are 255: Huh? Interviewer: The states from Maine to Connecticut are 255: The states from Maine to Connecticut? {NS} {C: something dropped in background} Uh from Maine #1 to Connecticut you mean the New England states? {X} # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh right. # Mm-hmm. 255: Let's see. Rhode Island. Uh Massachusetts. Maine. Vermont. New York. Connecticut. {NS} Let's see. Connecticut Massachusetts. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 255: Rhode Island. Interviewer: #1 That's good enough. # 255: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Uh-huh. Uh the biggest city in Maryland is 255: Baltimore. Interviewer: The capital of the U-S-A is 255: Washington D-C District of Columbia. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Uh the biggest city in Missouri is 255: The biggest city in Missouri is Saint Louis. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. The oldest historical seaport in South Carolina is 255: Georgetown? Interviewer: Uh they speak uh Gullah. 255: Oh Charleston oh yes my gosh yes certainly. Interviewer: The biggest uh the big steel making town in Alabama is 255: The big steel what? Interviewer: Making town in Alabama is 255: #1 The the the big steel making town in Alabama # Interviewer: #2 Yeah steel making town in Alabama is # 255: Steel making steel making {X} I don't Birmingham. Interviewer: Uh okay and 255: #1 Spent some time in {X} # Interviewer: #2 the biggest city # Mm-hmm. 255: It's right next door. Interviewer: The big city in Illinois where Al Capone once ran the rackets 255: {NW} {C: chuckle} Chicago {C: laughing as he says this}. Interviewer: Uh the capital of Alabama is 255: Uh Montgomery. Interviewer: #1 What are so- # 255: #2 My my father's brother # My grandfather's brother was when he was a young priest He was a pastor over the Catholic church in Montgomery. Interviewer: {NW} And uh you happen to know of any um any of the uh different other cities in the Alabama? One on the Gulf for instance? 255: Mobile. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. The resort city of the western part of North Carolina 255: A resort city on the west part of North Carolina is Waynesville or uh Asheville. Interviewer: And the biggest city in east Tennessee? 255: East Nashville. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. They used to used to also have a railway named after that the one of the big stops on the railway. {NS} Or did you happen to ever listen to the uh maybe recall um the Andrews sister used the Andrews sisters used to have this uh they used to call it the what choo choo you know the song used to have 255: {NW} Uh the {X} #1 Uh # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # 255: {X} {X} I don't remember the song though. {NS} Interviewer: It it's one of the larger cities in in Tennessee. 255: What are you trying to get the name of the town? Interviewer: Uh-huh. 255: #1 Y- you're trying to get the name of the # Interviewer: #2 Right uh the city. # 255: Louisville Kentucky is in or what what is it now you want now What are you as- in Tennessee and you want a large city? Interviewer: Beg pardon? 255: You want a large city in Tennessee? Interviewer: Yeah. 255: Well uh Nashville on the east. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 255: And uh and uh {X} Tennessee is a Memphis? Interviewer: Uh-huh. 255: It's the largest city I think is Memphis. Interviewer: And then there's another one? 255: Let's see Memphis Nashville uh Interviewer: {X} train stop. 255: {NW} {NS} {X} train stop well I'll be darned. Louisville is in Kentucky. {X} No. Well I just can't get there I'm sorry. Interviewer: Okay. {NW} The uh the city up in the mountains in North Carolina is 255: Well Asheville is in the mountains. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 255: So is Hendersonville. Interviewer: There is one uh there's there is a place where they keep all the gold in the United States. The reserves. 255: Uh Interviewer: Or 255: #1 Fort Knox {X} to Nashville {X} # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh and then uh no that that word # 255: #1 oh Fort Knox {X} in Tennessee yeah {X} I know Knoxville too. # Interviewer: #2 that that you okay # #1 {X} # 255: #2 I couldn't think of Knoxville. # But Knoxville is not as large as Memphis. Interviewer: Right. 255: And {X} Nashville either I don't think. Interviewer: The capital of the largest city in Georgia is 255: Atlanta. Interviewer: And the biggest seaport in Georgia 255: It's Savannah. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. The biggest city in southern Georgia is 255: #1 In southern Georgia. # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh. # 255: Macon. Interviewer: Uh-huh. Fort Benning is near what town in Georgia? 255: Fort Benning is near what now wait a minute Fort Benning Fort Benning {X} {C: loud noise fades voices} Interviewer: And then the man who discovered America 255: Americus? Interviewer: Yeah. 255: #1 Y- you say the man who # Interviewer: #2 That's one of them. # the uh he was on who's ships under whose leadership? 255: What are you trying to ask me now the name of the you looking for a town? Interviewer: Yeah. 255: Oh. Interviewer: Man who discovered America you know. ` 255: {NS} Columbia? Interviewer: You're right and you get right and d- the man's name was 255: Columbus Georgia. Interviewer: Right. {C: background noise} Good. The biggest city uh in Louisiana is 255: New Orleans. Interviewer: Uh you're right and the capital of Louisiana is 255: Baton Rouge. Interviewer: The biggest city in southern Ohio is 255: #1 The biggest city in southern Ohio is {X}. # Interviewer: #2 Uh-huh. # Uh-huh. {NS} And uh {NS} The biggest cities on the Ohio River are 255: Now the biggest cities on the Ohio River uh well of course {X} {X} {X} Saint Louis uh the in Ohio. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 255: Let's see {X}. Biggest cities on the Mississippi. In O- in Ohio. Interviewer: In the ho- Ohio River. 255: O- oh. Interviewer: Ohio River. 255: Oh Ohio River. Uh. Cleveland? Interviewer: Mm-hmm that's good. And uh {NW} if somebody asks you to go with him and you don't and you're not sure you want to you say I don't know 255: If I'll go on out I don't know #1 I'm not sure I I'm not sure I will go. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # {NW} {C: cough} And then you say also I don't know blank I can do it or not. 255: #1 Don't know if I can make it or not. # Interviewer: #2 Right. # Uh if you have uh a very sick friend and he's not likely to get better if somebody asks you how he is coming along you say well it seems {NS} well it seems like if you have a sick friend and he is not likely to get any better. 255: Seems like he'll not make it. Interviewer: #1 Beg your pardon? # 255: #2 Uh seems like he'll not make it. # Uh but it seems like he won't live long. #1 Seem like # Interviewer: #2 {NW} {C: cough} # 255: it's his last illness. Seems like Interviewer: Right. If you were asked uh to go somewhere without your wife you'd say I won't go 255: Unless Catherine is invited or Catherine goes. {B} {C: Beep should be here for the name?} Interviewer: Right. Uh if your daughter did not help you with the dishes you'd say she went off playing blank. 255: Hooky? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Yeah or playing blank ins- uh blank #1 Helping me. # 255: #2 Playing sick or playing # Interviewer: Or she went off plain Eh uh plain helping me. Plain blank helping me. 255: Playing oh. She ran off uh {NS} without helping me uh. Interviewer: Or uh when {NW} {C: cough} you could have used help you might uh ask afterwards why didn't you sit around blank helping me? {NS} 255: {NW} Interviewer: Or why did you sit around blank helping me why did you sit around blank helping me? 255: Oh if you had to go why'd you eh wh- why'd you sit around helping me? Interviewer: Yeah why did you blank sit around helping me? Fill in the blank there. {NS} Or you might say uh a word that is used for uh the you know the mortgage means an alternative. Why did you sit around blank helping me? #1 Why did you sit around as an alternative to helping me? What would you say as a word for that? # 255: #2 {NW} # Why'd you why would you sit around waiting for me? Interviewer: Or ask you know like you might say why did you sit around as an alternative of helping me? So then if you were to instead of using the word as an alternative you would you'd instead of using as an alternative you'd use one word Why did you sit around blank helping me? {NS} Or if y- let's say if if you had if there was a if you went out and bought some kids some ice cream and there was this one kid and you forgot he said that he wanted nill- vanilla ice cream and he said you know he told you you wanted vanill- vanilla ice cream and you said okay I'll get you vanilla ice cream and all the kids chocolate ice cream {NW} and you mistakenly {C: cough} given one kid the vanilla ice cream cone you know another kid. And you and you went up to him and this you know this one kid who asked you for the vanilla ice cream cone 255: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: came up to you and said hey I didn't want chocolate I wanted vanilla. And you went up and you took his chocolate ice cream and you went up to the kid who had the vanilla ice cream cone and you say well don't you want this chocolate ice cream cone blank that vanilla ice cream cone? 255: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Right. # Any other terms you say? 255: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: You wanted to switch don't you want this ice cream cone blank that ice cream cone? 255: Instead of that. Interviewer: {NS} #1 {NW} {C: laughing} # 255: #2 {X} {C: laughing while speaking, can't make out sentence) # {D: You was going all the way around the bush. Oh dear. {C: laughing} Why {X} {X} {C: laughing while trying to speak} {NW} Oh dear. Interviewer: A man is fun- uh a man is funny and you'd like him you say I like him {NS} 255: Very much. Interviewer: Yeah or if you wanted to say #1 the reasons. # 255: #2 Lots. # Interviewer: Why you l- liked him you'd say I like him 255: Because he's funny and because he's jolly and because he's nice. Interviewer: Uh you happen to know the names of the large Protestant churches? 255: Yeah. Interviewer: The largest the largest Protestant denomination in the south. 255: Baptist church. Interviewer: If people became members you would say they what. {NS} #1 If people # 255: #2 Baptists? # Interviewer: Yeah or if people became members of the church you would say they 255: Joined the church? Interviewer: Right. In church you pray to 255: You say on church? Interviewer: In church you pray to 255: God? {NS} Interviewer: The priest uh delivers a fine 255: Sermon? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. The choir and the organist provide good 255: Music. {NS} Oh good uh good uh songs or music. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. If you uh if you had to change a flat tire on the way to church on Sunday morning you might say church will be over 255: Before I get there? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Or you might say uh thought I had time I got caught in the traffic and uh and the post office and the post office was closed {NS} 255: Before I got there? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. {NS} {C: crackling noise in background} Um. {NS} {C: crackling noise in background}