interviewer: It was really kind of funny I thought. 299: {X} interviewer: It was just 299: Yeah that's his wife and he lived with her and she went to Nashville to work. interviewer: Someone was telling me he had a almost a PhD or something at 299: Probably so cause he's he's a oh like I said he's invented uh something he he deals with that type of stuff you know. interviewer: Yeah He was quite a character. Um okay you you were saying if you walked like this? 299: Catty corner interviewer: Okay and um say before they had buses in the city they used to have? 299: Oh were they trolley cars or interviewer: Okay what what was that like? Do you remember that? 299: Uh uh see I never did go to the city {C: tape noise} Now I mean the city just doesn't mean a thing to me. {NW} Really I interviewer: Just as far as you would go the store and that was 299: That's that's it until he came into town on a in the eight mile or ten mile in the {C: tape noise} and uh that's about all I know {C: tape noise} interviewer: {NW} 299: about town you see until I was um. When I was twelve years old I believe mother let me uh {C: tape noise} {C: overlaid} go with her to Clarksville on the bus. {C: tape noise} {C: overlaid} And that was the first {C: tape noise} time I'd ever been to Clarksville. {C: tape noise} interviewer: I bet that was exciting. {C: tape noise} 299: Mhmm it was it was {C: tape noise} it was real exciting. Well once took before that when I was {C: tape noise} daddy let us go with a load of tobacco {NW} but but we didn't uh we rode in the truck with a load of tobacco and then uh we didn't go anywhere but the ol''' tobacco warehouse you know and then drove us just through the town it was before Christmas let us see the Christmas lights interviewer: Mhmm 299: and that's the first time I'd ever seen the town of Clarksville and I's mhmm I guess I was eleven or twelve years old. {overlaid} So no town doesn't mean a lot to me. interviewer: Do you ever go to Nashville or any of the really big cities? 299: Uh not often see I've been to Nashville a few times and my sister worked in Nashville for oh for six years something like that and {C: tape noise} I spent one Saturday night with her in Nashville in her apartment. {C: tape noise} Which was always a treat of a life time {C: tape noise} and I was in high school then. {C: tape noise} interviewer: Mmh 299: And then since I've been married we went to Detroit one time. And uh that's just about you know {C: tape noise} I haven't been to many. To Nashville and Clarksville and um and that time I went to Detroit. {overlaid} I haven't been to town many times. Just you know really what you'd call town to know how to get around and this type of stuff. {C: tape noise} And uh{C: tape noise} {C: tape noise} through towns and stuff but just as far as a lot about town it don't I don't know a lot. {NW} interviewer: I bet that was exciting 299: Yeah it was {C: tape noise} interviewer: {X} 299: #1 yeah # interviewer: #2 {X} # 299: see that was just a a treat really to us you'd say. {C: tape noise} interviewer: Say um you were riding on a bus you'd tell a bus driver now this next corner is where I want? 299: Off {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay {C: tape noise} and um say um here in Houston County Erin is the? 299: County seat interviewer: Okay and um if you were a say a FBI agent you'd be working for the Federal? 299: Government interviewer: Okay and the police in town are supposed to maintain? 299: Law and order interviewer: Okay and the fight in this country between the north and the south? 299: Was the Civil War interviewer: Okay any other um ways of refering to that? 299: Uh {overlaid} {overlaid} between the North and the South I don't really uh can't think of another name. interviewer: Okay and um you say before they had the electric chair murderers were? 299: Hung interviewer: Okay and you say the man went out and what himself? 299: Hang himself {C: tape noise} or hung himself. interviewer: Okay and um these are some names of some states and cities um the biggest city in this country is in what state? 299: The biggest city would be um {C: tape noise} California someone Los Angeles, California interviewer: Okay but the the biggest {NW} 299: {X} interviewer: The biggest city is in {overlaid} the well in the east of 299: New York {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay and um Baltimore is in? 299: Maryland interviewer: Okay and what are some names of some of the southern states around here? 299: Well Alabama and Georgia and {overlaid} Texas Florida. {C: tape noise} interviewer: What what about um 299: Louisiana interviewer: Okay and north of here? {NW} 299: Well Kentucky Ohio uh Michigan interviewer: Okay and um then up well touching Georgia up I forget whether it touches Tennessee or not. Um 299: Is it Illinois? interviewer: Okay um and say um Raleigh is the capital of? 299: North Carolina interviewer: Okay and then beneath that you have? 299: South Carolina {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay and um Baton Rogue is the capital of? 299: Louisiana interviewer: Okay and Little Rock is? 299: Arkansas {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay and um this state where they had that the big river? 299: Mississippi {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay and um {NW} the {NW} the show me state is? 299: Uh Saint Louis Missouri interviewer: Okay and um Tulsa's in? 299: Oklahoma {C: tape noise} interviewer: And Boston? 299: Massachusettes interviewer: Okay and the states up there from Maine to Connecticut were called the? 299: New England States interviewer: Okay and the biggest city in Maryland? 299: Baltimore interviewer: Okay and the capital of the United States is? 299: Washington interviewer: Okay and um 299: {C: tape noise} Washington D.C. interviewer: Okay and the old sea port in South Carolina? Sort of a historical old sea port Char- 299: Charleston interviewer: Okay and um the big steel making city in Alabama? 299: Birmingham interviewer: Okay {NW} and the big city in Illinois? {overlaid} {overlaid} 299: Oh I'm thinking Collinsville or {NS} Granite City or interviewer: Really the the big one where they I guess they have a lot of um well slaughter houses and. Where {X} home once was. {NW} 299: Chicago {NS} interviewer: Huh? 299: Chicago interviewer: Okay and um some of the cities that {NW} some of the cities in Alabama? {NW} 299: Uh see I named Birmingham uh interviewer: What's the capital? Starts with an M. 299: Montgomery interviewer: Okay and the the city on the gulf in Alabama? 299: New Orleans oh no uh in Alabama. interviewer: Starts with an M too. {Overlaid} Mo- 299: Mobile interviewer: Okay and um {overlaid} the city up in the Mountains in North Carolina? 299: North Carolina you say? interviewer: Uh huh the city up in the mountains there. Is As- Ash- 299: Asheville interviewer: Okay and the um some of the cities in Georgia? The capital? 299: Atlanta interviewer: Okay 299: Well I'm not too good on these. interviewer: And um then the the big sea port in Georgia? {overlaid} {NW} 299: Well I don't know that. interviewer: I think it's Sa- there's a city in Tennessee named after it I just found out. 299: In Georgia what's the first letter of it? interviewer: Sav- S sav- 299: Savannah {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay and um then a city in right in the middle of Georgia? 299: Atlanta you're not talking interviewer: Yeah it's it's outside of Atlanta. I think it's Mac- 299: Macon interviewer: Okay and um and Fort Benning is near? {overlaid} 299: It's near Ala- interviewer: Or the name of the person who discovered America? 299: Columbus interviewer: Okay and um the capital of Louisiana? 299: Baton Rouge interviewer: Okay and the biggest city in Southern Ohio? 299: Cincinnati interviewer: Okay and the biggest city in Kentucky? 299: Uh not Paducha Murray interviewer: No starts with an L #1 Where they have the Kentucky # 299: #2 Louisville # Louisville interviewer: Okay and um the the country where they're having all the fighting? Belfast 299: {C: tape noise} Ireland interviewer: Okay and Paris is in? 299: France interviewer: Okay and Moscow is? 299: Germ- uh Russia interviewer: Okay and the four biggest cities in Tennessee? {overlaid} 299: Nashville Memphis interviewer: What about uh sorta of 299: Jackson interviewer: okay and down sorta going East Tennessee. 299: Chattanooga interviewer: Okay and then way over in East Tennessee? Where the University is. 299: {C: tape noise} Knoxville interviewer: #1 Okay # 299: #2 No I didn't think of that. # interviewer: And um say if someone ask you to go with them and you're not sure you want to you say well I don't know if? 299: If I want to go or not. interviewer: Okay and um say if you want somebody to go with you somewhere you might say well I'm not going? 299: Unless you go with me. interviewer: Okay and um say um I had a choice of doing two things and at first I was gonna do this but then I decided to do that in? 299: {C: tape noise} Instead of interviewer: Okay and um the name of the well probably the largest Protestant Church in the South? 299: Methodist interviewer: Okay and then another one? 299: Presbyterian interviewer: Okay what are some others? 299: Well um Baptist interviewer: Okay 299: Um interviewer: And um say if two people become members of a church you'd say that they? What? 299: Mhmm {C: tape noise} you mean like joined? interviewer: Okay and um you go to church to worship? 299: God or interviewer: huh? 299: God interviewer: Okay and um say the preacher preachs a? 299: Sermon interviewer: Okay and say the choir and organ provide the? 299: Music {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay and if you really like the music maybe you might say it was just? 299: {C: tape noise} well beautiful or pretty interviewer: Okay and um the enemy of God is called the? 299: Devil interviewer: Okay 299: or Satan interviewer: Okay any other names? 299: Bad man or interviewer: What would you tell children what was gonna come get them? 299: The bad man {NS} {NW} interviewer: Okay do you ever hear of booger man? 299: Yeah booger man uh huh. interviewer: Did you ever hear this it's a game that we used to play 299: Booger? We used to play booger. interviewer: How did you? Was 299: Well each {C: tape noise} side had a base interviewer: Uh huh 299: and then uh the booger man was out in the middle interviewer: uh huh 299: and he had him uh he had him uh base of a thing {C: tape noise} that he had to carry you to. And you'd run across {C: tape noise} to the other {C: tape noise} side you see. And then he {C: tape noise} if he caught you he a he tried to {C: tape noise} {C: tape noise} uh I forgot if he had to drag you to make you touch his base. {C: tape noise} interviewer: Oh that's what we call snake in the {X} 299: {C: tape noise} You did? {NW} Oh we used to play that a lot. interviewer: Do you ever hear one um it's something one kid would say ain't no boogers out tonight daddy killed them all last night. 299: Nah I never heard that one. {C: tape noise} interviewer: I thought everyone knew that. 299: Nah it's a new one on me. interviewer: They just someone would say that just sorta daring #1 people and then all the sudden # 299: #2 Well this is # interviewer: the person that had been hiding would run and someone chasing him. 299: Well we that's what what we'd play like that was uh {C: tape noise} fox in the morning goose in the evening. And uh someway {C: tape noise} then you uh you would do some- {C: tape noise} thing and he'd say {X} out there or something and {C: tape noise} and then you'd run to another base or something and then you start chasing see the fox uh fox would chase the geese. So that was the type of game we played. It was called fox in the morning goose in the evening I don't know. {C: tape noise} But I've forgotten what {C: tape noise} interviewer: What about the game where where you'd hide and all everybody but one person 299: Hide-n-seek we called it. interviewer: Okay you ever hear an older name for that? 299: Uh {C: tape noise} interviewer: {D: Rocky high or high spy} 299: I've heard of high spy but but we never did call it that we just called it hide and seek. {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay um and what about say the the thing that in football you run toward the? 299: Goal I- interviewer: Okay um {NW} you know sometimes people would would think that there'd be maybe one house in the neighborhood that everyone would be scared to go to? 299: It'd be hainted or {NS} haunted interviewer: Okay 299: We said hainted on. interviewer: Do you remember any stories about that or was there a house like that at a lot of people 299: There wasn't one out where I lived but uh {C: tape noise} I've heard we've used to set tell stories at night of uh of hainted houses and things you know. Have a dish and everyone sat on {C: tape noise} table things like that you know. interviewer: Yeah 299: And uh mostly stories of things that spooked horses horses at night there would be supposed to be a certain road or path that uh if you rode tried to ride your horse past it at night then you were never going back. It did he'd always something would spook him and you'd always fall off you know. {C: tape noise} {NW} interviewer: What would you call the things that were supposed to be spookin him? 299: A ghost probably interviewer: Yeah any other names? 299: Well a haint I guess. {NW} I don't know anything else. interviewer: You ever meet anybody who's supposed to of seen one? He claims that 299: I really don't know of anybody that actually {NW} saw. {C: laughing} interviewer: Um you might tell someone you better put a sweater on it's getting what? Chilly it's getting? 299: Cold {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay but it's it's not real cold you say it's just getting? 299: {X} interviewer: Okay and um say um say well I'll go if you insist but I'd? 299: Rather not go. interviewer: Okay and um say someone owned about five hundred acres you'd say that that was a what of land? That was a? 299: Tract of land. {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay would you ever use the word right smart or good deal? 299: Yeah I say right smart yeah um most everything I say that would be right smart of land. interviewer: How do you use that right smart? 299: Means a lot interviewer: I mean what what are some of the situations when you'd use it? Would you talk about a right smart of pain? 299: Well a lot of people that yeah you'd say right smart of pain and lots of times you'd go somewhere and they'd say maybe we'll were there many people there and I'd say right smart. {NW} interviewer: Talking about right smart of people? 299: Mhmm {C: tape noise} and right smart that's the type of way I use it. interviewer: Say what about would you say it rained right smart? 299: They'd say how much rain did you have and I'd say right smart. {NW} interviewer: Okay and um say if you say well I'm just a little cold this morning it was? 299: Pretty cold interviewer: Okay and um say if someone said something kind of shocking you sorta resented them saying it you might say why the very what of you saying that the very? 299: Idea interviewer: Okay so the whole thing why the very? 299: {X} The idea of you saying that. interviewer: Okay and when a friend of yours says good morning what might you ask 'em? {overlaid} 299: How are you? interviewer: Okay and what when you introduce a stranger what might you say? 299: I'm glad to meet you or interviewer: okay and what might you ask them? Would you ever say how do you do or how are you? 299: Mhmmm yeah I would. {C: tape noise} interviewer: Which? 299: Umm I'd say, "how do you do." interviewer: Okay and um say if someone had been visiting you you might say um well I hope and they're they're leaving {C: tape noise} you'd tell them? 299: Like you all come back or interviewer: Okay or you might tell 'em I hope you'll come back? 299: Sometime hope you all come back sometime. interviewer: Okay um and what do you say {C: tape noise} how do you greet someone around December 25th? 299: Merry Christmas interviewer: Okay anything else? 299: Happy Holidays interviewer: Do you ever say Christmas? 299: Christmas Greetings? interviewer: Yeah Christmas Gift {overlaid} 299: Now that's Ray. {NS} You know I had never heard of Christmas Chr- uh Ray's family has got this Christmas Eve gift interviewer: Uh huh 299: that we never did. I'd never heard of it. {C: tape noise} And the first time I was going to his house {C: tape noise} see on Christmas Eve I believe the first person that says Christmas Eve Gift to you {C: tape noise} you're supposed to give them a gift. You owe them a gift. And see they said that to me that morning when I was down there and I didn't know what it meant it didn't mean a thing to me. And uh so in other words that's their thing Christmas {C: tape noise} the first person that can say Christmas Eve Gift to you {C: tape noise} uh {C: tape noise} you you owe them a gift. interviewer: Is his family from around here? 299: Yeah they're from down in there just right this section down in here I mean just but that's just uh what they always said and I never heard of it. interviewer: Yeah what about um on January first what do you say? 299: Happy New Year {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay you ever hear New Years Gift? 299: Yeah or just {C: tape noise} well no I can't say I've heard New Years Gift. interviewer: Okay say someone had done you a favor you might tell 'em well thank you I'm much? 299: Much oblige interviewer: Okay and um you say I had to go down town to do some? 299: Shopping interviewer: Okay and you say you bought something you'd say the store keeper took out a piece of paper and? 299: Wrapped it up interviewer: Okay when I got home then I? 299: Unwrapped it interviewer: Okay if you had to sell something for less than you paid for it you'd say you had to sell it? 299: You say sell it for less than you paid for it? interviewer: Yeah you had to sell it at a? 299: Loss interviewer: Okay and say you like something but you don't have enough to buy it you say well I like it but it what too much? 299: Costs too much interviewer: Okay and on the first of the month the bill is? #1 When it's time to pay? # 299: #2 Due # interviewer: Huh? 299: Due interviewer: Okay and if you belong to a club you have to pay your? 299: Dues interviewer: Okay and if you don't have any fr- don't have any money you might go to a friend and try to? 299: Get credit {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay 299: borrow money interviewer: Okay and um you say in the thirties money was? 299: Scarce interviewer: Okay and um say you ran down the swimming board and what? 299: You dive dived you dived interviewer: Okay and um you'd say several children have already? 299: Dived in the water. interviewer: Okay and you say but I was too scared to? 299: To dive interviewer: Okay and when you dive in and hit the water flat on your stomach what do you call that? 299: A belly buster I believe. {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay you ever hear that um do you ever have any snow around here? 299: Yeah interviewer: Do you ever go sledding? 299: Mhmm well I I never did much {C: tape noise} but I mean we they do it here yeah. interviewer: Do you ever hear belly buster referring to some sort of sledding? {C: tape noise} 299: I haven't uh uh {C: tape noise} {C: tape noise} interviewer: Uh just 299: Uh huh interviewer: encounter that somewhere but {X} Say a child puts his head on the grass and then turns? 299: Somerset interviewer: Okay and say he dived into the water and he what across the river and he? 299: Uh he you'd say swam I guess but I don't think I usually say he swimmed. interviewer: Okay and you say um I have what in that creek? 299: Swimmed I'd say interviewer: Okay and you say um children like to? 299: Swim interviewer: Okay and um say when you buy when you buy something or pay your bill some store keepers will give you a little present and say that it's for? 299: Uh you mean like your a a premium or interviewer: Yeah they just give you a present sort of a little gift. 299: I don't know what you'd call it I mean I I can't think of anything that you'd {NW} interviewer: Say someone who didn't know how to swim you'd say um he got in the water and? And he got {C: tape noise} {NW} 299: Drowned interviewer: Okay you say um so after he went down for the third time you say that he? 299: Drownded interviewer: Okay and you say I wasn't there so I didn't see him? 299: Drowned interviewer: Okay Huh? 299: Drowned interviewer: Okay and um when a before a a baby's able to walk what does it do? 299: Crawl interviewer: Okay and you say that would be a hard mountain to? 299: Climb interviewer: Okay but last year my neighbor? 299: Cli- uh climbed but some people would say clumb. {NW} interviewer: Okay say but I have never? 299: Climbed interviewer: Okay and um you say she walked up to the alter and she {C: tape noise} what down she? {C: tape noise} 299: Knelt interviewer: Okay and if you're feeling tired you might say well I think I'll go? 299: Lay interviewer: #1 Huh? # 299: #2 lay down # interviewer: Okay and um you say he was really sick all morning he? 299: Lay down interviewer: Okay and um {overlaid} talking about something that you see in your sleep you say this is what I what? 299: Dreamed interviewer: Okay 299: Some people would say dreamt {C: tape noise} {NS} but I don't. interviewer: Okay and you say often when I go to sleep I? 299: Dream interviewer: Okay but I usually can't remember what I? 299: Dreamed interviewer: Okay and um {NW} you say I dreamed I was falling but then just when I was about to hit the ground I? 299: Woke up interviewer: Okay and if you bring your foot down heavy on the floor you say you? 299: Stomping interviewer: Okay and say if a if you saw a friend leaving a party alone you might ask may I? 299: Go with you or to take you home. interviewer: Okay um what if you had a a car? 299: Could I drive you home. interviewer: Okay and um {Overlaid} say to get something to come towards you you take hold of it and? 299: Pull it towards you. {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay and the other way would be? 299: Push it away interviewer: Okay and um {NW} say you had a sack of groceries and didn't have your car you'd say that? You picked up the groceries and? 299: Carried them to the car but some people will say tote 'em. {NS} interviewer: Okay do you use that word tote? 299: I have but not often. I don't use it generally it's just not a regular word with me but I have used it. interviewer: What do you do you picture um when you use the word tote do you picture think of it as something that you have to have your arms around like you know the grocery sack all you could was all you could do was hold on to it. 299: Uh huh interviewer: Or like when you talk about toting a a briefcase say? 299: I think of something more up in both arms. interviewer: Okay and um you might tell a child now that stove is very hot so? 299: Don't touch it. interviewer: Okay and um {NW} say if if you needed uh uh hammer you might tell someone go? 299: Bring me the hammer. interviewer: Okay and um you say you you'd throw a ball and ask somebody to? 299: Catch it. interviewer: Okay so you say I threw the ball and he? 299: Caught it interviewer: Okay you say I've been fishing all day but I haven't? 299: Caught anything interviewer: Okay and you say um there's no need for you to hurry if I get there first I'll wait? 299: Wait for you. interviewer: Okay and say if you were about to punish your child he might tell you just give me another? 299: Chance interviewer: Okay and say if a if a man was in a good mood you might say that he's in a good? 299: Disp- disposition or um interviewer: Okay say someone who who always catches 299: good humor I'd interviewer: #1 Huh? # 299: #2 say # Good humor interviewer: Okay and um you say well we've got termites now but I'm sure the exterminator company will get? 299: Rid of 'em. interviewer: Okay do you ever say {X} {Overlaid} have you heard that? 299: I don't uh now some people do but I I don't say it myself. interviewer: Um {overlaid} you say he didn't actually know what was going on but he what he knew it all he? {overlaid} 299: He thought he knew it all. interviewer: Okay and um say if if a boy had left his best pencil on the desk and came back and didn't find it there he'd say I bet somebody? 299: Stole my pencil interviewer: Okay any other word you might use besides stole? 299: Swiped interviewer: Okay and um you say well I'd forgotten about that but now I? 299: Remember it {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay they say um well you must have a better memory than I do because I? 299: Forgot it interviewer: Okay um and you say I've just what him a letter? 299: Just wrote him a letter. interviewer: Okay and you say yesterday he? 299: I wrote him a letter. He wrote him a letter. interviewer: Okay and you say tomorrow I'll? 299: Write him a letter. interviewer: Okay you say it's time I was getting uh you say I wrote him and it I expect a? 299: Answer or interviewer: Okay and you say you put the letter in the envelope then you take your pen and you? 299: Address it interviewer: Okay any thing else you might say? 299: Backed it interviewer: Okay {overlaid} is that mhm older expression or would you use that? 299: Yeah a lot of people I've said they backed the letter so and so. interviewer: Okay and you say well I was gonna write him but I didn't know his? 299: Address interviewer: Okay and say a child that's learned something new like maybe learned to whistle um his parents might ask who? 299: Taught you that some people would say who learned you that? {NW} interviewer: Okay and um you say a a child that's it's always running and telling on other children? 299: He's a tattle tale. {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay would you use that word about adults? 299: Yeah interviewer: What does it mean? 299: Well I think of a tattle tale as somebody who goes around to house to house and they you know like a gossip sort of. {C: tape noise} Tale bear or something interviewer: Yeah okay um say if you wanted to brighten up your room for a party you might go out in the garden and? 299: Get a flowers or. {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay and something that a child might play with? 299: Toy you mean a interviewer: Okay any other name for toy? 299: I can't think of any. interviewer: Would you ever use play pretty? 299: I {C: tape noise} I never do but like older people I've heard call that play pretty's yeah look at all these play pretty's. {NW} interviewer: What would they be referring to? Just 299: Toys just interviewer: Toys in general? 299: Uh huh {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay and um you say that's the the book that you what me? 299: You read me read to me. {C: tape noise} interviewer: That you what me for Christmas? That you? 299: Gave me interviewer: Okay and you say um say you borrowed a book you'd say? Well when I finished it I'll? 299: Get it #1 back to 'em. # interviewer: #2 Okay # 299: #1 # interviewer: #2 # and you say because you've already what several books? 299: Given me several interviewer: Okay and you say I'm glad I carry an umbrella cause we hadn't gone half a block when it? 299: Began to rain. interviewer: Okay and um you might say um what time does the movie? 299: Begin interviewer: Okay and you say it must've already? 299: Begun I guess you'd interviewer: Okay and um say if you were you say I was feeling so good that I what all the way home? That I? 299: Be so good that I uh {C: tape noise} interviewer: Say say if you were all out of breath you might say well I just? {NW} Say not when people walk but when when they want to get somewhere in a hurry? 299: I run all the way home. interviewer: Okay and you say they have what a mile everyday? They? 299: They've run a mile everyday. interviewer: Okay and you say um say if you didn't know where somebody was born you might ask where does he what from? Where does he? 299: Come from interviewer: Okay and you say he what in on the train last night? He? 299: He come in on the train last night. interviewer: Okay so you say he has what to this town? 299: He has come to this town. interviewer: Okay and um say you can't get in in there because the highway department has got their machines out and the roads all? 299: Blocked {C: tape noise} interviewer: Are all to-? 299: Tore up interviewer: Okay and um say you give someone maybe a bracelet and and you say well why don't you? 299: Wear it interviewer: Or why don't you what? Say you want to see how it looks on 'em you say why don't you? 299: Try it on. interviewer: Okay well you say the opposite of take it off is? 299: Put it on. interviewer: Okay and um say I might ask you what's new and you might just go um? 299: Nothing or {C: tape noise} interviewer: Huh? 299: Nothing interviewer: Okay I might say oh come on there must be? 299: Something new interviewer: Okay and um say if um say it wasn't an accident he did that? 299: On purpose interviewer: Okay and um say if you have a question I might say well I don't know the answer to your question you better go? 299: Ask somebody else. interviewer: Okay so you say so then you what him so then? 299: Ask somebody else interviewer: Okay and you might say well you've already? 299: Ask me interviewer: Okay and you say um those little boys like to what each other? 299: Fight or interviewer: Okay you say ever since they were small they have? 299: Fought interviewer: Okay and you say everytime they met they? 299: Fought interviewer: Okay and um you'd say you'd say she what him with a big knife? She 299: Stabbed him interviewer: Okay and um then she what? 299: Pulled it out. {C: laughing} interviewer: Okay and um say if a teacher went into a a room a classroom and found a funny picture on the board she might ask who? 299: Well uh she'd probably say who drew this picture but I'd say who drawed this picture. interviewer: Okay and um you say if you wanted to lift something heavy like a piece of machinery up on the roof you might use pulley blocks and a rope to? {overlaid} 299: To lift it. interviewer: Okay would you use another word you say hoisted or heisted? 299: To heist it I say heist it up or a lot of times on things I don't ever say hoist but lots of things I say well heist it up for me interviewer: Okay 299: put somethin' under it. interviewer: Okay {NW} and would you start counting slowly for me. 299: Just count? interviewer: Yeah 299: One Two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen #1 fourteen fifteen # interviewer: #2 Okay # 299: #1 # interviewer: #2 # And the number after nineteen? 299: Twenty interviewer: And twenty six? 299: Twenty seven interviewer: Twenty nine? 299: Thirty interviewer: Thirty nine? 299: Forty interviewer: Sixty nine? 299: Seventy interviewer: Nighty nine? 299: Hundred don't get too high. {NW} interviewer: Okay and nine hundred nighty nine? 299: A thousand interviewer: Okay and then the next? 299: Thousand one you mean? interviewer: Okay um say say if you were real rich you might have one? 299: Million dollars interviewer: Okay and um say if there was a line of men standing somewhere um you'd say um the man at the head of the line would be the? {overlaid} What man? 299: The head man interviewer: Yeah or he'd be the number one man he'd be the? 299: First man interviewer: Okay then keep going. 299: Second man third man fourth man fifth man interviewer: Slow slower 299: Sixth man seventh man eighth man ninth man tenth man interviewer: Okay and um you say sometimes you feel your you get your good luck just a little at a time but your bad luck comes all? 299: At once {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay and she said something two times you'd be saying it? 299: Twice interviewer: Okay and would you name the the months of the year. Slowly 299: Uh January February March April May June July August September October November December interviewer: Okay and the days of the week. 299: Uh starting with Sunday? interviewer: Yeah 299: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday interviewer: Okay is there any other name for your Saturday or Sunday? 299: Uh a sabbath interviewer: Did you use that word? Or what does it? 299: Well to me uh Saturday's the sabbath and Sunday's the first day of the week. interviewer: Okay so what does the sabbath mean just the last day of the week? 299: Uh huh uh huh interviewer: Okay um and when you meet someone during the early part of the day what do you say as a greeting? 299: Good morning interviewer: Okay and how long does morning last? 299: Til twelve o'clock noon. interviewer: Okay and then what is it? 299: Afternoon or evening interviewer: Is that the same thing? 299: No not really I think afternoon is after say from one to I don't know if it'd be six or seven. And then evening is supposed to mean {overlaid} later at night {C: tape noise} I think. interviewer: When it's dark or what? 299: Uh huh interviewer: Or just before it's dark? 299: I don't know what the actual time I I don't know. {C: tape noise} interviewer: How do you 299: Six I'd say six o'clock is the begining of evening maybe. interviewer: Okay and um say if you were leaving somebody at say eleven o'clock in the day would you say anything? 299: Uhh you mean like as a rule you'd say good evening or? interviewer: Yeah but say eleven o'clock in the day. You know before noon would you say 299: If he's leaving? interviewer: Yeah {overlaid} 299: I don't know I don't guess. interviewer: Do you ever say good day to people? 299: I never do never have usually do. {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay and um what do you say when you're saying goodbye when you're leaving somebody's house at night? 299: I might say goodnight. interviewer: Okay and um you say we we had to get up and start work before? 299: Daylight interviewer: Or before sun? 299: Sundown interviewer: Okay 299: Or sun up interviewer: Okay and um you'd say I saw the sun what this morning? 299: Rise or come up interviewer: Okay and you say um the sun what at six o'clock? The sun 299: Rose {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay and you say um when I got outside the sun had already? 299: Well {C: tape noise} rose or risen interviewer: Okay and um you'd say um today is um Monday so Sunday was? 299: Yesterday interviewer: Okay and Tuesday is? 299: Tomorrow interviewer: Okay and someone came here on a Sunday um last not last Sunday but a week? 299: Sunday before last interviewer: Okay and what about not next Sunday but? 299: Sunday after next interviewer: Okay would you say another expression for that? {overlaid} 299: I couldn't think of another one. interviewer: Do you ever say Sunday week? 299: Yeah I do. interviewer: Which what do you mean by that? 299: Well it'd be a week from the coming Sunday. interviewer: Mhmm you call that? 299: Sunday week interviewer: Okay and um {NW} say someone stayed from the first to the fifteenth you'd say he stayed about? 299: You mean half the month or interviewer: Okay would you ever say fortnight? {NW} 299: I never have. It don't mean anything to me. interviewer: Okay and um say if you wanted to know the time you'd ask someone? {Overlaid} 299: What time is it? interviewer: Okay and um if it's midway between seven o'clock and eight o'clock you'd say that it's 299: Oh you mean like seven thirty. interviewer: Okay or another way of saying that? Half 299: Half an hour interviewer: Huh? 299: Half an hour interviewer: Okay but another way of saying seven thirty is half? 299: Half past eight interviewer: Okay and um if it was fifteen minutes beyond that then you'd say it was? {overlaid} 299: Seven forty five interviewer: Or 299: Quarter of quarter of eight interviewer: Okay and if you've been doing something for a long time you might say I've been doing that for quite? 299: Quite awhile interviewer: Okay and you say 1972 was last year 1973 is? {NW} 299: Is next year or interviewer: But 1973 is? 299: You say 1972 was last year? interviewer: Yeah so 1973 is? 299: This year interviewer: Okay and say if a child has just had his third birthday you'd say that it's? 299: Three years old interviewer: Okay and if something happene on this day last year you'd say it happened exactly? 299: A year ago today interviewer: Okay and say you you look up at the sky and say I don't like the looks of those black? 299: Clouds interviewer: Okay and um on the the day when the you look up and there aren't any clouds you'd say that it was a? 299: Ah clear day or interviewer: Okay 299: a bright day sunny day. interviewer: Okay and um say if it was real cloudy and overcast you'd say that it's a? 299: Gloomy day interviewer: Okay and say if if the clouds are getting thicker and thicker and you figure you you maybe gonna have some rain or something in a little while you say that the weather is 299: Stormy or interviewer: Okay do you ever say changing or gathering? 299: Changing I'd say or blustery or something. interviewer: Okay what do you mean blustery? 299: Well that's usually in March when it's windy when it's blustery outside. interviewer: Okay and say if it if it had been cloudy and then the clouds start pull away then you say that? 299: They're breaking up is what we say. interviewer: Okay then you'd say it looks like it's going to? 299: Clear up interviewer: Okay what do you call a really heavy a lot of rain that just suddenly comes down? 299: A downpour a flood or interviewer: Okay what about if it has thunder and lightning? 299: Well like a thunderstorm or interviewer: Mkay {overlaid} and what huh? 299: I don't know what uh interviewer: Well what what different okay then something not as as hard as say a downpour? 299: A shower interviewer: Okay what if it just sort of lasts all day? 299: Well like uh you not talking about a drizzle? interviewer: What do you mean with drizzle and? What? 299: Well drizzle I think of just a slow steady drizzle it rains all day maybe. interviewer: Okay and what about something that's just um real light? 299: Sprinkle interviewer: Okay and even finer that that? 299: {C: tape noise} A mist interviewer: Okay and um say if you go outside and you can't even see across the road you'd say that? You call that a? 299: Fog interviewer: Okay and a day like that you'd call a? 299: Foggy interviewer: Okay and um you say all night long the wind? 299: Blew or blowed interviewer: Okay which would you say? 299: I say blowed. interviewer: Okay and you say um it was pretty bad last night but in years past the wind has? What even harder than that? 299: Blowed harder than that interviewer: Okay and you say it started to rain and the wind began to? 299: Blow interviewer: Okay and if the wind is from this direction you say it? 299: Uh say it's from the West. interviewer: Okay and um wind half way between south and west you'd call a? 299: Southwest wind interviewer: Okay and half way between south and east? 299: Southeast wind interviewer: Okay and east and north? 299: Northeast interviewer: And west and north? 299: North west interviewer: Okay and um say if no rain comes for weeks and weeks you'd say you had a? 299: Drought interviewer: Okay and if the wind had been very gentle and was gradually getting stronger you'd say that it was? 299: Umm increasing or interviewer: Okay you say rising or flowing higher or picking up or? 299: The wind is rising I guess. interviewer: Okay and if it's just the opposite the wind had been strong and was getting weaker and weaker you'd say it was? 299: It's uh I think of decreasing or uh ceasing. interviewer: Okay and um say on a morning in the fall when you go outside and it's it's not it's cold but not? It's really comfortable to be out. 299: Chilly interviewer: Okay and um say if it was it was a it was cold enough to kill the tomatoes and flowers you'd say last night we had a? 299: Frost interviewer: Okay what about something else? 299: A freeze or uh interviewer: What's the difference? 299: Well a frost is just a white uh uh the white uh frosty stuff that falls and a freeze is actually so cold that it uh the plant actually freezes maybe and ice in it maybe. {C: tape noise} interviewer: So a freeze then is is much more severe. 299: Uh huh then a frost. interviewer: Okay say um it was so cold last night that the lake? 299: {C: tape noise} Froze {C: tape noise} interviewer: Okay um would you have the different expression for if it um just along the edges you know? 299: Like the lake you mean? interviewer: Mhmm 299: You mean if it froze just close to the interviewer: Yeah would you say skimmed or scaled over? 299: Well you could say there's just {C: tape noise} a skim of ice is what I'd say. interviewer: Okay and you'd say um say the water pipes had already? 299: Froze interviewer: Okay and you say if it gets much colder the lake will? 299: Freeze interviewer: Okay and um what did you call the room that was used for special occasions? 299: Well the front room or parlor is what most people use. interviewer: And talking about the heighth of rooms you'd say this rooms about? What? Say maybe about nine? 299: Feet interviewer: Okay well 299: Is that it? {NW} You mean we finished it? {NW}