Interviewer: A girl being common, do you mean something other than something good? 364: No. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 No. # Uh I don't really Same term. Interviewer: Alright. Uh an old person say about eighty they say I'm not an old person, is it? 364: No. Interviewer: Okay. {NW} Who still who still does his farm work and doesn't get tired, you'd say I don't care how old he is he's mighty? 364: Uh. Interviewer: #1 Somebody about like # 364: #2 Yeah. # Interviewer: {X) {C: name} 364: If he if he's Uh eighty years old still doing his farm work I I would say he {NS} its its something unusual. Interviewer: Okay. 364: I would say. Interviewer: Do you still do you use the term chipper? He's right chipper? 364: No, I. Interviewer: {X} Peppy? Or spry? 364: Well I would use spry. Interviewer: Okay. 364: He's spry old man. Interviewer: Okay. Uh the children are out later than usual you say I don't suppose there's anything wrong, but I can't help feeling just a little bit? 364: Bad. Uh. Interviewer: Alright you're a little bit worried about 'em. 364: The children did what? Interviewer: They're out a little bit later than usual. 364: Yeah. Interviewer: And you? 364: I'm worried I'm I'm worried about 'em. Interviewer: Alright how about uneasy do you ever use that word? 364: Well I have, yes. I'm uneasy about it. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh I don't want to go upstairs in the dark, I'm? 364: Afraid. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Other words for afraid? 364: For what? Interviewer: Other words that mean afraid? 364: Fear. Interviewer: There's another word that means the same as afraid. As being afraid. {NS} 364: Uh. Auxiliary: {D: Hey.} 364: I would Uh. I can't think of an- Interviewer: She said fine, scared? 364: Uh. I don't know of another word {D: that'd fit in.} Interviewer: Okay. Uh you say she isn't afraid now but she? 364: Used to {D: listen.} Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Okay. 364: Okay I I know there's gotta be a {X} Interviewer: I don't understand why she's afraid, she? How about the opposite of used to be? 364: Uh. 364: She's not afraid now. But she used to not be afraid. Interviewer: Alright, used to not be. 364: Yeah. Interviewer: Uh somebody who leaves a lot of money on the table and the door unlocked you'd say he's mighty? 364: {NW} Careless. Interviewer: Alright. 364: I'd say he's careless. Interviewer: Okay. There's nothing really wrong with that Lindsey but sometimes she acts kind of? 364: Uh. Silly. Interviewer: Okay. {NW} Would you use the word queer? 364: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. 364: {D: Whatever} {D: you say that.} {NW} Interviewer: Somebody who makes up his mind and nothing can make him change it is mighty? 364: {D: Surely.} Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 Uh. # {D: Dunmore or.} Interviewer: {NW} 364: {NW} Interviewer: In arguing somebody might say she might say why don't you be so? 364: Uh. In arguing? Interviewer: If you were arguing with somebody like that you just described, you'd bet you might say don't you be so? 364: {NW} Well in the Bible uh Paul said that if you uh you can't reckon uh. Reason with a person if if he's not silent-minded. Interviewer: Okay. 364: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # You might say don't be so stubborn? 364: Yeah. Interviewer: Would you have used the word bull-headed? 364: Well I I may have. Interviewer: Or hard-headed? 364: Hard-headed. Interviewer: Okay. 364: Hard-headed. Interviewer: Okay. Somebody you can't joke with about him losing his temper you say he's mighty? 364: {NW} Well now we use the term high-tempered. Interviewer: Okay. Uh if somebody loses his temper when the least little fighting goes on he's awfully? 364: Fractious. Interviewer: #1 Alright. # 364: #2 {X} # Interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # Interviewer: I was just kidding him I didn't know he'd get? 364: Mad. Interviewer: If he's a bad temper all the time he's? 364: {NW} Well. My term my my term for that is uh well to me he's crazy. Interviewer: {NW} 364: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # You did ya ever use the term uh let's see feisty? 364: I don't I just I I use the crazy term. Interviewer: {NW} 364: Just a fool. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 {D: That he'd be.} # {NW} Interviewer: Somebody's about to lose his temper and you tell him now just? 364: Just be quiet. Interviewer: Alright. Keep calm? 364: Keep calm. Interviewer: Okay. 364: Quiet. Interviewer: If you've been working very hard you say you are very? 364: Tired. Interviewer: Okay. Uh you'd say I'm just completely? 364: {D: Year out.} Interviewer: Okay. You ever say worn out? 364: #1 W-worn out. # Interviewer: #2 You ever, do you? # Okay. He came home early from sick or work because he? 364: {D: Sick or what?} Interviewer: He came home early from school, excuse me, or work because he? 364: Failed. Interviewer: Or got sick? 364: Yeah. Interviewer: Alright. Uh you'd say he's sick no that's the wrong one he's sick now but he'll be well again uh when? 364: A few days. Interviewer: Okay. Uh we'll get there? 364: Soon. Interviewer: Somebody got overheated and chilled and his eyes and nose started running, you'd say he? 364: Chilled? Interviewer: He got overheated and then he ch- got chilled and he started his eyes and nose started running, you'd say he? 364: Fell out? Interviewer: Oh well 364: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 well how would you describe what's wrong with him? # 364: {NW} {D:Fade} Interviewer: Oh well. Auxiliary: Taken a cold. Interviewer: {NW} Taken a cold? Or has took a cold? Auxiliary: Took a cold. 364: Well he had the uh eyes and nose. Interviewer: Mm yeah. 364: #1 Yeah. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # 364: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # If it affected his voice you'd say he's? 364: Hoarse. Interviewer: Alright if he did {NW} that he'd have a little? 364: Cold. Interviewer: Alright what about a little tickling in your throat? 364: Uh sore throat? Interviewer: Makes you go {NW} What do you call that? 364: #1 Uh # Auxiliary: #2 A cold. # 364: #1 # Auxiliary: #2 # 364: I don't know what I'd call it Interviewer: {NW} 364: I had it all the time. Interviewer: A cough? Auxiliary: Cough. 364: Cough? Interviewer: Cough. 364: Cough. Well that would be alright Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 I guess. # A cough that now I I don't like that word but uh but {NW} Interviewer: But what? 364: {X} Interviewer: Oh got it. {NW} 364: I'll a-accept it. Interviewer: Okay. 364: {NW} Interviewer: You'd say I better go to bed I'm feeling a little? 364: Tired. Or worn out uh. Interviewer: Drowsy or sleepy? 364: Sleepy yeah. Interviewer: Okay. Uh but at six oh clock I'll? After you go to bed, you say but at six oh clock I'll? 364: {X} Interviewer: I'll wake. 364: #1 Waking. # Interviewer: #2 You're gonna be waking up. # 364: Yeah yeah I I wake at six oh clock. Interviewer: Alright. Uh your wife would say he's still sleeping I'd better go? 364: {NW} Wake him. Interviewer: Okay. If the medicine is still by your bedside you'd ask why haven't you? 364: Taken your medicine. Interviewer: Alright. Somebody who can't hear well is getting a little? 364: Deaf. Interviewer: Okay. Uh you've been working hard and you take your work shirt off and say look how I? 364: Sweating. Interviewer: A lump on your arm with a big core in it its what? 364: A wart. Interviewer: Alright. But its discharging maybe some liquid. 364: Uh on your arm? Interviewer: Yes or on any part of your body a A sore, a of kind that's discharging something has a hard lump in it what would you call that? 364: Uh that has a {NW} Auxiliary: Rise? 364: I wouldn't say it's a rise, I'd say uh maybe a {D: cancer}. Auxiliary: {NW} Interviewer: How about a boil? Auxiliary: A boil. 364: A boil. Interviewer: A boil. That would be alright, a boil. Or a rising? 364: A rising. Interviewer: Is that the same thing? 364: I'm gonna call it Auxiliary: Sure. 364: #1 stuff like that. # Interviewer: #2 Alright. # Okay. When a boil opens the stuff that drains out's called what? 364: What's this open? Interviewer: When you open up a boil and it drains what do you call what drains out? 364: We we uh usually call it well the old {D: chasm's} collection. Interviewer: Okay. 364: {NW} Interviewer: A bee stung me in my hand. 364: {D: Swole.} Interviewer: It's still pretty badly. 364: Yeah swollen. Interviewer: Alright. Uh when you get a blister, the liquid that forms under the skin is what? 364: The liquid? Interviewer: That forms under a blister. When you get a blister do you if you #1 pick? # 364: #2 Yeah I know. # Interviewer: Open it. 364: I know it #1 I know but I # Auxiliary: #2 Why would a # 364: I didn't know I just didn't Uh stick Uh my name for peeling is w-w wore out. Interviewer: Okay. 364: {NW} Auxiliary: What? Interviewer: Okay. 364: {NW} And soon it dries out. Interviewer: Okay. Somebody got shot or stabbed and you'd say you got a doctor to look at the? 364: He got a what? Interviewer: He got shot or stabbed, you'd say I better get a doctor to look at that? 364: Wound. Interviewer: Uh when a wound doesn't heal clean, and there's a white granular substance that forms around the edge, sometimes it has to be cut out or burned out with aloe. What do you call that? 364: Now I don't know that uh word. Uh would it be sterilized or? Uh. Interviewer: {X} what you call the wound? That kind of wound that just won't heal. 364: #1 You'd call it terrorsome. # Interviewer: #2 And you had # Uh do you know the term proud flesh? Auxiliary: Mm-hmm. 364: Yeah. Interviewer: Is that what I'm describing? 364: Its not fully described unless proud flesh is uh is a wound that doesn't ever heal. And uh uh it it stays raw irritated all the time. Until you you burn out and burn it out. Interviewer: Okay. 364: {NW} Interviewer: Uh if you get just a little cut on your finger, what do you put on it to avoid infection? 364: We usually put to avoid infection? Interviewer: Yes. 364: Well we old-timers use turpentine Auxiliary: No we don't. 364: That's what we used to use. Interviewer: Okay this is a little uh small bottle of brown liquid and it stings? 364: Yeah. That would be uh I don't know what it what you would now call that old stuff, I don't. Auxiliary: {X} Interviewer: #1 Uh. # 364: #2 Uh. # I don't know what they use now. Auxiliary: Mercurochrome. Interviewer: Uh. 364: No, it wouldn't be mercurochrome. Auxiliary: {D: On the five liter iodine} 364: #1 Yeah, iodine I know. # Auxiliary: #2 {X} # 364: Uh {X} Interviewer: Mm okay. 364: {D: Certainly make it next} I don't like the new stuff. Interviewer: {NW} 364: He he just putting turpentine on it. Interviewer: {NW} 364: {NW} Interviewer: This used to be given sometimes as a tonic for malaria. 364: A tonic? Interviewer: For malaria. You take this to get rid of malaria. Or treat malaria. 364: I don't know nothing but whiskey. Auxiliary: {NW} Interviewer: Do you know uh the term-uh quinine or quinine? {C: pronunciation} Auxiliary: Yeah. 364: Yeah. Auxiliary: #1 Mm-hmm. # 364: #2 Uh. # Who thought of quinine? Was it old folks, old doctors used to use for malaria? Interviewer: Does rhubarb grow around here? Auxiliary: I'm not sure. 364: I'm not sure. #1 But # Interviewer: #2 I just # 364: uh that's what the old doctors {D: parts them early} doctors used to use. Rhubarb and quinine. Interviewer: You know you can't 364: And uh and rhubarb and what chamomile, chamomile. Interviewer: {NW} 364: Now that that was all doctor has so don't care if you stump your #1 foot yeah. # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: #1 You need that # Interviewer: #2 {X} # What was the rhubarb for? 364: I don't know. I don't know. Auxiliary: And it'd kill me if I had to take the {D: dog up to} {X} 364: But that uh that's right with the old doctors not the new. Treating fever. Auxiliary: #1 Mm-hmm. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah. # 364: Malaria {C: pronunciation} and fever and stuff. Rhubarb and quinine. Interviewer: I love rhubarb pie, did you ever eat #1 rhubarb pie? # Auxiliary: #2 Ooh it's good food. # Interviewer: Oh it is. 364: Yeah. Auxiliary: {NW} My daughter who lives in Las Vegas she said that the two years that she made it {X} so good. Interviewer: {NW} The place where you bury people, what do you call that? 364: I'd call it a graveyard or a cemetery. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Uh the box that people are buried in? 364: It'd be the coffin. Interviewer: Okay. The ceremony at the cemetery? 364: {D: Equi Service.} Interviewer: Or at the church? 364: Uh. Funeral. Interviewer: Okay. Uh anything this is a term that uh when people are dressed in black when they've lost a? 364: Mourning. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Somebody asked you on an average day how are you feeling, and you'd respond? 364: Fine. Interviewer: Okay. Uh The children are out late and your wife's getting a bit excited, you say they'll be home alright just don't? Auxiliary: Worry. {NW} 364: Don't worry. Interviewer: Okay. Uh if you're getting old and your joints are stiff and aching you say you've got a touch of? 364: Rheumatism or arthritis. Interviewer: Okay. 364: I know about that. Interviewer: {NW} Auxiliary: I do too. Interviewer: A disease that you hardly ever hear of now because they give shots for it but it used to kill lots of children and it choked 'em to death? 364: That's uh diphtheria. Auxiliary: Diphtheria. Interviewer: This is a disease that makes you turn yellow. 364: Yellow jaundice. Interviewer: Okay. You have a part a pain down here, you have to have an operation, what is it 364: #1 Oh that's # Interviewer: #2 called? # 364: appendicitis. Interviewer: Okay. 364: I had {X} {D: no appendix.} Interviewer: When you eating great food that don't agree with you, and they come back up, you say you? 364: Vomit. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh which uh a crude term for vomit, a slang term for vomit, if you? 364: Threw up. Interviewer: Okay. Auxiliary: {NW} 364: Or puke. Interviewer: {NW} Auxiliary: {NW} Interviewer: At at a party, its getting pretty hot and you'd say I'd better get some fresh air, I'm beginning to feel a little sick? 364: Uh. {D: Yeah I don't see that much} uh {D: if its getting busy out.} Interviewer: Alright {X} 364: {X} {D: or something} Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 like that. # Interviewer: If a person vomited you'd say he was sick where? 364: If he was {D: where?} Interviewer: If a person vomited when he was sick, you'd say he was? 364: Sick to stomach. Interviewer: Okay. Uh she'd hardly got the news when she came right over? 364: {D: What'd you say?} Interviewer: She'd hardly gotten the news and she came right over. {NS} 364: I I don't get that. Interviewer: Okay someone you'd say she'd hardly got the news when she had to come run right over here to tell me? 364: Oh. Interviewer: Ah. {NW} You'd say if he doesn't come I? 364: I'm gonna to him. Interviewer: Alright if you're going to be sorry that he doesn't come. 364: #1 Okay. # Interviewer: #2 If he doesn't come I'm going to what? # 364: If he doesn't come? {NS} Uh I'll be disappointed. Interviewer: Okay, good. Uh you'd say anytime just anytime you can come over we'll? 364: We'll you are welcome. Interviewer: #1 Alright. # 364: #2 Uh. # Interviewer: We'll be glad to see 364: #1 {D: You all.} # Interviewer: #2 {D: you all.} # Alright do you use {D: glad or proud?} 364: I use glad. Interviewer: Kay. {NS} Uh this is a an older term I guess for a boy going over to see his girl, what would you say he's doing? 364: Dating her. Interviewer: Okay. {NW} How about an older term maybe for dating her? 364: Uh courting. Interviewer: Okay. Uh a girl putting on her best dress and getting all dressed up her little brother says she's a fixing up for her? 364: Boy uh uh beau. Interviewer: {NW} 364: Well that's the word we used to use, beau. Interviewer: Okay. Uh you'd say he's going over to see his? 364: Beau I don't. Interviewer: Okay. 364: Yeah. Interviewer: Uh. If a boy comes home with lipstick on his collar his little brother says you've been? 364: Dating. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Uh I I wish I could. Interviewer: {NW} 364: I always thought. I always thought I wish you was married. Interviewer: {NW} 364: And this ain't what. Interviewer: {NW} Well just tell me anyway I won't be embarrassed. 364: Yeah I don't I don't know if this is the kind of place for that talk. Interviewer: {NW} 364: What I wanted talk. {NW} Interviewer: {NW} 364: Lord I {X} Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Uh here if I'd known you were mean when you were little. 364: {NW} Interviewer: Or you might know you were mean when you were 364: #1 Oh yeah. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 364: #1 Always such a good boy. # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Yeah. #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {NW} 364: Well out of most of these questions, {D: I am super.} Most all of 'em. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # They're they're not uh not too embarrassed, some of 'em may be a little. Interviewer: {NW} 364: {NW} I was I'd wait for Mister {NW} {D: Mister Billy she would call and just} {NW} I'd tell him to cut the line off when I wanted to tell a girl. Interviewer: {NW} 364: {NW} Interviewer: When a girl stops letting a boy come over to see her, you'd say she? A girl stops letting a boy come to see her, you'd say she? 364: Uh she well there's so many terms for that, I'd say she's uh she quit him. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um you'd s you'd say uh about newlyweds they're just? 364: A newlywed? Interviewer: Uh-huh they've just married. 364: Yeah Interviewer: #1 Uh-huh. # 364: #2 they just married. # Interviewer: Any humorous ways or slang ways of saying just married? 364: Just married. Yeah. They are honeymooning. Interviewer: Alright. 364: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Hitched # have you ever literally used the term hitched? They got hitched? Instead of married? 364: Mm. That ain't a term I use. Interviewer: {NW} 364: But I'll accept it. Interviewer: Okay. 364: {NW} Interviewer: At a wedding, a man who stands up with the groom is called what? 364: Uh. The best man. Interviewer: Okay and the girl that stands up with the bride is her? 364: Uh. I I don't know. Interviewer: Bridesmaid? 364: Bridesmaid? Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 364: #2 Yeah, that'd # be alright yeah cause. Interviewer: Okay. 364: Ain't nobody stand with me. Interviewer: {NW} 364: When I had gotten in trouble. Interviewer: {NW} Aw. 364: {NW} Interviewer: I noticed you're saying all that after she left the room. 364: Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah? 364: {NW} Interviewer: After a wedding the boys in the neighborhood used to gather round the couple's home and they'd make all kinds of noise they had a word for what they called it, do you know it? 364: Yeah uh. Not celebrate. Serenading. Interviewer: Serenading 364: #1 Serenading. # Interviewer: #2 okay. # Uh do you know of the word shivaree? The term shivaree? For that celebration. 364: #1 No, I don't. # Interviewer: #2 A shivaree. # 364: I don't know. Interviewer: #1 I don't know it either, I don't # 364: #2 {X} # Interviewer: Don't believe its ours, do you? 364: But we used to serenade outside their room. Interviewer: Uh you'd say uh if you'd been in Knoxville, Tennessee would you say I've been up down or over to Knoxville? 364: Knoxville? I'd say I'd been up to Knoxville. Interviewer: Alright. How about Atlanta? 364: I'd say I'd been uh down to Atlanta. Interviewer: Okay. {NS} 364: We we would usually Interviewer: {NW} {X} 364: We usually say if its north we'd say up and if its south we would say Interviewer: #1 Alright. # 364: #2 down. # Interviewer: {NS} Okay you you say up and down then are directions not not that its hilly or a road. 364: {NW} I don't I wouldn't I wouldn't {D: term} it like that. I usually use it as uh um direction north, south. Interviewer: Okay. 364: You use that with or Interviewer: Over to the east or west? 364: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay. {NW} 364: And up north and down south. Interviewer: Okay. 364: That's the way I use it. Interviewer: You might say there was trouble at the party, the police just came out and arrested the? 364: Whole gang. Interviewer: Okay. Uh What the young people like to go out to in the evening where they move around the floor? 364: {D: Dance}. Interviewer: Uh any names of various kinds of dances? 364: Oh yeah there's plenty of names for 'em. All kinds of names. Uh. Uh. We used to do the cakewalk. We used to do the two-step. Auxiliary: {X} 364: And we used to Auxiliary: {X} 364: do the cha-cha you know? {NW} So many different dances. Interviewer: Okay. You'd say three o'clock is the time when school? 364: Is out. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh The day after Labor Day is when school? 364: After labor day? Interviewer: Yes sir. The day after labor day is usually when school? 364: Begins. Interviewer: Okay. Uh How about a boy leaves home to go to school but didn't doesn't get there, what do you say about him? 364: Tardy. Interviewer: Alright, if he doesn't show up at all? 364: Um. Playing hooky. Interviewer: {NW} Okay. 364: {NW} Interviewer: Uh you go to school to get an? 364: Education. Interviewer: Okay. After high school you go on to? 364: College. Interviewer: After kindergarten you go into? 364: Uh uh kindergarten you go into elementary. Interviewer: Alright, which grade? 364: Elementary is oh I don't know. Interviewer: You ever did you ever call it primary? 364: Yeah. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: I did. Interviewer: Okay. 364: Primary school. Interviewer: You'd say uh the classroom has new chairs and? 364: Desks. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh a building especially for books is called a? 364: Library. Interviewer: Alright. Uh you mail a package at the? 364: {X} Interviewer: You mail a package you mail out a package at where? 364: At the post office. Interviewer: Alright. You stay overnight in a strange town at a what? 364: Hotel. Interviewer: Alright. Uh the place where you see a play or a movie? 364: Theater. Interviewer: Alright. Uh older names for a theater? 364: Uh a theater? Interviewer: Yes sir. 364: Uh. Let's see. Interviewer: Would you ever call it an opera house? 364: Well yeah I've heard the term I I don't know about it but I heard the term opera house. Interviewer: Where do you go to have an operation? 364: To the hospital. Interviewer: Alright and the a woman who looks after you in the hospital? 364: Is a nurse. Interviewer: Alright. Uh You catch a train where? 364: At the station. Interviewer: Alright. You might call it a railroad what? 364: Depot. Interviewer: Okay. Uh the place in the center of town around the courthouse? 364: The square. Interviewer: Okay. Uh if there's a vacant lot at a corner and you go across it instead of around it on the sidewalk you're walking how? 364: Jaywalking. Interviewer: {NW} Did you ever use the term kitty-corner or catty-corner? 364: {NW} I I don't Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 364: #2 don't remember. # Interviewer: And uh when women set a piece of furniture like this sometimes across a corner 364: Yeah? Interviewer: call it catty-corner. 364: Catty-corner. Interviewer: #1 Or kitty-corner. # 364: #2 Yeah. # Yeah well that's true too. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 Catty-corner. # Interviewer: {NS} Um Things that used to go by on rails in a city streets? 364: Streetcar. Interviewer: Okay. You tell the bus driver the next corner is where I want? 364: To get off. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh here in Franklin county Russellville is the? 364: County seat. Interviewer: Alright. If you're an FBI agent you're working for? 364: The federal federal government. Interviewer: Alright. A political candidate who wants the police to get tougher says he's for? 364: Wants police to get tougher? Interviewer: Yes sir, he might say in his speech I'm for? 364: Peace. Interviewer: Alright. How do you ever use the term law and order? 364: Yeah. Okay. {NS} That's what uh uh {D: Reverend Waters} uh said he he first he said he wasn't for law and order but when he became old he said he was. I I don't need it I don't mean to be in bad humor. Interviewer: You're not embarrassing him thinking like that. 364: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Really weren't gonna get into politics but he's not my candidate, he never has been mine. 364: Well I didn't think he looked any different cause I just didn't care what he said. But he said that he was he he was {NW} worth a {X} Didn't care when or what it coming down to four years he'd be governor he'd see that there wouldn't be a negro going to white school. He said now uh I don't care what kind of order is issued what kind of court authorization. You {X} for four years I am your governor. They may maybe he'd have to go to jail, but I'll go to jail myself. Interviewer: He didn't though did he? 364: Uh. You people ain't gonna stand seeing him go to jail let alone for her right now. Interviewer: {NW} 364: He said that over here in Florence. I said when uh when he was elected I said before now I'm gonna get my television in tip-top shape he said he wasn't gonna do it, {D: wasn't gonna abide by the law} I wanna see him when he placed a hand on the holy Bible. And swore he will uphold the constitution of the United States. And maintain law and order. When they told him {D: in thought} he wasn't gonna do it but I did, I sat there and watched {NW} I said now {X} I was laying in bed still. Interviewer: He didn't stay in that schoolhouse door long though, did he? 364: He said he couldn't stand any schoolhouse door in the state of Alabama single one if we have niggers going #1 to a school # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 364: a white school. {NW} And I I heard {X} lots of 'em. {X} {D: you have ever did} {D: Wallace} And I told him I said I I voted for Wallace But if folks ran for for governor I voted for him. Interviewer: #1 I did # 364: #2 He was the best man. # Interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # But when he said that I slid down off his wagon. I didn't want to go no further. Interviewer: I voted for Mister {D: DeGraffenried} and then now 364: #1 Yeah I did too. # Interviewer: #2 he got killed, didn't he? # 364: I did too. I voted {D: DeGraffenried} but his first uh his first uh candidacy was for between him {NS} and John Patterson. Interviewer: Yes. 364: And I voted Interviewer: And he was the better man and 364: #1 He had the # Interviewer: #2 for what he was # 364: Yeah. Interviewer: #1 Better man than Patterson. # 364: #2 Better man than Patterson. # I thought. Interviewer: Yeah. 364: But when he he said that he would never let another {D: nobody out here.} {NW} {D: Patterson lied immediately.} Interviewer: {NW} 364: {D: Well I mean when he comes back he comes after.} {NW} Interviewer: {NW} 364: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 Well he's # gonna run again, isn't he? 364: Oh yeah, yeah. He's gonna run for president. Interviewer: Well there's not an {X} anybody else in Alabama to run against him because {D: if Albert Roker} couldn't beat him I don't believe anybody can. 364: There ain't no there ain't no reason why why to run against George Wallace, he's Interviewer: Uh-huh. 364: the smartest man in the Alabama. Interviewer: He's gonna get elected. 364: Oh yeah, well he's the smartest man in Alabama. Interviewer: And he will now for sure, you know after getting hurt. 364: {D: I know that he uh} He is a smart politician I have to give it to him. But I think he'll win it. Interviewer: I don't. 364: When he's smart, he fools you people. Interviewer: He never fooled me Mister T 364: {NW} Interviewer: He's not my man I worked for Mister Brewer in the last campaign. 364: Yeah. Well. Interviewer: And just thought surely he was gonna carry that election. 364: Well he never carried it. {D: Never really placed} He uh if uh {NW} this uh back man hadn't come in. Uh Mister Wallace who saw that he was he was gonna really lose out. {C: distorted from 31:45 to 32:00} And he had {D: ate a post} in the state of Alabama and he was {X} He was from uh {D: Wilkins} uh put it up Interviewer: Yeah. 364: I haven't been having a Interviewer: {NW] 364: He's smart. You have to give I'll give it to him. My hat's off to Mister Wallace for being smart. Interviewer: Well I don't believe he'll ever get anywhere nationally. 364: Because? It'd be very hard. Interviewer: Ah 364: #1 But there # Interviewer: #2 okay. # 364: are there are possibility. You know what believe it or not. Now he had {D: he he gone down to fool with Alabama} his laws are more Interviewer: #1 Well # 364: #2 {D: progressive.} # Interviewer: I was surprised in some of those other primary elections 364: #1 Yeah, yeah. # Interviewer: #2 he won, and I don't. # 364: #1 # Interviewer: #2 # But since then look we have a black Los Angeles mayor and just yesterday 364: Yeah. Interviewer: a black Atlanta mayor. 364: Yeah. I I know the {D: set.} Interviewer: So I don't know if Wallace is as strong as he was. I don't think he's as strong as he was even with the whites. 364: #1 Well if he asked you # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 364: you've lost a lot. They really Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 there there are lots of # #1 white people # Interviewer: #2 {X} # {X} 364: There's a lot of white people {D: this time} Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {D:guessing.} # I I found that out. Interviewer: But I don't know if we'll feel sorry for him because he's hurt 364: {X} they call a sympathy vote sympathy vote. Interviewer: Mm. You'll get it out of that. 364: Oh yeah. Sympathy vote Interviewer: And I think his new wife is a beautiful woman Isn't she? Auxiliary: She sure is. 364: I don't know her but Interviewer: His new wife, I think she's a beautiful woman. Auxiliary: I do too. 364: {D: I thought she was some nobody} {C: reduced audio quality} I I I haven't seen any pictures of her. But uh {NS} Now some some uh disregard them up through 'em all because of his first wife. You can't beat Mister Wallace. Interviewer: No? 364: No. Interviewer: He married her knowing she was dying. 364: Oh yeah. Uh. {D: Lanny} said uh you see, she was in the hospital. Every Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 364: #2 once in a while # she was in the hospital. And then he said Mister Wallace would get her back before the uh this other man would take over. Interviewer: Yeah. 364: And he was the go-getter Interviewer: #1 and bring her back. # 364: #2 and bring her back to # his office. Interviewer: And she was just 364: #1 He's smart. # Interviewer: #2 trying. # 364: #1 He he said he he's gonna be. # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 364: {NW} Interviewer: What did you call the war between the north and the south? 364: Civil. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh before they had an electric chair, murderers were? 364: Hanged. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh these are in now there are a few questions now that are about cities and states. Um Albany is the capital of what state? Do you know that one? 364: Alban? Interviewer: Albany. 364: #1 Oh oh its # Interviewer: #2 Albany. # 364: Albany, New York. Interviewer: Okay. And Annapolis is the capital of? 364: And Annapolis? Interviewer: Annapolis. 364: Indiana. Interviewer: Uh no you you said Indianapolis maybe I sounded like I said that. How about the state that Baltimore is in? 364: Maryland. Interviewer: Okay. Uh Richmond is the capital of? 364: Virginia. Interviewer: And Raleigh is the capital of? 364: North Carolina. Interviewer: And you told me the other day your uh father was born in what? 364: South Carolina. Interviewer: Alright. And Sherman marched across? 364: {NW} Interviewer: General Sherman marched across and burnt which state? Where Atlanta is. 364: Sherman. {D: General} Georgia. Interviewer: Okay. 364: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Uh Tallahassee is the capital of? 364: Florida. Interviewer: And George Wallace is governor of? 364: Alabama. Interviewer: Yeah. 364: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Baton Rouge is the capital of? 364: {D: What word what?} Interviewer: Baton Rouge. 364: Louisiana. Interviewer: And the bluegrass state is? 364: #1 Kentucky. # Interviewer: #2 Where the # Okay. The volunteer state? 364: Volunteer? Interviewer: Volunteer state. Just north of us. 364: {NW} {NS} Ohio. Interviewer: Memphis and Nashville? 364: Tennessee. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: Oh volunteer state. Yeah, I thought I knew that. {NS} Interviewer: The show-me state do you know that one? 364: Which one? Interviewer: Show-me. Where they say you're as uh stubborn as a? 364: Uh. Wait a minute, Missouri? Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: And Little Rock is the capital of? 364: Um. Arkansas. Interviewer: And Jackson is the capital of? 364: Tennessee. Interviewer: Okay. The Lone Star state? 364: Oh that's {NW} uh {NS} uh I was thinking about that this morning Texas. Interviewer: Alright. 364: {NW} Interviewer: And Tulsa is in what state? 364: {D: Tulsa?} Interviewer: Yes sir. 364: Oklahoma. Interviewer: Okay. And Boston? 364: Massachusetts Interviewer: Alright. And the states from Maine to Connecticut are called what states? 364: From Maine to Connecticut? Interviewer: Yes sir. 364: Uh. Wait a minute wait a minute let me see. Um. New England states. Interviewer: Okay. 364: {NW} Interviewer: The biggest city in Maryland? 364: Baltimore. Interviewer: Alright. The capital of the United States? 364: Washington D-C Interviewer: Alright. Uh the biggest city in Missouri that has a blues song named after it? 364: Biggest city in? Interviewer: In Missouri. 364: Missouri? {NW} Interviewer: It's on a river I think. 364: It wouldn't be St Louis? Interviewer: That's it. 364: Yeah? St Louis? Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh the oldest {X} seaport in South Carolina. 364: Seaport in South Carolina? Interviewer: Yes. 364: {NW} South Carolina. Wait a minute. {NW} {NS} {D: I I don't know the name but I can't get it} Interviewer: Mm. 364: {D: Cape Cod.} Interviewer: Charleston. 364: Charleston South Carolina. {NW} Interviewer: The big steel making town in Alabama? 364: Its in uh {NS} Pitts uh Pittsburgh. Interviewer: Alright but the one in Alabama #1 where they make steel at? # 364: #2 Oh. # Yeah. Birmingham. Interviewer: Okay. The big city in Illinois. 364: In Illinois? Chicago. Interviewer: Alright. The capital of Alabama? 364: Montgomery. Interviewer: Alright. And the uh city on the gulf coast in Alabama? 364: City on the gulf coast? Mobile? Interviewer: Uh the biggest city in east Tennessee? 364: East Tennessee? Interviewer: Yes sir. Where {X} 364: Knoxville Interviewer: Yes sir. Um the city up in the mountains in Tennessee? 364: Chattanooga. Interviewer: Alright. Uh the city up in the mountains in North Carolina? Its a resort city? In western North Carolina. 364: Western North Carolina. I forgot all my geography for this. Western North Carolina? Interviewer: I forgot mine too. 364: {NW} Interviewer: This its Asheville. 364: Asheville. Interviewer: Asheville. 364: Asheville. Interviewer: {D: I don't know much about that} 364: I I I couldn't remember that. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um the big city in west Tennessee where Martin Luther King was killed? 364: Memphis. Interviewer: The capital of Tennessee? 364: Uh. Jackson. Tennessee is Nashville, Nashville. Interviewer: Okay. The capital and largest city in Georgia? 364: Atlanta. Interviewer: The biggest seaport in Georgia? 364: Augusta? No? {D: I don't know direction} {X} Interviewer: All the way down. 364: Mm. Interviewer: Savannah? 364: Hmm? Interviewer: Savannah? 364: Savannah. Savannah. Interviewer: The biggest city in New Orleans I mean no well I said it the biggest city in Louisiana? Uh. 364: New Orleans. Interviewer: {NW} Uh 364: {NW} Interviewer: And the capital of Louisiana? 364: Baton Rouge. Interviewer: Okay. Uh the biggest city in southern Ohio? 364: Cincinnati. Interviewer: Mm-kay. And the biggest city in Kentucky and all for the derby? {NS} {NS} 364: Uh Kentucky? Yeah. {NW} {NS} Louisville. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: {NW} Interviewer: Uh as you'd you might say from this town to that town is about? 364: Uh. {D: From which?} Interviewer: Now you might tell me the distance from here to {D: Russellville} is about how far? 364: About six miles. Interviewer: Alright. Uh. Somebody asked you to do something, you'd say well I don't know blank if I can do it or not. 364: I don't know whether Interviewer: Mm okay. 364: I can do it or not. Interviewer: Uh it you have a very sick friend and he's not likely to get any better {C: distorted} {X} When you could've used help you might ask afterwards why did you just sit around blank helping me? 364: Why'd you just sit around and see me uh in such a strain and wouldn't help me? Interviewer: Alright. Do you ever use the word instead of? 364: Ins- Interviewer: Instead of helping me why'd you just sit around instead of? You ever use that? 364: Uh-uh. Interviewer: Instead of. Why did you just sit around instead of working? 364: Yeah. Interviewer: #1 Mm-kay. # 364: #2 Yeah. # Uh use that sometimes. Interviewer: Okay. 364: But {NW} Interviewer: {D: Uh a while} if somebody had asked you why do you like him, you'd say I like him? 364: Because he's friendly. Interviewer: Alright. . Uh names of churches, I believe this is the one you go to. 364: {NW} The churches I go to? Oh I just go to Baptist and Methodist. Interviewer: Okay. Uh when somebody becomes a member of the church you say he? 364: Joined. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh in church you worship? Auxiliary: Heaven. 364: God. Interviewer: Alright. When swearing do you pronounce it the same way? 364: Swearing? Interviewer: If you're swearing and you use God's name, do you pronounce it the same way? 364: Yes. Its pronounced the same way. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: It doesn't mean the same. Interviewer: {NW} Okay. You said the preacher preached a fine? 364: Sermon. Interviewer: Uh the choir and organist provided good? 364: Music. Interviewer: Uh the service was or the sunset was you're describing it now. 364: Mm. {NW} The service we had a wonderful service. Interviewer: Alright you're describing it and instead of saying pretty its more than pretty what is it? 364: More than what? Interviewer: More than pretty. 364: {NW} You You mean the service is more than? Interviewer: Was more than pretty what would you say? 364: Beautiful. Interviewer: Okay. Uh you'd say I thought I had time but I got caught in the tra- traffic and the post office was closed? 364: Hold that hold on I got that Interviewer: Okay. 364: Before all that there. Interviewer: Okay. What did people sometimes tell children would come and get them if they didn't behave? 364: Spankings. Interviewer: But they'd say that something was gonna come and 'em if they didn't behave who'd they tell 'em would come and get 'em? 364: Bogeyman. Interviewer: Okay. 364: I've heard that Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 expression. # Interviewer: {NW} 364: {X} {NW} Interviewer: Did they mean the devil? 364: I'm uh yeah. I've heard lots of 'em Interviewer: {NW} 364: old the ol' method {NS} {D: the old manner} {NS} if uh its a white child a nigger will get you Interviewer: {NW} 364: Now you gonna believe I've heard that Interviewer: Oh. 364: time and again. Auxiliary: {D: Young man} come on back here {D: or a nigger will get you.} Interviewer: {NW} 364: {D: Nigger says ah that's true oh.} Interviewer: {NW} 364: {NW} {X} You ever name a nigger when they're bad Interviewer: #1 Its like he # 364: #2 {X} # Interviewer: was the devil, huh? 364: Uh-huh. Interviewer: {NW} 364: Well I've had that that used to make me make me shudder when I'd hear that. Interviewer: You know sometimes they scare children with policemen with a {D: signed lighting} 364: #1 Yeah, yeah # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 364: #1 {D: horrible to think of} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 364: #1 Mm-hmm. # Interviewer: #2 Yeah # 364: Yeah now I I've heard that. Interviewer: And you're not supposed to scare children. 364: No, no. Interviewer: Policemen. 364: I remember once I was a little little boy between the years when {D: Rockwood} and there was a lady near the {X} Uh. {D: Burton Underwood} plays. And and she had a bunch of children playing out there in the road, you know? Near the raised road. And I heard in summertime oh I'd go up to the store every day or two. And uh Come on back here! There comes a man he'll get you. And I I just stood it long as I could. I told her that {D: lady} please don't scare your children like that. Said please ma'am and they were like she didn't she didn't use the phrase nigger. But now if I hadn't've been listening, she would have said nigger #1 yes she would. # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # You knew what she meant any of it. 364: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # What is it that people sometimes think they see around a graveyard? 364: Oh a haint. Interviewer: Okay. Any other names for a #1 Haint? # 364: #2 Ghoul. # Ghoul. Interviewer: Okay. Uh. This is a uh a lonely old house off of a dark road people think they hear strange noises come from inside. 364: Oh that house is {D: haunted.} Interviewer: Okay. 364: {NW} Interviewer: {NW} You'd say you'd better put a sweater on, its getting? 364: Dark. Interviewer: #1 Alright. # 364: #2 What about # cold. Interviewer: Or it getting right chilly. 364: Yeah that. {C: Audio becomes faint} Interviewer: Rather chilly would you? Or sort of? 364: Yeah, its sort of Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 chilly. # Interviewer: #1 # 364: #2 # Interviewer: Uh you'd say I'll go if you insist, but I'm 364: {D: ah go on.} Um. Well other than that Interviewer: #1 Alright. # 364: #2 {D: I'd go one if I can.} # Interviewer: Uh what do you say to a friend you haven't seen for some time? If you're glad to see them? 364: Well I I'm glad to see you because I hadn't I haven't seen you in quite a while. Interviewer: Alright. Uh you'd say he owns five hundred acres how much land would that be? That's a bunch of land. 364: Five hundred acres? Interviewer: Yes sir. If you were describing that much land how much land would you say that'd be? 364: I'd say he has a big farm. Interviewer: Okay. Did did you ever use the term a {D: right smart of land?} 364: Oh I have. Interviewer: #1 Does this mean? # 364: #2 {X} # If he had five hundred acres I'd say he got a lot of land. Interviewer: {NW} 364: {NW} Interviewer: Got it. Uh would you also use the term right smart to talk about {D: pain?} If you had a right smart of pain Of pain. If you were hurting somewhere, talk about pain. 364: No, I'd say a lot. Interviewer: Alright. How about money? 364: #1 Oh # Interviewer: #2 Would you s-? # 364: {D: claiming on that.} Interviewer: {NW} 364: Plenty of money. Interviewer: If you want to express agreement stronger than with just yes, what would you say? 364: Yes. Interviewer: Stronger than yes. 364: Sure. Interviewer: Mm-kay. You'd I'd say can you really do that? And you'd say I? 364: I'm afraid I can't. Interviewer: Okay. 364: #1 Or I can. # Interviewer: #2 {D: When} # Mm-kay. Uh if you wanted to be very polite to somebody would you say just yes? 364: No, I'd say uh yes ma'am or yes sir. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: Um. Interviewer: If somebody intensely disliked to go somewhere you'd say he? 364: If he? Interviewer: If he intensely disliked to go somewhere you'd say he? 364: Oh and he he not he don't wanna go? Interviewer: Yes sir. 364: Oh. Oh I don't know what it'd be. Sort of depends on the circumstances in that case. Interviewer: Mm-kay and how did 364: I might say he's {D: stuck in mud.} Interviewer: Okay. 364: {NW} {NS} Interviewer: Did uh do you say he he dreaded the place? Do you use the term dreaded? For hated? 364: Well not in that some instances I would say he dreaded it. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: Or I might say he bull headed Or I might say he's peaked. Interviewer: {NW} 364: {NW} Interviewer: Kay. 364: Or {X} some. {NW} Interviewer: Oh. If you hit your finger with a hammer what would you say? 364: Uh-oh. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # {D: Careless as ever.} Interviewer: {NW} 364: And I've got a blister I say nah and I ain't gonna tell you how its getting around here. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 Ah, okay. # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # It was me that {D: made} the thing let's say you run out. Wore out. {NW} Interviewer: {NW} 364: {NW} Interviewer: What might you exclaim when you were excited? 364: What's making me? Interviewer: What might you say when you were excited? 364: Oh scared me. Interviewer: Would you do you ever use the term land sakes? I believe women use that more than men, don't they? Land sakes. 364: Land sakes. Uh no I I don't know. {NS} I don't remember using it myself. Interviewer: Mm okay. What might you say when you're a little bit peeved at yourself for doing something foolish? 364: I'd just say I'm an old fool. Interviewer: {NW} 364: Just plain fool. Interviewer: {NW} 364: Which I I uh acknowledge mine. Interviewer: {NW} 364: {NW} Interviewer: When something shocking is reported, you might show a kind of polite resentment by saying why are they? 364: Why are they? Something shocking? Interviewer: Yes sir. Or as you might say you said it, you'd say why the very? 364: The very idea. Interviewer: Okay. {NS} When a friend says good morning why what might you ask him in return? 364: How do you feel? Interviewer: Okay. When you are introduced to a stranger what might you say? 364: I'm glad to meet you. Interviewer: Um. 364: {NW} Interviewer: How do you greet somebody about December twenty-fifth? 364: Kind of a greeting? Interviewer: On December twenty-fifth or about. 364: Christmas eve or Christmas dear. Interviewer: Okay. 364: On the twenty-fifth. Interviewer: {NW} 364: Christmas dear. {NS} Interviewer: Uh well what might you say about January first? 364: Um. Happy new year. Interviewer: Alright. Uh anything you might say by way of appreciation besides thank you? 364: Well I'd just plainly say I appreciate. Interviewer: Okay. 364: Very much. Interviewer: Do you ever use the term {D: Mister T} uh I'm much obliged? 364: Well now I have. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: But I I I I think I appreciate it is a solid term. And I that's that's my Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: My thinking. Interviewer: Uh you'd say I have to go downtown a little while to do some? 364: Shopping. Interviewer: Okay. Uh if you make a purchase the store keeper takes a piece of paper and? 364: Well in my in my {D: reason} he had charged it. Interviewer: {NW} 364: {NW} Interviewer: {NW} If he does like when you're fixing up a Christmas package? 364: He's packaging it uh wrapped it. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 Wrapped it. # Interviewer: Uh if the storekeeper sold something for two dollars that he'd paid two dollars a {D: hind} for you'd say he was selling it? 364: At a loss. Interviewer: Mm-kay. You admire something but don't have enough money to buy it, you'd say sure I like it, but it? 364: Uh its too high. Interviewer: Okay. Uh uh when its time to pay the bill on the first the month you say the bill is? 364: Due. Interviewer: Kay. 364: {D: But I ain't saying nothing.} {NW} Interviewer: {NW} And to stay in good standing in your club or {D: lodge} you have to pay your? 364: Dues. Interviewer: Alright. If you need to cut the grass and you don't have a lawnmower you might go over to a neighbor and ask to? 364: Borrow one. Interviewer: Mm-kay. {NS} When the banker is gently refusing a loan, he might say well money is? 364: Scarce. Ah. {NW} Interviewer: You'd say and he ran down the springboard and? 364: Um. Interviewer: Ran down the springboard and into the water. 364: Oh. Dived. Interviewer: Okay. {NS} When you dive in and hit the water flat on your this part of your body, what do you call that? 364: Belly buster. Interviewer: {NW} When you turn head over heels you call that turning a what? 364: A somerset. Interviewer: Okay. Uh he'd already get across the river so he dived in and? 364: Swim. Interviewer: Okay. Um {NS} when you buy something or used to buy something or paid the bill sometimes the storekeeper would give you a little present and he'd say its for? 364: Um. {NS} Give you a present for? Uh your patronage. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 Uh. # Interviewer: I don't bel- I've never heard this word, the word is uh L-A-G-N-I-A-P-P-E. Lagn- Lagniappe? {C: Pronunciation} 364: I don't know that Interviewer: #1 I don't know it either. # 364: #2 word. # Interviewer: #1 And # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Some synonyms of it are brawtus B-R-A-W-T-U-S. And pilon P-I-L-O-N. And it's It's a bonus or a gift when a bill is paid. 364: I don't I know none of those Interviewer: Its not a local term is it? 364: Well most uh uh we we use it uh. {X} {NS} Quite often. Lots of times paid off our bill and he would say maybe here take it for your appreciation for your Interviewer: #1 Mm-hmm. # 364: #2 patronage. # Uh. And uh dealing with him. Interviewer: But I don't know those terms 364: #1 No, I don't know 'em. # Interviewer: #2 around here. Mm-kay. # Someone who got caught in a whirlpool and didn't get out you'd say he was? 364: Drowning. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh what does a baby do before its able to walk? 364: Crawl. Interviewer: Mm-kay. You saw something up a tree, you went to take a closer look at it so you went over to the tree and? You go up the tree. 364: Climb. Interviewer: Alright. 364: Climb the tree. Interviewer: Um {NS} playing hide and seek, you find yourself near a stump so you? 364: Said a stump? Interviewer: Yes sir, if you're playing, kids are playing hide and seek and they get near a 364: #1 Hide. # Interviewer: #2 stump. # 364: Where you hide in. Interviewer: Okay {NW} Uh when somebody's down on his uh knees say like shooting marbles, what do you say he's doing? 364: Well. Uh {NW} {NW} usually he's playing if he's not playing he {X} Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 {D: for a ruler} # Interviewer: Do you use the term hunker down? You'd say he's hunkered down? 364: {X} I would say uh I would use it. I'd I might {NS} about {C: Audio volume decreased until 57:10} Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: I might use the word hunker. Interviewer: Uh if a child wanted to trick you he might hide behind a couch he'd go back there and hunker down when he jumped up he'd say? This to trick you? He might jump out behind the couch at you and say something, what would he say? {NS} 364: He trick you. In the scary way he'd say boo or something Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 like that. # Interviewer: Okay. 364: Yeah. {NS} Interviewer: In praying you say you? 364: Praying? Interviewer: In praying. 364: Praying? Interviewer: You what? When you get down to pray? 364: It's uh you first is address the deity. Uh. You'd you you usually begin with uh addressing the Father. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: Uh-huh. Interviewer: And in what position are you? 364: On my knees. Interviewer: Okay and what do you call that? 364: Praying. Interviewer: Alright. But then do you kneeling? 364: Mm-hmm. Interviewer: Okay. 364: Mm-hmm praying. {NS} Interviewer: Uh you'd say I'm feeling tired, I'm going over to the couch and? 364: Rest. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh you'd say all morning if he stayed in bed all morning all day he? 364: Slept. Interviewer: Okay. Uh talking about something you saw in your sleep you'd say this is what I? 364: Dreamed. Interviewer: Mm-kay. {NW} Uh I dreamed I was falling but just as I was about to hit the ground I? 364: I wake. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh if you bring your foot down heavy on the floor like this you say you do what? 364: Stomp. Interviewer: Okay. 364: {NW} Interviewer: When you see a friend leaving a party alone you might ask can I? 364: Can I assist you or or yeah. Could I assist you or? Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh would it make any difference in what you said whether you were walking or driving? 364: No. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: Same lines. Interviewer: How about whether you were speaking to a man or a woman? 364: That would that'd be likewise. Interviewer: Okay. 364: Same there. Interviewer: Alright. Uh when you say uh could I carry you home, do you mean the same thing as to escort? 364: Yes. Interviewer: Okay. To get a boat up on land you tie a rope to the bow and? 364: Tow it in. Interviewer: Mm-kay. When your car gets stuck in the mud or snow you ask someone to get behind you and give you a? 364: Push. Interviewer: Mm-kay. You had a sack of groceries and didn't have your car, so you picked it up and? 364: Didn't have my car? Interviewer: No sir. 364: And I picked it up? Interviewer: And? 364: We use the term toted it. Interviewer: Okay. 364: {NW} I I was corrected in a {D: magazine I know of} that didn't use that word tote. They said pack. Interviewer: Pack okay. 364: Pack. Interviewer: Someone corrected me yesterday for using the word choice-y. {C: Slang} 364: Choice-y? Interviewer: They said there's no such word as choice-y. 364: Oh why? Interviewer: I said it must be I've used it all my life. {NW} 364: And I have too. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 364: #2 {NW} # Uh I I frequently used it. Interviewer: I did too. 364: #1 Well he's choice-y. # Interviewer: #2 I don't, I # I said the same thing and and they said uh is there such a word as choice-y? and I said well I thought so and they said the word was choosy. 364: Choosy? Interviewer: Not choice-y. Now I'd I was gonna look it up the dictionary today, but that's the first time I've thought about it 364: #1 Yeah. # Interviewer: #2 was when you said that. # 364: Uh I I I'm always seeing is that uh when when it come uh {D: hanging} I'd say oh he's too choice-y. Interviewer: I've said it too I'm I'll look that up and see. 364: Choosy? Interviewer: Choosy, they said was the word, 364: #1 Well it # Interviewer: #2 not choice-y. # They were teachers I was talking to and they you know they 364: Oh. Interviewer: #1 And # 364: #2 Well # it could be I I'm so off {D: the lawn.} Interviewer: Well I have too but I. 364: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # {NW} If a child is reaching toward a piece of fine glass that you don't want him to have you'll tell him? 364: Don't bother it. Interviewer: Okay. Uh if you need a hammer you'd say to me go? 364: Get my hammer. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Um in a tag game a tag of a game of tag, you have to run and get back to your? 364: Base. Interviewer: Mm-kay. If you throw a ball and ask somebody to? If you throw a ball at at me you ask me to do what? 364: #1 Catch it. # Interviewer: #2 Not. # 364: #1 Catch it. # Interviewer: #2 Mm-kay. # Uh you say I've been fishing for trout but I haven't? 364: {D: Caught 'em.} Had a bite. Interviewer: Okay. {NW} You'd say lets meet in town, if I get there first I'll? 364: See you. Uh. If I can get there first I'll I'll wait. Interviewer: Okay, do you Do you say I'll wait for you or wait on you? 364: I'll wait for you. Interviewer: Mm-kay. {NW} Uh a child wanting to get out of a spanking might say give me another? 364: Chance. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh somebody's got a smile on his face and a pleasant word for everybody you say he seems to be in a good? 364: Humor. Interviewer: Kay. {NW} Uh you say there's that pesky salesman again, wait till I? 364: That what? Interviewer: Pesky salesman again, wait till I? 364: Direct. Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: You'd say we've got termites but I'm sure the exterminating company will? 364: I'm afraid I didn't get that. Interviewer: Okay. It it's a term to get rid of, do you say get rid of or get shed of or get shut of? You wanna get rid of something. 364: Oh yeah. Oh I would just say get rid of. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: Yeah. Interviewer: You'd say he didn't really know what was going on but he? 364: Didn't really know what is going on. Oh I don't. Now that's there's a that's a term for Interviewer: #1 Mm-kay. # 364: #2 for a # calling them who it is Interviewer: #1 Alright. # 364: #2 what # it is, and where he. {X} Interviewer: You might say he didn't know what was going on but he acted as he? as if he did? 364: Did, uh-huh. Acted as if he did. Interviewer: Or he made out like he did? 364: Uh-huh. Interviewer: And you say made out like 364: #1 I # Interviewer: #2 or acted like? # 364: I I say he made out like Interviewer: #1 Okay. # 364: #2 he did. # That's what I was complaining with the day I left. Interviewer: {NW} A boy left his best pencil on his desk and came back and didn't find it he'd say I bet somebody. 364: Stole it. Interviewer: He usually left it in his other desk is what happened. 364: Mm. Interviewer: You'd say I had forgotten about that, but now I? 364: I remember. Interviewer: Okay. And you might say to me well you must have a better memory than I do because I sure don't? 364: Remember anything. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Uh you'd say I have just blank him a letter? 364: I just I've just written him a letter. Interviewer: Okay. And tomorrow I'm going to? 364: Uh. Interviewer: You're gonna send him another letter, tomorrow I'm going to? 364: Mail it. Interviewer: Okay. Uh you'd say in its time I was getting an? 364: Answer. Interviewer: Kay. Uh you put the letter in the envelope and then you take your pen and what do you do to the envelope? 364: Address it. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Did you ever use the term back it? 364: #1 Yeah, yeah, yeah. # Interviewer: #2 Okay. # 364: Back it. Interviewer: My mother said at the nursing home of the day she uh was going prepare a letter to mail for some patients 364: #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 she'd say # Well hand it to me and I'll back it. 364: #1 Yeah. Yeah. # Interviewer: #2 for you. # And she said they all laughed because they hadn't heard that term in a long time. 364: Oh yeah? There are {X} I I I sometimes get {D: Mandy} to back a letter. Interviewer: {NW} You'd say I want to write to someone do you know his? 364: Address. Interviewer: You a child has learned something surprising the parent might ask who was it? 364: Taught you. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 364: Who told you or. Why did where'd you get that? {NW} Interviewer: If I asked you when are you going to town, you'd say right now we're blank next Wednesday. 364: We're We're going to town next Wednesday. Interviewer: Okay. Do you say we intend or are fixing or aim? 364: Well I'd say we are we intend to go. Interviewer: Okay. You don't say aiming to go? 364: No. Interviewer: You maybe you heard of that? Aim I've of 364: #1 Oh yeah. # Interviewer: #2 aiming. # 364: Oh yeah. Interviewer: Okay. What do children call somebody who's always running and telling on the others? 364: Tattletale. Interviewer: Mm-kay.