interviewer: And out in bad weather you came in and was sneezing and his eyes were running and everything you'd say that he? 662: Was catching a cold. interviewer: Or that had happened. You say yesterday he? 662: Caught a cold. interviewer: And if he if he couldn't talk right then you say he sounded? 662: Horse interviewer: Mm-kay and {C:Coughing}if you do that you have a? You go like that you call that a? 662: Oh a cough. interviewer: Mm-kay and if you got someone some medicine and went in and still saw the medicine there by their bed you say why haven't you? 662: Taken your medicine. interviewer: And the person might say I already? 662: Took it interviewer: Mm-kay and if you can't hear anything at all you say that you're? 662: Deaf interviewer: And say if a man had been out working out in the sun and he takes off his shirt and it's all wet he'd say look how much I? 662: Sweat interviewer: Mm-kay And a sore that comes to a head is called a? 662: A sore that comes to a head? interviewer: Uh huh yeah a little lump. 662: A boil interviewer: Mm-kay what if its got more than one head to it would you have a special name for it? 662: Not that I know of. interviewer: What about um when the boil opens the stuff that drains out? 662: Puss interviewer: And when a blister opens? 662: I'd just call that fluid. interviewer: Mm-kay and you say a bee stung me and my hand did what? 662: My hand got swollen. interviewer: Mm-kay you say right after um after the bee stung me my hand? 662: Begin to swell. interviewer: It or it it did what? 662: It swelled up. interviewer: Mm-kay and if someone got shot or stabbed you'd say you have to get a doctor to look at the? 662: Wound interviewer: And you know sometimes a a wound won't heal back right its got to be cut out of burned out? 662: Cauterized interviewer: Well did you ever hear it called some kind of flesh? 662: Proud flesh interviewer: Mm-hmm and if you get a little cut on your finger a medicine that stings that you can put on it? 662: Iodine interviewer: What about a a real bitter medicine that people used to have to take? 662: Quinine interviewer: Mm-kay and if someone was shot and didn't get any better you'd say? {C:Sneeze} Well the doctor did all he could but still the man? 662: Still the man still the man what remains ill? Is still sick? interviewer: Or if he didn't live you say he? 662: Died interviewer: Any nicer ways of saying somebody died? 662: Passed away interviewer: Mm-kay what about a a crude way of saying it? 662: Croaked interviewer: Mm-kay 662: Kicked the bucket interviewer: And you say he's been dead a week yet nobody's figured out yet what he died? 662: Of interviewer: And the place where people are buried? 662: Cemetery graveyard Mausoleum {C:Laughing} interviewer: The mausoleum is is the big? 662: That's the big granite buildings that they have. interviewer: Is that owned by a family or is it just? 662: Well each family buys a a spot you know a grave I mean you know a vault in other words. interviewer: #1 What about # 662: #2 They don't have mausoleums in # Atlanta interviewer: uh uh 662: Really? interviewer: Everything's just very you know in the south but I think the water level is so high here that they have to. 662: Well you know it's just an I guess it's been in the past maybe ten fifteen years that the mausoleums started getting popular around here. Maybe fifteen years ago it started. Now there's a lot of them. interviewer: mm-hmm what about the thing that that you put the body in? 662: Coffin interviewer: Uh huh and the ceremony at the cemetery is called a? 662: Burial rights interviewer: Mm-kay well you would say he was an important man everybody went to his? 662: Funeral interviewer: And if people are dressed in black you say that they are in? 662: Mourning interviewer: And say on an average sort of day if somebody asked you how you were feeling you'd say oh I'm? 662: Fine interviewer: And when you are getting old and your joints start hurting you say you've got? 662: Arthritis interviewer: Mm-kay any old fashioned name for that? 662: Rheumatism interviewer: And this is a disease that children used to get they'd get a really bad sore throat and they would choke up? 662: {C:Coughing} Diphtheria interviewer: Mm-kay and the disease where your skin and eyeballs turn yellow? 662: Jaundice interviewer: And when you have a pain down here? 662: Appendicitis interviewer: Mm-kay any old fashioned name for that? 662: No interviewer: And if someone ate something that didn't agree with them and it came back up you'd say he had to? 662: Vomit interviewer: Any other ways of saying that? 662: Puke Throw up interviewer: Which sounds how how do those sound to you which sound? 662: They're all repulsive {C: laughing} I always use vomit myself. interviewer: Does throw up sound prude or? 662: No really throw up sounds better because there is something vulgar about vomit and puke but I always use vomit you know. interviewer: Puke sounds the worst. 662: Yeah I think so {C:Laughing} interviewer: Say if a person vomited you'd say he was sick where? 662: Of the stomach interviewer: Mm-kay and say um you say that's the book that you what me for Christmas? That you 662: Gave interviewer: Mm-kay you say you have 662: Given interviewer: Mm-kay and say if a if a boy kept on going over to the same girls house and spending a lot of time with her you'd say that he was? 662: Courting her interviewer: Mm-kay 662: #1 Going # interviewer: #2 and # 662: steady I got to go to the bathroom. interviewer: He was courting her then he would be called her? 662: Boyfriend interviewer: And she would be his? 662: Girlfriend interviewer: And if a boy came home with lipstick on his collar his little brother would say that he had been? 662: Kissing her interviewer: Mm-kay any old fashioned named for kissing? 662: Smooching interviewer: Mm-kay {C:Coughing} and when the girl stops letting the boy come over to see her you'd say she? 662: Broke up with him. interviewer: mm-kay and you say he asked her to marry him but she? 662: Refused interviewer: Any other ways of saying that? 662: Turned him down. interviewer: mm-kay and they were engaged and all the sudden she? 662: Broke up interviewer: mm-kay 662: Broke off interviewer: But if she didn't say if he asked her to marry him and she didn't turn him down you say they went ahead and got? 662: Married interviewer: Any joking ways of saying marriage? 662: Hitched interviewer: mm-kay did you ever hear jump? 662: #1 Uh uh # interviewer: #2 Jumped the broomstick? # And at a wedding the boy that stands up with the groom is the? 662: Best man interviewer: And the woman that stands up with the bride? 662: Matron or maid of honor. interviewer: mm-kay and do you remember a long time ago if people were getting married other people in the community would come by and make a lot of noise and? 662: mm-mm interviewer: Did you ever hear of a shivaree or {X} 662: mm-mm I've never heard of that interviewer: It is sort of a celebration they used to have real noisy. 662: I've never heard of that interviewer: Say if um if last um if you were in New Orleans last week you'd say last week I went? 662: To New Orleans interviewer: Would you ever say down or up or over? 662: Yeah interviewer: What would you say? 662: Well {NW} it all depends on which way I'm going. interviewer: which 662: you know interviewer: which way 662: Like a a popular uh example is people that live below {D: Lafourche} they always it's always referred to as they live down the bayou. interviewer: Uh huh 662: You know or y'all come on over. interviewer: mm-hmm #1 What about # 662: #2 Or he's going across town. # interviewer: mm-hmm where where would you say up? Ha how would you say? 662: Up north interviewer: Uh huh 662: Or come up to my house you know something like that. interviewer: And say if there was trouble at a party you'd say the police came and they didn't arrest just one of two of them they arrested the? 662: Whole bunch interviewer: And any other words besides bunch you'd use? 662: The whole gang. interviewer: mm-kay and if children get out of school at four oh clock you say at four oh clock school? 662: Lets out interviewer: And after vacation children would ask when does school? 662: Start again {C:Coughing} interviewer: And if a chlid left home to go to school and did not show up in school that day you'd say she did what? 662: Played hooky interviewer: And after kindergarten you go into the? 662: First grade interviewer: Any old name for first grade? 662: No interviewer: And you say years ago children sat on benches at school but now they sit at? 662: Desks interviewer: mm-kay and each child has his own? 662: Desk interviewer: And if you wanted to check out a book you'd go to the? 662: Library interviewer: And to mail a package? 662: Post office interviewer: And you'd stay overnight at a strange town at a? 662: Hotel or motel hotel interviewer: mm-hmm and you see a play of a movie at a? 662: Theater interviewer: And if you had to have an operation you'd go to the? 662: Hospital interviewer: And the woman that would look after you? 662: A nurse interviewer: And you catch a train at the? 662: Depot interviewer: Any other name for that? 662: Station interviewer: The rail the what station? 662: Railroad station interviewer: And say two streets cross like say they cross like this and you are at one corner here and you want to get over to this corner instead of walking like this you walk this way you say you are walking? 662: You jaywalking interviewer: {D: Did you ever hear you walking cattywampus or kitty-corner or annie} {X} 662: I've heard the expression catty corner interviewer: What does that mean? 662: Well it's when something won't fit like you you have a a piece of furniture or something and it fits across and not flush it's catty corner. interviewer: mm-hmm what what do you mean like it's? 662: Catty-corner you know in other words you still like have a tri- you have a triangular space left in the back of it. interviewer: Uh huh 662: You going across the corner #1 but I have never heard of # interviewer: #2 {X} # 662: catty corner used for people who jaywalk. interviewer: mm-hmm say if um what they used to have before they had buses in town the thing that would run on tracks and? 662: Street car, Trolley interviewer: mm-kay is that the same thing? 662: Well ah no yeah a street car runs on tracks train runs on tracks. Trolley interviewer: Are a street car and a trolley the same thing? 662: Yeah interviewer: And you tell the bus driver this next corner is where I? 662: Get off interviewer: mm-kay and say if you were a post master you'd be working for the federal? 662: Government interviewer: And the police in town are supposed to maintain? 662: Law and order interviewer: And the fight between the north and the south was called the? 662: Civil War interviewer: Any old fashioned names for that? 662: War between the states. interviewer: mm-kay and before they had the electric chair murderers were? 662: Hung interviewer: mm-kay you say that man went out and what himself? 662: Hung himself. interviewer: And you say um horses gallop but people? 662: Walk interviewer: Or go faster than walk? 662: Run interviewer: mm-kay you say he was feeling so good that he? 662: Ran interviewer: Huh? 662: Ran interviewer: mm-kay you say he has? 662: Run interviewer: mm-kay and um you say I'm glad I carried my umbrella cause we hadn't gone half a block when it? 662: Started to rain. {C:Laughing} interviewer: And you'd ask somebody what time does the movie? 662: Start interviewer: Or another word for that? 662: Begin interviewer: mm-kay you say it must've already? 662: Begun interviewer: And ten minutes ago it? 662: Began interviewer: And the biggest city in the country is in? 662: New York interviewer: Okay and Baltimore is in? 662: Baltimore is in Maryland. {NW} interviewer: mm-kay and Richmond's the capital of? 662: Virginia interviewer: And Tulsa is in? 662: Oklahoma interviewer: And Boston? 662: Massachusetts interviewer: And the states form Maine to Connecticut are called the? 662: New England states. interviewer: And what are some what are the states in the south? 662: The southern states interviewer: And what what are some of the states? 662: Um Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee Little Rock I mean Arkansas {C:Laughing} interviewer: What what about above Arkansas? 662: That would be the middle interviewer: Of what state is that? 662: That's Missouri. interviewer: Uh huh what about the the bigger city is Missouri? 662: Saint Louis interviewer: What about the state just above Tennessee? 662: Just above Tennessee is ah Kentucky I believe. interviewer: mm-kay and um what are some of the um cities in Tennessee? 662: Chattanooga Nashville Memphis {NW} interviewer: And in east Tennessee? 662: I don't know. interviewer: In the mountains? 662: Lookout mountain Tennessee. #1 I don't know # interviewer: #2 Did you ever hear # Knox Knox 662: Knoxville interviewer: Uh huh 662: Yeah interviewer: And the biggest city in Maryland? 662: I guess the biggest city in Maryland is Baltimore. interviewer: And the capital of the United States? 662: Washington D.C. interviewer: And the big city in Illinois? 662: Chicago interviewer: And city in South Carolina? 662: Raleigh I believe Raleigh? interviewer: Or 662: is in North Carolina. interviewer: North that's North Carolina. 662: North Carolina South Carolina. interviewer: The old sea port that that old southern town? 662: I don't know interviewer: Char 662: Oh Charleston interviewer: Uh huh 662: {C:Laughing} interviewer: What are some of the cities in Alabama? 662: In Alabama? {NW} Mobile interviewer: mm-hmm 662: Montgomery interviewer: The big steel making city? Starts with a B 662: Birmingham interviewer: And the city up in the mountains of North Carolina? 662: Was that Raleigh? interviewer: It's 662: Durham interviewer: Near there did you ever hear ash? Asheville 662: Uh Uh interviewer: And what are some of the cities in Georgia? 662: Georgia? Atlanta Georgia Columbus Georgia I'm not too familiar with Georgia. I know Columbus. interviewer: What about the city right in the middle of Georgia? It starts with an M? 662: {X} interviewer: Ma- 662: Macon Georgia interviewer: Uh huh and the uh sea port in Georgia? Starts with a S. 662: Savannah {C:Laughing} interviewer: And the biggest city in Kentucky? 662: In Kentucky? Oh brother interviewer: Where they have the the Derby. 662: Yeah where? I don't know interviewer: Starts with a L. 662: Louisville Kentucky interviewer: And the biggest city in Southern Ohio? 662: Akron interviewer: Or another one 662: Cincinnati interviewer: And the biggest cities in Louisiana? 662: Baton Rouge New Orleans Shreveport, Monroe {C:Laughing} interviewer: And you say Belfast is in? 662: Ireland interviewer: And Paris? 662: France interviewer: And Moscow? 662: Moscow {C: laughing} Russia interviewer: And say if um someone asked you to go with them someplace and you're not sure you want to you'd say I don't know what I wanna go or not? 662: I don't know if I want to go or not. interviewer: mm-kay and if you want somebody to go with you, you say well I won't go? 662: Unless you come interviewer: And you say I had a choice of two things and I was going to do this but I decided to do that? 662: Instead interviewer: And one of the largest protestant denominations in the south? 662: Baptist interviewer: And if two people become members to the church you say they? They what the church? 662: Joined interviewer: And you go to church to pray to? 662: God interviewer: And the preacher preaches the? 662: Sermon interviewer: And the choir and the organist provide the? 662: The choir and the organs provide the music. interviewer: mm-kay and the enemy of God is called the? 662: Devil interviewer: What other names for him? 662: You mean like Satan? interviewer: Uh huh 662: Lucifer interviewer: What would you tell children was gonna come and get them if they didn't behave? 662: What say that again now. interviewer: What would you tell children was gonna come get them if they didn't behave? 662: The devil interviewer: Uh huh did you ever hear him called the the dragon or 662: mm-mm interviewer: boogeyman? 662: Oh the boogeyman. interviewer: Is that the same? 662: The boogeyman down here wouldn't be considered the Devil though. interviewer: #1 What what # 662: #2 The booger man is just # a monster of some kind you know? interviewer: What do people think they see around a graveyard at night? To frighten them. 662: A vision interviewer: Or or just around the graveyard or? 662: Wait now say that again. interviewer: What do people think that they see around the graveyard at night? 662: Ghosts interviewer: mm-kay and a house that people are scared to go in? 662: Haunted house. interviewer: Do you ever hear any stories about haunted houses being around here? 662: mm-hmm interviewer: Where where are they? 662: Um in New Orleans they had one. They were shown on television last week that was the second in the series of haunted houses in New Orleans. And then down here the people used to talk about the fifolets. {C: French} Anybody ever tell you about the fifolets? {C: French} interviewer: What's that? 662: Well that was supposed to be death warnings that the older people used. Now my mother still believes in this. interviewer: They call this the fif-? 662: Fifolets {C: French} And uh I mean a lot of people still believe in it and uh it was like what they call omens or death warnings like um furniture would move or ah. Now this happened to my mother before somebody died I can't recall who it was the um they had candlesticks on the mantelpiece you know and the candlesticks would get up and move and float around and ah. When my daddy was working in Thibodaux at the water plant they he had doors that would open up there and the next day the man that was his coworker that would come on the next shift had died. And then a nun that taught me in high school said that she had gotten all packed she didn't even have any trip planned and everything but she don't know why she had her clothes packed then she received word that her parents died her mother died. And um just different things like that you know a lot of the old people can tell you about fifolets {C: French} down here you know and death warnings. It wasn't just the screech owls there was other things that would happen chairs would rock and stuff like that they'd hear noises. {C: telephone ringing} Hello? interviewer: What is Did y'all have a celebration? 662: mm-mm no cause they took off and went fishing. {C: Laughter} She brought him some biscuits at work. interviewer: How was the confirmation? 662: {NS} Fine it went along real good. It was brief. No my sister my sister-in-law the one that called me from home awhile ago knows how nervous I am when I get in closed places you know and usually when I go to church I have to sit way to the back. Cause I can get so high on oxygen I'll hyperventilate, boy. Huh Get all shook up you know when I have people all around me. So she wanted to know how I made out I told her fine. She was worried. Cause I don't know if I could make it. interviewer: How many people were confirmed last night? 662: I don't know I I guess about um eighty. interviewer: Gosh 662: I imagine close to eighty kids were confirmed last night. interviewer: They're they're confirmed when they're fourteen years old? 662: In the eighth grade eighth grade catechism. interviewer: I didn't have any idea it would be that many. 662: Oh yeah well like I said it's predominantly Catholic down here anyway you know. And that's small comparing to the the way it is in Thibodaux. In the big church at Saint Joseph. interviewer: Do they have a cathedral in Thibodaux? 662: It it's not a cathedral but it is a beautiful church it's worth looking at. That alter is spectacular. And that dome on the top is beautiful. interviewer: The newest cathedral would be the one in New Orleans? 662: Saint Louis cathedral yeah. interviewer: Was that that the one in the quarter? 662: Yeah right but Saint Joseph's has a beautiful church it's on the boulevard right there in Thibodaux. interviewer: Do y'all go to midnight mass on Christmas Day? 662: On oh it's been years since I've gone to midnight mass uh that's too rough. {C:Laughter} Once I get beyond a certain uh point if I stay awake then I can't go to sleep after that. interviewer: Yeah 662: That's why when we go to a movie I like to go to the early movie so I am back home early. interviewer: Y'all have to come back and then put out Christmas for the kids? 662: Oh how many times do I have to put part A to part B and read the instructions over and over and over again. interviewer: #1 {NW} # 662: #2 Mm # interviewer: Did you ever hear anything about voodoo or hoodoo? 662: Yeah voodoo yeah interviewer: Did you ever hear of it being practiced around here? 662: I think it is uh but you know it it's not common but it's still practiced down here. interviewer: Do you know what sort of things they do or anything like that? 662: Uh not really not really. interviewer: Did you ever hear of grigri? 662: Grigri yeah somebody's gonna put a grigri on you. interviewer: Does that mean just put a spell on you? 662: Yeah or something you want something to happen to somebody or something like that. Or you don't want something to go right for somebody you know. Say I'll put a grigri on you. interviewer: Say if um you might tell someone you better um put a sweater on it's getting? 662: Chilly interviewer: mm-kay and you say well I'll go with you if you really want me to but I'd what stay here? I'd 662: Rather interviewer: mm-kay and you throw a ball and you ask somebody to? 662: Catch it interviewer: mm-kay and I threw the ball and he? 662: Caught it interviewer: And you say I've been fishing but I haven't? 662: Caught anything interviewer: mm-kay and you say um with your eyes you? 662: See interviewer: And you say I what through outside? 662: Saw interviewer: And say a a friend of yours that um you hadn't been around for a long time when you saw them what how would you express your feelings? You'd say I'm? 662: So happy to see you. interviewer: mm-kay do you ever say proud to see you? 662: Uh uh interviewer: You ever hear that around here? 662: Uh uh interviewer: And say someone owned about five hundred acres of land you'd say that would be? How much land that be a? What of land? 662: A large track of land. interviewer: mm-hmm would you ever say it would be a right smart of land? 662: Uh uh I've never heard that. interviewer: And you say it wasn't just a little cold this morning it was? 662: Cold interviewer: Or 662: Very cold interviewer: Or 662: Damn cold {C: Laughing} interviewer: And 662: We're very colorful down here maybe offensive to some people but we curse a lot. interviewer: What's a thing of like say if a man got mad and hit his thumb hammering or something what sorta of things would he say? 662: Ah he'd curse plenty. interviewer: What sort of curses? What what sort of expressions do people use? 662: Down here? interviewer: Uh-huh 662: he'd say god damn son of a bitch that's that's what he'd say automatically. {NW} Very common interviewer: What sorta of things like if you were sort of disgusted with yourself just peeved with yourself or something what what explanation would you use? What what would you probably say if you just got so disgusted with something you've done? 662: What exclamation I'd use? interviewer: Yeah I mean what 662: {C: Laughter} I know what I'd say it would be profane again you know. interviewer: What would you say? 662: I'd say oh shit! You know {C: Laughter} interviewer: What about if um what would someone say if they were excited about something? I mean they just 662: He's all hyped up about something. interviewer: Or I mean what exclamation would would they say if they say some. 662: Oh Lord you mean something like that? interviewer: Uh huh 662: That's it I guess. He'd say oh Lord you know. interviewer: mm-kay and say if someone says something kind of shocking and you sort of resented them saying it you might say well they're very? {X} 662: Nerve interviewer: Or the very i-? The very what of you saying that? The very 662: The very idea of you saying that. interviewer: mm-kay and when a friend of yours says good morning what might you ask them then? 662: How do you do? interviewer: Or would you if you're 662: #1 asking # interviewer: #2 Good # 662: morning interviewer: Yeah #1 You're asking # 662: #2 You would ask them a question? # interviewer: Yeah if you are asking them about their health. You'd say? 662: How do you feel? interviewer: mm-kay what about when you are introduced to a stranger? 662: How do you do? interviewer: mm-kay and on December twenty-fifth you tell somebody? 662: It's Jesus's birthday, Christmas. interviewer: mm-kay what greeting? 662: Merry Christmas interviewer: mm-kay did you ever hear any other greetings at Christmas? 662: Merry Christmas Happy Holidays interviewer: Did you ever hear people say Christmas gift? 662: Christmas gift? interviewer: Uh huh 662: Uh uh interviewer: As a greeting? 662: Uh uh interviewer: What about on the first of January? 662: Happy New Year interviewer: mm-kay and you say that would be a hard mountain to? 662: Climb interviewer: But last year my neighbor? 662: Climbed it interviewer: But I have never? 662: Climbed it interviewer: And you say I have to go downtown to do some? What? 662: Shopping interviewer: mm-kay and say if you bought something you'd say? The store keeper took out a piece of paper and what it up? 662: Folded it interviewer: Or the purchase he? 662: Wrapped it up. interviewer: mm-kay then when I got home I? 662: Opened it. interviewer: Or he wrapped it and then I? 662: Unwrapped it interviewer: And if you had to sell something for two dollars that you paid three dollars for you'd be selling it? 662: At a loss interviewer: mm-kay and say if you liked something but don't have enough money for it you say well I like it but it what too much? 662: Costs too much {NW} interviewer: And when it's time to pay your bill you say your bill is? 662: Due interviewer: And if you belong to a club you have to pay your? 662: Dues interviewer: And if you don't have any money you could go to the bank and? 662: Borrow interviewer: And you say in the thirties money was? 662: Scarce interviewer: And you know some places if if you buy something or pay your bills some store keepers will give you a little extra? 662: lagniappe {C: French} interviewer: mm-kay do they still do that or? 662: Um not too much anymore. interviewer: Did it was it common when you were young? 662: Well say like this little store right here if you go pay your bills she'll give you a few packs of gum for the kids and stuff like that you know. interviewer: Just sort of valueless 662: It's little small independent stores. I mean you know the big chain stores have taken over everything but the little independent grocery stores and stuff like that or the old established furniture stores if you bought a sofa you got a free lamp they will give you a lamp you know or something like that. interviewer: So it's just still common in some of the small 662: Yeah interviewer: places? 662: Right interviewer: And you say a child ran down the spring board and what into the water? 662: Dove interviewer: mm-kay you say several children have? 662: Several children have dove into the water dived. interviewer: mm-kay and you say that I was too scared to? 662: To dive interviewer: And if you dive and hit the water flat you call that a? 662: Belly bust interviewer: mm-kay and you say he what across? 662: Swam interviewer: mm-kay say several children have? 662: Swam interviewer: mm-kay and you say um children like to? 662: Swim interviewer: And if you don't know how to swim and you get in the water you might? 662: Drown interviewer: And you say yesterday he? 662: Drowned interviewer: And I wasn't there so I didn't see him he had? 662: Drowned interviewer: And say a child puts her head on the ground and then turns a what? 662: Say that again. interviewer: Say a child puts her head on the ground and turns a? 662: Tumble set interviewer: mm-kay and what does a baby do before it can walk? 662: Crawl interviewer: And you say she walked up to the alter and she what down? 662: Knelt down interviewer: And if you were tired you might say I think I'll go? 662: Lie down interviewer: And you say he was really sick he couldn't even sit up all morning he what in bed he? 662: {C: Laughter} Stayed in bed. interviewer: mm-kay you say he laid in bed? 662: #1 Laid # interviewer: #2 yeah # 662: yeah interviewer: Huh? 662: Laid laid in bed. interviewer: mm-kay and talking about things you see in your sleep you say this is what I? 662: Dream interviewer: And often when I go to sleep I? 662: Dream interviewer: But I usually can't remember what I? 662: Dream Dreamt {C: Laughing} interviewer: Okay and you say I dreamed I was falling but just when I was about to hit the ground I? 662: Woke up interviewer: mm-kay and to get something to move away from you? 662: Push interviewer: And if you bring your foot down heavy on the floor you say you? 662: Stomp interviewer: And say if you see a friend of yours um leaving the party or something on foot you might say may I what you home? 662: Drive you interviewer: mm-kay do you ever say carry you home or take you home? 662: Take you home yeah. interviewer: mm-kay 662: #1 Give you # interviewer: #2 and # 662: a lift. interviewer: You tell a child that stove it hot so? 662: Don't touch interviewer: And if you needed a hammer you'd tell someone go? 662: Get me a hammer. interviewer: And say if you had a sack of groceries and didn't have your car you'd say you picked it up and? 662: Carried it interviewer: Anything else you'd say besides carried it? 662: No interviewer: Did you ever say you lugged it or packed it or toted it? 662: Uh uh interviewer: Did you ever hear any of those? 662: Yeah not often though. interviewer: What what would some people around here say? 662: I carried it down here the people would say I carried it you know. When you lug something you you're not carrying it you just about dragging it you know it would be something heavy. interviewer: Uh huh would you ever say you packed something or toted it? #1 Did you ever hear # 662: #2 In # reference to carry? interviewer: mm-hmm 662: uh uh interviewer: And a game that children play where one child would be it and the other children will hide? 662: Tag hide-and-seek interviewer: mm-kay what do you call the trees that you can touch and be safe? 662: Home interviewer: mm-kay and in football you run towards the? 662: Goal post interviewer: mm-kay and say if you were about to punish a child he might ask you not to punish him just give me one more? 662: Chance interviewer: And say if we were planning to meet some place I might say well if I get there first I'll wait? 662: For you interviewer: And say if someone always catches on to a joke you say he's got a good sense of? He always sees the funny side in things. 662: Oh a good sense of humor. interviewer: And {NW} you say he didn't actually know what was going on but he what he knew it all? He 662: Thought interviewer: Or meaning he pretended he knew it all you'd say he? You say he acted as if he knew it all or? 662: Yeah interviewer: made out like he 662: Yeah he acted as if he knew it all. interviewer: mm-kay and say a child left a pencil on a desk and came back and didn't find it there you'd say I bet somebody? 662: Stole interviewer: mm-kay and say something there was something bad that you expected to happen like someone was walking along the top of a fence and you expected them to fall off and hurt themself and then someone comes in and says they have fallen off you'd say well I just what that was going to happen? 662: I just knew it was gonna happen. interviewer: mm-kay and something that a child plays with you'd call a? 662: Toy interviewer: Would you ever call it a play {D:frottie}? And say if um if I ask you when are y'all going to Miami you'd say well right now we're what to go next week? We're 662: Planning interviewer: mm-kay do you ever say we're aiming to go or we're fixing to go? 662: {NW} Very seldom. interviewer: What? 662: Oh fixing yeah I'm fixing to do this. You know not aiming though. interviewer: mm-hmm does fixing mean in the future or does it mean immediate? 662: It could mean both as far as I've I'm concerned. interviewer: Would you say we're fixing to do this a week from now? 662: It means you're gonna you're going to do it. interviewer: mm-hmm 662: You know interviewer: But would you use it to mean in the oh say a week from now? 662: Yeah interviewer: And say if a child has learned something new like maybe she learned to whistle her parents might ask who? 662: taught you how to whistle? interviewer: mm-kay do you ever say who learned you? 662: Uh uh {C:Laughing} interviewer: And if you wanted to brighten up your room for a party you'd go out in the yard and if you have a lot of things growing out there. 662: Cut some flowers. interviewer: mm-kay or you didn't say you cut them you say you? 662: Picked them interviewer: mm-kay and a child that is always running and telling on the other children 662: Tattle tale interviewer: mm-kay did you ever use that word to talk about a grownup? 662: No that's a gossip {C:Cough} interviewer: What about the word pimp? Did you ever hear the word pimp meaning a tattle tale? 662: No I've heard it used for other things. interviewer: What did you hear it for? 662: Solicit for a prostitute. interviewer: Do you ever hear it as say to call a a pet child do you ever hear it like your favorite child you know you're pet? 662: The pet yeah. interviewer: You ever hear it called the pimp? 662: Uh uh interviewer: 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? 662: Ask interviewer: So you say so then I? 662: Asked interviewer: mm-kay and you say you've already? 662: Asked interviewer: mm-kay and you say I have just what him a letter? 662: Written interviewer: mm-kay yesterday he? 662: Wrote interviewer: And tomorrow I'll? 662: Write interviewer: And you say I wrote him as time I was getting a? 662: Wait I can't my mind wandered again. interviewer: I wrote him and I expect to get a? 662: Reply interviewer: mm-kay or if you ask a question? 662: You get an answer. interviewer: And you put the letter in the envelope and you take out your pen and you? 662: Address it interviewer: mm-kay do you ever hear uh old fashion way of saying that? 662: mm-mm interviewer: Did you ever hear of back the letter? 662: mm-mm interviewer: And you say well I was gonna write him but I didn't know his? 662: Address interviewer: And um say you can't get through there cause the highway departments got their machines in and the road's all? 662: Blocked interviewer: Or talking about tearing it up you say the road is all? 662: Torn up interviewer: And you give someone a bracelet you want to see how it looks on her so you say why don't you? 662: Try it on. interviewer: Or the opposite of take it off is? 662: Put it on. interviewer: And say if I asked you how long you lived here in this area you'd say I've? What lived here I've? 662: I've lived here all my life interviewer: Or I've al-? 662: I've always lived here. interviewer: mm-kay or you say he moved here in 1960 and he's lived here ever? 662: Since interviewer: And you say that wasn't an accident he did that? 662: On purpose interviewer: And you say those little boys get mad and what each other? 662: Oh hit interviewer: Or 662: Fight interviewer: mm-kay and you say ever since they were small they have? 662: Always fought interviewer: mm-kay and you'd say she what him with a big knife? 662: Stabbed interviewer: And say a a teacher goes into a classroom and finds a picture on the blackboard she might ask who? 662: Who drew this? interviewer: mm-kay and if you wanted to lift something heavy like a piece of machinery up on a roof you could use pulley blocks and a rope to? 662: Lift it interviewer: mm-kay do you ever say to hoist it? 662: Hoist yeah I was about to say that. interviewer: Huh? 662: I was about to say hoist. interviewer: mm-kay and now can you start counting slowly? 662: One two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen interviewer: And the number after nineteen? 662: Twenty interviewer: And after twenty-six? 662: Twenty-seven interviewer: And twenty-nine? 662: Thirty interviewer: Thirty-nine? 662: Forty interviewer: Sixty-nine? 662: Seventy interviewer: Ninety-nine? 662: One hundred interviewer: Nine hundred ninety nine? 662: One thousand interviewer: And ten times one hundred thousand? 662: {C:laughing} Ten times one hundred thousand I don't interviewer: #1 It's one? # 662: #2 know # Million interviewer: mm-kay say if you have a line of people the person at the head of the line would be the? 662: Leader interviewer: Or the what man? The? There's eleven people in line the last man is the eleventh man. 662: He's the tail end. interviewer: Uh huh 662: I don't getcha. He's at the head. interviewer: Uh huh he's not the eleventh he's the? 662: Oh he's the first. interviewer: Okay who's behind the first? 662: The second. interviewer: Okay keep going. 662: Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth Ninth Tenth Eleventh interviewer: And you say sometimes you feel you get your good luck just a little at a time but your bad luck comes all? 662: At one time. interviewer: Or all at? At what? 662: All the time. All at one time. I don't know. interviewer: Well you could say at one time or you could say all at? 662: I don't know. interviewer: And if you said something um more than one time you'd be saying it? 662: Twice interviewer: And would you name the months of the year? 662: January February March April May June July August September October November December interviewer: And the days of the week? {NW} 662: Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday interviewer: And what does Sabbath mean? 662: That's Sunday the day of rest. {NW} interviewer: And if you meet someone during the early part of the day what do you say as the greeting? 662: Good morning interviewer: And how long does morning last? 662: Til noon interviewer: And then you have? 662: Afternoon the noon afternoon yeah. interviewer: mm-kay um then how long does afternoon last? 662: Til six interviewer: And then you'd have? 662: Evening interviewer: And how long does that last? 662: I don't know I've always wondered. {C: laughter} I guess 'til eight. {C:Laughing} interviewer: Until it gets dark or? 662: I don't know I. interviewer: {C:Laughing} 662: Night {C:Laughing} night would be darkness I guess. interviewer: Uh huh say if um if you were leaving somebody around eleven oh clock in the day would you would you say anything as you were leaving them? Would you have an expression you know? 662: At eleven oh clock? interviewer: mm-hmm 662: No interviewer: Do you ever say good day to people? 662: No I always say see you later. interviewer: mm-kay and what about if you are leaving somebody's house after dark? You'd tell them? 662: Good night interviewer: And you say we had to get up and start work before? #1 Before the sun was shining? # 662: #2 sun # rise interviewer: mm-kay and we worked until? 662: Dusk interviewer: Or until s-? 662: Sunset interviewer: mm-kay and you say this morning I saw the sun? 662: Rise interviewer: And at six oh clock the sun? 662: Sets interviewer: Or at six oh clock this morning the sun? 662: Rose oh man I'm I'm getting so lost now. {NW} Okay go ahead interviewer: You'd say when I got outside the sun had already? 662: Risen interviewer: And say if someone came on a Sunday not last Sunday but a week earlier than that you say he came here? 662: Sunday before last. interviewer: And what about if he's gonna leave not next Sunday but a week beyond that? 662: Sunday after next. interviewer: Okay would you ever say Sunday week or Sunday week? 662: Uh uh interviewer: And you say today is Saturday so Friday was? 662: Yesterday interviewer: And Sunday is? 662: Tomorrow interviewer: And if someone stayed from the first to the fifteenth you'd say he stayed about? How long? 662: Two weeks interviewer: Okay do you ever call that a fort night? 662: Uh uh interviewer: And if you wanted to know the time you'd ask somebody? 662: What time is it? interviewer: And if it was midway between seven oh clock and 8 oh clock you'd say that it's? 662: Seven thirty interviewer: Or another way of saying that? 662: Half past seven. interviewer: And if it was fifteen minutes later than seven thirty you'd say that it's? 662: Quarter to eight. interviewer: And if you had been doing something for a long time you'd say I've been doing that for quite a? 662: While interviewer: And you say 1973 was last year 1974 is? 662: This year interviewer: And if something happened on this day last year you'd say it happened exactly? 662: A year ago. interviewer: And the child's just had his third birthday you'd say he's? 662: Three years old. interviewer: And talking about um how tall um this you say this room's about how tall? 662: Eight feet tall interviewer: mm-kay and talking about the weather you'd look up at the sky and say I don't like the looks of those black? 662: Clouds interviewer: And on a day that the sun is shinning and there aren't any clouds you'd say that's a? What kind of day? 662: A beautiful day a sunny day. interviewer: mm-kay what about a day that's the sun isn't shinning? 662: Dreary interviewer: mm-kay and say if the clouds were getting thicker and thicker and you think it is gonna rain or something in a little while you say the weather is? 662: Getting bad interviewer: Uh huh would you ever say it's turning or threatening or breaking or gathering? 662: mm-mm interviewer: And if the clouds were um leaving and the sun was coming out you say it looks like it is going to? 662: Clear up interviewer: And you say it was so cold last night that the lake? 662: Froze interviewer: mm-kay what if it just froze around the edges you'd say it? 662: Froze around the edges {C:laughing} interviewer: Do you ever say it {D:skimmed} over 662: I've never heard that. interviewer: You say it is so cold that the pipes did what? 662: Froze interviewer: And 662: The pipes the pipes frozen and how did the pipes busted that's what we say the pipes busted last night. interviewer: #1 You say I was gonna do something # 662: #2 Instead of saying burst. # interviewer: Uh huh I was gonna do something about them but the pipes had already? 662: Busted interviewer: Cause the water had? 662: Frozen interviewer: And if it gets any colder the pipes will? 662: Freeze up interviewer: And 662: Bust interviewer: And if it is cold enough to kill the tomatoes and flowers you say last night we had a? 662: Frost interviewer: What about something harder than a frost? 662: Hard freeze interviewer: mm-kay and a whole lot of rain that just suddenly comes down? 662: I don't know. A sudden shower. interviewer: mm-kay what if it's if it's just harder than than a shower though? 662: Thunder storm interviewer: mm-kay does that have thunder and lightening in it? 662: mm-hmm interviewer: What about um when it's just 662: No thunder no lightening just a down pour? interviewer: mm-kay 662: {C:Laughing} interviewer: And what about something um is a shower very hard or does it last long or what? 662: A shower doesn't last long it's a passing thing. interviewer: What about something that just sort of lasts all day? 662: An all day rain. interviewer: mm-kay what about something finer than a shower? 662: Drizzle interviewer: mm-kay what's a drizzle like? 662: Light drops interviewer: Do you ever talk about sprinkle? 662: A drizzle and a sprinkle is the same thing. interviewer: mm-hmm what about drops so fine you can hardly see them? 662: Mist interviewer: mm-kay and you say all night long the wind? 662: Blew {C:Coughing} interviewer: It was bad last night but in years past it has? 662: Blown interviewer: mm-kay um you say it started to rain and the wind began to? 662: Blow interviewer: If the wind is from this direction you say that it's? 662: From the north. interviewer: And the wind half way between south and west? 662: Southwest interviewer: mm-kay and between south and east? 662: Southeast interviewer: And east and north? 662: Northeast interviewer: And west and north? 662: Northwest interviewer: And if the winds had been gentle and were gradually getting stronger you'd say it was? 662: Picking up interviewer: mm-kay what if it had been strong and is getting weaker? 662: Dying down {C:Cough} interviewer: And um if no rain comes for weeks and weeks you'd say your having a? 662: Drought interviewer: And um if you get up in the morning and can't see across the road you call that a? 662: Fog interviewer: And a day like that? Would be a? 662: Foggy day interviewer: mm-kay