Interviewer:  It hovers around damp places and eats its own weight in mosquitoes and so forth. Uh, I know I've seem some um What we call uh Go to a spring and see 'em buzzing around, flying around on top of the water. What would you call those?
444:  Uh, we always called 'em snake doctors.
Interviewer:  I've heard that, too. What about you heard any other name?
444:  {NW} Dragonflies.
Interviewer:  {NW} Uh, I was always told that uh if you see a snake doctor flying around, then you better be careful of a snake. #1 Have you been told that? #
444:  #2 Right. Right. #
Interviewer:  What kinds of stinging insects do you know?
444:  {NW} Wasps. Bumblebees, bees. Hornets. Yellow jackets.
Interviewer:  Alright, what call a a kind of insect that builds big paper nests? The size of a football on trees.
444:  Hornets.
Interviewer:  Alright, are there more than one kind?
444:  Mm.
Interviewer:  Uh, the kind that builds small paper nests off of the side of a house? What are they called?
444:  Wasps.
Interviewer:  Alright, what else do you uh The kind that builds uh Uh, mud nests up on the side of a house.
444:  Dirt dauber.
Interviewer:  Alright, do they sting?
444:  Not often and They won't hardly sting you. I mean, I've never been stung by one. Some people say they will, and some say they won't.
Interviewer:  #1 I've heard that, too. #
444:  #2 I don't know. #
Interviewer:  {D: I did.}
444:  #1 I'm not either. #
Interviewer:  #2 I'm not as scared of them as I am wasps. # The kind that builds nests in the ground and swarm over you.
444:  #1 Yellow jackets. #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm. # Those things hurt, don't they?
444:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Uh, things that fly around at night and bite. Sometimes they caught carry malaria.
444:  Mosquito.
Interviewer:  A small insect that buried uh burrowing in your skin and raise welts.
444:  Mm. Red bugs.
Interviewer:  {NW} Are they called something else?
444:  Chiggers.
Interviewer:  Uh. How if you had uh Uh got any chiggers red bugs on you, how how would you Think about getting 'em off? My husband's got a way of He does. How do you do?
444:  Well, the best thing I know is get some uh Put some uh We gotta use alcohol or some Purex On it. Get 'em off of me. #1 Clorox or Purex. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Uh. Well, he's he {D: continually} Puts uh Clear fingernail polish on there.
444:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 It'll smother them and get them off. I hate to put that on him. # I didn't know what method that you had to get 'em off. Uh, what are the insects there are some green and some brown that hop along in the grass in the summertime?
444:  Grasshoppers.
Interviewer:  Um.
444:  {D: Hop a grass.}
Interviewer:  Uh. Small fish used for bait. What do we call that?
444:  Uh, little minnows.
Interviewer:  Uh. The things that gather up in the ceiling of rooms that haven't been uh cleaned. What're they called?
444:  {NW} It'll be flies or
Interviewer:  No, the the thing that you that gathers up in the ceiling of rooms that haven't been cleaned.
444:  #1 That's uh spider webs or. #
Interviewer:  #2 If you look in the corners. #
444:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 # Uh. And you heard of 'em called any other name?
444:  Mm. {D: You heard they call 'em.} In the ghost town, what they call 'em? Uh.
Interviewer:  #1 Mm. #
444:  #2 I know the title, but I can't call it. #
Interviewer:  {NW} Can you think of another name that you might And that you heard used or you'd use.
444:  Cobweb.
Interviewer:  {NW} Uh. When you're pulling up a stump, you have to dig around and cut the
444:  The roots of it.
Interviewer:  Uh, the kind of tree you tap for syrup.
444:  Maple.
Interviewer:  Uh. What would you call a big group of uh these trees?
444:  {NW}
Interviewer:  If you had a big group of these maples, what would you call it?
444:  A forest.
Interviewer:  And what else?
444:  A grove.
Interviewer:  Uh. A kind of tree with broad leaves, which are shed all at once. Uh, all at one time with a Bark that peels. The little knob or balls.
444:  Sycamore tree.
Interviewer:  Uh. What are some uh common trees that you know of that's growing in the community around here? Can you think of different Different names?
444:  #1 Just a ordinary tree. #
Interviewer:  #2 Name the trees, uh-huh. #
444:  Like pines, oak, and gum.
Interviewer:  Any more?
444:  {NW} Maple. And uh. Blackjack and Spruce, pine, and all of that that I know of.
Interviewer:  What did George Washington cut down? What did George Washington cut down? You've heard that all your life in school and so forth.
444:  It uh. Cherry tree.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh. What do you call a bush that grows along the road or by fences and the leaves turn bright red early and small clumps of berries are Uh. And they're used by old people in the tanning leather. Have you heard That called. Well, some of 'em say that uh Uh. I I've been told that some of 'em think that it's poison You know It's not poison ivy now.
444:  {X}
Interviewer:  You heard it called anything?
444:  Mm. {X}
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh. Any kinds of bushes that make uh your skin break out when you brush against them.
444:  Mm. There's Poison ivy, and some ones you Don't have to get up against I can just look at it, and it get on me.
Interviewer:  I agree. I've been that way, too. When it's bad, I have to take shots when I get it.
444:  {D: Back in when I got caught down there start run in a whole big patch of it.} And I had to crawl out through there when it got all over me.
Interviewer:  That uh. And then, what'd you do to get rid of it?
444:  Well, I I stepped in it while uh Whether this uh Clorex, Purex. {X} Vinegar and salt. Is good, too. That'll be why if the salt will dry it up too fast like it'll come back on me.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
444:  No, but that's real. That's the best I found. Take uh vinegar and salt.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
444:  Do it as soon as you get some. There're cream and lotion and stuff, but I mean just home remedy. I do use salt and vinegar.
Interviewer:  Um. What uh what do we have around that uh or what kinds of Berries uh. Are there? Well, they're red berries and you eat with sugar and cream, what do you call 'em? What do we have around here that we eat with sugar and cream?
444:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 They're red. #
444:  Raspberry or strawberries.
Interviewer:  Uh. What kinds of berries uh do you know of that are around here?
444:  Blackberries and juneberries and Strawberry.
Interviewer:  Alright, the kinds of berries with rough surfaces. Or surface rough surfaces. Can you think of it? Some are red, and some are red and black.
444:  Is it the blueberries or raspberries or Mulberries? Mulberry grows on trees, though, don't it?
Interviewer:  I think so. Uh. You say, "Be careful about these berries. They might be what? If it's not safe to eat, it might be what?
444:  {NW} Maybe uh Poison.
Interviewer:  Uh. The flowering bushes that bloom in the late spring. You know what they're called? They're tall with clusters of beautiful pink and white flowers. Have you heard it? Have you heard it called? {D: Alright, do you know what's uh much bigger and one with long longer segments of stem.} Used to grow farther up in the mountains.
444:  Would that be those pine uh needle long-needled pines or something?
Interviewer:  Uh, now have you heard of rhododendron? Or laurel?
444:  {NW}
Interviewer:  A large flowering tree, shiny leaves and big white flowers. Uh, leaves a prickly seed pod about the size and shape of a cucumber. What's what's the South that uh we are noted for having beautiful what? What kind of tree? What's the Mississippi called? What state?
444:  Uh uh Magnolia State.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh. Um. What are some names that you can think of that'd be used by older Uh. People say if a married woman doesn't want to make up her own mind, she says, "I must ask Make up her own mind, she says, "I must ask
444:  #1 The elder. #
Interviewer:  #2 Say your wife couldn't, say your wife couldn't make up her mind, she'd say, I must ask #
444:  Elder people. Older people.
Interviewer:  No, I'm I'm sorry. I misled you there. Say your wife Said that she couldn't make up her mind, she said, uh, I must ask
444:  Mother.
Interviewer:  No, I said your wife. #1 She would ask what? #
444:  #2 {X} # Her husband.
Interviewer:  Alright, and what else might she say?
444:  What's the man of the house? {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh. I think we said that uh
444:  He would asked her. Old lady or missus of the house.
Interviewer:  Alright, and the man then would say, I Say that again. I would ask them.
444:  I'd have to have the woman of the house or like the boss. Have to ask the boss.
Interviewer:  Uh. A woman whose husband is dead is a what?
444:  Widow.
Interviewer:  {NW} Uh. And if he if he just left her, she'd be a
444:  Divorcer.
Interviewer:  Uh, what other kind?
444:  Oh. {X} {D: Would have been a quitter.}
Interviewer:  Uh. A boy who has had a chance at a job might want to go home and talk it over with his what?
444:  Father. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh, what do you um What do you call your father?
444:  Daddy. Papa.
Interviewer:  Alright, what terms did older people used to use? Do you know?
444:  They used to use papa more.
Interviewer:  Alright, anything else?
444:  Poppy.
Interviewer:  Anything else?
444:  Pa.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh. What terms do younger people use now?
444:  Pop.
Interviewer:  Uh. And his wife is called your what?
444:  Mother.
Interviewer:  #1 Oh. #
444:  #2 Mom. #
Interviewer:  #1 #
444:  #2 #
Interviewer:  Other names you'd use. Uh. {NS}
444:  Mama. Ma.
Interviewer:  Uh. Your father and mother together are called your what?
444:  Mom and dad.
Interviewer:  #1 Well, they're both #
444:  #2 Mother and father. #
Interviewer:  Yeah, they're called what, though?
444:  Parents.
Interviewer:  Uh, did you know your grandparents?
444:  Right. Uh.
Interviewer:  What did you call your grandfather?
444:  I call him grandpa. Grandma.
Interviewer:  Uh. What uh other names do young people use?
444:  Like paw-paw or. Pop or.
Interviewer:  Alright. What did you call your grandmother?
444:  Grandma.
Interviewer:  Anything else? What would other old names other older people might use?
444:  Granny.
Interviewer:  What do you think uh Young people use now? For grandmother.
444:  {NW} I still think I'd go back like the olden time and I'd uh call them granny more of that.
Interviewer:  Uh. What does your child call your mother?
444:  Grandma.
Interviewer:  Uh. I was the youngest of five What? What would you say?
444:  Children.
Interviewer:  Uh. Any names people use instead of children that you can think of?
444:  Child. Brat.
Interviewer:  What about uh
444:  Kids. Chap.
Interviewer:  Okay. A name uh a child's known by just But just in the family.
444:  {NW} A nickname.
Interviewer:  Alright, what's another name for that?
444:  Given name or
Interviewer:  Well, if it's another name uh Other than uh their real name, what would you call it?
444:  Uh, I'd call it {X} The nickname or the something like that.
Interviewer:  Yeah, a nickname or a what?
444:  Pet name.
Interviewer:  Something on wheels you can buy, put a baby in, and it'll lie down.
444:  A stroller or a baby bed.
Interviewer:  Oh, that you can push.
444:  Oh uh. It'll be a a stroller or
Interviewer:  Or a baby what?
444:  Baby. Carriage.
Interviewer:  Put the baby in the carriage, and go out and What it? What do you do with the carriage? You what?
444:  Push it.
Interviewer:  Alright, and what is it doing? I mean you'd Be doing something else. What would you call it?
444:  Carrying up or riding a baby. Or wheeling a baby.
Interviewer:  Uh. Well, how would you say your children range in age? You'd say {D: Sadie is} Uh my Children.
444:  Is the oldest.
Interviewer:  Uh. Uh, let's see. A boy of twenty in comparison with a brother brother's at fourteen and sixteen is the what?
444:  He's uh #1 Like he's a man of the family. He's the oldest one of the family. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Okay. Oldest one. Alright, besides the oldest you might speak of them in terms Of being what?
444:  The eldest.
Interviewer:  Or what else? If if one is the oldest, you'd say he is what?
444:  {NW} He grown up.
Interviewer:  Alright, Betty is our youngest what?
444:  Daughter.
Interviewer:  Uh, in fact, she's still a little
444:  A baby or child, girl.
Interviewer:  Uh. If a woman's about to have a baby, you say she's
444:  Pregnant.
Interviewer:  Or any other terms you've heard?
444:  Expecting.
Interviewer:  What else?
444:  Mm.
Interviewer:  Um. If you don't have a doctor deliver a baby, the woman you might send for is a what?
444:  Uh. Midwife.
Interviewer:  Alright, what do you think your uh grandmother or granddaddy would call 'em? Uh beside besides midwife.
444:  {X} Granny lady. Granny.
Interviewer:  If a boy has the same color hair and eyes as your father and the same shaped nose, you say he's He what?
444:  Just like his father identical only had his father's nose or what
Interviewer:  Alright, and off if he's another word for similar you or looks he uh what? Still saying he looks like his father he
444:  He uh Just like uh just like his father mm he.
Interviewer:  Alright, you ought to uh take Aunt Jane's advice about your children. She's If she's taken care of or had ten of her own, what would you say she had done?
444:  She had took good care of her own.
Interviewer:  Alright, and what else? Besides taken care of 'em, you'd say what?
444:  She uh raised 'em. Raised ten of her own.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. To a child who's misbehaved, you say If you do that again, I'm going to give you a good
444:  Whipping.
Interviewer:  Alright, what other words can you think of?
444:  Beating licking, strapping {NS}
Interviewer:  Um. If Bob is five inches taller this year, you say Bob Uh, did what a lot in one year?
444:  He grow.
Interviewer:  Um. If Bob is five inches taller this year, you say Bob Uh, did what a lot in one year?
444:  He grow.
Interviewer:  #1 Alright, and you say to him, You certainly have what big #
444:  #2 Little taller. # Grow, grown.
Interviewer:  Uh. A child that's born to an unmarried woman is a what?
444:  Uh. Bastard. Bastard.
Interviewer:  Alright, any names that you have heard used for other groups? Can you think of any other names Other than that? Jane is a loving child, but Peggy is a lot
444:  Sweeter, better.
Interviewer:  Alright, uh Jane is a loving child, but Peggy is a lot
444:  {X}
Interviewer:  Alright, your brother's son is called your What's your brother's son called?
444:  Uh.
Interviewer:  To you.
444:  Nephew.
Interviewer:  Uh. If a child has lost both parents, it's
444:  Orphan.
Interviewer:  Alright, suppose it's been put in institution, it's
444:  Orphan home.
Interviewer:  Uh, a person to put a look after an orphan is its What? Person that's willing to take care of the Child. The orphan child.
444:  Is a Government. Guardian.
Interviewer:  Uh. If you have a lot of cousins, nephews, and nieces around, Excuse me. You say, The town is full of my
444:  Kin people.
Interviewer:  Alright, can you think of any other names?
444:  {NW} Nieces and nephews.
Interviewer:  Alright, what would you use the same uh what word would you use for your parents and grandparents?
444:  Mom and dad, my parents.
Interviewer:  Well, you said kin people a while ago. What else would you use?
444:  Cousins.
Interviewer:  Well, the whole what how would you what would you say what would we use for your parents and grandparents? Tell other people about 'em.
444:  #1 Family. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Alright, or what else?
444:  Daddy and mama.
Interviewer:  What about the people living in your house? Would you call them the same? Now, I think I confused you there. Uh. You'd say, "Yes, she has the same family name and does look a bit like me, but I'm actually What? If you If she's not part of your family, you'd say, "No, I'm no" what?
444:  No kin to 'em.
Interviewer:  Uh, someone who comes into town And no one has ever seen him before. He's a what?
444:  A stranger. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh, the name of the mother of uh Jesus. You know that? Who was said to be the mother of Jesus?
444:  Mary.
Interviewer:  Uh. Do you know uh Remember George Washington's wife? Uh. In the song Wait Til the Sun Shines what? You know that? Wait Til the Sun Shines? Starts with a N.
444:  {NW} Nellie.
Interviewer:  Uh. Nickname for a little boy named William. What would it be? Starts with a B.
444:  Billy.
Interviewer:  Uh. Uh, Will is nickname for what? Can you? #1 What would be the full name? #
444:  #2 Williams. # William.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh. The book with the Sermon on the Mount. The start it's first. Uh. Book of the New Testament. What's the first book of the New Testament of the Bible? Starts with a M.
444:  Matthew.
Interviewer:  Uh, a woman who conducts school is a what?
444:  Teacher.
Interviewer:  Alright, what else might you call her? Or an old, any old-fashioned terms you might know of?
Aux:  Old maid.
Interviewer:  What would you call?
444:  Old-fashioned.
Interviewer:  Uh.
444:  A woman teaching.
Interviewer:  Have you heard of any more?
444:  School miss or school madam.
Interviewer:  Uh. Uh. A preacher that's not really trained doesn't have a regular pulpit. He preaches on Sunday here and there and makes his living doing something else. If he isn't very good at preaching, you'd call him a What kind of preacher?
444:  One of those {X} Preachers.
Interviewer:  What else have you heard of?
444:  {X}
Interviewer:  Uh. Your mother or father introduces you to His uh Brother and sister and says, This is What? If your mother uh introduces you to to her sister, I'll say She says, This is
444:  My son or my sister.
Interviewer:  No, your mother. #1 Introduces you to her sister, and she says, This is #
444:  #2 This is uh # Your Auntie Your Auntie
Interviewer:  And this is, if it Father uh If she introduces you to your brother To her brother.
444:  This is your uncle.
Interviewer:  Uh. Uh. This uh {NW} Do you happen to know the wife of Abraham? It's a girl's name beginning with an S. And Sally's a nickname for it. Uh. If your father had a brother by that name, you'd call him Or say your family name was Williams, and your Father had a brother by that name, you'd call him what?
444:  What would be Will?
Interviewer:  Well, you'd call him what? Call your father's brother.
444:  {NW}
Interviewer:  And your last name is Williams. Or his name is Williams.
444:  Uncle William.
Interviewer:  Alright, or ever what his name was. You'd say uncle something. Uh, the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia was
444:  General Lee.
Interviewer:  Uh. The old general who introduced Kentucky Fried Chicken.
444:  Colonels. Colonel Sanders.
Interviewer:  Uh, what do they call the man in charge of a ship?
444:  The captain.
Interviewer:  Right, did you uh Use that cap. Uh. That title in other situations? Or do you?
444:  Well, like uh the boss man uh We call him captain. Like who we be working for.
Interviewer:  Right, the man who presides over the county court. How do you address him?
444:  The judge.
Interviewer:  Uh. A boy or a girl in school. In school is a What?
444:  Student.
Interviewer:  Uh. What about in college? Would you call them the same? Or high school?
444:  Well.
Interviewer:  What about grade school? Can you think of a name hat you'd use other than student for grade school? An elementary school.
444:  Uh. Pupil.
Interviewer:  {NW} A man a woman in the office who handles the boss's mail. Schedules his appointments so forth is his what?
444:  Secretary.
Interviewer:  Uh, a woman who appears in plays or movies is
444:  Actor.
Interviewer:  Uh. When you're thinking about the problems other counties countries have, you're glad you're
444:  An American.
Interviewer:  Uh.
444:  Uh.
Interviewer:  {NW} {NS} Uh. What would you call uh white people who aren't well off and haven't had a good chance at education in life? Especially those that are good-for-nothing, too lazy to work, so forth. Uh, what would you call them?
444:  Mm. They'd be um That uh low-class people to
Interviewer:  #1 You call 'em what kind of white? #
444:  #2 {X} # {NW} {X} Trash. Or. It'd be like poor white folks and Poor colored folks are.
Interviewer:  Alright, uh What do you think uh what would uh what do negroes call them?
444:  {NW}
Interviewer:  The the uh the white people I was telling you about are that
444:  {X} {X} They'd calling us poor people or maybe some of 'em might will say poor trash or here out here you know like Poor or poor crackers or something like that that's different name for some people would use
Interviewer:  That's what I was interested in, what you had heard of.
444:  Right.
Interviewer:  Uh. Somebody who lives out in the country, doesn't know anything about town ways is Conspicuous when he goes to gets to town. And uh or he's very noticeable. Uh. You might say, I don't know anything about city ways. I'm just an old What?
444:  I'm just an old black man or Negro, something like that.
Interviewer:  Well, what other term might you use?
444:  Oh, uh.
Interviewer:  What would they what do we uh uh people from Tennessee up in there usually Uh. Called? They live out in mountains in the woods and so forth. I mean uh Country.
444:  {X} Hillbilly.
Interviewer:  Um.
444:  #1 Had you ever been there? #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
444:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 #
444:  You ever been there? Well, I know you been {X}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
444:  Would you ever see that they always told me when I was a little boy, Daddy said it was a sign set up there. It said uh Said, Nigger, read and run. If you can't read, run anyway. You ever seen that?
Interviewer:  No, I've heard of it, though.
444:  {NW}
Interviewer:  And I lived there now two years and never did uh
444:  {X} Have it ever been a colored man Negroes living in {D: Hackleburg?}
Interviewer:  I don't think so, tell you the truth. But uh.
444:  {X} Preacher come through there one time and he stopped by there and he asked 'em, What did uh Colored folks hang around at And so they told him for the last people hung out there in that big old tree. And asked 'em why, they said, We're going to catch a bus. He said, Yes. We ask 'em what time did the bus leave. Say one just left about ten minutes ago and so one will be here in In a hour. Said, Are you gonna catch that one? He said, No, I'm going catch that, and just {D: Laughed.}
Interviewer:  {NW} I tell you. I I don't uh We got some. Peculiar. Areas around here I think. But I had heard that.
444:  They say they got old
Interviewer:  I think it's true. I don't know.
444:  They seem to have open season up all year round.
Interviewer:  I hope it's not true, but Uh. Have you been to {D: Hackleburg?}
444:  Yeah, I been through there.
Interviewer:  You just went through?
444:  Yes ma'am.
Interviewer:  Um. Were you on that bus that went through?
444:  {NW}
Interviewer:  At a party, you look at your watch and see it's eleven thirty or so You'd say, uh, We better be getting home. It's
444:  Getting late.
Interviewer:  Or it's uh it's what midnight?
444:  It about midnight. Almost midnight.
Interviewer:  Uh. You slip and catch yourself. You say, This is a dangerous place. I What fell? #1 You slip and catch yourself #
444:  #2 Almost # Almost fell.
Interviewer:  Uh. If someone's waiting for you to get ready so that you can get go out with them and calls to you, Hey, will you be ready soon? You might answer, I'll be with you in
444:  Just a minute.
Interviewer:  Uh. You know you're on the right road but aren't sure of the distance. You ask somebody, "How Blank is it to Jackson or somewhere?
444:  How far is it to Jackson?
Interviewer:  If you're pointing out something nearby, you say. If you're pointing out something nearby, you say,
444:  That's it. Uh. Say uh, Look there, and then.
Interviewer:  Okay. If you want to know uh. How many times, you say, How blank did you go to town?
444:  How often or how many time?
Interviewer:  Uh, 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,
444:  Um, I ain't either. I'm not either.
Interviewer:  Uh. Uh, what do you call this Part up here?
444:  Forehead.
Interviewer:  Uh. Go to the barber and uh have your And uh have him cut your what?
444:  Hair.
Interviewer:  Alright, if you haven't shaved in a week or so, you're probably growing a what?
444:  A beard.
Interviewer:  Uh, where did the old-time shop storekeeper keep his pencil when we wasn't using it? #1 So it'd always be handy. #
444:  #2 Behind. # Behind his ear.
Interviewer:  Alright, what if it was uh What would be this ear? Uh. That ear.
444:  Mm. Left, left ear. Right ear.
Interviewer:  If someone's mumbling, you say, Take that {X} Out of your
444:  Mouth.
Interviewer:  He got a chicken bone stuck in his
444:  Throat.
Interviewer:  Alright, you Alright, you wear uh a tie around your what?
444:  Neck.
Interviewer:  Alright. What do you call your Adam's apple? Sometime.
444:  The it'd be a goozle it uh.
Interviewer:  You have a dentist look at your What?
444:  Teeth.
Interviewer:  Alright, he says he needs to fill that He's just talking about one. He needs to fill that what?
444:  Tooth. The dentist says, You're taking pretty good care of your teeth, but you better pay more attention to your What?
Interviewer:  {NW} What's it kind of like?
444:  The uh high tooth.
Interviewer:  #1 No. #
444:  #2 Or. # Your gums.
Interviewer:  Uh. You could hold that baby bird in the What of your hand?
444:  Palm.
Interviewer:  What's it kind of like?
444:  The uh high tooth.
Interviewer:  #1 No. #
444:  #2 Or. # Your gums.
Interviewer:  Uh. You could hold that baby bird in the What of your hand?
444:  Palm.
Interviewer:  Uh, he got mad and doubled up his uh up both.
444:  Fist.
Interviewer:  People get old and complain they're getting stiff in their What?
444:  Bones. {NW} Joints.
Interviewer:  Uh, the upper part of a man's body is his what?
444:  {NW}
Interviewer:  What's the upper part of a man's body?
444:  Oh, got the the chest and shoulders.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh. Alright, you said uh he you'd say then if a man has got broad what? Another part.
444:  Shoulders.
Interviewer:  Uh, they measure the height of a horse in What do you use to measure the height of a horse? What's this? Would you measure what how?
444:  Uh.
Interviewer:  The height. What's this?
444:  The hand.
Interviewer:  Alright. And what what would be both of these called?
444:  {NW}
Interviewer:  What's both of 'em called?
444:  Hands.
Interviewer:  Uh. The pain ran from his heel all the way up his What? From your heel up through his
444:  {NW} Neck, head.
Interviewer:  #1 No, from your heel. Then what else? #
444:  #2 Oh, the leg. #
Interviewer:  Alright, leg. At the end of your leg is your At the end of your leg. Where's your heel? It's In your what? What do you stand on?
444:  Yeah, on uh your foot.
Interviewer:  Alright. And, well both of them is what?
444:  Feet.
Interviewer:  I stumbled over a box in the dark and bruised my. The front of your leg. What do we call the front of your leg?
444:  The shin.
Interviewer:  Uh. The back part of thighs, especially midway between knee and buttocks is called what? You're squatting down on your What do you call that? You hunker down, and you say You're squatted down on your what?
444:  {X}
Interviewer:  Yeah, you're squatting down. What do you call that? You know another name for it? Uh. Someone's been sick a while. He's up and about now but still looks a bit
444:  Peaky.
Interviewer:  How would you uh say he felt?
444:  Probably weak.
Interviewer:  Anything else? Any other expressions you can think of?
444:  Look a little sickly.
Interviewer:  Yeah. What else?
444:  {D: Poor.}
Interviewer:  {NW} What about puny?
444:  Yeah, puny and sickly. {NW}
Interviewer:  Uh. He is big and What's another word for stout?
444:  Strong.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh. Some person who always has a smile on his face and never loses his temper. You say, He's mighty
444:  Healthy.
Interviewer:  Alright, what else? He's easy to get along with. You'd say he's what?
444:  He uh Pleasant and likable.
Interviewer:  Alright. Somebody like a teenager who's all arms and legs and always stumbling over his feet, you'd say he's mighty what?
444:  Clumsy.
Interviewer:  Well, what else? Okay, a person who keeps on doing things that Don't make any sense, you say he is a plain What?
444:  Crazy.
Interviewer:  Alright, what's another word for crazy?
444:  Mm. Foolish.
Interviewer:  Alright, what's just plain {X}
444:  Just {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh, a person who has plenty of money and hangs onto it is a what? What would you call a person like that?
444:  Stingy.
Interviewer:  Alright, what else might you call it? Hmm?
444:  I don't know, just call him selfish and stingy.
Interviewer:  {X}
444:  Tight wad.
Interviewer:  {NW} Uh. When you use the word common about a person, what does it mean? Or if you said, That girl is very common, what would you mean?
444:  Mean she was a Plain.
Interviewer:  Uh. An old person, say about eighty, who does his farm work, Uh. His his farm work And doesn't get tired, you say, I don't care how old he Is, he's Mighty what? If he's able to do it all his work and everything, you'd say he's what? He's mighty what?
444:  {X}
Interviewer:  What would you say if your grandmother say was eighty years old. She might be and uh she still could did all of her work, you'd say she's what? Mighty what? Uh, this term that she might use for
444:  It'll be lively or
Interviewer:  Alright. And uh. Can you think of any other term you might use?
444:  Lively or peppy or something like that.
Interviewer:  The children are out later than usual. You say I don't suppose there's anything wrong but I can't kept feeling a little what?
444:  Worried or uneasy.
Interviewer:  I don't want to go upstairs in the dark. I'm If you
444:  Scared.
Interviewer:  Or what else?
444:  Afraid.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh. She isn't afraid now, but she What? If if the person's not now, you you'd say but she's
444:  Will be.
Interviewer:  No, she's she Was but she's not now. You'd say she
444:  She's not scared now or She got frightened.
Interviewer:  Uh. Can you think of anything else or
444:  She used to be scared, but she wasn't
Interviewer:  Uh. Somebody leaves a lot of money on the table and the door unlocked. You'd say he's mighty What?
444:  {D: Careless}
Interviewer:  Uh, there's nothing really wrong with it uh Liza, but sometimes she acts kind of what?
444:  {NW}
Interviewer:  You might say she acts kind of funny or what else?
444:  Queer.
Interviewer:  Uh. If um um somebody makes up his mind and nothing can make him change it, he's mighty what? If he can't make his mind up and or if he makes his mind up, and then he won't change it, what do you call a person like that? You say he's mighty what?
444:  He's Selfish or Stubborn.
Interviewer:  Uh. What's another word you can think of for stubborn be? That's used a lot.
444:  He'll be hardheaded or bullheaded or something like that.
Interviewer:  {NW} You know of anyone that's hardheaded or bullheaded?
444:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Somebody you can't joke with without him losing his temper, you say he uh you say is mighty what?
444:  High-tempered or
Interviewer:  Well, if he's high-tempered, then you say well he's Uh, he's afraid to {X} Much, you say he's what? If he's easy to fire off a temper, you say he's what?
444:  {X}
Interviewer:  Uh, I was just Kidding him. I didn't know he he'd get What?
444:  Get mad.
Interviewer:  Alright, he's uh bad-tempered all the time. He's what? When you get mad at something, you're what?
444:  Angry.
Interviewer:  Uh. Somebody about to lose his temper, you tell him, Just What?
444:  Uh, be cool.
Interviewer:  Uh. If you have been working very hard, you'd say you are very
444:  {D: Tired and} Worn out.
Interviewer:  Alright, if you are very, very tired, you say you're all What?
444:  It's all wore out. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh. I'm completely What?
444:  Completely wore out.
Interviewer:  Uh. He came home early from school. Uh, or work. Whatever. Because he What? Alright, you say, He was looking fine yesterday, and Uh. You find out he's in the hospital, and you say {D: Where was it he} What? What happens to you when you're at the hospital?
444:  Sick or
Interviewer:  Alright, you'd say he's what then?
444:  He got sick or taken sick {D: or looked sick.}
Interviewer:  Okay, we'll get there Uh. When? Say he is sick now, but he will be well again When he's what?
444:  {D: Someday or by and by.}
Interviewer:  Alright. Somebody got overheated and chilled, and his eyes and nose started running. You say he's What? He got overchilled and uh overheated and chilled, and his eyes and nose started running. What do you say a person has? You say he
444:  Uh cold or
Interviewer:  Uh. If I say He sounds kind of what?
444:  Hoarse.
Interviewer:  Uh. {NW} I've got {NW} What? Little what?
444:  Cough.
Interviewer:  {NW} Alright, I'd better go to bed. I feel a little. What?
444:  Sleepy.
Interviewer:  And what else?
444:  Tired, I guess.
Interviewer:  What else?
444:  Dull, dry, dozy.
Interviewer:  Alright, if you're dozing, then you'd be what? You feel what?
444:  A little drowsy.
Interviewer:  Uh. At six oh clock, I'll What?
444:  Be awake.
Interviewer:  Uh. He's still sleeping. Better go What?
444:  Wake him.
Interviewer:  Uh. If the medicine is still by the patient's bedside, you ask, What haven't you your medicine?
444:  Why haven't you took the medicine?
Interviewer:  Uh. Somebody who can't hear well is getting a little
444:  Deaf.
Interviewer:  Uh. You've been working hard, and you take your wet shirt off, and say, Look how I
444:  Sweating.
Interviewer:  A lump on your arm with a big {D: Point} In it is what? And uh you have to sometimes {D: Glance at it.} Well, what you call it?
444:  Rising kernel or rising
Interviewer:  No. What else can you think of? It oozes it out. The sore. What else would might you call it?
444:  A mole.
Interviewer:  Uh. When a bog opens, The stuff that drains out is what?
444:  Mm. It Corruption.
Interviewer:  Alright, what else could you call it?
444:  Pus.
Interviewer:  A bee stung me, and my hand What? What happens when a bee stings?
444:  Swell up.
Interviewer:  Alright. It's still pretty badly what?
444:  Swollen.
Interviewer:  When you get a blister, the liquid that forms under the skin is What that liquid that form under the skin from a blister?
444:  Water.
Interviewer:  Somebody got shot or stabbed and you'd say you get you got a doctor to look at the
444:  Wound.
Interviewer:  Well, if wound doesn't heal clean, a white Granular substance might form around the edge. Sometimes it has to be cut out or burned out with {X} It's What? It's some kind of what?
444:  It's a The uh. Uh.
Interviewer:  You ever heard of it? You heard of {D: Pride flesh?} Uh. If you get just a little cut in your finger, what do you put on it to avoid infection?
444:  A little iodine or.
Interviewer:  Uh. It used to be given sometimes in its tonic for malaria. Or you might know of it as white bitter powder in capsules that used to take that To take for a cold.
444:  {D: Quinine}
Interviewer:  Uh, the doctor said that everything he could, but he Anyway. When he's not {X} The doctor said everything he he. The doctor did everything he could, but he
444:  Died.
Interviewer:  Alright, she's been living all alone ever since her husband
444:  Died.
Interviewer:  Um. I'm glad that old skin flint finally What?
444:  Or kicked uh kicked the bucket.
Interviewer:  Or what else?
444:  #1 Passed on. Passed out. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
444:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 # Uh. He's been dead a week, and nobody nobody's yet figured out what he What? What would they say?
444:  Well, he uh died off.
Interviewer:  Uh, they leave him away in the Where? What do we call where we put {NW} Bury someone.
444:  In the graveyard or cemetery.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Uh. The box that people are buried in. What's the name of the box that people are buried in?
444:  A casket.
Interviewer:  Any other name you know of?
444:  Coffin.
Interviewer:  Uh. He was an important man. Everyone turned out for his what?
444:  Funeral.
Interviewer:  Uh. Alright, if uh. If people are dressed in black, you say they are in what?
444:  Uniform.
Interviewer:  No, after someone's died, and they say they're dressed in black, You say they are in what? What do you you call someone that is in grief or someone after they've died, you say they are in what?
444:  Wait, mourning.
Interviewer:  Uh. Somebody ask you at the end of the day, How how are you feeling? You'd say What?
444:  I feel okay. Alright.
Interviewer:  Alright, or if someone say, How are you? you'd say what?
444:  Alright. Mm.
Interviewer:  Alright, if I should say, How are you?
444:  I'd say, Fine.
Interviewer:  Or You're feeling what?
444:  Better. Okay.
Interviewer:  The children are out late, and your wife's getting getting a bit excited, you say, They'll be home alright. Just don't
444:  Worry.
Interviewer:  Uh, you're getting old, and your joints are stiff and aching. You say you've got a touch of what?
444:  Uh. Arthritis or Rheumatism.
Interviewer:  Um. A disease that you that you that you hardly ever hear of now because they give shots for it. It used to kill lots of children. They'd choke to death.
444:  {X}
Interviewer:  Uh, when your skin and eyeballs turn yellow, you're getting what?
444:  {D: Mm. Yellowed out.}
Interviewer:  Uh. You have a pain down here. Uh. And you have to have an operation. What is that? It's what?
444:  It'd be uh Cramps or.
Interviewer:  No, what what do you have to have operation for when your side is starts hurting.
444:  Appendicitis.
Interviewer:  Um. Do you know what people called it before they knew it was appendicitis uh appendix and when people used to usually died of it? You never heard any of that? When you eat and drink things that don't agree with you, and they come up, you say you what?
444:  Vomit.
Interviewer:  Um. If somebody's pretty bad this way, you might say he was leaning over the fence on something and What?
444:  Don't really know what it's called. Puking.
Interviewer:  At a party, it's pretty warm, so what do you say? I better get some fresh air. I'm beginning to feel a little Sick. What else?
444:  {X}
Interviewer:  If you're hot and everything. You feel like you're going to be sick, you say, Uh.
444:  Get sick in my stomach.
Interviewer:  She'd hardly got the news when she came right over. For what?
444:  {X}
Interviewer:  Or someone heard something and they're going and can't wait to go next door to do what? The neighbor.
444:  Well, Call or tell them about it.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh, if he doesn't come, I What disappointed?
444:  I would be disappointed.
Interviewer:  Alright, what else would you say that I will do? I
444:  I shall be.
Interviewer:  Anytime you can come over, we Will Will blank to see you.
444:  Be glad.
Interviewer:  Um. If you do that again, I'll What you? Say a child is misbehaving. What would you say? If you do that again, I'll
444:  Slap you or whip you.
Interviewer:  Um. If a boy keeps going over the the same girl's house, you;d say he's What?
444:  {X} Or dating her.
Interviewer:  Alright, what else?
444:  #1 He likes her. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Hmm?
444:  He likes her. He Courting her.
Interviewer:  Alright, what would be some Uh, if they're getting very serious, what would you call it?
444:  They'd be engaged or
Interviewer:  Alright, what else or how else would you call it?
444:  {NW} In love with one another or
Interviewer:  Alright, and what kind of dating would that be? What would you call it?
444:  Hmm growing steady. Heavy dating.
Interviewer:  {NW} And what other word can you think of you say that uh someone loves someone, you'd say Probably he was what on her?
444:  Kind of sweet on her.
Interviewer:  Okay. A girl's putting on her best dress and so on. Her little brother says, She's fixing up for her
444:  Boyfriend.
Interviewer:  Alright, what other names can you think of?
444:  Sweetheart.
Interviewer:  Uh. He's going to see his What? He's going on a date. He's going to see his what?
444:  His girl.
Interviewer:  Alright, can you think of other names?
444:  His sweetheart or honey or
Interviewer:  Alright, and you said a while ago if they got engaged what would they they'd be going what?
444:  Dating.
Interviewer:  Well, they're dating. Regularly. What would you call that? They're going what?
444:  Steady.
Interviewer:  Uh. A boy comes home with lipstick on his collar. His little brother says, You've been What?
444:  You been kissing.
Interviewer:  What other word? What other?
444:  Been necking or.
Interviewer:  What some old-fashioned terms could you think of? Mm. Smooching or What what word your grandmother would say?
444:  {D: Been spooning or something else.}
Interviewer:  Uh, when a girl stops letting the boy come over to see her, you say she's What? If she told him
444:  Quitting him.
Interviewer:  Alright, he ask him to marry her, but she
444:  Refuses.
Interviewer:  Uh. What else? She won't. Well, if she had said no, that would mean she what him?
444:  Quit or.
Interviewer:  It'd be a what?
444:  Turned him down.
Interviewer:  Alright, what else might you say? She did what to him?
444:  #1 She broke off with him. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # {X} Uh. They're just uh. What after someone's been going together? What would you say? They're just what? If they're engaged, and then they finally reach the You say they're what?
444:  They uh
Interviewer:  Alright, did you finally tell me what what happen if uh after they had been going together a long time? And they you say they finally what?
444:  Broke up.
Interviewer:  No, they finally finally
444:  Got married.
Interviewer:  Alright, can you think of any funny or ways that you'd say they got married instead of married?
444:  They got hitched.
Interviewer:  Um. What is the man called that stands up with the groom? At a wedding.
444:  Best man.
Interviewer:  Alright, what's the uh girl that stands up with the bride called?
444:  Mm. That's uh
Interviewer:  Uh. Alright, we'll say that uh. If uh someone is living with uh You say he lives He lives {D: With a brown} You'd say he lives Where? Grounds.
444:  He lives with
Interviewer:  Or he lives.
444:  Over up by them. Up.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh. We said a while ago that uh If. Uh. Several people are together. What would you call them? The what?
444:  Whole group.
Interviewer:  Alright. Um. What kind of uh Uh. Various kinds can you think of that Uh. That two people what do you call when two people when music what do you call them doing?
444:  Well, they'll be dancing.
Interviewer:  Alright. What different kinds of dances Do you know of? What are they called?
444:  The square dance, the hoe hoedown, and Ballroom dance and black bottom. {X} Break down.
Interviewer:  Alright uh. We say four oh clock is the time when school what?
444:  Lets out.
Interviewer:  Uh, the day after Labor Day is when school what?
444:  Starts or begins.
Interviewer:  Alright, a boy left home to go to school and didn't show. He what?
444:  He played hooky.
Interviewer:  Alright, it's the kind of uh school where almost anyone can get a good what?
444:  Education.
Interviewer:  {NW} After high school, you go on to what?
444:  College.
Interviewer:  After kindergarten, A child goes into what?
444:  First grade.
Interviewer:  Alright, somebody left a note on my What?
444:  Desk.
Interviewer:  And they're Serving you what?
444:  {X}
Interviewer:  Uh. Where do you get a book in school building?
444:  Library. Library.
Interviewer:  Alright, you've got a package Where?
444:  Post office.
Interviewer:  And you stay overnight in a strange town at a
444:  Hotel.
Interviewer:  And you see a play at the what?
444:  Theater.
Interviewer:  And where do you go for an operation?
444:  Hospital.
Interviewer:  And a woman takes care of you there. What is she called?
444:  A nurse.
Interviewer:  And uh you catch a train at the
444:  Depot.
Interviewer:  Um. The place in the center of town around the court house. Do you know what that's called? Alright, if you um If there's a vacant lot at the car, and you go across it instead of around it on the sidewalk, you're what?
444:  That walking across there. Street walk about across the way.
Interviewer:  Alright, if you but at the intersection it's called what or street intersection?
444:  It's jay walking.
Interviewer:  Uh. {NW} Vehicles that used to run on tracks with a wire overhead.
444:  {NW} Street cars. Trolley car.
Interviewer:  Alright, you tell a bus driver the next one is where I want.
444:  Off.
Interviewer:  Alright. {NW} Uh. This is a Place that is called a uh Oh. Well, let's say uh Here in uh Well, lets say Marion County Uh. What is the uh Uh. And {X} Is the what?
444:  The uh county seat.
Interviewer:  Uh, if you're an F-B-I agent, you're working for the Federal what?
444:  Government.
Interviewer:  A political candidate who wants the police to get tougher says he's for
444:  {NW}
Interviewer:  A political candidate who wants the police to get tougher says he's for what?
444:  {NW} Law. {NW}
Interviewer:  Law and what?
444:  Law enforcement.
Interviewer:  Or law and what? What goes on with law?
444:  And order.
Interviewer:  Uh, the war in eighteen sixty-five, sixty-one, sixty-five we call the what?
444:  Civil War.
Interviewer:  Uh. Before they had the electric chair, murderers were What?
444:  Hung.
Interviewer:  Alright, the man went out and did what to himself?
444:  Hanged himself.
Interviewer:  Uh. Albany is the capital of It's a big state. What do you call that?
444:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Albany. What big state up East do we call? Big state. Got the what is the Empire State Building.
444:  New York.
Interviewer:  Alright, the biggest city in this country is in Where?
444:  New York.
Interviewer:  Alright where uh Baltimore is in where?
444:  Maryland.
Interviewer:  Uh, Richmond is the capital of
444:  Virginia.
Interviewer:  And Raleigh is the capital of where?
444:  North Carolina.
Interviewer:  Alright, uh. Columbia is the capital of
444:  South Carolina.
Interviewer:  And Sherman marched across Where? What state did he march across? What's over next to Alabama over in the
444:  Georgia.
Interviewer:  East. Okay. Uh, Tallahassee is the capital of
444:  Florida.
Interviewer:  And George Wallace is governor of
444:  Alabama.
Interviewer:  Uh, Baton Rouge is the capital of
444:  Louisiana.
Interviewer:  And the bluegrass state is what?
444:  Kentucky.
Interviewer:  Uh, the volunteer state is What do we call the volunteer state?
444:  Tennessee.
Interviewer:  Alright, and then the show me state is what?
444:  Missouri.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh have you heard people say you got show me? #
444:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  #1 #
444:  #2 #
Interviewer:  Uh, Little Rock is the capital of
444:  Arkansas.
Interviewer:  And Jackson is the capital of?
444:  Mississippi.
Interviewer:  Uh, did anybody ever tell you the little song about how to Spell Mississippi? You ever heard that? M-I-Double S-I-Double S
444:  Yeah, I have
Interviewer:  Uh, the lone star state is
444:  {X}
Interviewer:  No, where is the lone star state?
444:  Texas.
Interviewer:  That's right. And Tulsa is where?
444:  Oklahoma.
Interviewer:  Boston is in
444:  Massachusetts.
Interviewer:  The states from Maine to Connecticut are the What do we call them?
444:  The New England. New England state.
Interviewer:  Alright, the biggest city in Maryland is
444:  Baltimore.
Interviewer:  The capital of the U-S-A is
444:  Washington, D-C
Interviewer:  The biggest city in Missouri Which is famous food named for it is called what?
444:  Saint Louis