Interviewer
A girl being common, do you mean something other than
something good?
Okay.
Alright.
Uh an old person say about eighty they say I'm not an old person, is it?
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?
Somebody about like
{X) {C: name}
Okay.
Do you still do you use the term chipper?
He's right chipper?
{X}
Peppy?
Or spry?
Okay.
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?
Alright you're a little bit worried about 'em.
They're out a little bit later than usual.
And you?
Alright how about uneasy do you ever use that word?
Mm-kay.
Uh I don't want to go upstairs in the dark, I'm?
Mm-kay.
Other words for afraid?
Other words that mean afraid?
There's another word that means the same as afraid.
As being afraid.
{NS}
She said fine, scared?
Okay.
Uh you say she isn't afraid now but she?
Okay.
Okay.
I don't understand why she's afraid, she?
How about the opposite of used to be?
Alright, used to not be.
Uh somebody who leaves a lot of money on the table and the door unlocked you'd say he's mighty?
Alright.
Okay.
There's nothing really wrong with that Lindsey but sometimes she acts kind of?
Okay.
{NW}
Would you use the word queer?
Okay.
Somebody who makes up his mind and nothing can make him change it is mighty?
Okay.
{NW}
In arguing somebody might say she might say why don't you be so?
If you were arguing with somebody like
that you just described, you'd bet
you might say don't you be so?
Okay.
{NW}
You might say don't be so stubborn?
Would you have used the word bull-headed?
Or hard-headed?
Okay.
Okay.
Somebody you can't joke with about him losing his temper you say he's mighty?
Okay.
Uh if somebody loses his temper when the least little fighting goes on he's awfully?
Alright.
I was just kidding him I didn't know he'd get?
If he's a bad temper all the time he's?
{NW}
{NW}
You did ya ever use the term uh
let's see feisty?
{NW}
Okay.
Somebody's about to lose his temper and you tell him now just?
Alright.
Keep calm?
Okay.
If you've been working very hard you say you are very?
Okay.
Uh
you'd say I'm just completely?
Okay.
You ever say worn out?
You ever, do you?
Okay.
He came home early from sick or work because he?
He came home early from school, excuse me, or work because he?
Or got sick?
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?
Okay.
Uh we'll get there?
Somebody got overheated and chilled and his eyes and nose started running, you'd say he?
He got overheated and then he ch- got chilled and he started
his eyes and nose started running, you'd say he?
Oh well
well how would you describe what's wrong with him?
Oh
well.
{NW}
Taken a cold?
Or has took a cold?
Mm yeah.
Yeah.
If it affected his voice you'd say he's?
Alright if he did
{NW}
that he'd have a little?
Alright what about a little tickling in your throat?
Makes you go
{NW}
What do you call that?
{NW}
A cough?
Cough.
Okay.
But what?
Oh got it.
{NW}
Okay.
You'd say I better go to bed I'm feeling a little?
Drowsy or sleepy?
Okay.
Uh but at six oh clock I'll?
After you go to bed, you say but at six oh clock I'll?
I'll wake.
You're gonna be waking up.
Alright.
Uh your wife would say he's still sleeping I'd better go?
Okay.
If the medicine is still by your bedside you'd ask why haven't you?
Alright.
Somebody who can't hear well is getting a little?
Okay.
Uh
you've been working hard and you take your work shirt off and say look how I?
A lump on your arm with a big core in it its what?
Alright. But its discharging maybe
some liquid.
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?
How about a boil?
A boil.
That would be alright, a boil.
Or a rising?
Is that the same thing?
Alright.
Okay.
When a boil opens the stuff that drains out's called what?
When you open up a boil and it drains
what do you call what drains out?
Okay.
A bee stung me in my hand.
It's still pretty badly.
Alright.
Uh when you get a blister, the liquid that forms under the skin is what?
That forms under a blister.
When you get a blister do you if you
pick?
Open it.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Somebody got shot or stabbed and you'd say you got a doctor to look at the?
He got shot or stabbed, you'd say I better get a doctor to look at that?
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?
{X}
what you call the wound?
That kind of wound
that just won't heal.
And you had
Uh do you know the term proud flesh?
Is that what I'm describing?
Okay.
Uh if you get just a little cut on your finger, what do you put on it
to avoid infection?
Yes.
Okay this is a little uh small bottle of brown liquid and it stings?
Uh.
Uh.
Mm okay.
{NW}
{NW}
This used to be given sometimes as a tonic for malaria.
For malaria.
You take this to get rid of malaria.
Or treat malaria.
Do you know uh the
term-uh
quinine or quinine? {C: pronunciation}
Does rhubarb grow around here?
I just
You know you can't
{NW}
{NW}
{X}
What was the rhubarb for?
Yeah.
I love rhubarb pie, did you ever eat
rhubarb pie?
Oh it is.
{NW}
The place where you bury people, what do you call that?
Okay.
Uh
the box that people are buried in?
Okay.
The ceremony at the cemetery?
Or at the church?
Okay.
Uh
anything
this is a term that uh
when people are dressed in black when they've lost a?
Mm-kay.
Somebody asked you on an average day how are you feeling, and you'd respond?
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?
Okay.
Uh if you're getting old and your joints are stiff and aching you say you've got a touch of?
Okay.
{NW}
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?
This is a disease that makes you turn yellow.
Okay.
You have a part a pain down here, you have to have an operation, what is it
called?
Okay.
When you eating great food that don't agree with you,
and they come back up, you say you?
Mm-kay.
Uh
which
uh a crude term for vomit, a slang term for vomit, if you?
Okay.
{NW}
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?
Alright
{X}
Okay.
If a person vomited you'd say he was sick where?
If a person vomited when he was sick, you'd say he was?
Okay.
Uh she'd hardly got the news when she came right over?
She'd hardly gotten the news and she came right over.
{NS}
Okay someone you'd say she'd hardly got the news when she had to come run right over here to tell me?
Ah.
{NW}
You'd say if he doesn't come I?
Alright if you're going to be sorry that he doesn't come.
If he doesn't come I'm going to what?
Okay, good.
Uh
you'd say anytime just anytime you can come over we'll?
Alright.
We'll be glad to see
{D: you all.}
Alright do you use
{D: glad or proud?}
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?
Okay.
{NW}
How about an older term maybe for dating her?
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?
{NW}
Okay.
Uh you'd say he's going over to see his?
Okay.
Uh.
If a boy comes home with lipstick on his collar his little brother says
you've been?
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
Well just tell me anyway I won't be embarrassed.
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
Uh here if I'd known you were mean when you were little.
Or you might know you were mean when you were
{X}
{NW}
Yeah.
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
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?
Mm-kay.
Um
you'd s
you'd say
uh
about newlyweds they're just?
Uh-huh they've just married.
Uh-huh.
Any
humorous ways or slang ways of saying just married?
Alright.
Hitched
have you ever literally used the term hitched?
They got hitched?
Instead of married?
{NW}
Okay.
At a wedding, a man who stands up with the groom is called what?
Okay and the girl that stands up with the bride is her?
Bridesmaid?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
{NW}
{NW}
Aw.
I noticed you're saying all that after she left the room.
Yeah?
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?
Serenading
okay.
Uh do you know of the word shivaree?
The term shivaree?
For that celebration.
A shivaree.
I don't know it either, I don't
Don't believe its ours, do you?
Uh you'd say uh if you'd been in Knoxville,
Tennessee would you say I've been up down or over to Knoxville?
Alright.
How about Atlanta?
Okay.
{NS}
{NW}
{X}
Alright.
{NS}
Okay you you say up and down then are
directions not
not that its
hilly or a road.
Okay.
Over to the east or west?
Okay.
{NW}
Okay.
You might say there was trouble at the party,
the police just came out and arrested the?
Okay.
Uh
What the young people like to
go out to in the evening where they move around the floor?
Uh
any
names of various kinds of dances?
Okay.
You'd say three o'clock is the time when school?
Mm-kay.
Uh
The day after Labor Day is when school?
Yes sir.
The day after labor day is usually when school?
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?
Alright, if he doesn't show up at all?
{NW}
Okay.
Uh you go to school to get an?
Okay.
After high school you go on to?
After kindergarten you go into?
Alright, which grade?
You ever did you ever call it primary?
Mm-kay.
Okay.
You'd say uh the classroom has new chairs and?
Mm-kay.
Uh a building especially for books is called a?
Alright.
Uh you mail a package at the?
You mail a package
you mail out a package at where?
Alright.
You stay overnight in a strange town
at a what?
Alright.
Uh the place where you see a play or a movie?
Alright.
Uh older names for a theater?
Yes sir.
Would you ever call it an opera house?
Where do you go to have an operation?
Alright and the a woman who looks after you in the hospital?
Alright.
Uh
You catch a train where?
Alright.
You might call it a railroad what?
Okay.
Uh the place in the center of town around the courthouse?
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?
{NW}
Did you ever use the term kitty-corner or catty-corner?
Mm-hmm.
And uh when women set a piece of furniture like this sometimes across a corner
call it catty-corner.
Or kitty-corner.
Okay.
{NS}
Um
Things that used to go by on rails in a city streets?
Okay.
You tell the bus driver the next corner is where I want?
Mm-kay.
Uh
here in Franklin county Russellville is the?
Alright.
If you're an FBI agent you're working for?
Alright.
A political candidate who wants the police to get tougher says he's for?
Yes sir, he might say in his speech I'm for?
Alright. How
do you ever use the term law and order?
You're not embarrassing him thinking like that.
{NW}
Really
weren't gonna get into politics but he's not my candidate, he never has been mine.
He didn't though did he?
{NW}
He didn't stay in that schoolhouse door long though, did he?
{NW}
I did
I voted for Mister
{D: DeGraffenried}
and then now
he got killed, didn't he?
Yes.
And he was the better man and
for what he was
Better man than Patterson.
Yeah.
{NW}
{NW}
Well he's
gonna run again, isn't he?
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.
Uh-huh.
He's gonna get elected.
And he will now for sure,
you know after getting hurt.
I don't.
He never fooled me Mister T
He's not my man I worked for Mister Brewer
in the last campaign.
And just thought surely he was gonna carry that election.
Yeah.
{NW]
Well I don't believe he'll ever get anywhere nationally.
Ah
okay.
Well
I was surprised in some of those other primary elections
he won, and I don't.
But
since then look we have a black Los Angeles mayor
and just yesterday
a black Atlanta mayor.
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.
{X}
{NW}
{X}
{X}
{NW}
But I don't know if we'll feel sorry for him because he's hurt
Mm.
You'll get it out of that.
And I think his new wife is a beautiful woman
Isn't she?
His new wife, I think she's a beautiful woman.
No?
He married her knowing she was dying.
Yeah.
Yeah.
and bring her back.
And she was just
trying.
{X}
What did you call the war between the north and the south?
Mm-kay.
Uh before they had an electric chair, murderers were?
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?
Albany.
Albany.
Okay.
And Annapolis is the capital of?
Annapolis.
Uh no you you said Indianapolis maybe I sounded like I said that.
How about
the state that Baltimore is in?
Okay.
Uh Richmond is the capital of?
And Raleigh is the capital of?
And
you told me the other day your
uh father was born in what?
Alright.
And Sherman marched across?
General Sherman marched across and burnt which state?
Where Atlanta is.
Okay.
Uh Tallahassee is the capital of?
And George Wallace is governor of?
Yeah.
{NW}
Baton Rouge is the capital of?
Baton Rouge.
And the bluegrass state is?
Where the
Okay.
The volunteer state?
Volunteer state.
Just north of us.
Memphis and Nashville?
Mm-kay.
The show-me state do you know that one?
Show-me.
Where they say you're as
uh stubborn as a?
{NW}
And Little Rock is the capital of?
And Jackson is the capital of?
Okay.
The Lone Star state?
Alright.
And Tulsa is in what state?
Yes sir.
Okay.
And Boston?
Alright.
And the states from Maine to Connecticut are called what states?
Yes sir.
Okay.
The biggest city in Maryland?
Alright.
The capital of the United States?
Alright.
Uh the biggest city in Missouri that has a blues song named after it?
In Missouri.
It's on a river I think.
That's it.
Mm-kay.
Uh
the oldest
{X}
seaport in South Carolina.
Yes.
Mm.
Charleston.
The big steel making town in Alabama?
Alright but the one in Alabama
where they make steel at?
Okay.
The big city in Illinois.
Alright.
The capital of Alabama?
Alright.
And the uh city on the gulf coast in Alabama?
Uh the biggest city in east Tennessee?
Yes sir.
Where
{X}
Yes sir.
Um
the city
up in the mountains
in Tennessee?
Alright.
Uh the city up in the mountains in North Carolina?
Its a resort city?
In western North Carolina.
I forgot mine too.
This
its Asheville.
Asheville.
{D: I don't know much about that}
Mm-kay.
Um
the big city in west Tennessee where Martin Luther King was killed?
The capital of Tennessee?
Okay.
The capital and largest city in Georgia?
The biggest seaport in Georgia?
All the way down.
Savannah?
Savannah?
The biggest city in New Orleans
I mean
no well I said it
the biggest city in Louisiana?
Uh.
{NW}
Uh
And the capital of Louisiana?
Okay.
Uh the biggest city in southern Ohio?
Mm-kay.
And the biggest city in Kentucky and all for the derby?
{NS}
{NS}
Mm-kay.
Uh
as you'd you might say from this town to that town is about?
Now you might tell me the distance from here to
{D: Russellville}
is about how far?
Alright.
Uh.
Somebody asked you to do something, you'd say well I don't know
blank
if I can do it or not.
Mm okay.
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?
Alright.
Do you ever use the word instead of?
Instead of helping me why'd you just sit around instead of?
You ever use that?
Instead of.
Why did you just sit around instead of working?
Mm-kay.
Okay.
{D: Uh a while}
if somebody had asked you why do you like him, you'd say I like him?
Alright. .
Uh
names of churches, I believe this is the one you go to.
Okay.
Uh when somebody becomes a member of the church you say he?
Mm-kay.
Uh
in church you worship?
Alright. When swearing
do you pronounce it the same way?
If you're swearing and you use God's name, do you pronounce it the same way?
Mm-kay.
{NW}
Okay.
You said the preacher preached a fine?
Uh the choir and organist provided good?
Uh the service was or the sunset was you're describing it now.
Alright you're describing it and instead of saying pretty its more than pretty what is it?
More than pretty.
Was more than pretty what would you say?
Okay.
Uh
you'd say I thought I had time but I got caught in the
tra-
traffic and the post office was closed?
Okay.
Okay.
What did people sometimes tell children would come and get them if they didn't behave?
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?
Okay.
{NW}
{NW}
Did they mean the devil?
{NW}
{NW}
Oh.
{NW}
{NW}
Its like he
was the devil, huh?
{NW}
You know sometimes they scare children with policemen with a
{D: signed lighting}
{X}
{X}
Yeah
And you're not supposed to scare children.
Policemen.
{NW}
You knew what she meant any of it.
{NW}
What is it that people sometimes think they see around a graveyard?
Okay.
Any other names for a
Haint?
Okay.
Uh.
This is a uh a lonely old house off of a dark road
people think they hear strange noises come from inside.
Okay.
{NW}
You'd say you'd better put a sweater on, its getting?
Alright.
Or it getting right chilly.
Rather chilly would you?
Or sort of?
Okay.
Uh
you'd say I'll go if you insist, but I'm
Alright.
Uh what do you say to a friend you haven't seen for some time?
If you're glad to see them?
Alright.
Uh
you'd say he owns five hundred acres how much land would that be?
That's a bunch of land.
Yes sir.
If you were describing that much land
how much land would you say that'd be?
Okay.
Did did you ever use the term a
{D: right smart of land?}
Does this mean?
{NW}
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.
Alright.
How about money?
Would you s-?
{NW}
If you want to express agreement stronger than with just yes, what would you say?
Stronger than yes.
Mm-kay.
You'd I'd say can you really do that?
And you'd say I?
Okay.
{D: When}
Mm-kay.
Uh
if you wanted to be very polite to somebody would you say just yes?
Mm-kay.
If somebody intensely disliked to go somewhere you'd say he?
If he intensely disliked
to go somewhere you'd say he?
Yes sir.
Mm-kay and how did
Okay.
Did
uh do you say he he dreaded the place?
Do you use the term dreaded?
For hated?
Mm-kay.
{NW}
Kay.
Oh.
If you hit your finger with a hammer what would you say?
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
Ah, okay.
{NW}
{NW}
What might you exclaim when you were excited?
What might you say when you were excited?
Would you do you ever use the term land sakes?
I believe women use that more than men, don't they?
Land sakes.
Mm okay.
What might you say when you're a little bit peeved at yourself for doing something foolish?
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
When something shocking is reported,
you might show a kind of polite resentment by saying why are they?
Yes sir.
Or as you might say you said it, you'd say why the very?
Okay.
{NS}
When a friend says good morning why what might you ask him in return?
Okay.
When you are introduced to a stranger what might you say?
Um.
How do you greet somebody about December twenty-fifth?
On December twenty-fifth or about.
Okay.
{NW}
Uh well what might you say about January first?
Alright.
Uh
anything you might say by way of appreciation besides thank you?
Okay.
Do you ever use the term
{D: Mister T}
uh
I'm much obliged?
Mm-kay.
Mm-kay.
Uh you'd say I have to go downtown a little while to do some?
Okay.
Uh if you make a purchase the store keeper takes a piece of paper and?
{NW}
{NW}
If he does like when you're fixing up a Christmas package?
Okay.
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?
Mm-kay.
You admire something but don't have enough money to buy it, you'd say
sure I like it, but it?
Okay.
Uh
uh when its time to pay the bill on the first the month you say the bill is?
Kay.
{NW}
And to stay in good standing in your club or
{D: lodge}
you have to pay your?
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?
Mm-kay.
{NS}
When the banker is gently refusing a loan, he might say well money is?
You'd say
and he ran down the springboard and?
Ran down the springboard and
into the water.
Okay.
{NS}
When you dive in and hit the water flat on your
this part of your body, what do you call that?
{NW}
When you turn head over heels you call that turning a what?
Okay.
Uh he'd already get across the river so he dived in and?
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?
Okay.
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}
I don't know it either.
And
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.
Its not a local term is it?
Mm-hmm.
But I don't know those terms
around here. Mm-kay.
Someone who got caught in a whirlpool and didn't get out you'd say he was?
Mm-kay.
Uh what does a baby do before its able to walk?
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.
Alright.
Um
{NS}
playing hide and seek, you find yourself near a stump so you?
Yes sir, if you're playing, kids are playing hide and seek and they
get near a
stump.
Okay
{NW}
Uh
when somebody's down on his
uh knees say like shooting marbles, what do you say he's doing?
Okay.
Do you use the term hunker down?
You'd say he's hunkered down?
Mm-kay.
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}
Okay.
Okay.
In praying you say you?
In praying.
You what?
When you get down to pray?
Mm-kay.
And in what position are you?
Okay and what do you call that?
Alright. But then do you
kneeling?
Okay.
Uh you'd say I'm feeling tired, I'm going over to the couch and?
Mm-kay.
Uh
you'd say all morning if he stayed in bed all morning
all day he?
Okay.
Uh talking about something you saw in your sleep
you'd say this is what I?
Mm-kay.
{NW}
Uh I dreamed I was falling but just as I was about to hit the ground I?
Mm-kay.
Uh
if you bring your foot down heavy on the floor like this you say you do what?
Okay.
When you see a friend leaving a party alone you might ask can I?
Mm-kay.
Uh would it make any difference in what you said whether you were walking or driving?
Mm-kay.
How about whether you were speaking to a man or a woman?
Okay.
Alright.
Uh
when you say uh could I carry you home, do you mean the same thing as to escort?
Okay.
To get a boat up on land you tie a rope to the bow and?
Mm-kay.
When your car gets stuck in the mud or snow
you ask someone to get behind you and give you a?
Mm-kay.
You had a sack of groceries and didn't have your car, so you picked it up and?
No sir.
And?
Okay.
Pack okay.
Someone corrected me yesterday for using the word
choice-y.
{C: Slang}
They said there's no such word as
choice-y.
I said it must be I've used it all my life.
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{NW}
I did too.
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.
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
was when you said that.
I've said it too
I'm I'll look that up and see.
Choosy, they said was the word,
not choice-y.
They were teachers I was talking to and they you know they
And
Well I have too but I.
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If a child is reaching toward a piece of fine glass that you don't want him to have
you'll tell him?
Okay.
Uh if you need a hammer you'd say to me go?
Mm-kay.
Um in a tag game
a tag of
a game of tag, you have to run and get back to your?
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?
Not.
Mm-kay.
Uh you say I've been fishing for trout but I haven't?
Okay.
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You'd say lets meet in town, if I get there first I'll?
Okay, do you
Do you say I'll wait for you or wait on you?
Mm-kay.
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Uh
a child wanting to get out of a spanking might say
give me another?
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?
Kay.
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Uh you say there's that pesky salesman again, wait till I?
Pesky salesman again, wait till I?
Okay.
You'd say we've got termites but I'm sure the exterminating company will?
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.
Mm-kay.
You'd say he didn't really know what was going on but he?
Mm-kay.
Alright.
You might say
he didn't know what was going on but he acted as he?
as if he did?
Or he made out like he did?
And you say made out like
or acted like?
Okay.
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A boy left his best pencil on his desk and came back and didn't find it
he'd say I bet somebody.
He usually left it in his other
desk is what happened.
You'd say I had forgotten about that, but now I?
Okay.
And you might say to me
well you must have a better memory than I do because I sure don't?
Mm-kay.
Uh
you'd say I have just blank him a letter?
Okay.
And tomorrow I'm going to?
You're gonna send him another letter,
tomorrow I'm going to?
Okay.
Uh
you'd say in its time I was getting an?
Kay.
Uh you put the letter in the envelope
and then you take your pen and what do you do to the envelope?
Mm-kay.
Did you ever use the term back it?
Okay.
My mother said at the
nursing home of the day she
uh
was going prepare a letter to mail for some patients
she'd say
Well hand it to me and I'll back it.
for you.
And she said they all laughed because they hadn't heard that term in a long time.
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You'd say I want to write to someone do you know his?
You a child has learned something surprising
the parent might ask
who was it?
Mm-kay.
If I asked you when are you going to town, you'd say right now we're
blank next Wednesday.
Okay.
Do you say we intend or are fixing or aim?
Okay.
You don't say aiming to go?
You maybe you heard of that?
Aim I've of
aiming.
Okay.
What do children call somebody who's always running and telling on the others?
Mm-kay.