579: I could start at Jackson Street on the north end and go out to Harris Street on the south end one side and then the other and record a great many things about people I knew who lived in those houses I said- I said you might needed {X} someday when somebody dies or gets famous. he said yes we'd like to have that so I said I'll send Gordon {B} up there with a recording tape. so I- I did just that and some day they may find it useful because I couldn't think of another person my age who doesn't have a soft or anything arteries in the brain or just plain senile Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 579: and I hope it doesn't prove useful someday. Interviewer: very interesting I um you stay overnight in a strange town at a 579: hotel. Interviewer: okay and if you had to go to the hospital the woman that would look after you would be called a 579: nurse I had 'em bout three thousand dollars worth Interviewer: {NW} um that's when you were in that convalescent home after your fall? 579: let's see I went to the hospital on the fourth of July and I had nurses three a day for a long time and then two a day up to the thirty first of August. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 579: thank goodness they had some insurance and good old Medicare. Interviewer: um you catch a train at the 579: depot or station usually depot. Interviewer: or the full name for that would be rail 579: railroad. Interviewer: okay and say if if two streets cross and well I could sort of make a sketch of it um {NS} say if two streets cross and you're on this corner and you want to get over to this corner instead of walking like this and this 579: diagonally across. Interviewer: uh huh is there any expression you can think of to describe movement like that? 579: oh yes uh catty corner. Interviewer: okay how else do you use that word catty cornered? 579: what about it? Interviewer: how how can you give me some more examples of how you'd use catty corner? 579: well that was it you're going in a diagonal direction. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 579: and I don't know how to spelled it well it's cat a cornered or cat uh cornered. Interviewer: mm-hmm. and 579: either one is risky. {NW} Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 579: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: you'd tell the bus driver this next corner is where I want if you were riding a bus you'd say this next corner is 579: is where I get off. Interviewer: okay or where I want 579: want to get off. Interviewer: okay and here in Warren county Vicksburg is the 579: county seat. Interviewer: and the police in the town are supposed to maintain 579: peace. Interviewer: or law 579: well yes maintain the law. Interviewer: what there's an expression for that you know they say if politician who thinks that police should get tougher he'd say that he's for 579: he'd say the police were what? Interviewer: if if someone wanted the police to get tougher they'd say they were for law 579: well I can't conceive of a situation like that it might come up but I I-I've never known of such Interviewer: well I'm talking about order and law and you'd say the um the police in the town are supposed to maintain law 579: enforce the law Interviewer: and talking about order too you'd say 579: law and order both they go together. Interviewer: okay um and before they had the electric chair murderers were 579: hanged. Interviewer: and you'd say the man went out and what himself? 579: the man what out? Interviewer: and 579: hanged himself. Interviewer: and are there any other terms for the civil war? 579: yes the war of the rebellion Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 579: #1 thats the # Interviewer: #2 the thing is # 579: only other one I can think of. Interviewer: do people refer to it as the war of the rebellion? 579: no we just refer many years we refer to it simply as the war that was before world war one Interviewer: {NW} 579: or after that the civil war to be more exact. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. and 579: sometimes referred to by writers as the war between the states. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 579: the most tragic thing that ever befell this country. my goodness. Interviewer: do people around here remember that very much? I mean do they 579: #1 not not # Interviewer: #2 have a # 579: not now they've all died you see that was beginning in eighteen sixty-five remember rightly. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 579: which be uh which would be a hundred and three years ago and there not many left who remember it. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 579: #1 My mother was uh # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # 579: eleven years old no yes eleven years old when Vicksburg was besieged besieged. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 579: {NW} and let's see I think they went out into the county somewhere and it was not as I remember in the path of the union army. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 579: I just don't have much knowledge of that. Interviewer: Does your mother remembers that remember that um being 579: she what? Interviewer: your mother's people lived close enough to Vicksburg so that when the war on Vicksburg came that that they had to to flee? 579: Let's see eighteen sixty-three she was eleven years old they probably lived in town then right around the corner here. {NW} Interviewer: Um these are some names of some states and some cities um the biggest city in this country is in? 579: New York state. Interviewer: Okay and Baltimore is in? 579: Maryland. Interviewer: And what are some names of some of the um the states in in the south or the states around here? 579: Kentucky's on the border Missouri's on the border there are Virginia the Carolinas Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Tennessee Interviewer: and Little Rock is the capitol- 579: Arkansas capitol of Arkansas yes abouts forget about Arkansas Texas oh well that was on the other side of the river but they were really in the south. Interviewer: mm-hmm and Tulsa is in? 579: Oklahoma. Interviewer: and the biggest city in Maryland is? 579: Baltimore. Interviewer: and the capitol of the United States is? 579: Washington District of Columbia. Interviewer: Okay how's that usually referred to as? 579: Washington D.C. Interviewer: Okay and the capitol of um or the biggest city in Missouri? 579: St. Louis. Interviewer: And the old seaport in South Carolina? 579: Charleston. Interviewer: and 579: charming city have you ever been there? Interviewer: no I haven't 579: oh you must go there sometime been there's not good English Interviewer: been there's what? 579: have you ever been there no have you ever visited there have gone there? Interviewer: do you still have relatives living there? 579: no they left there about eighteen fifty eighteen fifty. Interviewer: Mm-hmm 579: my father and his family. Interviewer: you don't have any cousins or distant relatives that you know of there? 579: not that I know of. Interviewer: um and the big city in Illinois? 579: Chicago of course. Interviewer: and what are some of the bigger cities in Alabama? 579: Birmingham Mobile they're the largest two. Interviewer: and the capitol? 579: Montgomery. Interviewer: and the city up in the mountains in North Carolina? 579: Asheville. Interviewer: and what are some of the cities in Tennessee? 579: Memphis Nashville Jackson that's not so very large uh Chattanooga. Interviewer: and in East Tennessee in the mountains? 579: east Tennessee Knoxville. Interviewer: okay. 579: about to forget that. Interviewer: and some of the cities in Georgia? 579: Atlanta Macon Savannah Interviewer: and uh the city where um Fort Benning is near? 579: oh yes Fort Benning that's a military establishment exclusively isn't it Interviewer: uh huh what what city is that near or town? 579: don't know Columbus? Interviewer: okay and the big city in Southern Ohio? 579: Cleveland is the northern part of Ohio Columbus Akron Interviewer: and Cin- Cin- the the city on the Ohio River 579: oh Cincinnati. Interviewer: and the biggest city in Kentucky? 579: Louisville. Interviewer: and the biggest city in Louisiana? 579: New Orleans. Interviewer: and the capitol? 579: Baton Rouge. Interviewer: and um these are some countries um Belfast is in? 579: Ireland. Interviewer: and Paris is in? 579: France. Interviewer: and Moscow is in? 579: huh? Interviewer: Moscow. 579: Russia they can have it. {NW} Interviewer: have you ever been to Russia? 579: no and I won't go. the first thing you knew you'd be aiming a camera at somebody and there'd be a hand on your shoulder and you'd be put in jail. no confidence in them. Interviewer: I guess you've known people who have gone who didn't 579: what? Interviewer: I guess you've known people who have gone and had bad 579: oh yes I know a number of persons who been there. I see from a friend a newspaper clipping and it had a long picture taken with two or three cameras and the pieces put together showing uh Moscow and the river what's that river uh I forget Moscow River maybe and I thought well now I wonder if his guide saw him taking these pictures or how he got by with it no indeed they may have Russia I don't want to go there. Interviewer: {NW} and um say if someone asked you to go with them somewhere and you're not sure you want to you'd say well I don't know what I want to go or not. 579: I would rather that indecisive I'd say I don't want to go there or I want to go there I'd like to go there. Interviewer: okay 579: I wouldn't be indecisive about it I'd I know what I feel about certain places Interviewer: uh huh 579: Spain for one the treatment they accorded Protestants and pastors were simply barbarous had no use for that country. Interviewer: I've heard that they've been pretty tough on young Americans going there too. 579: I don't know haven't heard anything about that but the attitude towards pr- toward Protestants has relaxed a great deal. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 579: and a good many of them visit Spain. Interviewer: mm-hmm say um if you want someone to to go with you somewhere you might say well I want to go what he goes? 579: I would say yes or no. Interviewer: well if you want him to go with you you might say well I won't go what he goes. 579: I I won't go what? Interviewer: If you want him to go with you you'd say well I'm not going what he goes too. would you say I'm not going without he goes or lessen he goes or 'un- 579: #1 I don't # Interviewer: #2 less he # 579: quite understand your question. you you ask a person whether he would like to go to such a place with you? Interviewer: no um if you're not going some place um by yourself if you want somebody else to go with you you might say 579: let's go to England. Interviewer: or you might say well I won't go what you go 579: unless you go. Interviewer: okay and you might say well I had a choice of two things and at first I was going to do this but then I decided to do that what of this I decided I'd do that and 579: instead of the other or in preference to the other. Interviewer: and one of the largest Protestant churches in the south is the? 579: in the south {NW} I don't know. Interviewer: well what are some there's a methodist church and 579: oh you mean the denomination? Interviewer: {NW} 579: baptists. Interviewer: okay and if two people become members you'd say they 579: immersed. Interviewer: or they what the church 579: uh baptized. what? Interviewer: or they become members of the church you say they they what the 579: I just say become members of or joined. Interviewer: okay and you go to church to pray to? 579: God Interviewer: and the choir and the organist provide the? 579: music Interviewer: and the enemy of God is called the? 579: the what? Interviewer: the enemy of god is called the? 579: the devil or Satan. Interviewer: okay what would you tell children who was gonna come get 'em if they didn't behave? 579: what if they had children what? Interviewer: what what would people tell children was gonna come get 'em if they didn't behave? 579: you behaved very badly you were bad. Interviewer: or the what's gonna get you if you do that? 579: wh- the what? Interviewer: did you ever hear um a grown person tell a child if you do that the devil will get y 579: oh yes yes Interviewer: would they say the devil or? 579: yes wouldn't say a Satan they'd say the devil. Interviewer: uh huh what about the bad man or the boogerman? 579: I think the boogerman's generally for just some imaginary evil person in the dark. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 579: but uh sometimes they would say the bad man but usually the devil. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 579: there's seldom Satan. Interviewer: what would people think they'd see around a graveyard at night? 579: what do people think of what? Interviewer: they see around a graveyard at night. 579: they would think that you might be ghoul g h o u l Interviewer: mm-hmm 579: or I don't know what else they'd think up to some mischief. Interviewer: uh huh and a house that people are scared to go in? 579: a haunted house. Interviewer: what would people see in a haunted or think they'd they would see in a haunted house? 579: ghosts. Interviewer: okay 579: or as the colored folks say ghosties. Interviewer: okay. and you might tell someone well you better put a sweater on it's not really cold outside but it's 579: it's chilly Interviewer: or it's getting what chilly? 579: what? Interviewer: would you say it's getting sort of chilly or kind of chilly? 579: you might either one of those or rather Interviewer: okay 579: rather chilly. Interviewer: and 579: or quite quite chilly. Interviewer: mm-hmm if you uh what would you say to a friend that you hadn't seen in a long time? how would you express your feelings about seeing 'em? 579: glad to see you. Interviewer: okay would you ever say proud to see you? 579: no I don't. {X} know of any persons who do. Interviewer: uh huh say if someone had about a thousand acres of land you'd say he had a what of land? he had a 579: well down here we might refer to that many acres as a plantation not a farm but a plantation. Interviewer: mm-hmm well would you ever say he had a good deal of land or a right smart of land? 579: not right smart, not educated persons. a good deal of land. Interviewer: mm-hmm 579: uh a great many acres or a large plantation. Interviewer: mm-hmm but uneducated people refer to it as a right smart? 579: yes mainly colored folks. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 579: this here young lady how much more of this is there? Interviewer: it shouldn't take more than about thirty minutes more at most it's not much more. 579: heavens it's ten minutes after twelve alright let's go. Interviewer: okay um in when a friend of yours says good morning what might you ask 'em then? 579: how much what? Interviewer: when a friend of yours tells you good morning what might you ask him then? if you're asking him about his health 579: oh it's just a greeting. Interviewer: what would you ask him then? 579: how are you feeling? Interviewer: okay and when you're introduced to a stranger is there anything you'd ask him? 579: glad to meet you happy to know you. Interviewer: okay. 579: usually the first one. Interviewer: mm-hmm and if some people were leaving your house you might say well I hope I see you? 579: soon a- again soon. Interviewer: okay and how do you greet someone around December twenty fifth? 579: {NW} that's easy Merry Christmas. Interviewer: okay any other expression you've ever heard? 579: no might say happy Christmas. Interviewer: what about Christmas gift? 579: that goes back to the negroes of s eighty years ago. they would be expecting a handout and they'd see a white person and hold out a hand say Christmas gift. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 579: and generally coin or something was forthcoming that's not done much now. Interviewer: what do you say on the first of January? 579: happy new year. Interviewer: did you ever hear new years gift? 579: no Interviewer: mm-hmm and you'd say I have to go downtown to do some? 579: {X} uh shopping. Interviewer: okay and say if you had just bought something you'd say the storekeeper took out a piece of paper and? 579: wrapped it up. Interviewer: and when I got home I 579: unwrapped it. Interviewer: and if you had to sell something for less than you paid for it you'd say you have to sell it at a? 579: at a loss. Interviewer: and if you like something but don't have enough money for it you'd say well I like it but it? 579: I can't afford it. Interviewer: because it what too much? 579: cost too much. Interviewer: and on the first of the month the bill is? when it's time to pay your bill you say the bill is? 579: mighty big. Interviewer: or it's it's time to pay it you'd say it's? 579: it's due now. Interviewer: okay and if you belong to a club you have to pay your? 579: dues. Interviewer: and if you don't have any money you could try to go to a bank and? 579: borrow. Interviewer: and you say he ran down the springboard and what into the water? 579: dived some people say dove which is ridiculous. Interviewer: uh huh what about um you say several children have already? 579: dived. Interviewer: uh huh but I was to scared to? 579: dive that's me. Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 579: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: {NW} and when you dive in and hit the water flat you call that a? 579: belly buster. Interviewer: okay and you'd say he dived in and what across? 579: well years ago when we were first learning to swim that was called dog dog dog style. Interviewer: mm-hmm 579: but later on they turn on one side and then the other and that's called a cross stroke I believe isn't it? Interviewer: mm-hmm 579: much more efficient. Interviewer: mm-hmm you say he dived in and what across the? 579: swam. Interviewer: what's that? 579: swam. Interviewer: and I have? 579: swum the lake. Interviewer: and someone didn't know how to swim and got in the water you might say that he? 579: might drown. Interviewer: and you say yesterday he? 579: almost drowned. Interviewer: and so if that after he went down the third time you'd say that he had? 579: drowned. Interviewer: and um a child puts his head on the ground then turns a 579: puts his head on the ground. Interviewer: yeah and turns a and rolls on over on puts his head on the ground and then turns a 579: rolls over? Interviewer: uh huh on land not not in the water. 579: I don't quite get that. Interviewer: well a children out playing they'd its uh you put your you squat down you put your head on the ground and then you roll on over you say. 579: oh a somersault. Interviewer: okay and what does a baby do before it can walk? 579: crawls. Interviewer: and you'd say that would be a hard mountain to? 579: climb. Interviewer: but last year my neighbor? 579: climbed it. Interviewer: but I have never? 579: climbed it. Interviewer: and you throw a ball and ask somebody to? 579: catch it. Interviewer: and I threw it and he? 579: missed it. Interviewer: or he? 579: caught it. Interviewer: and I've been fishing but I haven't? 579: caught anything. Interviewer: and if you want to get someplace in a hurry instead of walking you might? 579: run. Interviewer: and you say he what all the way home? 579: he what? Interviewer: he what all the way home? 579: ran all the way home. Interviewer: and you say they have what the mile? 579: they have run a mile. Interviewer: and if you didn't know where a man was born you might ask where does he what from? 579: come from. Interviewer: and you'd say he what in on the train last night? 579: {X} he what? Interviewer: he what here on the train last night? using that word you'd say he 579: traveled? Interviewer: or talking about using the word come you'd say he? 579: rode. Interviewer: or using the word come? 579: oh came. Interviewer: okay and you'd say he has what? 579: come. Interviewer: and you say with your eyes you? 579: see. Interviewer: and I what her outside? 579: I what? Interviewer: yesterday I what? 579: saw. Interviewer: and you say we have? 579: seen. Interviewer: and um talking about driving your car you'd say I have never what? 579: driven a car. Interviewer: and say she walked up to the altar and she? 579: to the what? Interviewer: she walked up to the altar and she what down? 579: the author? Interviewer: the altar in a 579: altar oh yes bow down. Interviewer: or got down on her knees she 579: knee kneel Interviewer: okay what was that? 579: kneel? kneel before the altar? Interviewer: okay um and you'd say yesterday she walked up there and she? 579: knelt. Interviewer: and if you were tired you might say I think I'll go over to the couch and? 579: sleep lie down. Interviewer: okay and you say he was really sick all morning he just 579: said what? Interviewer: you say he was really sick he couldn't even sit up just all morning he what? 579: lay down. Interviewer: and tell me about things you see in your sleep you'd say this is what I 579: dreamt. Interviewer: and 579: or dreamed. Interviewer: often when I go to sleep I 579: have dreams. Interviewer: or often when I go to sleep I using it as a verb 579: I dream. Interviewer: but I usually can't remember what I have 579: dreamt I dreamed. Interviewer: and you said I dreamed I was falling and just when I was about to hit the ground I 579: I I dreamed that I was falling? Interviewer: uh huh but 579: just before I hit the ground I woke I woke up. Interviewer: okay and if you bring your foot down heavy on the floor you say you? 579: stamped or stomped. Interviewer: okay and if a boy sees a girl at church and wants to go home with her he might ask may I? 579: go home with you or take you home. Interviewer: okay and you might tell a child now that stove is very hot so. 579: that what? Interviewer: that stove is very hot so 579: don't touch it. Interviewer: and do you remember um oh say if you needed a hammer you might tell someone go what me the hammer? 579: a hammer? Interviewer: uh huh 579: you you would you would say that you needed a hammer to drive a nail is that it? Interviewer: well if if you needed a hammer it was inside the house you'd tell someone go what me the hammer? 579: oh go and bring me a hammer. Interviewer: okay 579: we always say fetch now {X} Interviewer: uh huh um and you remember a game that children used to play where one child would be it and the other children would hide? 579: hide and seek yep. Interviewer: uh huh 579: we had another name for it I've forgotten it. Interviewer: do you ever hear hoop I spy or? 579: yes Interviewer: {D: hoopie high or something} 579: high high spy. I don't remember much about that don't remember if that was the same as hide and seek or not. Interviewer: uh huh what would you call the tree that you could touch and be safe? 579: a tree what? Interviewer: the tree that you could touch and be safe when you were playing. 579: home wasn't it home base? Interviewer: and in football you run towards the? 579: football you just what? Interviewer: in football you run towards the? 579: goal. Interviewer: okay and you say there's no need to hurry if I get there first I'll? 579: wait for you. Interviewer: and if you were about punish a child he might ask you not to punish him just give me another? 579: chance. Interviewer: and if a man was in a very good mood you could say he's in a very good? 579: humor. Interviewer: and you might say well we have termites now but I'm sure the exterminating company will get? 579: rid of them. Interviewer: okay and you say um I don't smoke cigarettes but he? 579: does. Interviewer: and you say 579: and might add he smokes like a furnace Interviewer: {NW} and you say well he didn't know what was going on but he? 579: soon caught on or learned. Interviewer: okay and say a child left his best pencil on the desk and came back and didn't find it there he'd say I bet somebody 579: swiped it or stole it or took it. Interviewer: okay and if a child learns something new like maybe learned to whistle you might ask well who? 579: taught you to whistle. Interviewer: okay. 579: or they might say how to Interviewer: mm-hmm 579: which I don't believe is right. Interviewer: uh huh and say if I ask you when are you going to Miami you might say well as things stand now we're what to go next Wednesday? 579: planning. Interviewer: okay do you ever say we're fixing to go? 579: say what? Interviewer: do you ever hear 579: oh fixing oh yes I don't think that's good English though. Interviewer: what does it mean? 579: preparing. Interviewer: mm-hmm and you'd say I have just what him a letter? 579: have just written him a letter. Interviewer: and yesterday he? 579: wrote me. Interviewer: and tomorrow I will? 579: write him. Interviewer: and you say well I wrote him and it was time I was getting a? 579: reply answer. Interviewer: and you say well um you put the letter in the envelope then you take out your pen and you? 579: address it. Interviewer: do you ever hear back the letter? 579: oh yes but uh oh good gracious that's not used in good circles. Interviewer: who would say that? 579: the persons who hadn't had much education and colored persons. Interviewer: how would they say that? 579: back then ago. Interviewer: uh huh and you said well I was gonna write him but I didn't know his? 579: wha- write him what? Interviewer: I was gonna write him a letter but I didn't know hi 579: his address. Interviewer: and what would you call a child that's always running and telling on other children? 579: tattletale. Interviewer: okay would you use that word about a grown person? 579: {D: either that or tailbarrow.} Interviewer: mm-hmm. and if you wanted to brighten up your room for a party and you had a lot of things growing in your yard you'd go out and? 579: and pick some flowers. Interviewer: okay and something that a child plays with you'd call a? 579: plaything toy. Interviewer: do you ever say play pretty? 579: what? Interviewer: play-pretty. 579: oh I've heard that expression but not having had children around me I don't know exactly what it means. Interviewer: {NW} what what would people say? 579: would a play-pretty be a noun or a an a verb? Interviewer: I think it'd be a noun I don't I don't know is it used as a verb here? 579: it could be I don't know I just don't know that expression at all. Interviewer: uh huh and 579: I think it means a toy. Interviewer: mm-hmm you say that's the book that you what me? 579: sent me. Interviewer: or that you? 579: the book you say loaned. Interviewer: or um for Christmas you? 579: gave me. Interviewer: okay and say if you had borrowed something you say well when I'm finished with it I'll what it back? 579: return it or bring it back. Interviewer: or or when I'm finished with it I'll I'll 579: I bring it back or return it. Interviewer: or another word for that um I'll give? 579: don't know any other. Interviewer: well for Christmas you what each other presents? 579: for for Christmas? Interviewer: well if you heard the expression it's better to what than to receive? 579: give than to receive oh yes. Interviewer: and you say um you have what me that book you have? 579: given me that book Interviewer: okay and you say I'm glad I carried my umbrella cause we hadn't gone half a block when it what to rain? 579: began to rain. Interviewer: and you might ask um what time does the movie? 579: start. Interviewer: or r 579: or begin. Interviewer: and you say it must have already? 579: started. Interviewer: or it must have already? 579: begun. Interviewer: and say you give someone a bracelet and you wanna see how it looks on her you'd say well why don't you? 579: a bracelet you say? Interviewer: uh huh you say why don't you? 579: put some bangles on it. Interviewer: or you wanna? 579: fasten it. Interviewer: you want her to um you wanna see how it looks on her wrist you say well why don't you? 579: look at it? Interviewer: okay the opposite of take it off is? 579: put it on. Interviewer: okay and you say you can't get through there because the highway department's got their machines in and the road's all? 579: blocked. Interviewer: or all tor 579: #1 what? # Interviewer: #2 using the # expression tear up you'd say the road's all? tor 579: torn up torn up. Interviewer: okay and say um that wasn't an accident he did that? 579: accidentally. Interviewer: or he didn't do it accidentally he did it? 579: he was in an accident? Interviewer: no something that someone meant to do. 579: oh Interviewer: it did it intentionally you'd say he did that? 579: accidentally or unintentionally. Interviewer: or if he did it intentionally you'd say he did it? 579: purposely. Interviewer: or would you say a purpose or for purpose or on purpose? 579: on purpose. Interviewer: okay and say if you had a question I might say well I don't know the answer to your question you better go what somebody else? 579: ask someone else. Interviewer: and you'd say so then I went and what somebody else? 579: what? Interviewer: so then I went and 579: asked someone else. Interviewer: and you might say you're the second person who has? 579: told me that or Interviewer: or who has? a 579: asked me that. Interviewer: okay 579: oh {NW} Interviewer: and and you say those little boys like to what each other? 579: fight. Interviewer: okay and every time they met they 579: every time what? Interviewer: every time they met they 579: they fought. Interviewer: and ever since they were small they have? 579: fought. Interviewer: and you say she what him with a big knife she? 579: with a big what? Interviewer: with a big knife she 579: you mean one person striking another? Interviewer: uh huh 579: cut it. Interviewer: or would you say stabbed or stobbed? 579: well colored folks would say stobbed Interviewer: mm-hmm. 579: but you wouldn't have that motion for a stab a stab would be like that. Interviewer: it'd be direct {X} um say if if a teacher went in the classroom and found a picture on the um blackboard she might ask well who? 579: did this or drew this. Interviewer: okay and if you were gonna lift something heavy like a piece of machinery up on a roof you might use pulley blocks and a rope to what? 579: lower it or let it down. Interviewer: or to get it up you'd? 579: oh to get it up Interviewer: uh huh 579: raise it or get it up. Interviewer: would you ever say hoist or heist? 579: we always said heist here which was incorrect. Interviewer: mm-hmm 579: yes we used the expression heist frequently. Interviewer: mm-hmm and now could you start counting slowly? 579: what? Interviewer: would you start counting slowly? 579: doing what slowly? Interviewer: counting. 579: spell that Interviewer: count to 579: oh counting? Interviewer: mm-hmm 579: we would just say counting slowly Interviewer: well would would you do that count to fifteen? 579: I don't wait I don't get your question Interviewer: #1 {NW} # 579: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: would would you count to fifteen now slowly? 579: you want me to count to fifteen slowly? what's the sense of that? Interviewer: well it's just different pronunciations you know? 579: one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen. Interviewer: okay and the number after nineteen? 579: what about nineteen? Interviewer: the number after ninet- 579: twenty. Interviewer: and 579: now this girl out here when she was in England say twenty which is correct t w e n one syllable t y twenty that's correct we don't say that. Interviewer: {NW} 579: we say twenty thirty forty and so on. Interviewer: uh huh and um the number after twenty six is? 579: twenty seven. Interviewer: and after sixty-nine? 579: sixty. Interviewer: sixty-nine is 579: se- seventy. Interviewer: and after ninety-nine? 579: one hundred. Interviewer: and nine hundred ninety-nine? 579: one thousand. Interviewer: and ten times one hundred thousand? 579: one million. Interviewer: and if you had a line of people standing somewhere the person at the head of the line would be called the? 579: if you want to do what? Interviewer: if you had a line of say eleven people the last man in line would be the eleventh man um the man at the head of the line would be the? 579: the first man. Interviewer: okay keep going. 579: what? Interviewer: behind him would be the? 579: the the what? Interviewer: behind him would be? 579: the second man. Interviewer: keep going. 579: what? Interviewer: {NW} 579: third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth eleventh twelfth Interviewer: #1 okay # 579: #2 thirteenth # fourteenth fifteenth. Interviewer: and you say sometimes you feel you get your good luck just a little at a time but your bad luck comes all? 579: at the same time Interviewer: or all you say all at 579: at once. Interviewer: okay and if you said something two times you would be saying it? 579: twice. Interviewer: and would you name the months of the year slowly? 579: January February March April May June July August September October November December. Interviewer: and the days of the week? 579: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday. Interviewer: is there another name for either Saturday or Sunday? 579: other names? Interviewer: uh huh 579: {D: well the color folks call Saturday used to saday.} Interviewer: uh-huh 579: uh the old timers a hundred years ago would refer to Sunday as the sabbath or the sabbath day. Interviewer: mm-hmm 579: but I never hear that now. Interviewer: mm-hmm and if you meet someone during the early part of the day what do you say as a greeting? 579: good morning even though it might be one minute before noon. Interviewer: uh-huh. um if were leaving someone around eleven o clock in the morning would you have a greeting you'd use when you were leaving them? 579: we'll just say m- m- if I'm meeting someone you say? Interviewer: if you're leaving. 579: leaving just goodbye. Interviewer: uh huh 579: any time of day or night. Interviewer: do you ever use the expression good day? 579: there no I never use it or sometimes I get pretty particular to say good forenoon but that s- sounds rather stilted. Interviewer: mm-hmm. 579: or good afternoon is more likely to be used. Interviewer: mm-hmm 579: or good evening Interviewer: mm-hmm what's it- excuse me go ahead 579: or goodnight. Interviewer: uh huh what's the difference between afternoon and evening? 579: that's open to question I should say after six o clock it's evening. Interviewer: mm-hmm and if you had to get up and start work before the sun was shining you'd say we had to get up before? 579: sunrise or sun up. Interviewer: and we worked until? 579: sundown or sunset mostly sundown. Interviewer: and you say this morning I saw the sun? 579: rise. Interviewer: and at six o clock the sun? 579: was up. Interviewer: or the sun did what? 579: rose. Interviewer: and when I got outside the sun had already? 579: risen or set. Interviewer: and you say um today is Thursday so Wednesday was Thursday is today Wednesday was? 579: yesterday. Interviewer: and Friday is? 579: tomorrow. Interviewer: and if someone came here on a Sunday not last Sunday but a week earlier than that you'd say he came here? 579: last Sunday. Interviewer: not last Sunday a week 579: oh Sunday before last. Interviewer: okay and if someone was going to leave on a Sunday not not next Sunday but a week beyond that? 579: Sunday week. Interviewer: okay and if someone stayed from the first to the fifteenth you'd say he stayed about? 579: two weeks or half the month. Interviewer: okay and if you wanted to know the time you'd ask somebody? 579: if you want to what? Interviewer: know the time. 579: what time is it? Interviewer: and you'd look at your? 579: wristwatch. Interviewer: and if it was midway between seven o'clock and eight o'clock you'd say that it was? 579: seven thirty. Interviewer: or half 579: half past seven. Interviewer: and if it was fifteen minutes later than that you? 579: four-oh-eight. Interviewer: and if you had been doing something for a long time you might say I've been doing that for quite a? 579: while. Interviewer: and you'd say nineteen seventy two was last year 579: last year Interviewer: what's that? 579: was last year. Interviewer: nineteen seventy-three is 579: oh nineteen seventy-three is this year. Interviewer: okay and if something happened on this day last year you'd say it happened exactly. 579: a year ago today. Interviewer: okay and if a child's just had his third birthday you'd say that he's? 579: is three years old. Interviewer: okay and talking about how tall rooms are you'd say this room's about maybe fifteen? 579: about how tall what? Interviewer: how how tall this room is you'd say it's about? 579: twelve feet. Interviewer: okay and talking about the weather you'd look up at the sky and say I don't like the looks of those black? 579: clouds. Interviewer: and on a day when the sun was shining and there weren't any clouds you'd say that's a? 579: a beautiful sunshiney day. Interviewer: okay and when it's real cloudy and overcast you'd say it was? 579: threatening. Interviewer: what do you mean threatening? 579: it threatens to rain. Interviewer: uh huh what about a day that's just um the sun is you the sun isn't out you can't it's not shining it. 579: well you might say it was murky or overcast or Interviewer: mm-hmm 579: slightly cloudy. Interviewer: mm-hmm and if it had been cloudy then the clouds pull away? 579: it's cleared off. Interviewer: okay and a whole lot of rain that just suddenly comes down? 579: we call it a downpour or a heavy shower. Interviewer: mm-hmm 579: or thundershower Interviewer: if it's got thunder and lightning in it is it {X}? 579: well wouldn't wouldn't call it a thunder shower unless there was thunder and lightning. Interviewer: mm-hmm is a shower lighter than a downpour? 579: lasts a shorter time and is generally not as heavy there could be light showers and heavy showers. Interviewer: what about something um that just a little rain that just lasts sort of all day? 579: generally called a drizzle. Interviewer: okay what about real fine rain? 579: a mist. Interviewer: okay 579: now that is used as a verb and I doubt whether that's correct it's misting outside. Interviewer: mm-hmm 579: I just don't believe that's a verb. Interviewer: mm-hmm what about if you get up in the morning you can't see across the road you'd say you had a? 579: still dark. Interviewer: or you had a 579: can't see across a Interviewer: yeah because this heavy mist that settled down. 579: oh Interviewer: you'd call that a? 579: across the room you say? Interviewer: no you you can't see outside. 579: oh foggy. Interviewer: or you'd call that a? 579: a fog or a mist. Interviewer: okay and you say all night long the wind? 579: blew. Interviewer: and the wind has what? 579: stopped. Interviewer: or it- it was pretty hard last night but in years past the wind has what harder than that? 579: fallen or decreased. Interviewer: or talking about um the wind blowing you'd say the wind has? 579: died down. Interviewer: okay um and if the wind is died down for if it's getting weaker 579: yes Interviewer: what about if it's getting stronger? 579: rising. Interviewer: okay 579: or getting stronger. Interviewer: and you'd say it started to rain and the wind began to? 579: blow. Interviewer: and the wind has what those clothes off the line? 579: the wind was what? Interviewer: the wind has what those clothes off the line? 579: those last words the wind has what? Interviewer: if you had some clothes out on the 579: oh Interviewer: the wind has what them off? 579: we might say blown them away. Interviewer: okay 579: or that'd be the main thing Interviewer: mm-hmm and if 579: or off the line. Interviewer: mm-hmm if the wind is from this direction you say it's? 579: from the east or east wind. Interviewer: and a wind halfway between south and east you'd call a? 579: southeast. Interviewer: and between south and west? 579: southwest. Interviewer: and east and north? 579: northeast. Interviewer: west and north? 579: northwest. Interviewer: and if no rain comes for weeks and weeks you say you're having a? 579: a drought. Interviewer: okay and if it was um cold enough to kill the tomatoes and flowers you'd say last night we had a? 579: frost. Interviewer: what if it's harder than that you'd call it a? 579: freeze a hard freeze. Interviewer: okay and you'd say um it was so cold last night that the pipes? 579: burst. Interviewer: because the water? 579: froze. Interviewer: and you'd say so you say the pipes have? 579: frozen. Interviewer: or and the wa- and since they? 579: bu and burst Interviewer: they have 579: burst. Interviewer: okay and if it gets much colder the pipes might? 579: freeze again. Interviewer: and 579: burst Interviewer: and you say it was so cold last night that the lake? 579: froze. Interviewer: would you use the same word if it just sort of froze around the edges? 579: no Interviewer: what would you say? 579: we would just say that it froze around the edges. Interviewer: okay well that's all I wanted to ask you.