Interviewer: Thought it'd be called 364: Mm-hmm Interviewer: Instead of a gravel road what kind 364: Black top Interviewer: alright now uh is that is is a black top and a paved road the same thing? 364: Same thing. Interviewer: okay um what kind of uh materials do they use to make black top out of? 364: Asphalt. Interviewer: okay um is asphalt the same thing as tar? 364: mm I wouldn't think s- yes, yes, just put it yes Interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 same thing that's what the # it's all a mixture. Interviewer: and the little, the little pebbles that are put in that black top what do you call those? 364: I call them it'd be the the gravel. Interviewer: okay uh what would you call a little road that goes off the main road? 364: Branch road. Interviewer: If you come to a man's farm and you uh come to a turn off going down to his house what do you call that? 364: um I don't know we'd use so many simple terms I wouldn't know which Interviewer: Okay what about a track you drive your cattle down when you carry them to pasture? 364: The path. {NW} Cow path. Interviewer: alright is a lane #1 the same thing? # 364: #2 lane # yeah lane or cow path Interviewer: uh something along the side of the street for people to walk on 364: s- the side walk Interviewer: alright two boys are walking across a field and one of them saw a crow in the field eating the farmer's corn he reached down and picked up what to chase the crow off? 364: Rock. Interviewer: alright, what would you say he did when he picked up the rock? 364: I'd say he threw it. Interviewer: alright, okay he'd s- he'd get back and he'd tell the farmer I picked up a rock and 364: Threw it at your {D: cobs} Interviewer: {NW} uh some little boys they say chucked? 364: Yeah chucked {D: cob.} Interviewer: Alright {NS} if someone came to visit your wife and you met the person in the yard you might say she's 364: in the house Interviewer: alright she's in the kitchen? 364: yeah, could be Interviewer: alright uh if you put uh milk in your coffee some people like it milk that way and some people like it other now how do you refe- how do you refer to the difference in #1 In that # 364: #2 I'd # call it well we call it uh black coffee. Interviewer: is that with or without? 364: Without. Interviewer: alright. 364: Without the cream. Interviewer: And the other way you just say with cream? 364: Yes. Interviewer: okay I like more cream then I do coffee 364: Well, well I like either #1 both of them # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: {X} cream in my coffee and sugar. Interviewer: I do too if someone's not going away from you, you might say he's coming straight 364: To me. Interviewer: alright, what's another word for to me? coming to me what's another word for that? coming this dir- 364: #1 towards # Interviewer: #2 direction # 364: me. Interviewer: okay later on you were telling another friend about something you say I wasn't looking for them I just sort of ran I really wasn't looking for them I just sort of ran 364: Ran into them. Interviewer: okay if a child is given the same name that his father has you say that they named the child 364: Junior. Interviewer: Alright, would you say they named him for 364: for him Interviewer: for his father? #1 or after his # 364: #2 after his # father. Interviewer: good 364: yeah {NW} Interviewer: {NW} uh the kind of animal that barks 364: Dog. Interviewer: Uh what would you say to your dog if you wanted it to attack another dog or a person? 364: I'd say sic 'em. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: If he's a little old mixed breed sort of worthless and small and noisy dog what do you call it? 364: {NW} {X} #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # uh how about a cur? 364: a what? Interviewer: Cur, C-U-R you ever heard a dog 364: Oh yes Interviewer: #1 {X} # 364: #2 yeah. # Interviewer: or a mongrel? 364: Uh-huh. Interviewer: Those words mean about the same thing? 364: Yes uh in Interviewer: just a sort of little useless dog 364: Useless dog uh-huh uh Interviewer: I mean one that doesn't do much but bark 364: uh y- you mean a kind of dog that useless or something? Interviewer: Is that the same thing as a mongrel? 364: #1 yes but a nuisance # Interviewer: #2 I don't know # 364: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # uh if someone insisted on going inside the fence where a watch dog was kept, you might say you better watch out or you'll get 364: bit {NW} Interviewer: uh in a herd of cattle what do you call the male? 364: Bull. Interviewer: okay, what do you call them when there are women around? you still call them a bull around wo- 364: Oh yes. Interviewer: okay, what do women call him? 364: Male. Interviewer: okay 364: {NW} Interviewer: uh the kind of uh um animal that you keep for milk 364: That's the milk cow. Interviewer: okay uh in grand my grandfather's time there were kinds of animals that u- that were used to pull heavy loads besides horses what were they? 364: Oxen. Interviewer: okay, what else? 364: Steer. Interviewer: uh how about something that resembles a horse? that looked like a horse? 364: Mule. Interviewer: And two hitched together would be a what? 364: Team. Interviewer: And four harnessed together would be called 364: Spiked team. Interviewer: A what? 364: A spiked team Interviewer: A spite? 364: Spiked spiked team. Interviewer: How do you spell the first word? 364: S-P-I K-E-D. #1 spiked # Interviewer: #2 spiked team # #1 Oh, okay okay {NW} # 364: #2 spiked team {NW} # Interviewer: What's the little cow called when it's first born? 364: We call it a calf. Interviewer: What's a female calf called? 364: Calf? Interviewer: A female calf is it does it have a different name than a male calf? 364: No. #1 they're both calves # Interviewer: #2 they're both calves # alright good if you have a cow by the name of Daisy and she was expecting a calf, you might say daisy is going to 364: {X} Interviewer: Going to what? 364: {D: crushing} Interviewer: {X} 364: {X} Interviewer: okay 364: th- that's that's what we call it. Interviewer: #1 Okay {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # {NW} Interviewer: uh What do you call a male horse? 364: Male horse? Interviewer: Yes sir. {NS} 364: Well I {NS} be either be a horse or a stud. Interviewer: Alright, did women use that word years ago? 364: I doubt it {NW} Interviewer: Would men have said that in the presence of a woman, a stud? 364: Uh hardly. #1 you'd hardly say it # Interviewer: #2 hardly alright # what would it be called then instead of a stud? 364: {NW} he called it uh Interviewer: Is that a stallion? 364: Yes stallion. Interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 it'd be a # stallion. Interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 that uh # be the proper way #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Uh riding animals are called what? 364: Saddle horse. Interviewer: A female is called a 364: Filly uh Interviewer: alright, a female horse or male or female is still called a 364: uh colt Interviewer: okay is that that's just a young horse? 364: Yes. Interviewer: is a mare which one is that e- either either one #1 that's either one # 364: #2 yeah # A filly is a is a uh is a female filly Interviewer: okay 364: is a young ho- young horse. Interviewer: Well what do you what what's the difference in a say just a horse and a mare? 364: well uh the uh w- we'd call {NW} we'd call a young horse we we'd just ca- say he's a young horse but if it's uh a female we say a young filly. Interviewer: okay and what which ones did you call mares? 364: Mares. Interviewer: Yes sir. 364: Oh that's a grown that's your grown Interviewer: Is that a female horse that's grown? 364: Yeah. Interviewer: I see 364: mm-hmm Interviewer: when she's if its a female and it's young its a filly if it's a female and it's grown mare? 364: Mare. Interviewer: Okay {NW} 364: {NW} Interviewer: Uh if you didn't know how to ride a horse you'd say I have never 364: Ridden. Interviewer: Okay if you couldn't stay on you'd say I fell 364: Yes I if I couldn't stay on he threw me. Interviewer: Alright would you say I fell off or fell off of 364: I'd say I fell off that horse. Interviewer: Okay if uh if a little child went to sleep in bed and found himself on the floor in the morning he'd say I must've 364: Fell off. #1 fell out of bed # Interviewer: #2 okay {NW} # The things that you put on a horse's feet to protect them from the road? 364: Oh that's a shoe. Interviewer: okay the parts of the horse's feet that you put the shoes on to 364: Hoof. {NS} Interviewer: How about more than one foot? 364: His shod. Interviewer: Okay you call one a hoof what do you call more than one hoof? 364: His I call them his feet. Interviewer: you don't- do you call them hooves or are they still hoofs 364: They're still they're hoofs. Interviewer: Hoofs H-O-O-F #1 S okay # 364: #2 S # Hoofs. {NW} Interviewer: uh what do you call the game that you play with horse's shoes 364: Well pitching horse shoes. Interviewer: okay what is a male sheep called 364: Male sheep? Interviewer: Yes sir. don't raise many sheep around here 364: No no but I know a male sheep is a ram. Interviewer: Alright would you call that uh would use a ram in front of women several years ago would you use that term? 364: Oh yes yes that's a Interviewer: What do you call a female sheep? 364: Yew. Interviewer: Alright. What do they have on their backs that you raise them for? 364: Oh the wool. Interviewer: #1 okay {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: um the the hog male hog that you breed with the sow what do you call him? 364: Boar. Interviewer: okay Would you use that word in front of women several years ago? 364: No. Interviewer: What would you call them in front of ladies then? #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # I I don't know we we'd u- we'd we wouldn't use the word boar we uh we'd use uh s- male hog. Interviewer: Okay 364: {D: Usually} We'd say Interviewer: what would you call a male hog that you'd altered? 364: We'd call him. uh mm Interviewer: I hear this sometimes I think this is the term I hear like on the noon news they'll tell the farm news and they call them is it barrow a barrow? 364: Yeah barrow. Interviewer: Is that a male hog that's been altered? 364: Yeah a ma- uh barrow. Interviewer: okay 364: Barrow {NS} I was trying to think of the name but I cou- Interviewer: {NW} I thought that probably meant 364: yeah that's that's the barrow Interviewer: okay uh when uh talking about hogs, when one's first born what's it called 364: pig Interviewer: when it's a little older 364: shoat Interviewer: alright, how old does it have to be or how big does it have to be to call it a shoat? 364: {D: it would be from} a shoat after he gets uh uh I would say eighty to a hundred pound would be a shoat Interviewer: okay, what is an unbred female hog called? 364: Sow Interviewer: Okay uh what do hogs have on their backs? The stiff hair on their backs, what's that called? 364: The the hair? Interviewer: Yes sir. 364: Mm Interviewer: You just call it #1 hair? # 364: #2 Hair, yeah that's right. # Interviewer: Is it bristle? You ever call it bristle? 364: Well yeah in certain places it'd be bristle the- the on it's back to his neck would be his bristles Interviewer: Alright, that's what stands up when he gets #1 mad {NW} # 364: #2 yeah yeah # Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Yeah he raise his bristles from to his tail Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Uh the big teeth that a hog has, what do you 364: Tusks. Interviewer: Uh how how about an elephant the big teeth an elephant has is that the same? Would you call that the same thing? 364: No that'd be his trunks. Interviewer: Alright now that's this but underneath his trunk he has these big teeth and you call those 364: Tusks. #1 Tusks # Interviewer: #2 Tusks too? # 364: Uh-huh Interviewer: Okay uh the thing that you put food in for a hog what do you call that? 364: Trough. #1 hog trough # Interviewer: #2 okay if you # you had three or four of them what would you say? how do you refer to the plural of three or four of trough? 364: well you just uh a- a trough could be a quantity of one or a dozen. Interviewer: Okay but if you had more than one trough #1 do you call it # 364: #2 {X} # Well I {D: still a} troughs Interviewer: troughs that's what 364: troughs. #1 uh huh # Interviewer: #2 okay # Uh do you have any names for a hogs that's grown up wild? 364: mm nothing but a wild hog. Interviewer: Alright if you had a pig and you didn't want him to grow up to be a boar what would you say you were going to do with him? 364: Castrate it. Interviewer: Alright would you use that term for a horse? 364: Yes. Interviewer: Or a calf? 364: Yes. Interviewer: How about a tom cat? 364: Same. Interviewer: #1 Same? # 364: #2 Right, # {X} Interviewer: Would that be the same term? 364: Same term. Interviewer: Okay. Uh the noise made by a calf when it's being weaned what do you say that calf began to 364: Uh we call it bawl. #1 something {NW} # Interviewer: #2 okay # Then the gentle noise that a cow makes when she's feeding? 364: Feeding? Interviewer: Yes sir what noise what do you call that little gentle noise that she makes when she's eating, feeding? 364: I wouldn't I wouldn't know Interviewer: Is, do you know the term low? Calf began to low? 364: Low? Yeah oh yes that's but that that is applied mostly to a cow. Interviewer: #1 e- I see okay # 364: #2 lowing # Interviewer: How about the gentle noise that a horse makes? 364: {D: snaw} Interviewer: {X} how about whinny 364: #1 Whinny # Interviewer: #2 Whinny # The word whinny 364: Yeah. Interviewer: W-H-I-N-N-Y would you say the horse began to whinny? 364: uh {NS} yes yeah nicker I Interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 we- we- # call it nicker. Interviewer: Okay {NW} You've got some horses mules cows and so forth and when you're getting hun- when they're getting hungry you have to go out and do what? 364: Feed them. Interviewer: And what do you call feeding them? Feed the cattle or the what? 364: The well either one feed the cows or feed the cattle or feed the horse or the horses. Interviewer: Alright if you've got both cows and horses what do you call them collectively? 364: uh Feed my cattle or feed my horse or feed- feed up Interviewer: #1 alright # 364: #2 I'd say. # {NW} Interviewer: Do you ever call, refer to them as stock? Feed the stock? #1 If you've got both cows and horses? # 364: #2 yeah # Feed my feed my horse my stock. Interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 yeah # Interviewer: If you're going to feed hens turkeys geese and so forth do you have any one name for all of them? I'm gonna go out and feed the Would you refer to them individually as as chickens and? 364: I, I guess uh chickens and got to feed my my flock Interviewer: Okay. A hen on a nest of eggs is called what? 364: Sitting. Interviewer: Mm-kay the place where a chicken lives? 364: Uh hen house. Interviewer: Okay. If it's just a little roofed shelter built out in the open for the little chickens to run in out of the rain? 364: Roost uh yeah, chicken roost. Interviewer: How about uh, is there a difference between that and a chicken coop? Chicken coop? What do you, how do you, which do you call that? 364: Confine the chickens in the coop. Interviewer: Okay {NS} Uh When you were a little boy and you and they uh they had a chicken for dinner what piece did you used to fuss over? 364: {NW} We used to fuss over the the the gizzard. Interviewer: The gizzard that's not what I used to fuss over. {NW} The piece I always wanted the piece you always wanted the most Auxiliary: Drum stick {NS} 364: She answered the drum stick but I never did care Interviewer: I didn't either I wanted that piece that we used to break it apart and say we wish on it for luck now what do you call that? 364: We call that the the the wish bone. Interviewer: Okay. 364: {NW} But I Interviewer: You ever, did you use to call it the pulley bone? 364: Pulley bone. Interviewer: Yeah. 364: {X} Interviewer: What do you call the inside parts of a chicken that you eat, the liver the heart and the gizzard? Collectively. {NS} The inside edibles what would you call I don't know this term myself but I thought you might have used it. 364: No I wouldn't. Interviewer: It uh do you know the term harslet? H-A-R-S-L-E-T? 364: Haslets, we used #1 to call them haslets. # Interviewer: #2 Ah okay. # 364: My but I thought that it {D: Well any would apply to} chicken but I I know it in a term used for for hogs I after we killed hogs. Interviewer: But you didn't use it for chicken. 364: No. Interviewer: Okay. 364: I I have never I don't remember using it for chickens. Interviewer: How about the part that you sometimes eat and sometimes stuff sausage in? The part that sometimes out of a hog for instance you cut it up and eat it makes like uh {C: NS} and then sometimes you use it like a tube to stuff sausages in. What's that called? {C: NS} {NS} 364: Uh {D: seems like that} {NS} Interviewer: Is that chitterlings? Auxiliary: Chitterlings {NS} 364: Now say it again. Interviewer: Alright it's a part of of inside part of a say of a hog and sometimes you cut it up to eat but other times you leave it whole and you stuff sausage in it. 364: Oh yes that should be the chitterlings. Interviewer: #1 Okay # 364: #2 {NW} # I didn't get the Interviewer: {NW} 364: didn't get the question right. {NW} Interviewer: Uh lets see if you want to go out to call the cows and you want them to come in, what do you call to them? 364: s- I'd say sook. #1 sook # Interviewer: #2 oh okay # Uh if you want them to stand still while you're milking. 364: Saw. Saw. #1 saw {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # {NW} How about calling a calf? 364: Calf? Interviewer: A calf. 364: calf? Interviewer: A calf. 364: Sook calf sook calf. Interviewer: Alright what do you say to a mule or a horse to make it go left? 364: Go to the left, haw. Interviewer: And to go right? 364: Gee. Interviewer: Okay. What do you call the horses when you want to get them away from the pasture? {NS} 364: {D: cuf cuf} {NS} Interviewer: Uh what do you say to a horse when you want him to to urge him on? 364: Get up. Interviewer: Is that when he's already moving or when he's standing 364: #1 {D: still} # Interviewer: #2 still? # 364: Still. Interviewer: Is there any difference in what you say to him? 364: Yes it'd be a difference in uh {X} And now if he's standing still, you say get up. And if he's uh already moving you wouldn't say get up you'd uh uh Interviewer: You just wouldn't you wouldn't say that to him if he's already moving #1 just when he's standing still. # 364: #2 No no. # He's already he's already moving. Interviewer: #1 don't want to confuse him do you? {NW} # 364: #2 no {NW} # Interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # Interviewer: Uh what do you say to stop him? 364: To what? Interviewer: #1 To stop the horse. # 364: #2 Whoa. # Interviewer: What do you say when you want to back him into a buggy? 364: Back up back back. Interviewer: How do you call hogs to feed them? 364: Uh {NW} Now that hog calling is Interviewer: {NW} 364: So many different ways of calling I, I call mine with beating on the can or something {C: Audio becomes quiet} with a {NW} Interviewer: Okay we use that to {X} You don't use the same words for them that you use to call the cows up? 364: No, no You use sook, sook, sook when calling cows. But for the hogs you use {NW} Interviewer: They don't speak the same language then {NW} 364: they {NW} they usually know the difference #1 too, they're easily # Interviewer: #2 uh you know isn't that strange. # 364: easily trained. Interviewer: Yeah. 364: I'll get out there and just knock on a piece of tin and my hogs come from everywhere. Interviewer: {NW} 364: They know feeding time. {NW} Interviewer: Uh I, we said a while ago there're not many sheep raised around here but do you know what you'd say to a sheep to call it from a pasture? 364: No I I've heard them called but it, it's been so long I forgot what how do they what, what d- {X} {C: name} What do you say when you call sheep? Auxiliary: {X} 364: They, she had came off a farm. Her grandfather used to raise a lot of sheep. Interviewer: I d- I don't know any #1 terms for that # 364: #2 I I don't # I don't either. Interviewer: Okay Auxiliary: {X} Interviewer: How about when you're calling your chickens to feed them? How do you call them? 364: Just call them chicken chick chick chick. Interviewer: Okay uh if you want to get the horses ready to go somewhere you say I got to you're trying to get your horses ready to go somewhere, what do you say you have to do to them? 364: Catch them. Interviewer: #1 Alright now if you catch them what do you do to them? # 364: #2 Catch them. # Saddle them or #1 or harness them harness them # Interviewer: #2 alright uh okay # uh what when you're driving a a horse what do you hold in your hand? 364: A buggy whip a whip. Interviewer: Alright but not the 364: #1 not the reins. # Interviewer: #2 reins. # 364: #1 Reins. # Interviewer: #2 Okay. # Is that what you guide a horse with? 364: Sure. Interviewer: Okay what do you put your feet into when you're riding horseback? 364: Stirrups. Interviewer: Uh if you have two horses the horse on the left is called 364: on the left the lead. The lead horse. Interviewer: Alright. uh If something is not right near at hand you'd say it's just a little 364: Off. Interviewer: Okay do you say it's a little ways off it's a little piece off or 364: Well I would say a little ways, a little piece off. Interviewer: Okay if you've been traveling and not finished your journey you might say that I've got a some way to go before dark how would you express that? You've been traveling and you're not quite there you'd say man before dark I've gotta 364: Lay over uh find a place to s- Interviewer: Okay would you say a long ways to go or a fur piece? 364: I'd say a long ways to go Interviewer: Alright and you don't use the term a fur piece? 364: No. Interviewer: Okay mm If something is very common and you don't have to look for it in a special place you can say that you can find that just about 364: Anywhere. Interviewer: If you slipped on the ice and fell this way you'd say you fell 364: Backwards. Interviewer: And he fell this 364: Sideways. Interviewer: #1 okay {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Uh if if I asked you did you catch any fish you'd say no 364: They wasn't biting. Interviewer: Alright would you say I didn't catch any or I didn't catch one or 364: None. Interviewer: Okay. {NW} Not a one. 364: Not a one. Interviewer: Have you every heard anybody use the word nary? Didn't catch nary a one. 364: I've heard of it but I I never {NW} I never use nary. Interviewer: Well does it mean it means none? #1 Very good, okay. # 364: #2 None, none. # It means that's an old dialect {X} Interviewer: Mm {X} a school boy might say of a scolding teacher why's she blaming me I 364: I ain't done nothing. Interviewer: {NW} That's what they say all the time too. {NW} 364: I ain't done nothing. {NW} And uh by the way she's gonna whip him says don't whip me I ain't done nothing {NW} Interviewer: Someone say someone apologizes for breaking your your yard rake you'd say that's alright, I didn't like it. 364: Didn't like. Interviewer: I didn't like that old rake 364: Wasn't no good. Interviewer: Alright would you say anyhow or no way or at all? 364: Not at all #1 I would say. # Interviewer: #2 Okay. # A crying child might say he was eating candy and he didn't give me 364: None. {NW} Interviewer: {NW] You say now that boy is really spoiled up, when he he's really spoiled, when he grows up, he's liable to have his trouble How would you talk about a boy that you thought might be going to get into trouble? When he grow up? 364: Oh he's Interviewer: {X} What I want is the word for probably what would you say for probably? 364: Probably. Interviewer: He's probably gonna have trouble or you might you probably say probably but have you heard apt as not? Apt is not to have trouble. 364: More {X} Interviewer: Yeah alright does that mean probably? 364: Probably Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 Same thing. # Interviewer: {NW} Uh if you have a a good yield you'd say we raised a big {NS} 364: Uh quantity. Interviewer: Alright uh what are the trees you call that you cut by a plow {C: audio quiet until 23:30} 364: They're {X} Interviewer: Yes sir. Uh if you got rid of all the brush and trees on the land what would you say you did? 364: Cleared it out. Interviewer: Alright the second cutting of clover or grass what do you call the old dry dead la- grass that's left over on the ground in the spring? 364: Well now that would be the mulch a uh I I'm satisfied that's would be the term we'd use it's Interviewer: Alright what would you say the wheat's tied up into? If you tie it up. 364: Tie in uh {NS} well its a just tied tied we called it bundles. Interviewer: Alright is that the same as a {D: sheaf}? 364: Sheaf. {C: mimicking interviewer's pronunciation} Interviewer: Sheaf is that the way you say it? 364: Well we call it yeah, sheaves we call it sheaves. Interviewer: Alright {NW} {X} I know that term just in you know like in hymns bringing in the sheaves. #1 Is that what it is? {NW} # 364: #2 yeah yeah yeah sure sheaves yeah that's {NW} # Interviewer: Uh when you tie, tie your bundles up what do you call that pile? Bundles of wheat that you pile up. 364: Shuck. Interviewer: Alright you say we raised forty something of wheat to an acre what are you talking about? 364: {X} Interviewer: You talking about a quantity of wheat maybe you say I raised so many something 364: #1 Bushels # Interviewer: #2 to an acre # 364: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Okay. # 364: bushels. Interviewer: What do you do with oats to separate the grain from the rest of it? 364: Thrash it. Interviewer: Alright. Uh if you and another man have got to do a job when you told him about it you'd say you and 364: I Interviewer: Alright. uh if you're not speaking to him just talking about him you'd say the job is for 364: It's no I would say I if I'm talking to him? Interviewer: No so you're not talking to him you're talking to somebody else about him who's going to help you over here. 364: Mm Interviewer: You'd say the job is for would you say both of us all of us. 364: I'd say for us both {X} Interviewer: Have you ever heard anybody say for all two of us? 364: I have heard it yeah. Interviewer: We don't use it do we 364: No. We don't use it like that {C: noise} {NS} I I'd say both of us. {C: noise} Interviewer: If some friends of yours and you are coming over to see me you'd say {NS} 364: Visit. Interviewer: Alright what would you say, he and I? Him and me? How would you tell me that you and somebody else were gonna come see me? 364: Oh that's getting too much into my {NS} language {NW} Interviewer: {NS} How wou- 364: He, he and I Interviewer: Alright. 364: I would say. Interviewer: Okay good. Uh if you knock at the door and they say who's there you'd say it's 364: it's I. Interviewer: Alright. If you're sitting there expecting some man Interviewer: He's been dead. My granddaddy's long been dead about two years. #1 Yeah two or three years. # 364: #2 Three, about three years. # Yeah I know when he died. I was there just before he died. {X} this time I'm speaking about him. Interviewer: Well he was uh he loved to watch they my granddaddy grandmother and grand daddy loved to watch that story, it come ons at dinner as the world turns, 364: Yes. Interviewer: and he they were watching that one day and he just went to sleep during the #1 story. # 364: #2 Oh I see # Ah and his father was the man {D: Big Malone} {C: name} Interviewer: That's right. 364: Oh I think I remember Interviewer: You know all of the Malones, don't you? {NW} And then my grandmother Malone, the one you're talking about, she was a {D: Deviny}. 364: the who? Interviewer: {D: Deviny} you know all, the {D: Devinys}? 364: Yeah yeah she was Interviewer: She was a {D: Deviny}. Oh I got lot's of kinfolks around here. 364: #1 Oh yeah # Interviewer: #2 I probably # should not ever run for political office cause I my relatives would not vote for me then I surely wouldn't get elected would I? 364: Oh I wouldn't say that. Interviewer: {NW} 364: I wouldn't say that. Interviewer: No I was just teasing. 364: #1 yeah # Interviewer: #2 they would # 364: Uh uh your husband is a who? Interviewer: My husband is from Texas he wor- he's the guidance counselor at the high school. He's a Foster. {C: name} 364: #1 Foster # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 364: Uh-huh Interviewer: but he doesn't have any people here. 364: No {NS} I was wondering if he was related to any of the Fosters that I know around {B} here. Interviewer: No, he's not related to anybody here. They're the Fosters that have money, we're the poor ones. 364: oh {NW} Interviewer: We used to get Mr Joe Foster's mail and his phone calls he lived up the street from us. 364: #1 Yeah # Interviewer: #2 But we live # on the same street as him. But uh I always tell people, no he was the Mr Foster that had money we were the ones that were poor. 364: Poor. {NW} You're like I like I am about uh {D: problem} in town and a- which way you get to your house? I tell them which way to turn off I say you're now when you hit that road there ain't nothing on it but poor folk. {NW} I live in the last house {NW} Everyone gets poorer and poorer and I'm in the last house. {NW} Interviewer: Well I tried my best to come through from {X} from used to be {D: Griffen's} store to here that road doesn't come through here. 364: #1 No no it don't come through # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 364: come through don't come all the way through. Interviewer: I wonder why? 364: Did #1 I don't know wh- I don't # Interviewer: #2 {X} # in there or 364: oh no dear Griffin tried his best to get that he had it planned once and then he had it okay-ed the route through there and come around intersect this. and uh there was one {D: land} one land owner wouldn't okay it he wouldn't uh agree. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 364: And of course he died then. couldn't get through but after that, after this man he he uh agreed that he wished he had let it come through. I tried to show him what the advantage Interviewer: Yeah. 364: cause Interviewer: It's a long ways out here from up at before you turn off at Jackson isn't it. 364: Yeah, yeah, uh, well it's it's three miles. {NW} Three miles when you turn off I just I this morning I was riding through uh you know where Mr. {D: Brooden's} place is? Old {D: Brooden's} place? Interviewer: No sir I don't know much on this road at all. 364: Uh well it's ain't on this road you turn and #1 go # Interviewer: #2 it's # that road to the left as I came down through here before you get to the bridge and you {X} off to the left 364: Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah. 364: Yeah. {NS} that road now it's a black top. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 364: But uh going on around it don't go but a little piece the black top then you hit gravel for half a mile when they black topped around there this man stopped him he wouldn't agree to {D: follow} to straighten the road. Just little old {X} and twisted they wanted to put a bridge there and straighten it and intersect the other road a half, just a half a mile. He wouldn't agree to it at all and that's why the black top black top stops now. Later on he tried to get them to uh come back and straighten it out black top is new course they wouldn't do it and still it's still gravel. Interviewer: And that little old bridge up by Mr Griffen's that's just gonna have to be fixed one of these days isn't it? 364: It should've a- already been Interviewer: I don't see how a school bus and trucks and things get over that, that was 364: It it's uh when the man surveyed this uh bridge here this new bridge you didn't see the little old bridge there. Interviewer: No. 364: It's uh it's still there the uh steel but it's way off down there to one side. And he asked me concerning that bridge how high I had how long I'd been living around here and what was the highest mark I had seen the water in that. And then when I showed him and we got to talking about it he said he wanted to s- d- going to build a bridge high enough to take care of all the water that come through there. And he did. It never overflowed but the other little old bridge down there {NS} there's a many time you couldn't get through there. Interviewer: I bet. 364: Just couldn't cross. I've seen the up over the bridge {NS} and I told him about that and he uh {NS} he he spoke about this bridge down there by Mr Griffin's he said that bridge is dangerous it, it's just a one way bridge and it ought to be a double lane, isn't it? He said now it couldn't be he said I could if I had the okay I could plan for it to be uh widened out without tearing it down. So it hadn't, they won't okay it Interviewer: Comes your daughter she looks like she's had a hard day at school today too. 364: #1 oh yeah # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: We if you're teaching school all of them's hard. Interviewer: That's right, I hear- 364: Some's worse than others. Interviewer: Mr Currington told me she's one of the best teachers he has. {NW} #1 {X} # 364: #2 Mr Currington # Interviewer: Yes sir. 364: Oh I wouldn't of thought that. Interviewer: He surely did. I told him last Thursday I was in a meeting up in his office and I told him I had to leave early cause I was coming out here and he said what'd you go out there for? #1 So he # 364: #2 Yeah {NW} # Interviewer: He said uh well you said that Ms. Tiggs is one of the finest teachers I've got. I'll pass that on to you, you {NW} 364: Well I {NW} I wouldn't of thought he'd of said it, but Auxiliary: He told you didn't he? 364: Huh? Auxiliary: He told you that didn't he? Interviewer: #1 Thomas did # 364: #2 well you could # How come you come in the back? Interviewer: Yeah you come slipping in the back? Auxiliary: {X} Interviewer: Yeah 364: We, we aren't allowed to come in the front when we got when we got company. Interviewer: {NW} You better come on back in here. {NW} Auxiliary: That's the reason I 364: When we Interviewer: We're having a good time I sound like I'm in a well almost Auxiliary: Oh Interviewer: {NW} 364: Yeah that's uh that's my {X} I don't know what I'd do if that girl is leave me. Interviewer: Well. 364: Uh she she had a rumor out oh this year you {X} yeah this year she's gonna marry. and I told several the s- I {D: keep staring at her} {NW} she said {NW} I was telling {D: Dawn} {NS} she was very I said no if she go I'll go. I have to follow. Interviewer: {NW} 364: Nanny says I may go where you can't go I said I'll be at the bar {D: speaking in} {NW} Interviewer: She can't leave you huh? 364: No goodness. {D: She's estate} to me. Interviewer: Good let's see, where'd we get to? We got to uh We're gonna compare how tall you are you'd say he's not as tall as 364: As I. Interviewer: Alright or comparing how tall you are again you'd say I'm not as 364: I'm not as tall as he. Interviewer: Alright comparing how well you can do something you'd say he can do it better than 364: I {NS} Interviewer: {X} 364: We we usually said better than me. Interviewer: That's right. 364: Better than me {NW} Interviewer: Um if a man had been running for two miles and then had to stop you'd say two miles is 364: Too far to run I would say. Interviewer: Alright would you say as far as he could go or the farthest? 364: The farthest. Interviewer: #1 Farthest is that what you'd say? Okay. # 364: #2 Yeah. # Interviewer: If something belongs to me you'd say it's 364: It to you? Interviewer: Yes sir to me. 364: It belongs to I'd say her. Interviewer: Alright would you say it's yours? 364: Yes. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 It's # yours Interviewer: Uh if you say if it belongs to both of us you'd say it's 364: Ours. Interviewer: Alright and if it belongs to them you'd say it's 364: it belongs to I'd say it belongs to them. Interviewer: Alright if it belongs to him you'd say it's 364: its its his. Interviewer: Alright and to her it's 364: Hers. Interviewer: Alright good. Uh people have co- have been to visit you and they're about to leave you'd say to them 364: Come again. Interviewer: Alright. uh If somebody's been to a party and started to leave and you were asking about their coat you'd say where are you gone get their coats for them wi- the- before they leave you'd say where are 364: Where are uh More than one? Interviewer: Yes sir. 364: Where are they? Interviewer: Alright I tell what they say we do here they say that we that when we say y'all 364: You all. Interviewer: Are we talking about one person or lots of people? 364: Lots of people. Interviewer: Lots of people, thats what I think too, we talking about a group #1 aren't we? # 364: #2 yeah. # Interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # Interviewer: Do you uh do you think anybody ever used y'all meaning just one person? 364: I- I I've heard it used that way but it {NW} not, not often. Interviewer: Not, well they you know a lot of times they up Northerners say we s- we mean we say y'all when we mean when we just talking about one person I don't believe we do that. #1 Have you ever # 364: #2 No. # Interviewer: #1 we mean a group # 364: #2 No. # We don't do that. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: I've heard it used like that though. Interviewer: Uh if you Your children came in they'd been at a party you were asking about who was there you might say What would you how would you ask them about who did they see there? 364: Mm I'd say was he there or was she there. Interviewer: But have you ever hear the term who all was there? 364: Yeah oh yes. Interviewer: You say who all? 364: Who all was there. #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 okay {NW} # 364: I've heard that. Interviewer: Alright and the same kind of word when you're asking about something somebody a speaker has said you might say uh Would you say what all did he say? Have you ever her- do you use the term what all as well as who all? 364: Uh {NS} I wouldn't but I've heard it used. Interviewer: Okay. 364: What all did he say? Interviewer: yeah I've heard that used. 364: Who all was #1 there # Interviewer: #2 yeah {NW} # 364: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 I have # 364: I've heard it used like that but {NS} Interviewer: Uh if you say if no one else will look out for them you'd say they've got to look out for 364: Themselves. Interviewer: If no one else will do it for him you'd say he'd better do it 364: Himself. Interviewer: Uh we- uh what is made of flour baked in loaves? 364: uh Interviewer: Made of flour and baked in a loaf. 364: We call it We call it loaf bread or light bread Interviewer: Alright when it's made to rise with yeast, what do you call it? If you use yeast in it do you call it a different term a different kind of bread? 364: No. Interviewer: Okay. 364: I wouldn't Interviewer: uh Other kinds of bread that your wife makes out of flour 364: Biscuit. Interviewer: Alright {NS} Uh what's baked in a large round cake made out of corn meal? 364: Corn bread. Interviewer: okay now you mentioned corn bread you mean by corn bread let's see Do you mean do you have more than one kind of corn bread? 364: Oh yes yeah. Interviewer: Tell me about the kinds of corn bread. 364: You have water bread. Interviewer: Okay. 364: Plain, plain bread, and you have milk bread. Interviewer: Do you bake at all? 364: Egg bread we would call it. Interviewer: Okay do you bake all of them in a round pan? 364: Yes we use the uh black pan or a round. Interviewer: Alright if you bake them in little pan little bitty things like this 364: We call them pone. Interviewer: Alright do you know the term corndodger? a corndodger 364: {NW} I've heard it but I don't know how to describe it Interviewer: Okay {NS} 364: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 Uh # {NS} It says do you ever remember any kind of corn bread that people talk about making before the fire on the board or something like that? 364: Oh uh yeah ash cakes. Interviewer: Okay. 364: My mother used to make them {NW} Interviewer: Uh it says what kind's about an inch thick very large and round that you cook in a skillet we said that was just called corn pone, right? 364: Yeah. Interviewer: Then there's the kind that's small and it's sort of shaped like this and sometimes you put onion and green pepper in it what do you call that? You eat it with fish. 364: I don't know. Interviewer: You ever make hush, ever make 364: #1 hush puppies # Interviewer: #2 hush puppies # #1 yeah # 364: #2 I've heard of # them I don't know anything #1 about them I just # Interviewer: #2 Alright I think # 364: get some hush puppies Interviewer: I think that's what they're talking 364: #1 well I think so # Interviewer: #2 about here # 364: Must be hush puppies. Interviewer: Alright it says that there's something else that you sometimes have that you boil in cheese cloth with either beans or greens or something with chicken and you make it out of corn meal. What do you call that? 364: Dumplings. Interviewer: Alright do you make I don't make dumplings out of corn meal I make them out of flour. 364: Well I know but uh I use some corn meal dumplings once that sure was good Mister {X} used to live down here by Belle Greene I went down there once and uh right at dinner time he insisted that I would eated my dinner and I did and he had corn bread dumplings I never had any #1 before but # Interviewer: #2 I do # 364: good grief goodness it was good. Interviewer: What were they cooked in? 364: They was cooked in uh I don't know whether it was collard greens or turnip greens but it was it was cooked with them. And you talking about something good. Interviewer: Thats what you call potlicker? 364: Yeah. Interviewer: That you cook them in? 364: Yeah {NW} potlicker. Interviewer: {NW} 364: I declare that was perhaps told my mother about it she said oh I'll make you some sometime I don't remember her ever making them corn bread dumplings Interviewer: {X} beans or uh It's the kind of corn meal that you cook in a deep pan it comes out soft and you dish it out like you would mashed potatoes. What kind of bread is that do you know that kind of bread? 364: Yeah I know it {NS} we we used {NW} we used to call it cush. Interviewer: Cush. 364: Cush. {NW} Interviewer: I don't know that either now is that what we call spoon bread? Is that spoon bread? 364: Stone? Interviewer: Spoon spoon bread is that what that is? 364: No I think uh spoon bread now I've heard of it but you make it up with a spoon #1 Mix it with a # Interviewer: #2 oh yeah yeah. # 364: spoon. Interviewer: Okay. 364: But uh the old cush that I'm talking about it had a, it has another name. Interviewer: Is that grits? 364: No that's not grits. Interviewer: Not made out of the same kind of grain is it? Grits aren't meal are they? 364: No no grits are grits is a coarse meal real coarse maybe corn or #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 okay # 364: but uh this uh what we used to call cush now that's an old uh old uh we called it {D: rig} time talk {NW} antebellum #1 days # Interviewer: #2 yeah? # 364: Uh {NS} slaves used to make cush. Interviewer: Well I never heard of cush. 364: Cush. Interviewer: It's sort of like a mush? 364: Mush and cush is the same Interviewer: #1 I see. # 364: #2 thing, mush and # cush. And uh now you talking about something good it's good when when the {X} i- if you could find some of these old {C: pronunciation} people that could make it it certainly is #1 good. # Interviewer: #2 Well # I like cornmeal. 364: Put uh a little pepper in it black pepper and I have eat it with chipped up red pepper green pepper and uh mix it with an onions in it and stock from some a ham or meat or something. Lord you're talking about good Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: I would love to know how to make it I love to cook. 364: Well you do. Interviewer: Mm I sure do. 364: Yeah. Interviewer: Tell by looking at me can't you? 364: #1 yeah # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # {NW} 364: y- I no I can tell by looking at you you like to eat. Interviewer: That's right {NW} Well I like to cook too. {NW} Uh this says there are two kinds of bread the homemade bread and the kind that you buy at the store what do you call it? 364: Now would that be cornbread? Interviewer: No well the kind of bread in a loaf maybe that you'd buy at the store. You just call it loaf bread? 364: Yeah that's all. Interviewer: Uh there's a little thing that's like shaped like this and it's fried in deep fat and has a hole in the middle what do you call that? Kind of like a cookie. but it's round with a hole in it and you fry it in deep fat. Auxiliary: Donut. {NW} 364: Yeah donuts I couldn't call the name I know what's it {D: stuff} Interviewer: #1 Alright # 364: #2 yeah donuts # Interviewer: Do you know another name for a donut? {NS} 364: No I don't think so. Interviewer: Uh this I've heard them called crullers but not around here I don't believe. C-R-U-L-L-E-R cruller? 364: I've heard the name but I didn't know Interviewer: I don't believe we ca- we just call them donuts don't we uh sometimes you make up a batter and you fry fry three or four of these at a time and you eat them with syrup and butter. What do you call these? 364: Batter cake. Interviewer: Alright is that the same thing as a pancake? 364: Pancake? Interviewer: Okay do you always make them out of wheat flour? Auxiliary: Yes. 364: Wheat flour. Interviewer: #1 Yes sir. okay # 364: #2 yes # 364: But now your daughter {X} had to. We old folks used to make corn bread batter cakes. Just a little flour in to make them stick together good. Sure is it alright. Interviewer: I bet they're good with syrup and butter. 364: Huh? Interviewer: #1 I bet they are good with syrup and butter # 364: #2 They are good. # Yes ma'am. Auxiliary: They are. Interviewer: Uh let's see you flour in what kind of quantity? 364: We buy it in uh Auxiliary: Twenty-five pounds. 364: Fifty-pound sacks. Interviewer: Alright. I don't buy that much I buy five pounds. 364: Well. Interviewer: {NW} 364: I its uh we we cut down on it fifty-pound sacks we usually used to buy fifty-pound be we cut down on it Interviewer: Uh what do you use to make the bread thats not baking powder or soda that makes it rise? Not baking powder or soda what else would you use? Comes in a little pack and it's dry and powdery. 364: Would it be uh. I don't know unless it'd be yeast. Interviewer: Alright that's what it is. Uh what the inside of an egg called? 364: Yolk. Interviewer: Uh and what color is the yolk? 364: It's uh Auxiliary: Yellow. 364: y- y- uh yellow. Interviewer: Alright what do you call the other part of the egg? 364: White. Interviewer: Alright if you cook eggs in hot water what do you call them? Auxiliary: Boiled. 364: I just call them boiled Interviewer: Alright 364: boiled eggs. Interviewer: And that's cooking them in the shell in hot water if you take them out of the shell and drop them in hot water what are they? 364: Oh I don't know. Auxiliary: Poached. 364: What'd she Interviewer: Poached poached egg. 364: I don't know nothing about Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: You don't do the cooking 364: #1 No # Interviewer: #2 do you? # 364: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 # 364: You done got to the woman's part {X} Interviewer: What do you call the salt or sugar cured meat that you boil with greens? 364: Bacon. Interviewer: Uh what if it has no lean to it what do you call it? 364: uh we we use fat back. Interviewer: #1 Alright # 364: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Is that the same thing as salt pork? 364: Yeah same thing. Interviewer: Okay but if it had a good bit of lean and you called it bacon? Is that the difference between bacon and fat back? 364: Yes. Interviewer: The lean is okay. 364: Speaking of uh of salt pork I never heard that until I went north. Interviewer: Is that right? 364: I never did hear. Interviewer: #1 We don't call # 364: #2 And # they didn't know what I meant when I asked for for some uh streaked #1 meat. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # 364: Uh they didn't know what the {X} and when I described it to the them oh you want some salt pork. Interviewer: And that's what we call streaked lean? 364: Yeah. #1 streaked lean {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: {NW} Interviewer: When you're uh butchering a hog and you cut the side of a hog wh- what did you call it? 364: Middling. Interviewer: Okay the kind of meat that you buy sliced thin to eat with eggs. 364: That's uh bacon. Interviewer: And what's the outside of the bacon called? The hard piece. 364: The uh it's we call it skin but that's uh sometimes its called the rind. Interviewer: Alright. Uh the kind of meat that you grind up uh from 364: Sausage. Interviewer: Alright and who kills and sells the meet? 364: Butcher. Interviewer: Alright if the meats been kept too long what do you say the meat has done? 364: Spoiled. Interviewer: After you butcher a hog what do you make with the meat from it's head? 364: Hog head cheese {NW} that's {D: sows} Interviewer: #1 okay {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: What do you call the dish that you prepare by cooking and grinding up hog liver? Hog liver you grind it up and cook it. Do you know what you call that when you cook it? 364: Hog liver? Interviewer: Mm-hmm I've never heard of it but 364: um no I Interviewer: They call it liver pudding do you ever heard of liver pudding? 364: Yeah now that's that's a term that that the only place I've ever heard it was in the north. Interviewer: And you don't think 364: Lady got a room with us she and she described it and said she's gonna make us liver pudding. Interviewer: I see. 364: No blood pudding. Interviewer: Well now that's mm-hmm did you ever make anything out of hog blood and that's called blood pudding. 364: Blood pudding now that's what she {NW} Interviewer: You don't think that's a southern term then? 364: I don't think it is. Interviewer: Mm-kay. uh if you ever took the juice of the head cheese or the liver sausage and stir it up with corn meal and cook it and then after it gets cold you slice that up and fry it, do you know what you call that? It's a kind of meat you make well I guess sort of like we call {D: souse} but then when you cut it up and you fry it do you know what you call that? 364: No I wouldn't. Interviewer: Do you know the term scrapple? #1 scrapple I don't either I don't # 364: #2 No. # No. Interviewer: That must not be southern either. 364: No. Interviewer: Uh if you kept you butter too long and it didn't taste good, what would you call the taste? 364: Rank. Interviewer: Okay. A thick sour milk that you keep on hand what's that called? 364: Sour milk. Interviewer: Yes sir. 364: We just call it clabber. Interviewer: Okay. What kind of cheese do you make from it? 364: Mm I don't know about Interviewer: Is that what isn't that what cottage cheese is is just 364: #1 I just wouldn't know is # Interviewer: #2 is just clabbered milk? # 364: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # You know you buy it now at the in the dairy counter at the grocery and it's just little white curds Auxiliary: {X} 364: And that's cottage cheese. Interviewer: Yes sir. 364: Well I didn't Interviewer: #1 And I wondered that # 364: #2 know how it's made # Interviewer: Uh what do you do with the milk the first thing after milking? 364: Strain it. Interviewer: Alright. Uh what kind of dessert is it that your wife bakes in a deep dish made out of apples with a crust on top? 364: Uh apple pie. Interviewer: Mm-kay if it's uh baked in uh uh in layers what would you call that? a kind of apple pie not one that you just slice like a regular you know like a regular pie but a one in a big dish maybe. 364: I'd call now you mean the half moon pies? Interviewer: No I don't know that I'm tal- what I'm talking about is a cobbler I guess {NS} Cobbler pie that you make in layers? He doesn't know a thing about cooking. 364: No. Interviewer: {NW} 364: {X} Interviewer: {NW} 364: She's showing me up here Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: That's cobbler see she knows. 364: Cobbler but uh now the kind you bake flat Interviewer: #1 talking about fried pie # 364: #2 {NS} # #1 fried # Interviewer: #2 is that # That's what you start called a half moon pie a fry- yeah that's a fried 364: Yeah a half moon. that's #1 half # Auxiliary: #2 I love those # 364: that {NW} Interviewer: You know what he said about me I told him I loved to cook a while ago and he said he could tell by looking at me that I loved to eat. {NW} Auxiliary: That wasn't exactly a complement. Interviewer: {X} {NW} 364: {NW} Interviewer: You if somebody has a good appetite you say he sure likes to put away his 364: If he has a good appetite Interviewer: Yes sir. 364: and uh Interviewer: You'd say he sure likes to put away his 364: Food. Interviewer: Food alright do you- you you call food vittles 364: Vittles? Interviewer: #1 you ever heard # 364: #2 {X} # Yeah that's a thats an old term vittles. Interviewer: Okay what do you call the sweet liquid that you pour over pudding? 364: Sauce. Interviewer: Okay uh if you take a food between regular meals, what do you call it eating between regular meals? 364: Well we usually call it uh uh {NS} A mid day m d day snack. Interviewer: #1 okay # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {NS} Uh you say uh I eat breakfast at seven oh clock yesterday at that time I had already. 364: Eaten. Interviewer: And last week I 364: Ate. Interviewer: okay uh you say what do people drink for breakfast? Most people drink for breakfast 364: Coffee. Interviewer: And how do you make coffee? 364: put- uh they're percolated now but I'm all but all but me I still boil mine. Interviewer: Alright how do you boil coffee? 364: uh Put the {X} some water and let it uh be- just begin to boil and put the add the coffee to it. Interviewer: Just pour the grounds right in the 364: #1 right in the right in the pot with it # Interviewer: #2 in the water # Then what happens when you want to drink it? 364: Oh just uh {NW} Interviewer: Don't you 364: Just wait until it brews right good when it gets ready then you've got some good coffee. Interviewer: You don't have a mouthful of grounds? You don't get a mouth full of coffee grounds? 364: {X} {C: Audio is sped up and distorted until 58:35} {X} My mother used to {X} {c: Distorted} dipper Interviewer: Alright you say the glass fell off the sink and 364: Broke. Interviewer: You might say I didn't break it but someone has 364: Someone has broken. Interviewer: Alright uh now this asks about a glass and other like other shapes of glasses a tumbler and a goblet now do you know can you do you know those terms? 364: A a tumbler has a has a st- leg to it. Interviewer: Alright a handle? 364: Uh-huh. Interviewer: Okay. 364: No no not a handle. Interviewer: Oh a stand. #1 sorry # 364: #2 yeah # Interviewer: Yeah I see. 364: that's that's a that's Interviewer: #1 thats a tumbler # 364: #2 a tumbler # Interviewer: How about a goblet then? 364: goblet has a h- handle to it Interviewer: Alright {NS} If I ask you how much did you drink you'd say oh I 364: uh Interviewer: Drank a lot? {NS} Or you might ask me how much have you 364: Drank. Interviewer: Alright. We sure drank a lot of w- okay Uh when dinner's on the table and the family's standing around waiting to begin, what do you say to them? 364: They're standing around waiting Interviewer: To begin to eat what do you say to the family? {NS} 364: Mm I don't believe I can get to {D: tell you what} Interviewer: You just say sit down? Perhaps do you just say sit down at the table? or What do you ask people to come to the table to eat? If theres not family maybe to friends or strangers. 364: uh I s- I just tell them to be seated. Interviewer: Okay that's what I want to know. Uh somebody comes in the dining room and you ask him won't you 364: Sit down. Interviewer: Alright so then he sits and begins to eat no one else is standing they had all 364: We have all eat Interviewer: Alright we've all sat down okay if you want someone not to wait until the potatoes are passed what do you say to them? If you're eating and you don't want everybody to have to ask for the potatoes you just say what to them? 364: Pass me the potatoes. Interviewer: Alright but you'll sometimes you'll say don't wait for it don't wait for anything just help yourself. 364: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. 364: Help yourself. Interviewer: uh if you decide not to eat something you just say I don't 364: Like it. Interviewer: okay {NW} If the food has been cooked and served a second time what do you say it's been done? If you're eating today's if you're eating yesterday's food today what do you call it? 364: Leftovers. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {NW} {NW} 364: Yeah eating leftovers. {NS} Interviewer: You put food in your mouth and then you begin to 364: Chew. Interviewer: Alright a dish made uh we already talked about mush though a dish made out of boiled corn and of corn meal and water that's mush isn't it? 364: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Uh what do you call peas beets and things like that that you grow in a garden? 364: Vegetables. Interviewer: Okay. uh And the small plot that you might grow vegetables, what do you call that? 364: Garden. Interviewer: Alright whats the southern food that's often served with sausage and eggs its made out of ground corn and boiled 364: Made of grou- grain? Interviewer: Yes sir, and boiled. You m- you eat it with bacon and eggs maybe. or sausage and eggs is that grits? Hominy is that hominy grits? 364: Must be hominy grits. Interviewer: Okay what and and then hominy is uh made from the whole grain 364: The whole grain. Interviewer: And you just remove the what the 364: Husk. Interviewer: the husk. {NS} {NW} What's the starch made from the inside of a grain that's raised either in Louisiana Arkansas or Texas? The chinese eat it. 364: Rice. Interviewer: {NW} What are some names for non tax paid alcoholic beverages? 364: Bootleg. Interviewer: Okay. {NW} If it's not made of very high quality and made under unsanitary conditions 364: uh Interviewer: Some other names for it. {NS} 364: Wild cat. Interviewer: Okay. Is that uh moonshine 364: Yeah. Interviewer: and rye catch you call thats the same 364: same thing. {NS} Interviewer: When somethings cooking and it makes a good impression on your nostrils you'd say to someone just 364: Made a good impression. Interviewer: Mm-hmm {NS} 364: uh {NW} Interviewer: If you liked it the way it 364: oh I'd see if if if I liked it I'd say it smells good. Interviewer: {NW} uh You crush cane and boil the juice and make what? 364: Molasses. Interviewer: Okay. {NS} What do you call sweet sticky liquid that you put on flapjacks? 364: That's syrup. Interviewer: Alright what's the difference between syrup and molasses? 364: Syrup is thinner than molasses. Interviewer: Okay. You say this isn't imitation maple syrup it's a name for real 364: uh An imitation for maple syrup? Interviewer: You say this is not imitation maple syrup it's 364: This is real. Interviewer: Alright what's another word for real how about on leather or cow hide it's sometimes stamped on it and it'll say it's not imitation it's 364: Real. Interviewer: Alright do you know the term genuine? 364: #1 yeah yeah # Interviewer: #2 Alright # 364: Genuine, genuine {NS} yeah genuine leather. Interviewer: okay {NW} uh when sugar isn't packaged in uh in uh a sack but way down in the barrel you say it's sold in what? 364: I didn't get the Interviewer: Alright when they don't package sugar you know and it's just in a barrel maybe and you go in and buy some or used to you'd say it's sold in what? I buy some 364: Bulk. Interviewer: #1 yeah okay that's # 364: #2 sold in the # bulk Interviewer: okay {NS} What is the the sweet spread called that you make by boiling sugar and the juice of fruits? 364: Syrup uh uh jelly. Interviewer: Okay. What do you have on the table to season food with? 364: Salt and pepper. Interviewer: okay uh if your some if there's are some apples and a child wants one he says 364: {X} give me an apple. Interviewer: Okay. If you say it wasn't these boys it must've been one of 364: uh wasn't these boys Interviewer: not these it must've been 364: Those boys. Interviewer: If you're pointing to a tree way off you might say it's {NS} It's that tree way what would you say? 364: mm {NS} oh Interviewer: Or you say he doesn't live here it's a it's a he lives way 364: Way off. #1 yeah # Interviewer: #2 Alright # #1 how about # 364: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Yonder? 364: Yeah way off yonder. Interviewer: Okay. {NW} You say don't do it that way you do it 364: This way. Interviewer: Alright uh when somebody speaks to you and you don't hear what he says what do you say to make him repeat it? 364: I say I beg your pardon. {NS} and that means I didn't understand Interviewer: okay {NW} If a man has plenty of money he doesn't have anything to worry about but life's hard on a man who's