Interviewer:  Now what was What were we talking about {C: tape noise}
312:  About something {X} What was it? {NS}
Interviewer:  Oh uh Instead of carrying something heavy you might say I If it's real heavy I
312:  lifted it? No. That wouldn't be it.
Interviewer:  Well you carried it but There's a word- there're a couple words that would indicate that it was heavy.
312:  Uh
Interviewer:  Would you say or for example I lugged it? Or
312:  I wouldn't say that.
Interviewer:  Uh Towed it?
312:  #1 No I wouldn't say that either. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NS} #
312:  #1 {NS} #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. #
312:  #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 {NS} # Probably just carried {X}
312:  Carried it. {NS}
Interviewer:  Alright. {C: phone conversation begins. 312's voice is more distant}
312:  I did. Yes. I did and I left you the uh something there at the door. That survey. Yes that's right. Yeah that's right. Yes I got the prints too. {NW} Yes. Well I got them. Thank you very much. I got twelve. Yes. Well I did. {X} Well I got twelve. Mm-mm. Well I'm- I've got that many. Yeah. {NS} Well I did. {NW} So Oh no I'm not {X} I am doing it. Right now I am doing something else I'll tell you about later. I'll call you and tell you what I've been doing. {NW} Alright. {C: laughing} {NW} {X} {X} {NS} They're coming tomorrow. {X} {C: tape noise} Oh I see. Mm-hmm. Well next week we'll work out something. Uh Yes. Well I'll Yes well you find out and we'll wo- we'll work it out. Alright I'll talk to you. Alright bye bye. {NS} {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay. {C: laughing} {NW} You might tell a child the stove is very hot so
312:  be careful.
Interviewer:  Or don't
312:  D- uh Don't touch it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. If you needed a hammer you might say to me please {C: tape noise}
312:  hand me a hammer.
Interviewer:  Alright but not You want s- to send me for it. You'd say please
312:  please {C: tape noise} get me a hammer.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Would you ever say fetch?
312:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. Bring?
312:  Bring. Yes.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: whispering} What uh What do you call the things at the end of a football field that you have to get the ball over?
312:  Oh uh Oh dear. {NW} I can't think. {C: laughing} {NW} Oh, now what do you call it? pole- the goal posts.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
312:  Goal posts.
Interviewer:  Alright say you've got a ball and there's two kids two kids are playing with a ball. One throws and the other
312:  Uh catches.
Interviewer:  Okay. You say I threw the ball and he
312:  caught it.
Interviewer:  Alright. I've been fishing for trout but so far I haven't
312:  caught any.
Interviewer:  Alright. Okay you might say let's meet in town. If I get there first I'll
312:  wait for you.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} Alright. S- uh There's a man who's been working for you and uh he's done- done something that's caused you to discharge him. He might come back to you and ask you to take him on again saying please just give me
312:  another try. Another uh chance.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise} If a man is is always in Let's see. If a man can always see the point of a joke you say he's got a very good sense
312:  sense of humor.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Uh If you have a hired man who keeps loafing on the job all the time you might decide to to discharge him. And you say to a friend of yours I think I'm just {C: tape noise}
312:  fire him.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
312:  #2 Uh #
Interviewer:  Or get
312:  get rid of him.
Interviewer:  Alright. Have you ever heard get shut of him?
312:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} He didn't know what was going on at all but he It sort of means he pretended {X} He a-
312:  He acted as if he did.
Interviewer:  Alright. {C: tape noise} If someone stole your pencil is there a slang word you might use in saying who
312:  Who who pinched my pencil? {NW}
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard swiped?
312:  Yeah swiped
Interviewer:  #1 Have you heard of filched? #
312:  #2 is another word. # Well filched is not- Yes I've heard that but that's not as usual.
Interviewer:  Okay.
312:  But swiped would be really more usual.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh Let's see. I ask a question and I expect
312:  an answer.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. You put a letter into an envelope and then you take your pen and
312:  address it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh if you wanna write to someone you have to know you his
312:  address.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh If a little boy has learned something new for instance if he's learned how to whistle and you wanna know where he learned that you might say well who
312:  taught you.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh When are you going to Miami? Well right now we're
312:  planning to go.
Interviewer:  Okay. Would you say we intend to go?
312:  Yes that would be one way of saying it.
Interviewer:  Or we're fixing to go?
312:  No.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} What uh {C: tape noise} If a little boy has done something naughty and his sister sees him do it the little boy {X} might say now don't go to mother and
312:  tell her.
Interviewer:  Okay. What is it- what is a person called who always tells on somebody?
312:  H- uh uh {C: tape noise} tattle tale.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh if you want a bouquet for the dinner table you go out to the garden and pick
312:  pick a bunch a' flowers.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
312:  {NW}
Interviewer:  What's something that a child plays with?
312:  Toys.
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard uh any other terms for toys?
312:  Play things.
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard a' play pretty?
312:  N- No not usually. No.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
312:  #2 No. #
Interviewer:  #1 #
312:  #2 #
Interviewer:  #1 #
312:  #2 {NS} #
Interviewer:  #1 #
312:  #2 #
Interviewer:  I'm glad I I'm glad I carried my umbrella you might say. We hadn't gone half a block when the rain
312:  started.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} How about uh a word that begins with B that means the same thing as started. When the rain
312:  began. Began.
Interviewer:  Okay. If somebody asks you what time d- does the show start you say well it's already
312:  started. {C: tape noise} It's already {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  Be-
312:  begun.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
312:  It's already begun. {C: tape noise}
Interviewer:  You give somebody a new bracelet and you say to her why don't you {C: tape noise}
312:  wear it.
Interviewer:  Or put
312:  put it on.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh {C: tape noise} If you're sitting with a friend and you're not saying anything and all of a sudden the friend says what did you say You'd say well I said N- If you didn't say anything you said
312:  I didn't say anything.
Interviewer:  #1 Or I said #
312:  #2 I said nothing. #
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Then you'd say oh I thought you said
312:  something. {NW}
Interviewer:  Uh You might say I got thrown once and I've been scared of horses ever
312:  since.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {C: tape noise} Uh It wasn't an accident. He did it
312:  purposely.
Interviewer:  #1 Or #
312:  #2 He # uh i- in- on purpose.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh {C: tape noise} If two little boys every time they see each other they do like this.
312:  #1 Fighting. #
Interviewer:  #2 They say # Okay. Uh Ever since they were small {C: tape noise}
312:  fought.
Interviewer:  Okay. {C: tape noise} What does somebody do if they kill someone with a knife?
312:  They stab them.
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
312:  #2 {NS} #
Interviewer:  #1 #
312:  #2 #
Interviewer:  Uh what is it called when you pull you knife out of the holder?
312:  Uh scabbard?
Interviewer:  Uh what's the action?
312:  Oh.
Interviewer:  Or when you make picture you {C: tape noise} If you're- if you're picture with pencil.
312:  You Draw. Draw the knife.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
312:  #2 Of course. # Yeah.
Interviewer:  If you're going to lis- lift something like a piece of machinery up on a roof you must use pulley blocks and a rope to
312:  to uh uh pull it. To uh {C: tape noise} hoist?
Interviewer:  Yes.
312:  Hoist it. {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Now I have to ask {X} Uh couple of opinions
312:  #1 Oh dear. {C: laughing} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Is there any We're through with the survey now.
312:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 Is there # anything that you expected me to ask or any type of thing that I didn't ask?
312:  No I don't think so.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh And do you have any opinions on on good grammar or or dialects? How do you feel about the s- about the south? In terms of its dialects or its uh standardness?
312:  Well uh I don't know. I can't {C: tape noise} don't know. {C: tape noise} Course we have uh {C: tape noise} dialects. And in different sections of the country have different. Even Tennessee. The three different sections are quite different.
Interviewer:  Oh sure.
312:  There are accents different. And it's quite different and we have different uh customs. And different way of speaking.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NW} Okay. {C: laughing}
312:  Yeah. {NW}
Interviewer:  Uh is that all you wanna say
312:  #1 That's all #
Interviewer:  #2 about it? #
312:  I wanna say.
Interviewer:  Okay. Thank
312:  {X} {C: laughing} {NW} {C: tape noise}