Interviewer:  Okay. If you need some things from downtown, you say you have to go downtown to do some
533:  Shopping.
Interviewer:  Okay, and
533:  And if you was actually gonna buy something. If you're just looking, you're just pilfering around.
Interviewer:  Pilfering?
533:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah, without actually pilfering. #
533:  #2 Yeah. # Yeah, yeah, I mean you're just pilfering around, yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh, and if you buy something, you'd say that a storekeeper took a piece of paper, and he
533:  Wrapped it up.
Interviewer:  Yeah, when you got home you
533:  You unwrapped it. Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Uh, if a storekeeper's selling something for less than what he paid for it, you say he's selling
533:  Hmm?
Interviewer:  He's selling it
533:  Wholesale?
Interviewer:  What about L double O L-O-S-S?
533:  Uh, selling at a loss?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
533:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay.
533:  #1 Which they usually don't, you know. But they make you think that, yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # Only sell it at fifty percent profit.
533:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  What about uh if you see something that you like, you might say, well, I'd like to buy it, but it just
533:  Just costs too much. Can't afford it.
Interviewer:  Okay. Or if you really have to have it, you go to your banker to see if you can
533:  Borrow some money.
Interviewer:  You might say, uh well, I'm sorry, but money is money.
533:  Tight.
Interviewer:  Or
533:  #1 Mm. #
Interviewer:  #2 Seems to you just #
533:  Yeah. Scarce.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
533:  #2 Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  Say, the first of the month. You would say that the bill was
533:  Mm. Due.
Interviewer:  Yeah. If you were at a club, you have to pay your
533:  Dues. Yeah.
Interviewer:  Say if you run off a
533:  By the way, people say people would say news.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
533:  Anyway {C: voice distortion}
Interviewer:  Say what?
533:  You know, stay tuned for the news.
Interviewer:  News, yeah.
533:  {D: Now}
Interviewer:  News.
533:  It's news. Huh. Just like, you know, blues is blues. You know? {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 Oh. #
533:  #2 They get this stuff all mixed up. Yeah. #
Interviewer:  What about uh if you run off a spring board, go in like so
533:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 Say you're going to #
533:  You're going to dive.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Did it yesterday, you
533:  Mm. You dived. I guess dove is probably the right word.
Interviewer:  Or you have
533:  Have dived. I wouldn't say diven.
Interviewer:  {NW} It's uh it's mighty tempting to
533:  Now you sit on a divan, don't you?
Interviewer:  {NW} Then, when you get in the water, you begin to
533:  Swim?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Yeah, and you yesterday, you
533:  Swam.
Interviewer:  And you have
533:  Swum.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
533:  #2 You know? # Swum all over that place.
Interviewer:  Right.
533:  Uh.
Interviewer:  And if you get in water that's too deep for you, you might {X}
533:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. # Yesterday, so-and-so
533:  Drowned.
Interviewer:  {NW} And so-and-so has
533:  Yeah, he drowned. Two times.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Yesterday.
533:  Yeah, he drowned. #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 Okay. # Uh, if you dive in the water, and you land flat, make a pop, it
533:  It's a belly buster.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Say if a kid were playing out in the yard, and he tucked his head down between his legs and kicked out his feet and went over the one
533:  Somersets.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
533:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh. If you went in to pay off your bill to the store, maybe the store keeper gave you a little something for paying off your bills for free. {D: What would you call that?}
533:  I don't know. I don't do that.
Interviewer:  Mm. Have you ever heard the word lanyard?
533:  No. #1 Gratuity, you know. #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
533:  I thought that was something they put on my steak, you know? So I left her a tip anyway.
Interviewer:  {NW} What would you say a baby does before it's able to walk?
533:  Crawls.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if there's something up a tree I need, I have to
533:  Climb up it. Yeah.
Interviewer:  Yesterday, I
533:  Climbed up.
Interviewer:  And I have
533:  Climbed. I have heard clumb. Way he clumb that tree. But you know, that's not, that's not too
Interviewer:  {NS} Say if a child uh right before he goes to bed that he's gonna say his prayers,
533:  Mm.
Interviewer:  you'd say he
533:  Kneels down.
Interviewer:  Or the past form, he
533:  He knelt down.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh somebody who's sick, you might say, well, he couldn't even sit up. He just in bed all day.
533:  Laid.
Interviewer:  And uh
533:  Which ain't a bad idea, you know?
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} Oh. #
533:  #2 Good feeling. Go home and get in bed all day, now. #
Interviewer:  {X} So you begin to
533:  Dream.
Interviewer:  Yeah, last night I
533:  Dreamed
Interviewer:  And I have
533:  I have been dreaming. Or I have dreamed.
Interviewer:  Uh, I was dreaming about such and such, but all of a sudden, I
533:  Woke up?
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
533:  #2 No? #
Interviewer:  If I brought my foot down real hard on the floor, you'd say I
533:  Stomping.
Interviewer:  You you met a girl at a party, and you wanted to make sure she got home alright, you would ask her, may I
533:  Take you home? {C: voice distortion}
Interviewer:  {X} what would you say when you're walking her in a car.
533:  {D: I I don't know. May I walk you home?} {D: You know, may I drive you home or} {D: Let me take you home.}
Interviewer:  Alright.
533:  {D: By way of the country road.} {X}
Interviewer:  {NW} Okay. If you had to carry something very heavy like a heavy uh suitcase
533:  Huh.
Interviewer:  three blocks, you'd say, I'm {X} for three blocks.
533:  Carried. Toted. You know?
Interviewer:  Does toted necessarily imply something that a real burden? Something heavy?
533:  Uh, not especially. You know, he just toted it across the room, you know?
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. Say if uh the wife's in the kitchen, and she's cooking something. The children wander in, she might say, well now, that stove's hot, so
533:  Get away from it.
Interviewer:  Or.
533:  Stay away from it. Don't touch it.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
533:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  If uh you needed something that's here in the room, you might ask me, well, go me that.
533:  Bring it to me. Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if I throw you a ball, you're supposed to
533:  Catch it.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
533:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  I threw it. You
533:  Caught it.
Interviewer:  And you have
533:  Caught it.
Interviewer:  Okay. If we're supposed to meet in town, I might say, well now, if I get there before you do, I'll
533:  I'll wait for you.
Interviewer:  Okay.
533:  Wait on you. Whichever, I mean, you know
Interviewer:  Alright. Somebody who is uh a pretty cheerful person, you might say, well, so-and-so seems to be in a good
533:  Mood. Humor.
Interviewer:  Humor?
533:  Awful good humor.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh, talking about a person who really doesn't know what's going on. You say so-and-so doesn't know what's going on. He just
533:  Thinks he does?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Or like he knew it all?
533:  Well, you mean uh like he thinks he knows it all?
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Acted like?
533:  Yeah, acted like. Pretended.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
533:  #2 Mm-hmm. # Made out like. We use that sometimes. He made out like knew all about what a stock
Interviewer:  Right. Uh, you might say, well, I'd forgotten about that, but now I
533:  I remember.
Interviewer:  Mm. Okay. Uh, if you wanna get in touch with somebody, you might sit down and
533:  Write 'em?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Yesterday you
533:  Wrote and
Interviewer:  you have
533:  written.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you write him, you expect to get a
533:  Answer.
Interviewer:  Alright. Mm-hmm. Uh, after you write the letter, you take the envelope, you do what?
533:  Address it.
Interviewer:  Yeah. You'd say, well, I'd like to write so-and-so, but I don't know his
533:  Address.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh, what about a child who goes around telling on the other children, you'd call them a
533:  A storyteller. Liar.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
533:  You know?
Interviewer:  Tattletale?
533:  Oh, oh, oh, oh. I see what you mean. Yeah, tattletale. Mm-hmm. Tattletale. Tattletale. Run around the house sucking a bull's tail, you know?
Interviewer:  {NW} Hadn't heard that one.
533:  #1 Yeah, a lot of people did alright, you know? #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} #
533:  #1 Things that you do around here on national news, you just think it's common all over the world. Get to be about half-grown, you know? #
Interviewer:  #2 {NW} # Oh. Can you tell if there's any difference between tattling and gossiping?
533:  Yeah. Gossiping you're just telling what you heard. Now, tattling is when you're actually telling something on somebody, you know? Uh.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say if you have uh some flowers growing out in the yard, and you want to brighten up the room. You might say, well, I think I'll go out in the yard and
533:  Pick me some flowers.
Interviewer:  Okay. And this thing that a child plays with, you say, it's a. Or a child, he's got a room full of
533:  Toys?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
533:  Play pretties?
Interviewer:  Sure.
533:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. If I have something that you need right now, you'd say, "Give me that
533:  Hand it to me.
Interviewer:  Or
533:  Give me that.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
533:  #2 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  Alright, but already
533:  You already gave it to me.
Interviewer:  And I have
533:  Given it to me.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh, might say, you might get outside well, I'm glad I got my umbrella with me because I hadn't gone a block before it
533:  Started raining.
Interviewer:  Started to rain.
533:  Started to rain.
Interviewer:  Okay.
533:  Began.
Interviewer:  Alright. It has
533:  It has begun to rain.
Interviewer:  And it might
533:  Might begin to rain again.
Interviewer:  Okay.
533:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Uh, if you need to get somewhere in a hurry, you don't just walk, you begin to
533:  Run.
Interviewer:  Yeah, yesterday you
533:  Ran.
Interviewer:  And have
533:  Run.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh, if you don't know where somebody is from, you might ask, well, where does he
533:  Where does he live?
Interviewer:  Or what is he from? It's
533:  Where's he come from? Not where does he hail from?
Interviewer:  Or I come from. #1 {NW} #
533:  #2 He hail everywhere he is, you know? # He hail all over.
Interviewer:  Right. And the the past form is that yesterday
533:  He came from town, yeah.
Interviewer:  And he has
533:  He has come a lot of time.
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh, if you're trying to get through somewhere, somebody might tell you, well, the highway department's got all their machinery out there, and they got the road all
533:  Blocked.
Interviewer:  Well, if they're working on it.
533:  Got it all torn up.
Interviewer:  Sure.
533:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Uh, if you get your wife a bracelet for her birthday, and she's just sitting there looking at it, you might say, well, don't just look at it. Go ahead and
533:  Try it on.
Interviewer:  Or
533:  Put it on.
Interviewer:  Okay.
533:  Used to have a guy here who said putt.
Interviewer:  Putt it on?
533:  Yeah, he was from Cave City, Arkansas. {NS} I'm gonna putt that thing on the floor.
Interviewer:  Right. Talking about unusual things that you've heard, you might say, well, I never heard of of
533:  I never heard of that. No such things.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
533:  Never heard of such.
Interviewer:  Uh, somebody who did something say hit a {X} with it. Say, he didn't do that wasn't an accident. He did that
533:  He done it on purpose.
Interviewer:  #1 Right. #
533:  #2 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  Correct. Uh, if you need to know something, I might tell you, well, I can't help it. You better go
533:  Check with somebody else. Ask him.
Interviewer:  Right, and yesterday you
533:  Asked him.
Interviewer:  And you have
533:  Asked him.
Interviewer:  Okay.
533:  Blacks say ax.
Interviewer:  Right.
533:  I don't know why. #1 Ax. #
Interviewer:  #2 I don't either. # If uh a couple of boys get irritated with each other, they might begin to
533:  Start a fight.
Interviewer:  Or they would each other.
533:  Hit each other? Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Well, same word except for form uh
533:  #1 Hitting? #
Interviewer:  #2 Start a fight. # They would each other. {NW}
533:  Oh, started to hit each other, right?
Interviewer:  Fight each other.
533:  Yeah, started to fight each other. Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  And yesterday they
533:  Mm. Started a fight.
Interviewer:  Or yesterday they
533:  Uh. Fought, yeah. I see what you mean. #1 Mm-hmm. #
Interviewer:  #2 And they have #
533:  They have fought. Like that.
Interviewer:  Uh, take a knife and you do that to somebody, you did what to 'em?
533:  Stab him.
Interviewer:  Any particular names for big knives?
533:  Well, you got a like a buoy knife.
Interviewer:  Hmm.
533:  Jack knife. Scalp knife. You know, hunting knife.
Interviewer:  Yes. Okay. Say if a teacher comes in the room, and there are a lot of uh peculiar pictures on the board in her likeness, she might turn around to the class and say, who
533:  Who done this? Who drew this? Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you need to get a heavy weight up on the roof of a house, you might rig up a block and tackle and caught yourself doing what to get it up there? You got a
533:  Pulley?
Interviewer:  Up there.
533:  Pull it?
Interviewer:  Okay. Or?
533:  Hoist it?
Interviewer:  Sure.
533:  Heist it up.
Interviewer:  Right. Okay. Uh, this expression uh might say, sometimes you feel you get your good luck just a little bit at a time, but it seems your bad luck comes
533:  All comes at the same time.
Interviewer:  Or it comes
533:  In bunches.
Interviewer:  Or all at
533:  All at once. #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah. # Uh, alright. Okay, just for pronunciation, would you count for me kinda slowly from one to fourteen?
533:  One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve. Thirteen. Fourteen.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the number after nineteen?
533:  Twenty.
Interviewer:  And after twenty-six?
533:  Twenty-seven.
Interviewer:  After twenty-nine?
533:  Thirty.
Interviewer:  After thirty-nine?
533:  Forty.
Interviewer:  And after sixty-nine?
533:  Seventy.
Interviewer:  And after ninety-nine?
533:  One hundred.
Interviewer:  After nine-hundred and ninety-nine?
533:  A thousand.
Interviewer:  Okay, and ten times a hundred thousand one
533:  Million.
Interviewer:  Okay. The day of the months that day of the month that the bills are due, that's usually
533:  Uh, the first.
Interviewer:  And after that it's the
533:  Second. And third. Fourth. Fifth. Sixth. Seventh. Eighth. Ninth. Tenth.
Interviewer:  Okay.
533:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  And
533:  Must have been looking for seventy.
Interviewer:  {NW}
533:  Seventy. I heard a national newscaster the other day saying nineteen seventy-six.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
533:  S-E-H-E-N-D-Y. Seventy.
Interviewer:  It stands out.
533:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the months of the year?
533:  January. February. March. April. May. June. July. August. September. October. November. December.
Interviewer:  Okay.
533:  And national newscasters blow February, too. I don't know why they can't say February.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
533:  But anyway.
Interviewer:  And the days of the week.
533:  Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Saturday. And Sunday.
Interviewer:  Ever heard Sunday called anything else around here?
533:  The Sabbath.
Interviewer:  #1 What does that mean? #
533:  #2 Mm-hmm. # Uh. The holy day, you know? Day to go to church. And Saturday is sometimes called Saturday.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
533:  Mm-hmm. Saturday. Uh-huh. {X}