Interviewer
Let me ask you uh
let's say if you
you haven't uh {C: rooster crowing}
if you haven't worn a coat in about a year {C: rooster crowing}
and you tried it on,
you might say well
that coat won't fit this year but last year
it?
{NW}
{NW}
Didn't fit last year but?
Yeah.
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
What about uh
if there was something
over on the other side of the room and
you wanted me to
get it for you? You'd ask me to do what?
You'd say why don't you go?
Okay.
What about {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
some little boys you know they like to collect things.
They pick up about everything they see and
stuff it in their pockets.
And before long they have so many things in their pockets that the pockets
do what? {C: rooster crowing}
{NS}
Yeah?
{NW}
Well what about
if you put uh
{D: a shirt}
in water that's too hot or, {C: rooster crowing}
something like that? {C: rooster crowing}
it may
do what?
{D: Draw up?}
{D: And}
shrink or something
like that
Isn't that right?
Well what about if uh {C: rooster crowing}
if a young girl was
getting ready to go out somewhere
with a-
with a y-
with a young man?
She might spend a lot of time in front of a mirror
in her bedroom you'd say she's doing what?
Primping.
Oh yeah?
Well what if a boy
is doing the same thing you know, he's getting ready to go out and
he's
spending a lot of time.
He's primping
too?
{D: What do we} {C: rooster crowing}
call the {C: rooster crowing}
the thing that women {C: rooster crowing}
take with them you know, to carry all their things in?
Handbag
or?
Shopping bag?
Purse or?
Something like that?
Well what {C: rooster crowing}
what about the small one {C: rooster crowing}
that you might
use just for
carrying change in you know?
Might have a little
clasp or something like that?
Mm-hmm.
Or
cha-
do you ever call it change purse
or
coin purse?
I wonder, {C: rooster crowing}
about these things that um {C: rooster crowing}
ladies like to wear around their wrists you know, just look pretty?
Bracelet?
And this thing that they wear around their
neck?
{X}
Her necklace?
And these things that {C: rooster crowing}
that men might use to hold up their pants? {C: rooster crowing}
They go
across your shoulders?
Uh-huh.
Galluses?
Does it make any difference what you call them? Whether they're
just plain suspenders or fancy suspenders or?
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Oh yeah.
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
Well what do you call this thing that uh {C: rooster crowing}
if it's raining you'd take with you outside and hold
over your head
Have you ever heard
people-
Parasol, that's called?
Same thing.
Well if you were making up your bed,
what would be the last thing that you would put on your bed? {C: rooster crowing}
Bed spread
would be the last thing?
And what about in the winter time when you have these heavy things you know if?
{D: Be a blanket}
and quilt?
Comforter?
Oh yeah.
And you
when you go to bed you rest your head back on your?
Have you ever seen these things that weren't-
they're bigger than pillows.
Uh some people put them on their bed I guess just for looks?
Shams?
Is that what it is?
Have you ever?
Mm-hmm.{C: rooster crowing}
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Is that the same thing as what peop- some people call a bolster,
or something like that?
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah?
Uh-huh.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Well if it was a- if it was a
a long bolster you might say it doesn't just go partway across the bed it went?
Oh yeah.
Well what i- what if you had some company in the house that
you might have to put down a temporary sleeping place you know on the
floor?
A mattress?
Now is that the same thing as a palate or something
like that?
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Getting back to the farm for a minute,
the different types of land on a farm you know?
If you had a- if you uh
expect a big crop from your land
you'd say that your l-
you expect a big crop because the land is very?
{D: Cultivated?}
If it's real good land if it
if it produces big crops you say it's
what kind of land?
Rich land?
What do you
is there anything in particular that you'd call rich soil?
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
Mm. {C: rooster crowing}
Mm-hmm.
It's not all
{D: red land and}
{X}
you know
{D: real poor}
soil.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. {C: rooster crowing}
Mm-hmm.
Well what about
uh
real good land
sometimes it's uh
it's
overflowed you know by water
in the spring and then
later on you can use it to plant things on? You'd call that what kind of land?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Is that the same thing as bottom land?
{X}.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
Well what do you call a piece of land that's really not good for much anything
because you got {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
all the time?
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
Yeah. {C: rooster crowing}
Hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
Is that
right?
Huh.
I think I would've gotten out of there too.
Oh yeah.
That's uh
something like that in
the town that I'm from
a street
is named
{D: North Three Notch}
street because the Indians
made uh markings on
trees you know with three notches
something like that.
I guess for
you know purposes of showing direction
or something like that.
Yeah I was gonna ask you talking about land, do you have any swamps around here?
Or anything like that?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well tell me what would you call a
a piece of land that's been
kind of, cut through by some flowing water?
Might be about
say about ten feet across ten feet deep something like that, you know that was just, cut out by
flowing water? You-
you'd call an area like that a what?
Would that be the same thing say if
a- a heavy rain
washed out a
place like that?
Something like that?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Is that the same thing as a gully or
something like that?
You cut a canal to drain a
piece of land or something
like that?
Yeah.
{X}
You were talking about hills a minute ago.
Do you ever call hills anything else?
You might say you had a little
oh I don't know,
you ever heard them called uh
uh
well s- same thing as that uh
that thing that you had to turn you know to open your door? That's your what?
Have you ever heard hills called knobs?
Is that right?
Well what about when you get
{D: you see in}
some places in Tennessee these things are
are
you know just big things. Much bigger than hills. You don't have just any-
{D: You have}
mountains?
Talking about mountains what about uh
the- the side of a mountain, you know the rocky side that drops off real sharp?
You'd
call that the
what? {C: noise}
Or
maybe up in the mountains where uh
you have uh
where the road might go across in a low place
something like that?
What would you call that place in the mountains?
Oh yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
Mm-hmm.
I think that'd probably bother me a little bit.
{NW}
Mm.
Mm.
Well let me ask you thi-
this,
do you know uh
what you would call a place where boats would unload their freight?
They'd unload it onto a?
Barge or-
well what about you know,
this would be a,
wouldn't be a,
not necessarily a barge but,
uh say at a sea port, you know the boats come up
and then they anchor and
the- the- the platform or whatever it is that's the?
Dock?
Oh yeah.
{D: oh yeah}.
And talking about the mountains sometimes you see a place where
water falls {C: rooster crowing}
{X} {C: rooster crowing}
long distance, {rooster crowing}
do you know?
What do you- what would you call something like that?
That would be a?
Where the water falls over you know? {C: rooster crowing}
Oh yeah.
{D: Well what do you think} {C: rooster crowing}
the roads around {C: rooster crowing}
here in the county what are the
what are most of 'em made out of, you know the material on the surface you got?
Oh yeah?
Well tell me what you would call a {C: rooster crowing}
{NS}
talking about roads, what would you call a
a road that would go off the main road
somewhere?
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well what about a road that goes off the main road up to a man's house? That's the what?
By road? {C: noise}
{NS}
Well what about if somebody- if comp- if company came by
and you invited them into the room you might tell them well why don't-
why don't you sit down and make yourself?
Or at home?
Okay.
Do either one of- of you drink coffee?
How- how do you take your coffee?
How do you- what do you like in it, you know?
Do you ever- do you ever have your coffee with milk?
Is that right?
Have you ever heard people
order their coffee
without anything
in it you know?
What do they- how do- what- how do they say they want it?
{D: Straight}?
Is that right?
Have you ever heard people call coffee like that
uh ordering it, say I want it barefooted?
Nothing in it?
What about let's say if somebody's not going away from you,
do you say he's coming straight?
Straight to you?
Or straight
towards you?
Something like that.
Okay.
Uh-huh.
Well what about if you- if you've met somebody just,
you know by accident.
You didn't
you weren't looking for her you might say I just sort of ran?
Ran up on them, or,
ran across it or something like that.
Well what about if uh- if a child is
is given the same name that his father has?
You say that the child's been named?
Junior or
he's been named
in relation to his
father they were named
after his father or something like that?
Okay.
What about if you wanted one of these dogs out here to
attack another dog, what would you say to him?
Catch 'em?
Sic 'em?
What if you wanted him to stop, what would you say to him?
Come back here?
Uh-huh.
What do you call these dogs that
that aren't pure breeds you know?
They just about a little of everything.
{D: You got any}
anything you call that kind of dog?
{NW}
Uh-huh.
Well what about a
a little tiny dog that just yaps all the time
and makes a racket?
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh is that what you call it?
{X}
Yeah.
Mm.
Well did you e-
did you ever know of any dogs that were
{D: bad to get after you you know}?
Oh yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Has one ever gotten
a hold of you?
Uh-oh.
{NW}
Uh-huh.
Oh yeah?
You hadn't been bitten
badly though?
What about you did one ever?
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
Oh.
You have to protect yourself.
Yeah?
{NW}
Mm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah?
{NW}
Yeah.
Well tell me,
talking about,
getting back to farm animals for a minute, in a
herd of cattle, what is it you call the male?
That would be
the bull?
Oh.
And what about a little one?
When it's first born it's a?
A little steer?
Uh
uh is there any just general term for a
for a little one?
Besides steer? Is a steer a male?
Oh yeah.
And uh what about a little female
{D: it's a?}
Little heifer?
What about if you had a cow named Daisy
and she was expecting a calf you'd say that Daisy's gonna do what?
Have you ever heard people say that they got- they have a cow who's gonna
{D: freshen}
or something
like that?
Mean the same
That's right.
Well what about in a
in a group of horses what do you call the male?
{D: It's a stallion?}
{X}
{NS}
Well what about uh
the female horse?
She's the?
She's the mare?
Okay.
What about, talking about horses, if you tried to get on a horse and you
couldn't stay on you'd say you've
you do
what you
He throwed or you fell?
Fell off the horse?
Okay.
Well what about if a
little child went to bed
and in the morning he woke up and he was on the floor?
You might say-
you might say to him, say well my goodness during the night mus- I must've
Fell out the bed?
Did that ever happen to you?
Well talking about horses, what do you call those things that you put on a,
horse's feet to protect them?
Horseshoes?
And-
and the part of the horses foot that you put them on that's the what?
The hoof?
Have you ever played a game with those things,
{D: you gotta throw them}?
I don't suppose y'all have ever had any sheep around here have you?
{X}
Well do you know what you call the male sheep?
The- the ram?
And what about the female?
Yeah-huh and what is the female called?
{NW}
Uh-huh uh-huh
ya I think that's right.
What do you- what would you raise sheep for mostly anyway?
{NS}
{D: Yeah?}
The meat's pretty good?
Mm-hmm.
Well what about, talking about your hogs, what do you call the male hog?
He's the boar?
And a- and a little one?
That's?
Just a pig?
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Well what about, what would you call a
a male hog
{D: that's been altered}
you know?
A barrow?
And you- you'd say you did what to it?
{D: Alter him}?
You ever heard people say anything else for that?
They gonna?
Cut him?
okay.
What about those stiff hairs on the hog?
What do you call those things?
You know those stiff hairs,
on a hogs back?
His bristles?
Is that right?
Uh-huh.
Who is that?
Oh.
Oh yeah.
{D: You know}
some hogs you know have these long teeth?
Uh-huh.
Oh yeah.
Hmm.
Is that right?
Is that
right?
{NW}
{NW}
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
{NW}
Oh man does he
{D: carry}
too much for that.
Mm.
{NW}
Mm.
Mm.
Mm. {C: rooster crowing}
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
Mm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Well let me ask you this, do you have any names for a hog that's grown up wild?
A wild hog?
Oh.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
{NW}
{NW}
Get after you huh?
Yeah.
{X}
Uh-huh.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Well tell me,
have you ever heard a calf
you know making a- a noise, like when it's being weaned or something like that?
You'd say that calf was doing what?
Uh-huh.
Bleating?
{X}.
Well what about when a, you know a noise that a cow makes uh when it's being fed or something like that?
{D: She}
say she's lowing?
Uh-huh.
Well what about a horse when it's being fed?
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Well what- Let's say if you got some cows and some mules and some horses and so forth and
they get hungry you'd say you have to go out and?
Okay.
And what about if you had some
some animals like hens and turkeys and geese and ducks, you could call all them together your?
Right.
It wouldn't be the cattle,
would be the fowl
{D: like that.}
What about uh a pla- the place where you keep your chickens?
That's called your what?
That's the hen house?
Is that- well what about if you had just a
place that was
{D: pent up}
or something like that instead of being uh-
Is that the same thing as a hen house or?
Oh yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
Talking about chickens, when you fry chicken,
there's one piece that uh
that the children like to get you know, cause they
pull it
apart?
{D: Yeah that's right. Like that. That's right.}
Have you-
Why- why do they like to you know one will grab hold
of one end-
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
Do you have any uh
any one word that you use to describe the
say the inside parts of the hog that are edible, you know that you can eat?
{D: You call all that together or anything is}
particular?
Yeah that you can eat.
Yeah?
Yeah, things like
that.
Ya.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Have you ever heard that called haslet or
something like that?
{D: How is that}?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
What about, let's say if you ha- heard your
your cows mooing
along towards the
uh
late evening you might say well I didn't realize it was so late.
{D: It's right on to?}
Feeding time?
What about if you wanted to call to a cow to
tell your cows to get up and come up from the pasture? How would you call to them?
{NW}
Is that right?
Oh yeah.
Uh-huh.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
{NW}
How do you call your hogs?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Well what about if you were gonna call the calves, would you say the same thing?
Same thing?
Mm-hmm.
Well what about the horses or mules?
{D: Mm}
call them by their name?
Well what about uh
let's say if you wanted to- if you were-
if you were riding on a horse or
{D: had hitched}
a buggy or something like that,
and he wasn't moving. What would you say to him to get him started?
{D: Come up}?
Well what about if he was- if he was moving along and you wanted him to go faster?
Just
{X}.
Cluck to him?
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Now is- is that what you call uh
those things that you guide
{D: by when you're plowing?}
{X}
line.
And if you wanted your horse to stop you'd
say to them?
You'd say whoa to them?
Well what about-
{D: I don't guess you know any calling to sheep}
or anything like that?
Yeah I never.
Right.
What about if you wanted to get your horses ready to go somewhere, you'd say that you have to get out there and
do what to your horses to get them
ready?
And what about the-
that stuff you have to put on 'em you know to?
The harness
{D: and}
that kind of thing?
{NW}
What about the things that you put your feet in when you're riding a horse
S-
Stirrup?
When you- when you plow with horses or, when you have two horses
{D: just hitched to}
a wagon,
uh
do you call the horse on the left anything in particular? You say that's your?
Oh?
Oh.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
What about if uh
if something i- isn't right
close to you.
Not right near at hand you know? You might say it's just a little?
Or a little ways over
or something like that?
okay.
Well what about if you've been traveling for a long time and you're not yet
even close to being through
you know with where you have to go?
{X}
Well what about if you're- if you can- if something's very common you know, and you can find it just
you- you don't have to look for it in any special place?
You say that you can find that just about?
Just about anywhere?
Yeah.
Well what if a- if a man fell down in your yard and he-
he fell that way? You'd say he fell?
And if he fell that way?
What about uh
if you went fishing and
you
you didn't have good luck at all,
and somebody ask you well did
did you catch any fish? And you say naw I didn't catch-
Mm-hmm.
You ever heard of people say didn't catch nary a one?
{D: Right.}
Well what about let's say if somebody accidentally stepped on your rake
in the yard and broke it?
You might tell them well
that's alright, I didn't like it
didn't like it anyway or
Uh yeah.
Okay.
Well what about if you
you might see a- a child crying, and you don't know why he's crying, and you ask him
{D: why. He might say well)
I have?
Alright or
he would
{D: let}-
Uh-huh.
And he might say well
my friend was
had some candy- he was eating some candy and he didn't give me?
Didn't give me any?
Okay.
{NS}
{NS}
Well that's good.
{NW}
Hmm.
Well
let me ask you this,
if- what if you knew a-
a boy who'd been spoiled
by his parents you know?
And you thought when he got
when he got older.
When he was- when he got grown up
he was probably gonna-
he's probably gonna have his troubles?
What would you- what would you tell me, you know, in the way of
telling me what you thought would happen to them?
You'd just say,
that boy is?
Is that right?
{NW}
{X}
{X}
Let me ask you,
we were talking about farming this morning,
what do you call those trenches that are cut by a plow?
You know
when you?
Mm-hmm.
Is that right?
Well what do you call a piece of land that's just been
{X}?
New ground?
Well what about if uh-
if you have just cut off some
grass or hay or something like that. What do you call it when it comes up
again right after that?
That's the
what?
Second crop?
Yeah.
What do you
what do you call
wheat when you cut it and
tie it up into bundles?
So you got a?
{X}
What was-
he was talking about this morning, shocks?
Uh
could you call
wheat you know that's?
Mm.
Yeah?
Well let me ask you about a few e- expressions.
Let's say if uh
{X}
we have to do something
together
you- you would say not just one of us has to do this, but?
Or what about if uh
you and another man were coming
over to see me,
you would say that
and
are coming over.
{D: You'd say}
what if you just wanted to refer to another man? You know not call him by his name?
You'd do it- you just might say that
{X}
Okay.
Or what about if,
let's say,
you came up to the door and knocked on the door?
And I
I knew that it was you,
but I couldn't see you cause the door's closed?
And I said who's that?
You'd just say oh it's?
Or if you didn't wanna u-
if you didn't just use you name you might just say it's?
It's just?
Okay or,
let's see
uh,
how else could you possibly say it?
It's a friend or it's
{X}
or
you could just say it's...
you know like, like if I know who it is, and I can recognize your voice.
You might just say aw it's just?
Okay.
What about, talking about how tall you are,
comparing how tall you are to somebody else, you might say that
he isn't as tall as?
Well what about if uh,
uh,
{D: again}
talking about how tall you are,
you might say well,
I'm not as tall as?
Or, talking about {C: noise}
how well you can do something, you might say well, he can do it better than?
Well what about if a man had been
{D: running}
for about two miles and after two miles he just had to stop.
You'd say
that-
that two miles is a?
{D: Most he could go or}
farthest he could go or something like
that?
{NW}
{NW}
That's true.
okay if a
{D: if something belonged me}
I'd say that that's?
{D: And if- if}
something
belongs to you, you'd say that's?
Mm-hmm. {C: rooster crowing}
Or
if something- if something belonged to him, you'd say that's?
Belongs to her you say that's?
If it belongs to them you say?
Okay.
Well what about if- if some people
{X}
have come to visit you,
and you- and they're about to leave,
you'd- what would you say to them if you wanted them to come back sometime?
Okay.
Well what about if a?
{X} {C: muffled speech}