Interviewer: Say um if a child's {NW} just had his birth third birthday you'd say he's? 461: Three years old. Interviewer: Mm-kay and if something happened on this day last year you'd say it happened exactly? 461: On the same day. Interviewer: How long ago? 461: Last year Interviewer: It happened exactly? 461: On the same day last year. Interviewer: Or a another way of saying that it happened exactly a? 461: Year later Interviewer: Mm-kay and um you'd say you you look up at the sky and say talking about the weather you say I don't like the looks of those black? 461: Clouds Interviewer: And on a day when the sun's shining and there aren't any clouds you'd say that's a? 461: Fair Interviewer: Mm-kay 461: day Interviewer: And what about when it's all cloudy and overcast and the sun's not shining you'd say that it's a? 461: Cloudy Interviewer: Or any other expressions? 461: Well um I I know that commonly they say hazy Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: but if it's dark hazy's a different color. Interviewer: Mhm 461: If it's uh light color you know you can tell a haze. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: Or either if it's dark clouds you just say cloudy. Interviewer: Mm-hmm you ever heard something like gloomy or {X}? 461: Miserable Interviewer: Mm-kay and say if um if the clouds were getting thicker and thicker 461: Nasty Interviewer: Huh? 461: I've heard of nasty days. Interviewer: How would you describe that? 461: Rainy and cold Interviewer: Uh huh 461: sloppy. You know I've heard of nasty days hadn't you? Interviewer: What about? 461: It's worse I mean it's not a rainy day it's not a cold day it's all that mixed together. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: It's nasty. Particularly it gets nasty after dusk at about three or four days around here. Interviewer: {NW} 461: See Interviewer: Uh huh say if um if the clouds were getting thicker and thicker and you figure it might rain or something in a little while you'd say look like the weather is? 461: Looks like it's fixing to rain. Interviewer: Mm-kay would you ever say something like weather is threatening or breaking? 461: Right threatening and then the weather looks like it's breaking. Interviewer: What do you mean breaking? 461: Well that's when it looks like in all these dark clouds moving {X} uh move the way. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: Or rained out in other words you don't see them anymore. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: You can see a ray of light of blue sky it's breaking. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: But it's threatening that's when they begin to gather. Interviewer: Mm-hmm What about um say if it had been cloudy and then you the clouds start pulling away you say it looks like it's finally going to? 461: Break off Interviewer: Mm-kay do you ever say fair off or clear up or? 461: Well Interviewer: Is that 461: all of those are the same it's just one's used about as much as the other. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: Break off or clear up or fair up. Interviewer: Mm-hmm and um you say all night long the wind? 461: Blew Interviewer: And you say it it was pretty bad last night but in years past the wind has what harder than that? The wind has? 461: Blown Interviewer: And you say it started to rain and the wind began to? 461: Blow Interviewer: And if the wind's from this direction you say it's? 461: From the east. Interviewer: And wind half way between south and west you'd call a? 461: South west Interviewer: And south and east? 461: South-east Interviewer: And east and north? {NW} 461: North-east Interviewer: And west and north? 461: North-west Interviewer: And say if the wind had been gentle and was gradually getting stronger you'd say the wind was? 461: Picking up Interviewer: And if it was just the opposite of that? If it was had been strong but was getting weaker you'd say the wind was? 461: Um I'll tell you what I'd say and I think it's pretty well common it was dying down ain't that right? Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: That's what it's that's what a lot of people say. Interviewer: Mm-kay and um a whole lot of rain that just suddenly comes down you'd call that a? 461: A no wait a minute it's a downpour. Interviewer: Mm-kay any others? 461: Toad stranglers Interviewer: Huh? 461: Toad stranglers Interviewer: Mm-kay 461: You know sometimes you see a lot of frogs after a rain Interviewer: Uh huh 461: Well when it rains so hard it'll it'll strangle the frogs so it's a toad strangle. {NW} When it gets so hard that it'll strangle some toad frogs it's raining hard. Interviewer: {NW} What about um if there's thunder and lightening? 461: Thunder storm Interviewer: Mm-kay and what if it's not as as bad as a as a downpour what what might it be? 461: Drizzle Interviewer: Mm-kay an- anything else? 461: Shower Interviewer: What do you think of is the difference between a drizzle and a shower? 461: Shower's a little harder than a drizzle. Interviewer: Mm-hmm you think of a a drizzle as being something that sort of lasts all day or? 461: Mm-hmm yes ma'am {NW} Interviewer: What about um something finer than a? 461: Mist Interviewer: Mm-kay and say if you you get up in the morning and you can't see across the road you'd say that you had a? 461: Fog Interviewer: And a day like that you'd call a? 461: A day like that we'd call a? Interviewer: You say it's what outside it's? 461: Foggy Interviewer: Mm-kay and if no rain comes for weeks and weeks you'd say you're having a? 461: Dry spell Interviewer: Any other? 461: Yeah there's a a drought. Interviewer: Okay what's the difference between a dry spell and a drought? 461: Droughts just a sophisticated name for a dry spell. Interviewer: Mm-hmm they're the same? 461: Yeah same thing. Interviewer: You say um it was so cold last night that the lake? 461: Froze Interviewer: Okay what if it if there's just ice around the edge would you have a different expression you'd use? 461: Just around the edge? And it does that sometimes but uh I don't think I would I don't mean I don't know what that would be. Interviewer: Mm-kay and um say if it was cold enough to kill the tomatoes and flowers you'd say last night we had a? 461: Frost Interviewer: Mm-kay what if it's harder than that you'd call it a? 461: Freeze Interviewer: And um you say if it {NW} if it gets much colder the pipes might? 461: Burst Interviewer: Or the the water in them might? 461: Freeze Interviewer: And you say um yesterday 461: Used to say then pipes would bust. Interviewer: Mm-kay you say yesterday the pipes? 461: Froze Interviewer: And? 461: The pipes burst. Interviewer: What did you used to say? 461: Last night the pipes froze and and and then when they tha- they busted. Interviewer: Mm-kay 461: {NW} Interviewer: And you say um the pipes have? 461: I say they have froze. Interviewer: And they have? 461: Burst Interviewer: Mm-kay 461: used to say busted. Interviewer: Mm-kay and the the best room in the house you'd call the? 461: The best room? Interviewer: Yeah you might you call what you call the living room now what did you used to call that? 461: What? speaker#3: Fire room Interviewer: The what? speaker#3: Fire room 461: No I didn't call it. Interviewer: Fire room? speaker#3: Used to call the living room the fire room cause it's where the fireplace was. Interviewer: {NW} 461: I didn't we didn't call it that. See that's what I'm telling you now. Interviewer: Uh huh 461: See she lived in this area Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: where as they used to say doodads and I called 'em hush- corn dodgers. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: Well she's calling it a fire room and we used to call it the big house. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: But now listen uh that's not none of that is that I know of is common. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: You'll find each uh different people just had associated different names. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: I mean if it wasn't is was the living room or something else but I don't know what it was. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: A lot of people probably call it a living room. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 461: But we didn't. Interviewer: Say talking about how tall a room is you'd say this room's about maybe nine? 461: Feet tall Interviewer: Mm-kay that's it.