Interviewer:  name of those little green things that
312:  Grasshopper.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NW} What are the small fish used for bait?
312:  Uh minnows.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Have you ever heard 'em called shiners?
312:  No.
Interviewer:  Alright. What is the little bug with eight legs?
312:  Oh uh uh uh thousand leg
Interviewer:  No no this one just has eight.
312:  Oh eight. I don't know.
Interviewer:  He uh spins a
312:  Oh uh s- spider.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh and
312:  Well spins a web.
Interviewer:  Yes.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} The part of the tree underneath {C: tape noise} Uh {C: tape noise} kind of tree that you tap for syrup?
312:  A ma- maple tree. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  It's very very tough wood. It- it- the bark is white I think.
312:  {C: tape noise} place that one. {C: tape noise} Other description?
Interviewer:  I can't think of any other thing to say. Alright sycamore?
312:  Yes. Oh yes.
Interviewer:  Is that
312:  Familiar with that. Yes. I'm not sure about the bark doing that {C: tape noise} and it has balls on it. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Right yeah. Alright what are some other trees? #1 What are some trees in this area? #
312:  #2 {X} # Hackberry is one. It has little little red berries. Tiny little red berries that birds love them.
Interviewer:  Hmm.
312:  Hackberry tree.
Interviewer:  #1 Do people eat hackberries? #
312:  #2 That's quite # No.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  No. They're too small and too hard. Uh hackberry and uh maple and oak {C: tape noise} good wood {C: tape noise} termites {C: tape noise} because they- they have poplar wood. {C: tape noise} They don't like poplar wood.
Interviewer:  Are poplars those {C: tape noise}
312:  No they are uh {C: tape noise} they are {C: tape noise} I know what you're talking about. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  #1 I don't know. #
312:  #2 Silver uh # Po- well it is a- that is a poplar. That is another form of poplar.
Interviewer:  Oh okay.
312:  But it's not the uh {C: tape noise} The kind that I'm speaking of they have this tulip poplars {C: tape noise} hermitage {C: tape noise} out there and that is the tree that they {C: tape noise} use for the wood in houses.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
312:  #2 It # has beautiful tulip bloom on it that is uh I don't we- yellow and red. It's a
Interviewer:  #1 Ah. #
312:  #2 lovely bloom. #
Interviewer:  #1 And they look like tulips but #
312:  #2 {X} # #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
312:  Yes. {C: tape noise} Those cherry trees. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  What is a shrub {C: tape noise} whose leaves become very red in the fall and it's poisonous kind of? {C: tape noise}
312:  Oh I can't {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Sometimes it's used in tanning {C: tape noise}
312:  I know what you're {C: tape noise} Sumac. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Uh {C: tape noise} kind a' poisonous thing that uh makes your skin break out when you brush against it?
312:  Poison ivy.
Interviewer:  Yes. Uh are there any different kinds of that that you know of?
312:  There's a poison oak. I'm not sure what the difference is but there's a poison oak and a poison ivy.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
312:  #2 They're horrible things. #
Interviewer:  They are. {C: tape noise} Wh- alright what are some You tell me- told me about the hackberries. What are some other kind a' berries that grow around here that people eat?
312:  Oh blackberries raspberries {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  People eat with uh sugar and cream?
312:  Strawberries. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Some berries that grow in the woods are {C: tape noise} not good to eat. If they could kill you {C: tape noise} then you'd say they're very
312:  poisonous
Interviewer:  Alright what is a tall bush {C: tape noise} pink and white flowers that grows out {C: tape noise}
312:  Oh {C: tape noise} azalea.
Interviewer:  Alright it looks kind of like an azalea but it's {C: tape noise}
312:  There's another name. I can't think of it right now.
Interviewer:  Mountain laurel?
312:  Yes. Mountain laurel.
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard it called spoon wood? {C: tape noise} Okay. What are the uh These- okay these are like mountain laurels but they grow higher up in the mountains and {C: tape noise}
312:  Oh uh {C: tape noise} {NW} Grow up on the mountains. They're beautiful things. {C: tape noise} Uh {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  #1 Rho- #
312:  #2 Uh # Rhododendron.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And what is the tree that's I think it's only in the south. It's got big flat shiny leaves {C: tape noise} big white flowers.
312:  Oh. {C: tape noise} I know that one too. {NW} {NW} My brain just goes completely. Uh uh I had one in my yard.
Interviewer:  {NW} Begins with M. {C: tape noise} Mag- {C: tape noise}
312:  Oh magnolia.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
312:  #2 I was thinking # about something else.
Interviewer:  Oh were you?
312:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Ah.
312:  Magnolia.
Interviewer:  I don't know what it {X}
312:  Well I know there's another another tree that has {C: tape noise} flowers in- in uh not in a single flower but in a uh cluster of flowers. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh what do you call a woman who's lost her husband?
312:  She's a widow.
Interviewer:  Okay. How about {X} expression for a- a woman whose husband has left her? {C: tape noise} Have you ever heard {C: tape noise}
312:  Grass widows and sod widows.
Interviewer:  {C: tape noise} What's the difference?
312:  Well a sod widow is a widow whose husband has died
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
312:  #2 And a grass widow # Yes. And the grass widow is a widow {NW} well divorced so {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  S-O-D
312:  #1 S-O-D. #
Interviewer:  #2 sod? #
312:  Sod widow. {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh What did you call your father when you were little?
312:  I called him {C: tape noise} papa when I was very small {C: tape noise} and then I'd call him daddy. {NS} yes
Interviewer:  And your mother?
312:  I called her mama. {NS}
Interviewer:  The whole time?
312:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Alright. Your father and mother together are your
312:  parents.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: whispering} {C: tape noise} grandfather? Either grandfather?
312:  Well I didn't know my grandfathers. I had my grandmother. I did- adored my gran- When I was a small child I called her die but why I do not know.
Interviewer:  Oh
312:  But later I called her grandmother.
Interviewer:  {NW} Did you know your other grandmother?
312:  No. I didn't. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Your sons and daughters together are called your
312:  children. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Do you have any pet names for children? You might say oh he's such a cute little
312:  Little fellow.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: whispering} Or for a little girl?
312:  Uh a little- cute little {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  What do you uh {C: tape noise}
312:  Pram. {NW} And I wouldn't {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  That's uh a pram is something it is called now but it was a baby buggy when I was young.
Interviewer:  Alright when you have a baby in the carriage and you're outside you say you are
312:  pushing the uh uh rolling the baby. Rolling the baby.
Interviewer:  Rolling the baby?
312:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh Say you have uh three boys One's twenty {C: tape noise} {X} You- you say well the twenty year old is the? {C: tape noise} Compared to the two younger he's the
312:  He's {C: tape noise} I don't know.
Interviewer:  He's my
312:  Son? Uh my {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  He's your
312:  oldest son.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Besides saying older or oldest you might speak of him as- in terms of being grown up
312:  #1 Yes. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
312:  As {C: tape noise} Uh
Interviewer:  Alright uh I'll put it to you a different way. You might say Jim is grown up but of all the boys Tom is the {C: tape noise}
312:  elder.
Interviewer:  No u- but using grown up.
312:  Oh.
Interviewer:  Jim is grown up but of all the boys Tom is the
312:  I don't know. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Most grown up? {C: tape noise}
312:  No not that.
Interviewer:  You wouldn't say he's the most grown up either?
312:  Well maybe.
Interviewer:  Okay. You probably wouldn't even put it that way.
312:  No I don't think I would.
Interviewer:  Alright. {C: tape noise} Uh {C: tape noise} You have two children one of each sex. One is your son and the other's your {C: tape noise}
312:  daughter.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh your children You have what again? What of each sex? One's a boy and the other's a
312:  girl.
Interviewer:  Okay. If a woman is going to have a child you say she's
312:  pregnant.
Interviewer:  Would you {C: tape noise}
312:  In my Uh in the older days you would have said she was {C: tape noise} expecting. {NW} {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  other expressions like that? Either polite or {C: tape noise}
312:  Uh well expecting was the we- main thing that you never spoke of being pregnant. That would not be used at all but of course now that's accepted. Uh That's the only thing I know of.
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard any expressions involving {C: tape noise} leg or breaking your {C: tape noise} woman you might send for is a
312:  midwife. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Have you heard any other names for that?
312:  #1 No. #
Interviewer:  #2 Older names maybe. #
312:  N- I don't know any. {C: tape noise} No. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  you say that the boy {C: tape noise}
312:  Uh looks like his father.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. Uh {C: tape noise} Supposing he has the mannerisms and the behavior of his father you might say he
312:  Well I wouldn't say favors. That is one word for it but I wouldn't say that.
Interviewer:  Would you say he takes after his
312:  He takes after his father yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. If a mother has looked after three children 'un- until they're grown up you say she has
312:  #1 raised them. #
Interviewer:  #2 {D: Would y-} # Mm-hmm. Have you heard reared? {C: tape noise}
312:  Yes that's another one. Say
Interviewer:  #1 Brought up? #
312:  #2 You say # Mm brought up.
Interviewer:  Okay. To a naughty child you say if you're not careful you're gonna get a
312:  whipping. {C: tape noise} Spanking. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  If Bob is five inches taller this year you say Bob {C: tape noise}
312:  has grown.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} A child that's born to an unmarried woman is a {C: tape noise}
312:  Well I should say bastard would be the old name for it. I don't know {C: laughing} {X}
Interviewer:  How would you put it if you were trying to be polite if
312:  #1 Uh #
Interviewer:  #2 it came up. #
312:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 #
312:  Well {C: tape noise} I don't- I don't know. {NW} I would {C: laughing}
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Have you heard any names used # by blacks maybe or poor
312:  #1 No. #
Interviewer:  #2 whites? #
312:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 # Okay. Your brother's son is your
312:  My uh nephew.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise} who's lost both its father and mother {C: tape noise} A person appointed to look after an orphan is its
312:  guardian.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. If a woman gives a party and invites all the people that are related to her {C: tape noise} say she invited
312:  #1 her relatives. #
Interviewer:  #2 all her # Okay. And you might say well yeah she has the same family name and does look a bit like me but I'm actually
312:  not rel- not related or not kin to her.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh What is a common name- what is uh the name of Christ's mother?
312:  Uh uh {C: tape noise} virgin? {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Well what's her name?
312:  Mary.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What's the name of George Washington's wife?
312:  Uh Martha.
Interviewer:  Alright. What's the name of the girl in the song Wait till the sun shines {C: singing}
312:  Nellie.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
312:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #1 #
312:  #2 {C: tape noise} #
Interviewer:  boy named William beginning with B?
312:  Billy.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise} Who wrote the first of the four gospels?
312:  Matthew.
Interviewer:  Okay oh you're quick on these.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  What is a woman who con- what do you call a woman who conducts school?
312:  A teacher. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Okay. Any old fashioned terms for {C: tape noise}
312:  School mistress.
Interviewer:  Ever heard schoolmarm?
312:  Schoolmarm {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh Do you know an expression {C: tape noise} preacher who's not really trained. He doesn't have a regular pulpit in a church. He preaches around {C: tape noise)
312:  Uh no no #1 that wouldn't be it. #
Interviewer:  #2 Well # He might not be a very {C: tape noise) And he might really make his trade doing something else but he {D: like} he rides around to different
312:  #1 Uh #
Interviewer:  #2 cities. #
312:  Uh circuit uh well used to be the circuit rider.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Have you ever heard 'em called a jack leg preacher?
312:  No. I've heard jack leg carpenters.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  {NW} I've never heard of a jack leg preacher.
Interviewer:  Have you heard of jack leg anything else besides carpenter?
312:  No.
Interviewer:  Alright what is a jack leg carpenter?
312:  Well I'm not sure. {NW} I'm not sure what a jack leg carpenter is but I've heard of jack leg carpenters.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  What relation would my mother's sister be to me? {C: tape noise) Okay. She'd be
312:  My my
Interviewer:  {C: tape noise) My mother's sister to me.
312:  She is my aunt.
Interviewer:  {X} We're talking about {C: tape noise)
312:  Oh your aunt.
Interviewer:  Right.
312:  {NW} {C: tape noise)
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise) Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise) Uh {C: tape noise) If you had an uncle named William you'd call him {C: tape noise) The commander of the army of northern Virginia was
312:  {NW} Robert E Lee. {NW}
Interviewer:  And what was {C: tape noise) Well he wasn't a sergeant. He was a
312:  colonel. Uh gen- general.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
312:  General.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  #1 General Lee. #
Interviewer:  #2 Who was # I'm sorry?
312:  General Lee.
Interviewer:  Right. Who was the old gentleman who introduced Kentucky fried chicken?
312:  Colonel Sanders. {C: tape noise)
Interviewer:  What do they call a man in charge of a ship? {C: tape noise) Who is the man who presides over the court room?
312:  A judge.
Interviewer:  Alright. What do you call a person who goes to college to study?
312:  A student.
Interviewer:  Okay. How about someone in {C: tape noise) {X}
312:  Uh pupil.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise) Then {C: tape noise)
312:  And student would be the interchangeable I'd say.
Interviewer:  How about elementary school?
312:  Well it would still be uh pupil
Interviewer:  #1 Okay #
312:  #2 Uh #
Interviewer:  I was just wondering whether you drew a line between #1 pupil and student. #
312:  #2 No I don't think so. #
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise) Who What do you call a woman who works in an office typing and all that?
312:  A stenographer.
Interviewer:  Alright and what's the other word for that?
312:  Typist.
Interviewer:  A general word that incorporates both of those. She works for a man. Takes care of everything
312:  Oh a secretary.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NS} What- what do you call a woman who appears in plays or movies? {C: tape noise)
312:  An actress.
Interviewer:  Okay. What uh {C: tape noise) born in the U-S-A is called an
312:  A s- uh a citizen of the United States.
Interviewer:  Yes but we are what?
312:  Citizens.
Interviewer:  Well
312:  Uh
Interviewer:  More specifically. We're not Russian. We're
312:  Um uh s- American citizens.
Interviewer:  Yes. Okay. Uh {C: tape noise) {NS} {C: tape noise) What are some {C: tape noise) words for uh {C: tape noise) white people which you might have heard either by- used by negroes or used by white people? Would you just- would you call yourself white? Or caucasian or
312:  I ju- n- uh Well I'd ju- I'd say white.
Interviewer:  Okay. Have you heard any {C: tape noise) poor white people?
312:  #1 Well I've just heard of poor white people #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} in the country? #
312:  But that's all the poor whites.
Interviewer:  What would you call the poor whites who live in the country? Would you have another name or not? Like hillbillies or
312:  Hillbillies is one name. Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  #1 They're ones #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
312:  from the mountains.
Interviewer:  I'm sorry?
312:  The ones in the mount- from the mountains {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. What do you call a child uh born of a raced- {C: tape noise) The child is half black and half white. {C: tape noise)
312:  Oh uh {C: tape noise) Hmm. I can't think.
Interviewer:  Mulatto?
312:  Mul- well yes. Mulatto
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise) Uh {C: tape noise) If it's not quite midnight and somebody asks you what time it is you might say well it's not quite midnight yet but it's
312:  Nearly so.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh You slip and catch yourself. You say this is a dangerous place. I
312:  I slipped. I uh nearly
Interviewer:  I didn't fall {C: tape noise) Okay. {NW} If someone is waiting for you to get ready so that you can go out and he calls to you and says hey will you be ready soon? You might answer I'll be with you in
312:  in a few minutes.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise) You know you're on the right road to a place uh say to Chattanooga
312:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  but you're not sure of the distance. You might stop and ask somebody how
312:  far is it to Chattanooga?
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: whispering} If you're pointing out something {C: tape noise)
312:  Something over there
Interviewer:  #1 Alright #
312:  #2 Uh #
Interviewer:  an exclamation. Say it's happening really fast. Look {X}
312:  Look there.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
312:  #2 {X} # Look there. {C: tape noise)
Interviewer:  If you wanna know how many times {C: tape noise) something happens you ask how o- {C: tape noise)
312:  How often?
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: very softly} Uh you agree with a friend when he says I'm not going to do that or I'm not going to vote for that guy. You say well {C: tape noise)
312:  I wo- I'm not either. {C: tape noise)
Interviewer:  Okay. And what's another way of saying that?
312:  Uh
Interviewer:  With neither? I'm not gonna vote for him. Well neither
312:  Neither am I.
Interviewer:  Okay. What do you call this part of your head?
312:  Forehead.
Interviewer:  {D: Say again?}
312:  Forehead. {C: tape noise) {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh this is?
312:  Hair. {C: tape noise) {NW} {C: tape noise) beard.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  This one in particular is #1 {X} #
312:  #2 Uh sideburn. #
Interviewer:  #1 #
312:  #2 {C: tape noise) #
Interviewer:  #1 N- n- no but #
312:  #2 Oh # {NW} Oh uh lobe.
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
312:  #2 {X} # Uh ear lobe. Oh ear.
Interviewer:  Okay right.
312:  {D: Yeah.}
Interviewer:  And which one is that?
312:  That's the right You mean
Interviewer:  Yeah. Either of 'em. I want you to say both of 'em.
312:  Right and left.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay say 'em with the word ear #
312:  #2 Ear. # Uh left ear and {C: tape noise) ear.
Interviewer:  Thank you. That one's hard {C: tape noise) Uh {C: tape noise) Take that chewing gum out of your {C: tape noise)
312:  mouth. {C: tape noise)
Interviewer:  He says ah I'm gonna have to fill that {C: tape noise)
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  What is the part above the teeth? {C: tape noise)
312:  Gum.
Interviewer:  Alright. {C: tape noise)
312:  Hand.
Interviewer:  In this part?
312:  In your palm of your hand. {C: tape noise)
Interviewer:  Uh he got mad and doubled up both
312:  fists.
Interviewer:  Okay. And he shook {C: tape noise)
312:  fists.
Interviewer:  Alright. {C: tape noise) What do you call a place where you can bend?
312:  Elbow.
Interviewer:  Or anywhere.
312:  Anywhere. Uh uh {C: tape noise) Um. {C: tape noise)
Interviewer:  Sometimes you're- you get a little stiff in the
312:  joint.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {C: tape noise} Uh the upper part of a man's body is his
312:  chest. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  And uh he has broad
312:  shoulders. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Uh they measure the height of a horse in
312:  in uh {C: tape noise} Mm {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Well
312:  Span?
Interviewer:  Well this is your
312:  hands. Hand.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  {X} That's right.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  #1 So many #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh #
312:  hands high. That's right.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
312:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Uh This part of your body is
312:  your leg. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  At the end of your leg is your
312:  ankle. {C: tape noise} Foot.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And you have two.
312:  Two feet.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh if I got up and stumbled over this and hurt myself right here
312:  Shin.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise} the back part of {C: tape noise} if- if you're squatting down you say I'm down on my
312:  haunches.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Somebody's been sick for a while. He's up and about now but he still looks a bit
312:  weak.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} Have you ever heard of peaked?
312:  Yes I have.
Interviewer:  #1 Is that how it's pronounced? #
312:  #2 Peaked. # Peaked. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  What do you call a person who can lift heavy w- lift heavy weights?
312:  He's strong. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Would you ever use stout?
312:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Okay would you ever use stout in describing butter that got rancid? {C: tape noise}
312:  Well it could be. Yes.
Interviewer:  Have you ever used it?
312:  I don't know that I ever have. No.
Interviewer:  Okay. What do you call someone {C: tape noise} uh who's easy to get along with? {X} I like her. She's very {C: tape noise} She never loses her temper.
312:  Temper. No. She never loses her temper and she's easy to get along with.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. You'd just say it like that?
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Would you call her good natured?
312:  Yes. Very good natured.
Interviewer:  {NW} When a boy is in his teens and he's growing up really fast and he's like all {C: tape noise} can't walk or move not stumbling over something {NW} you would- you might describe him as being very {C: tape noise}
312:  awkward.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. Uh what do you call a person he keeps on doing things that don't make any sense. You say he's a plain
312:  I don't know. {C: very softly} {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Fool?
312:  Fool. Well that would be You could {C: laughing} say that.
Interviewer:  Did the word fool ever used to be a word that wasn't nice to say?
312:  I don't know that it was. No I don't think so. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Uh what do you call a person who never spent a cent?
312:  Stingy.
Interviewer:  Yeah. You ever call 'em a tightwad?
312:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Okay. When you use the word common about a- if you ever describe somebody as
312:  #1 being common #
Interviewer:  #2 being common # What does that mean?
312:  Well that means {C: tape noise} uh do not know how to Well they're {NW} They're just common. {NW} They are {NW} uncouth.
Interviewer:  Okay. Maybe ill bred?
312:  Ill bred and uncouth.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  Don't know how to do the proper thing.
Interviewer:  Alright. If an old man is still very strong and active and doesn't show his age you might say he's {C: tape noise}
312:  Uh {C: tape noise} Mm. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Oh there's lot- there's lots of words. There's no one word. {C: tape noise} Would you just say he's quite active?
312:  Active.
Interviewer:  #1 Lively? #
312:  #2 Yes. I would say # active.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} Uh {C: tape noise} {X} You might say I don't wanna go upstairs in the dark. I'm
312:  afraid.
Interviewer:  Okay any other words? That mean afraid?
312:  Uh {C: whispering} Mm I don't know. {C: very softly}
Interviewer:  Scared?
312:  Scared yes. Scared would {C: tape noise} be one.
Interviewer:  Alright you might say she isn't afraid now but she {C: tape noise}
312:  she was afraid.
Interviewer:  Or she used
312:  used to be afraid.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Someone who leaves a lot of money on the table and the door unlocked is mighty
312:  foolish.
Interviewer:  #1 Alright what's another #
312:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  word like foolish?
312:  {NW} Uh
Interviewer:  Another- alright for example you might say your son made too many mistakes in addition on an arithmetic test. You'd say those What kind a' mistakes are those? Those are
312:  stupid. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Alright.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Alright it's the opposite of careful.
312:  Uh careless.
Interviewer:  Okay. There's nothing really wrong with aunt Lizzie but {C: tape noise} she acts kind of
312:  queer.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Has the word queer changed meaning over the years?
312:  No I don't think so.
Interviewer:  Have you ever If somebody said he is a queer what would that mean
312:  Well that means That's a different {C: tape noise} meaning.
Interviewer:  What does that mean?
312:  He's- he's might be uh uh {C: tape noise} homosexual or something like that.
Interviewer:  But if you say somebody acts queer then it just means
312:  That's- means there's just something peculiar about it. {C: laughing}
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
312:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #1 #
312:  #2 {C: tape noise} #
Interviewer:  Is there any other way that you would use the word queer besides peculiar? {C: tape noise}
312:  Well
Interviewer:  Would you use it not to describe {C: tape noise}
312:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} Alright if a man is very sure of his own ways and never wants to change you might say to him don't be so
312:  so stubborn.
Interviewer:  Okay. Would you ever say don't be so obstinate?
312:  Obstinate is another word. Yes.
Interviewer:  {C: tape noise} ornery.
312:  Well ornery {C: tape noise} um I have heard that used. Yes.
Interviewer:  Okay. Somebody you can't joke with without him losing his temper you say is mighty {C: tape noise} {X} If he loses his temper when the least little thing goes wrong you'd say better be- watch out for him. He's awfully
312:  I know there's a word but I can't think of it. {C: tape noise} Mm no. {C: tape noise} Yes that's {C: tape noise} touchy.
Interviewer:  Testy?
312:  No not testy but touchy would be more likely for me.
Interviewer:  Okay. You might say that well I was just kidding him. I didn't know he'd get
312:  angry.
Interviewer:  Okay. If he's about to lose his temper again you say to him just
312:  calm down.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
312:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  Uh If you've been working very hard and you- you wanna use a word that's even stronger than tired you'd say I'm just {C: tape noise}
312:  worn out.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Uh Okay that's- {D: that's fine.} If a person has been quite well for a long time and you hear that suddenly she has some disease you say last night she {C: tape noise} Uh got sick?
312:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard she took sick?
312:  No. No.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} person sat in a draft and began to cough you'd say he was
312:  coughing?
Interviewer:  Alright but he got alright uh with the word cold.
312:  Took cold.
Interviewer:  Okay. So you've heard took cold but not took sick.
312:  No. That's right.
Interviewer:  If it affected his voice you might say he's
312:  is hoarse.
Interviewer:  Hmm. {NS} Uh I'd better go to sleep. {C: tape noise}
312:  tired.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: whispering} And then at six o' clock I have to In the morning I have to
312:  Oh I have to get up.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh If you can't hear anything at all you say you're stone de-
312:  deaf.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} Uh If you began to sweat while you started to work by the time you finish you'd say he Let me put that a different way. That's awkward. You've been working hard. You take off your wet shirt and you say look how I've
312:  I've perspired. I would say
Interviewer:  #1 {X} to begin with. #
312:  #2 {NW} # No I wouldn't have said sweat in the beginning. {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  What do you call um If you have a boil on your skin and drain it what's the stuff that comes out?
312:  Uh pus.
Interviewer:  Okay and what's the stuff that comes out of a blister?
312:  Uh {C: tape noise} Well it's clear
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
312:  liquid. Uh
Interviewer:  Do you ever call it water?
312:  Yes.
Interviewer:  {C: tape noise} Okay. bigger than it oughta be you'd say my hand {C: tape noise}
312:  {X} {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Yesterday a bee stung me and my hand
312:  is swollen.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise}
312:  swollen.
Interviewer:  Okay. In a war if a bullet {X} goes through somebody's arm you say he has a
312:  a wound.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What do you call If a wound doesn't heal exactly right it doesn't heal clean sometimes a white substance {X}
312:  Uh uh Oh festers?
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard it called some kind a' flesh?
312:  No.
Interviewer:  {X} flesh?
312:  I have heard that but it's not- it's not familiar to me but I have heard it.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  I've read it or something like that.
Interviewer:  Okay. Do you remember whether you heard it or read it uh by negroes or by whites?
312:  No I don't.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NW} If you've got a little cut in your finger {NS}
312:  {X} {C: phone conversation begins; 312's voice is distant and muffled} Yes? {C: tape noise} Oh yes yes I do. {C: tape noise} Oh not too long ago. And she's- she doesn't know what's {D: it's} going on. {C: tape noise} Uh-huh. Yeah. {C: tape noise} Yes. I know she doesn't. I don't think she does. No. She doesn't. She won't look at you {X} She did. Uh-huh well she doesn't know what's going on. {X} Yes. {NS} Yes. I see. Yes. Yes. {NS} Yes I know. Well she's gotten to the place where I- I don't think she knows me. She took hold of my hand one time not long ago. But that's the only time that she's done that. Mm-mm. No. Uh-huh well that's all. Yes. I don't believe she knows that- what's going on. I know it. It's awfully bad. I know. It's very bad. Well that's right. That's the way I feel about it. That she never Yes. Yes. They're awfully good to her. {X} Yeah. Oh yes it's {X} Yes {X} Uh-uh. Well let- I see. Well Well they {X} but it's- it's bad. Yes they do. Yes. Yes they do. {X} Uh-huh. Mm-hmm. Yes. I do. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Well it Yes I know but she doesn't do that anymore. Yeah. {NS} Uh-uh. Yeah. {NS} No {X} Yeah. Yeah. Yes that's right. She doesn't know {X} Well that's alright. Glad you called. {C: tape noise} Well that's what I think about it. {X} It is bad yeah. It really would. Oh yes. Very much. Yeah. Well I'm glad you called. Yes I remember. Yeah. Alright. {X} You're welcome. Bye. {NS} Couldn't get away from her.
Interviewer:  {NW} She's one a' those huh? {NW} Okay. What do you call uh the brown kind a' stuff that you put on a cut in your finger?
312:  Salve.
Interviewer:  Okay. This is something in- specific. I don't know if they use it so much anymore. Uh has- usually- it's poison. It has a little skull and cross bones on the label. Comes in a little {D: bottle with a big) {C: tape noise} What about the stuff that was used sometimes uh for malaria fever? {C: tape noise}
312:  Um um um {C: tape noise} {X} {C: tape noise} {NW}
Interviewer:  {NW}
312:  {NW} {NS} Quinine.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Uh {C: tape noise}
312:  My grandfather used to {C: tape noise} weigh it out for the servants and all the children in the family every morning. I had a little scare.
Interviewer:  Oh you had to take it every day?
312:  I didn't.
Interviewer:  Oh.
312:  But this was my mother
Interviewer:  Oh okay.
312:  and her family and the chi- all the blacks and whites on the place. That was back in the eighteen seventies.
Interviewer:  Was that to keep away malaria?
312:  Keep away malaria. They lived very close to the river.
Interviewer:  Oh. I didn't know it could be used to keep it away too.
312:  Well yes. They used it to keep it away. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} What is uh {C: tape noise}
312:  Uh passed away.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay. Are there any crude ways {C: tape noise} What do you call uh {C: tape noise} Oh I see. Um He's been dead a week but nobody's yet figured out what he
312:  died of. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  What is the place where people are buried?
312:  In a cemetery.
Interviewer:  If it's very small and out in the country would you have a different name?
312:  Uh graveyard.
Interviewer:  If it's uh around a church? {C: tape noise}
312:  Burying ground. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Okay. And are there any other words you'd
312:  I can't think of any others.
Interviewer:  Okay what is the box that people are buried in?
312:  Casket. Coffin.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What is the {C: tape noise} For a burial?
312:  Uh {C: tape noise} Funeral service.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. If people are dressed in black you say they're in
312:  mourning.
Interviewer:  Alright. {C: tape noise} Uh if somebody m- met you on the street and says well how are you today and if you're feeling just about average you'd say oh I'm
312:  So so. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Would you say uh I'm pretty well?
312:  Pretty well. Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh if somebody's troubled you might say oh it'll come out alright. Don't
312:  worry.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What is the disease of the joints called?
312:  Um uh
Interviewer:  When you get older.
312:  Arthritis.
Interviewer:  And the other one?
312:  Rheumatism.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What is the disease that children used to get They don't ha- it- it do- they don't have it anymore because they have shots for it but uh it would attack children in the throat and they'd choke to death.
312:  Uh diphtheria.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise} makes your skin turn yellow?
312:  Uh jaundice. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  And have you heard anything else for it? {C: tape noise}
312:  No. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Let's say um you have a pain down here and you have to have
312:  #1 Appendicitis. #
Interviewer:  #2 an op- # Have you heard that called- an older word for it? {C: tape noise} Uh cramp colic?
312:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Uh If somebody ate something that didn't agree with him and it came back up what's a
312:  They uh {C: tape noise} throw up.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Any other words?
312:  Regurgitate. {NW}
Interviewer:  Any crude words?
312:  Uh I don't know of any.
Interviewer:  Would you ever say vomit?
312:  Oh yes certainly. Vomit.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh {C: tape noise} If- if you invite somebody to come to see you this evening and you wanna tell him that you'll be disappointed if he- if he doesn't come you say {C: tape noise} come uh I {C: tape noise} Or would you just say I'll be disappointed?
312:  I'll be sorry.
Interviewer:  Okay. Would you ever say I shall be sorry?
312:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh {C: tape noise} If Mm {NS} {C: tape noise} If a man meets a girl at a dance and he wants to go home with her after the dance he says may I
312:  drive you home.
Interviewer:  Okay. How about if they're walking?
312:  May I walk you home.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Uh Say they're uh this man and this girl were spending a lot of time together uh what would you say he's doing with her?
312:  They're going together.
Interviewer:  Or he is
312:  uh uh he is uh
Interviewer:  It's an old fashioned
312:  #1 I know it. #
Interviewer:  #2 word. #
312:  I'm trying to think of it. He is uh hmm {NW} {NW} {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Courting?
312:  Courting. Of course.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  Couldn't think of it.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh and he uh His relationship to her. You'd say he's her
312:  Her suitor.
Interviewer:  Okay. Or Any other words?
312:  Well boyfriend but suitor would been the old- old {X} old way to
Interviewer:  #1 Did you ever #
312:  #2 speak of it. #
Interviewer:  call him her beau?
312:  Yes.
Interviewer:  {NW}
312:  Beau.
Interviewer:  {NW}
312:  Her beau.
Interviewer:  And she is his
312:  his girl.
Interviewer:  Okay. Heard any other {C: tape noise} words for her?
312:  Fiancee. Uh I don't know. Can't think of another one.
Interviewer:  Okay what are some old fashioned terms for kissing? {C: tape noise}
312:  Kissing. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Ever heard a' spooning?
312:  Well spooning yes. That's Yes. I've heard of that.
Interviewer:  Or smooching?
312:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. If he asks her to marry him and she doesn't want him what do you say she's
312:  #1 She turns him down. #
Interviewer:  #2 done to him? # Mm-hmm. Anything else?
312:  Rej- uh rejects him.
Interviewer:  How about jilting?
312:  Jilting yes.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  Well jilting would be uh more likely if they uh were engaged and then she turned him down after that. I would say that she jilted him.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # Now if they did go ahead {C: tape noise} they're just
312:  married?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Are there any humorous ways of saying that? {C: tape noise}
312:  Mm I guess {C: tape noise} can't think of it at the moment.
Interviewer:  Hitched?
312:  Hitched Yes that's one word. {C: laughing}
Interviewer:  Okay at a wedding the man who stands up with the groom is
312:  the best man.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise} old fashioned names for the best man?
312:  Well uh {X} In my grandmother's day they spoke of waiting on the groom.
Interviewer:  Oh.
312:  They- my gra- I have letters from my grandmother well my grandfather to my grandmother and he was- asked someone to wait on him.
Interviewer:  That's interesting. Now what would that man be called though? {C: tape noise}
312:  I don't know. {NW} That's- but he- he asked uh {C: tape noise} this man to wait be- to wait on him. No it- it wouldn't be called a waiter.
Interviewer:  Okay. I do have waiter here {C: tape noise}
312:  Well I- I don't think they were called waiters. But they- that was the way he spoke of it as asking his friend {C: tape noise} to wait on him. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  go for the bride as well? Did-
312:  Uh I don't know.
Interviewer:  What do you call the uh woman who stands up with the bride?
312:  The bri- uh the maid of honor.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  The bridesmaids {C: tape noise} that waited on 'em were called bridesmaids.
Interviewer:  Right.
312:  {X} was concerned. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Okay did you ever hear of this? Sometimes {C: tape noise} stand around and make a lot of noise. {C: tape noise}
312:  I've heard of it called uh {C: tape noise} name but that's in- that {C: tape noise} I've never known that to happen. It's only out in the country districts I think that they have things like that. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Uh {C: tape noise} Do you think they still {C: tape noise} Can you think of any other words for chivalry?
312:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: whispering} {C: tape noise} Uh {C: whispering} {C: tape noise} Alright do you remember {C: tape noise} I can't believe I ate the
312:  Yeah the- the whole thing.
Interviewer:  Right.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  What do you call it when people go out in the evening and go to a place where there's music and they move around on the floor?
312:  Dance.
Interviewer:  Alright. Ever heard a dance called anything else depending on what kind it was?
312:  Uh Yes I'm sure I have. Uh I can't think.
Interviewer:  A ball if
312:  #1 A ball. #
Interviewer:  #2 it's fancy. #
312:  Oh yes a ball would be a formal dance. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  House dance?
312:  No.
Interviewer:  Break down?
312:  Well I've heard of break down that's rather country thing too I think.
Interviewer:  And a hoedown.
312:  Hoe down. Break down.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright if children get out of school at three o' clock you say at three o' clock school
312:  is out.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} You go to school to get an
312:  education.
Interviewer:  And after high school you go on to
312:  college.
Interviewer:  Okay. After kindergarten you go into the {C: tape noise}
312:  elementary school.
Interviewer:  Specifically
312:  Uh
Interviewer:  which grade?
312:  First grade.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh somebody Well let's see. {C: tape noise} sat on bench Excuse me. Sat on benches at school. Now they sit at
312:  desks.
Interviewer:  Okay and each child has his
312:  his own desk.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh a building where you can borrow books is called a
312:  library.
Interviewer:  Alright. You mail a package at the
312:  post office.
Interviewer:  You stay overnight in a strange town at a
312:  hotel.
Interviewer:  You see a play at the
312:  theater.
Interviewer:  Uh you had an operation in the
312:  hospital.
Interviewer:  And you're taken care of by a
312:  doctor.
Interviewer:  And a the woman.
312:  A nurse.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And you catch a train at the
312:  station.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh If you walk from one street corner to the opposite one you say you're going
312:  uh diagonal.
Interviewer:  Or
312:  Uh crossing the street uh
Interviewer:  Can you think of anything else for diagonal? There's kind of a cute expression
312:  I know there is. Uh uh Oh oh uh Yes I just was {X} {C: tape noise} scramble? No.
Interviewer:  #1 I don't know. That could be one. #
312:  #2 That's not it. #
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard kitty corner? or catty
312:  Catty corner. Yes catty corner.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NW} What do you call the vehicles that used to run on tracks with a wire overhead?
312:  A street car.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh any other names for those?
312:  Trolley. Trolley car.
Interviewer:  You might tell the bus driver uh the next corner is where I want
312:  to get off. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh here in oh Davidson county Nashville
312:  #1 Yes #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # {C: tape noise} What do you call the main town in a county?
312:  The uh county seat.
Interviewer:  Yes. Is Nashville the county seat of {C: tape noise} It doesn't
312:  #1 Yes. It is. #
Interviewer:  #2 look the way #
312:  #1 County seat. #
Interviewer:  #2 Even though everything's metro now? #
312:  Yeah. Well it's uh It would be the county seat as far as {NW} and it business is concerned.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright if you work- if you're an F-B-I agent you say you're working for the
312:  government.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. The police in a town are supposed to maintain what?
312:  Law and order.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh the fight between the northern and southern states in eighteen sixty-one was
312:  the civil war.
Interviewer:  Alright. Other names?
312:  {X} War between the states.
Interviewer:  Are there any other names that older people called it? Can you remember when you were a child it being called something else?
312:  The- the war of the rebellion was one name. That was not southern. That was northern.
Interviewer:  Oh.
312:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # How about the war of secession? Have you heard
312:  Yeah well that's another name. Yes I guess. I- that's not as familiar to me. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Okay. Before they had the electric chair they used ropes and murderers were
312:  uh uh hung.
Interviewer:  Okay. The man went out and
312:  hanged himself.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} Richmond is capital
312:  Virginia.
Interviewer:  Raleigh?
312:  North Carolina.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NW}
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Columbus is the capital of
312:  Georgia.
Interviewer:  No.
312:  No wait a minute. Columbus Mississip- uh Missouri.
Interviewer:  #1 I have south Carolina. #
312:  #2 No Mississippi. # Mississippi. Wait a minute. Mississippi.
Interviewer:  I {X} wrong.
312:  Oh.
Interviewer:  Columbia.
312:  Columbia. {X} Missouri isn't it?
Interviewer:  No. South
312:  Oh south Carolina.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
312:  #1 Yeah that's right. South Carolina. #
Interviewer:  #2 I'm sorry I just read it # And Atlanta is the capital of
312:  Georgia.
Interviewer:  Okay. Tallahassee?
312:  Florida.
Interviewer:  Uh George Wallace governor of
312:  of Alabama. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Baton Rouge is the capital of
312:  Louisiana. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  The volunteer state is
312:  {C: tape noise} Tennessee
Interviewer:  {NW} The show me state is
312:  {C: tape noise} the what?
Interviewer:  Show me state?
312:  I have no idea.
Interviewer:  {C: tape noise} You've already said it once when you were guessing the capital of {X}
312:  Missouri?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
312:  I have never heard it called that.
Interviewer:  That's its name like volunteer
312:  I didn't know that. I never heard it.
Interviewer:  They say if you're from Missouri uh
312:  Show me. I know that. #1 I know that #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
312:  but I didn't know they called it that.
Interviewer:  Alright little rock is the capital of
312:  Arkansas.
Interviewer:  Jackson {X}
312:  Mississippi. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  The lone star state is
312:  Texas. {C: tape noise} Texas.
Interviewer:  {X}
312:  Oh Oklahoma.
Interviewer:  Right. Boston?
312:  Massachusetts.
Interviewer:  And what do you call that whole group of states?
312:  Um the new England states.
Interviewer:  Okay. What is the biggest city in Maryland? {C: tape noise} Baltimore. {C: tape noise}
312:  Washington.
Interviewer:  {X} {C: tape noise} just just s- differentiate it from the state of Washington called
312:  #1 Oh the cap- #
Interviewer:  #2 Washington #
312:  uh Washington D-C.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise} the biggest city in Missouri? {C: tape noise}
312:  Saint Louis.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What is the old historical sea port in south Carolina?
312:  Charleston.
Interviewer:  Okay. The big steel making town in Alabama?
312:  Birmingham. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  city in Illinois?
312:  Chicago. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Alright the capital of Alabama?
312:  Uh Hmm. {C: tape noise} Montgomery of course. I know that. {X} seen the capitol many {C: tape noise} times.
Interviewer:  {NW} Now what's the name of that uh fairly large city on the gulf?
312:  Uh uh uh Mobile.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise} What is the really pretty resort city in the mountains of north Carolina?
312:  Uh Asheville.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What's the biggest city in east Tennessee?
312:  Knoxville.
Interviewer:  And what's the one that will soon be bigger probably than Knoxville? It's on the border of
312:  #1 Oh #
Interviewer:  #2 Georgia. #
312:  {C: tape noise} Uh {X} uh Chattanooga?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise} west Tennessee where the blues started?
312:  Me- Memphis.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} And what city is this?
312:  Nashville.
Interviewer:  {NW} What is the capital of Georgia?
312:  Uh Atlanta. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  And what's the biggest sea port in Georgia?
312:  Uh Savannah.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What is the biggest city in uh the middle of Georgia? {C: tape noise} Well fort Benning is right {C: tape noise}
312:  Uh {C: tape noise} I don't know. I don't
Interviewer:  Alright well I'm trying to get two cities here. There's one city
312:  #1 Alban- #
Interviewer:  #2 It's {X} #
312:  Not Albany. {X}
Interviewer:  It's right in the center
312:  #1 Um uh um #
Interviewer:  #2 of Georgia. #
312:  uh Mac- no.
Interviewer:  Yes.
312:  Macon?
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
312:  #2 Macon. #
Interviewer:  And what's the other one? It's on the border of of Alabama where fort Benning is? Phenix city Alabama is on the other side.
312:  Uh uh
Interviewer:  #1 It's named after the #
312:  #2 {X} # Uh Co- uh
Interviewer:  Yeah.
312:  Columbus?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
312:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. What's the biggest city in Louisiana?
312:  New Orleans.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What's the capital of Louisiana? {C: tape noise}
312:  Shreveport.
Interviewer:  No.
312:  No uh uh n- uh not Shreveport. Uh {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Bat-
312:  Baton Rouge. {NW} Course I know that. Seen the capital there many times.
Interviewer:  Have you?
312:  Yes. {NW}
Interviewer:  There still a lot a' French people in Baton Rouge?
312:  Yes there are.
Interviewer:  Okay. What is the biggest city in southern Ohio? {C: tape noise}
312:  Uh Columbus.
Interviewer:  No. It begins with C.
312:  Um {C: tape noise} Oh uh Cincinnati
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
312:  #2 of course. #
Interviewer:  Biggest city in Kentucky?
312:  {C: tape noise} Louisville.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} Uh {C: tape noise} and she's not likely to get any better and somebody asks you how she's coming along you say well it {C: tape noise}
312:  Uh {X} Seems to me she will not get well or
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. Okay. #
312:  #2 something like that. #
Interviewer:  #1 #
312:  #2 {C: tape noise} #
Interviewer:  Uh If your daughter did not help you with the dishes you'd say she went off playing
312:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  Alright when you could have used help you might ask afterwards why did you just sit around
312:  and not help me? Oh
Interviewer:  Close. {NW} It means in place of helping me.
312:  I don't know. {NW}
Interviewer:  Instead.
312:  Huh?
Interviewer:  Instead?
312:  Instead of yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} What is the largest protestant denomination in the south?
312:  Mm baptist I believe.
Interviewer:  Sure is.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  If people became members of a church you say they
312:  joined the church.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Uh {C: tape noise}
312:  God?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NS} {C: tape noise} delivers a
312:  sermon. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  One might one man might say I go to church to hear the sermon. Another man might say well I don't care about the sermon. I just go to hear
312:  the music.
Interviewer:  Yeah. {C: tape noise} And to describe the music {C: tape noise} really like it you say it was Well anything that's extremely {C: tape noise}
312:  It's uh beautiful.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise} Uh the enemy the opposite of God is the
312:  devil.
Interviewer:  Have you heard any funny expressions or slang
312:  #1 Well uh #
Interviewer:  #2 expressions for the devil? #
312:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 {C: tape noise} # Mm-hmm.
312:  And uh
Interviewer:  Have you ever Have you ever heard him called old Harry?
312:  Yes I have.
Interviewer:  Have you?
312:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Do you know why?
312:  No. #1 Not yet {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Okay what do people see at night uh They're white. You know when people are scared they think they see these
312:  Ghosts.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Anything else?
312:  Spooks. {NW} {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other names?
312:  No I don't- can't think of one at the moment.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} call a house that has ghosts in it?
312:  Uh haunted.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise} If it's not {C: tape noise} to uh wear a coat you might say better put a sweater on. It's getting
312:  chilly.
Interviewer:  Uh can you give me a word to describe chilly.
312:  Uh it's uh {C: tape noise} {X}
Interviewer:  Well would you say sort of or somewhat or rather chilly?
312:  Rather chilly. Yes.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh {C: tape noise} If you wanna say something stronger or more enthusiastic than yes you say {C: tape noise}
312:  Yes indeed.
Interviewer:  How about a completely different word?
312:  {X}
Interviewer:  Of course?
312:  #1 Of #
Interviewer:  #2 You said of course. #
312:  of course yeah. {NW} Of course. {NW}
Interviewer:  Do you ever say certainly?
312:  Certainly yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright if I say If I don't believe you and I say do you really think you can do that you say well I
312:  I'll try.
Interviewer:  No no no. If you're sure.
312:  #1 Oh oh. #
Interviewer:  #2 If you- well I won't say the word but # {NW} If you know you can do it you say I
312:  I am certain
Interviewer:  {NW} Well
312:  that I can.
Interviewer:  I don't want you to use that word.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 Alright if I say #
312:  #2 I'm sure. #
Interviewer:  Yeah.
312:  Sure that I can.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise}
312:  #1 Positive #
Interviewer:  #2 Did you {X} #
312:  that I can.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Did you used to say or maybe you still do. Do you say yes sir or yes ma'am to anybody?
312:  Uh no {C: tape noise} I don't.
Interviewer:  But when you were a child?
312:  Oh yes, though my family did not advocate that so much. But that
Interviewer:  #1 Oh you didn't? #
312:  #2 was the southern #
Interviewer:  #1 #
312:  #2 {C: tape noise} # believe in it exactly.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  But my- but it is- it was a southern custom but I was not trained to do it. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Did you have to say it to your teachers then? Or not? Did the teachers try to {X}
312:  {C: tape noise} My my parents told me to say yes mrs so and so.
Interviewer:  I see.
312:  No Mrs so and so. But not- no yes ma'am and no ma'am. {C: tape noise} {X} all my friends were trying to do {X}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Maybe they thought it sounded a little servile.
312:  They- I think so. I don't know just why my family {C: tape noise} didn't. I think it's probably the influence of that same uncle. #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Oh the tomato uncle. #
312:  I think so.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} What might you exclaim if you're getting excited? {C: tape noise}
312:  Oh dear.
Interviewer:  #1 Alright. Would you say #
312:  #2 Or uh #
Interviewer:  my goodness?
312:  My {C: tape noise} my goodness.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  If something shocking is reported, perhaps attributed to you, you might show kind of polite resentment by saying why that- {C: tape noise}
312:  I
Interviewer:  It's a word that means thought. Why the
312:  idea.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Will you say that
312:  Yes.
Interviewer:  altogether?
312:  Why the idea.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Would you ever say that?
312:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Oh okay.
312:  {NW} Yes I would. {C: laughing} {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Uh When you're at- meeting somebody {C: tape noise} some- to an old friend that you see all the time
312:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 how do you greet # that person?
312:  Hello. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Alright if you're asking f- inquiring about their health?
312:  Hello. How are you?
Interviewer:  Alright. How about if you're being introduced to a stranger in a
312:  #1 How do you do? #
Interviewer:  #2 formal # Okay. If uh your friend's visiting and- and you're enjoyed the visit. You want her to come back you say {C: tape noise}
312:  Merry Christmas. Happy new year.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. That was my next question. How'd you guess? #
312:  #2 {NW} # {NW}
Interviewer:  Have you seen this before?
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Okay is there another way to s- {C: tape noise} express your appreciation besides saying thank you? For example you might say I'm much
312:  obliged.
Interviewer:  Alright. {C: tape noise}
312:  Yes.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh You might say I have to go downtown now to do some
312:  shopping.
Interviewer:  Alright. You made a purchase and the storekeeper took a piece of paper and {C: tape noise} And when I got home {X} package I
312:  opened it.
Interviewer:  #1 Or- or 'un #
312:  #2 Opened the package. #
Interviewer:  Undid the package.
312:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Would you say unwrapped? #
312:  Unwrapped the package. Yes. {C: laughing}
Interviewer:  Okay. {NW} If you sell something for less than you paid for it you might say I had to sell it
312:  at a- at a discount or at a uh uh that's not the word uh sacrifice.
Interviewer:  Or lo-
312:  A loss.
Interviewer:  Would you say that?
312:  Yes. At a loss I believe would be the best way.
Interviewer:  Alright. {C: tape noise} Say you admire something but you don't have enough money to buy it. You say I like it but it {C: tape noise}
312:  I can't afford it.
Interviewer:  Alright but {C: tape noise} say I like it but it
312:  it is too expensive.
Interviewer:  Okay. Or it co-
312:  costs too much. {C: tape noise} {NW}
Interviewer:  If it's time to pay the bill you say the bill is
312:  due.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. If you belong to a club you have to pay the
312:  your dues.
Interviewer:  Alright. {C: tape noise} If you haven't got any money you go to a friend and try to
312:  borrow.
Interviewer:  Alright. When a banker is gently refusing a loan he might say well money is
312:  scarce.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} Uh He ran down the springboard at the pool and
312:  dived in.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} Uh {C: tape noise} You might say well nine or ten have nine or ten boys have already
312:  have already dived.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} Uh have you ever Maybe you did this when you were a little kid. When you were learning how to {C: tape noise} and you don't- you land flat on your s-
312:  Belly {X} {NW}
Interviewer:  Yeah belly
312:  Belly belly whopper {NW} something like that.
Interviewer:  #1 Buster? #
312:  #2 {NW} # Belly buster
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
312:  #2 Something like that. #
Interviewer:  #1 #
312:  #2 {C: tape noise} #
Interviewer:  What do you call it what children do when they put their head on the ground and come over like that?
312:  Uh uh uh somersault.
Interviewer:  Okay. He wanted to get across the river so he dived in and
312:  swam.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} Uh I like that swimming hole. I have
312:  swum
Interviewer:  there.
312:  there.
Interviewer:  Alright. {C: tape noise} I think they did this a long time ago. I don't know if they do it now or not. {C: tape noise} It used to be when you bought something or just brought your bill up to pay- paid your bill the s- storekeep would give you a little present and say it's for {C: tape noise}
312:  Mm. I don't- I don't know. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Okay have you heard of I can't even pronounce. Look at this word and tell me if you've heard of it. {C: tape noise}
312:  Uh no I can't pronounce that either.
Interviewer:  Alright.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  I think that's only in Louisiana.
312:  Yeah I think it is.
Interviewer:  Alright someone who was caught in a whirlpool and didn't get out. You say he was {C: tape noise}
312:  sucked in. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Alright if he died underwater he
312:  drowned.
Interviewer:  Right. What does a baby do before it's able to walk?
312:  Toddles. Oh
Interviewer:  Alright on the floor.
312:  Oh sh- crawls.
Interviewer:  Okay. You saw something up in the top of the tree. You wanted to take a loo- closer look at it so you went over to the tree {C: tape noise} Okay. {C: tape noise} Now I don't- I don't like trees. I've never
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Uh
312:  Climbed a tree.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NW} If a man wants to hide behind a low hedge he's got to
312:  Uh Uh {C: tape noise} Hmm.
Interviewer:  Well if you get down in this position {X}
312:  Crouch.
Interviewer:  Yeah. #1 Okay. #
312:  #2 Crouch. # {NW}
Interviewer:  If you are down on your knees at an altar you say I went up to the altar and I
312:  knelt.
Interviewer:  Okay. If you're tired you say I'm gonna go {C: tape noise}
312:  take a nap. {NW}
Interviewer:  Alright but if you're just going to describe the position of your body.
312:  #1 Oh I'd lie down. #
Interviewer:  #2 You're not going to stand. # Say
312:  Lie down.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh He was really sick. He couldn't even sit up. He just {C: tape noise} Talking about something you saw in your sleep you say this is what I
312:  dreamed.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh You say I dreamed I was falling but just as I was about {C: tape noise}
312:  I woke up.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise} Yeah. To get a boat up on land you tie a rope to the bow and
312:  pull it in. Uh
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
312:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  When your car is stuck in the mud or snow you have to
312:  push it. {NS}
Interviewer:  Alright. If you carry a very heavy {C: tape noise}