662:  I I just say she's pregnant if she's gonna have a child.
Interviewer:  Uh huh when you were young did people use that word pregnant much?
662:  Uh huh
Interviewer:  It it never sounded embarrassing to?
662:  It was with I think the younger you are the the more you know when I was young I would get embarrassed until I reached a certain age.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
662:  Now my children think nothing of saying he's a queer he's pregnant I mean she's pregnant or he's gay you know and my my eight year old daughter will say oh he looks queer and when I was twelve I still didn't know what that mean you know that would be mean but kids now a days are so open but of course you watch television and that #1 you know #
Interviewer:  #2 hmm #
662:  that's it or go to a show that's rated PG and you wish you wouldn't have sent them you know?
Interviewer:  Did that word queer um did you did it always I guess you you mean it uh #1 means homosexual #
662:  #2 homosexual # yeah
Interviewer:  Did did it always have that meaning?
662:  It didn't no it didn't always have that meaning.
Interviewer:  What did it used to mean?
662:  Queer me- meant odd
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
662:  You know when something's queer.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
662:  You meant that it was odd.
Interviewer:  Did people ever used to use it as a noun with that old meaning like to say he's a queer but just meaning he's odd? #1 Or would they just say #
662:  #2 No # They wouldn't say a queer you mean {X} you mean not meaning the homosexual meaning?
Interviewer:  Yeah #1 Just meaning it is odd #
662:  #2 no #
Interviewer:  #1 or something #
662:  #2 yeah # Right They'd say he's queer
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
662:  means he's you know in those days {C: laughing} you know {C: laughing} but now a days it's different. I mean as far as I was concerned until I got older.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
662:  You know now a today anything goes.
Interviewer:  Um what about a a did you ever hear any joking ways of saying somebody's pregnant? Any sort of vulgar ways of saying it or?
662:  I'm trying to think of a joking way to say that somebody's pregnant she got caught.
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear she's um swallowed a pumpkin seed?
662:  Oh yeah she swallowed a watermelon seed or something like that.
Interviewer:  Uh huh and a long time ago if you didn't have a doctor to deliver the baby the woman you'd send for?
662:  Midwife
Interviewer:  Mm-kay And a child that is born to a woman that's not married? The child would be called a?
662:  Illegitimate
Interviewer:  Or a more
662:  Bastard Bastard
Interviewer:  Mm-kay Any other names besides bastard?
662:  No
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear woods cult or grass cult or bush child or?
662:  mm-mm
Interviewer:  And your brothers' son would be your?
662:  Nephew
Interviewer:  And a child thats lost both parents would be a?
662:  Orphan
Interviewer:  And a person that who's supposed to look after the orphan would be his?
662:  Ward
Interviewer:  Or his legal?
662:  Guardian
Interviewer:  And
662:  No the child would be the ward. Right?
Interviewer:  Yeah I think so yeah ward is the same
662:  Yeah
Interviewer:  Um if you had a lot of cousins and nephews and nieces around you'd say this town is full of my?
662:  Relatives
Interviewer:  Or another name?
662:  Kin
Interviewer:  Mm-kay And you say well she has the same family name and she looks like me but actually were no?
662:  Relation
Interviewer:  And somebody comes into town and nobody's ever seen them before would be a?
662:  Stranger
Interviewer:  And a woman who conducts school would be called a?
662:  School teacher
Interviewer:  Mm-kay any special name for a woman school teacher?
662:  No
Interviewer:  And are you familiar with the last name Cooper or {D: Couper}?
662:  Am I familiar
Interviewer:  #1 with the last name? #
Interviewer:  #2 yeah #
Interviewer:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 # {X} Someone with that last name
662:  Personally?
Interviewer:  Well have you
662:  Have I ever heard it?
Interviewer:  Yeah would you say {D: Couper} or Cooper?
662:  Cooper
Interviewer:  uh huh
662:  Cooper
Interviewer:  What would you a married woman with that last name she'd be?
662:  Mrs. Cooper {NW}
Interviewer:  And what relation would my mothers' sister be to me?
662:  {NW} Your aunt
Interviewer:  Mm-kay And these are some names. The name of the mother of Jesus?
662:  Mary
Interviewer:  And George Washington's wife?
662:  Martha
Interviewer:  And do you remember this would be before your time I think but there is an old-fashion song going wait 'til the sunshine?
662:  Nellie
Interviewer:  Mm-kay do you remember that song?
662:  mm-hmm {NW}
Interviewer:  That's um what about what they call the male goat?
662:  A male goat? {NW} A billy goat
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and the first book in the new testament in the Bible others are Mark Luke and John the first one is?
662:  Matthew
Interviewer:  And the name of the wife of Abraham?
662:  Mm I don't know.{C: laughing}
Interviewer:  Or a girls name that starts with an s?
662:  The wife of Abraham?
Interviewer:  What are some common girls names starting with the letter s?
662:  Common?
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
662:  Sharon Shirley Sherry Sharon
Interviewer:  #1 What about? #
662:  #2 Sue #
Interviewer:  Well say Sally Sally is
662:  #1 Sally #
Interviewer:  #2 is the nickname for? #
662:  {D: Salomy}
Interviewer:  What did you ever hear would you say Sarah or Sarah?
662:  #1 Sarah #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} # Huh?
662:  Sarah Sarah Day
Interviewer:  Mm-kay And say a child named Bill is full name would be?
662:  William
Interviewer:  And if your father had a brother and you called him by that full name you'd call him?
662:  Uncle
Interviewer:  Uncle what?
662:  You lost me again.
Interviewer:  Talking about the name William you'd call him?
662:  And you'd call him by his full name?
Interviewer:  Yeah you'd call him?
662:  Uncle Bill {NW} I did have an uncle Bill a great uncle.
Interviewer:  What about um do you remember President Kennedy's first name?
662:  His first name was John.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and if your father had a brother by that name you'd call him?
662:  Uncle John
Interviewer:  And say uh a carpenter that's not not very good at making things just sort of a part time carpenter he's not not too good you call him a?
662:  Jackleg
Interviewer:  Mm-kay what does that word jackleg mean?
662:  I don't know I don't know but that's that's a common expression I don't know if for carpenter for anything that anyone that can't do anything too good. #1 A jackleg #
Interviewer:  #2 uh huh #
662:  he can make do and that's it
Interviewer:  Yeah
662:  You know?
Interviewer:  Would you talk about a jackleg preacher?
662:  No
Interviewer:  Oh
662:  I've only heard of jackleg being used in reference to a a laborer
Interviewer:  hmm
662:  sorts like you know #1 a carpenter or plumber or something like that. #
Interviewer:  #2 a carpenter #
662:  #1 Right #
Interviewer:  #2 mechanic #
662:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 # Would the person be insulted though to be called a jackleg?
662:  Yeah
Interviewer:  And the highest rank in the army?
662:  General
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and beneath the general?
662:  Colonel {NW}
Interviewer:  And the person in charge of the ship?
662:  In charge of the ship? Would be the captain
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear that word captain used um maybe by black people to the men they worked for or anything like that?
662:  Uh huh
Interviewer:  What would they say?
662:  They would the captain
Interviewer:  Uh huh
662:  Captain
Interviewer:  Who all would use that?
662:  I think you know um because somebody is a boss I guess.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm And the person who presides over a court would be called a?
662:  Judge
Interviewer:  And someone who goes to school?
662:  Student
Interviewer:  And a person who works in the office and does the typing and so forth would be a?
662:  Clerk
Interviewer:  Or takes care of the
662:  Secretary
Interviewer:  Mm-kay And a man on the stage would be an actor a women would be a?
662:  Actress
Interviewer:  And if you are born in the United States you'd say your nationality is?
662:  American
Interviewer:  And {NW} what different terms are there for blacks? What do people use to?
662:  Niggers
Interviewer:  uh huh
662:  Jigaboos
Interviewer:  Is that just a joking term jigaboo?
662:  Jigaboos niggers um spade
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
662:  Coon
Interviewer:  What about the um the real name though?
662:  #1 What is the real name? #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah #
662:  A Negro
Interviewer:  Mm-kay um and how would you normally well you'd say were not were not black we're?
662:  White
Interviewer:  Any other terms for white people?
662:  Caucasian
Interviewer:  Mm-kay What about um a child that's born that one parent's white and the other parent's black?
662:  {NW} Mixed breed you'd call them a high yellow.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay High yellow means light light skinned?
662:  mm-hmm Mulatto
Interviewer:  And did you ever hear of {D:reject}
662:  uh uh
Interviewer:  And um what about white people that that you sort of look down on their their poor but
662:  White trash {NW}
Interviewer:  Um what do Negroes call white people like that? That they don't like.
662:  Honkeys
Interviewer:  Uh huh Does that mean just any white person or?
662:  Any white person I think.
Interviewer:  Any other terms for
662:  Whitey
Interviewer:  uh huh And um someone who lives out in the country and he doesn't get into town much and when he does get into town per people can tell he's from way out in the country they call him a?
662:  Hick
Interviewer:  Mm-kay
662:  And over here a gee gee {NW}
Interviewer:  A what?
662:  A gee gee
Interviewer:  What does that mean. A gee gee?
662:  Yeah they the people used to say boy he's a gee gee. That's what they used to call them down here. Instead of a hick a gee gee was like a like what the French people used to say. He dresses like a gee gee.
Interviewer:  Huh I never heard of that. What different names are there for the French people down here?
662:  Whatcha mean?
Interviewer:  #1 You mentioned the word #
662:  #2 Cajun coonass #
Interviewer:  Is coonass a very insulting word?
662:  Not to the coonasses it isn't {C: laughing} {NW}
Interviewer:  What other word besides coonass?
662:  Cajun
Interviewer:  uh huh Did you ever hear of the word boogalee?
662:  Boogalee yeah
Interviewer:  What does that mean? um someone mentioned it but I never
662:  Well
Interviewer:  was clear
662:  Uh I I'm not really sure on this but you know like a boog is a boy a young boy and a boogalee is a little girl. You know? A boog and boogalee a boy and a girl
Interviewer:  A boog is?
662:  Boy
Interviewer:  In French?
662:  Well I don't I don't know if because um I think I don't know what it is if it would be Creole or {D: mixturation} or whatever you would call it but you know I have heard them say boog and boogalee. Or yeah boog you know
Interviewer:  Boog a it
662:  #1 It would mean boy #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
662:  in in this down here I I think I'm not sure but I think that's what they call boog or boogalee
Interviewer:  And boogalee is a little girl?
662:  Yeah That's the way I knew it you know. But I haven't heard that expression boogalee in a long time.
Interviewer:  Did you ever um the person that told me that said it just means the same as Cajun or coonass you know did you ever heard boogalee just to mean Cajun?
662:  I don't think so not it I'm not sure You know it's been a long time since I've heard that expression.
Interviewer:  What um what about the terms cracker or redneck or?
662:  Redneck
Interviewer:  Uh huh
662:  That means a Mississippian {D: A stump jumper too}
Interviewer:  What other terms like that have you heard from people from different areas?
662:  Well down here they call us a swamp stomper.
Interviewer:  #1 Swamp stomper? #
662:  #2 Stomper #
Interviewer:  #1 #
662:  #2 #
Interviewer:  #1 Just people who live #
662:  #2 Webb feet #
Interviewer:  uh huh
662:  They call us web feet too.
Interviewer:  {NW}
662:  And um
Interviewer:  Are those insulting words?
662:  No
Interviewer:  Or just just joking
662:  Joking yeah you know I don't know what you'd call a Yankee somebody up north.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm Say um if you were at a party you might say well, you might look at your watch and say um say if it is around 11:30 or so you'd say well we better be getting home it's what midnight it's?
662:  Almost
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and say if you were walking on some icy ground you'd say this ice is pretty hard to walk on I didn't actually fall down but a couple of times I slipped and I I like I like to
662:  I like to have fallen
Interviewer:  Mm-kay And if someone's waiting for you to get ready to go somewhere he calls out and ask if you'll be ready soon you'd say I'll be with you in?
662:  A minute
Interviewer:  Or just?
662:  In just a minute
Interviewer:  Mm-kay And this part of my head is called my?
662:  Forehead
Interviewer:  And this is my?
662:  Hair
Interviewer:  And on a man hair here would be a?
662:  Beard
Interviewer:  And this is my?
662:  Ear
Interviewer:  Which one?
662:  {NW} Your left ear
Interviewer:  And this is my?
662:  Right ear
Interviewer:  And?
662:  Lips
Interviewer:  Or the whole thing?
662:  Mouth
Interviewer:  And this is the?
662:  Neck
Interviewer:  And this?
662:  Throat
Interviewer:  What about the part that um that you swallow down or breathe down?
662:  Your thr- mouth your throat
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear of goozle?
662:  Oh yeah his goozle pipe.
Interviewer:  Wait what's the goozle pipe?
662:  The esophagus I guess
Interviewer:  It's what you swallow down.
662:  Yeah
Interviewer:  And these are my?
662:  Teeth
Interviewer:  And this is one?
662:  Tooth
Interviewer:  And the flesh around your teeth?
662:  Gums
Interviewer:  And this is one?
662:  Hand
Interviewer:  Two?
662:  Hands
Interviewer:  And this is the?
662:  Palm
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear that called the pan?
662:  A what?
Interviewer:  The pan of your hand
662:  uh uh
Interviewer:  And this is one?
662:  Fist
Interviewer:  Two?
662:  Fists
Interviewer:  And this is my?
662:  Leg
Interviewer:  And this sensitive bone here?
662:  Shin
Interviewer:  And say if I get down like this you say I?
662:  Squatting stooping
Interviewer:  uh huh Did you ever hear the expression down on your hunkers or your haunches
662:  uh uh
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear a name for this back part of your thigh?
662:  uh uh
Interviewer:  And a place where the bones come together that's called?
662:  Joints
Interviewer:  And this is one?
662:  Foot
Interviewer:  And I have two?
662:  Feet
Interviewer:  And on a man this part of his body is his?
662:  Chest
Interviewer:  And these are the?
662:  Shoulders
Interviewer:  And say if someone had been sick for awhile you'd say well he's up and about now but he still looks a bit?
662:  Peaked
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and someone who is in in good shape you say he's big and?
662:  Healthy
Interviewer:  Mm-kay any or if he can lift heavy weights you say he's?
662:  Fit
Interviewer:  He's not weak he's?
662:  Strong
Interviewer:  Uh huh What about someone who is getting a little but over weight but he's still strong?
662:  Pudgy
Interviewer:  Mm-kay did you ever say stout or husky or?
662:  Yeah husky to me is more muscular than anything else.
Interviewer:  What about stout?
662:  Stout would be fat.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm Would he still be strong or?
662:  He wouldn't be healthy
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
662:  He could still be strong but he wouldn't be as healthy
Interviewer:  uh huh and someone um who is easy to get along with doesn't lose their temper is always smiling you say that that person is?
662:  Easy going good humored
Interviewer:  Mm-kay And someone like a teenaged boy who seems to be just all arms and legs?
662:  Lanky
Interviewer:  Mm-kay Or who is always stumbling and dropping things?
662:  Clumsy
Interviewer:  And if a person keeps on doing things that don't make any sense you say he's just a plain?
662:  Weirdo {NW}
Interviewer:  Or he he just doesn't seem to have any sense at all.
662:  Nuts Crazy
Interviewer:  Uh huh would you ever call him a fool?
662:  No
Interviewer:  Would would you ever
662:  a fool is someone who had a joke played on them
Interviewer:  Uh huh so just like
662:  Or someone that would a a fool you know would he's a fool like you know like he is doing something out of better judgment but he is capable of doing better you know he is acting like a fool right now or in other words someone is making a fool out of him.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm is it do you ever hesitate to use the word fool I mean does it sound sort of
662:  #1 No no #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
662:  #1 #
Interviewer:  #2 # What about someone who has plenty of money but he never spends a cent? You'd call him a?
662:  Miser
Interviewer:  What other terms do people have?
662:  Tight
Interviewer:  uh huh did you ever hear of tight wad or
662:  Tight wad mm
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear the word {D:dago news} to mean a miser?
662:  No
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear that word at all?
662:  Oh yeah
Interviewer:  To mean?
662:  A dago means an Italian
Interviewer:  Uh huh someone recently told me the word and used it to mean a miser I was just wondering.
662:  I've never heard it used as a miser. {NW}
Interviewer:  And when you say that a person is common what does that mean?
662:  He doesn't stand out.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
662:  He's common he doesn't have any outstanding characteristics or you know
Interviewer:  mm-hmm Do you sort of look down on them then?
662:  No
Interviewer:  But would he be insulted if you called him common?
662:  I don't know it all depends on the person.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm what if you said a girl was very common what would that mean?
662:  A girl very common I imagine would be referred to as a plain Jane. If a girl would be common
Interviewer:  It would be just appearance or something?
662:  Yeah I think it all depends on which way that you are using it.
Interviewer:  mm-hmm Did you ever use it a would it ever be complimentary to say that a person is common or girl is common?
662:  I guess you could it all depends on ah on the you know
Interviewer:  mm-hmm
662:  which way you using it.
Interviewer:  What about an old person maybe up in their eighties that still gets around real well doesn't show it's age you'd say that for his age he's still mighty what?
662:  Peppy
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and say if your children were out later than usual you say well I don't guess there is anything wrong but still I can't help feeling a little?
662:  Worried about them
Interviewer:  Or a little
662:  Concerned
Interviewer:  uh huh you say you wouldn't feel easy you'd say you felt?
662:  I don't know what you are trying to say feel at ease
Interviewer:  uh huh and you might say well they'll be home alright just don't?
662:  Worry
Interviewer:  And a child might say I'm not gonna go upstairs in the dark I'm
662:  Afraid
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and you say well I don't see why she's afraid now she?
662:  Never used to be
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and would would you say she didn't used to be or usen't to be or
662:  No {NW}
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and somebody who leaves a lot of money on the table and goes outside and doesn't even bother to lock the door you'd say he's mighty what with his money?
662:  Foolish
Interviewer:  Or he just leaves it laying around he's to?
662:  Trusting
Interviewer:  Mm-kay or he doesn't he doesn't watch over it like he should he just he just leaves it scattered around you say that he's awfully?
662:  Careless
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and a person that you can't argue with they they're going to do things their way and they won't listen to.
662:  Hardheaded
Interviewer:  huh
662:  Hardheaded
Interviewer:  Mm-kay any other terms?
662:  Stubborn
Interviewer:  And somebody that you can't joke with without him losing his temper someone who is just super sensitive you'd say that he's?
662:  Over sensitive
Interviewer:  Or any other terms?
662:  Touchy
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and what about fretful did you ever say that?
662:  uh uh
Interviewer:  And you'd say well I was just kidding him I didn't know he'd get so?
662:  Upset
Interviewer:  Mm-kay or all the sudden he got really?
662:  Upset {C: laughing} {NW}
Interviewer:  Um did you ever say head up or owie or mad
662:  Angry mad
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and you'd someone was about to lose their temper you'd might tell them to just keep?
662:  Your cool
Interviewer:  Mm-kay or another way of saying that just keep?
662:  Calm
Interviewer:  And if you had been working very hard you'd say you were very?
662:  Tired
Interviewer:  Mm-kay any other ways of saying that?
662:  Pooped
Interviewer:  Mm-kay or you'd say I'm just completely ?
662:  Dragged out
Interviewer:  Mm-kay or using the expression wear out you say I'm just completely?
662:  Worn
Interviewer:  Huh?
662:  I'm just completely worn out
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and say if a person had been well and suddenly here they have some disease you might say well last time I saw them they were fine when was it that they?
662:  got sick
Interviewer:  Mm-kay