595:  {NS} there's rubber boots I reckon that's all {NW}
Interviewer:  well the thing that would come up {NS}
595:  overalls
Interviewer:  okay {NS} say if you went outside without your coat {NS}
595:  probably is too loud {NS}
Interviewer:  and {NS} it was getting cold and you wanted it you'd ask someone would you go inside and
595:  get my coat
Interviewer:  or what it to me?
595:  bring it to me
Interviewer:  and say you say so he went in and
595:  got it
Interviewer:  and
595:  brought it to me
Interviewer:  and say here I have {NS} what you your coat?
595:  brought your coat {NS}
Interviewer:  and you say that coat won't fit this year, but last year it
595:  did
Interviewer:  it what perfectly
595:  fit {NS}
Interviewer:  and {NW} say {NS} a matching coat and pants would be called a
595:  suit
Interviewer:  and if you had just bought it it would be a brand
595:  new suit
Interviewer:  what's that?
595:  brand new suit
Interviewer:  okay
Aux:  {NW}
Interviewer:  #1 and something #
595:  #2 Woody # Woody Woody Woody Woody {NW} be quiet {NS}
Interviewer:  If you stuck a lot of things in your pockets it makes them {NS} makes them what out?
595:  bulge {NW}
Interviewer:  and you say well that shirt used to fit me until I washed it and it
595:  shrunk {NS}
Interviewer:  and seems like every shirt I washed recently has {NS}
595:  shrunken {NS}
Interviewer:  but I hope this new shirt won't
595:  shrink {NS}
Interviewer:  and {NS} if a woman likes to put on good clothes you'd say she likes to {NS}
595:  dress up
Interviewer:  okay what if she liked would you say that about a man? {NS} he likes to dress up? {NS}
595:  well I don't know {NS}
Interviewer:  does that sound funny to say that? {NS}
595:  well not necessarily {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
595:  they could dress up sometimes I reckon
Interviewer:  uh-huh
595:  {NW}
Interviewer:  What about a woman's likes to stand in front of a mirror and you know
595:  preen and primp {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh Would you say that about a man? {NS}
595:  I wouldn't think so
Interviewer:  uh-huh it sounds a little sissy
595:  #1 uh-huh #
Interviewer:  #2 or something # {NS} What about something that a woman might wear around her wrist? {NS}
595:  a watch or bracelet
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} and say if you have a lot of little things strung up together {NW} put around your neck as an ornament you'd call that a
595:  necklace
Interviewer:  or a {NS}
595:  pendant
Interviewer:  or if it was beads you'd call it a {NS} what of beads {NS}
595:  string {NS}
Interviewer:  huh?
595:  string of beads I reckon
Interviewer:  okay {NS} and something that men used to wear to hold up their pants {NS}
595:  suspenders
Interviewer:  Any other name for that? {NS}
595:  some call them galluses
Interviewer:  okay {NW} and {NS} Something you'd hold over you when it rains
595:  an umbrella {NS}
Interviewer:  and something that um people used to carry their money in {NS}
595:  wallet and billfold {NS}
Interviewer:  What about a long time ago? little leather thing {NS} that had a clasp on it {NS}
595:  I don't know {NS} change would be change purse?
Interviewer:  okay {NS} and the last thing you put on a bed the real fancy cover {NS}
595:  would be the spread or the coverlet {NS}
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} What about um {NS} what you {NS} put on the bed for warmth? {NS}
595:  well a blanket {NW} quilts
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS}
595:  Now I have made a few quilts {NW}
Interviewer:  Do you still make them?
595:  {NW} Every now and then I will uh-huh {NS} have something to do
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What about the thing you put your head on that's the
595:  That's the pillow.
Aux:  Can I go outside just for a few minutes?
595:  You can go out there and see the puppies for just about that long but now don't stay here #1 because it's cold out there #
Aux:  #2 {X} # {X} I already know everything you tell me {NS}
Interviewer:  Did you ever see anything um about {NS} twice as long as a pillow {NS}
595:  mm-mm I don't reckon {NS}
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} What about um something {NS} say if you have a lot of company and you didn't have enough beds for the children you might make a?
595:  pallet
Interviewer:  okay {NS} and {NS} If you raised a lot of corn, you'd say this year we raised a big?
595:  crop {NW}
Interviewer:  What's that?
595:  A big crop of corn
Interviewer:  uh-huh You'd say we expect a big crop from that field because the soil is very {NS}
595:  We'd always call it rich soil.
Interviewer:  Or another word meaning rich you'd say the soil is very {NS} {NW}
595:  well fertile
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What different types of land do you have? {NS}
595:  Now I wouldn't know about that. it's just {NS} poor soil and fertile soil
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
595:  #2 is all I know #
Interviewer:  {NS} {NW} well the land along a stream or river that's overflowed and grow {X} you'd call that {NS}
595:  I don't know
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
Aux:  {D: what all do I have to put on grandma?}
595:  Well sugar you just can't go out there it's cold #1 you stay in here #
Interviewer:  #2 you want him to wear this # sweatshirt? {NS}
595:  He can put Grandma's sweater on in there he wore it yesterday and then last night {NS} We just going to have to get on that momma about being careless about your clothes {NS} It was hot when she brought him down here and {NS} turned all cold and he hasn't been home since the day before yesterday {NS} he came in {D:there thinking} that you were here {NS}
Interviewer:  hmm {NS} that was Thursday then
595:  mm-hmm {NS}
Aux:  Grandma {X} {NS} {NW}
595:  Now don't stay out there long now {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of low land or bond land or? {X}
595:  uh-huh yeah {NS} {D:low line} {D:airiers}
Interviewer:  uh-huh
595:  low line {D: airiers} pastures {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} What about uh a place that {NS} it's got water standing on it {NS}
595:  We call those sloughs
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
595:  I think Belinda has gone out there without a sleeve on too {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um What's a slough like now? {NS}
595:  Well now don't think I'd know say how it's be a place low line place that would never dry up
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} What about a a place that's kind of wet that has trees growing in it? {NS}
595:  That's a swamp
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} and um {NS} place that field that might be real good for grass, but not much else {NS} good for grazing cattle {NS}
595:  Well now I don't know if I know what that's called or not {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of a {D:mannow} or {NS} um {NS}
595:  yeah {NS} a {D:mannow} {X} #1 uh-huh #
Interviewer:  #2 What's a #
595:  {NS} grazing area
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} What different kinds of soil are there around here? {NS}
595:  I don't know about that. {NS}
Interviewer:  well say that real sticky {NS} kind of soil {NS}
595:  Yeah but I don't know what you'd call
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
595:  #2 it #
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear of prairie or um gumbo or buckshot? {NS}
595:  mm-hmm The buckshot now we have that down in the swamp
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
595:  here {NS}
Interviewer:  What's buckshot like?
595:  it's just old {NS} sticky mud
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
595:  and the more you walk on it, the taller you get {NW} It will stick to your shoes and or your feet and it just won't come off
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
595:  You can't shake it off It would stick You walk along the farther you walk, the taller you get {NW}
Interviewer:  Is it um good for planting? {NS}
595:  huh-uh {NS}
Interviewer:  What is good for planting? {NS}
595:  Oh I really don't know. {NS} Fertile soil would be about all I know to call it.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} say if you had some land that was a little swampy to get the water off you'd say you had to? {NS}
595:  Drain it.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the things that you'd dig {NS} to drain that water off {NS}
595:  Well we'd call them ditches.
Interviewer:  okay {NS} and say if there had been a heavy rain {NS} fall and the water had cut out a little? {NS}
595:  trench
Interviewer:  okay {NS} is that what you'd call it? A trench?
595:  uh-huh {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um something along the edge of the road to carry the water off? {NS}
595:  That's the road ditches.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} say if if the rain had washed out a big area real wide and deep {NS} big enough for you to get down in there just {NS} just a
595:  Well now I don't know that I know what you would call that. well we'd just say it washed out a big hole
Interviewer:  mm-hmm I was thinking something like gully or ravine or {NS}
595:  Yeah a gully
Interviewer:  mm-hmm #1 What's a gully? #
595:  #2 {NW} # {NS} It's just a big wash out
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} um {NS} Something say if you had some water flowing along you'd call that a? {NS}
595:  stream
Interviewer:  okay what about something um {NS} pretty big that would be a? {NS}
595:  Well we call those creeks.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm What about something smaller than a creek? {NS}
595:  a {D:branch}
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
595:  that's what we call them here. {NS}
Interviewer:  Anything smaller than a branch? {NS}
595:  mm-mm I don't {D:reckon you} just a ditch I reckon
Interviewer:  #1 uh-huh #
595:  #2 is # Is what we'd call them. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um bigger than a creek that'd be a?
595:  Be the river wouldn't it?
Interviewer:  mm-hmm Say if you had a string of water that was flowing along and suddenly {NS} dropped {NS} fell for several feet
595:  a waterfall
Interviewer:  okay {NS} and a place where {NS} boats stop and {D:breaks} unload it that'd be a? {NS}
595:  A dock or a pier {NS}
Interviewer:  What's the difference? {NS}
595:  I don't know. {NW} I don't know. unless they have put ramps out in the water
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} um {NS} What are some of the streams or rivers in this area? {NS}
595:  Well what do you mean, the names?
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
595:  What they call some one there's one between here and Natchez now they call they call it Cold's Creek
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
595:  and it forks and they got {NS} the North fork and the South fork
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS}
595:  Let me see is that the South fork? {NS} I think so, but I'm not sure I don't pay it no mind #1 no more #
Interviewer:  #2 mm-hmm # {NS} What else besides Cold's Creek? {NS}
595:  Well there's a Dabs Creek down near Rodney {NS}
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
595:  {NS} and a little bigger stream {NS} up in Port Gibson they call that by a pier it's {NS}
Aux:  {X}
595:  mm-hmm {NS}
Interviewer:  They call it what?
595:  #1 Big {D:pa} pier and little {D:pa} pier #
Aux:  #2 Big {D:pa} pier and little {D:pa} pier #
Interviewer:  {NS} little
595:  by pier bayou
Interviewer:  What's a bayou? {NS}
595:  Well it's a little it's a {D:string} of water just a little bit bigger than a creek but it's not river size
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS}
595:  I guess you could call it a pretty good sized creek
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS}
595:  but outside of that {NS}
Interviewer:  What river do these {NS} streams flow into?
595:  Mississippi {NS}
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} all all of them around here
595:  #1 uh-huh #
Interviewer:  #2 go to # the Mississippi?
595:  yeah {NS}
Interviewer:  And a small rise in land would be called a? {NS} When the land goes up {NS} be a little
595:  uh dune wouldn't it? {NS}
Interviewer:  anything else? {NS}
595:  a hill is all I know
Interviewer:  uh-huh what's the difference between a dune and a hill?
595:  I don't know {NS}
Interviewer:  Did do people use the word dune around here?
595:  uh-uh not much
Interviewer:  uh-huh
595:  seldom ever hear it {NS}
Interviewer:  What about um {NS} To open the door you'd take hold of the door
595:  knob {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever use that word knob talking about land? {NS}
595:  huh-uh {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 What about um #
595:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  {NS} something a lot bigger than a hill that'd be a? {NS}
595:  a mountain {NS} would that be what it is? {NS}
Interviewer:  and uh rock you saw in a mountain that drops off real sharp {NS}
595:  I don't know {NS}
Interviewer:  Well say somebody jumped over the {NS} jumped off the {NS} Like it comes out and sort of hangs over
595:  oh {NW} a ledge I reckon is what that would be
Interviewer:  #1 okay #
Aux:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  What about um {NS} say um on television there's gun fighters for every man they kill they'd cut a little {NS}
595:  notch in your gun
Interviewer:  okay {NS} What different types of um {NS} roads do you have around here? {NS}
595:  Well black top and gravel {NS}
Interviewer:  What's the black top made out of?
595:  tar
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
595:  and what else is it? shell I reckon slag {NS} slag I think is what it is
Interviewer:  mm-hmm What about the kind of white hard paved road? that'd be a? {NS}
595:  concrete wouldn't it?
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
595:  I really don't know I guess that's what it would be concrete
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} And a little road that goes off the main road would be a? {NS}
595:  That would be the gravel road I reckon.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} What if it don't even have gravel on it? it'd be a?
595:  Be a dirt road
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} say um the road that turns off the public road and goes up to a man's {NS} um {NS} house {NS} that's be his?
595:  private driveway
Interviewer:  okay {NS} and a road that has a {NS} trees or a fence on both sides of it {NS}
595:  Wouldn't they call that a lane?
Interviewer:  okay {NS} What about um {NS} something along the side of the street for people to walk on?
595:  sidewalk {NS}
Interviewer:  and the strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street {NS} Do you ever hear a name for that?
595:  mm well {NW} we always called it the median
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
595:  is that what it is?
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} Did you ever hear of #1 another #
595:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  name for sidewalk? {NS}
595:  mm-mm I don't reckon so
Interviewer:  mm-hmm {NS} say um {NS} If you went up to someone's house and knocked on the door and no one answered you'd say well I guess he's not
595:  here or home
Interviewer:  huh?
595:  not home
Interviewer:  uh-huh
595:  or would be out
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} and you'd say someone was walking your direction you'd say he's coming straight {NS}
595:  toward me {NS}
Interviewer:  and if you went into town and happened to see a friend of yours that you hadn't {NS} counted on seeing you'd say this morning I just happened to run {NS}
595:  into so-and-so
Interviewer:  okay {NS} and if a child is given the same name that her mother has you'd say they named the child {NS}
595:  I don't know what that would be that
Interviewer:  what her mother? they named her {NS}
595:  I don't know what you'd call that. {NS}
Interviewer:  well say if um {NS} if you were given the same name that {NS} you know your {NS} your mother's sister had you'd say that you were named {NS}
595:  after so-and-so
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} and if you were walking along {NS} and an animal jumped out and scared you you'd say I picked up a {NS} what?
595:  a rock
Interviewer:  and I
595:  threw it {NS}
Interviewer:  any other thing you'd say besides I threw it? {NS}
595:  I don't believe I would {NS}
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
595:  I'd say I threw it at him #1 {NW} #
Interviewer:  #2 Do you ever hear of # chunked or flung it at him?
595:  oh yeah {NS} chunked {NW}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NW}
595:  That wouldn't sound right I guess it would be though {NS}
Interviewer:  would would you ever use the work chunked?
595:  I might would {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} what about um {NS} something that people drink for breakfast {NS}
595:  coffee {NS}
Interviewer:  okay {NS} and if you wanted some coffee but there weren't any ready you'd say I guess I have to go
595:  and make some {NS}
Interviewer:  and tell me about putting milk in your coffee you'd say some people like it {NS}
595:  cream and some don't
Interviewer:  or some people like talking about milk you'd say some people like their coffee {NS}
595:  straight {NS}
Interviewer:  okay what's straight coffee?
595:  just {NS} no sides {NS} of cream and sugar
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} just {D:no} {NS}
595:  no cream and sugar
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} any other name for straight coffee? {NS}
595:  Uh I I don't know {NS}
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear of
595:  #1 black #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
595:  #1 black coffee #
Interviewer:  #2 uh-huh # What about barefooted? Drinking coffee barefooted? Did you ever hear that?
595:  huh-uh {NS} I sure haven't
Interviewer:  uh-huh
595:  {NW} That's a new one {NS}
Interviewer:  say if if you like um {NS} you say {NS} some people eat corn flakes dry, but most people like them {NS}
595:  With cream and sugar
Interviewer:  or talking about milk you'd say most people like them
Aux:  with milk
Interviewer:  if you don't use if you just have milk you'd say most people like them {NS}
595:  straight {NS} Well I don't know just a which way you want that?
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} Most people like them what milk?
595:  sweetened {NS}
Interviewer:  uh-huh {NS} or if you put milk in them you say you eat them {NS} with
Aux:  milk
595:  hmm? {NW} I don't know what you're trying to get me to say now.
Aux:  I do {NS}
Interviewer:  say if {NS} if you like milk in your hot tea you'd say you drink your tea {NS} how? {NS}
595:  With cream
Interviewer:  okay {NS} and um {NS} you might tell someone now you can eat what's put before you or you can do
595:  without {NS}
Interviewer:  and something that people um {NS} you say this morning I what breakfast at seven o'clock
595:  I ate {NS}
Interviewer:  okay and yesterday at that time I had already
595:  eaten {NS}
Interviewer:  and tomorrow I will
595:  eat {NS}
Interviewer:  and {NS} say if you were real thirsty you might go to the sink and pour yourself a {NS}
595:  glass of water or a drink
Interviewer:  okay and you'd say the glass fell off the sink and
595:  broke
Interviewer:  so somebody has {NS}
595:  broken the glass
Interviewer:  okay but I didn't mean to
595:  break it {NS}
Interviewer:  and um {NS} If you were real thirsty you might say I what two glasses?
595:  drank {NS}
Interviewer:  and you'd ask me, how much have you?
595:  drunk {NS}
Interviewer:  and you'd say we certainly do {NS}
595:  drink
Interviewer:  okay {NS} and um
595:  shh
Interviewer:  something that people eat for breakfast made out of um {NS} corn {NS} ground up {NS}
595:  pancakes? {NS}
Interviewer:  Well something that's white {NS} they eat along with eggs or {NS}
595:  bread {NS}
Interviewer:  okay what else do you have?
595:  biscuit
Interviewer:  uh-huh
595:  I make my biscuits {NW} and we have bread white? {NS}
Interviewer:  Well it's made out of ground up corn it's ground {NS} real fine
595:  oh grits
Interviewer:  uh-huh
595:  Is that what? {NS}
Interviewer:  #1 yeah that's what I was thinking of. #
595:  #2 {D:you were talking about?} #
Interviewer:  {NS}
595:  {NW}
Interviewer:  What about something else made out of corn? {NS} it's {NS} bleached um {NS} you soak it in lye water {NS}
595:  hominy {NS}
Interviewer:  okay
595:  Is that what you want? {NW}
Interviewer:  and something that um {NS} white is you don't eat it for breakfast, but it's white, it's made from a grain, and it grows down the delta or in wet places. {NS}
595:  rice
Interviewer:  okay {NS} and {NS} talking about distance you'd say well I don't know exactly how far it is, but it's just a {NS}
595:  maybe short way or a short distance
Interviewer:  okay and if you've been traveling and still have about five hundred miles to go you'd say you still had a {NS}
595:  a long way to go {NS}
Interviewer:  and if something was real common and you didn't have to look for it in a special place {NS} you'd say, "oh you can find that just about"
595:  anywhere {NS}
Interviewer:  and if someone slipped and fell this way you'd say he fell over
595:  backward {NS}
Interviewer:  and this way would be {NW} {NS}