Interviewer: {NS} Say if someone would make up his own mind and then you can't argue with him he decides he's going to do things his way and he won't listen to you. What would you call him? 794: Well uh I'd call him uh kind of a a stubborn kind of a person. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: That don't want to agree with you about anything. Interviewer: What would you say about someone that you can't joke with at all without him losing his temper? 794: Well uh That is a person that just can't uh that can't take any #1 jokes # Interviewer: #2 Mm-hmm. # 794: It's uh it it it gets off with them or or or worries them. Interviewer: Or say if something had happened to embarrass someone you might say well you better not mention that to him because on that or tease him about that cause on that subject he's still a little bit 794: he uh well uh that that'd make him angry and uh and it'd make him uh kind of suspicious things. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Would you ever call a person like that testy or touches? 794: Touches. Well yeah in a way I have at uh it's uh kinda touches and all just like that is if if you put your hand on something that away. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Kind of touches that away. It's uh kind of particular like you see, it wouldn't want s- so particular they wouldn't want you to touch them. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Someone's about to lose their temper, you might tell them now just? 794: Well that'd be uh kind of quick minded and and high tempered and easy to get mad. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Someone like that, you might tell them now just keep? 794: Just keep getting mad about anything that that'll just be a kind of contrary condition Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And if you didn't want him to get mad, what would you say to them? 794: Well If I say something or other kind of pacify the mind Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: to get him into good humor. Interviewer: If you'd been working very hard you'd say you were very 794: {NS} Do which? Interviewer: If you'd been working hard, you'd say you were very 794: Tired. Interviewer: Any other ways of saying that? 794: Yes. Give out. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Gave out. Interviewer: Or, using the word wear out. #1 You'd say # 794: #2 Wear out. # Yeah wear out or give out either one. Interviewer: I'm completely 794: Completely give out. Interviewer: Or completely 794: Worn out. Interviewer: And if a person has been well and then suddenly you hear that they've got some disease, you'd say well yesterday they were fine, when was it that they? 794: Let's see I didn't catch that Interviewer: If they've got a disease now, you'd say you'd ask someone well when was it that they #1 what sick? # 794: #2 Went to the doctor. # Interviewer: A-huh. Or you'd say the last time I saw him they were fine 794: Fine, last time I saw them they was fine. Interviewer: #1 When was it that they # 794: #2 what when was it they went to the doctor. # Interviewer: Or they what sick? 794: And uh the doctor said they was getting along all right. Interviewer: Well if they were sick now you'd say 794: Well uh i- if they was sick just that they was uh still worse still not doing good Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Well would you say they took sick or got sick or was taken sick or #1 how would you # 794: #2 well uh they just # Just gotten sick or either taken sick either one. Interviewer: And if a person has gone out in bad weather and come in and was sneezing and everything 794: Just taken cold got wet and he's taken he giving him a cold Interviewer: Mm-kay. And if he couldn't talk right, he sounded a little 794: Hoarse. Interviewer: And if he swallowed the wrong way you'd have to 794: Kinda choke him like #1 or yeah he'd he'd cough # Interviewer: #2 then you'd do what # And say if you usually went to bed at ten o'clock at night and one night you stayed up until one o'clock, you'd say by one o'clock you'd be feeling pretty 794: Sleepy. Interviewer: And you'd say at six o'clock in the morning I'll 794: Still sleepy or don't feel like getting up or Interviewer: Or when the alarm clock goes off you 794: Well I'm still sleepy. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Still sleepy. Interviewer: And you'd say he's still sleeping, you better go in there and 794: And wake him up. Interviewer: And if you if a man had been out working in the sun and he takes off his shirt and it's all wet he'd say look how much I 794: Sweated. Or uh perspiration. Interviewer: Mm-kay. Which would you say? 794: Well uh If he's already he he's perspirated too much Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Or he or he's wet with sweat. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: E- either way. Interviewer: Just a second. {NS} Someone who can't hear anything at all would be completely 794: Deaf. Completely deaf. Interviewer: Do you ever hear people say deaf? 794: Yeah. uh yeah I've heard people say deaf. uh {NS} That person over there is completely deaf. But deaf is correct name for it Interviewer: and if someone got shot or stabbed you'd say you have to get a doctor to look at the? 794: Well you have to get a doctor he's got shot he he's a bleeding or hemorrhaging Interviewer: Well and you'd have to get the doctor to take care of the? 794: Take care of the wound. Interviewer: And sometimes the wound doesn't heal back right and it gets sort of a skinless growth over it 794: It's infected. Interviewer: And you gotta cut it out or #1 burn it out # 794: #2 got to cut it out or # either burn it out one it's uh sometimes plowed- proud flesh. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Will sit up. Interviewer: And If you cut your finger, a brown liquid medicine that stings that you could put on it? 794: Iodine. Interviewer: What's a real bitter medicine people used to take? 794: To take? Well i- i- Wonder what you's taking it for? There's medicine you take for different things, you see. If if you feel bad you busy or something like that you need to take a purgative And if you uh your system's run down you need to take quinine or a tonic tonic to build your system up Interviewer: Does quinine work? 794: Oh yeah quo- uh Quinine is good for malaria you have malaria quinine is best for that it is {NS} Interviewer: I might ask you if you know a person and you'd say well I don't know him but I 794: Saw him. Or seen him. Interviewer: Or I what of him? 794: Or Or either I met him but I don't personally know him just Interviewer: Do you ever saw heared tell of him or #1 heard of him # 794: #2 yes # I've I've heard tell of him. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Oh I haven't just like I'd hear about someone I I haven't seen him I haven't saw him but uh I've heard tell of him. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. And Something that you do every day if I ask you do you do it often, you'd say yes I 794: Yeah very often or every day. Interviewer: I what all the time? I 794: Most all the time. Interviewer: Uh-huh. If you wanted to ask me whether he does that sort of thing, you'd ask me? 794: Now see ask me that again. Interviewer: If you wanna ask me whether he does that, you'd ask me? 794: Well I'd ask you or partly whatever it was that I want to and Interviewer: Um Say if you were wanted to know whether he um plays golf, you'd ask me 794: Yes I'd I'd ask you if you wanted to play golf or Interviewer: Or Say if if I have a brother and you want to know whether my brother does a certain thing how would you ask me? 794: Well I'd ask you did your brother like to do Interviewer: #1 A-huh. # 794: #2 Such # and such you see. It's this Interviewer: Would you say do he play golf or does he play golf or how would you ask? 794: Does he play golf or does he like to play golf or does he not play golf? Interviewer: And I'd say I don't smoke but he 794: He may. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: I don't know but he may. Interviewer: Or and talking about smoking cigarettes, I'd say I don't smoke but he 794: He does. Interviewer: And you'd say I don't uh I think that's right but I'm not 794: Sure. Interviewer: And If someone was shot and didn't recover, you'd say the doctor did all he could but still the man 794: Go to die. {NS} Interviewer: Any other ways of saying die? 794: Pass away. Interviewer: Which sounds better? 794: Well. I suppose pass away. Interviewer: Did you ever hear any joking ways of saying died? 794: I don't believe I have. Interviewer: What about kick 794: By which? Interviewer: Kick the 794: Kick Interviewer: Did you ever hear kick the bucket or? #1 Peg down? # 794: #2 Kick a bucket or # Interviewer: To mean died. 794: Oh. I don't believe I can get that now know several ways but it don't sound good. {NS} Interviewer: You know several ways of 794: Yeah oh uh course it's just like he's about to kick the bucket {NS} Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Or if it wasn't for God why he he'd kick the bucket. That's about the only way I believe. Interviewer: Say if someone you might say well he's been dead a week and nobody's figured out yet what he died 794: Been sick a week nobody can figure out what what he's got. Or what the trouble is. Interviewer: Or if he had died you'd say no one's figured out #1 what he died # 794: #2 No # Figured out what he died with. Or what was the matter with him. Interviewer: A-huh. And a place where people are buried? Where are people buried? 794: Well where was he buried or or where did they carry him to bury him? Interviewer: #1 Where # 794: #2 Or where we- # Or where was he buried at? Interviewer: A-huh. Where would they bury people around here? 794: Well so they'd bury them up at the cemetery. At the Corinth cemetery. Interviewer: Is there any other name for cemetery? 794: Well yes. Yes we have different names for other cemeteries other place now we have two cemeteries here both of them called Corinth cemetery. Course one of them at the Corinth church right up here and the other one is over at the old cemetery its a tabernacle there. But they're both called the Corinth cemetery. Then we have a cemetery here at Winfield. It called the Winfield cemetery. And uh then they have one out from Winfield out on eighty-four called Autumn Leaves cemetery. Then we have one bout four miles down here called Big Creek cemetery. Then about five miles further, there's another one that they call Zion cemetery. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. What do they put the body in? 794: Well they they uh put 'em in a casket. Interviewer: Is there an old fashion name for casket? 794: Uh coffin. Interviewer: Uh-huh. 794: Coffin yeah. Interviewer: Is there an old fashion name for cemetery? 794: Graveyard. Interviewer: And you'd say after he died, everybody went #1 to the # 794: #2 to the # to the graveyard. To the grave. Interviewer: To attend the? 794: To to attend i- i- uh {NS} {C: microphone feedback} hi- his funeral. Interviewer: A-huh. If people are dressed in black, you'd say that they're in 794: Well to dress black Why they they're going to the cemetery. Interviewer: A-huh. Or the family 794: #1 oh the family # Interviewer: #2 would be in # 794: Yeah the family would be dressed in black. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: To go to the go to the funeral. Interviewer: Why would they be in black? 794: Well. That's just just idea I suppose But uh Course they don't everybody do that now but they used to. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: They used to uh all the family would up go dressed in black {NS} But uh they don't they don't do that now some do but very few. Interviewer: If someone dies then their family you'd say that the family was in with the family's upset that their that the person's dead so the family would be in 794: In sorrow. Oh uh Interviewer: Did you ever say in mour- 794: In which? Interviewer: Would you ever say in mourning or 794: Yeah in mourning the family's in mourning. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Family is in anyone die the family's in mourning about them. Interviewer: And a disease that children used to die from they'd choke up? 794: Oh well pneumonia. Sometimes the pneumonia they'd choke up. Die from it. Interviewer: What would they have that they'd get blisters on the inside of their throat? 794: Let me see um. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of dip- 794: To which? Interviewer: Did you ever hear of dip- 794: My throat? Yeah. Yeah I've had my throat sore thataway and and I choke my tonsils get swollen. Interviewer: A-huh. What's a disease that children would get though? In the throat and they'd die from it? 794: Well a um sometimes they die from pneumonia Interviewer: A-huh. 794: If that course that settles in the chu- in the the chest and in the throat too. Pneumonia. {NS} And uh Let me see what else. Interviewer: Nowadays 794: Flu. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Call it the flu you see some people die from that. Interviewer: They used to give people the Schick test for what disease? 794: Well they they they'd give 'em a shot uh penicillin shot Interviewer: A-huh. Did you ever hear of a disease called dip- 794: Called what? Interviewer: Dip- #1 Diphtheria # 794: #2 Diphtheria # Diphtheria. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Yes I've heard of disease called diphtheria. Interviewer: #1 Yeah. # 794: #2 Did # Uh I never did uh know anyone that had that but I've heard of it Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: People have diphtheria. Interviewer: What's a disease where your skin and eyeballs turn yellow? 794: uh glands and uh Let me see I know something else if I can think of it yellow jaundice. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Yellow jaundice. Interviewer: And if you have a pain down here, you'd say you had 794: Appendicitis. Interviewer: And say on an average sort of day if somebody ask you how you were feeling what would you tell 'em? 794: Well if I was in misery I'd tell 'em I was in misery and I wasn't feeling good or I was a hurting my side was a hurting like I had a appendix or something I had a hemorrhage I uh ruptured myself or Interviewer: What if you felt normal? You'd tell 'em 794: Well I feel good I I feel uh feel uh splendid. Interviewer: And how would you use the words up down or over talking about location? Like you'd say last week I saw him what Monroe? 794: Well I saw him last week go to Monroe? Interviewer: Or if you were in Monroe #1 You'd say I saw him # 794: #2 Well I saw him I s- # uh he came into Monroe. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: I saw him c- come in. Come into Monroe. Interviewer: What if, or you could say last week I saw him what Alexandria? 794: He went to Alexandria. Or I saw him in Alexandria. Interviewer: Would you ever say down in Alexandria or over in Alexandria? 794: Oh yeah over in Alexandria yeah that's right. Or from here we call it down to Alexandria and Winfield we called up to Winfield. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: We call north up and south down. Interviewer: What's over? 794: Uh east or west. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Then they're both over. Interviewer: And say if there was some trouble at a party, you'd say the police came and they didn't arrest just one or two of 'em, they arrested the 794: The whole bunch. Interviewer: Anything else you'd say beside bunch? 794: A whole crew. Uh every one of 'em. Interviewer: What about the whole push? 794: The whole crew. He arrested the whole crew. Interviewer: What about the whole push? 794: Well that means all of 'em. And that means all of them, every one that was there. Interviewer: If you say 794: The whole crew. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: That means every one of 'em. Interviewer: And if you hadn't seen a good friend of yours in a long time, when you saw him you might say I'm 794: Glad to see him. I'm glad to see him. Interviewer: Any other way of saying that? 794: Well I'm prou- yeah proud to see him. Interviewer: Does that mean the same? 794: Well I yeah that's about the same thing Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Proud or glad either one is the same thing. Means the same thing. Interviewer: And if someone had done you a favor you might tell them thank you I'm much 794: I appreciate it. Interviewer: Or I'm much 794: Much obliged to you. Interviewer: And when a friend of yours says good morning, what might you ask him then? 794: How you this morning? Interviewer: What about when you're introduced to a stranger? What would you say? 794: Well I'm glad to meet you or pleased to meet you or it's a pleasure to meet you. Interviewer: Anything you'd ask him? 794: Well uh I can't think right now. {NS} But uh {NS}{C: microphone feedback} Be glad to see you again, I hope to see you again. And uh ask him to come to see me. Interviewer: And say if someone ate something that didn't agree with them and it came back up, you'd say he had the 794: Vomited up. Interviewer: Any other way of saying that? 794: Belched it up. Interviewer: Does that mean the same? 794: Same thing yeah. Interviewer: Any crude way of saying that? 794: Yeah yeah Puked it up. Interviewer: That sounds pretty bad? 794: Yeah puked I it up yeah. Interviewer: If a person vomited you'd say he was sick 794: Yeah he's sick enough to vomit. Interviewer: He's sick where? 794: In his stomach. Interviewer: And say if a boy was spending a lot of time with a girl, he kept on going over to her house like he was seriously interested in her, you'd say he was 794: Going to see her very often he was awful fond of her. Interviewer: What did people used to say? 794: Well he must uh love her. Interviewer: Do you ever say he's #1 # 794: #2 # Interviewer: #1 # 794: #2 # Interviewer: sparking her or courting her 794: Sparking Sparking uh pretty close Interviewer: Is sparking very serious? 794: Well uh In a way it is in a way it isn't. {NW} Interviewer: What do you mean? 794: {NW} If they's sparking and they really think a lot of of each other why that gets kind of serious you see. Interviewer: A-huh. {NS} He would be called her He's her what? 794: Sweetheart. Interviewer: And she's his? 794: Sweetheart or honey. Interviewer: And if a boy comes home with lipstick on his collar, his little #1 brother # 794: #2 oh he's # been kissing a girl. Interviewer: Any old fashion way of saying that? 794: Uh kissing sma- yeah smacking Interviewer: A-huh. 794: He's been a smacking the girls. {NW} Interviewer: And if she quit letting him come over to see her you'd say she 794: She's quit him or found her another fella. Interviewer: What did um he ask her to marry him but she 794: Well uh sometimes she denies him, sometimes she accepts the question. Interviewer: They were engaged and all of a sudden she 794: Sh- she decided she wouldn't marry. and br- and broke the engagement. Interviewer: But if she didn't break the engagement they went ahead and got 794: Went ahead and got married. Interviewer: Any joking ways of saying got married? 794: Well uh {NW} Yes taken up. {NS} Interviewer: That means the #1 same as getting married? # 794: #2 Yeah yeah they'd # Taken up. Together. Interviewer: And at a wedding the boy that stands up with the groom is called the {NS} 794: Uh {NS} I know what that is but I can't think of it now. Interviewer: Well what are the different people that they'd have at a wedding? Besides the bride and the groom. 794: The bride and the groom and the uh waiters, they call in the old time is the waiters. But they call them something else now but I can't think of what that is. Interviewer: Would 794: That was uh oh a boy and a girl you see a man and a woman that's out on the floor with 'em. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: They called them the waiters in the old old time but I don't know what they can't think of what they call them now. Interviewer: Do you remember long time ago if people would get married that night other people would come around their house and 794: Serenade 'em. Interviewer: What would they do when they serenade them? 794: Well sometimes they ride the the boy the man on a rail Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Yeah. Ride him on a rail. Take him out and ride him on a rail what uh something like a fence rail. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Was it all just in fun? 794: Yeah and then some of them that they'd uh they'd treat them nice they'd just play music you know and course they'd invite them in and make coffee or probably give 'em some cake. Cake and coffee or or tea or ice cream or something thataway. Interviewer: When young people go out in the evening and move around on the floor to music you'd call that a 794: Move down on the floor? Interviewer: Yeah it's just if there's music and 794: Oh a uh get out on for that dancing Interviewer: A-huh 794: Call that dancing. Interviewer: What would you call a dance that you'd have at home? 794: Well uh you'd call that a dancing or or a party, you'd call it a party. Interviewer: And if children get out of school at four o'clock, you'd say at four o'clock school 794: School's out. Interviewer: And after vacation, children would ask when does school 794: When the school's out they're they they have a vacation or they or they uh glad that school is out. Interviewer: And after vacation, school was When they had to go back to school 794: Oh. School would take in or or uh oh um Start school again. Interviewer: And you'd say four o'clock in the afternoon is when school 794: When school's out. Interviewer: And after high school you go on to 794: College. Interviewer: And you go to school to get a 794: Education. Interviewer: And if a child left home to go to school and didn't show up that day, you'd say he 794: He's missing or. Or he's uh playing hooky. Interviewer: A-huh. Would you still say playing hooky if they were in college when they did it? {NS} 794: Well he laying out of school. Interviewer: A-huh. After kindergarten, you go into the {NS} {C: microphone feedback} Which grade or class do you go into after? 794: You go in the uh first first grade after kindergarten. Interviewer: Did they used to call it the first grade when you were in school? 794: Well they called it the primer. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Called the primer. Interviewer: Years ago children sat on benches, but now they all sit at 794: Let's see I didn't get Interviewer: Years ago children would sit on benches 794: Oh Interviewer: But now they #1 sit at # 794: #2 Sit # Sit in seats they have uh regular seats where they sit in. Interviewer: Or has a top to it and everything? You call it a What would you call something like this? 794: A desk. Interviewer: A-huh. And if you were talking about several of those you'd talk about several 794: Several desks or several Interviewer: And if you wanted to check out a book you'd go to the 794: To the library. Interviewer: And you'd mail a package at the 794: Post office. Interviewer: And you'd stay overnight in a strange town at a 794: Hotel. Interviewer: And you'd see a play or a movie at a 794: At a picture show. Interviewer: What's another name for that? 794: Movies. Interviewer: A-huh. What building do you go to? 794: To the uh well it'd be the movie building building of the movie or the building of the picture show either one. Interviewer: And if you had to have an operation, you'd have to go into the 794: Hospital. Interviewer: And the woman who'd look after you would be the 794: The nurse. Interviewer: And you'd catch a train at the? You would catch a train? 794: Catch a train at the station. Interviewer: Or you could call that the rail? 794: Railroad. Interviewer: Huh. 794: Railroad. What you {X} it well it'd be at the railroad but it'd be the railroad station Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: See the station oh uh which town is in you see they oh well it'd be the L and A like the L and A depot {NS} {NS} {C: microphone feedback} Interviewer: A-huh. 794: But the L and A depot at Minden or some other station at some other town that way Interviewer: The open place in town around the court house is called the? 794: Well uh around the courthouse is mostly the open place and and mostly business places in town besides uh shopping you see or any kind of stores you shop at drug store or dry good store grocery store or hardware store or any kind thataway. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: You shop and you do but uh the most important place is uh is the post office. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Fact is more people goes to the post office that is regular than they do to the courthouse. Interviewer: A-huh. What you know sometimes there'll be grass that grows around the courthouse. The green? Place and you'd call that the 794: Well that's uh call that the sidewalks. And and the yard the courthouse yard. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Course they usually didn't put grass in you see. Well but they put grass in it now and they mow it. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: And and they mow the sidewalks too. Interviewer: They didn't used to have grass in it? 794: No, didn't have grass just dirt. They'd sweep 'em. Take a broom and sweep 'em. And uh people out in the country. They'd go down on the branch somewhere where there were these here switch canes make 'em a broom out of that or go out in the woods and get 'em a huckleberry bush or a dogwood bush small dogwood bush and make 'em brooms out of that. And wh- to sweep their house they'd go on a broomsedge patch. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Get some broomsedge to make 'em a broom out to sweep the house with and and if they wanted a little broom to sweep the store out get the ashes out why they'd get a little uh broomsedge. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Brooms just we like I have out yonder at that little house. Interviewer: {NW} Say if you'd bought something you'd say the storekeeper took out a piece of paper and he 794: He make a bill of it. Interviewer: Or like meat, he took out the paper some some of that white paper and he 794: Put the meat on that white paper and and cut it Interviewer: #1 A-huh # 794: #2 put it up # Interviewer: #1 and then # 794: #2 slice it # Interviewer: And then took to cover the meat up you'd say he took out the paper and he 794: He cover it he he wrap it. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: He'd wrap the meat up. Interviewer: He took the meat and he 794: Yeah and he take it and he'd wrap it up. Interviewer: A-huh. If he'd done that, you'd say he 794: He's already wrapped it. Interviewer: And you'd say when I got home with it I 794: Unwrapped it. Interviewer: And if you had to sell something for two dollars that you'd paid three dollars for, you'd be selling it 794: Cheaper. Or that uh less money than I paid for it. Interviewer: A-huh you'd be selling it at a wouldn't be at a profit it'd be 794: No i- i- i- it'll lose loss Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Selling it at a loss. Interviewer: And if you like something but don't have enough money for it, you'd say well I like it but it 794: It's a little too high or I don't have enough money to pay for it. Interviewer: If you wanted to know the price you'd ask someone how much does it 794: Does it come to. Or what price would you put it down to? Interviewer: Or how much does it what? 794: Cost. Interviewer: And you'd say I'd buy it except that it what too much? 794: It's worth too much. I'd buy it your price is too high or or I'd buy it or worth too much Interviewer: And on the first of the month the bill is 794: Bill is due. Interviewer: And if you belong to a club you have to pay your 794: Your fees. Interviewer: Or your 794: Well if you belong to a club you'd have to pay your dues. Interviewer: A-huh. If you don't have any money you could go to the bank and try to 794: Borrow money. Interviewer: And you'd say back in the thirties, money was 794: Scarce was. Hard to get. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of tight money? Did you ever hear it called? 794: Yeah. I've heard that money was tight that means money's scarce you see. Interviewer: And when you buy something or pay your bills some store keepers will give you a little present and you call that 794: Well he'd call it in a way he'd call it a gift or a or call give you a little present or or call it a kickback on something well that'd be though if he's cutting the price that'd be a kickback on it Interviewer: Did you ever hear it called lagniappe? 794: Which? Interviewer: Lagniappe? 794: I don't believe I have. Interviewer: And if you had a piece of furniture in the corner and it wasn't square in the corner, there was a space it's kinda diagonal so that there's a space between the back of the furniture and the corner you'd say the furniture was sitting 794: Well it it isn't square it isn't sufficient to to fit the corner. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Not sufficient to fit the corner it it uh the corner's square while this has to be this is a little angling to angling to have to be cut square. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: If you generally have to take a square and square it up to make it fit. Interviewer: Do you ever say you have something sitting um kitty-cornered or catty-wampus or 794: Yeah kinda catty-cornered catty-wampus yeah word's that too Interviewer: What if you were walking say someone's yard was like this and you're supposed to walk on the sidewalk around it but instead of doing that you cut across their yard like this 794: Cross the corner. {NS} Interviewer: Would you call that catty-cornered? 794: Well yeah I'd be kinda catty-cornered. Interviewer: #1 Do you ever say # 794: #2 {X} # Cut across a corner or go catty-cornered. Interviewer: A-huh. Do you ever say antigodlin or 794: Yeah yank it antigodlin yeah now he wouldn't go straight kinda antigodlin like Interviewer: A-huh. Would you say that about the furniture too? In the corner? 794: Well you cu- could say that yeah till like the furniture kinda antigodlin. Interviewer: And before they had buses in town they used to have? 794: Uh wagons and buggies or {X} Interviewer: What would run on tracks that had a wire up above it? 794: Uh telephone. Interviewer: No no something that like a bus only it had tracks They had 'em in 794: Oh uh streetcars Interviewer: Did they have those around here? 794: Well they used to used to have streetcars. And uh And on the railroads they used to have handcars. Interviewer: A-huh. But uh th- they have uh a car now that's uh they work with 'em like you used to a handcar that they're they run by uh uh gas you see Mm-hmm. You tell the bus driver this next corner is where I 794: Where I get off. Interviewer: And if I offer you a choice of two things and ask you which well um you'd say I had a choice of two things and I was gonna do this but then I decided I'd do that. What of this? 794: Get out before it got there? Interviewer: Or say if if there were two things that um say if there was something that you were planning to do you say I I was going to do this but then I decided to do #1 that # 794: #2 decided I'd # i- i- that I'd do this other or I wouldn't do that I decided I'd do this. Interviewer: In what of that? I decided I'd do that 794: Well it's just like some kind of work it uh started to do and I and I decide I'd do it different or do something some other kind of work. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Like you're getting out of looking for a job. that uh it just couldn't find a work for the kind of job you was looking for I'd say well I'll hunt another job. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Or a different kind of a job different kind of work. Interviewer: And if you want someone to go with you somewhere, you might say I won't go 794: To come and go with me or to go with me Interviewer: Or 794: Such and such a place #1 or # Interviewer: #2 a-huh # 794: somewhere. Interviewer: And you'd say um 794: I want you to go with me to Winfield. Or Alexandria. Interviewer: And you'd say I'm not gonna go what you go too? 794: I'm not a going unle- unless you go #1 too. # Interviewer: #2 A-huh. # And if someone asks you to go somewhere and you're not sure you want to, you might say I don't know 794: Whether I wanna go or not. Interviewer: And in um Winn parish, Winfield is the 794: Is the closest place for to go for to do shopping. Interviewer: Or Winfield is the what of #1 Winn # 794: #2 the near- the nearest place # or most important place to go. Interviewer: Or Winfield is where you have the courthouse and everything? You'd say it's the 794: It's the nearest. Interviewer: Well would you call that the parish seat or the county capital or what would you call that? 794: Well uh it'd be the town capital I suppose. Interviewer: It'd be the what? 794: Town capital. uh the courthouse you see it'd be the uh. Let me see how that is. Interviewer: In each parish you know there's one one city where the courthouse is and where all the business of that parish is conducted. You know where the judges #1 and everybody is. # 794: #2 Yeah. # #1 Yeah. # Interviewer: #2 You'd say # 794: At at the courthouse. Interviewer: A-huh. And so that city is called the? 794: Well the city you see it'd be called Winfield. #1 The city # Interviewer: #2 A-huh. # 794: But uh the courthouse that'd be the the courthouse and and and in the town Winfield the city of Winfield. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: See. Interviewer: And if you were a postmaster, you would be working for the federal 794: Federal government. Interviewer: And the police in town are supposed to maintain 794: Well uh they supposed to maintain uh well it'd be correction in a way and in another it'd be the law. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. But talking about order too. You'd say he's supposed to maintain? Law 794: Law. Supposed to maintain law. Interviewer: But talking about order. 794: Order or court orders. Interviewer: A-huh. He's supposed to maintain #1 Law # 794: #2 maintain the # The the laws and and you're supposed to uh accept the court or- orders. Interviewer: A-huh. Do you ever hear the expression law and order? 794: Is which? Interviewer: Law and order? 794: Law and a where? Interviewer: Law and order. 794: I don't believe. Interviewer: And the fight between the north and the south was called the? Back about a hundred years ago. The north and the south were fighting. And they called that the 794: The center. The ce- oh let's see. Interviewer: It's the confederates fighting the Yankees. They called that the? 794: I believe you got me on that. Interviewer: Do you know what, it was a big fight? It was between the north and the #1 south. # 794: #2 and the south yeah. # Well. If there's a big fight between the north and the south if uh the north was to whoop the south the south would have to give over to the north you see. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. Well that, that happened about a hundred years ago. 794: Yeah yeah that's right. Interviewer: What did they call that? 794: I believe it was a Federal War I believe. Interviewer: A-huh. And Hmm? 794: Federal War and then there was another Civil War. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Civil War and a Federal War. Interviewer: Were those the same? 794: Well uh no I think it I think that's two different wars. The uh Civil War I believe that was the first war. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: That they ever had. That'd be back before the Federal {NS} War I'm not for sure. I haven't read any in so long I used to be read up on all these things but I haven't read any in so long so I've forgotten. #1 you see. # Interviewer: #2 {NW} # Before they had the electric chair, murderers would be 794: Before they'd have the elections? Interviewer: No before they had electric chairs 794: Oh electric chair oh I uh what they call the gallows, they'd hang them. Interviewer: A-huh. #1 you'd say # 794: #2 they'd hang 'em and # choke 'em to dead they They they'd hang 'em and uh carry 'em to the gallows. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: And and hang 'em. Interviewer: You'd say they took that man out and they 794: Choked him to death, broke his neck or choked him to death. Interviewer: Or putting the rope #1 around his # 794: #2 putting the rope around his # neck. And they pull a trigger Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Put put him on a platform or something he's standing on that and uh the sheriff's supposed to do that but some sheriffs hates to do it so bad they won't do it they'll hire somebody pay somebody a big prize to do it save them having to do it. So they'll pull that trigger and that'll fall out from under him and then they hang. {X} {C: microphone feedback} Some of 'em it breaks #1 their neck and some it don't # Interviewer: #2 {X} # {X} 794: and some it just stays there and chokes to death. Interviewer: Mm. 794: But that's a terrible death. Interviewer: #1 Have you ever seen # 794: #2 But now they # they they don't hang 'em thataway they they put 'em on electric chair. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: And and turn the electricity on 'em. {NS} Kill 'em thataway. In the I I never did see 'em one electrocute but I've heard i- i- it'll just like fog gets right on you and burns the hair off of your head. Interviewer: Mm. 794: Just just sets you afire in here. And and just shakes you so shakes you and burns you together 'til you die. Interviewer: A-huh. Talking about hanging, you'd say they took that man out and they 794: They put the rope around his neck Interviewer: And they 794: They yeah put er they hung him with a rope. Tied a rope around his neck. and uh they they'll tie a certain knot you see to where it'll it'll slip and it choke him to death. Interviewer: A-huh. And if when that had been done you'd say this man had been 794: Well he he's uh the man has been uh Interviewer: They'd done what to him? He'd been 794: Hung clear. Interviewer: A-huh. Or, criminals used to be, they didn't used to be electrocuted, they used to be 794: Uh what they well they'd hang 'em used to hang 'em Interviewer: So that they criminals used to be 794: Hung. Interviewer: And the biggest city in the country is in? 794: The biggest city in the country? Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Well um. Interviewer: What's a big city up north? 794: I believe Washington is a is a biggest city. Interviewer: What's another one? 794: And uh Baton Rouge. Interviewer: What about New? 794: New Orleans. Now New Orleans is a big city I don't know a whole lot New Orleans is a larger city than Baton Rouge is. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. What's a big city up north of here? In another state? Did you ever hear of New? 794: I don't believe I know now. What what's the largest city way up north Interviewer: What are some of the cities up north that you've heard of? 794: Well about the largest city course it's it's it's north but it's not so far it's in Arkansas El Dorado is about the ar- uh largest uh Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: City that I know of thataway now there's El Dorado and there's Smackover. That's uh that's a large city. Interviewer: What state is Baltimore in? 794: I don't believe I remember. Interviewer: What about Boston? 794: Boston? Well I suppose it is in Boston I hope. Baltimore is supposed to be in Boston. {NS} Interviewer: Where's Tulsa? 794: Which? Interviewer: Tulsa. 794: Tulsa Oklahoma. Interviewer: And the states from Maine to Connecticut are called the What are some of the states in the south? Besides Louisiana and Arkansas. 794: Well uh Alexandria Franklin Interviewer: Or some states 794: Oh the state. I believe you got me there. Interviewer: Well what states does um does Louisiana touch? Where's Houston? 794: Well there's Houston But but Houston that's a town isn't it? Interviewer: A-huh, what state is it in? 794: Texas. Interviewer: And what state is next to Alabama? You remember what state I'm from? 794: Oh uh Georgia? Interviewer: A-huh. Any other states in that area that you've heard of? 794: Let's see Alabama Texas And state of uh state of Mississippi and uh Chicago. Illinois. Interviewer: And Richmond is the capital of what state? 794: I don't believe I know. You kinda got me on some of these far off things I Interviewer: What state is, did you ever hear of Raleigh? What state that's in? 794: Which? Interviewer: Raleigh? 794: Raleigh? No. I don't know what state that's in. Interviewer: What state is Miami in? 794: Miana? Interviewer: Miami. What state do oranges grow in? 794: Uh Florida Interviewer: A-huh. And the state where they get co- a lot of the country music state? Where's the Grand Ole Opry? Do you ever hear of Ten- ? 794: Tennessee. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Tennessee yeah. Interviewer: And the bluegrass state up above that is? 794: Not Kentucky is it? Interviewer: Mm-kay. What's the state up above Arkansas? 794: Um. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of Miss- Missour- 794: Uh Missouri? Interviewer: A-huh. What's a big city there? 794: Well yes I've heard of Missouri is that is that joining Arkansas, north of Arkansas Missouri is? Interviewer: Did you ever hear of a big city in Missouri? 794: No. Never did. Interviewer: What's a an old city in um South Carolina? 794: Old sea? Interviewer: Old city. #1 In South # 794: #2 Old city in South Carolina? # I declare I don't know. Interviewer: What are some cities in Alabama? 794: Well Mobile. Interviewer: What's the biggest city? 794: I really don't know. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of Birm- 794: Broom? Interviewer: Birming- 794: Birmingham Birmingham Alabama yeah I've heard that's the biggest city. Birmingham Alabama. Yeah I've heard of that. Interviewer: What are some cities, what's a city up in the mountains in North Carolina? 794: I don't believe I know. Interviewer: What about a a city in Kentucky? 794: Kentucky? Well I've heard of Kentucky. Kentucky. Tennessee Missouri. Alabama and Mississippi. Arkansas. And uh I believe that's about all. Interviewer: What are some cities in Tennessee that you've heard of? 794: What is which? Interviewer: What are some different cities up in Tennessee that you've 794: I never have heard. Never have heard. Interviewer: Did you ever hear of Nash- 794: No. No I never have heard and there's some people way back yonder back when I was about ten years old came from Tennessee. To this country. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: But uh I never did uh hear 'em say what what city it that they came from just came from Tennessee they never did tell me. Interviewer: What are some cities in Georgia? 794: Atlanta. Atlanta Georgia. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: I believe that's the only one I ever heard of. Interviewer: And who discovered America? 794: Columbus. Interviewer: And Belfast is in what country? Overseas, it's in What are some countries overseas that you've heard of? 794: I don't believe I can Interviewer: Where, pe- people who celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, what country do they come from? 794: I don't remember. Interviewer: What country is Paris in? 794: Kerosene? Interviewer: Paris. 794: What parish you mean? Interviewer: No what country is Paris? 794: {X} I really don't know. Interviewer: Well what country is Moscow in? 794: I couldn't tell you. See I never did study that you see. And and uh it's it's all it's all new to me you see I don't know anything about it. Never uh never had any uh experience any way of it you know any way to learn about it Interviewer: Has anyone around here um that you know of had to go into the Army? 794: Yes. Interviewer: Where were they sent? 794: Uh to uh France. Interviewer: Mm-hmm. 794: Sent to France. I had a brother who went to France. Interviewer: In World War One? 794: World War One, yeah. And I had uh a brother-in-law that went to France. Stayed there for several years. Him and my brother both. And several boy friends and I just missed it seven days. Interviewer: {NW} 794: I quit a good job I was working in an oil field. Working at Pine Island. {NS} Had a good job up there {NS} and uh field manager he told me when I left he said if you don't have to go and serve come back I'll give you the same job back or give you a better one. and said if you do have to go and you you're lucky enough to get back with us come back and I'll do the same thing. Interviewer: #1 Did you # 794: #2 But I never did # go back I wish several times I had but I never did. Came home and went to work in timber. Interviewer: A-huh. What church did you say you were a member of? 794: Corinth. Interviewer: Corinth 794: Corinth Baptist. Interviewer: If two people became members, you'd say last week they 794: Joined the church. Interviewer: And you go to church to pray to 794: Well uh The other church to go to now is Big Creek Church {NS} Zion Church Beulah church here honey take this one too aux: yeah 794: And uh {NS} The Baptist Church at Winfield Interviewer: People go to church to pray to 794: To the Lord. Pray to God you see. Interviewer: And the preacher preaches a 794: Well he preaches a Bible you see preaches uh does the Lord's work. Interviewer: Well he you'd say what he preaches, you'd call that his 794: His sermon. Interviewer: And the choir and the organist provide the 794: The music. Interviewer: And if you really like the music, you'd say the music was just 794: Just fine. Interviewer: #1 Or # 794: #2 Or # Or enjoyed the music. Interviewer: If someone's very very pretty, you'd say the person was 794: Was real pretty or was cute. Interviewer: Or very pretty 794: #1 very pretty # Interviewer: #2 the person was just # 794: person was was was was very pretty. Interviewer: Well a man you'd say would be handsome, a woman would be 794: She'd be uh she'd be pretty. Interviewer: A-huh. 794: Woman would be pretty and man would be handsome. Interviewer: And if you had to change a flat tire on the way to church one Sunday, you'd say church'll be over what we get there? 794: Well church w- we're a little late for church church will be over when we get there. Interviewer: And the enemy of God is called the 794: Satan. oh uh Interviewer: Or the 794: The devil. Interviewer: What would you tell children was gonna come get 'em if they didn't behave? 794: Do which? Interviewer: What would you tell children was gonna come get them if they didn't behave? 794: Oh. {NS} If you come get 'em you give 'em a whooping. Interviewer: A-huh. Or you'd say What's gonna get you? 794: Booger man is gonna get you. Interviewer: Is that the same as the devil? 794: Booger man same as the devil yeah. That's what they tell me. Interviewer: A-huh. What did children think, what do people think they see around the graveyard at night? 794: Well uh they think there's uh there's a ghost some people think there's a ghost around the graveyard if you go there at night. Interviewer: Do you believe that? 794: No I don't. Interviewer: What would you call a house that people are scared to go in? 794: Haunted. Interviewer: And you'd tell someone you better put a sweater on it's getting 794: Cool. Really cool or chilly. Interviewer: And you'd say I'll go with you if you really want me to but I'd what stay here? 794: I'd rather stay here. Interviewer: And if um if someone intensely disliked to go someplace, you'd say he what hated that place? 794: He didn't care to go to that place or hated that place or didn't like that place either one. Interviewer: Would you ever say he purely hated it? plum hated it or? 794: Well er they uh he just really hated that place or or didn't like the didn't like the place Interviewer: And you'd say um it wasn't just a little cold this morning, it was 794: Freezing cold. Interviewer: Or it was 794: Really really cold. Interviewer: And when you were growing up did you say or do you now say ma'am and sir to people? 794: Say ma'am. Interviewer: Or or sir? 794: Sir, well you say ma'am to the t- to the women folks and sir to the men folks. Interviewer: Do you still say that? 794: Yessum. Interviewer: To everybody or 794: Well most everybody now if it's someone that's just long uh probably that I'm with and regular you see just like home folks oh I I don't every time. Interviewer: And when the man was hammering and he hit his thumb what might he say? What exclamations would he have? 794: Well sometimes he says an ugly word. He says damn it Interviewer: A-huh. What would you say if someone told you something that surprised you? What exclamations would you have? 794: Well I wouldn't been expecting it. Interviewer: Would you ever say land's sakes or anything liked that? 794: Which? Interviewer: If someone told you something that surprised you, would you ever say land's sakes or anything like that?