Interviewer: Tape four. Aux: #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 {X} # #1 {C: overlapping speech} # 370B: #2 {C: overlapping speech} # twenty-seven Aux: {C: overlapping speech} 370B: forty. Interviewer: The number after sixty-nine. 370B: Seventy. Interviewer: After ninety-nine. 370B: One hundred. Interviewer: #1 After nine hundred and ninety-nine. # Aux: #2 {X} # 370B: #1 One thousand. # Aux: #2 {X} # #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 After nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine # {NW} 370B: One million. Interviewer: {NW} okay. If there's a lot of men standing somewhere you say the man at the head of the line is the 370B: The leader. Would you say leader or the first? Interviewer: First. And after him? 370B: Second and third and so forth and so on. Interviewer: Um sometimes you feel you get your good luck just a little at a time but your bad luck comes 370B: Well it comes all the #1 time.You you # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 370B: you don't have to look for it because it's gonna be there once in a while anyway. Interviewer: Okay. If he said more than once he would be saying it 370B: Twice. Interviewer: Name the month of the year for me and begin with ya answer. 370B: January February March April May June July August September October November December. Interviewer: Kay and the days of the week? 370B: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday Interviewer: You ever call Sunday anything else besides Sunday? 370B: Well the Sabbath. Interviewer: Uh what do you usually say to somebody that you see them when you first get up? 370B: Good morning. Interviewer: {NW} Um what what time of day does morning end? 370B: Well I imagine it ended at twelve o clock. Interviewer: And after that what time of day is it? 370B: One. Afternoon. Interviewer: Kay what do you say when you leave people? 370B: Well sometimes you say fare well and sometimes you say ba- goodbye and good evening it so under what time. Interviewer: Kay do you ever say good day? 370B: Well yes you could say good day. Interviewer: You ever used to? 370B: Well not seldom. {NW} Interviewer: Um what part of the day do you actually eat supper? 370B: Uh I guess you'd say evening. Interviewer: And later on like before you go to bed? 370B: Night. Interviewer: Night. What would you say when you're saying goodbye when you're leaving someone's house at night? 370B: Goodnight. Interviewer: Night. {NS} Uh if a man has to get up and start work just as the sun comes into sight you says he has to start at? 370B: Day break. Interviewer: Um if he works 'un- uh until very late in the afternoon he had to work until? 370B: Night. Interviewer: Um 370B: Or dark. Some of 'em say work 'til dark and some of 'em say work 'til night. Interviewer: Uh what time did the sun rise this morning? 370B: W- Well I imagine about six thirty. Interviewer: Okay you say the sun? 370B: rose uh Interviewer: Okay. Um. If today is Saturday Friday was? 370B: Yesterday. Interviewer: And Sunday is? 370B: Tomorrow. Interviewer: Uh if someone came on Sunday past Sunday and he came a week earlier than last Sunday you say he came here? 370B: A week earlier than last Sunday. Interviewer: {NW} 370B: Well I guess you'd say a weekend. He came on last weekend. Interviewer: If he's going to leave next Sunday A week beyond ye- tomorrow what would you say? 370B: Sunday week. Interviewer: Week. Kay. Uh somebody stay from the first to the fifteenth you say he stayed about? 370B: Half a month. Interviewer: Kay come on. 370B: Uh two weeks uh something like that. A little more than two weeks. Interviewer: Yeah. 370B: Um. Interviewer: If you want to know the time of day how do you ask somebody? 370B: Do you have the time? Interviewer: Um. Then what does he pull out his pocket to look at? 370B: {NW} Watch if he #1 doesn't have on a wrist watch {NW}. # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Mid way between seven o clock and eight o clock #1 what time? # 370B: #2 It'd be seven thirty. # Interviewer: Yep. If it's ten forty-five what time is it? 370B: Ten forty-five be fifteen minutes 'til eleven. Interviewer: If you'd been doing something for a long time you might be you might say I've been doing that for quite? 370B: A while. Interviewer: You might say the farmers got a pretty good crop last year but they are not going to get such good one? 370B: This year. Interviewer: If a child had just had his third birthday you'd say he's? 370B: Uh he's going on four. Uh {X} Interviewer: If something happened on this day last year you'd say it happened exactly? 370B: The same day last year. {NW} {NW} Interviewer: You look up at sky and say I don't like the look of those black? 370B: Clouds. Interviewer: On a day when the sun is shining and there are no clouds in the sky what kind of day you say that it is? 370B: Well it's a um bright sunshiny or clear day. Either one. Interviewer: On a opposite kind of day if it's not raining but the sky is covered with clouds what would you call that? 370B: Well I say it's a dreary day or cloudy day. Interviewer: If it's been fair clear and then the clouds come in you would expect rain or snow in a little while you'd say the weather is? 370B: Changing. Interviewer: If it's been cloudy and then the clouds pull away and the sun comes out you'd say the weather is? 370B: Clearing. Interviewer: Uh what do you call a heavy rain that lasts only a little while? 370B: Well I think probably you'd say uh well if it's real heavy I would you say say a shower. Or a cloud burst. I have heard 'em called cloud burst when it was just real heavy. Interviewer: Uh what do you call a storm that has thunder and lighting? 370B: Electrical storm. Interviewer: If the wind has very was very high during the night you'd say all night long the wind? 370B: Blew. Interviewer: You'd say the wind is coming from that direction. You'd say the wind? 370B: Is north or east or uh everywhere round. Interviewer: {NW} 370B: {NW} Interviewer: Uh if it's raining but not raining very hard just a few fine drops coming down you'd say it's? 370B: Sprinkling. Interviewer: Uh what do you call a heavy white mist that comes out of a river? 370B: Fog. Interviewer: If no rain comes for weeks and weeks we're having a? 370B: Drought. Interviewer: The wind is being very gentle and it's gradually getting stronger what would you say it's doing? 370B: Well I well you'd say the wind is blowing. I guess that's a Interviewer: If it's just a opposite. The wind has been strong and it's getting weaker what's it doing? 370B: Um {NW} Well you'd say it's calm. Interviewer: #1 Calming down # 370B: #2 Uh huh. # Interviewer: A morning in the fall when you first go outdoors you find it cold but not real real cold. The kind of weather you like to be out in you say this morning is rather? 370B: Chilly. Interviewer: {X} If it's cold enough to kill the tomatoes and flowers you might say last night we had a? 370B: Freeze. Interviewer: #1 It was so cold last night # 370B: #2 Or frost. Freeze I guess. # Interviewer: Yeah. It was so cold last night the lake did what? 370B: Froze over. Interviewer: If it gets much colder tonight the pond might 370B: Freeze. Interviewer: What do you call this room? 370B: Um. Well I would call it the um living room. Interviewer: Thinking uh rooms and their heights about how tall is this room? About nine? Eight nine? 370B: Well uh I don't believe it's over nine feet. At least nine. {NS} Interviewer: Uh smoke goes up through a? {NS} 370B: Chimney. Interviewer: The oval place on the floor in front of the fire place is called the? 370B: High if that's whatcha mean. Interviewer: In the fire place the things that you lay the wood across what do you call that? 370B: Um {NS} not not uh um I forget what I forgot whatcha call 'em. We have 'em tho in there. {NW} Andiron. Yes andirons. Interviewer: Up above the fire place that thing you put vases on what do you call that? 370B: That's the mantle. Interviewer: A big round piece of wood with the bark on it that you burn in the fire place? 370B: Log. Interviewer: What do you call the kind of wood you use to start a fire with? 370B: Uh well they used to be called splinters. It's a pine a ri- very rich pine. Interviewer: Is it? What's uh left in the fire place when the fire goes out? 370B: Ashes. Interviewer: What are you sitting in? {NS} We call this piece of furniture? 370B: Oh chair. Interviewer: Chair okay. What's that piece of furniture? 370B: A devonette. Interviewer: You ever call it anything else? 370B: {NS} Sofa. Interviewer: The piece of furniture in your bedroom that has drawers in it that you put your clothes in what do you call that? 370B: Chest of drawers. Interviewer: Uh the room where you sleep is called a what? 370B: Bedroom. Interviewer: All these things we talking about the sofa the chair #1 and all these what do you call 'em? # 370B: #2 -ture furniture # Interviewer: Uh the things in the windows that you put to keep the light out? 370B: Shades. Interviewer: A little room off the bedroom to hang your clothes in? 370B: Closet. Interviewer: Uh if you didn't have a built in closet what might you hang? 370B: Well now I know where we lived before we didn't have a built in we had a built on. We had to build it on extended out into the thing but you could have what they called a wardrobe to hang your clothes in too. Interviewer: What's the room at the top of the house just under the roof? 370B: At the top of the house? #1 Under the roof? # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 370B: Attic. Interviewer: Uh what do you call the room you keep the cooking in? 370B: Kitchen. Interviewer: What do you call the little room off the kitchen where you store your canned goods and extra dishes? 370B: Well generally it's called a pantry. Interviewer: Uh what do you call a lot of ol' worthless things that you about to throw away? 370B: Junk. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 370B: #2 {X} # Interviewer: {NW} Uh what would you call a room that you store odds and ends in? 370B: Well. I don't know what you'd call it just kind of a store room or what. {NS} Interviewer: Speaking of daily house work you say a woman does what every morning? 370B: Well it's just a routine. She does practically the same thing everyday. Interviewer: Generally what do you call that that she does? 370B: Keeping house. Interviewer: Mm-kay. 370B: Or cooking uh I don't know. Something like that. Interviewer: Speaking of 370B: Yeah you you pick up put up. Interviewer: Uh what do you use to sweep with? 370B: A vacuum. Interviewer: What about a uh not an automatic machine. 370B: Yeah. But you you's talking about a broom? Interviewer: Mm-hmm 370B: Uh huh.. Interviewer: Kay if the broom is in the corner and the door's open you'd say the broom is where in comparison to the door? 370B: Well I'd say behind the door. Interviewer: Uh years ago on Monday women usually did their? 370B: Washing I guess. Interviewer: Uh. 370B: See I never did anything Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 370B: #2 like that I was {NW} when I was married # I uh had it done I didn't know what I worked in the store all Interviewer: #1 Uh uh. # 370B: #2 the time. # So then but I had red I had towels with the different names Monday Tuesday Wednesday and it shows what they do each day Interviewer: #1 Uh huh # 370B: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Monday was wash day {NW} 370B: Yeah {NW} Interviewer: How do you get from the first floor to the second store floor in a two way house two story house? 370B: Well they generally have stairs. Interviewer: Uh what is built outside the the door to walk on with chairs on out in front of the house? 370B: Porch. Interviewer: Um. The door's open and you don't want it that way you would tell someone to? 370B: Please close the door. Interviewer: What would you the call the boards on the outside of the house that lap over each other? 370B: Siding. Interviewer: If you were doing some carpentry nailing in a board somewhere you'd say I took the hammer and I? 370B: Uh nailed or {X} Interviewer: If you were uh in your car and yesterday you were in your car and you said you? {NS} 370B: I drove my car. Interviewer: Uh what do you call a part of the house that covers the top of it on the outside? 370B: Oh shingles. Interviewer: And all over generally you call 'em what? 370B: Roof. Interviewer: Um. You have a house and an ale What do you call the place where the two comes together? 370B: Um gable. Interviewer: Uh what do you call a building that is used for storing wood into? 370B: Uh well you'd call it a capital shed I guess. Interviewer: What do you call an outdoor toilet? 370B: {NW} In the army {NW} {X} what they called it {NW} latrine {NW} But I guess you would just say um just call it a toilet. Interviewer: {X} Ever call it anything else? 370B: They used to call 'em privies I think. Years and years ago. {NW} Interviewer: If you had trouble that you were telling me about then you might say well? Troubles too. 370B: I have troubles too. Interviewer: Uh. Did you did you notice the noise that when you shut that door what do you say I? 370B: I heard someone come in. Interviewer: Okay If a friend came back to town and another friend is in {X} with 'em you might ask have you seen him yet and you might say no I 370B: Talked to him though. Interviewer: Oh. 370B: {NW} #1 You could say that # Interviewer: #2 {NW} Yeah. # Um of something you do everyday do you do it frequently? 370B: Oh yes if you do it everyday yes it's frequent. Interviewer: Does your brother like ice cream? 370B: Does my brother like ice cream? Interviewer: Oh. 370B: I would say so yes. He does. {NS} Interviewer: Uh if a man lets his farm get all worn down and {X} you might say to someone who asks I really don't know he just? 370B: Doesn't uh. Doesn't care uh doesn't uh I reckon just say that he doesn't care. Interviewer: Um. If you've been trying to make your mind up about something would you say I have been thinking about it or I've been thinking around it? 370B: Well uh I think you'd say I've been thinking about it. Interviewer: Um you might say you live in a framed? 370B: House. Interviewer: Are there any other kinds around here houses? {X} 370B: Well they have brick houses. {X} Interviewer: The big building behind the house where is hay is stored and cattle are housed is called a? 370B: Barn. Interviewer: The building where you store corn is a? 370B: Barn. Interviewer: Uh what do you call a building apart a building where you store grain? 370B: Well you call that a granary. Interviewer: What's it look like? 370B: Well I have seen them uh built kind around like and tall kinda like a silo Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 370B: and then if they just that corn in it it it just looks kinda like a barn it except it has the boards all around it where they it's not shelves they just store it in there uh {X} you now. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. The uh upper part of a barn is called a? 370B: Loft. Interviewer: If too much hay is gathered together in a barn how's it kept outside? 370B: Well uh they generally if the weather is pretty just stack it. But if they looking for rain or something they they put tarpaulin over it. Interviewer: When you first cut the hay what do you do that with? 370B: Well you have a mower that you cut it with and it bales it and all and you leave it out to dry out like you don't hold it you don't uh carry it in and stack it when it's green. Interviewer: You know any names for small piles of hay that break up in the fields? 370B: Stack. Interviewer: Uh where do you keep your cows? 370B: Well generally they keep 'em in the pasture but they do have barns that they put 'em in when they milk and things like that. Interviewer: Where do you keep horses? 370B: Well they are kept in a what they call a corral or either a barn if the weather's bad they put 'em up. But generally they just run out in the corral. Interviewer: Besides the barn you ever have a special place where you milk the cows outside? 370B: Well we never did I don't know if people do or not. But I haven't I don't think so. Interviewer: Where do you keep your hogs and pigs? 370B: Well you generally have a pig pen. {NW} Interviewer: Um where did people used to keep their milk and butter before the days of refrigeration? 370B: Well in the well uh in the spring. I know butter especially they would take it and put it in buckets and lower it down in the spring or set it where the cold water would run over it. Interviewer: Uh a big farm that doesn't do anything but raise cattle for milk and butter. What do you call that? 370B: Dairy. Interviewer: Uh what do you call that place around the barn where you might let the cows and few of the other animals walk around? 370B: A lot. Interviewer: Uh what would you call a place where you let them go out to graze? 370B: Pasture. Interviewer: You ever raise any cotton? 370B: We never raised cotton. Interviewer: {NW} okay. If you did, what kind do you- What do you call it when you cut cotton? 370B: Well uh now we just uh came back from Arkansas where they were harvesting their crops and they have a cotton picker that goes along. I don't know what you call it though. I don't know what they called it. But anyway I know they used this uh uh cotton picker and it would pick it and separate you know bale it and all that. Interviewer: Uh cotton and corn grow in a? 370B: Field. Interviewer: Uh you ever call it anything else? 370B: Beside a field? Well uh I don't know what you'd say plantation um uh farm or what but it isn't like a garden you generally have a big space for corn and cotton things like that. Interviewer: Uh a little uh fence made out of wood that's painted white is usually called what kind of fence? 370B: Well us most of the time it's just called a little picket fence. Interviewer: What do you call the kind of fence that can uh injure cattle? 370B: Well uh is that um barbed wire fence. Interviewer: Uh can you name any other kinds of fences that are made out of wood? 370B: Well they have rail fences. Interviewer: What's it look like? 370B: Well they just have these long uh boards instead of the little sharp boards up and down and they uh sometimes are cut in grooves and laid and then other times they're just uh Aux: {X} 370B: sewed I mean uh nailed onto a post. Interviewer: What was you talking about more than one post what do you call it? 370B: Post. Interviewer: What might you call a fence or wall made of loose stone or rock? 370B: Well I think you'd say rock or stone stone wall. Interviewer: #1 {X} # 370B: #2 I have seen # rock walls too they called 'em rock walls they were made out of just small rock. And these rocks had been there for years and they weren't put together with cement or anything I don't know uh {X} like this was in Virginia that we saw on our trip on there. Interviewer: Hmm I never seen any of that. 370B: Yeah they were up about this high and all around the um front yard and different places you know those big #1 colonial homes? # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # 370B: And they just like they were when they put 'em up there. Interviewer: Hmm. 370B: And they tell me they didn't have any cement anything in between 'em they were just laid just so. Interviewer: Hmm. You want to make a hen start laying what do you put in her nest to {X} her? 370B: Uh you put a glass egg. {NW} I done that I used to gather eggs. Interviewer: Does it work? 370B: Oh yeah. Interviewer: Hmm. 370B: It helps 'em. Gives 'em an incentive I guess. {NW} Interviewer: When you brought uh water back from the well what did you use to carry it in? 370B: A pail. Interviewer: Uh what did you use to carry milk in? 370B: Well now they'd they'd do have uh milk pails and too and they have just regular buckets like so I don't know which one you'd say. Interviewer: What sort of container do you use to carry food to the pigs? 370B: Well they used to call 'em slop buckets. I don't know what they call 'em now. {NW} Interviewer: Uh what do you fry eggs in? 370B: A skillet. Interviewer: What's it made out of? 370B: Well uh sometimes iron but now it's Teflon. Interviewer: Uh what that something real big and black that you used to put out the back yard and fold your clothes in? #1 What do you call that? # 370B: #2 Pot. # Interviewer: Uh what do you call the container that you put flowers in inside the house? 370B: Well it's called uh pot too flower pot. Interviewer: Uh what if it's got just water in it and not the dirt? 370B: Just water and not dirt? Interviewer: For cut flowers {X} 370B: Oh a vase. Interviewer: Uh what are the eating utensils that you set at each plate when you uh set your table for supper? 370B: Well you have the knife and the fork and the spoon and the dessert uh fork and the salad fork. Interviewer: You have more than one knife what have you got? 370B: More than one knife? Knives. Interviewer: If the dishes are all dirty you say I want some kind of before we can have supper we have to have clean dishes I must? 370B: Wash. Interviewer: The dish. 370B: The dishes. Interviewer: Uh after she wash the dishes then she? 370B: Dries 'em. Interviewer: What does she do before she dries 'em? 370B: Scalds 'em. Interviewer: Uh what do you call that 370B: #1 unless you have a # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 370B: uh washer dishwasher. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 370B: #2 {NW} # {NW} Interviewer: What do you call that cloth or rag you use in washing dishes? 370B: Uh dish cloth. Interviewer: What do you call the cloth that you dry them with? 370B: A towel dish towel. Interviewer: Uh what do you call a small square of terry cloth that you use to wash your face with? 370B: A face cloth. Interviewer: Uh after bathing what do you dry yourself off with? 370B: Towel. Bath towel. Interviewer: Uh what do you turn on at the water pipe of the kitchen? What do you call that? 370B: Faucet. Interviewer: Uh it was so cold last night that my water pipe? 370B: Froze burst. Interviewer: Uh people used to buy flour in? 370B: Uh years ago they bought 'em in barrels and then they bought 'em in uh twenty-five pound bags uh cloth bags. And now they buy 'em in two and five pound bags and ten pound bags. Interviewer: How long did a barrel of flour usually last? 370B: Uh well when they these big plantations ya know when they had all these uh farms hands and all the Interviewer: #1 uh # 370B: #2 thieves. # Oh I imagine it would last 'em maybe the whole winter. Interviewer: Yeah. It cost a lot to buy a barrel of flour? 370B: Well uh not as much according as it does now. That was bout the cheapest way they could buy it. And then they wouldn't have to spend so much time going back or forth either. Tan. Interviewer: Um what did molasses come in when you used to buy it in very large quantities? 370B: It would come in barrels and they would have uh a faucet that they would turn on and drain you know draw the barrel the syrup out of the barrel. Interviewer: What about lard? {X} big large quantities. 370B: Well I think you'd call that a drum. Interviewer: Uh what do you use to help you pour water into a bottle that's got a real narrow mouth? 370B: A funnel. Interviewer: Uh what do you use to urge your horses to go faster when you're riding in a buggy? 370B: Well sometimes you have a whip. Interviewer: #1 Uh # 370B: #2 and then # some people I know just hit 'em with the the uh lines. #1 And then they'll go # Interviewer: #2 {X} # 370B: #1 uh huh uh huh # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Uh if you bought fruit at the store the grocer might put them in a? 370B: Bag. Interviewer: Uh. Long time ago how were the large quantities of sugar packed? 370B: Well I think they uh years ago they had 'em had it in barrels too but then and then in sacks hundred pound sacks cloth bags. Interviewer: What do you call that bag or sack potatoes are shipped in? What was that? 370B: crocker sack. Interviewer: What do you call the amount of corn you might take to the mill at on time to be ground? 370B: Uh you'd say uh carry a bushel a corn. Interviewer: Uh when the light burns out in an electric lamp you have to put in a new? 370B: Bulb. Interviewer: When you carry the washing out to hang it on the line you carry out in a? 370B: Well lots of people use baskets. Interviewer: What uh do nails come in? 370B: Kegs. Interviewer: What runs around the barrel to hold the wood in place? 370B: Um. Interviewer: That metal piece. 370B: Uh huh I know what it is. The wood things are called stays and and and that is called a hoof. #1 That holds the stays. # Interviewer: #2 Um. # What do you put in the top of a bottle? 370B: Cork. Interviewer: Uh what's a little musical instrument that two children play it's a little and they play it? 370B: Harp. Is it a harp? They used to now I don't I haven't seen a harp in a long time. {NW} Interviewer: What about uh something that you would hold between your teeth and pick with your fingers that would twine? Ever heard of that? 370B: Yeah er Jew's harp. Interviewer: #1 Okay I never {X} # 370B: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: I didn't know you known that one. Uh what do you call uh what do you pound nails with? 370B: A hammer. Interviewer: Uh if you have a wagon and two horses what's that long wooden piece that goes between the horses? 370B: Uh that tongue. Interviewer: You have a horse pulling a buggy. Before you hitch him up you have to back him in between the? 370B: Staves. Interviewer: Uh the steel outside of a wagon wheel is called what? 370B: Um rim. Interviewer: When a horse is hitched to a wagon what do you call the bar of wood that {X} or passes it? 370B: Bar of wood? Uh that's the thing that goes around the shoulders and um Lord I can't uh sling- uh single trees that one I know in uh if you gonna um plow and different things like that you use a singletree and that guides 'em. But there was another something that goes over the shoulders but I forgot what you call it. Interviewer: Um I don't know what you call um {X} 370B: #1 Put it right down here. # Interviewer: #2 A collar? # A horse collar? 370B: No It it you a collar fits over this. Interviewer: Oh. 370B: But I don't know what it is. Anyway uh It works something like a singletree except it's around the neck and the the uh um lines go through these little pieces here and go backward to the bridal. Interviewer: Oh right. What do you call the thing that both of these the horse and the singletree are hitched to in order to keep the horses together? 370B: {NW} Uh well I guess if it's two of 'em you'd call it a doubletree. Interviewer: {NS} If a man had a load of wood in his wagon and he was driving along what would you say he was doing? 370B: Hauling wood. Interviewer: Uh Suppose there was a log across the road you'd say I tied a rope to it and? 370B: Drug. Interviewer: Out of the way. 370B: Mm. Interviewer: Kay. Uh what do you break the ground with in the spring? 370B: Plow. Interviewer: After you plow what do you use to break the ground up even finer? 370B: Um I know what it is. You harrow it. Interviewer: You have any different kinds of harrow? 370B: Yes. There's uh I know um they have one harrow that has this lot for these little plows like. It's not a plow but the little parts like underneath and you'd and that makes it finer than the one that just has the few. Interviewer: What is it that the wheels of a wagon spin onto? #1 {X} # 370B: #2 Axle. # Interviewer: Uh what do you call the X shaped plane you lay a log across to chop it into stove length? 370B: A saw buck? Interviewer: You straighten you with a comb and? 370B: Brush. Interviewer: And uh when you use one of those you'd say you're going to? 370B: Brush your hair. Interviewer: Um you sharpen a straight {X} on a leather? 370B: Strap. Interviewer: What do you put in a revolver? 370B: Well you put cartridges bullets uh. Interviewer: A blank. A plank laid over a trap for children to play on is called a what? It's got a {X} plank over it. What do you call that? 370B: Uh saw what now? Interviewer: {X} with a plank laid over that? 370B: Oh seesaw. Interviewer: Uh what do you call a limber plank fixed at both ends that children use to jump up and down on? 370B: A limber plank. #1 Well I don't I guess that's just what it is uh # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Uh there might be a plank that is anchored in the middle of a post or a stump and children get on each end and spin around on. What do you call that? 370B: Well. Aux: Seesaw. 370B: You don't call it a seesaw you call it kind of a ferris wheel or something like that. Interviewer: Um when you tying on rope to a tree limb and you put a seat on it so that children can go back and forth you're making a? 370B: Swing. Interviewer: What do you carry coal in? 370B: Scuttle. Interviewer: What runs from the stove to the chimney? 370B: Runs from the stove to the chimney? A pipe. Interviewer: A small vehicle could carry bricks or other heavy things with? 370B: Wheelbarrow. Interviewer: What do you sharpen a {X} on? Or any kind of knife? 370B: Uh some kind of a wet stone. Interviewer: #1 and # 370B: #2 I believe they call it. # Interviewer: Mm-hmm. If it turns around what do you call it then? 370B: Well it's um grindstone. Interviewer: Uh what's the thing that I drive? 370B: Car. Interviewer: You ever call it anything else? 370B: Automobile. Interviewer: Uh if something is squeaking to make it stop squeaking what do you do to it? 370B: Well lots of times a little grease will help it oil it or grease it either one. Interviewer: {NW} okay. If you got a um doing that and you got grease all over your hand you say your hands are all? 370B: Messed up greasy. Interviewer: Uh if you have a door hinge that's squeaking what uh do you say you're gonna do to that? 370B: Well I know you you'd put a little oil on it. #1 You have to be careful. # Interviewer: #2 What is it that you uh # use to burn in lamps? 370B: Oil. Kerosene. Interviewer: What might you call a makeshift lamp made with a rag a bottle and some kerosene? Ever heard of that? 370B: I don't believe I ever did. Interviewer: {X} Uh inside the power of a car is the inner? 370B: Tube. Interviewer: Um {X} has just built a boat and they're going to put it in the water you'd say they're going to? 370B: Christen. Aux: {X} 370B: Or launch it either they chris- christen is when they {X} #1 {NW} # Interviewer: #2 terrible of waste of # What kind of boat would you go fishing in on a small lake? 370B: Well I think just uh a small uh not a motor boat. Lots of times they have just a little bit of motor on it but just a small little flat boat. Interviewer: You are going to the next village and I said will you be home today you might say no I? 370B: Won't. Interviewer: He said he was going to get some cake or something. Says are you going to get some of that would you said say I'm going to get some or a little or what? 370B: Well I if it's under how if I was gonna get uh more than one kind I would say I was gonna get some. But if it was just gonna pick up a cake I'd say well I'm gonna get a cake. Interviewer: If a child is just learning to dress themselves the mother brings him the clothes and she says? 370B: Here are your clothes. Interviewer: If I ask you if you think Nixon is going to be elected again you say you might say no but? 370B: But he might. Interviewer: Uh if you meet a little boy on the street and he's afraid of you you might try to tell him you're not gonna hurt him by saying don't cry I? 370B: not going to hurt you. Interviewer: If you have uh If you're having an argument with somebody and you want to ask him if he didn't think you were right about this you'd say well I'm right? 370B: Uh aren't I? Interviewer: Um If you were talking about the old days and everything was better than it is now you might lean back and say? 370B: Uh those were the good ol' days #1 But {NW} I don't think I'd want the good ol' days. # Interviewer: #2 (NW} # #1 You might have {NW} # 370B: #2 Yeah {NW} # Interviewer: #1 But some of those tales I heard this morning I think I do too. # 370B: #2 Woo. # Interviewer: Uh if somebody asks was that you I saw in town yesterday you might you say no it? 370B: Was not uh me. Interviewer: Okay. If a woman wants to buy a dress of a certain color she takes along a little square cloth to use as a? 370B: Sample. Interviewer: If she sees a dress that she likes very much and is very becoming she says that's a very? 370B: Pretty. Interviewer: Dress. #1 Mm-hmm. # 370B: #2 Kay. # Interviewer: What might you wear over your dress in the kitchen? 370B: Well apron. Interviewer: To sign your name in ink you use a? 370B: Pen. Interviewer: To hold a baby's diaper in place you use a? 370B: Safety pin {NW}. Interviewer: Yeah. Soup you buy usually comes in a? 370B: Can. Interviewer: Uh what do you put on when you go outside in the wintertime? 370B: Cape or coat. Interviewer: Uh sometimes between your coat and your shirt you wear a? 370B: Sweater. {NS} Interviewer: A suit consists of a coat a vest and? 370B: Pants. Interviewer: Ever call 'em anything else? 370B: Trousers. Interviewer: Uh if you go outdoors in the winter without your coat somebody runs after you and brings it to you you'd say here I've? 370B: Brought your coat. Interviewer: Kay. That coat won't fit this year but last year it? 370B: Just fit. Interviewer: If your old clothes wore out you have to buy a? 370B: New new suit if your old clothes wore out. Interviewer: If you stuff a lot of things in a pocket it makes 'em? 370B: Sag. Interviewer: The collar did what in the hot water? 370B: Uh shrunk. Interviewer: When a girl goes to a party and getting ready she says she says she likes to? 370B: Primp. {NW} Interviewer: What do you call that small little leather container with uh that you carry your change in? 370B: Change purse. Interviewer: What does a woman wear around her wrist? 370B: Well you can have a bracelet or you can wear a wa- watch. Interviewer: Suppose there a lot of little things swung up together and you used 'em to go around your neck as an ornament what would you call these? 370B: Beads. Interviewer: What do you wear to hold up? What do you men wear to hold up their trousers? 370B: Well some wear belts and some wear suspenders. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 370B: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: What's that thing that you hold over your head when it's raining? 370B: Parasol? Interviewer: What is uh the last thing you put on the bed to make it up? 370B: The spread. Interviewer: At the head of the bed you put your head on a? 370B: Pillow. Interviewer: Uh. You remember using anything at the head of the bed that was about twice as long as the pillow? 370B: Bolster. Interviewer: Uh what do you put on a bed for warmth? 370B: Blanket. Interviewer: What would you call a makeshift sleeping place found on the floor that children would especially like to sleep on? 370B: Pallet. Interviewer: We expect big crop from the field because the soil is very? 370B: Rich or fertile. Interviewer: The flat lowland along the stream overflowing in the spring and plowed up later is called what? 370B: Um that's where we were out there this year I guess you'd call it {D: dessile land or} bottom land. Interviewer: Um what do you call low lying grass land that doesn't have a lot of trees on it? 370B: Uh that you would call that a pasture. Interviewer: #1 Anything else you ever call it? # 370B: #2 Or a meadow. # Interviewer: Uh suppose this was some land that had water standing in it for a good part of the time what would you call it? 370B: Uh swampy land. Swamp. Interviewer: Uh if it were along the coast along an ocean what would you call it then? 370B: Coast. Interviewer: What different parts of uh um What different kinds of soil might you have in a field? If it's real rich what do you call it? 370B: If it's real rich well now they call 'em bottom land and they call it uh uh what did they call this place out there where we were when the river overflowed and uh I forgot what else. It wasn't bottom land though it was river river bottom maybe they called it or something. Interviewer: Any other kinds of soil? 370B: They have {X} It was a lot of sand. But uh When this Mississippi River overflowed this last time there was so much sand that they are having to take big bulldozers and push it up and haul it off to the land cause it won't produce. Interviewer: Hmm. 370B: They had uh stacks of sand as high as this uh building that they had to haul off. Interviewer: Where are they taking it? 370B: Well I don't know uh where they taking it and just dumping it somewhere but they were having trucks loads there to get uh couldn't even plant their crops this year on account of so much sand. Interviewer: Uh if they're getting water on to the {x} they are 370B: Draining. Interviewer: What do you call the thing that uh uh you're draining into? 370B: Uh huh a trench. Interviewer: Anything else you call it? 370B: Yeah um {NS} I don't think you'd say ditch would you? {NW} Interviewer: Um {X} 370B: Uh bay or inlet or something like that. Interviewer: A deep narrow bout cut by a stream of water in the woods or in a field {X} 370B: Uh would you say a gully? Interviewer: Um what do you call a small stream of water? 370B: Well technically it's called a creek. Interviewer: You ever call it anything else? 370B: Branch. Interviewer: Uh what do you call a very small incline of land? 370B: Uh hill. Interviewer: Ever call it anything else? 370B: Well they're called a mound like too I know. Interviewer: Real big what do you call it? 370B: A hill. Interviewer: And if it's huge? 370B: Mountain. Interviewer: Um up in the mountains where the roads go across the whole place what do you call that? 370B: Trail no not a trail.