625:  I'd
Interviewer:  You say to 'em
625:  I'd first say I I I s- good morning. I wish you a merry Christmas.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. And then on the first of the year you'd say
625:  Uh I'd s- same thing I say good good morning I w- I wish you a happy New Year.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh now any way of anyway something you might say uh something you might say by way of appreciation besides thank you? You might say I'm much thank you, I'm much
625:  You don't know how much I thank you for
Interviewer:  Alright
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 did you ever say # I'm much obli-
625:  Much o- much obliged to you.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Yeah. Yeah much obliged to you.{C: mumbles}
Interviewer:  Okay. Now um if you're not sure whether you're gonna have time to do something or not you might say well I'm not sure but I
625:  I I'll try my best.
Interviewer:  Or I think or I s- sp- I What?
625:  I think I'll probably be able to do it.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Um you might say I gotta go downtown to do some do some what?
625:  Some shopping.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh you make a uh a purchase, the storekeeper takes a piece of paper and he
625:  He he and he puts that thing down then total it up. Make a l- make a list of it.
Interviewer:  Yeah but if you're gonna give a gift to somebody the storekeeper takes a piece of paper and he
625:  Oh he wraps it up good.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  And uh when you get home with the package you might you might do what?
625:  I might {NW} fix it up good and
Interviewer:  Okay and you'd give that to that person and he he what's he doing? He 'un- he
625:  He uh open it up and see what's in it.
Interviewer:  Yeah. But in the to open it up you might say he unwra-
625:  Unwrap it.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Now if you had to sell something Mr Moran say at that Full River Grocery for less than you paid for it
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 you had # to sell something for for less than what you paid for wha- you say I had to sell it
625:  At a reduced price.
Interviewer:  Or if it if
625:  #1 Discounted. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
625:  Or discounted.
Interviewer:  Okay. It cost you in other words you had to sell it for less than you
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 paid #
625:  #1 yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # I had to sell it
625:  Well for less than I paid for it.
Interviewer:  Or uh you might say um you were selling it
625:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Below
625:  Below cost.
Interviewer:  Okay. um now you might say uh I admire that or I- I'd like to buy that but I think it it just it's a little too
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 expensive # it it
625:  A little too expensive.
Interviewer:  It uh it co- it what?
625:  It cost too much.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now time to pay the bill {D: what is it} you say the bill comes bill is
625:  It's due the first of the month?
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if you belong to a clu- club what do you have to pay? You have to pay your
625:  Your dues. Monthly. Monthly dues.
Interviewer:  Alright. Now a banker might refuse a loan to somebody he'd say money is just uh these days money sure is
625:  Ha- hard to get hold to. Borrow.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Or borrow.
Interviewer:  Money sure is scar-
625:  sure is scarce
Interviewer:  Okay. Now uh you might say um what would you do if you wanted to get across a lake? You'd take you might run to the edge of the lake and you
625:  You'd have to take a boat to go across it.
Interviewer:  Well if you didn't have a boat you'd say you had to run {X} you'd run to the ledge of the lake and you'd jump and
625:  And and swim {C: telephone ringing} swim across. And s- and s- {NS} and swim a- {NS: telephone ringing}
Interviewer:  Well uh uh
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  a little bit. {X} Hell I don't know any Fr- you know French?
625:  Sure uh {D: studied} French all my life uh she asked me uh uh sh- she asked me I was {D: young I said ah and she had me to} She asked me did it rain the other day, I said "no" I says I g- I told her I had to come there, called her right back. She said alright.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um alright. Now uh if a boy say puts his his head between his legs and jumps off the ground you say he turns a he does a what? He
625:  Tu- a tumbleset.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um okay now you did you ever have uh something you might pay your bill yo- you when somebody paid their bill on time some storekeepers might give 'em a a present? What'd they call that?
625:  Uh
Interviewer:  If you pay your bill on time some storekeepers might might give you a little present for paying it on time.
625:  Yeah uh what uh well they
Interviewer:  They call it a lagniappe
625:  Oh oh lagniappe yeah.
Interviewer:  Yeah?
625:  Yeah. Yeah.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  I I had forgot that been so long since I heard that word forgot about it.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now talking about swimming you'd say the children liked to
625:  Liked to swim.
Interviewer:  And uh in the big creek I have often times I have
625:  Swim in the creek.
Interviewer:  Myself. #1 {X} #
625:  #2 Myself. #
Interviewer:  #1 #
625:  #2 #
Interviewer:  Alright. Uh you might say somebody wanted to get across the river so they they did what? They
625:  They swim across.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now speaking of diving in you might say he ran down the springboard and he
625:  Dived in the water?
Interviewer:  Dived in the water and lots of boys like to like to
625:  Like to dive off of
Interviewer:  #1 Off of that #
625:  #2 springboard. #
Interviewer:  board.
625:  A springboard they call it.
Interviewer:  I've seen nine or ten of 'em
625:  Going right after the other
Interviewer:  #1 dive #
625:  #2 just #
Interviewer:  They like to dive in okay.
625:  I've seen 'em climb about thirty foot up in the tree and and uh and dive uh down in there. {D: Cold}
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  #1 Twenty feet #
Interviewer:  #2 Um #
Interviewer:  If somebody got caught in a whirlpool maybe and they didn't get out you'd say what would happen to 'em? They'd get
625:  {D: They}
Interviewer:  They got what?
625:  They they got caught in the whirlpool.
Interviewer:  {X}
625:  They it's hard for 'em to get out of it.
Interviewer:  Yeah if he didn't get out he just ca- he went down for the third time you'd say he he got
625:  Drownded.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now what does a baby do before it's able to walk? How does it get along the floor? It just
625:  Uh it has to crawl around a little bit, when they get down to where they can
Interviewer:  Okay. Now you might see something up a tree, if you want to take a closer look at it you'd go up to the tree and you'd you'd
625:  Cli- climb up o- climb up a {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. Now um you might say last last week I saw I saw a coon up that tree and I I
625:  I climbed up.
Interviewer:  Climb up to get it?
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  you say but uh that big old tree over there, I've never never in my I've never in my life have I
625:  Been able to been able to pull up.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  Okay. Now um when you walk up to the alter you what do you do? You
625:  They generally hold hands together
Interviewer:  #1 Before you #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  walk up to the altar you say she walked up to the altar and she she what? She walked to the altar and to pray and she
625:  Kneeled down?
Interviewer:  Okay, she kneeled down to pray. Okay. Um if you're feeling tired you might go into your room and you say I'm gonna
625:  Relax. Lay down lay down and
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
625:  #2 relax #
Interviewer:  Okay. Now um you might say somebody if somebody was sick that all morning he'd just he stayed his bed or he
625:  been uh in bed all morning
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 Stayed # sick.
Interviewer:  He lay he just
625:  Laid in bed all day.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  {NW} Now talking about something in your sleep you you you saw in your sleep and you say this is what I
625:  This is what I dreamed?
Interviewer:  Okay. Often when I go to sleep I dream but I can- when I wake up I can't remember what I'd
625:  Uh
Interviewer:  What I dreamed.
625:  Often I I s- I'll dream and after I wake up I can't remember what I dreamed.
Interviewer:  Okay. You might say I dreamed that I was falling but just before I hit the ground I
625:  I woke up.
Interviewer:  Alright.
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Now if you bring your foot down real heavy on the floor like this you'd say you were doing what? You were
625:  Knocking on the floor.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah or #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  s-
625:  #1 {D: you want} #
Interviewer:  #2 you we- #
625:  stomping hard on the floor.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  I'll
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
625:  #2 tell # you what I dreamed. I used to dream but I haven't dreamed in a long time. I dreamed that I'd be out on top of the house trees all around and thought to myself, how in the world am I going to get down? And then this I talked to myself oh yeah I just fly down, I'd get down and I'd fly I'd fly over the people like that and I'd holler and then uh boy that's the easiest sailing thing I ever had in my life. And I'd holler and they'd be looking at me and I'd just fly all over around there. The best feeling I ever had in my life, I had. Been a y- long long time since I dreamed that.
Interviewer:  Really?
625:  Yeah. I'd I
Interviewer:  #1 That's a #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  beautiful feeling to feel like you're flying, isn't it?
625:  I'd I'd realize I was on top of the house talking to myself. How did I get here? And I'd just {D: tuck off and leave} I'd tell you i- if that's the {NW} best feeling in dreaming you'll ever have.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. It is kinda quite a feeling.
625:  Did you ever dream that? {NW}
Interviewer:  I used to dream that I flew, yeah.
625:  You did?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  Oh Lord, that's that's a good feeling.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now to get a boat up on land you'd take a hold of a rope and you you
625:  Pull it up.
Interviewer:  Okay and
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 then # to get it back out in the water you'd take it
625:  You'd push it out.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um if a man meets a girl at a dance and he wants to go home with her he says may I
625:  May I take you home?
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Uh if you carried something a long way you say man I really I just I
625:  Just give out, my shoulders giving out.
Interviewer:  Okay but did did you ever have a one other word for you say I lugged it or I
625:  {X} {X} Oh yeah you
Interviewer:  #1 Put that #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  bag on my shoulder
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 and I #
625:  I lugged it all the way.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Now if the chi- if a child's getting near a hot stove you might say to her you might say that stove is very hot so
625:  Stay away from it.
Interviewer:  Okay or uh speaking you didn't want him to touch it you say didn't want 'em to touch the stove you might say
625:  Don't put your hand on that, don't touch it's hot.
Interviewer:  {NW} Alright.
625:  Speaking about that uh uh carrying something a long way remind me of a fellow one ti- {D: in high school} went to s- store w- store over there he had a quarter of a hog, you know? And uh he brought it there and he put it down says uh you {X} says that's heavy. He says uh what you talking about heavy? Didn't weigh but forty-five pounds. He said yeah but it wasn't heavy when I left home, he said you let it stay on there for a while. Wouldn't last me when I g- left home with it I {X} {D: still that's still bother way more}
Interviewer:  #1 {NW} #
625:  #2 {NW} #
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if you needed a hammer you might say to somebody
625:  Well uh uh do you know where my hammer is? Or go get me a hammer.
Interviewer:  Okay. Or go br- go did you ever say if you knew if you knew where it was you say you say to somebody you'd say to a kid {D: you're} sitting out there run
625:  Ru- run and get my hammer.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um uh now at the end of a football field what do you call those big uh things that would stand up at the end of a field? You call them the what? The
625:  The goal. Goal.
Interviewer:  Okay. You might go out wi- and uh take a ball and you'd throw the ball and you'd ask somebody to
625:  Catch it.
Interviewer:  Okay. You might say I threw the ball and he
625:  Uh and he caught it.
Interviewer:  Alright. I ha- I'd been fishing for trout but I haven't
625:  I haven't caught any.
Interviewer:  Alright. Now if you and I go to town and uh i- you might I might say if I get there first I'll
625:  I'll wait for you.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now say you talking uh you punish a child or or you punish somebody that's working underneath you he comes up to you and says I'll be good if you'll just give me give me another
625:  Ano- another two minutes to
Interviewer:  Yeah okay, just give me one more
625:  Chance.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  One more chance.
Interviewer:  If a man's in a very good mood you say he's in a good good somebody's got a smile on his face, he's in a pleasant
625:  He's he's a pleasant condition.
Interviewer:  Okay. Humor or
625:  Good humor.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Good humor.
Interviewer:  Now if you got a hired man who keeps on loafing and everything you might say to a friend of your's you say I think I'm gonna get
625:  I'm gonna get rid of him.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh now somebody might might not know what was going on but he he didn't know what was going on but he what? He acted
625:  Acted like he did.
Interviewer:  He acted like he did, okay. Um if somebody stole your pencil you might say he what? He uh did you ever have a name for it?
625:  #1 He #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 slang # name?
625:  He swiped my pencil.
Interviewer:  Swiped my pencil, okay. Uh um you might say to somebody uh well you sure got a better memory than I do because I just I sure
625:  Sure can't remember that.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh okay you sat down with a pencil and paper and you might get a letter and you might you say I just I wr- I what? I I
625:  I j-
Interviewer:  I got
625:  #1 {D: it just} #
Interviewer:  #2 piece of # paper and I
625:  #1 Just #
Interviewer:  #2 I #
625:  wrote a letter.
Interviewer:  Okay I just wrote him a letter. Yesterday he he wrote me a letter and tomorrow I'll
625:  {D: I ran to} I'll write him a letter.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh on the envelope you put you put the guy's
625:  #1 na- #
Interviewer:  #2 what? #
625:  uh his name and address.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Post office.
Interviewer:  You say I want to write to somebody. Do you know his
625:  Uh his name and address?
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now if a little boy learns something new say maybe he learned how to whistle and you didn't you didn't kno- know where he learned it you'd say who who uh who
625:  who who who learned you how to do that?
Interviewer:  Okay. Um if you're if you're thinking about doing something or you're intending to do something you might say somebody might say when you going to uh to the Kiln? You might say well right now we're we're what? We're
625:  We're uh uh doing something. We're busy, we can't go right
Interviewer:  Yeah but you might say you'd made you'd made plans to go to the Kiln you y- you might say well uh um right now we're we're what? We're somebody might ask you when you're when you're going somewhere, you say well I'm not going uh now but uh I
625:  {NW} I I to I have to go later.
Interviewer:  Okay or I'm I intend to or I
625:  I intend to or I plan on
Interviewer:  O-
625:  #1 going later. #
Interviewer:  #2 -kay. # Plan on going later, okay. Now what would you call a little kid who who used to tell on people all the time? He was called a
625:  Tattle-tale. {NW}
Interviewer:  Alright. If you wanted a bouquet for the dinner table you might uh you might go out in the garden and and what would you do? You'd
625:  Cut some flowers and lay 'em put 'em in the uh vase put a little water in
Interviewer:  Okay.
Interviewer:  You'd you'd pick 'em or you'd okay. Uh what would you call something a child might play with?
625:  Well uh a ball for one thing.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah but #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  something you know just any any little thing he might play with a
625:  Toys.
Interviewer:  Toys okay.
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  If something was gonna happen and you thought you just you were afraid something was going to happen and uh it finally happened you might say well I you might say
625:  I
Interviewer:  What?
625:  I I I was afraid that was gonna happen.
Interviewer:  Okay, I just
625:  Just thought thought it would.
Interviewer:  Okay I
625:  I
Interviewer:  Or I just
625:  Knew it was gonna happen.
Interviewer:  Okay. {NS} Um {NS} um {D: tapping on microphone} now you might say to somebody uh what time does the show
625:  Gonna be tonight?
Interviewer:  Yeah what time does the show
625:  {D: Start} gonna take place uh s-
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
625:  #2 start # tonight.
Interviewer:  Okay. You know what time say uh and and somebody might say oh it it ten or fifteen minutes ago it
625:  {X} it al- started a- it already started.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. What what about be you know something uh begi- would you say what time does the show b-
625:  Uh what is the time the show begin?
Interviewer:  Okay. And he says it it it started it must've it must've
625:  Started at
Interviewer:  Or it must've beg-
625:  Been nearly over.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh now somebody might ask you, why are so out of breath? And you say I was feeling so happy I r- all the way home I
625:  I I I w- I w- walked so fast. {D: Tell me}
Interviewer:  Yeah or if you if you walked if you did more than walk fast you
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 say you #
625:  Run.
Interviewer:  You-
625:  Yeah. I I run home.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Run all the way home.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now uh you might say two people are are always mad at each other whenever they get together every time they meet they just they always
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  A-
625:  {X} fighting?
Interviewer:  Okay, they're always
625:  They wanna fight.
Interviewer:  Okay. {D: tapping on microphone}
625:  Or getting in fights. {NS}
Interviewer:  They they ever since they were small they
625:  Fight every time they'd meet. Okay. Now uh somebody uh if somebody got mad real mad at somebody they'd pull out a big knife and they'd Uh {NW} {D: stack} at 'em. Cut 'em.
Interviewer:  Okay. You might say he he got a big knife and he s-
625:  Stab him.
Interviewer:  He stabbed him with it? Okay.
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Now uh {X} somebody might come in the room uh the teacher might come in to look at the blackboard and see a funny name or a picture on the blackboard she'd say who
625:  Who wrote this on the blackboard?
Interviewer:  Or who dr-
625:  #1 Who #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
625:  drew this picture?
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay now if you're gonna lift something from uh uh from the top of the barn you might get a a block and tackle and you'd what? You'd
625:  You'd pull on the {X} pull on the chain, it'd pull it up.
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
625:  #2 It would # {D: har- harness} hoist it up.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Uh now if you lived in town all your life and somebody asks you have you lived here long? You might say why I
625:  I I've lived here all my life.
Interviewer:  Or I've a- You ever say al-
625:  I've always lived here.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Now you might give your wife a you might give somebody a bracelet and you'd say why don't you
625:  Why don't you wear it wear it? {X}
Interviewer:  Why don't you you know she's you asked her to if you wouldn't ask her to take it off you'd say why don't you
625:  Put it on.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Alright. Now somebody might say to you can you do that and you would say why sure I
625:  I've I've done it before I know how to do it.
Interviewer:  Uh my sister my sister she
625:  Sh- she knows how to do it too.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Um now uh couple more questions here. Um let's see now the number after twenty-nine is
625:  Thirty.
Interviewer:  And the number after thirty-nine is
625:  Forty.
Interviewer:  And the number after after sixty-nine is
625:  Seventy.
Interviewer:  Number after ninety-nine is
625:  be a hundred.
Interviewer:  Number after nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine is
625:  A thousand.
Interviewer:  And ten times a hundred-thousand is
625:  A a million.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if there are a line of men standing uh the the man at the front of the line you say he's the
625:  He's the headman.
Interviewer:  Or the
625:  Or the leader.
Interviewer:  Okay you say if you're speaking of the men in line you'd say he's the
625:  He's the first man.
Interviewer:  Okay and the man after him is the
625:  Second.
Interviewer:  Then comes the
625:  Third.
Interviewer:  And then the
625:  Fourth. Fifth. Sixth. Seventh. Eighth. Ninth, tenth.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Oh.
Interviewer:  Um sometimes you'd feel your good luck comes a little at a time but your bad luck comes your bad luck
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 just comes #
625:  {X} hard when they come.
Interviewer:  Yeah it just comes
625:  All at once.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if you say something more than once you would be saying it
625:  Twice or more.
Interviewer:  Okay. Okay can you can you say the days of the week for me?
625:  I believe I can
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Uh uh Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday S- Sunday
Interviewer:  Okay. Now what do you call the what does sabbath mean?
625:  Sunday. Must keep holy the remembering what's {D: beautiful} {X}
Interviewer:  Yes.
625:  Su- uh holy uh Sunday the
Interviewer:  You must keep the what? The s-
625:  Uh s- Sunday uh uh holy sabbath day.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now
625:  Sabbath day holy I mean.
Interviewer:  Okay. Can you can you say the months of the year for me?
625:  Oh I believe I can.
Interviewer:  {NW}
625:  I said 'em a few times in my life.
Interviewer:  Alright.
625:  January February March April May June July August September October November December.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now what do you call the part of the day before noon?
625:  Uh m- mo- morning.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the the part of the day after noon is called the
625:  {NW} the evening or afternoon.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Now if you get up before the sun comes up to start work you say you start work at
625:  {NW} a- at at at daylight. Before the sunse- before sun up.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh you might say what time did the sun rise this morning? You say the sun At six oh clock the sun
625:  Rise.
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 Say the # sun sun rise at six oh clock.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh we were a little late this morning, we got out in the field and the sun had already
625:  Come out?
Interviewer:  #1 Sun had already #
625:  #2 Shi- shine # uh shining.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if you worked until the sun went out of sight you'd say you worked until
625:  {D: Uh} sun went down.
Interviewer:  Okay or s- or #1 what? #
625:  #2 {X} # {D: w- went went uh} got dark?
Interviewer:  Okay. You'd call that sun what? Sun-
625:  Sunset.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now today is Sunday so Saturday was
625:  The day before Sunday.
Interviewer:  Which was
625:  Yesterday.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if somebody came today is Sunday if somebody came say not last Sunday but Sunday the Sunday before that you'd say he came the Sunday
625:  Two weeks.
Interviewer:  Okay. You say he came here Sunday what? Not last Sunday but Sunday
625:  Sunday a week
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  a week ago.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now if somebody came on the first and stayed until about the fifteenth you'd say he stayed what?
625:  A half a month? Or fifteen days.
Interviewer:  Okay, did you ever call that a fortnight? Did you ever hear it called a fortnight?
625:  No.
Interviewer:  Alright. If today is Sunday then Monday will be
625:  The next day.
Interviewer:  Or to- did you ever say
625:  The following day.
Interviewer:  Or t-
625:  Or tomorrow.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now um what do you look at uh what do you look at on your on your wrist? You look at your
625:  Watch. See what ti- time of day.
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh if you asked wanna know what time of day was you might ask somebody
625:  What what time do you have?
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now midway between seven oh clock and eight oh clock is
625:  Is uh half uh uh half past seven.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if it's ten forty-five you'd say it's
625:  Uh uh quarter to eleven.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um if you've been doing something for quite some time you might say I've been doing this
625:  For a long time.
Interviewer:  Okay. Or for quite
625:  Quite a quite some time.
Interviewer:  Okay. And you might say the farmers got a pretty good crop last year but they're not gonna have such a good one
625:  This year.
Interviewer:  Okay. If something happened on this day this day last year you'd say it happened exactly
625:  A year ago today.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now you look up in the in the sky and if it's a bad day you say you see a bunch of
625:  Uh clouds.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  In the sky.
Interviewer:  What would you call it in a day when it was real nice and the sun was shining?
625:  A bright day.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh a nice day
625:  #1 nice #
Interviewer:  #2 or #
625:  nice beautiful weather.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 Would you ever say it's # fi-
625:  Fine day.
Interviewer:  Okay. And on the opposite kind of day when it was all overcast you'd say it was just a
625:  Cloudy and bad weather bad-looking weather.
Interviewer:  Okay. A gloomy day or?
625:  Yeah. Gloomy bad day.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if the w- if it's been fair for some time and the clouds come and you expect you know as the weather's starting to cha- uh change you say the weather is is what? It's
625:  It's cha- it's it's changing.
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  Weather's changing.
Interviewer:  Okay. But if it's been cloudy and uh and the clouds pull away and the sun comes out and you say it's
625:  Clearing up
Interviewer:  It's fair enough.
625:  {D: that's a}
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 {X} # gonna have nice weather.
Interviewer:  Now what would you call a real heavy rain that lasts only a short time?
625:  Uh a just a l- uh uh a a hard rain {X} {D: where it starts} just on a short while.
Interviewer:  Okay. Did you ever call it a just a
625:  Downpour.
Interviewer:  Okay, downpour?
625:  Downpour.
Interviewer:  #1 Now if it had #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  thunder and lightning with it you'd say it was a
625:  Real hard rain.
Interviewer:  Thunder and lightning though
625:  {X} it's thunder and lightning and and just a downpour. {X}
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  {D: good rain}
Interviewer:  Did you ever call it when it had thunder and lightning with it what'd you call it? A when it had thunder and lighting with it.
625:  S- s- stormy weather.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh you call it a s- uh a storm?
625:  Storm a it's thunder and uh thu- thunder and lightning and raining.
Interviewer:  Okay. Did you ever get any bad winds around here?
625:  Oh yes.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Okay. You might say yesterday the wind
625:  {D: Was} it was blowing hard?
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  {D: Yeah.}
Interviewer:  Uh the that wind was bad but it is it is even in recent years it's it's even
625:  Even been worse, we've had more wind through here {X} two-hundred-and-ten miles an hour.
Interviewer:  You mean the wind the wind blew the wind it it what it?
625:  In sixty-nine uh the hurricane coming outta uh outta the Gulf uh the wind went here {D: reached it} two-hundred-and-ten miles an hour.
Interviewer:  Is that so?
625:  That's that's a fact, you can put put that on that record.
Interviewer:  Did you lose your any any possessions or anything from that?
625:  Well uh I had a a when I moved from uh Hancock County over there, I had forty-nine {D: band} pecan trees.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And and every one of 'em was down and uh the w- the wind was coming from the south but they had uh they had tornadoes in that and and every one of those trees blowed down and they headed straight south.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And I lo- uh every one of my pecan trees broke down.
Interviewer:  Huh.
625:  {D: And the some of 'em joined uh} close by there the- there was an {X} barn there big smoke something calls it but they the the register here to pay for it uh st- uh uh the {D: red civway} said the wind was blowing two-hundred-and-ten miles an hour. {X} Worst wind we ever had here.
Interviewer:  {NW} Wow. that's that's really bad.
625:  They put a uh they put a big old steel barge up there on the front uh street and {D: the preacher done base and} {D: Gulfport} here.
Interviewer:  Huh? Really?
625:  They had to bu- they had to build a sand uh big old sand uh hill around it all around it to to to s- to s- s- {X} send it back in the ocean.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  Yeah. {X} nowhere they could move it.
Interviewer:  Good grief.
625:  {D: I didn't} tell uh hauling all the sand bag all around it and {D: they} done everything, they put water in it and flowed it out there.
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now if if somebody if you if you heard- if you if you thought you you something went on over there you thought you a noise was going on you might say you might ask me did you did you
625:  Did you hear that racket out?
Interviewer:  Okay. And I'd say yes I yes I I might say yes
625:  #1 Yeah. #
Interviewer:  #2 I #
625:  Yeah I heard it.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh now speaking of uh your troubles you might say well if if you if you had some troubles you were telling me about uh you might say well I my troubles too I I
625:  Tro- I I had trouble too but I don't know if you can help me with 'em.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if a woman wants to buy a dress of a certain color she might take along a little square piece of cloth to use as a
625:  Sample just like she wants to use
Interviewer:  Okay. If she sees something she likes a real lot she might say why that's a very
625:  Unusual?
Interviewer:  Or very that's a I really like that dress it's really
625:  Really beautiful.
Interviewer:  Really pr-
625:  Pretty.
Interviewer:  Okay. What might a woman wear in a in the kitchen around her? Uh around her dress?
625:  An apron.
Interviewer:  Okay. And to sign your name in ink you use a
625:  Ballpoint pen now.
Interviewer:  Okay. To hold a baby's diaper you use a a a what? A A safety
625:  Safety pin, now they have little clip they put on 'em you know? Something they put on it but they usually uh still use some of 'em use pins you know?
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 Safety # pin.
Interviewer:  Um now a dime is worth is worth what? It's worth
625:  Ten cents.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now uh uh let's see a cup you use to drink from in a pump or a well it was it was made out of what? What metal? It might be made outta
625:  Ti- uh tin. And {X} uh I have seen 'em made outta gourd {X} with a handle and they scrape 'em out go- good and clean and then they'd use that for drink from {D: a round bucket}
Interviewer:  Okay. Um now uh you might say that boy is spoiled, when he grows up he'll have his trouble or he's
625:  He'll he'll ha- he'll be in trouble all his life.
Interviewer:  Or he's he'll have trouble like like {D: he's not} or say he'll have trouble
625:  He he'll he'll get he'll he don't change, he'll get in bad trouble.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now uh what would you s- what would you when you get rid of all the brush or the trees on a land you might say you did what? You
625:  Cleared the land?
Interviewer:  Okay. Um what would you call the second cutting of clover or grass? The old dead grass that's left on the top maybe.
625:  Well uh you you generally have cut hays and second or third time you you clip it you y- cut it the second third time.
Interviewer:  Yeah. Okay. Um did you have what about a crop that hasn't come up? I mean you didn't plant it that year, it just came up. What would you call that?
625:  Well that'd be uh uh uh {X} some of it would would be uh ha- hay or
Interviewer:  Did you ever call it a
625:  #1 wheat. #
Interviewer:  #2 vol- # Yeah did you ever call it volunteer?
625:  A volunteer weed a uh something
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
625:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Now wheat is tied up into a a what? You ever know what wheat was tied up into?
625:  Wheat uh in bundles.
Interviewer:  Okay. And the bundles {D: or a sheath} they're piled up into a what?
625:  {X} A bundle of what?
Interviewer:  A bundle or a sheath is piled up into a a what? A
625:  I don't know a
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  bundle uh uh A {X}
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  You speak uh when you speak of how much wheat you raised to an acre you say we raised forty
625:  Forty bushels to the acre.
Interviewer:  Okay good. Now what do you have to do with oats to separate the grain from the rest of it? You have to
625:  {X} does it a a a {D: corn binder} up before they cut it you know?
Interviewer:  What does it do? It it it {X} it
625:  It it there's a thing that roll and it comes out and it takes all them seeds and uh and hits it uh on a conveyor there that takes it in the back and then it takes it all the way and put it in a in a in a truck come in behind.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And
Interviewer:  A- and you say it's doing what? It r- it's you say it gro- uh
625:  It it's it's uh made uh thing that {X} made on a big roller and it it uh when it rolls like that it hits the uh it just knocks that and there's something under it. Under there that when it hits it and knock them seeds from it it falls in the on the on the conveyor there and that thing keeps throwing 'em in there, rolling it and bring it to a truck in the back.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
625:  And then they get that truck loaded, they unhook it and they hook another one and someone take that and then bring it to to to put it in the {X} {D: bins} {X}
Interviewer:  So to separate the do you have to thrash it you say? You say oats?
625:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Oats?
625:  They they they thrash it with a a {D: combine} they call it.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Now if you and another man have a job to do when you told him about it you'd say you and
625:  You and I?
Interviewer:  You and I got this job
625:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 to do and #
625:  {D: just} {D: do it}
Interviewer:  And you say this job is for it's for
625:  For us to complete.
Interviewer:  It's for it's for both it's for what? For
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  All two of us? Or both of us?
625:  For both of us to to
Interviewer:  #1 Okay. #
625:  #2 complete. #
Interviewer:  Alright. Now uh comparing how tall you are you might say he's not as tall as
625:  As I am.
Interviewer:  Okay. But uh then now you say I'm not as tall a- I'm not as as
625:  Tall as you are.
Interviewer:  As
625:  As he #1 {D: is} #
Interviewer:  #2 Or # Okay as he is okay. Now comparing how you might do something you might say he can do it better than
625:  I c- than I can.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. If something belongs to me you say it's
625:  It b- it belongs to you.
Interviewer:  Okay. If it belongs to both of us you say it
625:  Uh uh it it belongs to both of us.
Interviewer:  #1 You say it's #
625:  #2 Or it's ours. #
Interviewer:  Okay.
625:  It's ours.
Interviewer:  If it belongs to them you say
625:  It belongs to them.
Interviewer:  Okay it's
625:  It's their it's their's.
Interviewer:  Okay, if it belongs to him you say
625:  It belongs to him. It's his.
Interviewer:  And if it belongs to her you say
625:  It's her's.
Interviewer:  Okay. Now uh people come to visit you and they're about to leave, you might say now blank come back now or
625:  Well
Interviewer:  You're speaking of you're speaking to all of them you might say
625:  {X} y'all come back s- and see me again.
Interviewer:  Okay alright. Now uh um if somebody's at a p- you've been at a party and it's starting to leave you you might ask about where your hat is you might say where all your hats are, you'd say where are
625:  My ha- where's my hat?
Interviewer:  Okay. Um asking about the people at the party you're asking somebody about a party, maybe you weren't there you might say uh {X} uh blank was there? Or
625:  Who who was there?
Interviewer:  Or okay.
625:  Who all was there?
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if you're asking about a speaker's remarks you might say blank did he say? Or
625:  What did he say? Or did they have to talk about?
Interviewer:  Okay. Now if nobody else will do something you'd say he has nobody else will look out for him you say he has to look out
625:  #1 uh for #
Interviewer:  #2 for him- #
625:  himself.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Um you might say uh if somebody gave you a book you might say that's the book you
625:  You asked me for.
Interviewer:  No. You might say
625:  {X}
Interviewer:  if somebody
625:  uh that's the book you wanted wanted to give to me?
Interviewer:  No. Somebody g- uh a present was sent to you you might say and they came over to your house later on you might say that's the book you you
625:  You gave me?
Interviewer:  Okay. And you might say I'll when I finish with it I'll
625:  Give it back to you.
Interviewer:  Okay, because you have so often before you have
625:  #1 You #
Interviewer:  #2 you #
625:  uh you been nice to me and let me have a book to read.
Interviewer:  Yeah and here other there are many other books that you have
625:  Uh let me read.
Interviewer:  Or
625:  Uh uh
Interviewer:  y-
625:  uh use le- loaned to me to read?
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Uh if you didn't know where a man was born you might ask where does he
625:  W- whe- where do you come from? Where were you born?
Interviewer:  Okay. And uh somebody might say well last night he it on the train he he last he {D: why didn't} he get on the train last night? He
625:  He went to sleep?
Interviewer:  No. Speaking of you you might ask him where he comes from you say last night he blank on the train. He
625:  He uh he he told me w- train where he's from?
Interviewer:  No. You'd say maybe he what? Speaking of how where a person comes from you say he
625:  He can- he told me where he came from?
Interviewer:  Yeah he came in on the train okay.
625:  Came on the train.
Interviewer:  Okay um now speaking of of uh whether where you know seeing people you might say uh uh I a few minutes ago I s-
625:  I saw some
Interviewer:  I saw her outside okay. And you say I hope to
625:  To see 'em again.
Interviewer:  Okay we we s- this year we this year we
625:  We
Interviewer:  we
625:  w- have been together
Interviewer:  #1 Yeah. #
625:  #2 quite a # bit.
Interviewer:  Um we saw you a lot last year and this year we
625:  Oh this year we didn't see you too much.
Interviewer:  Okay. We okay. If you can't get through there the highway department's got their machines in and the roads all
625:  Tore up, you had a detour.
Interviewer:  Okay. Alright. Um if it wasn't an accident then you might say he did it
625:  Accidentally?
Interviewer:  if he didn't do it accidentally he did it
625:  Yeah purposely.
Interviewer:  Okay. Uh