Interviewer:  {X} salt and pepper
370B:  Hominy
Interviewer:  Uh what's the starch made from the inside of a grain that's uh grown mostly in China?
370B:  There What is what?
Interviewer:  The starchy food that's made from a grain that's grown in China
370B:  Rice?
Interviewer:  Um what is the name of a non-taxed {X} alcohol beverage
370B:  Non-taxed alcoholic beverage uh moonshine.
Interviewer:  Anything else? Did you ever call it anything else?
370B:  Well it's called liquor.
Interviewer:  When something's cooking and it makes a good impression on your nose you say say to someone just
370B:  {NS} It smells uh good uh something like that.
Interviewer:  You crush the cane and you boil the juice and make
370B:  Ripping cane syrup in other words.
Interviewer:  When it gets real thick what do you call it?
370B:  Molasses.
Interviewer:  Uh what do call the sweet thing you make with it to put on pancakes?
370B:  Syrup.
Interviewer:  What's it made out of?
370B:  It's made out of cane too.
Interviewer:  Oh is it?
370B:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  What if it comes from a tree, what's it called?
370B:  Uh it's called um um the sap runs down and uh maple.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh
370B:  Maple syrup.
Interviewer:  If it's not real maple syrup uh syrup it's called what?
370B:  Well I know what it is they just put the maple flavoring in it it's imitation.
Interviewer:  If it is real syrup its called
370B:  Maple syrup genuine maple syrup.
Interviewer:  Uh sugar is sold retail already put in packages in wholesale it's sold
370B:  Uh by the bag
Interviewer:  #1 Um #
370B:  #2 They have # uh sixty pound bags you know twelve five pounds it's put up in five pound bags and they have sixty pounds and then they have two pound bags and I don't know how that's put up and then it's put up in hundred pound bags just the loose sugar too.
Interviewer:  So when you were in your store you'd buy a whole bunch of it one time?
370B:  #1 mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  #2 That was # you bought it
370B:  In bulk.
Interviewer:  Um what do you call the sweet spread that you make out of sugar and uh some kind of fruit and you put it on your toast in the morning
370B:  Jelly?
Interviewer:  okay what the difference between jelly and jam?
370B:  Well jam has the fruit in it and jelly is strained.
Interviewer:  What are the two main seasoning you have in the kitchen?
370B:  Salt and pepper {NW}
Interviewer:  Uh if its some apples and a child wants one he says
370B:  Give me an apple.
Interviewer:  If it wasn't these boys it must've been one of
370B:  The others.
Interviewer:  Oo those are lovely.
370B:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  You buy them? You pick them
370B:  #1 {D: No ginger} #
AUX #1:  #2 A lot of them just uh # uptown our tomatoes {D: gave out}
370B:  We had tomatoes practically all the summer but while we were gone they
Interviewer:  If you're pointing to a tree way off you might say its
370B:  Over yonder?
Interviewer:  Uh don't do it that way do it
370B:  This way. {NS}
Interviewer:  When somebody speaks to you and you don't hear what he said what do you say to make him repeat it?
370B:  What did you say?
Interviewer:  If a man has plenty of money he doesn't have anything to worry about but life is hard on a man
370B:  That's broke {NS} that doesn't have it {NW}
Interviewer:  If you don't have any money you're
370B:  Broke.
Interviewer:  What else #1 do you call #
370B:  #2 poor #
Interviewer:  What?
370B:  Poor?
Interviewer:  Uh if you have a lot of peaches you have an
370B:  Orchard.
Interviewer:  When I was boy my father was poor but next door was the boy whose father was
370B:  Rich.
Interviewer:  Inside a cherry what's that called that you don't eat?
370B:  Uh I don't know if they call it stone or seed
Interviewer:  What's inside of a peach?
370B:  Stone they call those a stone
Interviewer:  Uh what different kind of peaches are there? What's the kind that has the
370B:  Well there's a clear stone where the meat comes off and just leaves the stone and then there's the clean peach where you have to cut it off and then there's the different colors of peaches too. Indian peach which is red and they are nearly always clean and they make pickled peaches out of those.
Interviewer:  They're red on the outside and kind of white mm yeah I saw someone that's and Indian peach?
370B:  Uh-huh.
Interviewer:  Okay.
370B:  What I mean the meat is red too
Interviewer:  Oh I #1 ain't ever seen one of those. #
370B:  #2 Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  What's the kind that gets real red on the outside but the inside of its kind of light?
370B:  Uh-huh I've seen that too I don't know what you call that there I've forgotten the name of it but I have seen them. The meat is white
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
370B:  And then some of the meat is yellow.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
370B:  But I've forgotten what they call those white peaches.
Interviewer:  What do you call the part of the apple that you throw away?
370B:  Uh the core.
Interviewer:  Uh when you cut up apples or peaches or anything and you dry them you're making
370B:  Dried fruit.
Interviewer:  What are the kind of nuts you pull up out of the ground and roast them?
370B:  Peanuts
Interviewer:  Ever call them anything else?
370B:  Uh goobers goober {NW}
Interviewer:  What other kind of nuts are there can you name a few?
370B:  Well there's walnuts and pecans Nigger toes uh I think they call those are Brazil nuts and then there's cashew nuts and
Interviewer:  What's that the um flat kind that they put in the Hershey's bar?
370B:  Uh almond.
Interviewer:  Uh what kind of fruit that's big and comes from Florida and
370B:  You mean grapefruit?
Interviewer:  Nope the kind they put in OJ what do you call that?
370B:  Uh uh what did you say? Oranges?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh that and uh what are those little red vegetables that are kind of peppery and they put them in salads they're white on
370B:  Carrots
Interviewer:  #1 No #
370B:  #2 I mean uh # radishes.
Interviewer:  Uh what is it that your husband just brought in and showed you?
370B:  tomato {NW}
Interviewer:  That little bitty tomatoes what you call um
370B:  tomatoes we have some of those too
Interviewer:  Oh
370B:  out in the back
Interviewer:  uh along with your meat you might have a bake
370B:  potato
Interviewer:  kind of potatoes with yellow on the inside we call those
370B:  sweet potato
Interviewer:  difference between sweet potato and a yam
370B:  well I believe a yam is a little more yellow than just a regular sweet potato the meat part you know the inside
Interviewer:  what is it that makes you cry when you cut it up
370B:  onions {NW}
Interviewer:  uh you have a different name for the little bitty fresh ones that
370B:  well uh sometimes they just say green onions and then uh they're called uh something else besides green onion too but I can't think of it I don't know
Interviewer:  um whats that vegetable that your grandson just loves green it comes in a pod
370B:  oh green beans? uh okra?
Interviewer:  uh if you leave an apple or a plum around that dries up and it
370B:  it shrivels {NS}
Interviewer:  what are the kinds of vegetables that come in large leafy heads?
370B:  cabbage lettuce
Interviewer:  uh what do you want to get when you want to get the beans out of the pods by hand say I have to
370B:  uh out of the #1 pod #
Interviewer:  #2 mm-hmm #
370B:  you have to shell them.
Interviewer:  uh the large yellowish flat bean in the seed not pods are called what
370B:  you talking about butter beans? there's a big butter bean and a little butter bean
Interviewer:  what do you call a butter beans that have a the maroon-
370B:  #1 speckle speckle Mm-hmm #
Interviewer:  #2 speckle butter beans? #
370B:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 # the kind of beans that you eat pod and all are called what?
370B:  green beans
Interviewer:  you take the tops of turnips and you cook and you make a mess of
370B:  just turnip greens the top of them are called turnip greens and some people uh cook some of the roots in with them too the turnips
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
370B:  but I generally cook mine separate I like mine cooked separate
Interviewer:  I don't think I've ever eaten turnip greens
370B:  ah they're good put a little butter in it with just a tiny little bit of sugar and uh mash them up #1 not too much sugar #
Interviewer:  #2 kind of like potatoes? #
370B:  uh-huh
Interviewer:  what do you call this part of the body?
370B:  head
Interviewer:  if he had seven boys and seven girls you might say he had a of kids? a what?
370B:  he had uh uh batch of children?
Interviewer:  anything else you might call it
370B:  hassle
Interviewer:  whats the outside of a an ear of corn? whats that called
370B:  uh you're talking about the shucks?
Interviewer:  uh whats the kind of corn you eat on the cob?
370B:  boiled corn.
Interviewer:  uh whats the strange silky stuff that comes out the top of corn?
370B:  silks.
Interviewer:  what what what do you call the corn stalk?
370B:  well you just call it the stalk {NW}
Interviewer:  whats that uh kinda of large orange food that we had a couple of days ago called? for Halloween whats that called?
370B:  pumpkin.
Interviewer:  uh kinda small yellow crook neck vegetable?
370B:  a squash
Interviewer:  what kinds of melon did you have?
370B:  well you have the uh watermelon mainly and you have cantaloupe and you have this uh honeydew melon I don't know
Interviewer:  uh what is it that springs up in the woods in the fields after a rain?
370B:  you're talking about uh mushrooms?
Interviewer:  mm-hmm ever call 'em anything else?
370B:  toadstools. we have them out here in the dog yard sometime. they grow this high over night. They're not there the next day and the next day you go out and they just oh lots of them
Interviewer:  uh {NS} Is there a difference between a toadstool and a mushroom?
370B:  yes there is. uh the toadstools are larger I think and maybe uh poisonous and the reg- uh you you know you have a regular mushroom that you can eat.
Interviewer:  if a man has a sore throat so the inside of his throats all swollen he they couldn't eat that piece of meat because he couldn't
370B:  swallow ooh I've had it spell it's kind of hot
AUX #2:  {X}
370B:  oh right
AUX #2:  {X} down here by twelve
Interviewer:  okay. you alright?
370B:  I'm feeling alright I don't know what got {X} I I have these spells like I'm gonna faint you know, fall
Interviewer:  you wanna rest awhile?
370B:  I'm not that tired I just don't really these I've got are {X} But I hadn't had them in a few alright
Interviewer:  uh what do people smoke
370B:  they smart smoke up cigars and cigarettes
Interviewer:  now
370B:  {D: a hype}
Interviewer:  um there were a lot of people at the party having a good time they were all standing around the piano
370B:  singing and laughing
Interviewer:  um he wouldn't accept the coat even though he was shivering with the cold because he didn't want to be
370B:  uh he didn't want to be brought down.
Interviewer:  he didn't want to feel as though he owed that person anything.
370B:  oh
Interviewer:  he didn't want to be what?
370B:  indebted.
Interviewer:  Uh somebody asking about you doing a certain job and you say sure I
370B:  can do it.
Interviewer:  Uh if you can't do it what do you say no
370B:  no I can't.
Interviewer:  uh somebody asks you about sundown to do some work and you say I got out to work before sun up and I
370B:  will work all day.
Interviewer:  If you're talking about the fact that so few of your old friends are still alive you might say I spent all week looking for my high school classmates it seems they're all
370B:  gone
Interviewer:  and what's the situation {X} if he's supposed to be watching out for himself he you say he
370B:  owes me?
Interviewer:  he's trying to to uh be careful. he
370B:  ought to do so and so ought to be?
Interviewer:  I'll dare you to go through the grave yard at night but I'll bet you
370B:  won't.
Interviewer:  uh you knew when you first agreed to go that you weren't telling mother you say you
370B:  you should go or should do whatever you agreed to do.
Interviewer:  Okay uh a boy got a whipping you say I bet he did something he
370B:  shouldn't have done.
Interviewer:  yes uh I say will you do it you say no
370B:  I won't.
Interviewer:  when you get something done that was hard work all by yourself and your friend was standing around helping you say you
370B:  say your friend was helping you
Interviewer:  he wasn't helping you did that by yourself and he stood there and watched you.
370B:  uh-huh
Interviewer:  you say you
370B:  might have helped me or you should have helped me.
Interviewer:  okay um what's the kind of bird you can see in the dark?
370B:  ooh owl.
Interviewer:  any particular kind of owl?
370B:  a hoot owl they call it.
Interviewer:  mm I see. uh whats the kind of bird that drills holes in trees?
370B:  you talking about a pecker wood?
Interviewer:  uh kinds of black and white animals with that powerful smell about 'em?
370B:  uh uh uh um polecat.
Interviewer:  uh what kind of animals come and raid hen roosts?
370B:  uh I think they used to claim that possums would do that and I don't know if that's uh right or not I know they would kill the um there was some other kind of animal that would kill the uh hens.
Interviewer:  Mm
370B:  #1 and #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
370B:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 #
370B:  uh they'd make a little hole in their neck and suck the blood out of them and things like that I could call and ask him what kind. Tom! I don't know where he is. it doesn't {X}? I don't know what you call them but I know they have come in on our chickens when we lived in the country.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
370B:  and maybe they'd get two or three in one night.
Interviewer:  snake or some-
370B:  #1 no it wasn't a snake #
Interviewer:  #2 an owl? #
370B:  uh-huh he was kinda like this um It wasn't a a owl. um I forgot what they called them anyway they would come in at night and get up on the roost and attack the chickens
Interviewer:  Mm. I don't know I can't even think what it might have been.
370B:  uh Tom will know but he's not in here right now Tom Tom
Interviewer:  #1 what do you call uh #
370B:  #2 tom what happened #
Interviewer:  #1 what a you an animal green call #
AUX #2:  #2 {X} #
370B:  squirrel.
AUX #2:  a mink.
370B:  mink minks.
Interviewer:  mink was the one that
370B:  came in and killed the chickens on the roost.
Interviewer:  they just ran wild? that the same they make coats out of now?
370B:  uh well just a wild mink and they uh lived in the woods you know and they would come in and attack the chickens at night while he's on the roost.
Interviewer:  what what um color the squirrels mostly?
370B:  uh they call them uh grey squirrels but they're not exactly grey they're more of a light tan.
Interviewer:  Can you think of any other kind of squirrel?
370B:  {X} only two the brown and the the grey.
Interviewer:  um Can you think of a name for a little animal that's kinda like a squirrel but he doesn't climb trees?
370B:  a chipmunk we have some out here in the backyard but w- we had some pecans on the porch day before yesterday uh we were eating lunch and Tom said look out at that little chipmunk had one of those- {NS}
Interviewer:  Mrs Tom Randall tape six. {NS} um {NS} talking about chipmunks eating a pecan that's right okay. name all the kinds of fish you can think about and can get around here.
370B:  well you get the catfish and you get the um bream
Interviewer:  #1 more than anything too #
370B:  #2 Uh-huh. #
Interviewer:  #1 #
370B:  #2 # and uh where we were last week Tom what do you call those fish that uh uh
AUX #2:  They're trout
370B:  {X} and them got up yonder.
AUX #3:  call them {X}
370B:  those fish that they bought that we got out of the lake.
AUX #3:  Those were catfish
370B:  no those other kind.
AUX #3:  you mean craw crawfish?
370B:  crawfish Mm-hmm they were real good too.
AUX #2:  trout
Interviewer:  {X}
370B:  #1 uh-huh #
AUX #3:  #2 they # called {X} or they called white perch.
Interviewer:  white perch?
AUX #3:  white perch some of them call 'em. some people call them crawfish cause crawfish is the right name.
370B:  that's the main kind that we get here
Interviewer:  anytime you uh great now you can tell me
370B:  well just go ahead I
Interviewer:  Uh what is what's that little kind of animal there're a lot in the ocean that has pearls in it?
370B:  oh you talking about the oyster?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm uh what is it that croaks in the marshland what do you call that?
370B:  frog
Interviewer:  and a male frog is a
370B:  bullfrog
Interviewer:  uh what are the little ones that you hear in the spring time? Little bitty frogs what do you call them?
370B:  Is that what you call croakers? something like that.
Interviewer:  uh what's the brown thing that lives in the garden and it's supposed to give you warts?
370B:  uh well it's supposed to give you warts uh well thats a frog too.
Interviewer:  any special kind of frog?
370B:  uh just a toad.
Interviewer:  um what are the things that you dig up to go fishing with?
370B:  worms. red worms.
Interviewer:  always red worms?
370B:  well they're nearly always red.
Interviewer:  #1 uh #
370B:  #2 we've got and they # do your land a lots of good too. they tough to bait you see they go around and and work around your flowers and things like that.
Interviewer:  um what i- what's that animal with that large shell who can pull his legs and arms and head under
370B:  #1 oh turtle? #
Interviewer:  #2 on the sides #
370B:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 # have you uh a um heard of another animal that's somewhat like a turtle only it lives on dry land?
370B:  yeah
Interviewer:  what's it called?
370B:  gopher? and a terrapin.
Interviewer:  terrapin?
370B:  terrapin lives on on land don't go in the water and a turtle I think will go in both land and water. I believe that's the difference.
Interviewer:  uh what kind of thing uh is it that you you find in fresh water spring that doesn't have thats got claws #1 when you turn it over #
370B:  #2 crawfish #
Interviewer:  what? uh if you go to um um town along the cost and you want a particular kind of fo- seafood the little kind that are pink and they cut the heads off and have and we call those
370B:  um they are um shrimp
Interviewer:  what's that um insect that fli- flies around lights and supposed to eat through your wool clothes?
370B:  moth
Interviewer:  got more than one what do you got?
370B:  moths
Interviewer:  um what's that uh insect that tail flashes on and off?
370B:  lightning bug.
Interviewer:  and um the long thin bodied insect that has a hard beak and a pair of real shiny wings? it hovers around that places and eats big mosquitos.
370B:  um I can't uh think I oh a dragonfly. they they do eat a lot of insects #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 not just mosquitos? # #1 they eat a lot of other things? #
370B:  #2 uh-huh # they tell me they do. I know a farmer's friend I had a lot of little uh uh note book
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
370B:  paper you know? and they uh had this different kind of insects on it and it says farmer's friend and it told on there what all they did.
Interviewer:  oh
370B:  and it was insects there that I never dreamed would be any good to the farmer but they uh guess they don't ever kill these kind.
Interviewer:  Hmm.
370B:  and I had already been trying to get rid of all that I could find cause I thought they were real dangerous or something.
Interviewer:  uh what kind of insects can you think of that sting people?
370B:  wasp and uh bees and hornet and yellow jackets oo I had a hornet I- I guess it was it bit me when I was up yonder. in Arkansas and the it last two days I thought I never get rid of that place hurting in my hand.
Interviewer:  what about when you're out hunting whats that kinda bug that eats you alive?
370B:  well there's uh mosquitos and there's chiggers those little bitty red things that get on you.
Interviewer:  Mm.
370B:  uh-huh
Interviewer:  red bugs?
370B:  red bugs they're chiggers.
Interviewer:  Hmm. what's that green insect sometimes it brown and hops along the ground-
370B:  grasshopper?
Interviewer:  um what are the small fish what do you call them? used for bait
370B:  minnows?
Interviewer:  uh what is it that stretches across doorways and where people haven't been in-
370B:  spider webs.
Interviewer:  um part of the tree that's underneath the ground?
370B:  roots.
Interviewer:  uh kind of tree where you tap syrup?
370B:  well maple.
Interviewer:  and uh what do you call a place where there's a lot of maple trees growing?
370B:  I guess you'd call it a grove.
Interviewer:  you ever uh heard a name for the kind of tree with the real broad leaves that that shed 'em all at one time? the bark peels off and {X}
370B:  yes they have those little balls uh sycamore. we have some sycamore trees uh did have right up up where we used to live downtown.
Interviewer:  can you think of any other kinds of trees you have around here? {NS} they're real tall. {NS}
370B:  well we have the pine tree. and we have uh {NS} this little tree that grows up and has the flower
AUX #2:  hello
370B:  and the leaves froze up at night I forgot anyway maple and and cyan and oak and sycamore and things like that
Interviewer:  uh what what was the kind of tree that George Washington cut down?
370B:  cherry.
Interviewer:  uh
AUX #3:  I heard you were gonna be with us
Interviewer:  what are the bushes some different kinds of bushes that make your skin break out?
370B:  poison ivy.
Interviewer:  any other kind?
370B:  and poison oak
AUX #3:  what
Interviewer:  um what is it that uh that roof that's red like a {X} but it's um bigger and
370B:  plum.
Interviewer:  well
370B:  not a plum either huh?
Interviewer:  red and it's got uh seeds on the outside of it
370B:  oh a strawberry
Interviewer:  ah kinds of berries with real rough surface and little bitty and they're red too?
370B:  raspberries.
Interviewer:  and um if um if you eat sometimes the berries they'll kill you they're called
370B:  po- uh poison berries
Interviewer:  uh what's a tall bush with cluster of real pretty pink and white flowers? got flow- flowers on it in the spring time. pink ones and white
370B:  oh you mean the laurel?
Interviewer:  um whats that one that's got much bigger ones with long {X} stems?
370B:  um rhododendron {C: pronunciation}
Interviewer:  um what's a tree name that the south is so famous for. it's huge and has great big flowers on it. white
370B:  magnolia? we have a couple out here in the front.
Interviewer:  {X} if a married woman doesn't want to make up her own mind she says I must ask
370B:  my husband.
Interviewer:  uh and a man would say I must ask
370B:  my wife.
Interviewer:  a woman whose lost her husband is called a
370B:  widow.
Interviewer:  uh and a man if you're the son of a man you'd call him your
370B:  father.
Interviewer:  uh what did you call your father?
370B:  well lots of times they say dad or daddy.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm um the wife of your father is
370B:  grand- oh the wife of your father is your mother.
Interviewer:  and uh your- what do you call your mother?
370B:  momma.
Interviewer:  uh your father and mother together are your
370B:  parents
Interviewer:  your father's father is your
370B:  grandfather.
Interviewer:  and his wife is your
370B:  grandmother.
Interviewer:  do you have any special name for your grandparents? like granny or
370B:  no in fact I never uh saw my grand my parents my grand-parents. except uh now mother's s- uh step grandmother I saw her and I saw my uh mother's uh father but we called him um grandpa Massey. we called him grandpa and this other uh we called her uh grandma. but um my mother's uh my grand daddy's I mean my daddy's mother and father I never did see
Interviewer:  your son's and daughters are your
370B:  children
Interviewer:  uh something on wheels that you put a baby in and it lies down in it-
370B:  carriage.
Interviewer:  uh if you put the baby in the carriage you go out and
370B:  push or take a stroll {NS}
Interviewer:  um how would you say your grand children range in age? Haley is
370B:  youngest or oldest.
Interviewer:  and uh they're close to being adults you'd say they're
370B:  nearly grown.
Interviewer:  uh your children are your sons and your
370B:  daughters.
Interviewer:  uh your children aren't boys their
370B:  girls.
Interviewer:  #1 beautiful girls #
370B:  #2 yes those girls #
Interviewer:  {NW} okay if a woman is going to have a baby you'd say she's
370B:  pregnant.
Interviewer:  if you don't have a doctor to deliver did you have a doctor for all your babies?
370B:  mm-hmm. if you didn't have one whats the woman that you'd send for? a midwife.
Interviewer:  uh
370B:  but mine were all born at home.
Interviewer:  they were? how'd you get the doctor there okay?
370B:  just called him. he came.
Interviewer:  {X}.
370B:  uh-huh.
Interviewer:  if a boy and his father have the same appearance you'd say the boy
370B:  looks like his daddy.
Interviewer:  if a mother has looked after has looked after three children till they are grown you'd say she has
370B:  raised.
Interviewer:  to a bad child you'd say you are going to get a
370B:  spanking.
Interviewer:  If Bob is five inches tall this year and you say, Bob
370B:  grew that or
Interviewer:  or you certainly have
370B:  grown.
Interviewer:  a child that's born to an unmarried woman is a
370B:  unmarried?
Interviewer:  uh-huh uh he- sh- he's um bastard.
370B:  that's right
Interviewer:  Anything else?
370B:  I wanted to say something else but uh I don't know what what that word was illegitimate I knew there was a {X}. something that didn't sound quite as bad as a bastard. sounds terrible. illegitimate that's what I was going to say.
Interviewer:  um Jane is a loving child but Peggy is a lot
370B:  more loving.
Interviewer:  uh your brother's son is called your
370B:  nephew.
Interviewer:  uh a child that's lost its father and mother is called
370B:  orphan.
Interviewer:  a person who's appointed to look after an orphan is its
370B:  guardian.
Interviewer:  If the woman gives a party and invites all the people that are related to her you'd say she asks all
370B:  the family uh relatives.
Interviewer:  ah. if she has the same family name and does look a bit like me but I'm actually
370B:  not kin or related.
Interviewer:  some one who comes into town and no one has ever seen him before he's a
370B:  stranger.
Interviewer:  uh oh these are all names now. uh what's a- you have a daughter the red headed daughter's name was
370B:  Mary Jane
Interviewer:  Mary uh what was the name of George Washington's wife?
370B:  Martha.
Interviewer:  uh a nickname for Helen that begins with n?
370B:  begins with n?
Interviewer:  uh-huh
370B:  it begin- well that's Nelly. uh
Interviewer:  uh nickname for a little boy whose name is William? begins with a b.
370B:  bill.
Interviewer:  and
370B:  billy.
Interviewer:  uh what's the first book in the new testament?
370B:  exodus I mean uh genesis no the new testament Matthews
Interviewer:  uh a woman who conducts school is a
370B:  supposed to be teacher. {X} something like that
Interviewer:  {NW} um a person who makes barrels is a
370B:  oh let's see a cooper I guess you'd call him.
Interviewer:  uh a preacher that's not really trained he hadn't, doesn't have a- a license or anything to preach but he does preach regularly is called what?
AUX #2:  {X}
370B:  well no I don't think you'd say unordained you would say um I don't know what you'd call you wouldn't call 'em a pastor. I don't know what you call them.
Interviewer:  okay um what relation would your mother's sister be?
370B:  my aunt.
Interviewer:  uh you know the name Abraham's wife's name was?
370B:  Sarah?
Interviewer:  uh If your father had a brother and you wanted to call him by his name you would call him
370B:  uncle so and so.
Interviewer:  uh the commander of the army of north Virginia was this during the the war between the states. the commander of the southern army was
370B:  general lee
Interviewer:  uh the old man who introduced Kentucky fried to the world what's his name?
370B:  uh colonel Johnson isn't it uh colonel uh sanders yeah I remember they uh mustache and all that {X} uh-huh
Interviewer:  um what do they call the man whose in charge of the ship?
370B:  captain
Interviewer:  you ever use that in any other situation?
370B:  well a captain on, well that's on the boat though. um I guess there is but right now I can't think of it.
Interviewer:  how do you um address the man who presides over the county court?
370B:  uh the judge?
Interviewer:  if his name is smith what do you call him?
370B:  judge smith.
Interviewer:  uh what do you call a person who goes to college to study?
370B:  student.
Interviewer:  a person employed by a private business man to look after his correspondence is called his private
370B:  secretary.
Interviewer:  {NW} excuse me. a woman who appears in a play or a movie is
370B:  actress.
Interviewer:  uh was your nationality? anybody born in the united states is called an
370B:  American.
Interviewer:  uh what was what's the name that you use to call members of a race different from yours?
370B:  uh
Interviewer:  all your maids used to be
370B:  well you mean negroes?
Interviewer:  uh your race is
370B:  white.
Interviewer:  uh a person whose born of a racially mixed background say a white mother and a black father is called a what?
370B:  well would you say a mix breed?
Interviewer:  um what would you call the man you worked for?
370B:  well lots of times you say my boss.
Interviewer:  if uh what {X} do the Negroes often say?
370B:  um call 'em uh master his master so and so or so
Interviewer:  white people who aren't very well off they haven't much education or anything what are they called?
370B:  {NW} I have heard 'em called poor white trash. {NW}
Interviewer:  anything else?
370B:  ignorant?
Interviewer:  anything else?
370B:  uh redneck?
Interviewer:  um what do um negroes call poor whites?
370B:  they say poor white trash I guess {NW} just like that.
Interviewer:  somebody who lives out in the country doesn't know anything about town ways uh and when you gets to town everybody can tell he's from the country he might say I don't know anything about city ways I'm just an old
370B:  country man. country boy.
Interviewer:  anything else?
370B:  hill billy.
Interviewer:  uh-huh if it's not quite midnight and somebody asks you what time it is you might say well it's not quite midnight yet it's
370B:  almost.
Interviewer:  uh you slip and catched yourself you say this is a dangerous place I
370B:  almost fell.
Interviewer:  somebody is waiting for you to get ready so you can go out with him and he calls to you uh hey will you be ready soon you might answer I'll be with you
370B:  in a minute.
Interviewer:  you know your on the right road but you're not sure of the distance so you ask somebody how
370B:  far.
Interviewer:  alright if you're pointing out something nearby you say
370B:  look here.
Interviewer:  um if you want to know how many times you say something you say how
370B:  often.
Interviewer:  you agree with a friend when he says I'm not going to do that or I'm not going to vote for that guy you say
370B:  if you agree with him?
Interviewer:  not agree yes you do agree with him.
370B:  uh-huh you'd say uh I'm not either.
Interviewer:  um what do you call the part of your face that's right above your eyes?
370B:  forehead.
Interviewer:  uh you go to the barber and have him cut your
370B:  well hair. barber cuts your hair and also shaves you too {X}.
Interviewer:  shaves your what?
370B:  uh mustache whiskers face beard.
Interviewer:  um where did the old time storekeeper keep his pencil when he wasn't using it?
370B:  behind his ear {NW}
Interviewer:  okay what two sides?
370B:  uh well I would say right side
Interviewer:  okay what's the other side called?
370B:  left.
Interviewer:  uh if someone's mumbling you say take that chewing gum out of your
370B:  mouth.
Interviewer:  he got a chicken stuck in his
370B:  a chicken?
Interviewer:  chicken bone
370B:  bone stuck in your throat.
Interviewer:  you have the dentist look at your
370B:  teeth.
Interviewer:  and uh
370B:  gums
Interviewer:  around {X} you hold that baby bird in the what do you call the inside-
370B:  palm of your hand.
Interviewer:  uh if you close your hand up
370B:  fist.
Interviewer:  more than one is
370B:  fists
Interviewer:  uh any place were you can bend your finger and your hand and your arm what's that-
370B:  joint.
Interviewer:  Uh the upper part of a man's body is his
370B:  chest.
Interviewer:  uh they measure the height of horses in
370B:  hands.
Interviewer:  the pain ran from his heel all the way up his
370B:  thigh.
Interviewer:  what's the thigh a part of your le- uh that called?
370B:  uh leg?
Interviewer:  uh I found one over a box in the dark it bruised my
370B:  shin.
Interviewer:  back part of thighs are called what?
370B:  back part of thighs? haunches.
Interviewer:  uh someone's been sick a while they're up and about now but he's still looks a little
370B:  peckish? {NS}
Interviewer:  {X} um persons who can lift heavy weights are
370B:  strong.
Interviewer:  um one who's very easy to get along with
370B:  well I don't know I have heard 'em called uh even tempered.
Interviewer:  Uh when a boy's in his teens and he's apt to be all arms and legs and can't walk through a room without knocking all the furniture you say at that age he's awfully
370B:  clumsy.
Interviewer:  a person who keeps on doing things that don't make any sense you'd say he is a plain
370B:  {NW} you say he's a plain fool I guess or crazy.
Interviewer:  uh what do you call a person who won't ever spend any money?
370B:  well now lots of people call 'em um tight wad and then some other call 'em misers and they're just different names.
Interviewer:  Ya. uh when you use the word common about people what do you mean?
370B:  well they're just ordinary people there's nothing outstanding and maybe they are kinda ignorant people too.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm if an old man is still very strong and active and he doesn't show his age you'd say he's still quite
370B:  young for his age.
Interviewer:  if if the young person you're talking one that's always moving around and always on the go you say he is very
370B:  active.
Interviewer:  the children are out later than usual you'd say I don't suppose there's anything wrong but I can't help feeling a little
370B:  uneasy.
Interviewer:  I don't want to go upstairs in the dark I'm
370B:  afraid.
Interviewer:  she isn't afraid now but she
370B:  used to be afraid of the dark.
Interviewer:  uh I don't understand why she's afraid she
370B:  didn't used to be.
Interviewer:  uh somebody who leaves a lot of money on the table and the door unlocked you say he's mighty
370B:  generous?
Interviewer:  {NW} well if somebody came in and took it what if he didn't do it on
370B:  #1 oh careless #
Interviewer:  #2 purpose? #
370B:  careless.
Interviewer:  um there's nothing really wrong with aunt Lizzie but sometimes she acts kind of
370B:  crazy?
Interviewer:  what else?
370B:  strange?
Interviewer:  um think of anything else you might say?
370B:  different?
AUX #2:  peculiar
370B:  queer?
Interviewer:  uh if a man is very sure of his own way and he never wants to change you say don't be so
370B:  set in your ways.
Interviewer:  um somebody you can't joke with without him losing his temper you say he's mighty
370B:  touchy?
Interviewer:  I was just kidding him I didn't know he'd get
370B:  mad?
Interviewer:  #1 somebody's about to lose #
370B:  #2 upset? #
Interviewer:  his temper you tell him just
370B:  quiet down.
Interviewer:  if you've been working very hard you say you're very
370B:  tired.
Interviewer:  um I'm completely
370B:  exhausted.
Interviewer:  um if a person has been quite well and you hear that suddenly they have some disease you say last night she
370B:  uh
Interviewer:  She just all of a sudden
370B:  was taken sick.
Interviewer:  um but she'll be up again by
370B:  maybe tomorrow.
Interviewer:  Okay if it's just a little while you say
370B:  soon
Interviewer:  if as person sat in a drought and began to cough you'd say last night he
370B:  took cold.
Interviewer:  uh if he did it If you had done it before he'd
370B:  had uh taken.
Interviewer:  uh if its affected his voice he
370B:  is hoarse. {NS}
Interviewer:  whats this? {NW}
370B:  cough.
Interviewer:  Uh I'd better go to bed I'm feeling a little
370B:  drowsy. all sleepy.
Interviewer:  uh at six o'clock I'll
370B:  wake up wake up.
Interviewer:  Uh he's still sleeping you better go
370B:  eas- quietly or easy. Easily.
Interviewer:  Uh if the medicine is still by the patient's bedside you would ask why haven't you
370B:  taken.
Interviewer:  If you can't hear something at all you'd say you are stone
370B:  deaf.
Interviewer:  he began to sweat when he started to work by the time he finished you would say he a lot in the sun?
370B:  uh he uh sweated.
Interviewer:  A discharging sore that comes to a head is called what?
370B:  uh you mean a pickle? uh rising? rising.
Interviewer:  Okay you ever have any of those?
370B:  Oh I used to have 'em on the neck of my on the back of my neck.
Interviewer:  what'd you do for 'em?
370B:  uh well I remember uh {X} momma used to put just a little piece of white meat on it when it first started that would draw it to a head. and then I uh never will forget one time {X} daddy uh pinch me on one I had the back of my neck and he didn't know it well it got well but it {X}.
Interviewer:  it hurt?
370B:  uh-huh they say that the the sign that you may be a diabetic when you have lots of boils uh-huh and sure enough I turned out to be one.
Interviewer:  hmm
370B:  but I had boils often when I was younger .
Interviewer:  hmm uh what is it that's inside a boil?
370B:  well they call it a core that you- when you get that core out why it gets well.
Interviewer:  what about the uh outside of the core?
370B:  uh puss?
Interviewer:  uh if you've got some infection in your hand so that your hand got bigger than it ought to be you say my hand
370B:  swollen or swelled.
Interviewer:  uh when you get a blister the liquid that forms under the pin is
370B:  called water.
Interviewer:  um in a war if a bullet goes through your arm you say you have a
370B:  wound.
Interviewer:  uh a kind of skinless grove in a wound thats got to be burned out
370B:  uh uh grove? I wonder if that's the uh scar tissue that's around there or if it's an infection that you have to burn it out.
Interviewer:  Oh I never heard of this either I don't know uh if you get just a little cut in your finger what do you put on it?
370B:  iodine. and uh you put merthiolate. thats good.
Interviewer:  uh
370B:  and then they have just a spray now that kills all kind of germs. you just you just push a little uh cube or something you know and it sprays out on there.
Interviewer:  oh yeah.
370B:  I don't know what you call it.
Interviewer:  wick or something.
370B:  uh
Interviewer:  first aid spray?
370B:  yeah but I didn't have that when I was raising mine up. I had to use the other stuff that you had to apply.
Interviewer:  uh the medicine they developed in England during the second world war it's real strong for malaria what'd they call that?
370B:  {X}
Interviewer:  uh if a man were shot and he didn't recover you'd say that he
370B:  died.
Interviewer:  uh any cruel humorous way of saying that?
370B:  passed on?
Interviewer:  yep
370B:  uh cruel- cruel way?
Interviewer:  making fun of 'em
370B:  aw I don't know. kicked the bucket yeah that would uh or either he pegged out or things like that. yeah you don't think of those things right off but I have heard 'em say well he kicked the bucket. Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  uh if you're not sure why he died you'd say I don't know what he died
370B:  of.
Interviewer:  uh what do you call the place people are buried?
370B:  cemetery.
Interviewer:  uh box that people are buried in?
370B:  coffin you mean?
Interviewer:  um what's the ceremony that you have when a person dies?
370B:  well they call it funeral.
Interviewer:  Uh and if the the people who were real close to them they go into
370B:  mourning.
Interviewer:  um somebody meets you on the street and says well how are you today? you're feeling just about average you'd say oh I'm
370B:  so and so.
Interviewer:  {NW} uh if somebody's troubled you might say oh it will all a come out all right
370B:  in w- on wash day.
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
370B:  #2 that's what # they used to say it'll come out on wash day.
Interviewer:  uh you don't want 'em to be concerned about it you'd say
370B:  don't worry.
Interviewer:  Uh the disease of the joints, what's that called?
370B:  rheu- rheumatism.
Interviewer:  a very
370B:  lots of times now they call it arthritis.
Interviewer:  oh is it the same?
370B:  but I think it's about the same thing outright rheumatism cause they never did now anything from rheumatism they couldn't cure that either. they rubbed with different kind of uh oils ointments and things like that but you still had rheumatism. and now you don't hear about rheumatism it's always arthritis. but I think it's the same thing.
Interviewer:  probably so like um I'm convinced that lung cancer and consumption are the same thing.
370B:  yeah about.
Interviewer:  um you now a name for a very severe sore throat that has blisters on the inside in the sore throat?
370B:  uh diphtheria.
Interviewer:  Uh what's the disease that makes you turn yellow?
370B:  malaria fever? and jaundice yes yellow jaundice yes {X}.
Interviewer:  um when you have your um appendix taken out you say you've had an attack of
370B:  appendicitis.
Interviewer:  Uh say if you get- eat something that didn't agree with you it wouldn't stay down you'd say you had to
370B:  vomit?
Interviewer:  uh somebody pretty bad this way you might say he leaned on the fence or something and
370B:  vomited.
Interviewer:  if a person vomited he was sick
370B:  to their stomach.
Interviewer:  uh she hardly got the news when she came right over right over
370B:  the tell me.
Interviewer:  uh if you invite somebody to come and you {X} come and see you this evening and you want to tell them you'll be disappointed if he doesn't come you say now if you don't come
370B:  I will be disappointed.
Interviewer:  if you both are going to be glad to see you then you say we
370B:  we will be glad to see you.
Interviewer:  if you do that again you're talking to a little kid you say you do that again I'll
370B:  spank you.
Interviewer:  um if a boy's beginning to pay serious attention to a girl he is
370B:  courting.
Interviewer:  anything else you ever call?
370B:  falling in love. {NW} I don't know.
Interviewer:  um what do you uh if they're in love what do you call him? her
370B:  you you would you would say he was boyfriend or her course they're not uh engaged or anything it wouldn't be fiancee.
Interviewer:  uh if and she is his
370B:  fiancee.
Interviewer:  uh a boy comes home with lipstick on his collar and his little brother said he's been
370B:  kissing {NW}
Interviewer:  anything else you ever call it? besides kissing?
370B:  {D: busing} smooching uh I think smooching is the main thing they used to say.
Interviewer:  um If he asks her to marry him and she doesn't want to what do you say she did to him?
370B:  well she refused him.
Interviewer:  uh uh if people uh if she doesn't refuse {X} they get
370B:  engaged.
Interviewer:  and then they
370B:  marry.
Interviewer:  anything else you ever call it besides getting married?
370B:  oh get hitched? {NW}
Interviewer:  Do you ever use that word {X}?
370B:  no I don't I don't think that sounds very good I don't like that like I do marriage.
Interviewer:  at a wedding the man who stands up with the groom is the the one whose the witness to the groom
370B:  uh-huh he's the best man.
Interviewer:  and for the um girl?
370B:  the girl is the maid of honor.
Interviewer:  and the other girls they're called
370B:  brides maids.
Interviewer:  uh a noisy {X} it comes around to the house after a wedding what's that called?
370B:  reception.
Interviewer:  um if you were um in Atlanta and you were going to Memphis you'd say you're going how you gonna get there?
370B:  going up to Memphis?
Interviewer:  uh he lives if you were gonna say he lives in a particular place you'd say he lives so he lives with somebody else?
370B:  uh he lived uh by himself?
Interviewer:  okay if he doesn't if he lives with another family what would you say? he lives
370B:  with them?
Interviewer:  uh there was trouble at the party and the police came and a- arrested you'd say he's gonna arrest everybody you'd say he arrested the
370B:  the crowd whole crowd.
Interviewer:  um what do young people like to go out and do in the evening? with music on-
370B:  dance.
Interviewer:  uh children get out of school at four o'clock you'd say at four o'clock school does what
370B:  uh school is out or school not um not recess
Interviewer:  no when it's completely over what do they what do you call that?
370B:  lets out.
Interviewer:  uh after a vacation day school when does they say when does school
370B:  begin.
Interviewer:  a boy left home to go to school and he didn't show up he
370B:  played hooky I guess.
Interviewer:  at college is it still playing hooky?
370B:  uh well I don't know whether you call it that or not I guess you do.
Interviewer:  um you go to school to get an
370B:  you go to school to get an education.
Interviewer:  after high school you go onto
370B:  college.
Interviewer:  after kinder- kindergarten you go into the
370B:  just the regular school.
Interviewer:  what do you call the the ones where the little kids go
370B:  uh primary.
Interviewer:  anything else?
370B:  elementary.
Interviewer:  uh somebody left a note if you're a teacher and you went into your room you'd say somebody left a note on my
370B:  desk
Interviewer:  a building especially for books is called what?
370B:  library.
Interviewer:  {X}
370B:  {X}
Interviewer:  If you stay overnight in the {X} you'd stay in a
370B:  motel or hotel.
Interviewer:  Uh you'd see a play at a
370B:  uh theater.
Interviewer:  uh you have an operation in what
370B:  hospital.
Interviewer:  don't want any of that and uh whats Lillian's profession?
370B:  nursing.
Interviewer:  Uh you catch a train at the
370B:  depot.
Interviewer:  An open place in the city where the green grass would be growing and everything is called what?
370B:  a park.
Interviewer:  and the one that has the court house on it is what?
370B:  the city square generally but uh the old towns but now they don't have a city square.
Interviewer:  oh that's a shame. I think it's very pretty um when two streets cross a man starts at the one corner and he walks to the opposite corner you'd say he walked how? if it's two two streets uh like this and you go from here to here
370B:  oh criss cross.
Interviewer:  um if it's not in a straight line what is it?
370B:  zig zag.
Interviewer:  vehicles that uh used to run on tracks with a wire over head like they have in San Francisco what do you call those?
370B:  uh they were street cars.
Interviewer:  Do you have them in {X}?
370B:  we didn't we did have 'em we don't have 'em anymore.
Interviewer:  uh if you tell the bus driver uh next corner is where I want
370B:  off.
Interviewer:  um here in Jackson county um {X} is the If it's the most important
370B:  #1 county feet #
Interviewer:  #2 in the county #
370B:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 # uh who pays the post master?
370B:  the federal
Interviewer:  federal what?
370B:  government.
Interviewer:  uh the police in the town are supposed to maintain what?
370B:  peace.
Interviewer:  okay if you gonna say that in more than one word what would you say?
370B:  law and order.
Interviewer:  uh what was that name of a fight between the north and the southern state that started in eighteen sixty-one?
370B:  the civil war a war between the states.
Interviewer:  Uh before they had the electric tell the electric chair uh what did they do to murderers/ they were
370B:  executed uh they were hung.
Interviewer:  um Albany is the capital of what?
370B:  uh New York state.
AUX #2:  thats Peggy she's on her way
Interviewer:  okay and Annapolis is the capital of
370B:  Maryland
Interviewer:  um Richmond the capital of what?
370B:  Virginia
Interviewer:  and Raleigh?
370B:  North Carolina.
Interviewer:  the one right next to North Carolina?
370B:  South Carolina
Interviewer:  and right below that where I live?
370B:  Georgia.
Interviewer:  and where my mother lives?
370B:  {NW} Florida
Interviewer:  and where you live?
370B:  Alabama.
Interviewer:  uh when you run on the Mississippi river down where New Orleans is
370B:  uh Louisiana.
Interviewer:  and the one just north of Tennessee?
370B:  that's just where we came from Kentucky.
Interviewer:  and right below Kentucky?
370B:  Tennessee.
Interviewer:  and uh one that has a great big river named for it
370B:  the Missouri river?
Interviewer:  the one where you just came back from that state?
370B:  Arkansas.
Interviewer:  and other big river?
370B:  the Mississippi we crossed it several times.
Interviewer:  several times? that on bridges or in a boat?
370B:  bridges. and we crossed it on the ferry to. we went over in um Tennessee and we crossed it in the on the ferry.
Interviewer:  Mrs Alma {X} {D: excuse me mrs. alama bunnyboring } with the pan handle?
370B:  Oklahoma.
Interviewer:  uh the bay state where the pilgrims landed? {D: mrs alma bunnyboring} tape six {NS}