interviewer: that means it's recording now #1 okay # 364: #2 {X} # interviewer: {NS} {NW} Alright and your middle initial is A too isn't it 364: yes A interviewer: okay 364: for- {X} I was saying my A is that's the way my initials yes Andrews uh- middle is Andrews interviewer: and what's your mailing address {B} {NS} were you born in Franklin county? 364: yeah interviewer: In Russelville? Right here 364: what no, not in rus- well e- e- Rockwood interviewer: #1 Rockwood okay # 364: #2 Rockwood # Rockwood Alabama interviewer: I know Rockwood that's where I'm from 364: you are? interviewer: yeah my mother was a Malone, do you know the Malones at Rockwood? 364: what Malone interviewer: Luther 364: your mother {B} interviewer: #1 they certainly {X} # 364: #2 {X} # {B} Oh your grand daddy I know more about the Malone's than you do interviewer: #1 we better not put all that on there # 364: #2 no # interviewer: {NW} {NS} {NW} 364: some things I wouldn't interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # I wouldn't want to broadcast interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: how old are you? 364: eighty-one interviewer: eighty-one 364: {NW} {NS} interviewer: what religion? what church do you #1 go to # 364: #2 Baptist # interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # would be Baptist {X} interviewer: you're a retired farmer? 364: well yes {NW} interviewer: where was your mother born? 364: uh she's born in Franklin County interviewer: okay 364: mm-hmm interviewer: and your father? 364: {X} your father, was he born in no no my father was a slave {NS} interviewer: where was he born? 364: South Carolina interviewer: South Carolina mm-kay do you know what kind of formal schooling your mother had how many y- did she go to a to a public school? #1 formal school # 364: #2 y- yes # uh what little schooling we had at that time was public school interviewer: you know what grade she went to? 364: Oh we didn't have any grades interviewer: #1 any grade # 364: #2 no # #1 w- wasn't no # interviewer: #2 Okay {NW} # 364: grade interviewer: okay, did your mother work? 364: yes yes she works she did uh oh I don't know uh mostly housework and she was midwife interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 for several years # interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # interviewer: what did your father do? 364: he was a #1 did uh # interviewer: #2 kind of work? # 364: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 364: uh stone work {NS} interviewer: what was your moth- grand- let's see your I mean your mother's parents their names where they were born do you know that about your mother that'd be your grandmother on your mother's side 364: on my mother's side my grandmother {NS} aw {NS} my grandmother was a {NS} she was she was a slave interviewer: mm-kay 364: and she was uh she belonged to the Jones family {X} {B} was my mother's father interviewer: okay {NS} what was her name Mr {D: Teethe} 364: My my grandmother? interviewer: yes sir 364: Ellen interviewer: Ellen? 364: Ellen interviewer: Okay {NS} 364: she was a {D: healman} interviewer: okay 364: {X} interviewer: alright now how about your grandfather on your mother's side 364: my my grandfather that was doctor {B} interviewer: okay {X} how about then on your daddy's side? 364: Nothing, I don't #1 know anything about that # interviewer: #2 don't know anything about that # 364: he was sold in his mother's arms on the block in Nashville Tennessee interviewer: now that's your grandfather 364: #1 That's my father # interviewer: #2 your # #1 father okay # 364: #2 my father # interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # and his th- uh ancestry I don't know anything about interviewer: alright how old is your wife? 364: she's sixty-five interviewer: okay same religion? 364: no she's a methodist interviewer: mm-kay {NS} {NW} was she born in Franklin #1 county # 364: #2 yes # interviewer: {NS} {NS} how about her grandparents her parents her parents first 364: her parents w- she uh her mother was a Suggs she was a hmm {B} interviewer: okay 364: and h- her husband was {B} {NW} {X} {X} {NS} {NS} {NS} interviewer: Hello aux: alright how are you interviewer: #1 fine thank you # 364: #2 {NS} # interviewer: {NS} alright it asked me to ask about your social contacts do you um well I know you still go to church do you belong to any kind of clubs like a #1 american legion or anything like that? # 364: #2 I'm yeah # I'm a legionnaire and I'm a uh boy scouts and I'm mason interviewer: okay 364: thirty-second degree mason interviewer: alright 364: uh interviewer: how many children do you have? 364: we raised nine nine children {NS} seven are living interviewer: bet you've got a lot of grandchildren don't you 364: yeah oh I haven't counted interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 recently I know how many # The last time I counted I think they said there's twenty-seven {NW} that's the last t- {C: speed increases towards the end of this chunk} {X} {C: tape sped up} seventeen, eighteen, ninety, twenty interviewer: good thank you now uh the number after twenty-six the number after twenty-seven #1 twenty # 364: #2 twenty-seven # interviewer: #1 seven the number after twenty-nine # 364: #2 # thirty interviewer: the number after thirty-nine 364: forty interviewer: the number after sixty-nine 364: seventy interviewer: after ninety-nine 364: one hundred interviewer: after nine hundred and ninety-nine 364: thousand interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: now the number after nine hundred ninety-nine lets see if I can give you the number now nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine you know what that one is 364: nine hundred ninety-nine thousand interviewer: nine hundred ninety-nine 364: that's #1 a million # interviewer: #2 a million okay # wish I had that many dollars 364: oh what I interviewer: {NW} 364: oh yes I'd fill all my debt interviewer: {NW} 364: far as it went #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: #1 # interviewer: #2 # okay this has to do with numbers too if there's a line of men somewhere you say the man at the head of the line is which man just a line of men standing there and you're counting them but you'd say the line the man at the head of the line is which one? 364: i- in numbers? Number one interviewer: alright how e- what else would you say for number one? like first second 364: third interviewer: #1 alright # 364: #2 fourth # fifth sixth #1 seventh # interviewer: #2 okay # good {NS} {NS} how about counting on up for me naming those men to the eleventh one? 364: to the eleventh? interviewer: #1 how far how far'd we # 364: #2 and th- and then # interviewer: get let's start over again the first one 364: one two interviewer: #1 not counting them in what order they're standing in # 364: #2 oh # first second third fourth and you want to know the twelfth one interviewer: I want to know all the way through to the eleventh from the first one to the eleventh one 364: that would be the n- next one would be the twelfth interviewer: alright but we stopped at fourth what's the next one? 364: fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth eleventh twe- interviewer: okay good {NS} sometimes you say you feel like you get your good luck just a little bit at a time but your bad luck how? 364: my bad luck? interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: does it come a little at a time or? 364: a- haw i- i- it {X} {NW} my bad luck comes {NW} so often I don't know whether it comes all at once #1 or not {NW} # interviewer: #2 okay {NW} # if you said last year I got twenty bushels to the acre this year I got forty bushels so this year's crop is what compared to last year's 364: twice the yield interviewer: good, uh now name the months of the year for me 364: #1 month of the year oh # interviewer: #2 {NS} # 364: {NS} January February March April May June July August September October November and December interviewer: okay good now let me check my recorder to make sure we getting you {NS} okay we checked it out fine now would you name for me the days of the week? 364: uh beginning at uh I mean Monday's the first day interviewer: okay 364: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday interviewer: okay you count Sunday the sabbath then? 364: yes interviewer: if you meet someone at about eleven o'clock in the daytime how would you greet him how would you speak to him? 364: about eleven o'clock I'd say good morning interviewer: okay and how about after 364: good evening interviewer: okay uh when you leave somebody how do you leave them what do you say when you leave them? 364: I say goodbye interviewer: okay uh what do you call the part of the day after supper? 364: {X} interviewer: what do you call the part of the day after supper? 364: I'd call it after supper I'd call it night interviewer: mm-kay, you must eat late 364: uh-huh I do interviewer: okay {NW} {NS} if you have to get up and start working just as the sun comes into sight you say you had start when? {NS} 364: sun up interviewer: okay uh you say we were a little late this morning when we started out in the field the sun had already 364: risen interviewer: okay if you worked 'til the sun went out of sight you worked until 364: uh sundown interviewer: okay today is Tuesday and Monday was today is Tuesday and Monday was {NS} 364: m- Monday was I don't get interviewer: #1 okay t- like this is Tuesday today and so what do you call Monday in relationship to today # 364: #2 that y- yes # interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # I'd call it uh interviewer: the day before today 364: I'd call it the first day of the week interviewer: okay but it like on this is a Tuesday and we'd say this today is Tuesday and Monday was 364: yesterday interviewer: yes okay and Wednesday will be 364: would be tomorrow interviewer: okay if somebody came on Sunday last Sunday and he came a week earlier than last Sunday you'd say he came here when 364: last week interviewer: okay if he's going to leave next Sunday a week beyond Sunday it'd be what? 364: next Sunday {NS} interviewer: if somebody stayed at your house from the first to the fifteenth of the month how long would you say he stayed? 364: I'd say he stayed a half a month interviewer: you ever heard anybody call it a fortnight 364: beg pa- interviewer: did you ever hear anybody call that a fortnight? 364: uh yes I've heard, I've heard it interviewer: #1 but you don't use the term # 364: #2 e- no # #1 use the term # interviewer: #2 okay # 364: #1 {NS} # interviewer: #2 # if you want to know the time of day what do you do? you ask somebody? 364: ask somebody or {NS} interviewer: how would you ask them? 364: what time is it interviewer: okay 364: #1 please # interviewer: #2 and then # 364: #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # and then they get what out of their pocket to tell you? {NS} 364: thank you interviewer: then they what do they tell you the time by though? #1 what do they use to tell you the time # 364: #2 {NS} # their watch interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 mm-hmm # interviewer: midway between seven o'clock and eight o'clock is what time? {NS} {NS} 364: midway interviewer: yes sir 364: #1 oh that's half past # interviewer: #2 {NS} # #1 half past # 364: #2 {NS} # #1 mm-hmm # interviewer: #2 {NS} # #1 uh how about if it's ten forty-five? Do you # 364: #2 {NS} # #1 quarter to eleven # interviewer: #2 {NS} # 364: #1 # interviewer: #2 # if you've been doing something for a long time you might tell me I've been doing that {NS} 364: #1 Wouldn't it that depends on how ah uh the length of time I've been doing it # interviewer: #2 {NS} # 364: #1 by # interviewer: #2 okay # 364: I'd there's some things I've been doing I call it all my life interviewer: okay have you ever heard anybody say for quite a spell? 364: yes quite a spell interviewer: #1 okay you use that term? # 364: #2 I # I use quite a while interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: #1 {NS} # 364: #2 # interviewer: #1 you say business wasn't very good th- last year but I hope it'll be better # 364: #2 # next year interviewer: uh if a child has just had his third birthday you'd say he is 364: three years old interviewer: if something happened about this time last year you'd say it happened 364: mm it ha- I'd say it happened a year ago interviewer: you look up at the sky and say I don't like the looks of those black 364: clouds interviewer: if it's the night and you at the sky and there are no clouds around you say I believe we're going to have a 364: beautiful day I would say interviewer: good if it's not a nice day the sun is not shining and bright you'd say it's what kind of day 364: I would say it's a cloudy day uh yes I'd say cloudy interviewer: alright if it's been fair like it has been and then the clouds come and you expect rain or snow in a little while what do you say about the weather 364: I would say the weather's turned foul interviewer: if it's been cloudy and the clouds go away and the sun comes up what do you say about the weather 364: it's gone {D: fair off} interviewer: #1 good # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # interviewer: If you have a lots of rain that comes down all at once what would you call that heavy rain? 364: downpour interviewer: there was one in here I thought was real interesting did you ever hear anybody call it a a goose drownder? 364: #1 {X} # interviewer: #2 a goose drownder # 364: #1 # interviewer: #2 # a heavy rain #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: {NW} 364: #1 I've heard the expression a gully washer # interviewer: #2 yeah # #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: {NW} uh somebody else I did called it a frog strangler 364: #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: well I would they've used so many {X} interviewer: what do you call a storm that has thunder and lightning 364: mm that has well a storm interviewer: that has thunder and lightning 364: cyclone interviewer: okay 364: Sorry I interviewer: check {NS} if the ven- wind was very high during the night you'd say all night the long all night long the wind has 364: blown interviewer: uh if the wind's coming from ooh I guess that direction what is that? 364: south interviewer: okay the wind's from the 364: south interviewer: okay uh a wind halfway because between south and west what do you call 364: call it uh southwest interviewer: okay and halfway between uh south and east? 364: uh southeast interviewer: and halfway between east and north? 364: northeast interviewer: and halfway between west and north? 364: #1 northwest # interviewer: #2 okay # 364: #1 # interviewer: #2 # if it's raining but not raining very hard just a few fine drops coming down how would you describe that rain? 364: I'd say it's uh uh wait a minute sprinkle interviewer: okay 364: {NW} uh some {NS} a sprinkle interviewer: then a shower be a little bit more than a sprinkle wouldn't it? 364: w- yes yes interviewer: and when it's just bad it's coming down like you just look out and you can't really see it but you know it's coming down 364: a mist interviewer: okay 364: call that a mist {NS} interviewer: what do you call that uh white stuff that comes up from the ground some cold mornings 364: I call it dew interviewer: #1 alright # 364: #2 {X} # yeah dew interviewer: dew but some mornings you get up and like it's just a little ti- well not not necessarily cold but you see this white stuff and it's hard to drive through #1 call it # 364: #2 uh # fog interviewer: if it hadn't rained in a long time what do you call that? 364: a drought interviewer: the wind's been real gentle and now it's getting stronger gradually what would you say it's doing {NS} 364: well see now what would I call that {NS} {NS} would you mind repeating it please? interviewer: uh the wind's just it's been very gentle and it's just gradually getting stronger what would you say about the wind? {NS} 364: wind is rising #1 I say # interviewer: #2 okay # 364: the wind's rising interviewer: okay if it's just the opposite and the wind has been strong and now the wind is getting weaker and weaker 364: I said th- it's gonna cease be the wind's ceasing interviewer: okay {NS} on a morning in the fall and you find it's cold but not real cold the kind of weather you like to be out in what would you say this morning it's rather 364: pleasant {NS} interviewer: if there's a white coating on the ground you say you had a 364: frost {NW} interviewer: you'd say it was so cold last night the lake did what? 364: froze interviewer: if it gets much colder tonight the pond might 364: freeze interviewer: and it had before I got out there #1 the pond # 364: #2 had # already frozen interviewer: alright {NS} what do you call this room in your house {NS} {C: rooster crowing} 364: #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: #1 {X} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: {NW} living room interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 I just # {NW} interviewer: #1 some people call them you know sitting rooms okay # 364: #2 yes # interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # interviewer: uh about how high would you say this room is 364: nine feet interviewer: okay #1 the smoke goes up through the what you got one # 364: #2 chimney # interviewer: okay if if there's that kind of thing like a chimney on a factory do you still call it a chimney? 364: no I call it a on a factory? interviewer: yes sir 364: I call it smoke stack interviewer: alright and what's back of the fire place? #1 called {X} # 364: #2 hearth # the hearth interviewer: #1 and this one # 364: #2 {NS} {C: rooster crowing} # uh mantle interviewer: alright {NS} what's the big round piece of wood with the bark on it that you put in the fireplace to make a big fire 364: back spit interviewer: what do you call the kind of wood you use to start a fire with? 364: kindling #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: {NS} {C: rooster crowing} interviewer: what is the black stuff that forms in the chimney called? 364: soot interviewer: alright and when the fire burns down real low and just leaves something what do you 364: ashes interviewer: alright and what color are they 364: white interviewer: alright what do you call that piece of furniture you're sitting in? 364: a th- the name of #1 it or the # interviewer: #2 yes # 364: chair interviewer: alright and this piece of furniture 364: th- that's a couch interviewer: alright what's a piece of furniture in your bed room that has drawers in it and you put your clothes in 364: uh tha- that'd be the dresser interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: the room where you sleep? what do you call that room 364: I call mine the dog house interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: and you stay in it all the time 364: #1 yeah # interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: sure do #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: yeah they put me in the dog house {NW} interviewer: #1 what do you call all these tables and chairs and beds as a group? # 364: #2 furniture # that's what it is interviewer: alright the thing that you pull down to shut light out? 364: shades interviewer: okay 364: {NW} #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # what look a little room off the bedroom that you hang your clothes up in #1 called # 364: #2 closet # interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: #1 {X} # 364: #2 {NS} # interviewer: that rooster gonna get louder than you and me both isn't he if you don't have a closet what might you have to put your clothes in? 364: uh interviewer: if you didn't have a built in closet? 364: if you don't have it? interviewer: mm-hmm what would you call something that you might be in your bedroom that you put your clothes in hang them up in? 364: uh #1 I don't I hardly really know # interviewer: #2 {NS} # #1 Did you ever have something called a wardrobe? # 364: #2 call it # interviewer: #1 Oh yeah yeah {X} yeah # 364: #2 a chifforobe or # chifforobe or wardrobe interviewer: okay 364: {D: oopsie} interviewer: what's the room at the top of the house that's just under the roof called 364: just under the roof? interviewer: yes sir 364: uh that's now that sort of depends on what the what sort of house it is okay what would you call this one for instance under this house? I'd call it neither just under the roof of this is the uh this th- we have a second floor here aux: #1 upstairs # interviewer: #2 you have an upstairs # okay but if you didn't have an upstairs what would you call between this ceiling and the roof 364: attic interviewer: okay and the room that you cook in? 364: kitchen interviewer: uh what do you call the little room off the kitchen where you store canned goods 364: that's the closet interviewer: okay uh what do you call a lot of old worthless things that you need to throw away {NS} 364: my folks called it junk interviewer: #1 okay {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: what would you call a room that you use to store that in? 364: uh storage room interviewer: okay uh if you're talking about your wife cleaning up uh da- doing the daily housework what would you say she does every morning? 364: house cleaning interviewer: okay uh what does she sweep with? 364: broom interviewer: uh years ago on Monday morning women usually did what? 364: on Monday morning? interviewer: yes sir what'd they used to do on monday morning do it all the time now I do 364: wash interviewer: right {NW} 364: #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # how do you get from the first floor to the second floor in a two story house? 364: on the stairway interviewer: alright if you had stairs both inside and outside the house would you call them by a different name? would you still call both 364: I'd call one outside and one inside stairway interviewer: #1 you'd still call them stairway okay # 364: #2 stairway yeah # interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # interviewer: what's uh that built across the front of your house called that I walked up on when I came here? 364: the porch interviewer: okay what would you call one of those that was big and had columns under it would you still call it a porch? 364: yes interviewer: okay 364: {NW} interviewer: can you have a porch on more than one floor? 364: sure interviewer: what do you call the one that's upstairs? 364: now I do- I wouldn't know what I'd just call it the upstair- uh- the upper porch interviewer: {X} do you call like uh one at the back door the same thing? 364: yes interviewer: if it has a roof on it does it make a difference what you call it? 364: mm {NS} interviewer: does it make do you call it the same thing if it has a roof on it or if it doesn't have a roof on it 364: I would interviewer: you would okay if the door is open you don't want it that way you tell someone to do what? 364: close it interviewer: uh what do you call the boards on the outside of a house that lap over each other? 364: that's the weather boarding {NS} interviewer: uh if you want to hang something out in the barn you just take a nail and do what? you want to hang something up you take a nail and do what to it? {NS} with a hammer 364: uh drive a nail an ha- and uh hang the {X} whatever interviewer: alright if the nail didn't go far enough in you'd say it's got to be 364: uh if it don't go far enough in? interviewer: if it doesn't go far enough in the first time what would you say about it besides an ugly word 364: aw interviewer: {NW} {NS} 364: {X} that's a that's a tough one interviewer: I didn't drive it in far enough it has to be 364: uh driven deeper interviewer: good #1 okay # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: what do you call the part of the house that covers the top? 364: roof interviewer: okay what do you call the little things along the edge of the roof that carry water off 364: the gutter {NS} interviewer: if you uh have a house in an L what do you call the place where the two come together up at the top like you got on your roof it comes together like this what do you call this part? 364: uh interviewer: I may not be describing it right 364: I I think I get what you but I can't remember I can't remember valley I'd call it the va- {NW} interviewer: uh what d- would you call a little building outside that you use for storing tools? 364: I'd call it a tool house interviewer: alright what about if you use it to store wood what would you call 364: wood house interviewer: okay what do you call an outdoor toilet? 364: I'd call it a privy interviewer: #1 okay {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: any other joking words that you know that you'd call an outdoor toilet 364: well I {NW} I don't I don't I don't know I {NW} interviewer: uh 364: Uh I- I wouldn't interviewer: okay that's fine if you had troubles and were telling me about them you might say well {NS} 364: I don't remember or I don't know interviewer: alright your troubles you're telling me about your troubles you'd say well 364: uh interviewer: you'd say I've got my troubles too I've had my troubles too 364: Yeah I'd I yes {NS} I'd have I've I would say I've had the same trouble that you that you you undergoing now interviewer: okay 364: or similar troubles interviewer: If I say did you hear that noise outside how would you reply? 364: I did not or I did interviewer: would you say I heard it? 364: yes interviewer: Or did- okay uh if I ask you if you know a person you might say no I really don't know him but I've 364: seen him interviewer: okay 364: {NW} interviewer: If a friend came back to town and another friend had been visiting with him you might be asked have you seen him you seen him yet and you might {D: supposed} to say no I 364: haven't seen him interviewer: uh {NS} uh something that you do every day do you do it frequently I ask and you'd say yes I 364: do that every day interviewer: does your brother like ice cream yes he 364: does {NS} interviewer: if your son is in school but doesn't pay any attention to the teacher you might think he just 364: silly interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # like I am #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # alright if a man let his farm get all run down and doesn't seem to care you might say to someone who asks I really don't know but he just 364: lazy interviewer: um if you've been trying to make up your mind about something would you say I've been thinking about it or I've been thinking around it 364: I'd say I've been thinking about it interviewer: okay {NS} you might say you live in a framed 364: house interviewer: uh are there other kinds around here? 364: no interviewer: uh the big buildings behind the house where you store hay what do you call that the building you store corn in? 364: barn interviewer: okay you do make any difference between a corn crib and a barn? 364: well no no I wouldn't interviewer: okay 364: same {X} interviewer: what do you call a building or a type of building where you store grain 364: grain bin interviewer: okay the upper part of a barn is called what? maybe where you might store hay 364: oh uh a- uh we call it the loft interviewer: okay e- uh if you've got some hay piled up five up outside what do you call that? 364: hay stack interviewer: when you first cut the hay what do you do with it? 364: uh rake it {X} interviewer: alright do you know any names for small piles of hay raked up in a field 364: small piles interviewer: yes sir what would you call that 364: well wh- w- w- we called them hay cocks interviewer: alright {NS} it's been about how much time do we have left on that one where do you keep your cows 364: in the pasture interviewer: alright if you keep them in a special shelter when it's raining what do you call that? 364: shed interviewer: alright uh what do you call a place where you keep your horses? 364: uh I'd call it the stable interviewer: alright besides the barn did you ever have a special place where you'd milk the cows outside 364: the cow pen interviewer: uh where do you keep hogs and pigs 364: keep them in the uh hog pen interviewer: alright does this have a shelter or is it open 364: it's open {NS} interviewer: {NW} how about where we get milk and butter from now what do you call that place? where they make milk and butter now #1 uh where # 364: #2 the dairy # interviewer: alright uh it asks you if the word dairy has any other meanings for you 364: dairy uh I wouldn't I'd think not interviewer: alright it refers to uh maybe a place where people used to keep their milk and butter before they had milk and butter did you call that a dairy where they kept milk and butter? to keep it cool? 364: mm no we usually we used to put it in the spring if we had no spring we put it in the well I helped cool my milk in the well interviewer: okay 364: open well not the dug wells interviewer: okay 364: but the usually in the spring interviewer: what do you call a place around a barn where you let cows mules and other animals walk around 364: barn yard interviewer: what do you call the place where you let them go out to graze 364: pasture interviewer: is it fenced or not 364: it is {NS} interviewer: uh I know you've raised cotton hadn't you 364: oh yes interviewer: what kind of work do you do when you raise cotton what are some of the terms 364: uh well you after planting you e- e- uh you chop it so m- so much to do plow it up plow it and uh {NW} ne- when it's ripe you pick it interviewer: okay what do you call grass that grows up in a cotton field where you don't want it? 364: {D: flowers} interviewer: {NW} my granddaddy I my other name is Gist do you know the Gist family? 364: Gist? No interviewer: my granddaddy Gist used to say that the only way you could get rid of Johnson grass was to move off and leave 364: #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: we that applies to b- Bermuda it don't for Johnson grass sitting there s- sm- Bermuda interviewer: cotton and corn grow in a what? 364: field interviewer: how about tobacco 364: uh it grows in a field interviewer: #1 okay what things would you say were grown in a patch? # 364: #2 too # interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # patch a small plot of of land interviewer: #1 that's different from a field # 364: #2 yeah smaller # smaller interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 yeah # interviewer: how about a lot? lot? well that's 364: about the same as a patch interviewer: alright what kind of fences do you have around yards and gardens some of the different kinds of fences we're talking about a pretty fence now that you put around the flowers maybe to keep the chickens out 364: net wire wh- what I was saying interviewer: okay what about one that's made out of little strips of wood? 364: palings interviewer: and what kind of fence uh wire fence that you might catch your pants on if you try to climb over what do you call that fence? it's wire and has little sticky things on it 364: barbed wire interviewer: what do you call the kind of fence made out of split rail that you lay zig zag 364: mm that's a regular fence interviewer: okay when you set up a barb wire fence you have to dig holes for the what? 364: posts interviewer: alright what do you call just one of them? 364: hickory interviewer: just one of those that you dig a hole for 364: panels interviewer: okay what do you call a fence or a wall made out of loose rock that you might take out of a field? you go out and gather up some loose rock in a field and build a fence out of it what would you call that? that kind of fence 364: I m- I'd call it a stone fence interviewer: okay what term would you use in describing your wife's best dishes? 364: uh china interviewer: alright did you ever see a egg made out of china? 364: yes interviewer: what do you do with it? 364: nest egg {NW} a nest egg interviewer: okay uh what would you use to carry water in? 364: pail interviewer: would it be made out of wood or metal? 364: either interviewer: okay what d- would you use to carry milk in? 364: it'd be a #1 pail # interviewer: #2 alright is there any difference between a bucket and a pail? # 364: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 364: no interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 no # interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # interviewer: what kind of bucket might you keep in a kitchen to throw scraps for the pigs in? 364: a slop bucket interviewer: okay what do you fry eggs in? 364: frying pan interviewer: what's it made out of? {NS} 364: uh {NS} s- they're made of steel a frying pan interviewer: What did they used to be made out of? 364: #1 yeah # interviewer: #2 old black ones # 364: uh iron interviewer: alright uh what what was something that was big and black and used to have it out in the back yard you used it for to heat water to boil your clothes in? 364: that's the wash pot interviewer: okay would you use it for anything else besides boiling clothes in? 364: yeah heating water if uh {X} like that interviewer: okay uh 364: {NW} interviewer: uh you call it a pot would you also call it a kettle? 364: yes interviewer: what do you call a container that you put flowers in to look pretty? 364: uh flower pot interviewer: how about if it's uh just a smaller one a glass one you wouldn't call it a pot like that one with those flowers in it what would you call that? 364: vase interviewer: okay what are the eating utensils that you set at each plate when you're setting the table for supper? 364: plate interviewer: alright, what else? 364: knife and fork interviewer: okay if you serve steak and it wasn't very tender you might have to put ki- some kind of special steak something by the plate what would you put 364: cup and saucer interviewer: no something to cut the steak with 364: oh knife interviewer: #1 different kind of knife though than the regular knife that you put on the t- # 364: #2 yeah # steak knife interviewer: okay if the dishes are all dirty you'd say it's almost supper time before we can have supper we've got to have some clean dishes somebody's got to 364: wash #1 dishes {NW} # interviewer: #2 okay {NW} # after your wife washes the di- dishes then what does she do with them? 364: dry them interviewer: okay how about in between washing and drying? 364: rinse them interviewer: okay what do you call the cloth or the rag you use to wash dishes? 364: we call it the dish rag interviewer: okay what do you call the one that you use to dry dishes 364: drying cloth interviewer: what do you call a small square cloth that you use to wash your face? 364: I didn't get #1 that # interviewer: #2 small cloth that you use to wash your face with # {NS} 364: a face um you- you- it's a cloth? interviewer: yes sir 364: oh a wash cloth interviewer: okay and after bathing what do you use do dry yourself off with? 364: uh bath towel interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: what's the thing called the water pipe on the kitchen sink that you use to #1 turn water on # 364: #2 faucet # a faucet you say it was so cold out last night that our water pipes froze interviewer: and then what 364: busted interviewer: okay people used to buy flour in a big container what was it called? 364: a barrel interviewer: {NW} what did molasses come in when you to buy it in large quantities 364: mm we c- also I've seen it in barrels and kegs interviewer: okay how about lard? what was it called in large quantities? 364: lard interviewer: yes sir 364: {D: hands} interviewer: how about a stand? a stand of lard 364: stand of lard yeah #1 yeah # interviewer: #2 okay # 364: that's that's a stand of lard interviewer: okay what do you use if you've got a little bitty bottle and you want to pour something in it from a #1 bigger bottle # 364: #2 funnel # I'd use a funnel interviewer: what do you use to make the horses go faster when you're riding in a buggy? 364: whip interviewer: uh if you bought fruit at the store the man might put them in what? {NS} 364: bag interviewer: okay uh 364: {NW} interviewer: how would a very large sack a- a very large quantity of sugar packaged you bought a lot of sugar what would you call it? 364: uh interviewer: a fairly large quantity 364: {D: I} well it the- let's see a large quantity now of sugar would co- I have seen it in barrels a barrel of sugar w- we used to used to get it in barrels interviewer: how about fifty pounds of flour? would that come 364: fifty pounds interviewer: yes sir 364: yeah we'd it wouldn't be a that wouldn't be a barrel fifty pounds interviewer: okay what is there do you make a difference in what you call a sack that's made out of paper and one that's called out of- made out of material? made out of cloth 364: I'd call one a cloth sack and one a paper sack interviewer: but you'd call both sack 364: sacks interviewer: #1 alright # 364: #2 yeah # interviewer: what do you call a bag or a sack that potatoes come shipped in 364: uh interviewer: or maybe feed or seed what kind of bag is that that it comes in? 364: uh {NS} {X} {NS} interviewer: made out of a little 'bout like mesh material {NS} 364: croker sack interviewer: Okay 364: croker sack interviewer: is that the same thing as a tow sack? 364: yes #1 a tow # interviewer: #2 okay # 364: sack a croker #1 sack {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # I never heard it called anything but a tow sack and what else did you #1 call it # 364: #2 croker # croker sack interviewer: croker #1 I never heard it called that # 364: #2 croker sack # you haven't heard of that? interviewer: #1 no sir # 364: #2 well # interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # now in- in- in- in uh in different places you'll se- uh give me a tow sack now maybe at some other place say give me croker sack interviewer: how do you spell that that you're calling that? 364: I think it's spelled I think it begins with a K I'm not certain though interviewer: I just never heard the term before I that'd be a good one #1 I don't I don't know that # 364: #2 yeah croker sack {NW} oh yeah # interviewer: what do you call the amount of corn you take to the mill at one time to be ground 364: kern interviewer: uh what about the amount of wood you can carry amount of wood you can carry what do you call that 364: well now that's different terms sometimes you call it a pack of wood and a armful of wood uh {NW} interviewer: when the light turns out an el- an electric lamp you might you'd have to put in a new what? 364: bulb interviewer: okay when you carry the washing out to hang it up on the line what do you carry it out in? 364: uh {NS} {D: it be a} clothes ba- clothes bag or {NW} interviewer: she's helping 364: clothes basket interviewer: #1 yeah {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # interviewer: what do nails come in 364: kegs interviewer: what runs around a barrel to hold the wood in place? 364: that's the hoop interviewer: what do you put in the top of the bottle to keep it from spilling out? 364: that's the cork stopper interviewer: okay what do you put in your mouth and {D: row} it back and forth to play 364: blow in it? interviewer: #1 yes sir the a musical instrument # 364: #2 oh that's # a french harp interviewer: okay what about one that you hole between your teeth and you {D: plunk it} 364: the old jew's harp interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: uh what do you pound nails with 364: hammer interviewer: if you have a wagon and two horses what's the long wooden piece called between the horses? 364: the wagon tongue interviewer: if you have a horse pulling a buggy before you hitch him you have to back him in between what? 364: the shafts interviewer: uh for the parts of the wheel you start with the inside the hub and the spokes that would be in the what? 364: the felloe interviewer: now wh- when you speak of felloe wh- do you mean just the individual piece with two spoke holes or all those pieces combined 364: I- I uh either one it- now some some felloes are solid we call them solid felloes the don't only two pieces cause they're solid felloe it uh they joins in the in the middle that's uh they're more more often seen in buggys but now wagons usually carry uh two spokes each sp- each piece has two spokes but I have seen them in wagon wheels solid felloes {NS} interviewer: uh on a buggy the thing the traces come back to in order to hook on what's that called 364: the trace interviewer: okay uh on a wagon you'd have two horses and each one has a singletree what do you a thing that #1 both {X} # 364: #2 doubletree # interviewer: what would you say somebody's doing when he's filling up his wagon at the wood lot wood lot taking it to his house and filling it up again? 364: hauling wood interviewer: okay uh if there was a log across the road you'd say I tied a rope to it and 364: uh tied a rope to the log? interviewer: yes sir and then did what to it? 364: drug it out interviewer: okay uh what did you break the ground with in the spring? 364: cutting plow interviewer: okay after you've plowed what do you use #1 to break ground # 364: #2 {X} # interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: what is it that the wheel of the wagon fit on to? 364: the wheels of a wagon? on the axle interviewer: okay what do you call an X-shaped frame that you lay a log across to chop into stove wood 364: a chopping block interviewer: uh what do you call an A-shaped frame that you use to lay boards ac make a table for a church supper? {NW} something like this {NS} 364: you lay what on them? interviewer: It says you lay uh boards across maybe to make a table for a church supper and you've got these things shaped like an A what do you call those? 364: I wouldn't hardly get that I interviewer: okay how about uh you ever heard anybody call a saw buck the X-shaped thing is that a saw buck? Is that called a saw buck? 364: buck oh yes yes #1 yes # interviewer: #2 well is that the same thing as a saw horse? # 364: yes some some call them a saw horse and some a uh buck horse buck yeah buck horse interviewer: okay are they both X-shaped 364: #1 yes yes # interviewer: #2 like this? Okay # 364: #1 {NS} # interviewer: #2 # uh you straighten your hair with a comb and a what? 364: brush interviewer: uh you sharpen a razor strap I mean a razor on something a leather what do you call that? 364: razor strap interviewer: okay, what do you put in a revolver? in a gun 364: cartridges interviewer: what do call the playground equipment that children play on where one child balances the other? 364: see saw interviewer: {NW} what do you call a limber plank that's fixed at both ends that children used to come up and ju- come jump up and down on 364: spring board interviewer: there might be a plank that's anchored in the middle to a post or a stump and chil- {NS} a long rope that you tie to a tree limb and put a seat on it what do you call that? 364: {X} interviewer: #1 a long rope maybe you tie it up on a tree limb and put a seat on it for children to play on # 364: #2 oh # swing yes {X} interviewer: what would you call a container for coal that you keep near a stove or a fire place? 364: container the scuttle interviewer: okay what runs from the stove to the chimney 364: that's the stove pipe interviewer: okay uh what do you have outside that you move things around in a little small vehicle that you hold on to and move things around in 364: uh {NS} ah what would I call that #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # maybe you'd carry bricks in it 364: uh huh I know what you're talking about but I just can't think of the name #1 {NW} # aux: #2 wheel barrow # 364: #1 # aux: #2 # interviewer: a wheelbarrow 364: well yes a wheelbarrow but uh I was thinking you's talking about a we call them a trucks really two handled trucks you know interviewer: yeah well I've never heard them called trucks but that's one of the names here that's something they say 364: #1 yeah # interviewer: #2 called by # 364: well uh lots of times y- you go to these uh warehouses they have little trucks you know interviewer: yeah 364: load them up and push them interviewer: #1 like you put maybe a refrigerator on # 364: #2 yeah yeah # interviewer: {NS} what do you call a thing that you sharpen a knife on? 364: uh whet stone interviewer: uh the kind of stone that turns around that's fixed on a stand 364: uh that's uh grinding st- ro- stone interviewer: okay uh if you didn't when you when you went from a wagon to a motorized vehicle what did you call it if you don't drive a wagon you drive a what? 364: car interviewer: okay if something is squeaking to lubricate it you have to do what to it 364: oil it interviewer: okay if I say not oil but this hard stuff that you put on it what do you call that? 364: I call that {X} axle grease interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 if it's a # wagon interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: if grease got all over your hand's what would you say 364: {NW} oily I'd say my hand's is greasy #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 okay # uh what is it that you use to burn in lamps 364: coal oil interviewer: #1 Is there another name? # 364: #2 uh kerosene # kerosene interviewer: okay what might you call a makeshift lamp that you make with a rag a bottle and kerosene It'd be a homemade lamp you'd make it with a rag and a bottle and kerosene 364: torch {NS} interviewer: inside the tire of a of a car what is that? inside the tire of a car 364: inner tube interviewer: uh if you've just built a boat and were going to put it in the water what would you say you're going to do to it? 364: I'd say I was gonna launch my boat interviewer: what kind of boat would you go fishing in on a small lake? 364: row boat interviewer: what would you call one with a flat bottom 364: hmm well that c- that could be a flat bottom uh boat too a row interviewer: okay a row boat could have a round or a flat #1 bottom # 364: #2 {X} either one # interviewer: if you were going to the next village and I said will you be home today you might say no I 364: If you're gonna visit? interviewer: you were gone go maybe to town I said and I asked you are you going to be home today and you'd say no I 364: I'd say I- I- I can't make it I won't be back in time or no just interviewer: #1 just flat no # 364: #2 no just flat no {NW} # interviewer: he said he was going to get some cake and you'd say uh now I'm 364: too interviewer: okay if a child has just learned to dress himself and the mother brings in the clothes she'd lay them down and say what? 364: put them on put on your clothes interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 okay {NW} # interviewer: If I asked you if you think Mr Nixon is going to be elected again you might say no but 364: uh I would say th- well I- I don't know what term I'd use for Nixon interviewer: #1 {NW} I chose a bad name didn't I {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # I'd like to say I'd like to say I'd rather not say #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: #1 {X} # interviewer: #2 {X} # if you think Governor Wallace is going to be elected again you'd say no but 364: #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: {NW} ah let's not {X} #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: {NW} interviewer: you might say no but I know a lot of people who think he is 364: yeah oh yes {NW} interviewer: if you meet a little boy on the street and he's afraid of you you might tell him that you were not going to hurt him by saying don't cry I little boy's afraid of you on the street and you'd say don't cry I 364: I'm your friend or interviewer: alright you might tell a boy send your dog over here I'm not gonna 364: hurt him interviewer: I just want what? 364: to play with him interviewer: alright if you've been having an argument with somebody and you wanted to ask him if you didn't think you were right about this you'd say well I'm right and then what would you say? 364: I'd say no you are not interviewer: {NW} okay you'd say well I'm right aren't I? Or I'm right am I not? How would you ask him? 364: I'd say you're not right {NS} interviewer: uh if someone thanks you for a ride into town you might say don't mention it we 364: uh interviewer: you gave somebody a ride and thanked you and you say oh don't mention it we 364: I- I mm you're I would say you're welcome or uh interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 yeah # interviewer: di- you might say well don't mention it we were going to town anyway 364: well yes yes interviewer: uh if you were talking about the old age when everything was better than it is now you might lean back and say 364: we used to interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # we used {NW} interviewer: you'd say those were the good old days 364: yeah interviewer: {NW} if somebody asks was that a- was that you I saw in town yesterday you might say no it 364: wasn't me interviewer: okay do you ever hear anybody use uh like if somebody says how are you instead of saying um how are you have you ever heard anybody say how be you? how be you? 364: I have heard it sure I have heard interviewer: #1 is that an old expression do you # 364: #2 it's # an old expression interviewer: #1 and it means the same as how are you # 364: #2 same # how are you interviewer: uh if a woman wants to buy a dress of a certain color she might take along a little square cloth to use as what? 364: sample interviewer: uh a little girl has on a very becoming dress you might say my what a 364: pretty little dress interviewer: #1 okay {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: what might your wife wear over her dress in the kitchen? 364: her apron interviewer: to sign your name in ink you use what? 364: pen interviewer: to hold a baby's diaper in place you use 364: pin interviewer: okay uh soup you buy usually comes in what? 364: {X} interviewer: when you buy soup what does it usually come in? when you buy it at the store, soup 364: uh box interviewer: alright it but if it's liquid what would it come in? instead of a bottle? 364: a a- a s- soup? interviewer: soup that you eat 364: #1 oh soup soup {X} # interviewer: #2 like campbell's {NW} # 364: if it if it ca- uh a can interviewer: #1 alright # 364: #2 it'd be in a can # interviewer: what kind of can? 364: tin can interviewer: alright and a dime is worth how many cents? 364: ten interviewer: what do you put on when you go out in the winter time to keep you warm? 364: a normal coat interviewer: okay you'd say that jacket has fancy buttons 364: on the front interviewer: okay what times uh sometimes you wear a suit in between the uh the coat and the shirt there's another piece what do you #1 call that # 364: #2 it'd be a # vest {NS} #1 {NW} # interviewer: #2 {NW} # interviewer: a suit consists of a coat and a vest and what else 364: trousers interviewer: do you any other names 364: pants interviewer: okay what do you wear when you're working around the barn or the shop? {NS} instead of pants? {NS} 364: th- th- they'd be overalls interviewer: #1 Okay # 364: #2 {NW} # overalls interviewer: uh if you had just come home from work and your wife said about a package name delivered there the delivery boy from Jones store just 364: just dropped it off interviewer: okay if it was the wrong package Jones might call up and say please 364: return it interviewer: okay that coat won't fit this year but last year it 364: it {NS} won't fit this year but last year it was a nice fit interviewer: okay if your old clothes wore out you'd have to buy a what? 364: new suit interviewer: okay 364: if they're available interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: if you stuff a lot of things in your pockets like hickory nuts what does it make them do? 364: rattle interviewer: {NW} how about what do you call those that makes them stick out like this? {NS} 364: you- your pocket? interviewer: yes sir 364: uh bulge interviewer: #1 alright # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: #1 uh # 364: #2 {NS} # interviewer: if you bought a new shirt and your wife put in in hot wer- hot water hot what might it do? 364: draw up interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 # interviewer: if a girl spends all her time in the mirror making herself look pretty what would you say she likes to do? 364: like to primp interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: uh what do you call something you carry your money in? 364: uh if I had any I'd carry it in my pocket book interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: if it was small and a woman carried it what would you call it 364: purse interviewer: okay what does a woman wear around her wrist like this 364: bracelet interviewer: and around her neck? 364: uh interviewer: #1 maybe a lot of little things strung together # 364: #2 yeah e- uh # interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # oh that's I know interviewer: you string 364: necklace interviewer: #1 alright a necklace # 364: #2 necklace # mm-hmm interviewer: uh #1 but some of them that are just be- uh huh that's what I wanted {NW} # 364: #2 beads beads{NW} # interviewer: what do men wear to hold up their trousers 364: uh belt a interviewer: #1 alright, instead of a belt what # 364: #2 a uh suspend- # suspenders interviewer: what do you hold over your head when it rains 364: hat umbrella interviewer: okay what's the last thing you put on a bed the fancy top cover when you make up your bed called? 364: uh bed spread interviewer: uh at the head of the bed you put your head on what? 364: pillow interviewer: uh do you remember using anything at the head of a bed that was about twice as long as a pillow? 364: we called them bolsters {NS} interviewer: okay {NS} what would you call a bed cover that's old fashioned and hand pieced out of scraps 364: quilt interviewer: #1 what would you call a makeshift sleeping place down on the floor that children like to sleep on # 364: #2 I call it a # pallet interviewer: #1 okay {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # interviewer: you say oh we expect a big crop from that field because the soil is very 364: rich interviewer: another word for rich soil 364: fertile interviewer: okay the flat low land that you find along a stream of water what do you call that? 364: call we call it the bottom interviewer: okay uh what do you call a low lying grassland? or a field that might be good for nothing other than raising grass clover or alfalfa? 364: well I wouldn't know whether to call it a meadow or a or interviewer: that's fine okay 364: #1 wh- # interviewer: #2 what # 364: meadow I would call it interviewer: okay how about some land that has water standing in it for a long part of time what would you call that w- land that had water standing in it 364: oh that wouldn't be a pond would it? interviewer: no it would be uh mostly land but just co- just slightly covered with water that stood there and got sort of rank 364: we we call it uh low land uh interviewer: okay and this I know that down in like Louisiana they call it a swamp do you call it that here? 364: well yes we we- we- we- I have I have known of land we'd call swampy interviewer: okay 364: swampy lands interviewer: does it have does a swamp a swamp have trees in it sometimes 364: sometimes interviewer: okay 364: {NW} interviewer: uh there's a place along the sea that's salt hay grows do you know what that's called? 364: where what grows? interviewer: where salt hay grows along the sea something like a swamp do you know the word marsh? 364: I know the word marsh but I didn't know it other th- that uh #1 definition # interviewer: #2 well do you # call something else around here a marsh? do you think it just applies to the sea along the sea? 364: no sometime I have seen marshy we call it marshy land soft wet land we call it marsh marshy interviewer: mm-kay 364: oh that ground is marshy its interviewer: {NW} uh what different kinds of soil do you have in the field if it was part sand and part clay what would you call it? 364: part sand and part clay uh {NS} we have the term we use black land clay land and uh sandy land interviewer: alright 364: w- interviewer: how about loam 364: loam? interviewer: loam do you ever use that term loam L-O-A-M ? {NS} 364: I know the word but I don't know I wouldn't know how to know reference to anything about loam I- I know the word but interviewer: #1 only time I know that word is like you can buy loam or peat moss or something you know like in a garden store for plants but I don't know if # 364: #2 oh uh yes yes # I don't I don't know where where I I have no memory of uh contacting anything that I- would be called loam interviewer: okay {NS} #1 uh suppose you had some land that was a little bit swampy and you wanted to put it to cultivation what would you do l- to the land to {X} # 364: #2 ditch it # interviewer: okay uh would you call what would you call the ditch that you dug anything besides a ditch? 364: mm drain interviewer: alright uh {NS} a canal do you call them a canal around here? 364: huh? interviewer: would you call it a canal? around here or is that a bigger ditch? 364: bigger ditch that'd be to- too big for around here interviewer: okay {NW} 364: go out in Arkansas around you'd find canals {NW} interviewer: uh what do you call a a little stream like the {D: seeder} down here 364: I call it a a- branch interviewer: alright one a little bit bigger is called what? 364: creek interviewer: alright and then still bigger? 364: uh would be a r- river interviewer: alright what about a deep narrow valley that a stream of water might cut in the woods what would you call that? or a field about ten feet deep and ten feet across a s- a deep narrow valley that would be cut in it what would you call that valley? 364: {NS} I w- I don't think I can interviewer: I know you called it this before a gully? 364: yeah #1 oh yes you {X} # interviewer: #2 {X} # 364: I was thinking about a {X} maybe carrying water interviewer: oh okay how about a ravine is that the same 364: same thing it's a r- ravine interviewer: oh a wash wouldn't be as big as a gully 364: no no wash would be e- through the field m- interviewer: a e- a very small rise in land like if I'm going down the road and just come up on a small rise 364: tha- uh we'd call it a hill interviewer: alright how about one bigger than a hill? 364: uh well it'd be a we'd call it a mountain interviewer: alright Uh what's the rocky side of a mountain that drops off sharp called? 364: bluff interviewer: okay up in the mountains where the road goes across in a low place what would you call that? like you'd be going up the mountain and the road would go across in a low place in the mountain what would you call that 364: uh