interviewer: on a school day when it started the end of it when it ended and what all went in between lunch time and everything 703: just one school day interviewer: mm-hmm 703: we'd start in the morn- we'd have to be there by eight o'clock in the morning and they'd let us out for uh up to thirty minute recess about ten o'clock and then they'd let us out again at noon for a whole hour to eat our lunch and play and and then uh we'd the bell'd ring and that meant come in and and we'd have classes then again until about two o'clock or two thirty two fifteen something and we'd have a recess and uh then we'd get out again at four o'clock in the afternoon interviewer: I'm gonna reset it tape nine Joan Warrener {C: name} 703: see we had long days they don't think of going to school here now such hours as that they're always out by three fifteen or three thirty interviewer: mm-hmm if um if a boy didn't show up for school and he was supposed to be in school and his parents didn't know it you might say he 703: playing hooky interviewer: and you were supposed to go to school to get an 703: education interviewer: and after high school you could later go on to 703: college interviewer: after kindergarten you'd go into the 703: elementary #1 school # interviewer: #2 yeah but # what would be the 703: #1 first # interviewer: #2 that # 703: grade interviewer: and the the uh in the classroom you sat at what 703: desk interviewer: you had a a building that was specially for books you'd call that building a 703: library interviewer: you mail a package in a name the building you mail the packages in 703: at the post office interviewer: mm-hmm you stay overnight in a strange town at a 703: hotel or motel nowadays cause hotel's were when I was young interviewer: when you went to see a play you saw it at the 703: usually saw it at the school house interviewer: well where did you see it later? 703: well then they interviewer: after you were married 703: well you wouldn't call going to a a movie a play interviewer: no but where would you go to see uh a play or a movie? 703: well at a movie you'd go to a a regular place for it like in Pine Bluff here what is it called the Saenger Theatre interviewer: mm-hmm 703: and uh but plays we had in school we'd just have plays a- at the end of nearly every term of school {D: with as short as there were} why we'd put on they'd have a program put on and we'd recite the things and then they'd have little short plays and interviewer: the building where you might have to go and have an operation would be a 703: hospital interviewer: the woman that would take care of you in there 703: would be a nurse interviewer: a place where you would catch a train would be a 703: depot interviewer: an open place in the city where the green grass and trees go grow is called 703: #1 park # interviewer: #2 the # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # two streets cross and a man starts out from one corner and he walks to the opposite corner and you say 703: he's angling #1 across # interviewer: #2 he # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: #1 across the street # interviewer: #2 okay # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # any other thing you could say he's what's another way of saying that if you cut across a field instead of following the road you'd say how would you say you walked he walked 703: well {D: well we} as I told you this morning it wasn't far from where we lived to school and but if we cut across the the field interviewer: #1 from this # 703: #2 right # interviewer: side to that #1 side what would it be # 703: #2 that side # it'd be caddy-cornered kinda interviewer: okay vehicles that ran on tracks with a wire overhead were 703: oh interviewer: particularly in California 703: well we had 'em here uh ra- ran on tracks for years and years and years what was it interviewer: well we can come back to it in a minute the bus drivers taking you down the road you say the next corner is where I want 703: to get off interviewer: who pays the postmaster the federal 703: government interviewer: police in town are supposed to maintain what 703: law and order interviewer: before they had the electric chair murderers were 703: hung interviewer: Albany is the capital of 703: New York interviewer: Annapolis is the capital of 703: {D: Innimona-} uh Indiana isn't it {D: -dianapolis} interviewer: #1 Baltimore is in # 703: #2 uh Baltimore # interviewer: #1 # 703: #2 # {D: uh} #1 Baltimore Maryland # interviewer: #2 more is in # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # Richmond is the capital of 703: Virginia interviewer: Raleigh's the capital of 703: North Carolina interviewer: Columbia's the capital of 703: South Carolina interviewer: the bluegrass state is 703: Kentucky interviewer: the volunteer state is 703: volunteer state I don't know interviewer: uh the state that Anne l- uh lives in is {C: name} 703: Tennessee interviewer: Tulsa is in 703: Oklahoma interviewer: Boston is in 703: Massachusetts interviewer: and the states from Maine to Connecticut are known as the 703: north eastern states interviewer: the capital of the United States 703: Washington D.C. they've made it a place of their own now it's a sta- it's a little state of its own just thi- just this last Congress interviewer: the biggest city in Maryland is 703: Annana- Ann- interviewer: #1 the other one # 703: #2 I don't know # interviewer: #1 # 703: #2 # interviewer: with a B Balt- 703: Baltimore interviewer: the um largest city in Missouri where the famous blues are named for 703: in Missouri? interviewer: mm-hmm the largest city 703: St Louis interviewer: the old historical seaport in South Carolina where the s- where the war was started 703: where the Civil War interviewer: uh-huh 703: you got me there interviewer: there you go real old old town on the seaport 703: #1 where they # interviewer: #2 {X} # 703: had the Boston Tea Party? interviewer: have you ever heard of Charleston? 703: yes I've heard of Charleston but I thought the Civ- oh #1 the dev- # interviewer: #2 uh # 703: I was thinking about #1 the Revolutionary War # interviewer: #2 in Alabama the # uh city on the Gulf is 703: where interviewer: in Alabama the city on the Gulf is you heard of Mobile? 703: Mobile is it o- #1 on it # interviewer: #2 {D: mm-hmm} # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # and the capital of Alabama is Mont- Montgomery? 703: Montgomery Alabama interviewer: mm-hmm 703: Montgomery Mobile we went in Florida I thought through interviewer: the largest 703: Mobile but we didn't did we interviewer: city in Georgia is where I live is 703: Atlanta interviewer: the biggest seaport in Georgia is another old city seaport 703: I've said I don't know that interviewer: Savannah 703: Savannah #1 Georgia # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 703: I didn't know it was on the sea interviewer: uh where Fort Benning is in what town in Georgia have you ever heard of Columbus? 703: {X} interviewer: a couple of cities big cities besides New Orleans and Shreveport and Monroe are in its another one is what 703: in it in it #1 in Louisiana? # interviewer: #2 Louisiana # a large one 703: #1 besides # interviewer: #2 down # down the coast besides Shreveport and Monroe and New Orleans is Ba- Bat- Baton 703: Baton Rouge interviewer: uh the biggest city in Southern Ohio 703: is it Columbus? interviewer: where the Reds and the Bengals play their home games 703: Cleveland? interviewer: the blank Redlegs you know the baseball team the Cin- Cincinnati have #1 you ever heard of that # 703: #2 Cincinnati # Ohio interviewer: and the largest cities on the Ohio River are one of the the large cities in Kentucky is besides Lexington is L- heard of Louisville 703: Louisville Louisville I know a woman lives there just couldn't think of it 'til you interviewer: mm-hmm if you have a very sick friend and he was not likely to get any better somebody asked you how he's coming along you'd say well it seems 703: as if he might not get well? interviewer: mm-hmm what else would you say? if it seems 703: that interviewer: it seems to me 703: that he just can't get well interviewer: alright 703: or just interviewer: seems to me he won't pull through 703: #1 pull through # interviewer: #2 seems # to me 703: that he won't pull through interviewer: um if your daughter did not help you with the dishes you'd say she went off to playing 703: #1 and left the # interviewer: #2 blank # 703: work to me interviewer: helping me she went off playing blank helping me 703: she went off playing interviewer: and then you tell her why did you sit around blank helping me 703: I don't #1 understand # interviewer: #2 you say instead # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # instead 703: oh you could said say yes and why'd you sit around instead of helping me that one didn't understand at #1 first # interviewer: #2 okay # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # if a man is funny you like him you say I like him 703: very much #1 or I think he # interviewer: #2 the name # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: #1 think he's a nice # interviewer: #2 of # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: guy interviewer: the name of our lord in church that we pray to 703: it's Jesus Christ interviewer: the name of we worship who do we worship? 703: we worship our lord and and the son Jesus #1 Christ # interviewer: #2 or # what's our lord's another name for our lord 703: God interviewer: the preacher preaches a 703: sermon interviewer: the opposite of God is called the 703: Devil interviewer: alright now you were telling me about a haunted house and I asked you the name of some of the thi- of names of some of the things that would be in a haunted house 703: skeletons and interviewer: what else what would be a thing with a white sheet over it or something what would you call that 703: it'd be what the way they c- fix up haunt- people and make 'em look like hau- haunts or haunts they're called interviewer: um 703: like they do some people on Halloween you know interviewer: mm-hmm you wanna say something stronger more enthusiastic than yes you'd say 703: yes interviewer: could you ever 703: #1 sir # interviewer: #2 say # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: or yes ma'am interviewer: well what else 703: is it a bad word? interviewer: no do you say do you ever say certainly or 703: yes you could say certainly interviewer: what are some ways to answer a man or a woman besides yes what would you say if you were being polite you'd say 703: yes ma'am interviewer: and to a man you'd #1 say # 703: #2 say # interviewer: #1 # 703: #2 # no sir interviewer: if somebody intensely disliked to go somewhere you'd say he blank the place he 703: he don't li- he don't interviewer: if he disliked it very much he blank the place he 703: if I didn't wanna go somewhere interviewer: yeah you'd say that you it'd be bad feelings you'd have bad feelings you'd say 703: I'm angry at you? mad at you interviewer: well what about the place what would you say I 703: I just do not want to go there interviewer: yeah but you'd say something with one word I think I blank that place 703: I hate interviewer: mm-hmm mm-hmm you'd say hate? um what might you say when you get real excited you might put your clap your hands together and say 703: oh {NW} something like #1 that # interviewer: #2 yeah # what else would you say if you're really surprised what would you say 703: oh my I never thou- thought about a thing like that interviewer: mm-hmm if you did something and you're a little peeved at yourself for doing something real stupid what would you say 703: I'd say Mildred you are the dumbest thing {C: name} interviewer: nah you might not have said it that way you might just say it in in an exclamation what would you say oh would you say oh something? 703: oh interviewer: I forgot what you said a minute ago when you found your purse what did you say? 703: what I was trying to say I was thinking about how aggrav- aggravating it was {D: for myself} {D: figured that Monday is your bed and I looked there there it is} oh interviewer: well let's go on maybe you'll think of it later if something shocking is reported to you you might 703: might faint interviewer: show a kind of polite resentment by saying why the you really resent it why the 703: so and so why the interviewer: did you ever say why the very idea? 703: why the very idea of such a thing interviewer: mm-hmm a greeting for a person you would you would look at 'em and say they were a good friend of mi- of yours and you would say to them when you first met maybe in the morning 703: good morning interviewer: okay if the if you met them any other time what would you say to 'em maybe on the street 703: later in the day? interviewer: mm-hmm 703: well it was after twelve you'd say good a- good uh most of us say good evening but it's good afternoon #1 'til six o'clock # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm mm-hmm # mm-hmm if he shook your hand what would you say if it was a stranger 703: how are you or how do you do interviewer: uh if you want that person they've completed their visit and you want them to come you you say to them you've enjoyed it you say come 703: back to see us interviewer: and on the twenty-fifth of December we all say to each other 703: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year interviewer: and if you're appreciate someone doing something for you besides thanking you might say I'm much 703: I'm much indebted to you for what you've done for me interviewer: when you go downtown you go down there to do some 703: shopping interviewer: you made a purchase the storekeep the storekeeper took a piece of paper and 703: racked it racked it up interviewer: if you sell for less than you paid you say I had to sell at 703: and lost money on it interviewer: okay I had to sell it another way of saying it? 703: for less #1 than I # interviewer: #2 selling # it #1 and I # 703: #2 I had to sell it # for less than I paid for it interviewer: mm-hmm selling it at a 703: loss interviewer: if you admire something very much but you don't have enough money to buy it you'd say it I like it but it 703: it's too expensive for me interviewer: on the first of the month people would have to pay rent to you say my bill is 703: they want 'em to s- interviewer: #1 if they # 703: #2 paying the # interviewer: have to pay by the first of the month they know that their bill is 703: whatever the rent is interviewer: yeah but it is what by the first of the month it is 703: it's due #1 it's dued # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # and if you belong to a club sometimes you have to pay the 703: dues interviewer: if you don't have money and you have to go to the bank you might ask to 703: write a check interviewer: but if you didn't have the money in the bank but you needed it you would have to 703: borrow it interviewer: when the banker is refusing the loan he says money is you know like those things are about as blank as hen's teeth about as you don't have very many of them and you don't have much money and he refuses the loan to you and he says especially in the thirties this happened money was 703: very scarce interviewer: when you went #1 swimming # 703: #2 that's # when they had the deep depression interviewer: mm-hmm when you went swimming and you hit your stomach when you jumped in the water you called it a 703: I never swam in my life interviewer: well do you know what anybody else called it? they hit their tummy instead of diving in they missed and they hit their tummy they called it a what 703: I don't know interviewer: well alright when you buy something or pay your bill some storekeepers will give you a little present and say its for 703: uh for paying promptly paying your interviewer: did you have any other names for it 703: paying your bill interviewer: what would it be called that particular gift it's for 703: paying interviewer: #1 did you have any old time # 703: #2 what what # interviewer: terms for it a long time ago maybe 703: well I'd say like I paid the bill promptly #1 and they g- # interviewer: #2 and they gave you # #1 a little gift # 703: #2 and they # gave me a interviewer: you'd say it's he'd say it's for did you have any old time terms for it okay let's go on then if someone gets caught in a whirlpool and he can't get out and he can't swim what happens to him 703: well he might drown interviewer: what does a baby do before it's able to walk 703: crawl interviewer: and what else does it do 703: cry and it #1 crawls # interviewer: #2 you # see something up in a tree you wanna take a closer look so you went up over to the tree and 703: climb the tree interviewer: and if you're playing hide and seek and you find yourself near a stump so you instead of instead of sitting on the ground you 703: hide behind the stump interviewer: yeah but you get down like this you 703: you hunker down interviewer: if you put your knees down you s- and like at the altar you'd say that 703: I'm kneeling interviewer: and in praying you say she down in prayer she 703: she knelt in #1 prayer # interviewer: #2 if you're # tired you'd go in there in the bed and you'd say I'm going to 703: retire interviewer: when you put your body this way you say I'm going over to the couch and 703: reclining interviewer: what's another way of saying that 703: lay down interviewer: mm-hmm if he was really sick and he wouldn't even sit up he just in bed all day he just besides stayed there he just 703: laid in the bed all day interviewer: when you sleep sometimes you have 703: dreams interviewer: you'd say I dreamt so and so and all of a sudden I 703: waked up interviewer: if you bring your foot down hard on the floor 703: stomp interviewer: if a boy sees a girl at church and he wants to go home with her he says may I 703: may I see you home or interviewer: to get up on to get a boat up on land you'd tie a rope to the bow and 703: pull interviewer: when a car is stuck in the mud you have to 703: used to have to put uh anything you could get a hold of brush timber I mean uh lumber anything you could get hold of put under them tires to hold it to push it up out of that mud interviewer: if you have to carry a heavy suitcase a long distance instead of saying I carried it you say I 703: lugged it interviewer: if a child comes in the house and you don't want him to eat the cookies you look over and you say don't you 703: get into my cookies interviewer: if he goes over to something that's going to break you say don't 703: touch that interviewer: if you needed a hammer you'd say to me 703: may I #1 borrow your # interviewer: #2 go # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: go get me a hammer interviewer: in playing tag what was the tree called for the children a long time ago that was a safe place to go or hide and seek you'd have to run in free and touch the what'd you call it the they have that 703: we used to play hide and seek but I interviewer: #1 what about the # 703: #2 {X} # interviewer: two posts in football you have to kick the football over the 703: over a goal don't you interviewer: if you throw a ball and ask somebody to 703: catch it interviewer: if s- a child wanted wanting to get out of a spanking he might say please me another 703: chance and I'll do better interviewer: if a man is in a good hu- humor you say he's he is in a very good 703: state of mind interviewer: he's feeling 703: real good interviewer: if you have someone that's hired and they're loafing all the time you might try to discharge 'em and you'd say to your friend of yours I think I'm going to 703: fire them interviewer: any other words to say if you got termites the exterminating company would say will what 703: inspect interviewer: what else will he do if you have the termites 703: then he will uh uh spray interviewer: so #1 that he can't # 703: #2 poison # interviewer: so that he so that you can 703: so that I can pay him interviewer: so that he can 703: he'll inspect interviewer: #1 why # 703: #2 my # interviewer: is he spraying? 703: well he he'll he'll spray to get rid of the termites interviewer: right he didn't know what was going on but he blank he knew it all 703: he didn't know what to do at all interviewer: but he 703: he thought he knew it all interviewer: what if he's pretending what would you say he 703: he made out like interviewer: Mm-hmm. when someone stole your pencil what's a slang word you might use he at school maybe a long time ago besides stole it's the same he stole my pencil you would say #1 he # 703: #2 he # interviewer: #1 # 703: #2 # he snitched interviewer: any other words that you called it? 703: he grabbed or or got my pencil I've had a many of 'em took away from me when I didn't know it I'd call that snitching interviewer: if um you owe a person a letter you have to pick up your pencil to 703: write interviewer: and then you say yesterday he me letter he 703: yesterday I received a letter from you interviewer: yeah but he had to pick up a pencil and use it to mismatch you {C: pops, breaking up} you write the 703: address interviewer: a little boy has learned something new for instance if he has learned to whistle and you know you want to know where he learned that you ask him who 703: who taught you to whistle interviewer: I wanna ask you if you've put up that new fence yet you'd say no but I 703: will soon or by and by interviewer: I any other words I besides will I pretty soon I 703: I may pretty soon interviewer: what do you call a person who tells on somebody else and a child would do this you'd call him a 703: oh now that'd be a snitcher wouldn't it interviewer: mm-hmm and the other any other words or terms for it did you ever use the word tattle? 703: he tattled o- on another one {C: bump} interviewer: what'd you call that person then 703: oh a tattle tale interviewer: if you want a bouquet at the dinner table you'd go out in the garden and 703: pick one pick the flowers interviewer: something a child might play with would be called a 703: doll interviewer: all of 'em all of 'em 703: all interviewer: all those things are called dolls wagons trains trucks all of 'em are called 703: playthings interviewer: something happened that you expected and you predicted it and you were afraid it was going to happen for example a child hurting himself while doing something dangerous you might say I 703: I predicted that would hap- oh that interviewer: would you say I 703: I thought that was going to happen interviewer: okay what else especially after someone comes in and tells you what has happened you say 703: #1 I # interviewer: #2 I # 703: knew it was going to happen interviewer: when you're out of breath you might have said when you were younger I was feeling so happy I blank all the way home 703: I ran all the way interviewer: and the opposite of take it off is the opposite of taking off your dress is 703: put on the dress? interviewer: you're sitting with a friend not saying anything and then all of a sudden he asks you what did you say you'd say why I said you didn't say anything now you'd say why I said 703: I said nothing interviewer: then you'd say oh I thought you said 703: I you s- {C: whisper} -t you said {C: whisper} hello I th- interviewer: come now there must be blank new 703: there must be there must be s- real new interviewer: if the day was nice outside you might say it's 703: a nice sunny day interviewer: or I'm this is another way of saying getting the word I've never heard of blank things I've never heard of things 703: {D: in a pretty sight value} interviewer: yeah it's it is 703: it's quiet interviewer: quiet and nice day what's another word for quiet 703: peaceful interviewer: well it's Q-U-I-T-E it's quite a nice #1 day # 703: #2 quite # a nice interviewer: #1 it's # 703: #2 day # interviewer: #1 # 703: #2 # it's sunny and mild? interviewer: let's go on to something else if I ask you how long has that mountain been here you might say as far as I know it's 703: been there ever since the world began interviewer: it's all 703: it's what interviewer: it's always been would you say that 703: mm-hmm it's always been there interviewer: if you want to know a person wanted a piece of cake you just have to go over and 703: and ask him if he wanted a piece would he have a piece of #1 cake # interviewer: #2 mm-hmm # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # if two people got together and they didn't get along each time they started talking loudly to each other you'd say they 703: are quarreling #1 or fussing # interviewer: #2 another word # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # if they started hitting each other with hands you would say they were 703: fighting interviewer: if on TV you see a fellow take a knife and put it in the other man you say he 703: he stuck him interviewer: any other words for it 703: or he cut him #1 with that # interviewer: #2 he # 703: #1 # interviewer: #2 # 703: jabbed him with a knife interviewer: and as they took him in the hospital they'd have to to the knife they'd have to 703: pull the knife out interviewer: a funny picture on a blackboard the teacher asks who 703: drew that picture interviewer: you're going to lift something like a big heavy piece of machinery up on a roof you might use pulley blocks and a rope to 703: help pull it up interviewer: yeah what's another word for pull it up? 703: lift interviewer: well another word for lift to on you on a car that a wrecker has to come out and has to pick it up off the ground so it has to you your have you ever said hoist it up? 703: hoist that's a good word I couldn't think of it interviewer: um you were gonna tell me the name of the place in the kitchen in the little room where you kept the food 703: that was the pantry interviewer: alright and what was the other two two things I think you didn't say uh can't remember what they were 703: well I said that big it's not on tape is it I said that big that word where alternative high school down was kaleidoscope interviewer: mm-hmm 703: and then I was at another one interviewer: yeah oh I know it was the uh little fish that you thought of right 703: topwaters interviewer: and um trying to think of what else I think that's about all thank you very much I appreciate spending the time with me to do this 703: you mean that's #1 all # interviewer: #2 I've # enjoyed it haven't you 703: yeah but I missed so many what you gonna do about those that I just completely missed interviewer: well when we couldn't get 'em so we just do without 'em 703: but ho-