Interviewer:  uh uh that might be one reason why we got along so well.
289:  oh ms Bruce is very easy to get along with.
Interviewer:  oh yeah. she is. {NW} okay now let's get through these. something else. uh and then we'll get off the ledger {X} How about uh wh- those animals that croak in the marshes?
289:  croak uh bullfrog or a frog. or a toad.
Interviewer:  now is there- are a toad and frog the same? {NW}
289:  yeah as far as I'm concerned. {C: sound cut out towards beginning?} just another name for them. {C: cut out name}
Interviewer:  okay uh the
289:  #1 Like #
Interviewer:  #2 how #
289:  sometimes they call a mushroom a toad too {C: cut out shroom}
Interviewer:  like a toad, okay. how about those little frogs that uh you just hear them in the springtime?
289:  just bull- -ullfrogs. around here when there's not enough rain you'll hear them get out here making their racket. {C: cut out there's racket}
Interviewer:  okay. how about uh uh these are insects now the the thing that flies around a light and tries to fly into and when you grab onto it it looks like a butterfly with powdery wings
289:  termites {C: cut out mites} flying uh ants?
Interviewer:  no these look a little like butterflies.
289:  {NW}
Interviewer:  you know the in the
289:  flying roaches?
Interviewer:  no I hope not. {X}
289:  Well I mean- {C: cut out mean} they've got flying roaches that fly up. {C: cut out roaches} and the other thing I see going {C: cut out going} through the to the light {C: cut out through/through up} think are fireflies. {C: cut out think}
Interviewer:  now what's a firefly? Firefly?
289:  They uh light up {X} front ends one of the ends. They have light like in them. {C: cut out they}
Interviewer:  do they have those out here?
289:  I've seen them, but not not for a long time. {C: cut out them long time}
Interviewer:  not for uh- how about uh you know the things they get into your house and they eating all the clothes and they
289:  Termites?
Interviewer:  well they can get into your wool clothes. {X}
289:  Moths?
Interviewer:  yeah. you ever got many of those out here?
289:  once in a while you'll see one. Not two.
Interviewer:  you just had one that would be a
289:  moth.
Interviewer:  okay. {NW} and uh how about uh I just saw one today, I know they're here. {NW} uh it's a long, thin-bodied thing, and it's got two wings on either side. okay? and they're about that- the wingspread's about that wide.
289:  what butterfly? {C: cut out what}
Interviewer:  #1 No no. #
289:  #2 No. #
Interviewer:  They got the wings that are transparent and they hover. and a lot of times they'll get on a clothesline and just sit there. like that and uh that's a long thin-bodied insect with a little beak and two pairs of shiny wings and hovers around damp places and eats it's own weight. uh
289:  you got me.
Interviewer:  how about uh what kind what kind of insects do you have around here?
289:  mosquitoes?
Interviewer:  okay no what this thing just lives off of eating these.
289:  what li- not lizards. {C: cut out lizards}
Interviewer:  #1 No it's an insect that flies around. #
289:  #2 No. #
Interviewer:  some people say that uh when you see these they're a sign that snakes are nearby.
289:  I wouldn't know. {C: cut out wouldn't know}
Interviewer:  okay, how about a dra- right
289:  dragonfly?
Interviewer:  yeah.
289:  I always think of that as being related to Japan. China. over that way, not here.
Interviewer:  You never seen that? {X}
289:  Oh they big things!
Interviewer:  yeah.
289:  they're real long and yeah I've seen them. but not for a long time.
Interviewer:  I just happened to see one today.
289:  well you in the wrong neighborhood. {C: were?}
Interviewer:  Yeah I was over by the uh what's that place? uh {X}
289:  oh.
Interviewer:  drove on out there and stopped they were out there at about one, that's why I knew they were out there.
289:  I haven't seen one in years. {C: cut off one in} I don't go looking for 'em. {C: cut off for 'em}
Interviewer:  yeah okay. yeah okay. uh you ever heard those called anything else? besides dragonflies?
289:  no.
Interviewer:  mosquito?
289:  well it's just a big mosquito to us. mosquito of some kind.
Interviewer:  okay. How about uh stinging insects?
289:  bees.
Interviewer:  yeah like that. what el- what else can you have {NS} the ones that build
289:  wasp.
Interviewer:  alright and if you have more than one wasp you have
289:  a hive?
Interviewer:  okay well if you got one wasp and one wasp, you got two
289:  t- wasps. {C: cut off second half of wasps}
Interviewer:  okay. and uh and how bout how about um the uh the type that builds its nest in the ground they'll swarm over ya. they'll yellow and black striped my old high school mascot. Georgia Tech's mascot.
289:  Georgia Tech? the only thing I think of us- is uh horses, Donkeys, and things like that. {C: cut off and things} Geor- I don't even know.
Interviewer:  #1 {D: not the yellow jackets?} #
289:  #2 Not Georgia Tech. #
Interviewer:  yellow jacket. you ever heard of a yellow jacket?
289:  No, not really.
Interviewer:  Okay. how about uh small insects that can burrow into your skin when you're walking through the weeds?
289:  Oh. ringworms. I don't know if you get them that way. ringworms.
Interviewer:  alright these some of these you can just get in your yard it just #1 little things they may itch. and uh, and um #
289:  #2 worms. pinworms. #
Interviewer:  you know up north they say you can get it from moss?
289:  oh red ants! we get it from you mean the moss you hang from the tree?
Interviewer:  yeah these not red ants but they're red go on. they're like this- okay I I don't do you have anything out here like that do you go out in the weeds or something you get these bites all over your legs?
289:  n- no it'd be sandfly bites or mosquito bites.
Interviewer:  anything else?
289:  yeah a snake bite if you're not lucky. but that's about it.
Interviewer:  #1 okay. #
289:  #2 sandflies. # but they don't bite, I don't think.
Interviewer:  okay how about uh an insect uh another kind of stinging insect that that builds the big paper nests you know they they make 'em out of uh
289:  Hornet.
Interviewer:  Do you ever do you ever have any of those out here?
289:  to me anything that stings you is a bee of some kind.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh, what would you use to go fishing with?
289:  with me? a handline.
Interviewer:  what would you use for bait? the small fish.
289:  small what you want, a shrimp? some people use squid I prefer mullet
Interviewer:  well what a um a very small fish that you would use for bait? you say I'm gonna go buy some
289:  they look like they got a little pointed nose? on the front
Interviewer:  yeah. what do you call those?
289:  not ballyhoo. my brother in u- law used them for trawling, but I don't know what they are. {X}
Interviewer:  you ever you know like minnows? you ever use those out here?
289:  not I haven't.
Interviewer:  Shiners?
289:  Shiners. I've heard shi- I've
Interviewer:  #1 is that a mainland thing? #
289:  #2 heard of people # think so, not. I wouldn't mostly key west people if they are key west people use mullet. 'cause mullet will stay on your line a whole lot longer the fish is gonna have a harder a harder time getting the mullet off the line as what he would used to if you use shrimp one bite and he's got it. and squid is something similar to like shrimp it comes apart kinda easy
Interviewer:  is it a better bait though?
289:  mullet to me is the best.
Interviewer:  I see- i go out to the pier and I see them using the nets to get the bait
289:  yeah the shiners. you know the little thing.
Interviewer:  is that is that what they call them is shiners?
289:  I don't know what they call it. But it's so they can {C: cut out but it's}
Interviewer:  I mean didn't you just said shiners I was wondering #1 Is that- #
289:  #2 yeah. Shiners. # that's about the only thing I know that they would do we just say they're catching their bait. their little fish
Interviewer:  okay. how about those little w- uh those things you find in the corner uh of a house or something when it's h-
289:  Cobwebs?
Interviewer:  and uh if you see one out in a tree it's all
289:  the spider uh it's a web.
Interviewer:  okay is there a difference between a cobweb and a and one that's outside?
289:  think it's just a different no they the ones in the house you can get down easier than the ones in the yard. I think the ones that's made by the b- the insect out in the yard is you know, sturdier. the inside and the one on the inside has big long legs growing out with a little teeny body. like a pinhead body with longer legs. growing out.
Interviewer:  okay. how about the part of a tree underneath the ground it's called the
289:  roots.
Interviewer:  do you know of any uh native uh oh medicines or anything made from roots? that people do?
289:  not from roots but I know the aloe tree. we got a lot of 'em around here. They use that.
Interviewer:  Aloe vera?
289:  Yeah. It's it grows up It almost looks like a cactus of some- some kind. And you strip it off and then you le- strip out layers. #1 You use it. #
Interviewer:  #2 You use it. # For what?
289:  It's good for your skin. My grandmother used it one time when her feet used to swell up all the time, she'd take the strips out of the jar and she'd wrap them around her an- uh her foot and wrap it up afterwards with you know gauze or something.
Interviewer:  Huh.
289:  and the aloe lotion is good for uh burns, you know if it's mixed right with the right ingredients it's good for if you get burned. it's it's real good for your skin.
Interviewer:  yeah I've seen the small ones. do they have big ones here?
289:  mm-hmm. {X} My grandma used to have a big one set out like this in the backyard. {C: cut out big one}
Interviewer:  four or five or three feet across?
289:  yeah. and I see that key west fragrance place uses aloe. Most of all their products. and the sun tan lotion and you can buy the eye cream, all that kind of stuff
Interviewer:  mm-hmm.
289:  has aloe, about eighty percent aloe in it. and it can heal it fast, it can heal you.
Interviewer:  hmm. okay how about uh um The kind of tree that you would tap for syrup up north
289:  ma- uh what, a maple tree?
Interviewer:  okay. and what would you call a place where there is a lot of maple growing? that they're using for syrup. would you know?
289:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. How about the kind of tree with a oh in the bible, the tree that Zach uh Zach Zachias climbed up
289:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Nobody's taller, he climbed up when Jesus was walking by. He climbed up a-
289:  The only thing I could think about climbing would be a palm tree?
Interviewer:  Okay this is the big tree that it has the The bark just peels of in great big hunks. It's a northern tree. a sy-
289:  Sequoia? No.
Interviewer:  Syca-
289:  Sycamore.
Interviewer:  okay. How about now what what what are the most common What are the trees here? have you have we talked about that?
289:  Palm trees. Ponciano trees. Poinsettia trees. Orchid trees. Now these aren't the little orchids that you're thinking of. You know, for bouquets. Big Orchids. We have a what they call it an autograph tree. in the backyard. here.
Interviewer:  what's that like?
289:  they used it in olden days for smuggling, you know when they wanted to get out a message? {NW} you can write on the leaf, and it'll keep the writing on it. and people would just sneak it into their luggage or hide it somewhere. take out messages you know like up to the north or the south like that. we have Spanish lime trees. soursap trees, guava trees, avocados, mangoes um pi- no, sugar apple trees.
Interviewer:  Any kind of hardwoods?
289:  They have some pine trees oh no that's soft pine. Uh I don't think they have anything that's real hardwood anymore.
Interviewer:  okay. What about the kind of tree that George Washington's supposed to cut down?
289:  Cherry tree.
Interviewer:  Any of those around?
289:  Yes. Maybe not that type of cherry but they got them.
Interviewer:  Okay uh up on the mainland they might say uh um don't go out in the woods because you might get so- you might brush you might against some what's-
289:  Poison Ivy
Interviewer:  And what's the other one? There's poison ivy and there's-
289:  Poison Oak. #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Then there's another one. # Poison su-
289:  Poison Ivy poison oak that's about it.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
289:  #2 that I know of #
Interviewer:  did did you ever hear of a bush that grows along fences and roads north uh and and and uh the leaves turn bright red real bright red early and it has small clusters of berries or {D: bobs} and the they're used by old people in tanning leather.
289:  I've heard it but I don't know what the word is.
Interviewer:  su- sum-
289:  cinnamon?
Interviewer:  sumac. you ever hear of suma- sumac?
289:  sumac the only way I he- ever heard of sumac is Yma Sumac. Peru- Peruvian singer they used to have here.
Interviewer:  how about uh what huh? {NW} a singer?
289:  she had I think a eight octave range, she had more octave range than anyone else.
Interviewer:  eight octaves!
289:  I remember that when I was a little girl they had a l- uh reruns on television and she'd be singing almost like bass and jump up all the way up A above high A. and go
Interviewer:  that's almost incomprehensible. Eight octaves!
289:  I know she had m- I think it was seven or eight. she had more than any other one at that time had.
Interviewer:  mercy. are there any- um berries growing here?
289:  berries {C: quiet} no.
Interviewer:  what kind of berries can you name/ just any
289:  what strawberries?
Interviewer:  {X}
289:  #1 Raspberries #
Interviewer:  #2 alright #
289:  gooseberries {NS} Raspberries {NS} berries.
Interviewer:  okay like you might say in the woods some berries are
289:  #1 wild berries #
Interviewer:  #2 are are # are good and what you got to be careful because some of them might be
289:  poisonous.
Interviewer:  okay and um up north there's a great big tree that has big- this is in Florida now north central Florida it's- probably find some around Disney World and they have big white flowers and big shiny leaves very smelly and they-
289:  Magnolias?
Interviewer:  okay. and um they don't grow too much further south than that.
289:  No. In fact I haven't even seen a magnolia in oh yes I did they have one in and uh
Interviewer:  okay if a married woman doesn't want to make up her own mind she says I must ask
289:  my husband
Interviewer:  and if uh a man and the man doesn't want to make up his
289:  I have to ask my wife
Interviewer:  okay. and a woman who's lost her husband is called a
289:  a widow
Interviewer:  okay. and {NS} uh uh eh sons and daughters are called your
289:  children.
Interviewer:  okay. and how about any pet names for children, small kids.
289:  small kids. that's my daughter or my pet that's my my daughter? my pet?
Interviewer:  you know just you know the uh you know the little
289:  #1 {D: Peck's bad boy?} #
Interviewer:  #2 A cute little #
289:  cute little kid?
Interviewer:  okay. and uh uh how about uh something with wheels on it put the baby in, the baby can lay
289:  buggy or carriage
Interviewer:  okay and if you put the baby in the carriage you go out and
289:  walk.
Interviewer:  yeah. okay. and um {NW} how about if you were t- talking about a range in children's ages you would say um you've got say you've got three children. Sally's twenty um see Nelly's sixteen and bill's fourteen. okay? You'd say sally is the
289:  oldest.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh uh I forget the names.
289:  {X} the youngest.
Interviewer:  okay. and if you just had two you'd say um uh say
289:  well the girl
Interviewer:  one is the
289:  My son is the youngest my daughter is the oldest or Sally's the oldest
Interviewer:  okay how about would you ever speak in terms of being grown up? like uh um he is the most
289:  i think you'd say he's more mature more grown up.
Interviewer:  okay. someone might say Betty is our youngest
289:  child?
Interviewer:  or sense it's a girl
289:  daughter
Interviewer:  okay and um uh children are boys and
289:  girls
Interviewer:  now if a woman's going to have a child does you say she's
289:  pregnant
Interviewer:  okay. any other local terms?
289:  swallowed a watermelon seed.
Interviewer:  {NW}
289:  Now she's pregnant, she's carrying that's about it.
Interviewer:  okay. and if they don't have a doctor to delivery the baby
289:  #1 midwife. #
Interviewer:  #2 woman # okay. any of those they still have those here?
289:  {NW} i don't know. I know I w- when I was born um my mother had a midwife. and so was my brother. but I think after my s- my sister came you know that's when the hospitals really started doing it.
Interviewer:  if okay a boy and his father have the same appearance. you say the boy- what?
289:  looks like his father.
Interviewer:  okay. uh {NS} okay. and uh uh if a mother has looked after three children 'til they're completely grown up you say she has blank three children.
289:  raised.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh yeah to a naughty child you say you're going to get a
289:  Spanking.
Interviewer:  okay. how about uh a grown up man talking to another grown up man who's uh one that's uh ticked off the other one pretty bad he says you're going to get a
289:  sock. or a punch. {D: sheltered}
Interviewer:  okay. you never w- you never say the same thing to a child as you would to an adult, would you?
289:  well my n- my youngest nephew that's living with us he watches you know TV and all
Interviewer:  #1 uh what did you #
289:  #2 Playing I- # My youngest nephew.
Interviewer:  oh.
289:  living with us. sometimes if he doesn't watch it then he's gonna get a knuckle sandwich. cause he likes uh sanford and son and chico
Interviewer:  Oh. okay.
289:  {X}
Interviewer:  That's where they say that?
289:  on sanford and son they says you can get this a knuckle.
Interviewer:  {NW}
289:  How would you like these five?
Interviewer:  That's- oh okay. that's the one with the
289:  #1 red fox. #
Interviewer:  #2 red fox. yeah. # okay. alright a child that isn't a child that's born to an unmarried woman is a what?
289:  illegitimate
Interviewer:  okay. are there any local names for children like that?
289:  no. illegitimate's about it.
Interviewer:  okay Alright you might say Jane is a loving child but Peggy is a lot
289:  more loving?
Interviewer:  okay would you ever use uh without the more?
289:  more loving. no i think I would always use the more loving.
Interviewer:  okay. what would it sound like if you didn't use the more. as a compari-
289:  loving? she's more loving.
Interviewer:  alright. peggy is a loving child but uh sally is a lot more uh sally
289:  {NW} see you put the more in! you can't leave the more out.
Interviewer:  {X} would you ever have you ever heard anybody {D: compare their own} someone uh like loving
289:  no. the- more or less you'll hear them say one's more outgoing than the other. or one's more a- the uh- you know at home domestic one. and the other one's gotta be on the go.
Interviewer:  okay. now you say we talk about what would a child that's lost his parents
289:  it's an orphan.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh the person appointed to look after the orphan is called it's
289:  guardian.
Interviewer:  okay. uh uh you might say yes she has the same family name and looks a bit like me but actually
289:  she's adopted.
Interviewer:  alright but talking about you're not really she uh you know you're not really of the same family you'd say but actually
289:  she looks like me but she's not mine resemblance?
Interviewer:  say uh yes she has the same family name and looks a bit like me but actually
289:  she's not {NW}
Interviewer:  she's not my
289:  relative or rela- or not related
Interviewer:  okay. she's n- alright she's no
289:  no relation.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh someone like me who comes into town never seen him before
289:  you're a stranger
Interviewer:  okay. and uh any local terms for stranger?
289:  outsider. um if they know where you're at or if they know a nickname from where you're at they might call you that. {NS} generally they say you're a newcomer.
Interviewer:  okay. alright how about a real common name for a girl beginning with M?
289:  Mary.
Interviewer:  okay. and George Washington's Wife?
289:  Martha
Interviewer:  okay. and how about a nickname for Helen, beggining with N?
289:  Nancy? No.
Interviewer:  #1 Wait until the sun shines #
289:  #2 N? # Nelly.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh uh the first uh um blank mark luke and john
289:  Matthew?
Interviewer:  Okay. and uh uh what do you call a woman who conducts school?
289:  who con- teacher?
Interviewer:  yeah. okay would you- how about any uh old fashioned names?
289:  the old maid. No. {NS} they got 'em but I can't think of what it is.
Interviewer:  a school-
289:  Schoolmarm.
Interviewer:  something like that? okay. you ever heard grandmother talk anything like that? okay. how about we'll tak about movies now. You know that guy that does the westerns walks around says yup a lot and uh his first name is gary?
289:  Gary Cooper.
Interviewer:  alright now if he had a wife she her- she'd be
289:  Mrs. Cooper.
Interviewer:  okay. and um uh you might go up and say hello what?
289:  well if i want his autograph and and if I didn't think he was in a good mood I'd say may I have your autograph Mr. Cooper.
Interviewer:  Alright. now if you're just if you wanted to talk to her you'd say hello
289:  Mrs. Cooper.
Interviewer:  okay. alright how about a person who doesn't really know his trade real well okay? but he may just to get by. okay? Like you know a carpenter or a preacher something like that. and uh well let's say a preacher that's not really trained, doesn't have a regular pulpit. Teaches on sunday here and there, but makes his living doing something else. uh if he isn't very good even at preaching you might call him a you ever heard any terms for that?
289:  {NW} No but I know a few preachers in this town that's got the job that uh are like that.
Interviewer:  you ever heard um an untrained par- part-time you know uh not just a preacher but you know any trade.
289:  what, jack of all trades, master of none?
Interviewer:  something like that. you ever heard of jackolade?
289:  No.
Interviewer:  uh like a jackolade uh carpenter or a jackolade preacher. alright. what relation would my mother's sister be to me?
289:  Your aunt.
Interviewer:  Okay. and {NS}
289:  A lot of people say aunt this way too. It's all according to how it's used.
Interviewer:  mm how do you use it? now I've got you saying that in other places too. nine times out of ten I know what you say. what w-w-w you
289:  {X} say aunt all the time
Interviewer:  see that's what I've been picking up most. um if an old man is still quite strong and active and doesn't show his age you might say he's still quite
289:  he's in good shape?
Interviewer:  say he's quite
289:  active? {NS} young at {NW} doesn't show his age.
Interviewer:  #1 he's got a lot of #
289:  #2 that's about it. # energy left in him.
Interviewer:  okay. any- okay. how about uh um {NW} so well like here's the {X} an old person say about eighty who does farmwork uh and and doesn't get tired. okay and you might say I don't care how old he or she is, he or she is mighty
289:  young.
Interviewer:  for
289:  for their age.
Interviewer:  okay something like that. how about and you might say the children are out later than usual. I don't suppose there's anything wrong, but I can't help feeling a little
289:  worried.
Interviewer:  alright. and you might say um uh you wouldn't say that you feel easy about it, you'd say that you feel {NS}
289:  be uneasy or nervous or worried about it.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh you might say I don't want to go upstairs in the dark, I'm
289:  afraid or scared.
Interviewer:  okay. and um uh {NS} {NS} someone who leaves a lot of money on the table and leaves the door unlocked, you'd say is mighty
289:  careless.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh there's nothing really wrong with aunt lizzie but sometimes she acts
289:  #1 strange. #
Interviewer:  #2 kind of what? # alright. any other words for strange here that you might
289:  #1 weird. #
Interviewer:  #2 might use # how about queer? would that ever be used is that
289:  #1 queer? #
Interviewer:  #2 in in # in that sense? yeah.
289:  {NW} maybe a few years back you might say queer. but I don't think not nowadays cause there are too many queers down here.
Interviewer:  now now when you say too many queers what are you talking about?
289:  homosexuals or lesbians.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh has uh now that's that's is now now you're talking about the old days. when you were young had that started then?
289:  well you you might say he's a little weird, mere- a little strange in his thinking, or uh his mind wandered off you know, he'd be talking about one thing and then switch to something else.
Interviewer:  okay. uh alright. if a man is very sure of his own ways and never wants to change you say don't be so
289:  optimistic?
Interviewer:  #1 no he's #
289:  #2 no. #
Interviewer:  not so much that but let's say you want him to change his mind and he just will not do it.
289:  stubborn.
Interviewer:  okay.
289:  that's me. once I've made up my mind.
Interviewer:  okay. how about somebody that you just can't joke with without them losing their temper? you say uh uh he is mighty
289:  touchy
Interviewer:  okay. and how about uh you say I was just kidding I didn't know he'd get
289:  riled up
Interviewer:  anything else?
289:  ticked off
Interviewer:  anything else?
289:  riled up, ticked off mad upset
Interviewer:  alright how about somebody's about to lose their temper you tell them just
289:  cool it.
Interviewer:  alright. how about
289:  take it easy.
Interviewer:  or just
289:  what? rela- keep cool, relax.
Interviewer:  alright or keep calm.
289:  calm.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh if you've been working very hard you say you've been very
289:  tired.
Interviewer:  are- or you are
289:  bushed or beat.
Interviewer:  okay.
289:  #1 exhausted #
Interviewer:  #2 and uh # oh okay. and you might say uh um if you're very very tired you might say I'm all
289:  what? ti- um
Interviewer:  I am completely
289:  exhausted beat. you'd use about the same words! I'm pooped out.
Interviewer:  how about something instead of pooped there.
289:  {NW} dead.
Interviewer:  okay. how about uh uh like if I was very very tired which I was about two days ago uh you might say I'm just all
289:  worn out.
Interviewer:  there you go. that's- I need that. okay and uh if a person like yesterday you saw her and she's just fine just healthy and nimble and then last night uh uh a disease attacked her.
289:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  and uh uh you would say that suddenly you know they have some disease you would say last night she
289:  was fine
Interviewer:  alright but you know
289:  In good health.
Interviewer:  right and then then last night she you know the act of coming
289:  came down with whatever it was
Interviewer:  okay how about uh would you say alright if if uh you sit in a draft you say last night I
289:  caught a draft. caught a cold.
Interviewer:  alright okay. and how about uh if uh uh still back to this person you'd say uh if if if she is sick today and it stareted on sunday you might say sunday she blank sick.
289:  sunday she was sicks was sick.
Interviewer:  now she's sick today. and and it happened it first started on on sunday. so you might say sunday she
289:  came down
Interviewer:  okay. {NS} uh you would say she's she's sick now but she'll be up again
289:  up and about
Interviewer:  alright she'll be up and about by
289:  by thursday and or a couple days.
Interviewer:  okay. um {X} say so we'll get there
289:  we'll get there when you see us.
Interviewer:  Okay we'll all we'll all meet in the great yonder by
289:  by and
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
289:  #2 by #
Interviewer:  {NS} how about uh if if my voice continues like this I'm gonna get all
289:  hoarse.
Interviewer:  yeah. and uh {NS} {NW: Cough} what do you call that?
289:  cough.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh might say I better go to sleep I'm feeling a little uh
289:  drowsy.
Interviewer:  okay. And uh at six o'clock I'll
289:  what six o'clock in the #1 morning you're going to get up? #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah # alright six o'clock in the morning I'll
289:  wake up.
Interviewer:  okay and um if your brother was asleep and your mother told you to uh says He's still sleeping. better go
289:  get him up.
Interviewer:  okay. any any other terms you might use there?
289:  if it's my brother you could dump a tub of water on him and it might help. rouse him.
Interviewer:  okay. if if you can't hear anything at all you say you're stone
289:  Deaf.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh if a person began to sweat when he started work, by the time he finished you'd say that he blank a lot in the hot sun
289:  sweated a lot.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh what do you call one of those sores that swells up, comes to a head
289:  boils?
Interviewer:  okay and what do you call the stuff inside of it?
289:  the pus? fluid?
Interviewer:  okay anything else? okay now if you got some infection on your hand so that your hand got bigger than it ought to be
289:  swelled up.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh um uh you might say um um uh it's still pretty badly
289:  swollen
Interviewer:  okay. and if it's not infected it probably won't
289:  it's not infected
Interviewer:  probably won't
289:  swell up any more.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh when you get a blister what do you call the liquid inside of that?
289:  just fluid
Interviewer:  the
289:  water
Interviewer:  okay. and in a war if a bullet goes through your arm, or not your arm but somebody's arm, you'd say they have a
289:  wound.
Interviewer:  okay. this one is weird. how about this is a kind of skinless growth in a wound, that's got to be burned out. and it's a kind of
289:  gangrene?
Interviewer:  {NW} well no I don't think so. {NW}
289:  if it's been burned out
Interviewer:  how about some times it has to be cut or burned out with {X} and uh um uh if it doesn't, when a wound doesn't heal clean, a white granular substance might form around the edge.
289:  what, pus?
Interviewer:  okay how about um it's it's called some kind of flesh. have you ever heard anything called something flesh?
289:  No.
Interviewer:  have you ever heard of proud for like flesh.
289:  no.
Interviewer:  okay if you get just a little scrape on your finger you put some of that
289:  {X} uh mu- merthiolate mercurochrome iodine
Interviewer:  okay and uh years ago when you got yellow fever they used to give you this stuff to take the fever down. what's that stuff they used to give you to take the fever down? real bitter {NS}
289:  you got me.
Interviewer:  it comes from barks of trees and uh the the pills that you take for
289:  sulfur? {X} it's bitter. sulfur's #1 bitter. #
Interviewer:  #2 it used # it used to be given as a tonic for malaria. I tell you they have uh uh if people who drink gin
289:  #1 tonic? #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # yeah it's they use it in tonic now real bitter. it's very very bitter they say that's as bitter as qua-
289:  quinine
Interviewer:  {NW} and uh if uh you know if a man was shot and didn't recover you would say that he
289:  he's dead. he died.
Interviewer:  okay. any any crude or humorous ways of talking about somebody dieing like say
289:  kick the bucket.
Interviewer:  okay. anything else? {NS}
289:  passed on.
Interviewer:  okay. how uh you might say uh um
289:  going to the great reward in the sky
Interviewer:  okay you might say I don't know what he died
289:  of.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh the place where people are buried
289:  cemetery
Interviewer:  and the the box that they're buried in
289:  coffin.
Interviewer:  and the ceremony? is a
289:  burial burial ceremony
Interviewer:  okay he was an important man, eveyone turned out for his
289:  funeral
Interviewer:  and if people are all dressed in black, you say they are in
289:  mourning.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh now are there any special ways of burial here because of uh i mean is it common i mean do you still have internment or is there uh you still use
289:  they make a vault. if you own your own property in this cemetery here uh they make vaults they usually go down well on one of our plots there's three people buried. 'cause it goes down far enough and they just add it on.
Interviewer:  you mean above?
289:  above the ground.
Interviewer:  Oh okay.
289:  now the new cemeteries or maybe up in like in ma- Miami way {NW} they don't allow interment above the ground.
Interviewer:  but out here you have vaults.
289:  mm. they make the vaults. Or in Miami they have the vaults but it's under grass. and theres a only monument they might put is a cross with your name on it. but here they have you know the big graves and the big statues of angels {NW} my great- gra- my grandfather's had a big valentine on his. well then when my grandmother passed away they put my grandmother on top {NW} when my father passed away it was my great-grandfather, my great-grandmother and then my father on top
Interviewer:  and it all, in a row?
289:  all of them. all of them. cause see two of them well one of them was below the ground and one of them was only maybe about this tall off the ground so they just put my father on top.
Interviewer:  hm. so i uh well okay it's almost like
289:  the original the original um cemetery lot was big enough for four graves across. so really we got enough room for at least um one more grave
Interviewer:  Four high.
289:  put 'em three up. three up.
Interviewer:  three up. okay.
289:  you can really uh here you can do it any way you want to. It's y- it's yours to do Cause they'll have these big uh things where they everything's above the ground. maybe you'll see a row it looks like almost like a house and twelve spaces in it it's up to you it's what you want some people put marble you know on it #1 Some people put tile #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Do they still have like do the black people still have any special
289:  oh when they go they have the biggest funeral be singing in the church and all the clubs come out if they're members of it you know. they'll be marching down the streets and singing
Interviewer:  they got bands?
289:  someti- they used to have when I was smaller I don't know about now.
Interviewer:  well do you have a name for that? what they call that?
289:  no. I don't remember what they call them. f- f- Oh! Funeral precession, something like that.
Interviewer:  They ever call anything like a wake?
289:  Yes. Wake. The Irish have their wakes.
Interviewer:  Didn't you say you were part
289:  Irish and mm English. Indian.
Interviewer:  Okay. and uh alright if if you meet somebody in the street and they and and they say well uh how are you today and you're feeling just about average, what would you say?
289:  So-so.
Interviewer:  So-so. How about uh and if you if you met somebody in the morning uh between uh between uh no if you met somebody say if you met somebody say between twelve noon and uh dinnertime, what would you say to them?
289:  you mean good afternoon, good morning? #1 I'm doing fine. #
Interviewer:  #2 okay # what are some of the other ways that you could go about greeting like that? {NS}
289:  Hello? How are you doing? How you been? Long time, haven't seen you.
Interviewer:  How about uh-
289:  What have you been doing?
Interviewer:  after dinner you might say good
289:  Good evening.
Interviewer:  okay. and the last time somebody leaves your house and they're leaving you know you
289:  good night.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh if uh if you start if if a man has to get up and start working just as the sun comes into sight you say he had to start work at
289:  ri- uh dawn.
Interviewer:  or
289:  sunrise.
Interviewer:  okay and the opposite
289:  sunset
Interviewer:  okay.
289:  #1 Dusk. #
Interviewer:  #2 now if you say # you say the sun will
289:  set.
Interviewer:  alright and the opposite of set is
289:  sunrise
Interviewer:  well alright and you say yesterday the sun
289:  set.
Interviewer:  okay and yesterday the sun
289:  rose.
Interviewer:  okay. and you say last week the sun had
289:  risen.
Interviewer:  okay and uh um okay today is uh Thursday?
289:  Thursday.
Interviewer:  uh you would say uh Wednesday was
289:  yesterday.
Interviewer:  okay and fr- uh fr-
289:  Friday's tomorrow
Interviewer:  okay. and um uh if somebody came on sunday okay
289:  mhmm
Interviewer:  uh the last sunday
289:  a week ago sunday
Interviewer:  how about uh if if he's if if he's going to leave
289:  next sunday or next week
Interviewer:  okay would you ever say sunday a week
289:  mm-mm. oh! Might say a week from sunday.
Interviewer:  okay. how about if someone came on the first and stayed 'til the thirteenth or fourteenth what would you call that
289:  stayed for two weeks
Interviewer:  and um uh what time is it?
289:  right now it's almost seven thirty.
Interviewer:  okay is there any other ways of saying that?
289:  half past seven.
Interviewer:  okay and uh fifteen minutes ago it was
289:  quarter after seven or seven fifteen.
Interviewer:  and that is a
289:  a watch!
Interviewer:  okay. and uh uh if you've been doing something for a long time you might say I've been doing that for quite
289:  a while.
Interviewer:  okay. and you might say the farmers got a pretty good crop last year, but they're not going to get such a good one
289:  this year.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh if a child has just had his third birthday you would say he's
289:  three years old.
Interviewer:  okay now something happened on this day last year, you say it happened exactly a year ago. okay. and those white things in the clou-
289:  clouds? white things in the sky.
Interviewer:  okay. and um okay the uh got ten more items. okay? I think it's gonna run about five altogether. I said between four and six so I think five would be best. which would be the end of this tape here. uh what right now we've taped about an hour since I've been here.
289:  mhmm.
Interviewer:  uh okay if um if somebody's troubled, you might say um oh it'll come out alright don't
289:  worry about it.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh what's the disease of the joints called?
289:  arthritis, bursitis, rheumatism
Interviewer:  okay. how about the disease where you turn yellow?
289:  jaundice.
Interviewer:  and uh very ser- this used to be a very severe disease they got innoculations for it now you'd get blisters on the inside of the throat and kids used to die from it they'd choke to death. dip-
289:  diphtheria?
Interviewer:  okay. and uh when you have your appendix taken out you say you had an attack of
289:  appendicitis
Interviewer:  okay and uh if uh you might say he he should eat something that might uh if you should eat something that doesn't agree with you uh and it wouldn't stay down, you would say uh you had to
289:  Throw up
Interviewer:  or
289:  vomit
Interviewer:  okay. any crude terms that you can think of for that?
289:  well if it was gonna go both ways the people Cuban people call it {D: cusokouanas} means you got it up and down.
Interviewer:  mm
289:  you vomit. you heaved.
Interviewer:  okay. and if if you were sick like that you would say or the person vomitting you would say he was sick
289:  to his stomach. to his stomach.
Interviewer:  okay and uh how would you fill this in and you might tell your friends anytime you can come over, we blank to see you!
289:  be happy to see you, glad to see you.
Interviewer:  okay would you ever use the word proud in there? be proud to see you?
289:  no. don't think so.
Interviewer:  okay uh uh if a young man is very much interested in a young woman spends a lot of- young girl and spends a lot of time with her so that the neighbors start noticing
289:  #1 mhmm #
Interviewer:  #2 the uh activities? # um uh what woul- and the neighbors think that his intenetions are serious, what would they say he's doing?
289:  courting her.
Interviewer:  okay around here? and any other terms?
289:  going steady, seeing. seeing each other. keeping company.
Interviewer:  okay. and what would they call him to her? he is
289:  boyfriend
Interviewer:  alright and she is his
289:  girlfriend
Interviewer:  okay anything else?
289:  sweetheart
Interviewer:  if the boy comes home with lipstick on his colar his brother says you've been
289:  smooching
Interviewer:  okay. any other terms for that?
289:  kissing necking
Interviewer:  okay. and uh if he asks her to marry him and she doesn't want him what do you say she did to him?
289:  she turned him down.
Interviewer:  okay. any any other terms like that?
289:  {X} rejected him?
Interviewer:  okay. how about the old term?
289:  what broke up? no?
Interviewer:  J-
289:  jilted?
Interviewer:  yeah
289:  jilt is when you uh the way I think of jilt is if you're engaged and then br- and you know and she says no and she goes to somebody else.
Interviewer:  okay well it's you know he asked her to marry him
289:  well if she didn't say yes then changed her mind
Interviewer:  oh oh do you see engagement as a as a more of a a committed uh to marriage thing, or is that just the intermediate stuff?
289:  to me if you become engaged it's with the intention that you are to marry.
Interviewer:  So it's a contract?
289:  so more or less, yeah.
Interviewer:  okay How about uh at the wedding, who's the man that stands with the groom? He's called
289:  best man.
Interviewer:  and the girl that stands up with the bride?
289:  Maid of honor or Matron of honor.
Interviewer:  okay how- around here do you ever hear anybody talking about any old customs involving marriage? Like for example with a married couple would go to their house and people would stand around the house all night long making noise or something?
289:  No. but if they can find out where you're staying they'll make a lot of racket.
Interviewer:  do they have a name for that?
289:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # do the ever have
289:  #1 Not here, not anymore. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # We're going to have a Ever- you ever heard a term like shiv- shivalry?
289:  No. Chivalry, I wouldn't think of chivalry that way.
Interviewer:  now- now this isn't like
289:  no not the way
Interviewer:  no no no not like
289:  #1 okay. no. #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: sir walter raleigh} #
289:  No. Not that way.
Interviewer:  this is s i v, s h i v a r
289:  #1 No #
Interviewer:  #2 ee- # It's a noisey- okay. uh you've never heard that at all here? okay. and uh what do you well uh young people do well you know most young people anyway like to go out in the evening where they move around the floor with music
289:  dancing
Interviewer:  okay any other terms for that? around here?
289:  Nope. dancing's dancing. Go out t- no. #1 That's about it. #
Interviewer:  #2 Like in high school do they have #
289:  going to a prom, going to a dance. that's about it.
Interviewer:  okay and uh if if children get out of school at four oclock you say at four a clock school is what?
289:  lets out.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh after vacation they say when does school
289:  begin
Interviewer:  again
289:  no just begin.
Interviewer:  oh okay well how would you say when does school blank again?
289:  when was begin again.
Interviewer:  okay and uh {NS} the uh if a boy left home to go to school and didn't show, he #1 Did what? #
289:  #2 he was # going to school oh playing hooky.
Interviewer:  #1 okay and if it was a co- #
289:  #2 skipped # school.
Interviewer:  alright yeah but if it was a college would you say hooky?
289:  you could play hooky or skipping class.
Interviewer:  okay. if- you go to schol to get an
289:  education.
Interviewer:  and uh after kindergaten you go into the
289:  you go into elementary.
Interviewer:  okay and what's the
289:  first grade?
Interviewer:  okay and uh you might say someone left a note on my
289:  desk.
Interviewer:  and the classroom has new
289:  desks
Interviewer:  okay, and this is a- this whole
289:  {X} well this building?
Interviewer:  yeah.
289:  the library.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh place where you mail letters?
289:  Post office.
Interviewer:  the uh downtown not the uh the type that you can drive into but downtown a place where you can stay overnight?
289:  Ho- what a hotel? Motel?
Interviewer:  Okay. and uh you see a play at the
289:  theatre
Interviewer:  okay and if you had to have an operation you go to the
289:  Hospital
Interviewer:  where they have these little women in the dressed in white
289:  Nurses
Interviewer:  And one of them is a
289:  nurse.
Interviewer:  and uh if there were if there were a train that came out on the keys, you would catch the train at the
289:  Railroad station or depot.
Interviewer:  Okay. and you catch the bus at the
289:  bus station
Interviewer:  okay an open place in the city where green green grass and trees in the city
289:  #1 Park. #
Interviewer:  #2 mean # okay any other names for that? {NS}
289:  No they here they just call it a park.
Interviewer:  okay um in this situation where you have a crossroads downtown like and your standing hereand someone says where's the bank, and that's the bank you point over there and you say it's just
289:  across the street or catty-cornered
Interviewer:  okay and uh vehicles that used to run on tracks with a wire overhead that you could hop on
289:  what, trolley? electric cars?
Interviewer:  no used to have them in miami. years ago
289:  don't ask me.
Interviewer:  before they had the other thing.
289:  first time I rode in a trolley I was in San Francisco.
Interviewer:  Oh yeah? they still have those.
289:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Okay if you were on one of these local what do you have what kind of public transportation do you have here?
289:  Just the buses.
Interviewer:  okay they call it anything else?
289:  city buses. that's it
Interviewer:  but not {X}
289:  no.
Interviewer:  Is that different? or do you know what that is?
289:  I don't even know what it is.
Interviewer:  okay they got those in miami. those are smaller. usually privately operated.
289:  no.
Interviewer:  as far as I know. how about uh if you're on the if you're on the bus you might tell the bus driver the next corner is where I want
289:  get off or be left off get off
Interviewer:  and uh who pays the postmaster? the federal
289:  federal government
Interviewer:  okay and the police in town are supposed to maintain what?
289:  {NW} peace and order
Interviewer:  okay anything else uh begin the first word? instead of peace you might say they're supposed to maintain
289:  {NW} they can't even maintain the peace and order.
Interviewer:  {NW} how about la-
289:  laws?
Interviewer:  #1 Well see- #
289:  #2 No. #
Interviewer:  they maintain you ever hear them say uh maintain the la- and order?
289:  Law and Order.
Interviewer:  yeah. is that the or is it peace and order here.
289:  would be law and order. peace.
Interviewer:  like when someone campaigns like a sheriff he says I'm gonna
289:  yeah mm-hmm they promise a lot.
Interviewer:  {NW} okay how about what they call the fight between the northern and southern states in 1861 the people around
289:  the war b- uh war between the states?
Interviewer:  okay people around here call it that? when they refer to it or is
289:  I do. {X} what? fight against the north and south? south and north?
Interviewer:  uh yeah
289:  yankees and #1 rebels #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah that # one.
289:  I always say its the fight between the what is it, the fight between the states? north and south?
Interviewer:  okay. key west was a northern base in that, wasn't it?
289:  we had I think, if I'm not mistaken we had both at different times. they always said in key west you could be either one, whichever you prefer. {NS} but most Key Westers stand up when they play Dixie
Interviewer:  oh yeah?
289:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  you mean like at ball games? {NS}
289:  Yes. oh well they have um {NS} They don't do it anymore. they did when I was in high school they played dixie something like that
Interviewer:  yeah I remember when I-
289:  and then when I was in schoo- elementary school they played dixie.
Interviewer:  Okay. How about uh alright now U.S states. ALbany is the capital of
289:  New York
Interviewer:  okay and Annapolis
289:  Maryland
Interviewer:  okay and richmond is the capital
289:  Virginia
Interviewer:  okay and raleigh is the capital
289:  what is it north carolina or south carolina north carolina I guess
Interviewer:  okay. and uh Sherman marched across
289:  Delaware.
Interviewer:  Delaware?
289:  #1 Sherm- #
Interviewer:  #2 Sherman Sherman you talking about # washington crossed
289:  okay Delaware Sherman marched across
Interviewer:  you know he set fire to the s- you know that everybody just north of Florida you have
289:  What Alabama? Georgia?
Interviewer:  okay. and uh Baton Rouge is the capital of
289:  Louisiana
Interviewer:  And the Bluegrass State is
289:  Kentucky
Interviewer:  Okay. And the volunteer state?
289:  Don't ask me
Interviewer:  Alright uh You know the state where all the country music comes from?
289:  Tennessee
Interviewer:  Okay And the show me state?
289:  I know the hoosier state show me I don't know. Can't think of it.
Interviewer:  Okay. you remember remember the town that I said I was from?
289:  Missouri?
Interviewer:  Alright. that's that's the state. and the town? that I said I #1 {D: come from} #
289:  #2 St. Louis? #
Interviewer:  Okay. and um little rock is the capital of
289:  Arkansas
Interviewer:  and jackson is the capital of
289:  Mississippi.
Interviewer:  And the lone star state is
289:  Texas.
Interviewer:  And Tulsa is in
289:  Oklahoma
Interviewer:  And Boston is in
289:  Boston is Massachusetts!
Interviewer:  Okay and the states from Maine to conneticutt are called
289:  Are New England states.
Interviewer:  okay And how about the biggest city in Maryland
289:  You got me
Interviewer:  Hotel or hotel
289:  Baltimore
Interviewer:  Okay and uh uh the capital of the USA is
289:  Washington DC
Interviewer:  Okay and the old historical seaport in South Carolina
289:  Charleston
Interviewer:  And the big steel-making town in alabama where the have all the steel mills
289:  the steel
Interviewer:  It's right {X}
289:  Birmington? Birmingham?
Interviewer:  yeah okay and how about the town in Illinois where all the gangsters are supposed to be from? Al Capone
289:  Chicago?
Interviewer:  Okay. and the capital of Alabama?
289:  Alabama. Birmingha- Not Birmingham?
Interviewer:  Nah.
289:  George Wallace.
Interviewer:  This is further south.
289:  Montgomery.
Interviewer:  Okay and how how about the coastal town the port town in Alabama. right on the gulf Mo-
289:  Mobile
Interviewer:  okay and uh how about the resort city in western part of North Carolina?
289:  Um oh heck what not My father's been there Myrtle Beach!
Interviewer:  Okay how about one that's A- you ever heard of one that starts with Ash?
289:  Where at?
Interviewer:  This is this is in the western part of North Carolina. ashevi- You ever heard of that? Asheville.
289:  Asheville? No.
Interviewer:  You ever heard of that?
289:  #1 isn't that when you #
Interviewer:  #2 how about uh how about #
289:  come back to the rockies um
Interviewer:  #1 no not the rockies #
289:  #2 mountains # I mean what whatever they are the mountain range there smokey mountains
Interviewer:  yeah. okay. but that's in the western part of Carolina not on the coast
289:  oh.
Interviewer:  okay how about the big excuse me the biggest city in east tennessee name some real big cities in tennessee.
289:  Memphis, Nashville
Interviewer:  the choo-choo
289:  Chattanooga
Interviewer:  and uh uh the one that {NS} what you call that when you do that
289:  Knocks knocks?
Interviewer:  alright
289:  Fort Knox?
Interviewer:  Alright but what's the one that sounds like that? Knox-
289:  Knoxville?
Interviewer:  okay and uh the place where emory university is from
289:  Missi- no I don't know Emory
Interviewer:  in Georgia the big town in georgia
289:  Georgia
Interviewer:  the biggest city in georgia capital
289:  Georgia Georgia Georgia Geor- I don't know anything about Georgia
Interviewer:  {NW} well let's
289:  Georgia peaches or
Interviewer:  biggest thing you can think of in georgia.
289:  the police that hide behind the s- signs waiting for you
Interviewer:  {NW}
289:  I can't think of any but- thing in Georgia.
Interviewer:  At- atla-
289:  Atlanta?
Interviewer:  okay. and uh how about the coast town the one the town that's on the ocean atlantic ocean s- sa-
289:  {D: I forgot what it comes}
Interviewer:  this is georgia s-
289:  Savannah?
Interviewer:  okay and how about the one where there made a movie about it? something county line?
289:  Macon county line.
Interviewer:  Okay and how about another one down there. it's uh like Christopher
289:  Columbus?
Interviewer:  okay. and uh how about the biggest city in lousianna?
289:  Louisianna New Orleans? New Orleans!
Interviewer:  okay and the capital of louisianna?
289:  Baton Rouge.
Interviewer:  and the biggest city in southern ohio?
289:  Akron?
Interviewer:  the the blank reds.
289:  cleveland?
Interviewer:  alright now there ball team there called the reds. the something reds. the cin- cin- cinn-
289:  Cincinnati!
Interviewer:  okay and uh how about where the uh Kentucky derby's run
289:  uh kentucky that's in no Kentucky green grass state
Interviewer:  dun-
289:  Loui- no not Louisianna.
Interviewer:  Lou-
289:  Louisville
Interviewer:  okay you said you were Irish so Irish people come from
289:  Ireland
Interviewer:  and uh uh Napolean was from
289:  France
Interviewer:  and the Coun- the country we just had the hook up with space
289:  Russia
Interviewer:  okay. and uh how far is it from here to marathon?
289:  fifty miles. about fifty.
Interviewer:  okay. nad if somebody asked you to go with them and you're not sure you want to uh you might say uh I don't
289:  think so.
Interviewer:  or I don't know
289:  If I can.
Interviewer:  okay. and uh if someone is very sick and a friend I mean if you have a very sick friend and he's not likely to get better and if someone asks you how he's coming along you might say well it seems
289:  he's the same as he was or he might be improving
Interviewer:  it seems as okay would you ever say it seems what?
289:  he's not improving. or he's getting worse.
Interviewer:  alright. um if you were asked to go somewhere without somebody that you wanted to go with okay that you didn't like going someplace without
289:  well I'm supposed to go some #1 place. #
Interviewer:  #2 Alright, somebody asked you to go someplace. #
289:  Okay
Interviewer:  And you say um I won't go
289:  Unless they he goes
Interviewer:  okay and uh if if one of your uh uh if you're if your nephew was how old's your nephew?
289:  I got one three six seven eleven
Interviewer:  alright let's say your six your eleven year old nephew is supposed to wash the dishes fo some reason.
289:  mm-hmm
Interviewer:  and uh say if uh if your nephew did not help you with the dishes you's say uh he went off playing blank helping me
289:  instead of helping me
Interviewer:  okay and um if two people became members of a baptist
289:  they join the church
Interviewer:  okay and what uh what's the uh you go to church to worship the
289:  God
Interviewer:  okay and uh the guy what does the what does the preacher deliver
289:  sermon or message
Interviewer:  okay and the choir and the organist provided good
289:  what music?
Interviewer:  okay and you might say oh that music is
289:  what terrific wonderful #1 it's good. sounds good. #
Interviewer:  #2 okay and uh # or beau-
289:  beautiful?
Interviewer:  okay and uh the enemy and the opposite of god is called the
289:  the enemy
Interviewer:  and opposite
289:  he's devil
Interviewer:  okay and uh what do people think they see at night that frightens them?
289:  #1 ghosts. #
Interviewer:  #2 the usually # and uh
289:  boogeyman it's gonna get ya
Interviewer:  if there is a lonely house off a dark road and people think they hear strange noises coming from it at night they might say that's a
289:  haunted house.
Interviewer:  okay um you might say uh better put on a sweater it's getting blank chilly
289:  getting {NS} #1 cool. chilly during #
Interviewer:  #2 getting #
289:  chilly
Interviewer:  #1 Alright. #
289:  #2 No. # {NS} getting airish?
Interviewer:  getting really getting airish? alright you might say I'll go if uh you insist but I blank
289:  rather not
Interviewer:  okay and uh uh let me see what do you say when you have a friend that you haven't seen for some time? how do you express your feelings when you greet them?
289:  more or less if it's me I'll start crying and kiss them
Interviewer:  okay. would you ever say I'm
289:  glad to see you
Interviewer:  okay
289:  happy to see you.
Interviewer:  alright uh if a person owned a whole city block in town uh how would you describe that much land?
289:  you just look he earned a lot he owned a lot of land or a parcel of land I don't think they use parcel just owned a lot of property
Interviewer:  would you ever hear anybody say he owned the right smart?
289:  No.
Interviewer:  you ever heard anyone around here at all? okay uh {NS} uh someone might say can you do that? uh do you think you can do that? And you say I blank can
289:  I bet I can
Interviewer:  or I sh-
289:  think I can
Interviewer:  I sh- I shhh
289:  sure can.
Interviewer:  Okay. and if if it wasn't just a little cool a little cool cold this morning you might say it was
289:  cold
Interviewer:  okay like coca-cola has the what's the slogan for it's the
289:  real thing
Interviewer:  okay so you might say it wasn't a little cold this morning it was
289:  real cold
Interviewer:  okay and uh
289:  and we call cold weather a norther.
Interviewer:  a nor- that's what I wanted to get at before we run out here. is a oh alright before get that far if if you if you if someone said if you've enjoyed a visit with someone you would say come
289:  come back again
Interviewer:  okay and what do you what do you say to people when you greet one of them de- december twenty-fifth?
289:  Merry Christmas.
Interviewer:  did they every use anything else around here like on the twenty-fourth or right before chrsitmas?
289:  no it's just merry christmas.
Interviewer:  you ever hear christmas gift?
289:  no
Interviewer:  okay how about on uh January one?
289:  happy new year
Interviewer:  okay uh anything you might say by way of appreciation besides thank you like you might say I much
289:  what what much obliged? mm-mm. {NS} much obliged
Interviewer:  #1 You hear anybody say that? #
289:  #2 {X} # but I don't say it. or you could say I'm much beholden
Interviewer:  okay
289:  but I don't say that either.
Interviewer:  alright. you might say uh I had to go to town and do some
289:  shopping
Interviewer:  and uh if you made a purchase the storekeeper took a piece paper and
289:  wrapped it
Interviewer:  and when you got home you had to
289:  unwrap it.
Interviewer:  and uh if you sell something for less than you paid for it you say I had to sell it at
289:  at a lost
Interviewer:  o- okay if you admire somthing uh but you don't have enough money to buy it you say I like it but it
289:  can't afford it
Interviewer:  or it
289:  cost too much
Interviewer:  okay and and uh the time to pay your bill you say uh the bill is
289:  due
Interviewer:  and if you belong to a club you have to pay
289:  your dues.
Interviewer:  and if you haven't gotten a couple bucks to pay something you might go next door and
289:  borrow
Interviewer:  and if you go in to a banker and the banker is gently refusing a loan he might say right now money is
289:  what tight
Interviewer:  or
289:  short
Interviewer:  or s- sca-
289:  scarce
Interviewer:  okay and uh you might say he ran out on the springboard and jumped off and
289:  fell
Interviewer:  uh jumped off and
289:  Dived?
Interviewer:  okay can you say tomorrow he will
289:  dive
Interviewer:  and he had
289:  dived
Interviewer:  okay what do you call it when you jump off you dive and you land right here and you do a big
289:  Oh belly belly splash? no. I can't think of the word you call it
Interviewer:  when you hit here and just do a {NW} {X}
289:  I've done it too but I can't think of it and it hurts like the devil. Belly bomb no belly I can't think of what you call Belly flop
Interviewer:  okay how about when you when you're in school or when a kid's put their hands down tuck their head and roll
289:  tumble-sault?
Interviewer:  okay and uh and when you're out there in the doing this number
289:  swimming?
Interviewer:  okay and yesterday you
289:  swam
Interviewer:  and tommo-
289:  I will swim
Interviewer:  and he had
289:  swum #1 not #
Interviewer:  #2 okay #
289:  swum yeah
Interviewer:  okay how about when you buy uh something or you pay your bill on time some storekeeper used to give you a little present and say it's for you ever heard anything like that?
289:  No they're not gonna give you anything here {NW} that's for sure
Interviewer:  okay. uh uh someone that was out swimming and didn't quite make it but maybe got caught in a whirlpool went down and didn't come back up. say he
289:  Drowned.
Interviewer:  okay and you say be careful don't go out there you might
289:  Drown.
Interviewer:  and you say uh last week that boy had
289:  drowned.
Interviewer:  okay and what is it a baby does before it's able to walk?
289:  crawl.
Interviewer:  okay. and if you saw like you're talking about putting those things up in the windowduring the hurricane you do what
289:  Shutters
Interviewer:  #1 you had to #
289:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 go up the ladder so you had to #
289:  #2 ladder # climb
Interviewer:  okay and yesterday you
289:  climbed
Interviewer:  and the neighbor had
289:  climbed
Interviewer:  before he fell down and uh you might in the catholic church they say she walked up to the altar and she
289:  kneeled.
Interviewer:  okay and if you're feeling tired you might say I am going to blank down in bed
289:  lie down
Interviewer:  and you might say he was really sick he couldn't even sit up he just blank in bed all day.
289:  laid.
Interviewer:  okay. uh you might say uh talking about something well the things that go through your head at night
289:  dreams?
Interviewer:  okay so last night you
289:  dreamed
Interviewer:  and uh tomorrow you will
289:  dream
Interviewer:  and he had
289:  dreamt
Interviewer:  okay. and you might say I dreamt so and so and all of a sudden I
289:  woke up
Interviewer:  and #1 what do you call #
289:  #2 or awakened. #
Interviewer:  what do you call that?
289:  stamping?
Interviewer:  okay. and uh uh if a man meets a girl at a dance and uh he wants to go home with her he says uh may I
289:  take you home? escort you home?
Interviewer:  okay now if they're on foot now if he's in a
289:  #1 walk #
Interviewer:  #2 car # okay would it be any different
289:  walk you home drive you home
Interviewer:  okay how about uh what am I doing there
289:  pushing
Interviewer:  okay so that I just gave that a
289:  shove
Interviewer:  or a
289:  {NS} push
Interviewer:  okay and uh {NS} {NW} come on {NW} oh uh if you carried a heavy suitcase a long distance instead of saying I carried it you might say I
289:  towed it.
Interviewer:  okay. and if some children came into the house and started uh and you had some delicate things on the table and they were starting get
289:  grab?
Interviewer:  yeah and you said don't
289:  touch.
Interviewer:  alright you might say don't what? don't you
289:  don't you bother those things don't you get those things don't touch those things.
Interviewer:  okay. uh if if you need a hammer you might tell somebody to what?
289:  loan you a hammer?
Interviewer:  or you know you're up on
289:  #1 pass you the hammer? #
Interviewer:  #2 uh you're up you're up on the ladder and you #
289:  #1 reach me a hammer? #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # go
289:  and get
Interviewer:  okay. and uh what is the thing in football that you kick the fiel-
289:  what is the thing that
Interviewer:  you know, the post?
289:  fiel- um yard post #1 touch #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
289:  no
Interviewer:  fiel-
289:  Field Goal
Interviewer:  Okay. and if you throw a ball you can you have to
289:  catch {X}