791: Tell them about how fellows dressed as to what he Got or what he was Interviewer: Okay well you know any names that uh any other names that that folks had for a guy who just lived out in the country what about people who were who uh were you know lazy or folks that just they were what they people who 791: Trifling or No count or No good Interviewer: Okay um did you ever hear what uh what would it mean if if you said uh well any other words that folks used for people uh like in Georgia we call people you know a person he's an old cracker or something like that did you ever hear that used Aux: A knot head 791: Heard them called a knot head or a Somebody didn't think quick or right or Interviewer: Okay uh you a person like that you'd just say they were um a person what about a person who just lived back lived didn't keep themselves up didn't keep the house looking nice didn't give their kids any education or a chance at education or you know let the farm get get run down all the time what do you call you know um a man like that like he's just a what did you have any names for folks like that they just 791: Don't care or Interviewer: Okay alright okay uh would you if you said she's just a if you were saying about a girl she's a common girl what would you mean 791: Well she would wouldn't dress fancy or put on a bunch of makeup or In other words she's just plain Interviewer: Okay but you said a person might well she's just a she's a very common girl what would that mean 791: Well it would mean that she didn't Go in for no fancy Talk or Society just plain common Interviewer: Okay would it uh would would you mean it as a compliment about the you know just she's just they're just common people #1 they're just {X} # 791: #2 They're just right # they're just plain people they're just but they're good folks Interviewer: #1 Ordinary # 791: #2 Yeah # Yeah ordinary Interviewer: Ordinary people 791: Ordinary people yes Don't go in for nothing fancy or Interviewer: Alright now somebody who lives out in the country we were talking about he lives right on you know he just lives out in the where the 791: Out in the sticks Interviewer: Sticks okay he's a he's just a what did you ever hear the word Hoosier or Hoosier 791: Yeah country Hoosier Interviewer: Country Hoosier 791: Yes Interviewer: Okay 791: One lived way back outside in the woods where it was a long ways from any road or {NW} Town or highway or anything they'd say well that He lives so far back there they'll have to pump daylight to him every morning Interviewer: {NW} 791: Or he he lives so far out in the country I'll tell you He uses bob cats for house cats Interviewer: {NW} 791: And so old sayings like that Interviewer: Uh now at a party you look at your watch and it's around eleven thirty or so you might say we better be getting home it's 791: Getting late Interviewer: It's what to midnight it's blank midnight it's 791: Eleven thirty Interviewer: Okay would you say it's almost midnight or it's Aux: Thirty minutes Interviewer: Well night or nearly or 791: It's it's nearly midnight Interviewer: Nearly midnight okay 791: Or almost midnight Interviewer: Now you slip and catch yourself you say ooh this is a dangerous place I 791: Almost slipped or almost fell Interviewer: Okay say I'd like to fallen 791: I'd like to fallen Interviewer: Okay somebody's waiting for you to get ready so that you can go out with him and he calls to you hey will you be ready soon you might say I'll be with you 791: In a second or in a minute Interviewer: Just what I'll be with you 791: Just a second Interviewer: Okay just a minute 791: Just a minute Interviewer: Now you know you're on the right road but you aren't sure of the distance you ask somebody how 791: How far is it Interviewer: Okay uh you want to know how many times somebody did something you might ask them how 791: How often Interviewer: #1 Do you do that okay # 791: #2 Did you do that # Interviewer: Now you're sitting with a friend and you're listening to a political speech or something like that and he says well I'm not going to vote for that guy and if you wanted to agree with him you might say what 791: I'll go along with you Interviewer: Uh me or what me he says I'm not going to vote for that guy you might say well me 791: Me either Interviewer: Me either or or uh uh blank am I what 791: Neither am I Interviewer: Neither am I okay now few parts of the body this is your 791: Forehead Interviewer: Okay and this is your 791: Hair Interviewer: Yeah somebody's got a 791: Beard Interviewer: Beard okay which ear is it this is my 791: Left ear Interviewer: Okay you might say an old town store keeper would keep his uh keep his pen 791: Over his right ear Interviewer: Okay where in his 791: In the back Interviewer: In the back of his ear okay uh somebody's mumbling you might say take that chewing gum out of your 791: Mouth Interviewer: Okay uh he got a chicken bone stuck in his 791: Goozle Interviewer: Goozle 791: Neck Interviewer: Okay what what what's your goozle 791: That's Your windpipe I presume Interviewer: Okay that's uh okay your windpipe is that your Adam's apple 791: Adam's apple Interviewer: Okay um alright you call that your what your 791: Neck or throat Interviewer: Throat okay and you might be going to the dentist to have him look at your 791: Teeth Interviewer: Okay you'd say he needs to fill that 791: Cavity Interviewer: Maybe get a cavity or a 791: Front tooth Interviewer: Okay the flesh around the teeth is yours 791: Gums Interviewer: Okay this is your the 791: Palm Interviewer: Of your 791: Hand Interviewer: {X} You have two 791: Two hands Interviewer: Double them up you make two 791: Two fist Interviewer: And you got one 791: One fist Interviewer: Okay any place you can bend your finger or your hand you call 791: Joint Interviewer: Okay what um what's that disease of the joints that folks 791: Arthritis Interviewer: Or 791: Rheumatism Interviewer: Okay 791: Yeah we have two neighbors here uh one of them's dead now the other one's living {NW} Uh {B} He was a old timer And uh Well the other neighbor's name is {B} Interviewer: Uh-huh 791: Lives right across the road right now Interviewer: Yeah 791: {B} And you'd meet Mister {B} After if he hadn't been dead bef- a couple of years You'd meet him and say well how are you this morning Mister Ed {NW} When he had this arthritis or rheumatism in his joints {NW} He said oh I've been doing fine lately said the only thing wrong with me said I got that old {B} In every joint {NW} He didn't say arthritis he'd say that old arthr- {B} Every joint {NW} These were big Big {D: leg} Mister {B} Interviewer: Now the upper part of the man's body is his 791: Chest Interviewer: Okay say he's got broad 791: Shoulders Interviewer: Shoulders okay the pain ran all went through his 791: Toe Interviewer: Oh went through his le- went through his you got two 791: F-feet Interviewer: One you've got one 791: Toe Interviewer: Held up with what 791: Foot Interviewer: Okay now you say I've stumbled in the dark and then uh 791: Skinned my shin Interviewer: Skinned my shin okay when when you're doing this you say you're doing what you're 791: Squatting Interviewer: Squatting down squatting down on your what you call the back part of your leg right here between your buttocks and your knee you call it what 791: Uh Aux: {X} Interviewer: Huh 791: Oh your Thigh or Interviewer: Honkers 791: Honker Interviewer: Uh honkers okay you might say you're doing what you're 791: Squatting Interviewer: Squatting down you ever hear the term hunker down 791: Hunker down Interviewer: Hunker down 791: Yes Interviewer: What what you do that he he wanted to scare somebody he'd get over behind a 791: Tree and hunker down Interviewer: Hunker down #1 {NW} # 791: #2 {NW} # What are you wanting me to say {NW} Interviewer: Okay well I {NS} Uh he was he had been sick but he's up now but he still looks a bit 791: Peaked Interviewer: Peaked that's the word 791: Peaked or a little under the weather Interviewer: I see did uh mister uh {B} Have any other names for it you say oh he looks a little 791: Puny Interviewer: Puny okay that's good that's great um yeah puny would mean he looks like you know 791: Weak or still a little under the weather not up to par another Interviewer: Not up to par okay but a fellow you know you saw uh who uh you know he was big and strong you'd say he was what kind of guy he's just a 791: Big old Well Abled body Interviewer: Abled body okay uh would you ever uh you say maybe he's a what kind of he's a really he's big and he's very 791: Strong Interviewer: Strong robust would you 791: Robust Interviewer: Robust 791: Right Interviewer: Okay do you ever use the word stout speaking of 791: Yeah Interviewer: Stout 791: Stout Well built Interviewer: Okay now that word stout would you use it when you're speaking about butter that was you know getting the butter was getting a little bit Aux: Strong 791: #1 Strong or # Interviewer: #2 Stout # 791: Stale Interviewer: I see 791: A rank Interviewer: Rank 791: I don't believe you'd use stout Interviewer: You wouldn't 791: I don't believe Interviewer: Alright that's good what other words would you have to describe people who were say people who were just had very good disposition he always had a smile on his face never lost his temper you'd say he was a mighty 791: Good natured or Interviewer: Good good natured type person 791: Easy going Type of person Interviewer: Alright now a kid when he gets up in his teens he's always wandering around the house knocking things he's all arms or legs you say a person like that is just 791: He's offering his arms {NW} Clumsy Interviewer: He is so clumsy okay yeah that's the type of person he is now a person who kept doing things that didn't make any sense like they uh they took their clothes off and laid head in the road or something like that you'd say they were a he's a plain old Aux: Crazy 791: Crazy or a nut Interviewer: Yeah yeah I can understand he's just a what he's a plain old would you ever say fool 791: Yep Interviewer: You'd say 791: Just a plain fool or Interviewer: Okay what would that word mean when you're talking about somebody who's 791: Didn't didn't have didn't have all of his marbles Interviewer: {NW} Uh-huh alright um any inhibitions about that word uh or other things you might call somebody 791: Well some people might say he's Completely ignorant or Insane or Interviewer: Okay alright now a person who will never spend a cent never spends a cent he's a 791: Tight wad Interviewer: Tight wad okay uh what about a person who has got a lot of money but he just he always hangs onto it or never never he's got a lot of money you know he's just a 791: Well some people might refer to him as an old money miser Interviewer: Money miser okay now a man who who likes to get money out of other people he's a 791: Finagler Interviewer: Finagler {NW} Okay Aux: Chiseler Interviewer: Chiseler you ever heard that you ever use that 791: Right Interviewer: Okay 791: Schemer Interviewer: Now you might say oh uh old Mister Jones down the road old Farmer Jones he's over eighty but I still see him out there in spring plowing his mule he's right he's a right what kind of a person 791: Right spry Interviewer: Spry individual okay 791: Spry Interviewer: Any other words you might use for it or a spry person is a is a what 791: Able bodied Interviewer: He's able bodied 791: Good good health or Interviewer: Would you say that at young people or just old people 791: No you you say it with anyone who can get up and #1 Work # Aux: #2 {NW} # Interviewer: Okay so you'd say he's a spry young kid or 791: Right Interviewer: Alright uh would you say he's what right spry though uh 791: He's right spry or full of vinegar as the old saying goes why you might say it uh For an older person or a younger person they're each full of vinegar Interviewer: What would you use the word feisty about somebody he's a feisty 791: Yeah feisty you'd say you could call one that couldn't be still always wanting to do something why you could use the word feisty Interviewer: Okay alright 791: Heard it used Interviewer: The children are out a little er later than usual you might I don't suppose there's anything wrong but I can't help feeling a bit 791: Worried Interviewer: Uh 'un- 791: Uneasy Interviewer: Uneasy okay uh I don't want to go upstairs in the dark I'm 791: Afraid Interviewer: Afraid okay now you say she isn't afraid now but she she isn't afraid now but she 791: Used to be Interviewer: She used to be okay and somebody goes I can't understand uh why she's afraid she I can't understand why she's afraid she you might say she what 791: Has no #1 Reason to be # Interviewer: #2 Well The opposite of used to be is # 791: Is or Interviewer: Uh-huh 791: was afraid Interviewer: Okay you might say I can't understand why she's afraid she what she 791: Used Used to not be Interviewer: Used to not be afraid okay now if somebody lays a lot of money on the table and the door unlocked you might say he's mighty 791: Careless Interviewer: Okay there's nothing wrong with old Aunt Lizzy she's a good old girl she's just a little bit what she's just kind of a you said the word contrary meant what 791: Little contrary or Interviewer: Contrary okay contrary person is a what what how would you describe a person like that 791: Well one that uh didn't want to go along or was Aux: Bright 791: Wasn't too bright or just actually {NW} Wanted to be different or have their way only and not Uh go along with anyone else's idea or opinion Interviewer: Okay somebody uh different in a way you might not be able to understand or figure out you'd say they were just a little bit 791: Contrary Interviewer: Okay it's kind of would you ever use the word queer about a person like that 791: Right Interviewer: Okay you might say she's a queer person or 791: Queer person Interviewer: Okay now uh does that word have a uh a different meaning or has it changed its meaning for you in different in years uh would you say what would it mean if you said uh he's a queer at that time 791: Well it'd it'd have a different meaning now #1 this day and time # Interviewer: #2 {X} # Okay alright so well tell me describe the meaning of that word 791: Well usually why it's uh sex People #1 Refer # Interviewer: #2 Okay # It meant these days it means a homosexual 791: Right right Interviewer: Alright now uh a man who's very sure of his ways and never wants to change you'd call him what you'd say he's a what kind of person 791: Stubborn Interviewer: Stubborn hard headed 791: Hard headed Bull headed Interviewer: Okay and then if you couldn't joke with him real easy without even losing his temper 791: you if you could Interviewer: You could not 791: Oh could not Interviewer: He's awful 791: Hot headed or Interviewer: Hot headed 791: #1 Ill ill-tempered or # Interviewer: #2 he's mighty # Okay he's a mighty what kind of person he's a he's awfully 791: Disagreeable or Interviewer: Okay touchy or 791: Touches Interviewer: Touches 791: Right Touchy Interviewer: Okay short patience or fretful um I was just kidding I didn't know he'd get so 791: Angry or mad Interviewer: Okay if somebody's about to lose his temper you might say you tell him just just 791: Just a minute Interviewer: Okay just now just 791: Hold hold on Interviewer: What 791: Keep quiet Interviewer: Keep calm what 791: Keep calm Interviewer: Keep calm okay when would you use that when would you use that like you might say just keep calm and we'll 791: Iron this thing out or Interviewer: Alright okay 791: Have a better understanding Interviewer: Now you've been working hard you come home and you say oh I'm just 791: Exhausted Interviewer: Exhausted okay I'm anywhere you know 791: Wore out Interviewer: Wore out okay honey I've been plowing all day I am 791: Give out Interviewer: Give out okay completely pooped 791: You're right Interviewer: Pooped okay now if a person has gotten well I mean a person has been well then all of a sudden you heard the other night uh well you say well I saw her the other day she looked fine last night she must have {D: in her stead the} She looked fine the other say uh but I hear she 791: Passed away last night Interviewer: Well 791: Or just Interviewer: She what did she Aux: Died? {NW} 791: Taken sick or taken ill Interviewer: Okay you say she last night she 791: Came down Sick Aux: {X} Interviewer: Okay took sick she said took sick okay Aux: Relapsed {NW} Interviewer: Now if a person got overheated and chilled uh and his eyes and nose started running you'd say he 791: Taken a cold Interviewer: Okay taken a cold uh If it affected his voice 791: Then then he's got uh Laryngitis Interviewer: Okay he's what he's 791: Hoarse Interviewer: Alright {NW} He might give you a 791: Cough Interviewer: Okay oh look how bad I'm feeling 791: Yawn Interviewer: I'm feeling a little 791: Sleepy Interviewer: Sleepy okay I'll go to bed now at about six o clock I'll about six o clock I'll 791: Go to sleep Interviewer: What I'll I'll go to sleep then by six o clock I'll 791: Wake up Interviewer: Wake up okay you might say uh we got to go to that party though man's still sleeping better go 791: Wake him up Interviewer: Wake him up okay if a patient is still by the patient uh the medicine is still by the patient's bed side you might say come in and say why haven't you 791: Taken your medicine Interviewer: Okay and he says well yesterday I 791: I took it Interviewer: And tomorrow I'll 791: Take it again Interviewer: Take some more now somebody who can't hear you say he's 791: Deaf or hard of hearing Interviewer: Alright 791: He can't hear at all he's deaf Interviewer: Uh you've been working hard you take your wet shirt off and say look how I've 791: Sweated Aux: {X} 791: {X} Interviewer: Okay uh look how much I have 791: Sweated Interviewer: Okay we were talking about the rising the other the rising what is it you the stuff you gather the rising you know that opens up 791: Corruption or well a lot of people call it pus it's a drainage Caused from infection Interviewer: I see and your your hand uh you might say if you got a bad infection your hand my hand 791: Swollen or infected Interviewer: Okay your hand say what my hand 791: Throbs or it Aux: {NW} Interviewer: It swole what 791: Swells Interviewer: Swells up okay and uh the water in if you get some in a blister you call that the what the stuff that 791: Water Interviewer: Man I got one on my foot I went out running last night without any shoes on I got a couple on my feet that you know I could hardly walk on them last night Aux: Put a band-aid on it Interviewer: Huh Aux: Said put a band-aid #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 I got tape all over my feet if uh you know we were a bullet goes through your arm you say you have a # 791: Bullet wound Interviewer: Wound okay uh what do you call a kind of skin that's rough that will grow in the in the flesh 791: Proud flesh Interviewer: how's that {X} Aux: My 791: Hmm Interviewer: Yeah 791: Proud flesh Interviewer: I see you had to burn that out 791: Proud flesh Interviewer: Yeah 791: Burned out the {X} Aux: Having to burn it Interviewer: Any other uh what other sort of things did y'all have to worry about when you were young around here any other sort of diseases or 791: Well you had whooping whooping cough and diphtheria back in those Days before we started vaccinating against it I I lost a baby brother with it Diphtheria Interviewer: I'm sorry to hear that uh did you get that did you get malaria here Aux: Not over here 791: Not not that I remember You'd have uh Was it yellow fever back in them days What was it? They had #1 {X} # Interviewer: #2 What was that disease that made you turn yellow # Aux: Oh that that was hepatitis they don't got it 791: Yeah was it was it yellow jaundice Aux: #1 Yellow jaundice that's the same as hepatitis # 791: #2 {X} # Same as hepatitis now we call it hepatitis Interviewer: Is that a fancy name 791: Fancy name Interviewer: What about that you know you get a pain 791: On the sides Interviewer: Yeah did did folks have another name for it before they knew what it was 791: Appendicitis is all ever since I was a child growing up Aux: Yeah Interviewer: Some people used to die from it so 791: Yeah Interviewer: Before they knew what it was and I'd call it cramp {X} or something 791: Right Aux: Yeah Lot of the children died {X} Interviewer: Now something you get for malaria was Aux: Quinine 791: Quinine Interviewer: Quinine 791: You get quinine to control it Aux: {X} Interviewer: Okay and if you got a little cut on you might do what you might put some a brown liquid on there 791: Iodine Interviewer: Okay Aux: {X} Interviewer: Alright uh now uh if a man was shot and he didn't recover you'd say he he what he 791: He died passed away Interviewer: Passed away or died um now if you want a humorous way of saying that you might say well I'm glad that old skin bent skin bent finally finally uh some way of saying 791: Played played out or passed on Interviewer: Passed on okay played out kicked the 791: Kicked the bucket Interviewer: He's been dead but nobody's yet figured out what the 791: What he died with or Interviewer: Okay now the place they laid him away in the 791: Morgue Aux: Grave 791: And grave Interviewer: Okay call that the what 791: Cemetery Interviewer: Cemetery okay any different types or different names you have for something like that 791: Graveyard or cemetery Interviewer: Okay alright um well you uh what's an example of {X} Or a private one or something like that 791: Well they used to they did have private cemeteries on on The home side or the {NW} Home place Interviewer: Uh-huh 791: But no more Interviewer: Okay around the church or or uh 791: Or a private owned certainly #1 Someone that's built a cemetery # Aux: #2 {X} # 791: #1 {X} # Aux: #2 {X} # 791: Or Around a church Interviewer: Do you say uh he's an important man everybody turned out for his 791: Funeral Interviewer: Okay now people dressed in black you say they're 791: Mourners Interviewer: Mourners they're in they're 791: Sympathy Interviewer: They're in in mourning woman's in a she lost control over stuff you might say she was you'd say they were 791: Hysterical or Interviewer: Taking them on to get 791: Taken on Interviewer: Okay if somebody saw you on the street on a day when you were just feeling about average and they asked you uh they might ask you how are you feeling you'd say oh 791: Fine Interviewer: Okay Aux: {X} {NW} Interviewer: I'm doing 791: Doing good Interviewer: Good I'm doing good 791: Doing alright Interviewer: Well you know you just feel about average that day you might say oh 791: Think I'll make it Interviewer: Okay I'm doing uh I'm doing pretty tolerable 791: Pretty tolerable or Interviewer: Okay 791: Pretty lively Interviewer: Okay now somebody's troubled you might say oh it'll come out alright just don't 791: Don't worry Interviewer: Okay 791: Come out in the wash Interviewer: Alright somebody ate something that didn't agree with them they #1 They'd # 791: #2 vomit # {X} Interviewer: Vomit it up any other words uh Aux: {NW} Interviewer: Say he {NW} What he he really drank too much liquor he had to go out back and 791: Puke it out Interviewer: Puke it up okay any other words uh that you'd use maybe you know for eating something that {X} You couldn't stomach or something like that or uh maybe ate a hot pepper that got to you 791: I didn't vomit through that Interviewer: #1 Okay had to had to go with # 791: #2 Throw up # Interviewer: Throw up which is the which was the you know the more polite word 791: Vomited or throw up Interviewer: Okay you wouldn't use puke 791: No Interviewer: Somebody who did that you say they were sick 791: Sick to stomach Interviewer: Okay now if you invite somebody to come over and see you this evening uh and you want to tell them that you'd be disappointed if they didn't come you might say now now 791: I'm going to look for you and you better not let me down or Interviewer: Okay if you don't come I 791: Be angry or Interviewer: I I well would you say I shall be disappointed or 791: Yeah I Interviewer: I will be 791: I will be disappointed Interviewer: I will be disappointed if you don't come and any time you can come over we'll be 791: We'd be at home or be there Interviewer: We'll be what to see you we will be 791: Waiting To see you Interviewer: Okay and speaking of of you know that uh you would enjoy seeing them you you say we will be 791: #1 Glad to have you # Interviewer: #2 Glad to see you anytime you want to come by would you ever use the word uh proud # 791: Oh yeah I I believe most people would say well I'm proud to get to see you again or glad to get to see you again Interviewer: Okay alright um now if a if a boy is spending a lot of time over at a girl's house you'd say he's doing what with her he's 791: Courting her Interviewer: Courting her okay any old time terms that folks used to use 791: Yeah sparking Interviewer: Okay you he was sparking her uh he's mighty what he's mighty 791: Mighty proud fond of her or Interviewer: Okay now he uh she called him her 791: Sweetheart Interviewer: Sweetheart any other names or funny names oh he's my oh he's my 791: Honey pie Interviewer: Honey pie okay 791: Sugar lump Interviewer: Sugar lump 791: {NW} Aux: {NW} Interviewer: My fellow 791: Yeah or something Aux: {NW} Interviewer: Okay and he would call her his 791: Honey Interviewer: {NW} Okay Aux: Girlfriend Interviewer: Now a boy comes home with lipstick on his collar his little brother says you've been 791: Smooching Interviewer: You've been smooching okay you've been out smooching {X} If a girl didn't want to marry a boy you say she did what she 791: Broke broke the engagement Interviewer: #1 Okay # Aux: #2 {X} # 791: Turned him down Interviewer: Turned him down oh he hadn't he hadn't been the same since old uh Mary down the block she 791: Refused to marry him Interviewer: Alright she what she 791: #1 Broke up with him # Interviewer: #2 Broke up with him # okay jilted him {NW} But uh they went ahead getting they got what did it finally they got a 791: Got married Interviewer: Okay any any funny ways of saying that or 791: Hooked up Interviewer: #1 Hooked up # Aux: #2 hitched # 791: Hitched Interviewer: Okay 791: Tied together Interviewer: Uh-huh at a wedding the man who stands with the groom is the 791: Uh Best man Interviewer: Okay and uh other names or old fashioned names for that 791: Not that I Interviewer: Okay and the the girl who stands with the bride is the 791: Bridesmaid Interviewer: Okay now did you remember that uh that thing you know maybe uh I don't know whether they did it with y'all or not but uh they they used to gather around a house maybe after a bride and groom were married and they they had the house of the wed couple and they'd shoot off their guns and that sort of thing Aux: Shivaree 791: Yeah shivaree Interviewer: I see can you tell me about that what happened 791: Well they usually well they'd uh {NW} Take a bunch of old tin cans or something and tie them on a string and tie them to the car Uh Shoot guns or firecrackers Shoot maybe ride the man on the pole {NW} And then run them out of town or run them down the road trying to catch them and of course they had to leave the country Interviewer: I see 791: Maybe have just married wrote on the back of the car Interviewer: Would uh was it uh what sort of ceremony was it sometimes to maybe express displeasure for not being invited to the wedding 791: No not necessarily it was just uh More or less Uh wishing them well Interviewer: I see now did they ever have one where would they have this uh at the at the 791: Justice of the peace or a preacher's House or over at the church Aux: {X} Interviewer: Did the church 791: Mostly at the church {NW} A lot of them married at the justice of the peace in other words he can marry just #1 same as ordain # Aux: #2 {X} # {X} They'll be best friends {NW} Interviewer: Would uh Mister Foster would they ever have one that they did around uh you know around the the the house of the bride and groom Aux: Oh yeah Interviewer: And what'd they call that was that 791: Wait I don't know if I follow you or not Interviewer: Well did they ever like would they ever gather around the house late at night say and shoot off their guns and everything and make a big {X} Big noise 791: Yeah when when if they found out about it. No a lot of them would marry secretly and be {NW} Be married or be gone before before the neighborhood find out that they were married Interviewer: Right right then they when they get back and start taking {X} House they'd have a what for them 791: A house warming or Interviewer: Okay a shivaree or 791: Shivaree Shower bring gifts {NW} Interviewer: Alright and uh did they ever have a custom where they had to bring all the people into the field uh at the shivaree after they you know after the wedding in the house 791: Not that I remember back in the old days now they do it in churches Aux: {X} 791: Further back Aux: Would be {X} Interviewer: Okay now your nearest neighbor here is he lives uh where 791: On the corner down here {B} or Jerry his son Interviewer: If somebody is this the last 791: Um this is the last house Interviewer: #1 Last house in this row? # 791: #2 right # Interviewer: I see uh how would you say folks living around here compared to you you might say do you have any neighbors over 791: I don't have anyone north of me Interviewer: I see so you say something like they just live down the road there 791: Down the road Interviewer: Okay now you might say there was trouble at the party and the police came and arrested 791: The whole drove Interviewer: The whole drove 791: Or the whole bu- {NS} Interviewer: Okay uh any other names you might use besides group or something like that 791: Crowd Interviewer: Crowd okay we were talking about a dance and that sort of thing uh you'd have dances you know out in the did you have any other names for dances uh {D: for saying} Aux: Jigs 791: Shindig Interviewer: Shindigs okay 791: Party or Jump Joseph Interviewer: Jump Joseph how did that word shindig ever come around 791: Well I think it was probably the way uh the name shindig came around was {NW} They usually had the shinny and then they Most of them would get kicked on the shins Interviewer: {NW} 791: {NW} I think that was it {NW} I think that was where it arrived from Interviewer: Okay 791: {NW} Interviewer: Well four o clock is the time when school 791: Lets out Interviewer: Okay and after vacation they say what time does school 791: Begin Interviewer: Begin again okay if a boy left home to go to school and didn't show he 791: Played hooky Interviewer: Played hooky okay uh what about college or if somebody didn't show up to college did they have a word for that would that just be 791: I ima- I imagine it'd be skip class or whatever you Interviewer: Now people go you go to school to get a 791: Education Interviewer: Okay and after high school you might go on to 791: College to get your degree Interviewer: Okay after kindergarten you go into the 791: Elementary Interviewer: Elementary you might call that the what the Aux: First 791: First grade beginner Interviewer: Okay did folks have an older word for that might call it 791: Grade school or grammar Interviewer: Primary 791: Primary Interviewer: Okay you might uh now the children all sit in 791: Class Aux: Desks Interviewer: In what in the room 791: Seat at your desk Interviewer: Okay each one how many you might have thirty thirty in a room of thirty 791: Desk Interviewer: Okay now a place where you check out a book in town is called a 791: Library Interviewer: And you'd mail a package at the 791: Post office Interviewer: Okay and you might stay overnight in a strange town in a 791: Motel or hotel Interviewer: Okay you see a play at the or a movie you'd see that at a 791: Theater Interviewer: Theater did you have an older name for it the let's go to the honey I'm I'm getting tired of sitting around here listening to the radio tonight let's go to the 791: Show Interviewer: Okay let's go to the show you have an operation in a 791: Hospital Interviewer: And who would look after you there 791: Nurses Doctors Interviewer: Okay alright you'd be looked after by you'd be taken care of by 791: Doctor Interviewer: And a 791: Nurse Interviewer: Okay you catch a train at the 791: Depot Train depot Interviewer: Okay you might call that the the rail 791: Rail road station Interviewer: Alright now can you remember when you were young say in Hawthorne was there a courthouse there 791: No no no courthouse here at Hawthorne Interviewer: I see you'd have to go into 791: #1 Leesville # Interviewer: #2 Lee- # Okay do you remember maybe a spot around the courthouse or uh yeah spot around the courthouse maybe it was green and grassy and folks would sit around out there talk you might call that the what 791: Most of them they usually had a bench and they called it the whittling bench Usually a bunch of old men sat around with whittles that didn't have anything else to do dip snuff and whittle Interviewer: Did uh did they call any other name the place 791: Hookworm bench they call it the hookworm bench Interviewer: Okay any any kind of a green place around town you know with trees where they'd 791: Park Interviewer: The park okay 791: Lawn Courthouse lawn a lot of people might call it Interviewer: Now these kind of vehicles would run on a wire overhead electric wire maybe they ran on #1 {X} # 791: #2 Street car # Interviewer: Street car 791: Street car Interviewer: Okay Aux: {X} 791: Never had them in Leesville Shreveport They had them in Shreveport Interviewer: Now you tell the bus driver the next corner is where I want to 791: To get off Interviewer: That's where I want {X} Okay if you were a FBI agent you're working for the 791: Federal government Interviewer: Okay now the police in a town are supposed to maintain 791: The law And order Interviewer: Okay you remember that fight uh in eighteen sixty-one through eighteen sixty-five that freed the slaves uh call that the Aux: War between the states 791: Uh war between the states Interviewer: Okay any other names 791: Civil war Interviewer: Now before they had the electric chair murderers were 791: Hanged Interviewer: I see you say uh a man got a rope he went out and he got a rope he went out and 791: Hung hisself Interviewer: Hung his self do you remember when that happened back in those days or do you ever remember that happening here 791: Yeah I remember whenever there was someone hanged mostly at the courthouse here in Leesville Interviewer: Really Aux: #1 Yes # 791: #2 yeah # Interviewer: Did you ever see it 791: I didn't see it Interviewer: Man I that would be an awful sight you know I to just to even think 791: Well he robbed he robbed a man in a in a two horse wagon Right on the top hill here just out of Leesville what they call now there Port Hill and got fifty cent off of the man And killed him shot him {NW} Shot him with a twenty-two Aux: Another man killed him {X} Interviewer: Famous TV show it was on TV the other night some fellow did an interview with her before she died that was back during during the uh civil rights 791: And what what was the name of Interviewer: {X} It was on TV the other night they showed people being hung and all sorts of terrible things that went on around here at the turn of the century uh now names of places and things like that I want that I've got the biggest city in the country is in 791: You mean in United States? Interviewer: Yes 791: New York uh Interviewer: Okay that state is called 791: Washington New York Interviewer: No it's called New York 791: State Interviewer: Uh-huh okay now Baltimore is int 791: Maryland Interviewer: Alright and Richmond is the capital of 791: Virginia Interviewer: Okay uh Raleigh is the capital of 791: North Carolina or South Carolina Interviewer: #1 Uh North Carolina # 791: #2 I'm confused # North Carolina Interviewer: Okay any other states in the south uh that you you know have been to or remember uh let's see uh um the state I'm from 791: At-Atlanta Interviewer: I'm from Atlanta 791: Georgia Interviewer: Okay now that big body of water down there that old New Orleans is floating in you call that 791: Lake Pontchartrain Interviewer: Well yeah and below that is the 791: Gulf Or Interviewer: The what the gulf of the 791: Gulf of Mexico Interviewer: Okay Tallahassee is the capital of 791: Florida Interviewer: And George {B} Is the governor of 791: Alabama Interviewer: Okay 791: {NW} Interviewer: Now then you got uh Louisiana you got uh the capital of Louisiana is 791: Baton Rouge Interviewer: Okay and the blue grass state is 791: Kentucky Interviewer: Okay you know where they run the derby up there that town 791: Uh Yeah I don't know if I can call that Interviewer: {X} Aux: The the um Kentucky derby 791: No it's Interviewer: Kentucky had its old blank Kentucky l- 791: Louisville Interviewer: Louisville 791: Louisville Interviewer: Okay now the volunteer state that's the one right up the gulf here 791: Arkansas Interviewer: Well you got Arkansas but then oh uh I'm sorry to the it's a little to the 791: Mississippi Interviewer: Okay you got Mississippi and then up above that is 791: Tennessee Interviewer: Okay uh now the lone star state is 791: Texas Interviewer: And Tulsa is in 791: Oklahoma Interviewer: Alright Boston is in what state 791: {X} uh Boston, Massachusetts yeah Interviewer: Alright 791: #1 About to be confused # Interviewer: #2 The states from Maine to Connecticut those states are called what the # 791: Uh Interviewer: You know those states up on there on the coast you call them the new 791: New Hampshire Interviewer: New 791: New England Interviewer: New England states 791: Right Interviewer: Okay 791: Been too long since I studied all that I can give you the capitals of all the states {NW} Interviewer: Alright uh the biggest city in Missouri is 791: Kansas City Interviewer: No 791: No wait a minute Interviewer: Oh that old blues song named after it Missouri uh 791: Saint Louis Interviewer: Okay alright and the capital of the United States is 791: Washington D.C. Interviewer: Alright uh the biggest city in Maryland we said was 791: Delaware No Balt- Interviewer: Balt- 791: Baltimore Baltimore Interviewer: Alright now there's an old historical sea port in South Carolina named you ever heard of charl- uh 791: Charleston Interviewer: Okay and that big steel making city in Alabama up in north Alabama 791: Birmingham Interviewer: Okay the city where old Al Capone used to run the rackets up there they call it the windy city up on Lake Michigan Illinois uh 791: Chicago Interviewer: Okay the capital of Alabama is 791: Uh Interviewer: What Aux: Montgomery 791: Montgomery Interviewer: Okay Montgomery and uh the city by the gulf down there is m- uh old Hank Aaron is from it's where the USS Alabama is parked down there right on the gulf mo- Aux: Mobile, Alabama. 791: Mobile Interviewer: Okay alright now there's a resort sitting in western North Carolina uh you call that you ever heard of ashe- ville 791: Asheville Interviewer: Never #1 Never been there heard of it # 791: #2 No # I Never heard of it Interviewer: What about some cities in Tennessee you know of? 791: Nashville {NS} Interviewer: Yeah 791: Uh Nashville Interviewer: Then there's 791: Memphis Interviewer: Alright the choo choo from Aux: Chattanooga 791: Chattanooga Interviewer: Okay and uh over there in the uh eastern part of the state is old 791: Knoxville Interviewer: Knoxville okay alright any states in Georgia you know of besides Atlanta Aux: {X} Interviewer: Come on now you're 791: Atlanta Interviewer: I'd feel offended if you didn't know where the place Georgia {X} {NW} 791: I'm afraid I don't Interviewer: Okay well the one on the coast there is sav- 791: Savannah Interviewer: Savannah okay and then uh the middle city you got mac- Macon 791: Macon Interviewer: #1 Yeah you ever heard of that # 791: #2 Yeah I've heard of it # Interviewer: Okay and there's a Fort Benning is near what town Fort Benning is in Colum- uh 791: Col- Columbia Interviewer: #1 Columbus # Aux: #2 Georgia # 791: Columbus, Georgia Interviewer: Columbia and Columbus those cities are so alike 791: Yeah Interviewer: Now big city down here where they have Mardi Gras that's 791: New Orleans Interviewer: Okay two cities on the Ohio river one of them where the rednecks play baseball uh then they won the world series last year old Pete Rose and {X} {D: Sue} Aux: Cincinnati Interviewer: Yeah 791: Cincinnati Interviewer: Okay Cincinnati alright um that was about enough of that for a while if if somebody asks you to go with them somewhere and you're not sure you want to you might say well I'm not sure I don't know 791: Let me study about it Or I'll think about it Aux: {NW} Interviewer: Alright he says uh come on go with me down to the river here uh well uh sounds real boring you have a big long lecture down there you might say well I don't I don't know 791: I don't believe I want to go Interviewer: I don't know if I want to or #1 Would you say that # 791: #2 No right # Interviewer: Uh you might say uh if somebody asked you to do something you might say I don't know blank I can do that uh 791: I don't know if I can do that Interviewer: Alright now if you were asked to go somewhere without your wife you might say I won't go or you were some you want somebody to go with you somewhere you might say I won't go blank he goes Aux: Uh-huh 791: Unless he goes Interviewer: Okay when you you might say that you could help him you you you got to draw you know your your son went off playing in the woods while you were out weeding the cotton patch you might say now why did you go off in the woods blank you should have helped me 791: You you you should have stayed here and helped me Interviewer: Oh I see um okay she uh okay you says you went off playing blank helping me 791: Instead Interviewer: Instead of helping me okay now a man is funny and you like him you say 791: He's comical Interviewer: Okay I like him I like him 791: A lot or very much Interviewer: Alright and they ask you why do you like him well I like him 791: Because he's comical or easy to get along with Interviewer: Alright now if two people became members of a church you say he he just well I don't know him he just 791: Just joined Interviewer: The he recent- 791: Just became a member Interviewer: Okay he recently joined the 791: Church Interviewer: Okay in church we pray to 791: God Interviewer: Okay the preacher delivers a a fine 791: Message Or sermon Interviewer: Okay you might someone might say well I don't care anything about the sermon I go to hear the 791: Singing Interviewer: Okay uh the organist and the choir provide beautiful 791: Music Interviewer: Okay 791: Or singing Interviewer: Okay if you had to change a flat tire on the way to church one Sunday morning you might say oh my goodness church will be over 791: Before we get The tire changed #1 And get # Interviewer: #2 okay # It'll be over by the time 791: We get there Interviewer: Okay now what did people sometimes tell children would happen to them if uh they didn't behave 791: The booger man would get them Interviewer: The booger man yeah okay any other names uh Aux: The devil 791: The devil will get you Interviewer: Okay the devil uh any nicknames for the devil you might 791: Old Satan Interviewer: Satan okay 791: Or the man with the pitchfork Interviewer: Alright now uh did you have any run ins with uh anything else you might see at night uh they were kind of white some them were Aux: Ghosts 791: Ghost Interviewer: Ghost okay any other names for them you might have they'd always be around the stairs at night late at night Aux: Cemetery {X} Interviewer: Cemetery 791: Oh I never did see a see a ghost {NW} Interviewer: Yeah an old house out in the woods uh folks didn't want to go near it they'd 791: They'd say it was haunted Interviewer: Haunted okay uh you might say I'll do speaking of going to that haunted house you might say I'll go if you want but I 791: I'd rather not Interviewer: I'd rather not okay uh going out of the door early morning winter you might say uh better put a sweater on it's getting 791: Chilly Interviewer: Okay getting how chilly it's getting Aux: Cold 791: Cold or pretty airish out there Interviewer: Okay oh my goodness it's getting oh it's getting they might ask you how would is it outside oh it's 791: Cold Interviewer: It's getting what 791: Rough Interviewer: Getting raw cold 791: Or rather cold or {D: rolicky} out there Interviewer: {D: Rolicky} what would {D: rolicky} mean 791: Well that'd mean Extremely cold Interviewer: I see okay Aux: It's getting worse Interviewer: Now what would you say to a friend you haven't seen for some time how would you express your feelings about seeing him you might say 791: Tickled Tickled to see you again Interviewer: Tickled to see you again oh my goodness it's you might say I'm I'm what I'm 791: Proud to see you again Interviewer: Proud to see you again okay uh how proud I am just I oh John I'm I'm Aux: Really 791: Glad to see you again Interviewer: Okay Aux: {NW} 791: Been a long time Interviewer: I'm awfully proud 791: Awfully proud Interviewer: #1 Awfully glad # 791: #2 See you # Interviewer: See you again 791: Yeah Interviewer: Okay a man owns five hundred acres you might say my goodness he owns a 791: A bunch of land or Interviewer: A bunch of land that's a that's a what of land he owns that's a 791: A lot of land Interviewer: Okay would you ever say right smart 791: Yeah right smart of land Interviewer: Okay right smart of land how would you use that word right smart my goodness that's a 791: I just I guess an old uh old saying or Interviewer: Okay 791: Lingo right smart Interviewer: You say oh boy somebody asks you about crops you say I just had a right smart of right smart of bad weather right smart of bad luck would you ever say that 791: Yeah I've heard it said Interviewer: Okay if you if somebody uh wanted to express agreement you wanted to express agreement with somebody you might say instead of saying just yes you might say why what you might say you're leaving a friend you might say uh well he says well see you again you say what 791: You come back or I'll I'll see you later Interviewer: Okay or you wanted to express agreement with that you'd say what certainly or what else 791: Certainly or I'll I'll Guarantee or Interviewer: Okay certainly you bet #1 something you'd say # 791: #2 You bet # Interviewer: You bet okay uh or sure would you say that 791: Right Interviewer: Can you do that can you really do that you might say 791: Sure Yeah Interviewer: Sure I 791: I can Interviewer: Sure I can uh 791: Or absolutely Interviewer: Or you might say I why I 791: I know I can Interviewer: I can you do that I 791: I certainly can Interviewer: I s- what I s- 791: Sure can Interviewer: I sure can okay if somebody they don't like going somewhere you might say oh he just 791: Hates to go Interviewer: Okay he just blank dreaded going he that old boy he blank dreaded that he 791: He just Hated to go Interviewer: Okay purely dreaded 791: Purely dreaded Interviewer: Okay it wasn't just a little cold this morning it was it was 791: A lot of cold Interviewer: Okay it was a lot of 791: Extremely cold Interviewer: Now you might your mother cooked you something you might tell her that's not just good mom that was mama that that pie you made was 791: Delicious Interviewer: Okay it was how good it was r- 791: Really good Interviewer: Real good okay real good what if you what would you say if you were you know hammering a nail and the hammer slipped of the nail and hit your finger 791: Ouch or I hit the wrong nail Interviewer: Ouch okay alright any uh another explanation Aux: {NW} 791: {NW} Interviewer: Damn 791: {NW} Yeah that's usually {NW} Interviewer: Okay Aux: {NW} Interviewer: Something like that now something if something shocking is reported or attributed to you you might say kind of a feeling of indignation you might have why the I just can't believe that the blank of somebody saying that the 791: The idea or Interviewer: The idea of somebody saying that how would you say that just you know kind of you know you'd say why the 791: Why the idea of such a remark or the idea of that Aux: Very Interviewer: Okay alright when you meet someone what would you say to them by way of greeting them uh friend says good morning to you you might say what would you say to him in return 791: Good morning mister so and so How are you this morning Interviewer: Okay he says good morning to you you might say pass him 791: How do you do or Interviewer: How's that 791: How do you do or Interviewer: Okay 791: or How's things for you this morning Interviewer: Alright what if you were introduced to a stranger you might say 791: Glad to meet you or Nice knowing you Aux: #1 Pleased to meet you # Interviewer: #2 okay # 791: Pleased to meet you Interviewer: If somebody's leaving after a visit you might tell them well I hope you'll Aux: Hurry back 791: Hurry back or Interviewer: Or come 791: Come again Interviewer: Come again what do you say when you meet somebody about December twenty-fifth around December twenty-fifth 791: Happy Christmas Interviewer: #1 Happy Christmas # Aux: #2 Merry Christmas # Interviewer: Okay or 791: Christmas eve Interviewer: Christmas eve 791: Yeah Interviewer: That sort of thing would you ever say Christmas gift 791: Yeah Interviewer: Or something like that 791: Christmas eve gift Interviewer: Okay that was sort of a joke 791: Right Aux: {X} Interviewer: Okay now to a child you might say why hello son or me- Aux: Merry Christmas 791: Merry Christmas or Interviewer: Merry Christmas and just six days later you might say 791: Happy new year Interviewer: Okay any any way of saying something way of appreciation you might say I'm much why thank you I'm much 791: Much obliged Interviewer: Okay you're not sure when you're going to have time to do something you might say oh I I'm not sure but I Aux: {X} 791: Don't know if I'll have the time or Interviewer: Okay now uh when you were young your father might say come on son get in the wagon I've got to go into town to do some 791: Shopping Trading Interviewer: Trading okay you make a purchase the store keeper took a piece of paper and made a purchase the store keeper took a piece of paper and 791: Wrapped it up Interviewer: Wrapped it up when I got home with the package I 791: Unwrapped it Interviewer: Okay if a store keeper sold something for two dollars and he paid two fifty for it you'd say he was selling it 791: Below cost Interviewer: Below cost he was selling it at a 791: Discount Aux: Loss 791: Or a loss Interviewer: At a loss okay oh boy that old tractor it's a good looking tractor but I can't buy it because it just blank too much it 791: Too Too high too much Interviewer: It it it blank it what it 791: Too much money Interviewer: That's a nice tractor but it blank too much 791: Cost too much Interviewer: On the first of the month time to pay the bill you say the bill is 791: Due Interviewer: Okay you going to any clubs 791: No Interviewer: You said you're going to don't you go to D F W 791: Yeah I'm going to D F W Interviewer: Okay 791: {X} Interviewer: Do you have to pay 791: Dues Interviewer: Yeah 791: Right Interviewer: To that club okay now you hadn't gotten money you'd have to go to a friend trying to 791: Borrow Interviewer: Borrow something okay now did you have a little water hole where folks could go can you tell me about the story about that when you were young 791: Well they had swimming pools Interviewer: Yeah 791: And go to the swimming pool on prayer creek Swing across on a grapevine Interviewer: Yeah uh swing across 791: Yeah Have a grapevine It would be hanging from the tree and they'd cut the grapevine find a hole of water that was {NW} Suitable to swim and find a big grape or a muscadine vine it was {NW} Up in the trees and they'd cut it They cut it off at uh just a foot or two from the ground Interviewer: Uh-huh 791: And then use it to swim across the creek onto the other side Aux: {X} 791: Kind of like tires and that Interviewer: Okay um okay now um if a boy let go you say he what 791: Died Interviewer: Died 791: Fell in Interviewer: He he fell in the water he died in the water okay and he what he 791: Swim Interviewer: Okay did did you do that much folks do that much 791: Good bit back years ago when everybody was young Interviewer: Yeah 791: I think one boy died from died in {D: bury} creek Interviewer: What happened 791: He had hit a log or some object on the water and he didn't know there was a stump Interviewer: Did he 791: Killed him Interviewer: Did he he 791: I don't know if he broke his neck You remember Aux: {X} 791: {X} Busted his skull and maybe broke his neck at the same time Interviewer: Did he go on the water did folks have to bring him back up 791: Yeah they they got him out Interviewer: I don't think he died right then but he died a little later Aux: Stayed in the hospital 791: He stayed in the hospital but he died later Interviewer: Oh okay somebody who went under you say oh you know he he what he 791: Drowning Interviewer: Drowning okay um he wanted to get across the river so he 791: Dived Interviewer: Dived in and he 791: Swum across Interviewer: Swum across okay uh if a boy puts his head on the ground and kicks his feet and turns over you say he did a 791: Somersault Interviewer: Somersault okay what if what if he was going off a board or something off a high cliff or something and he did that and went in the water 791: Turned a flip Interviewer: Turned a flip okay {NS} That's a when you land like that 791: Belly buster Interviewer: Belly buster okay 791: {NW} Interviewer: Now uh when uh when somebody uh when you went to the store mister {B} And they gave you a they gave you something for paying the bill on time or for you know for making a purchase with them what what did folks call tat 791: Showing appreciation Interviewer: Yeah you know uh the grocer might come out and say go ahead and take these plums nobody's going to buy all of them and I can't get rid of them all they're getting too ripe so uh here's a little 791: Gift Interviewer: Gift for you okay folks ever did you ever hear the word lagniappe 791: I don't believe Interviewer: Okay never never heard that now before a baby's able to walk he 791: Crawl Interviewer: Crawls on the floor you saw something off a tree you wanted to get a closer look at it so you say I went over to the tree and 791: Climb Interviewer: Climb the tree okay my goodness uh I'll tell you that holly bush that would be hard to #1 hard to # 791: #2 find # Interviewer: Hard to find last year my uh one of my boys 791: Climbed it Interviewer: Climbed up it okay but I had never 791: Climbed it Interviewer: Climbed it myself a little child would say his prayers he went over to his bed and Aux: Kneeled 791: Kneel Interviewer: Kneel down okay uh I I'm feeling a little tired I think I'll go over to the couch and I'll go over to the couch and 791: Lie down a while Interviewer: Lie down okay all morning he was sick all morning he just somebody who got sick you'd say oh boy all morning he just 791: Dragged around Interviewer: Okay he he couldn't even get up all morning he just