Interviewer:  {X} {NS} Okay, let's see. Yeah I was asking you about what you would say to a friend of yours. Say, would you ever use something like this I sure am mighty.
387:  Mighty glad to see you.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Heard people round here use the word proud?
387:  #1 Yeah, quite a bit. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # They would say maybe.
387:  I'm proud to see you.
Interviewer:  Proud to see you okay. Talking about a fellow who owns a great deal of land, maybe several thousand acres You would say well, so-and-so he sure owns a
387:  Bunch of land.
Interviewer:  Alright. You ever heard people use the phrase right smart that way?
387:  Mm-hmm. Quite. I don't think you'd use right smart on several thousand acres. I think right smart would be a smaller amount than that.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  But it'd
Interviewer:  In the hundreds?
387:  Uh might be, might be. Might even be less than a hundred.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  I never have thought of about land, but you know it
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  People would use that quite a bit.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Give me an example of using that phrase.
387:  Uh {NS} Let me think of some. You'd might say did you get in much hay today and say well we got right #1 smart in I think. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm # Yeah. Could you have a right smart of pain?
387:  No I don't think so. I think it'd be something that would be easier to count than
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yeah.
387:  Than
Interviewer:  Okay it has to be more concrete.
387:  I believe- I believe so.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay. Alright, say this phrase, if somebody Intentionally dislike to go somewhere, you'd say he blank dreaded the place.
387:  Really #1 dreaded it or #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm # okay and if you go outside and it's it's cold, I mean you might say it's not just cold out here, it's cold
387:  #1 Extra cold #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay # Anything else? It's blank cold.
387:  #1 Real cold or #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm #
387:  Okay
Interviewer:  Ask you about uh, exclamations uh What would be the strongest thing that you would probably say, you know, in a way of swearing or cursing if you really go provoked?
387:  Damn.
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm #
387:  #2 Probably #
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
387:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 #
387:  #2 # Nothing much other than that I don't think.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if somebody is uh said something about you that you don't appreciate You know, to indicate the kind of resentment you might say why the very
387:  Idea.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
387:  Very, yeah. {X}
Interviewer:  Would you ever use-
387:  The nerve of it
Interviewer:  The nerve? Yeah. Alright. Say if you met somebody in town and you're just walking along somebody you know, what might you say to them, you know, in a way of greeting, asking about his health?
387:  How are you getting along?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm Okay Would you say anything to somebody you didn't know if you were walking along just to be saying something?
387:  Same thing, I would, I think.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about uh if some people had been over to see you and you enjoyed their visit, you might say well Y'all come back
387:  To see us.
Interviewer:  Mm
387:  Or when you can.
Interviewer:  Okay or Come back
387:  Anytime.
Interviewer:  What about another word to indicate that you'd like another visit from y'all come back?
387:  Soon.
Interviewer:  Alright, this word begins with an A that I'm after. Y'all come back A-G
387:  Oh, again.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay. Just for pronunciation, how would you greet somebody around December 25?
387:  Merry Christmas.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm Did you ever Play a little word game on Christmas Day or maybe around Christmas when you You were supposed to say the {NW} to the person when you saw him before he said it to you.
387:  Mm no I don't think so.
Interviewer:  You ever say Christmas gift? To somebody?
387:  No. Never did.
Interviewer:  And around January the first you would say.
387:  Happy New Year.
Interviewer:  Okay. If somebody's done you a favor, you know to show your appreciation you might say well I sure am much
387:  Obliged or indebted
Interviewer:  Do you say that? Much obliged?
387:  No I never do.
Interviewer:  But do you hear it?
387:  Hear it quite a bit.
Interviewer:  Okay.
387:  I think that's mostly older folks too.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm alright. Say if you need to go downtown to get some things, you say you have to go downtown to do some
387:  Errands.
Interviewer:  Or Anything begins with an S. Go do some. S-H.
387:  Oh do some shopping.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
387:  Mm-hmm
Interviewer:  Do you {NW} {NW} Or do you do some errands?
387:  Well I think there's a I think the difference I think when you're shopping you're buying things and when you're on errands you're Doing things like #1 paying the light bill on time. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Okay. Uh, say you bought something at a store, the store keeper took a piece of paper and he did what to it?
387:  Wrapped it.
Interviewer:  Yeah, when you got home you
387:  Unwrapped it.
Interviewer:  Alright. And if a a merchant is selling something for less than what he paid for it, you'd say he's selling at a
387:  At a loss.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm And if you see something that you really like, but you might not be able to get it simply because it, too much.
387:  Cost too much.
Interviewer:  But if you really need it like a new car you might go to your banker and ask if you could
387:  Borrow the money.
Interviewer:  Right, and he might say well I'd like to help you out but nowadays money is mighty.
387:  Mighty tight.
Interviewer:  Okay and another word for that?
387:  Scarce.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay.
387:  Expensive.
Interviewer:  #1 Sure. #
387:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  And if it's time to pay the bill, you would say the bill is
387:  Due.
Interviewer:  Yeah, and if you're in a club you have to pay your
387:  Dues.
Interviewer:  Alright. Alright, say if a boy is at a swimming hole, he might go off run off the end of the board and in the water
387:  Dive.
Interviewer:  Yeah He ran off the board and he
387:  Dived.
Interviewer:  Okay Uh he has out there all day.
387:  Dived.
Interviewer:  Alright, and when he gets in the water he begins to
387:  Swim.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Uh he dived off the board and he
387:  #1 Swam across the pool. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm # He has out there all day
387:  Swam.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about if he gets in water that's too deep for him? Uh You might say he You might say that he might.
387:  Oh. Sink to the bottom.
Interviewer:  Alright yeah if it kills him he might
387:  Drown.
Interviewer:  Yeah Uh he got in water that was too deep and he
387:  Drowned.
Interviewer:  Yeah A lot of people have
387:  Drowned.
Interviewer:  Okay. What would you say you did if dived in the water and you Didn't enter the water cleanly, but you landed flat, you know? And uh blistered yourself and made a popping sound?
387:  Uh. They call it a belly flop.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. Ever heard belly bust?
387:  Belly buster, yeah, belly buster {D: heard that before}
Interviewer:  Alright. And if a child is playing around in the yard He might take his head between his legs and kick out his feet and go over like that. What would you say he did?
387:  Turned somersaults. Or somersets.
Interviewer:  See any difference to you between a flip and a somersault?
387:  Always think of a flip {NW} As making the complete circle in the air {NS} Excuse me {NS} Oh okay. {NS}
Interviewer:  Telling me about flip
387:  Oh I I think a I always think of a flip as being as making a complete circle in the air.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
387:  Sp- especially if you're on a trampoline or a diving board.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  And I always think of a somersault as as just playing on the ground.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay. Around here, if you go in to uh buy something at the store or go in to pay off your bill would the storekeeper ever give you something, you know, a little extra for doing that?
387:  Uh. A a discount or?
Interviewer:  Okay, that or maybe if it were just something that he gave to you outright.
387:  No I don't think so I-
Interviewer:  Would you have a word for something like that, if that happened? He gave you a or this was
387:  I couldn't think of anything other than a gift.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay. Do you know the word lagniappe?
387:  No.
Interviewer:  To mean something a little extra.
387:  No, never heard that I don't believe. {NS}
Interviewer:  Alrighty. What about uh what would you say a baby does before it's able to walk?
387:  Crawls.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if a boy gets his kite stuck up in a tree, he's gonna have to
387:  To climb the tree.
Interviewer:  Yeah. It got stuck up there and he
387:  Climbed
Interviewer:  Yeah He has a lot of trees
387:  Climbed.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh If a child's about to go to bed, but he's going to say his prayers first, you'd say he did what beside the bed?
387:  Uh kneeled.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm And if you're feeling kind of tired, you might say Well I think I'll down for a while.
387:  Lie down.
Interviewer:  Yeah. And talking about somebody who's pretty sick, you might say well He couldn't even sit up he just in bed all day.
387:  Just lay in bed all day.
Interviewer:  Alright. And things that you begin to see in your sleep, you say you begin to
387:  Dream.
Interviewer:  Yeah. You say last night I
387:  Dreamed.
Interviewer:  I have.
387:  Dreamed.
Interviewer:  About that before okay. And you might say I was dreaming about so-and-so but all the sudden I
387:  Woke up.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm What would you say I did if I brought my foot down pretty hard on the floor?
387:  Stomped.
Interviewer:  Yeah okay. And if uh a fellow was at a party and he wanted to see that a girl got home okay. What might he asker her, he might say may I
387:  Take you home or See you home sometimes but take you home I think would be
Interviewer:  Does take you home or see you home imply either walking or riding there?
387:  I think it does, I don't think there'd be any difference.
Interviewer:  What, what, what would those phrases imply? Which one won't get a ride?
387:  Uh.
Interviewer:  #1 Oh you mean it could be #
387:  #2 I don't think it, I #
Interviewer:  #1 Either one #
387:  #2 I think it could be either one # I guess. Maybe see you home might mean, might imply walking more than
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  Riding and take you home might mean
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  But I I've never thought about that I
Interviewer:  Is there anything if you, If you were going to give her a ride in your car, May I
387:  Take you home. Some folks would say carry you home.
Interviewer:  To mean riding in the car? Okay. And to get a boat up on the land, you might tie a rope to it and do what?
387:  Pull it out.
Interviewer:  Yeah and if you're having car trouble you might ask somebody behind you to give you a
387:  Give you a push or a shove.
Interviewer:  Okay. What if you were carrying something like a big trunk instead of saying you carried that thing for a block, you'd say I
387:  Mm
Interviewer:  Kind of implying that you had a had a struggle with it maybe. {NS}
387:  #1 Excuse me. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm # {NS} And you were telling me about struggling with a heavy object, anything you'd say besides carried?
387:  Nothing I can think of.
Interviewer:  Okay, d- would you ever use the word lugged?
387:  Lugged. I might, yeah, it might be.
Interviewer:  What about the word toted?
387:  I never say that. Some people do though.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  Toted something.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Older people again?
387:  {X} I think so older, I believe it would be.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Does the word tote imply something heavy to you? Or could it be anything?
387:  Oh no I think it could be anything.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  I think lug might imply something heavy.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Alright. Alright say if a a little child's playing in the kitchen. Mother might warn him about the stove. She might say now that stove is very hot so
387:  Don't touch it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Alright if you need a hammer you might say to me That hammer.
387:  Give me that hammer.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or if I don't have it, I'm gonna have to get it from somewhere you might say. {X}
387:  Bring me the hammer.
Interviewer:  Okay. This is a child's game uh I imagine you play you know, tag or chase or something like that Do you remember if there was a place that you could run to where you'd be safe, nobody could tag you?
387:  I think that was. Home base.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Okay. And if I throw you a ball you're supposed to
387:  Catch it.
Interviewer:  Yeah I threw it to you and you
387:  Caught it.
Interviewer:  Yeah, every time I've thrown it you
387:  Caught it.
Interviewer:  Okay. And we're supposed to meet in town, I might say well if I get there before you do, I'll
387:  Call you Or I'll wait on you.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, alright. And if your father has a hired man working for him, he might say well If the guy's not doing his work, he might say I hate to do it, but I'm just gonna have to
387:  Let him go.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  Or fire him.
Interviewer:  What about I'm gonna have to get
387:  Get rid of him.
Interviewer:  Okay, and the guy might come back and say, Oh come on, give me another
387:  Give me another chance.
Interviewer:  Alright. A fellow who has a, always smiling and laughing, somebody might say of him, well he sure has a good sense of
387:  Humor.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about. If a little boy leaves his best pen out on his desk and when he gets back it's gone, he says Okay, looks like somebody
387:  Got my pen. Or stole my pen.
Interviewer:  Alright. Anything besides stole?
387:  Picked it up. Picked up my pen, I can't
Interviewer:  You ever hear people say swiped?
387:  Occasionally.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  Probably not as pro- #1 Prevalent as the other but #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm # You ever, do you ever hear Ripped off?
387:  Oh yeah, a little bit. Not much, not too much, I always think of those as being sort of a #1 Hippie type word that's #
Interviewer:  #2 Uh-huh # #1 {NW} #
387:  #2 And it's got you know, gotten out of fashion. #
Interviewer:  Right. And the term is.
387:  Ripped off.
Interviewer:  Yeah, and that other one I mentioned was.
387:  #1 Swiped. #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah okay. # Alrighty. If you wanna get in touch with somebody without telephoning them, you might just sit down and.
387:  Write them a letter.
Interviewer:  You sat down and you
387:  Wrote.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm And you had already
387:  Written.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you write him, you expect to get a
387:  Answer.
Interviewer:  Alright. What would you say you do to the envelope uh after you put the letter in it?
387:  Address it.
Interviewer:  Okay you might say I'd like to write to so and so but I just don't know his
387:  Home address.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about, talk about a little boy who learned how to do something new like whistle between his teeth. You might ask him who you how to do that?
387:  Taught you.
Interviewer:  Alright. What about a little child who goes around telling on the other children, what would you call him?
387:  Tattletale.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. To you is there any difference between tattling and gossiping?
387:  Oh yeah, I think that, I think gossiping is just is repeating rumors that you've heard. While tattling you're just I mean you're actually {NW} Well I think tattling is, is children #1 telling on other children #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm mm # Mm-hmm. Something that actually occurred.
387:  Mm-hmm. They're telling their
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
387:  teacher or their mother.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm But gossiping suggests that it's not necessarily true?
387:  Well, yeah I think, yeah, I think so.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
387:  I I think of gossiping as #1 older folks, grown people. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm # Mm-hmm Okay. Say if you have some flowers growing in your yard that you wanna Brighten up the living room a little bit, you might say well I think I'll go out and
387:  Cut some flowers.
Interviewer:  Okay. What do you call little things that a child plays with, those are his
387:  Toys.
Interviewer:  Okay you have a word for
387:  Playthings.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
387:  Mm. Uh.
Interviewer:  You ever heard of play-pretty?
387:  Occasionally. I always thought of play-pretties as being a Being something that a that a baby would play with.
Interviewer:  I see.
387:  Like a rattle or something.
Interviewer:  Would a would a toy machine gun be a play-pretty?
387:  No I don't think so.
Interviewer:  It would be a plaything?
387:  Mm. Might be.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
387:  I think a, I sort of think of a plaything as meaning Collective of toys as #1 play things are the plural. #
Interviewer:  #2 I see. Uh-huh. #
387:  Collection of them.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. A few words here. If I had something that you need right now, you'd say me that.
387:  Give me that.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm and I might say, but I already
387:  Gave it to you.
Interviewer:  Okay. You have.
387:  Given.
Interviewer:  Alright. And if you're talking about going to the movie, you might call him up and ask him, when does the show
387:  Start?
Interviewer:  #1 Or #
387:  #2 Begin. #
Interviewer:  Okay. And the guy might say, it has already
387:  Begun.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. As a matter of fact it, at three o'clock.
387:  Began.
Interviewer:  Alright. {NS} Do you like go to movies by the way?
387:  Yeah, but I ain't been in a while.
Interviewer:  I went to see this one that's playing downtown, airplane.
387:  Is it, is it funny?
Interviewer:  It's ridiculous, I mean it's just one, uh #1 it's a parody on these airport disaster movies. #
387:  #2 Yeah. # This show got this, the #1 The theater down here is in, oh it's in such a rough shape and they #
Interviewer:  #2 Huh #
387:  kids get in there and scream and carry on
Interviewer:  Yeah
387:  #1 Why I always try to to go Birmingham or Anniston #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
387:  But they're building a new one out here that's #1 going to have two I think, two or three and so. #
Interviewer:  #2 Is that right? # #1 {X} #
387:  #2 maybe you # your feet stick to the floor {X}
Interviewer:  {NW} I know what you mean. That's typical with theaters.
387:  We went one night I hadn't I hadn't been to a show I bet in five or six months but went. Oh, anyway, went one Tuesday night.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
387:  And good grief. There's no one, and there's usually not very many you know, not very many people go, There was a pretty good crowd and it was Dollar night or something.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  Every kid in town was there and you couldn't hear the movie and they cut up.
Interviewer:  {NW}
387:  So like Saturday morning.
Interviewer:  Yeah, that's aggravating isn't it. Mm Okay, you wanna get somewhere in a hurry, you wouldn't just walk but you begin to
387:  Run.
Interviewer:  Yeah, you'd say so-and-so all the way home.
387:  Ran.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. He has, two miles.
387:  Run.
Interviewer:  Okay. If you don't know where somebody is from, you might ask, Where does he, from?
387:  Come from.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. You might say he blank in on the train last night.
387:  Came in on the train.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm Uh has he blank blank yet, has he
387:  Left yet?
Interviewer:  Same word, has he.
387:  Come.
Interviewer:  Yeah, okay. Alright, and with your eyes you say you, things.
387:  See.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Have you
387:  Seen.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh I blank him yesterday.
387:  Saw.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say if the uh The highway department is working on the road with uh jackhammers you know that sort of thing you might say well You can't get through on the road out there, the highway department's got their equipment out there and the road's all
387:  Torn up.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, okay. And if you give your wife a present say a bracelet She's just sitting there looking at it, you might say Well, don't just look at it, go ahead and
387:  Put it on.
Interviewer:  Okay. And this verb uh somebody might ask Can you really blank that? Talking about things you're able to perform.
387:  Do that.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. He might say yeah, I blank it yesterday.
387:  Did it yesterday.
Interviewer:  Uh he as already
387:  Done.
Interviewer:  Alright. And if somebody asks you uh What's new, you might say uh
387:  Nothing.
Interviewer:  And he might say well surely there must be
387:  Something.
Interviewer:  Okay. How about a very unusual thing, somebody might ask you if you heard about the You might act surprised and and say why I never heard of blank things.
387:  I never heard of those things.
Interviewer:  Okay or another word might be If you're really surprised, you've never heard that #1 sort of #
387:  #2 Such things? #
Interviewer:  Yeah. Alright if somebody is asking you how long you lived in the Talladega area you might say well I've blank lived here.
387:  #1 Always lived here. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm # And talking about a person who got uh thrown from a horse you might say well Uh he got thrown once and he's been afraid of horses ever
387:  Ever since.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if somebody broke out a window, you might say well that wasn't an accident, he did that
387:  On purpose.
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh a few more verbs if you wanted to know something and uh you come to me to find out about it, I might say well I can't help you, in fact you better go blank somebody else.
387:  Go talk to somebody, go see somebody else.
Interviewer:  #1 Alright, if you're specifically going to have to question them, you go #
387:  #2 Go ask somebody else. #
Interviewer:  Yeah. So you went to him and
387:  Asked him.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh you have him that before.
387:  Asked.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if boys get irritated at each other they might begin to.
387:  Fight.
Interviewer:  Yeah they blank all day long.
387:  Fought.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. They have
387:  Fought.
Interviewer:  Okay, and if somebody takes a knife and does su- such #1 to himself you say he did what to himself? #
387:  #2 Stabbed. #
Interviewer:  Yeah. Do you have any names for knife uh knives with big blades?
387:  Butcher knife.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay. What about this situation, if the teacher comes in the room and there are a lot of funny pictures of her on the board, she might turn around to the class and ask okay who
387:  Who did this? #1 or who #
Interviewer:  #2 or who #
387:  Wrote this or who drew this.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if you want to get a heavy weight up on the roof of a house, you might rig up a block and tackle and you'd say you did what? You have to
387:  Pull.
Interviewer:  Okay, is there another word you might use there?
387:  Hoisted.
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
387:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  Okay you say you.
387:  Hoisted.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay. Alright, how would you greet somebody around ten o'clock in the day time?
387:  Uh good morning.
Interviewer:  What would be the latest you'd say that?
387:  Noon.
Interviewer:  Okay, and after noon you would say
387:  Good afternoon.
Interviewer:  What about later than that?
387:  Uh. Probably dark Any Prob- probably any time before dark.
Interviewer:  Would you have another uh Okay how would you greet somebody after afternoon? You'd say say good afternoon
387:  I think there's a, I think evening would come in there, between afternoon and night.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Do you have any idea when evening starts?
387:  I look on evening as being, as being dark but I, I think most folks look on it as being between afternoon and
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  I think evening would probably start, this time of year, probably between, start about #1 five and go to seven or eight. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm mm-hmm #
387:  Of course in the, I don't know what it'd be in the winter.
Interviewer:  uh-huh
387:  But I think I think of afternoon and night but but I think Most folks think of it #1 evening comes between afternoon and night. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm # Mm-hmm okay. What would you say to somebody when you're leaving them during the daytime?
387:  Goodbye or I think goodbye.
Interviewer:  Do you ever say good day?
387:  Good day, occasionally, no, I don't think I ever do #1 but you hear it sometimes. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm # Yeah, alright. And what would you say to someone when you're leaving him at night?
387:  Good night.
Interviewer:  All right Okay. Say if a farmer got up very early in the morning, you'd say he got out in the field before
387:  Before sunrise.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  Or sunup.
Interviewer:  Okay, and he stayed out until after
387:  After dark.
Interviewer:  Or.
387:  Sundown.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay. And he got out in the field so early he could see the sun
387:  Rise.
Interviewer:  Yeah. by the time that he got out the sun had already
387:  Risen.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, the sun blank at five o'clock.
387:  Rose.
Interviewer:  Okay. Let's see if uh Thursday is today, then Wednesday was.
387:  Uh yesterday.
Interviewer:  And Friday will be.
387:  Tomorrow.
Interviewer:  Okay, what would you say somebody came to see you no this past Sunday, but the one before that. You'd say he came to see you.
387:  Sunday a week ago.
Interviewer:  Alright now if somebody's coming to see you not this Sunday but the one following. He'd say he's coming to see you.
387:  Not this Sunday but the next.
Interviewer:  Okay. You ever say Sunday week?
387:  Sunday week, yeah #1 occasionally. #
Interviewer:  #2 will that do? #
387:  Yeah, I do.
Interviewer:  Okay. What if somebody stayed from, at your house from about the first to the fifteenth, you'd say he stayed about.
387:  Two weeks or Half a month.
Interviewer:  You ever hear about people use the word {NS} Go ahead.
387:  Fortnight?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Never- {C: distorted and gets cut off} Could you say that word again for me were were talking about where it meant about two weeks.
387:  Fortnight.
Interviewer:  Say you rarely hear that or?
387:  No, never really. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about if you wanna know the time of day you'd ask me
387:  What time is it?
Interviewer:  Okay and I'd say well let me look at my.
387:  Watch.
Interviewer:  What time would you say it was if it were exactly midway between seven and eight o'clock that would be.
387:  Seven thirty.
Interviewer:  Yeah any other way of saying that?
387:  Half past seven but I don't think you'd ever hear that much.
Interviewer:  Okay. What if it were fifteen minutes later than uh half past ten, you'd say that was.
387:  Ten forty-five.
Interviewer:  Okay, any other way?
387:  Mm, quarter to eleven.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, okay. Talk about something you've been doing for a long time, you'd say you've been doing that for quite
387:  Quite a while or quite some time.
Interviewer:  Okay, nineteen seventy-nine was last year, nineteen eighty is
387:  This year.
Interviewer:  Okay. And a child just had his third birthday, you'd say he's
387:  Three years old.
Interviewer:  Okay, and something that happened about this time last year, you'd say it happened exactly
387:  A year ago.
Interviewer:  Alright. A few things about the weather, you might look up at the sky say well I don't like the look of those dark
387:  Clouds.
Interviewer:  Alright. What about a day that's so not too many clouds in the sky, it's nice and blue and the sun shining you say boy it looks like it's going to be a
387:  Pretty day.
Interviewer:  Okay and if it were the opposite, if it was dark and you know maybe expected to get some rain so yeah, looks like it's going to be a
387:  Rainy day or a cloudy day
Interviewer:  Mm
387:  or a gloomy day.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about, what would you say the weather's doing if the clouds get Start getting thicker and darker you an- you anticipate some rain you'd say the weather's
387:  Clouding up.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay. You ever hear something like the weather's threatening or?
387:  Threatening, yeah, occasionally.
Interviewer:  That would do.
387:  Lot of people say coming up a cloud.
Interviewer:  Coming up a cloud, okay. But if the cloud starts pull off you know and the sun starts shining through, you'd say it's doing what?
387:  Fairing off.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay. What if you get a lot of rain in just a short period of time, maybe like a couple of inches in just an hour, you'd say you had a regular
387:  Downpour.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay, anything besides that?
387:  #1 Mm #
Interviewer:  #2 It might be a humorous way of saying it? #
387:  Let's see. Gully washer.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Have you ever heard of toad strangler? Or stump mover?
387:  I may have heard those, I don't, not much But I may have that's {NS}
Interviewer:  Okay.
387:  Excuse me. {NS}
Interviewer:  Alright, and if you're, you have some lightning with the rain What kind of storm would you call that?
387:  Mm. Thunderstorm.
Interviewer:  Okay. And this verb, if you get your clothes up on the line, but the wind came along and did what?
387:  Blew them off. Or dried them.
Interviewer:  Okay {NW} That was out of the blue right? Uh the wind has
387:  Blown.
Interviewer:  Okay. And it sure did earlier.
387:  Blow.
Interviewer:  Okay. What would you, which direction would you say wind's coming from it it's uh coming from that direction?
387:  Uh East.
Interviewer:  Okay and that would be.
387:  No it would be west I guess.
Interviewer:  Okay, I'm just after the points on the compass. You'd say the winds out of the
387:  Out of the west.
Interviewer:  Alright then if it's that way then it's
387:  Out of the east. South. North.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about if the wind is between the south and the west, you would say that it's
387:  Southwesterly wind.
Interviewer:  Okay and if it's going south and east it would be
387:  Southeasterly.
Interviewer:  And north and east.
387:  Northeasterly.
Interviewer:  And north and west.
387:  Northwesterly.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say if you went out, it's in the When it's doing outside, it's raining, but you barely got wet, you'd say it was just a
387:  A sprinkling, a drizzling, just a drizzle.
Interviewer:  You have a name for a rain that doesn't last long at all?
387:  Shower.
Interviewer:  Okay. You're driving along and you come to a low place in the road, you might go through all this white stuff that you can barely see through, that would be.
387:  Fog.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm what kind of day would you say that is?
387:  Mm. Foggy.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm alright What about uh The kind where we've been having, it hasn't rained for a pretty long time, you say you're having a
387:  Drought.
Interviewer:  Any other term for
387:  Dry spell.
Interviewer:  Yeah and is there a difference?
387:  I think a drought would be more severe and more prolonged than a dry spell.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about if the wind has been very gentle, but it's gradually getting stronger, you'd say the wind is doing what?
387:  Picking up.
Interviewer:  Okay, and if it's been the opposite, if it's been very strong but it's gradually getting more gentle you'd say it's
387:  Dying down.
Interviewer:  Okay, what if you go out in the weather Uh it's a little on the cool side you know, not uncomfortable, just kind of invigorating you'd say it's kind of
387:  Chilly.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Computer terminal up {X}
387:  Uh-huh, wait it's a computer, it's not just a {X} it's a He's an accountant
Interviewer:  Oh yeah.
387:  And, and so he he uses that, he's kind of had trouble out of that thing it's. His programs aren't, aren't correct to me Uh.
Interviewer:  What type is it?
387:  Gosh I don't know. No it's not IBM uh I think it's DEC, I think it's Digital Equipment Company, but I'm not really sure I Oh I can't understand anything about those things.
Interviewer:  Yeah, that is interesting.
387:  He's really just, he's really sort of learning he's probably had a couple months
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm, mm-hmm #
387:  #2 but it's you know not, slow as a typewriter. #
Interviewer:  How to manage it.
387:  He's trying to figure it out I think.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
387:  And I don't think really, he's he's using it to its fullest capacity he just doesn't you know he's just not sure about.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
387:  You know it's just gonna take time to sort of grow into it but it's it's. You know it'll be a help to him.
Interviewer:  Sure. Okay. You were telling me it's chilly, have you ever heard things like people say it's a little airish out here?
387:  Mm-hmm. A little airish I think that means cold, cool.
Interviewer:  What about nippy?
387:  Nippy, occasionally.
Interviewer:  And if you go outside and there's a light coating of white on the ground, you'd say you have
387:  Frost.
Interviewer:  Alright, is there any difference between, do you have another name for one if it was severe you know, it would kill the plants? {NS}
387:  Uh. {NS} Excuse me. {NS} Let me think. No, maybe a hard frost last month.
Interviewer:  Okay.
387:  Or a heavy frost I guess it'd be.
Interviewer:  Do you hear a killing frost?
387:  Never have heard that I don't think.
Interviewer:  Okay. And you'd say it was so cold last night the lake did what?
387:  Froze.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
387:  Or froze over.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if it gets much colder, the pond might
387:  Freeze over.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, everything around here has
387:  Frozen
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. This expression sometimes you hear or you feel that your good luck comes just a little bit at a time. But it seems like your bad luck comes
387:  All at once.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if somebody says something more than once, maybe he was saying it
387:  Twice.
Interviewer:  Okay. This is just for pronunciation But would you count for me? From one to fourteen?
387:  Uh-huh. One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen. Fourteen.
Interviewer:  Okay and the number after nineteen is.
387:  Twenty.
Interviewer:  And after twenty-six is.
387:  Twenty-seven.
Interviewer:  And after twenty-nine.
387:  Thirty.
Interviewer:  And after thirty-nine.
387:  Forty.
Interviewer:  And after sixty-nine.
387:  Seventy.
Interviewer:  And after ninety-nine.
387:  A hundred.
Interviewer:  Okay and after nine hundred ninety-nine.
387:  A thousand.
Interviewer:  And ten times one hundred thousand would be one
387:  Ten times a hun- a million.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh okay.
387:  Had to add that one up. {NW}
Interviewer:  Alright. What about the day of the month that the bills are due, that's usually the.
387:  First.
Interviewer:  And after that is the.
387:  Second. Third. Fourth. Fifth. Sixth. Seventh. Eighth. Ninth. Tenth.
Interviewer:  Okay. And again just for pronunciation, the months of the year.
387:  Uh. January. February. March. April. May. June. July. August. September. October. November and December.
Interviewer:  Okay and the days of the week.
387:  Uh. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
Interviewer:  You ever hear people around here call Sunday by any other name?
387:  Mm. No.
Interviewer:  You ever hear Sabbath?
387:  No, never would hear that.
Interviewer:  Does that mean anything? To you?
387:  I think it'd be something the preacher would use.
Interviewer:  Okay.
387:  A biblical term.
Interviewer:  A little too formal?
387:  Yeah, I think so.
Interviewer:  But the word is.
387:  Sabbath.
Interviewer:  Yeah, okay. Alright, you had troubles and uh were telling me about them, you might say well got troubles too.
387:  I've got troubles too.
Interviewer:  Okay, if this verb if somebody makes a noise, you might say did you
387:  Hear that.
Interviewer:  He'll say yes I
387:  Yes I heard it.
Interviewer:  I've
387:  Heard.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if I asked you if you know a person, you might say well I don't know him but I've
387:  Heard of him.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay. And if a friend of yours comes to town and you're asked if you've seen him yet you might say no I
387:  Haven't seen him.
Interviewer:  Yeah and if you're asked if you friend has seen him you might say no he
387:  Hasn't seen him.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright talking about something you do every day you all the time.
387:  Do it all the time.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh you might ask uh, uh If your brother does it frequently, you'd say yes he
387:  Does.
Interviewer:  Alright and the {X} question out of that, blank he do that?
387:  Do you?
Interviewer:  Or.
387:  Does he?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay. And you might say if uh you're asked if your brother likes ice cream, you might say yes
387:  He does.
Interviewer:  Okay. And talk about a farmer who has just let his land go to weeds, you might say well uh I just don't understand it but he just seemed to care.
387:  Doesn't seem to care. Doesn't.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say if a a parent has been dressing her child, but she decides that it's time for the child to learn how himself. She might go into his room with her- with his clothes in her hand and say okay, your clothes
387:  Here are your clothes.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if I asked you if you think Carter is going to be reelected, you might say well no but but blank people who think so
387:  A lot of people think so.
Interviewer:  Or there.
387:  There are people who think so.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if a boy sees you on the street, he's kind of afraid of you, you might try to reassure him by saying oh, not going to hurt you. Blank, going to hurt you.
387:  #1 Oh I'm not going to hurt you. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm, okay. # And if you're uh in an argument with somebody trying to uh persuade him that you're right, you might not, you might say well na- ah I'm right, blank I
387:  Aren't I?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay. If you gave somebody a ride into town and he was {D: psyching} you for it afterwards, you might say aw don't mention it, we going in anyway
387:  We're going in anyway.
Interviewer:  Okay. Or we what?
387:  Went in anyway.
Interviewer:  Or we blank in anyway.
387:  Are going.
Interviewer:  What if it were past, we
387:  Went.
Interviewer:  Or. {NW} Okay. Not we are, but we
387:  We're going. We are. Are we.
Interviewer:  You, you'd already gotten to town you see.
387:  Oh we were coming anyway.
Interviewer:  Right, okay that's what I
387:  {X}
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh Talking about uh if somebody were reminiscing about the past of the old days when everything was supposedly better you know than it is nowadays. He might lean back and say well those
387:  Were the good old days.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if somebody asks uh Was that you I saw in town yesterday, you might say no.
387:  Wasn't me.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm okay. {X} {C: end of audible recording}