interviewer: tape eight listen to after tape seven Joan {B} informant you were going to tell me about uh the uh berry that grew out in the pasture I think you said 703: you want me all three of 'em? interviewer: all of 'em yeah 703: uh blackberry and huckleberry and elderberry that's all I know o- can remember that grow wild interviewer: mm-hmm and where did you say they grew? 703: the elderberry just grows all over out there in that here interviewer: mm-hmm 703: back behind interviewer: now the uh large flowering tree with shiny leaves and big white flowers has a big seed pod that's the size and shape of a cucumber you know those great big trees with the shiny leaves to 'em they are we don't have any of those around here 703: have a pod the size of a cucumber? interviewer: yeah about the a real it's the shape of a cucumber a large large flowers large tree with shiny leaves alright if uh what were some other names that you called your father 703: always called him papa till he got older and and all I called him father #1 a lot # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # what about your uh mother did you have any names that 703: #1 she was mama # interviewer: #2 were affectionate for some # 703: #1 and then mother just like him # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm mm-hmm # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # uh how about for your grandparents for either one of 'em did you have any names that you'd call 'em 703: I just called 'em grandpa and grandma interviewer: what about pet names for children did you have any special little names for 703: I uh no we just called 'em their real names #1 we never did # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: uh my husband did not like uh you know to cha- uh like uh well when he was young they called him Prosperity there when he'd go in the Kingsland schools and everybody had a uh what do you call them names like that when you change it interviewer: nicknames? 703: nickname and he did not like nicknames so he tried to name all of our children we want he didn't want 'em something that could be nicknamed and it I think we got some ugly names I don't think Clarence ever liked hers {C: name} I wanted to name her so- Cl- I wanted to name her Clarice and he wouldn't let me {C: name?} and I I wanted to name him uh name her as close to him cause we'd uh hoped to have a boy and I was gonna call him C-G junior interviewer: Mm-hmm. 703: and or we were he- he agreed to that then when she was a girl and I wanted to say Clarice and he w- he no but he liked Clair cause he'd dated this little girl that I was talking to about at magnolia and her name was {B} Clair interviewer: mm-hmm 703: and I after that I told him I said that's why you wanted to name our first baby Clair and he didn't like it he said he just liked the name it's a short name couldn't be m- changed much you know interviewer: mm-hmm did you have anything that you put the baby in with wheels on it and then lie down you take it out of it 703: well I had a had a baby pen for the last two children interviewer: did you have anything that you 703: #1 and then had baby # interviewer: #2 take it outside and you # 703: bed and and then had a a stroller interviewer: did you have anything that uh where it could lie down and that type of thing 703: it could lie down in the baby beds interviewer: yeah but I meant outside where you could roll #1 it # 703: #2 oh # interviewer: #1 # 703: #2 # #1 no I didn't have anything just # interviewer: #2 you could roll it down down the street and any # thing like that 703: #1 I just # interviewer: #2 um # 703: had uh we just had that stroller and to push it in #1 push the baby in # interviewer: #2 did you have a buggy # or anything baby buggy or anything 703: well it that's that's what it was instead of a stroller a baby buggy interviewer: um put the baby in the carriage you go out and what would you say 703: you mean put the baby in #1 the # interviewer: #2 in the # carriage and 703: #1 in the baby carriage # interviewer: #2 go out # and what would you be doing 703: I'd be rolling it interviewer: okay and uh 703: or pushing it interviewer: mm-hmm did you ever say you wheel the baby? I'm going to wheel the baby if a woman was gonna have a child you say she's 703: pregnant interviewer: do you have any other words that you used to use any other terms 703: mm-mm not that I remember interviewer: uh-huh if you didn't have a doctor deliver a baby what would be the woman that might that you might send for 703: now what did they call {D: cause I never had one but grandma Grifford did {C: name}} my mother never had one she always had doctors uh interviewer: well let's go on 703: there were women that knew how to do these #1 things now # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 703: what d- what did they call 'em interviewer: well maybe you'll think of it later a boy and his father have the same appearance you might say the boy what say they had the same color hair and eyes as his father and the same shaped nose you'd say he 703: favors his father interviewer: mm-hmm um mothers looked after three children till they're grown up you say she has 703: she has raised her children interviewer: uh to a naughty child you might say you're going to get a 703: spanking interviewer: did you have any other terms for a spanking? 703: or whipping interviewer: Mm-hmm. a child that's born to an unmarried woman you call it 703: call used to call 'em bastards interviewer: did you have any other names for it? 703: there's another name now what is it child out of marriage do you remember? interviewer: just an illegitimate 703: #1 illegitimate uh-huh # interviewer: #2 child mm-hmm # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: but they used to didn't say illegitimate when I was growing up when I was young they said it oh that child's a that's a bastard interviewer: um 703: I think the illegitimate sounds #1 nicer myself # interviewer: #2 if you said that # Jane is a loving child but Peggy is a lot what 703: Peggy is a interviewer: using the word loving in the in a different way Jane is a loving child but Peggy is a lot 703: #1 lot more # interviewer: #2 what'd you say # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: friendly or loving interviewer: more loving was that what you'd say? 703: well you could if one was you know more interviewer: the person that might be appointed to look after an orphan would be its 703: sometimes it's the grandparents interviewer: mm-hmm but if it wasn't its ga- 703: #1 or or if # interviewer: #2 {X} # 703: #1 one parent # interviewer: #2 legal what # 703: one parent still living why they might #1 take it # interviewer: #2 well if # if it was an orphan though it wouldn't have any parents living so it 703: #1 that's right if it's an orphan it # interviewer: #2 sit it'd be its legal what # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: if it's orphan it'd be it'd mean both parents was dead #1 and gone # interviewer: #2 right # 703: wouldn't it and what was that last question interviewer: I said uh the person appointed would be its legal what 703: I don't know what I didn't quite #1 understand the question # interviewer: #2 would you say # guardian or 703: yes uh it'd have to have a guardian appointed but usually the grandparents took 'em and raised 'em back in my time interviewer: if a woman gives a party and she invites all the people that are related to her you say she asked all 703: relatives interviewer: if she has the same family name doesn't look a bit like me but I'm actually what say I have I'm the s- I have the same family name as Clara and maybe I look a little bit like her but I'm actually 703: not any blood kin cause you're married #1 to her son # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # a person who comes into town that no one's seen before he's a 703: stranger interviewer: the sister in the bible at whose house Jesus stayed 703: at Lazarus' house interviewer: yes 703: #1 Martha # interviewer: #2 uh # 703: and Mary #1 you know were his sisters # interviewer: #2 right mm-hmm # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # a nickname for Helen beginning with an N 703: for Helen interviewer: mm-hmm we'll skip that one a nickname for a boy named William 703: Bill interviewer: or with a Y on it it'd be 703: Billy that's one that come by this afternoon interviewer: uh 703: my great #1 grandson # interviewer: #2 {D: Sarah's} # other child besides Michael is 703: Matthew {X} interviewer: did you have any other names for the woman who conducted school other than teacher you said teacher last night but do you have any other names for it 703: the one that uh interviewer: that conducted the school other than to call her a teacher what else would you call it anything else you can remember 703: #1 just the teacher # interviewer: #2 from old-fashioned times # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: they'd say it just {B} and missus our teacher or {B} or mister was that my teach- first teacher that I ever went to and that's all we said just to call 'em a t- but we you you better call 'em mister and m- or miss or ms or you'd get something in {C: interviewer laugh} those days interviewer: what about the preacher that wasn't really trained he didn't have a regular pulpit he preached on h- on Sunday here and there and he made his living doing something else if he isn't very good at preaching you'd call him a what did you ever have a name for a person like that? 703: no as I said we just had preachers sometime come #1 once a month # interviewer: #2 what if # 703: when the roads was bad #1 and they # interviewer: #2 what if # he wasn't very good though 703: well I can't remember what if we ever had a one that wasn't good interviewer: well what about uh a lawyer that wasn't very good what would you did you have a name for it or a a teacher or a governor or a doctor or something what would you say 703: I'd say they were ignorant or something interviewer: maybe did you ever hear of a jackleg preacher 703: I've heard of jackleg someb- could call somebody jackleg but I don't know what it is preacher is that what they call it a #1 jackleg preacher # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # um Clair's husband's name is 703: John {B} interviewer: um the commander of the army for the south in the army of north Virginia during the civil war was 703: general Lee interviewer: and the man who introduced Kentucky fried chicken 703: {D: pictures} out there what is it colonel interviewer: uh a man in charge of a ship you call him the 703: charge of the ship he's captain isn't he interviewer: mm-hmm the man who presides over a county court would be a man in the black robe in court 703: judge interviewer: a person who keeps the correspondence in the books for the boss maybe a woman in an office she would be the 703: secretary interviewer: the woman who appears in plays or movies is an 703: actress interviewer: anyone born in the United States of America is called an 703: an American interviewer: uh we talked last night and you said that um for negroes you call them that and you called 'em um blacks and what else were 703: #1 {D: they got} # interviewer: #2 some of the # 703: #1 they'd rather be called # interviewer: #2 terms that you'd call 'em # 703: blacks now #1 we always ca- # interviewer: #2 what did you s- what # were some derogatory terms that you used to call 'em 703: I never knew anything other than just negroes or nigger it cuts a lot of people'd ca- cut it short and say nigger they're a nigger uh but uh I would say negro and uh now they like ha- I understand that they prefer to be called blacks interviewer: um the poor whites do you have a name that you'd call a poor white 703: no interviewer: no names no uh #1 derogatory # 703: #2 can't think # interviewer: terms or anything 703: I can't think of any interviewer: um what would you call the man you worked for the hired hands might call might have called your father this their 703: their boss interviewer: okay and if it had been uh would the blacks had called him something different other than a boss the white people 703: I don't know can't think I'm interviewer: um 703: you know they could have to his back I guess interviewer: well white people who aren't well off and haven't got a chance at education alike especially those that are good for nothing and too lazy to work what would you call them 703: loafers lazy interviewer: what else 703: good for nothings interviewer: what else 703: well that's all I can think of that's enough to call 'em interviewer: white trash or 703: yes I I've heard 'em called white trash but I just call 'em loafers lazy good for nothing some of these that's on this government handouts like those stamps you know and riding around in great big fine cars interviewer: if they're black does it make any difference do you call 'em something else? 703: no I just s- call 'em same thing interviewer: uh does it make any difference if they're town or country people um someone who lives in the country and he doesn't know anything about town ways and he's conspicuous when he gets to town of himself he might say I don't know anything about city ways I'm just an old 703: country boy interviewer: any other terms that you can think of if 703: Mike called himself ignorant I don't know {C: name} interviewer: at a party if you look at your watch and you see it's eleven thirty or so you say we'd better be getting home it's 703: getting late interviewer: it's blank midnight it's it's what midnight it's 703: it's just thirty minutes till midnight interviewer: alright what's 703: #1 half past eleven # interviewer: #2 another way you'd say it # what's another way to say it well let's say it's uh five minutes till twelve you might say it's uh 703: uh well we'd say five minutes till twelve #1 or midni- # interviewer: #2 no if # you do weren't saying I mean if you didn't know you you looked and it was getting close what would you say you say it's uh 703: quarter till interviewer: yeah well what else could you say it's uh would you say almost or nearly or 703: yes if it was interviewer: #1 nigh or # 703: #2 in # between the time at ten or eleven or something where you could say well it's almost midnight or interviewer: if you want someone to wait when you say you'll be ready soon you might say I'll be with you in 703: just a few minutes interviewer: um you know that you're on the right road but you aren't sure the distance you ask somebody how you know you're on the right road if you were going to Little Rock but you didn't know the distance you might stop and ask how 703: ho- uh get the directions and just how to get to where I #1 wanted to go # interviewer: #2 no but # you know the direction but you don't know the distance so you'd say how 703: how far it is or how many miles from here to #1 Little Rock # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # um if this part of your body gets very hot this part would be 703: {D: if fire itch called it it's fired} it's spelled F-O-R-W-A-R-D #1 isn't it # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # um you agree with a friend when he says I'm not going to do that or I'm not going to vote for that guy and you say 703: #1 well do you have # interviewer: #2 if you agree with # him you'd say 703: I won't either or or what do you have against him uh-huh interviewer: no you say 703: #1 if I'm a rep- # interviewer: #2 I won't be # 703: #1 if he's a Democrat # interviewer: #2 either or # 703: and I'm a Republican I would say what do you have against him and if our if I'm with the same he if I'm a Democrat and he's a Democrat I'd {C: interviewer coughing} I might say what you ha- what do you have against him or why are you why are you voting for him interviewer: did your husband ever have um hair on his face that he left on his face 703: not never always shaved when interviewer: what do you call this 703: it's called {D: she rock} my daddy had a little up there as a mustache isn't it? interviewer: and this here 703: beard isn't it interviewer: mm-hmm and uh if you saw a child chewing gum and you didn't want him to you'd say take that chewing gum out of your 703: mouth interviewer: if you were chewing on chicken bones you might get one stuck in your 703: throat interviewer: when you go to the dentist you have to have him look at your 703: have to what interviewer: you go to the dentist you have to have him look at your 703: oh it'd have to have a look at your teeth interviewer: and the flesh around the teeth are called the 703: gums interviewer: this part of your hand 703: palm interviewer: this 703: fist interviewer: when people get old and complain they're getting stiff in their 703: joints interviewer: and this part 703: #1 heart # interviewer: #2 on a man # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: heart interviewer: a man this part he's got a broad 703: chest interviewer: um they measure the height of a horse in what 703: span interviewer: the pain ran from his heel all the way up to his 703: head interviewer: and at the end of your leg it's your 703: kn- your foot interviewer: the when the ground's too cold or too muddy to sit on you might get down down like this when you're inspecting like the leaves of tobacco plant or passing the time with a friend and you're down on your 703: knees interviewer: no you're down like this you're down on your 703: well you're just hunkering kinda hunkering down interviewer: uh someone's been sick a while and he's up and about now but he still looks a little bit 703: pale interviewer: anything else you'd call it besides pale he still he still looks other than pale he still looks what he's been real sick you might say he still looks 703: weak interviewer: you ever say sickly or poor 703: I could interviewer: person who can lift heavy weights and you would say he's very 703: strong person interviewer: a person that's easy to get along with you would say his dis- #1 position is # 703: #2 has a good dis- # position interviewer: alright what else about his disposition he's what he always has a smile on his face and he never loses his temper you might say he's mighty 703: easy to get along with #1 has a good # interviewer: #2 any # 703: disposition interviewer: any other things? if a boy's growing up and it seems like his arms and legs get in the way of everything and he knocks over furniture you'd say he's awfully 703: awkward interviewer: anything else 703: that's all I can #1 think of # interviewer: #2 okay # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # um a person who does a lot of things that don't make any sense you'd say he's a plain 703: idiot interviewer: another word? any other words? 703: bumbler stumbler interviewer: if he says things or does things that don't make sense you might say he's making a out of himself he's making a 703: jackass is that what you wanted me to say interviewer: something like that yeah you could say that 703: that's awful though to put on tape interviewer: well a fool #1 of himself # 703: #2 uh an idiot # interviewer: #1 # 703: #2 # um a fool out of #1 himself # interviewer: #2 yeah # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: would be better interviewer: um a person who will never spend a cent you call him 703: tightwad interviewer: when you say the word common about a person what does it mean? you'd say that girl is very common what would you mean 703: well it means it's to me she would uh not be dressed up nice maybe wouldn't have her hair fixed good nicely or uh and maybe wouldn't be pretty in the face interviewer: if an old man is still very strong and active and he doesn't show his age you might say he's still quite 703: quite active interviewer: mm-hmm and anything else? 703: fi- well #1 you mean for his age # interviewer: #2 anything else? # yeah you might say I don't care how old he is he's mighty 703: not mighty active or strong for his age that interviewer: if you get to worrying about your children let's say they were out on a date you'd say I can't help feeling a little 703: uneasy and I've had that lots of times interviewer: um 703: listening for the doorbell to ring for the open the door and come in interviewer: if you didn't want to go upstairs in the dark you'd say I'm 703: afraid in the dark interviewer: she isn't afraid now but she 703: used to be interviewer: um what was a thing that you used to that people used to tell stories about to scare you what were some of the things 703: haunt- haunt- they called 'em haunts haun- they're something that's something that's haunted or uh interviewer: what did that mean it had in it? 703: well it meant that there's maybe somebody'd come back from the dead or something and was haunting you interviewer: mm-hmm 703: and uh like my father he scared my little brother from the plum orchard because he was eat- he was making so many trips there a day eating so many of those 'fraid it'd make him sick and he told him there's yahoos down there yahoos he'd call it interviewer: #1 mm-hmm # 703: #2 and # interviewer: #1 # 703: #2 # so uh papa and mama were working in the garden and the plums were just outside the garden in a patch they just grew up thick you know interviewer: mm-hmm 703: the yellow and the red and there my brother little brother had been in there with 'em but he sneaked around and had kind of uh got opened the gate sneaked around and climbed the fence to go get him some plums and my father knew how to get through the fence there was some pickets loose or something and he got through the fence and beat the l- my little brother down to the thicket hid himself as well as he could and commenced to holler yahoo yahoo my little brother just come flying back and he said there's yahoos down there there's yahoos down there and we said well what did he look like he said well he kinda looked like papa that's the truth I remember when that happened I was there I was there {NW} {C:laughter} well I don't know he said I c- {C: interviewer coughing} I- I he kinda looked like my papa #1 and you know # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 703: I didn't think there was such a word I- I- I wondered where my daddy got that I thought it was just something made up I got the dictionary one day and looked it up and it's pronounced yahoo but it it really is interviewer: kind of spook or #1 something # 703: #2 uh-huh # interviewer: #1 # 703: #2 # interviewer: hmm somebody who leaves a lot of money around on the table and the door unlocked you might say he's mighty 703: careless interviewer: and if there's nothing wrong with a person but sometimes she might act kind of 703: silly interviewer: but if she acts a little different from other people you might say she acts kind of {C: breaking up} and he doesn't want to change you say don't be so 703: stubborn interviewer: don't be so in your ways don't be so 703: set in your ways interviewer: somebody that loses their temper easily and you can't joke with them you say they're mighty 703: they're a interviewer: or they're 703: very high-tempered interviewer: or 703: stubborn interviewer: anything else? they get mad very quickly you say 703: #1 lose their tem- # interviewer: #2 he's awfully # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: lose their temper interviewer: and he's awfully 703: I can't think of what you want there interviewer: um if I was just kidding him I didn't know he'd get 703: mad #1 or angry # interviewer: #2 if somebody # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 's about to lose his temper you tell him just 703: just uh interviewer: just keep maybe you'd tell this to a person that was in a burning building as they started running out you'd say keep 703: don't run? interviewer: you've been working very hard you'd say you were very 703: tired interviewer: any other words for it? 703: give out interviewer: if you use wear out you say he is all 703: worn out interviewer: and then you'd say I'm completely 703: worn out interviewer: if a person has been quite well and then you hear suddenly that they have some disease you'd say last night she 703: was alright interviewer: no they got the were well and then suddenly they got some 703: #1 got ill # interviewer: #2 disease you say last # night she 703: was well and uh and then she had a heart attack or #1 got sick # interviewer: #2 she # 703: suddenly got sick interviewer: okay but she'll be up again by if they're sick now you'd say he'll be well again 703: in a few days interviewer: by would you ever say by and by? 703: I could say that #1 cause # interviewer: #2 if you're # sneezing and coughing #1 you'd been out in the rain # 703: #2 cause you couldn't exactly # say said uh a day we wouldn't know interviewer: if you're sneezing and coughing you'd been out in the rain and you'd come in and say 703: oh I'm taking a cold interviewer: and if you can't talk with your voice you'd say I'm 703: hoarse that's me I have laryngitis interviewer: and along with that cold you might have a little 703: cough interviewer: take a pill makes you feel like you wanna go to bed you'd say I'm feeling a little 703: drowsy interviewer: maybe the next one at six o'clock I'll like you were going to bed and next morning six o'clock I'll 703: wake up interviewer: if uh he began to sweat when he started to work by the time he finished he would say he a lot in the hot sun he 703: perspired interviewer: a lot in the hot sun? 703: mm-hmm interviewer: a sore that comes to a head you call a 703: boil interviewer: if you open up the boil the stuff that comes out of it is the 703: pus interviewer: if you got an infection in your hand and it gets bigger and bigger you might say my hand if it gets bigger and bigger you say my hand 703: is swollen interviewer: and if you get when you get a blister the liquid that forms under the skin is 703: well it looks like water interviewer: if you got shot with a bullet you would call it a people in the war had 703: wounds interviewer: um when a wound doesn't heal clean a white granular substance might form around the edge sometimes it had to be cut out or burned out with alum it's some kind of fle- flesh 703: proud flesh interviewer: when you cut your finger you might put a little red liquid or brown liquid that stings on it which would have been a long time ago it would've 703: #1 iodine # interviewer: #2 been # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # and a tonic for malaria a bitter powder 703: #1 it's # interviewer: #2 it came # 703: #1 quinine # interviewer: #2 in # came in capsules 703: it's quinine interviewer: long time ago any other names for died the person a person died any funny names or humorous names for it that you know of 703: you really D-I-E-D #1 or D-Y- # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm yeah # D-I-E-D 703: uh well we'd say passed away interviewer: mm-hmm any other uh humorous or different other names for it 703: {D: I don't think there are any other names} interviewer: the box that people are buried in is the 703: well there's a coffin and and then theres a box outside of the coffin interviewer: well what's the what's the one outside of the coffin? 703: well they used to just uh have a wooden box that they'd put the coffin in a long time ago now then they put 'em in a vault or like I had my husband stee- in a steel casket interviewer: mm-hmm and the people when they dress in black you say they are in 703: mourning interviewer: somebody meets you on the street and says well how are you today if you're feeling just about average you might say oh I am 703: I'm alright or I guess I'm alright fee- feeling pretty good interviewer: if someone's troubled you might say oh it'll come out alright 703: just give it time interviewer: just don't 703: don't worry and give it time it'll come out alright interviewer: the disease of the joints when you're getting old stiff and you ache 703: arthritis used to called it rhe- rheumatism though interviewer: a sore throat with blisters on the inside of the throat you now can take a shot for it people used to choke to death 703: #1 oh let's see # interviewer: #2 and # {D: bat rural one} 703: oh what #1 did they call # interviewer: #2 give people the Schick # test to see if they needed shots for 703: what did they call that and it had that sore throat and it'd choke 'em to death diphtheria interviewer: mm-hmm person who loses his food what do you say he 703: vomited interviewer: any other terms that you've heard people say crude terms 703: up {D: Mary's demons} say upchuck when Donna'd vomit I just always said vomit #1 and then I heard # interviewer: #2 if a per- # 703: on televi- uh radio said my he reg- she reg- regu- regur- -gurgitated interviewer: if a person vomited he was sick sick 703: at his stomach interviewer: she had hardly got the news when she came right over 703: to see me interviewer: she came right over to if you didn't know she came over to over to 703: sympathize with me or interviewer: you didn't #1 know the news # 703: #2 or comfort # me or interviewer: she hardly got the news when she came right over to if you didn't know she came over to what 703: came over to just to visit with me interviewer: #1 she heard that this # 703: #2 or comfort me or # interviewer: if a friend of yours heard some news on the telephone and then she called you up she'd call you up to she came over or she called you up to 703: tell me about it interviewer: you both are going to be glad to see me you say we be glad to see you 703: uh-huh interviewer: we 703: will be glad to see you interviewer: you might say to a child who's misbehaving you do that again I'm going to 703: spank you interviewer: what were some other words for courting didn't you have some others if a fella was interested in a girl he was besides dating you said some just some others that you 703: dating courting just something that sometimes they'd say they're going together interviewer: anything else what'd you call the fellow that you liked he was your 703: I I called him my {B} husband to hi- uh mis- interviewer: before 703: before we were married #1 and after # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 703: we were married to anyone in public and after we were married I called him sweetheart interviewer: what would you call 703: #1 but I # interviewer: #2 him # 703: never did call his name Clarence interviewer: since you were going with him or dating him you would say that he was your 703: sweetheart interviewer: and for a a boy he would say about the girl that she was his what would he have said about you back in those days or what would somebody else said you had been dating and then they would say you are my 703: my my girlfriend? interviewer: mm-hmm anything anything else do you know any other things they used to say? any funny ones or different ones or 703: can't think interviewer: a boy came home with lipstick on his collar you might look at him and say you've been 703: you've been kissing interviewer: any other words for kissing? 703: necking interviewer: any others? 703: that's all I know interviewer: if he asked her to marry him and she doesn't want him what do you say she did to him? 703: she rejected him turned him down interviewer: anything else 703: plain out told him no maybe interviewer: what are some other words for married maybe some different ones other than the they're just 703: for married interviewer: mm-hmm 703: after they're married interviewer: any humorous ways to say married maybe used like they went ahead and got 703: got married interviewer: any other you don't know of any other terms for it? 703: tied together? interviewer: any other terms that you used to call it? well let's go onto the next one um the man that stood behind beside the groom during the service would be called the 703: groomsman {D: isn't didn't it} interviewer: and the girl that stood beside the bride would be the 703: bridesmaid or the no interviewer: mm-hmm 703: bridesmaid interviewer: after a wedding the boys in the neighborhood might gather around the couple's home and make all kinds of noise and you call it a 703: oh what did they used to call that {D: they hadn't owned} what did they call it {C: whispering} interviewer: maybe you'll think of it later 703: ring bells blow #1 horns # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 703: #1 do all that # interviewer: #2 fire # rifles what'd they call it 703: I can't think of it cause we weren't done that way but I know that some were and there was a name but I cannot think of it interviewer: if you saw one of your best friends in Atlanta you would say I saw him blank Atlanta I saw him 703: in Atlanta? interviewer: yeah would you say up or down or would you say I saw him down in Atlanta? 703: from here it would be down wouldn't it? I saw him do- when down in Atlanta interviewer: mm-hmm for a group of people that maybe they arrested one or two of 'em they arrested the blank group they arrested the you might say they arrested the 703: entire group interviewer: what w- what could you call that group? of people other than just a group of people it'd be a group of people that would be doing things that were against the law and maybe the police maybe they'd have a party or the police would have to come and arrest that group of people what would you call that group of people? 703: {D: were they} burgling or harassing or uh {D: give} {D: posse out after a burglar} interviewer: it would be just a whole group they would arrest so you'd say they arrested the 703: all of 'em interviewer: mm-hmm now school you told me that you had some short terms tell me about the day when it started and about the day when it ended 703: #1 well if # interviewer: #2 like a school day # 703: we had four months