Interviewer
Okay um
and
the rocky side of a mountain
that drops off real sharp
Okay but like you'd say the man jumped over the
The what?
Okay but in a mountain
that
drops off just
real sharp
you know
Okay what about cliff?
Okay.
Um and up in the mountains where the road goes across in a low place
you'd call that a
Okay but not a valley, it's still up in the mountains.
Did you ever hear of Cumberland
Gap?
Uh-huh.
Do you ever use that word gap?
What does it mean?
Okay um suppose you took a piece of wood and
made a little
cut
shaped like a V
into it
No no just
Take a little piece and
Take your knife
Take your knife and make a cut here and a cut here
and you'd call that a little
Okay you know
they they say at least you know gun fighters
a long time ago
that if they kill a man
Yeah.
Okay.
Um and a place where boats stop and
um
freight's unloaded
Okay. Any other name
Okay. Suppose you had a stream
and it's flowing along and it suddenly dropped off
where the water went on over, you'd call that a
Okay.
And what kinds of roads are there
around here?
Yeah.
Like
made out of
okay like that kind that's made out of that that white hard paved road, you'd call that a
Okay.
Um
What other kinds?
Did you ever use the word blacktop?
For asphalt?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's the word pike mean?
I've heard that a lot, but
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Uh-uh.
Mm-hmm.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah
Yeah.
What what did your friends do? They just
Some friends you have!
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Yeah.
The least they could have done is try to push the car up.
before
Yeah.
What would you call a
a little road that goes off the main road?
Okay.
Um
any other names
like that like
Back road
country road
Okay um
what um
this is something they use in making
roads
it's black
I'm not thinking of asphalt it's
black and it's
sticky
and it has a strong smell.
Okay any other name for that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
mm-hmm
I couldn't find it on a map, either.
Is it should it be on a map?
Yeah.
I'm staying near this
place that it has a sign that
says Peytonsville road.
So I guess I'm near there.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Something like that, yeah.
Hmm.
Finding what?
No.
Yeah. He was there.
Oh I didn't
remember him
I remembered it after he mentioned it.
I remembered his horse's name.
You know, after he said it.
And um
yeah he had a picture there
I was really surprised that
his horse'd take him four
at night
so is it a good class
to
He he won it Thursday night.
He said
I didn't see it Thursday night.
Mm
I don't remember.
Yeah.
uh-huh
Of what, insurance?
What kinda insurance is this?
Yeah.
No.
Tobacco gets that tall?
Yeah.
mm-hmm
Yeah.
oh yeah
Winston-Salem and all
those places
Mm-hmm.
Sounds pretty nice.
and he won't
Yeah.
mm-hmm
For breakfast sometimes.
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Okay what would you call a little road that
turns off from
the public road down
A side road?
Okay what if it comes up to a man's house?
Okay.
Um
and something on the side of the street for people to walk on
Okay.
Do you ever call that anything else?
Pavers?
Is that an old fashioned word, or
Yeah.
Okay, say you were walking along a road and a dog jumped out at you
um
what would you pick up and throw?
Okay.
Um
so you say I picked up the
Yeah
Okay
Um
suppose you went to someone's house and knocked on the door
and
no one answered, you'd say
well I guess they're not
Okay.
And talking about putting
milk in coffee you'd say some people like coffee
Yeah
what milk if some people
Uh I was saying if you
if you like your
like milk in your coffee then you say
you drink your milk
how?
Or you drink your milk
or you drink your coffee
Or
talking about milk though, you'd drink your coffee
Okay.
Um
and what if you don't put
what about coffee without milk and sugar
what do you call that?
Do you call it straight or
Black coffee
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Oh no thank you.
If you have some.
Okay if someone were walking in this direction you'd say he was coming straight
In your direction you'd say he's coming straight
Or another word
he was walking
not away from me, he's walking
Huh?
Okay.
Okay.
Um
and if you saw someone that you hadn't seen in quite a while
you just happen to see 'em, you'd say
well today I
I ran
Okay
and
um
so okay talking about kinds of animals
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a kind of animal that barks
you call that a
Huh?
What do you mean?
Okay.
But
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
What
say if you were going hunting you'd take along a good hunting
Or a
The animal you'd take
Well what animals you got out there?
Blackie and the
Yeah what kind of animal do you have out there?
Okay.
Yeah.
Have you ever um
Mister um
Smithson had
this dog
that
it's eyes were
sort of
whitish or
Do you have a name for that?
Glass?
What makes a dog like that?
No different from any other
Moon eyed.
Yeah.
Around your what?
Yeah
Uh-huh
Yeah.
mm-hmm
Yeah.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Okay if you wanted your dog to attack another dog
what would you tell him?
Okay.
Um
and now I'm interested in what kinda names you have for types of dogs. Not breeds of dogs
just um
okay like what would you call a a dog that you don't know what kind he is?
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Yeah.
What's a feist?
Yeah.
What's a cur dog?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
No
Yeah.
mm-hmm
That's why you got that chain around him?
So he can't run?
Yeah
You
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Yeah
Yeah.
For real?
What for?
Mm.
Yeah.
Um
if you had a real mean dog, you might tell someone, you better be careful, that dog'll
Okay. And you say
yesterday that dog
what the mailman
Okay.
And you say the mailman had to go to the doctor after he got
Okay do you ever say dog bit
after he got dog bit?
I guess I would like a
tea or Coke
doesn't matter.
Mm.
Yeah.
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Talking about
cows
what do you call the male?
Okay. Any other names?
Was that word nice to use when you were growing up?
Did you ever
remember
work some work animals
other than
mules and horses?
Something that looks sort of like
Oxen?
How would you um
see those working together?
mm-hmm
What would you call them?
If you have two working together?
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay um
something
a little cow when it's first born
it's called a
Okay. What if it was a female?
What if it's a female?
Okay and male?
Okay.
And if you had a cow that was gonna have a calf you'd say that your cow was going to
Okay.
Any other expression?
Okay.
And
the animals that you'd ride
you'd call those
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Mm-hmm.
What do you call the female horse?
What about the male?
Any other word?
What did your mother say for that?
Okay.
Um
and if you couldn't stay on, you'd say I fell
Okay so off
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
mm-hmm
Mm-hmm.
Okay but
if a little child say went to sleep
in bed
woke up found himself on the floor in the morning
he'd say well I guess I must have
Okay.
And the things that you put on the horse's feet
Okay.
What about the game that you play with horseshoes?
What do you call that?
Okay.
And the parts of the horse's feet that you put the shoes onto
The what?
Okay.
Yeah.
How many
of these does a horse have?
Uh-huh.
You put
shoes on
all
Okay.
Um
Mm-hmm.
What about
um
the male sheep
Mm-hmm.
Which word is nicer?
Do you remember what your mother would say?
Yeah.
Not up close.
Do you have some now?
What do you keep 'em for?
To eat 'em?
You eat goat?
You ever milk goats?
They're what?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
What about the female sheep?
Okay
What would they raise?