Interviewer:  Okay it's not doing anything wrong this time
853:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Um okay oh yeah let me do this just in case we missed it a second ago uh to- yes- um Thursday is today and so Wednesday was
853:  Yesterday.
Interviewer:  And Friday is
853:  Tomorrow.
Interviewer:  Okay um if somebody came to see you on a Sunday but it wasn't last Sunday but it was the Sunday before that you'd say he came to see me?
853:  Sunday's a week ago.
Interviewer:  Okay and if he's going to come see you but not next Sunday but the one after that you'd see he's coming to see me?
853:  Sunday after next.
Interviewer:  Okay um if somebody came and stayed here from about the first of the month to about the fifteenth of the month you'd say they stayed about a?
853:  Month and a half.
Interviewer:  Okay uh how would you ask somebody uh time?
853:  Would you give me the time please?
Interviewer:  Okay and somebody'd look at his?
853:  His watch.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh halfway between seven o'clock and eight o'clock you'd say it's half?
853:  Past.
Interviewer:  Okay and fifteen minutes later would be?
853:  Forty-five minutes. {X}
Interviewer:  It would be what now?
853:  Forty-five minutes until or after.
Interviewer:  Okay uh would you ever say a quarter?
853:  Quarter until eight or Quarter until whatever
Interviewer:  Uh and if nineteen seventy let's see nineteen seventy-six was last year then nineteen seventy-seven is.
853:  This year.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh if a child had just had his third birthday you'd say he is.
853:  Three years old.
Interviewer:  Okay and if something happened on this day last year you'd have to say it happened exactly a
853:  a year ago.
Interviewer:  Okay and you might look up at the cloud at the sky and say I don't like the the looks of those black
853:  Clouds.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh if you look up at the sky and there are no clouds around then you might say well I believe we're going to have a
853:  Clear day.
Interviewer:  Okay or if it's the opposite and a bunch of clouds you might say well I I bet it's going to be a
853:  Rainy day.
Interviewer:  Okay
853:  Or cloudy day.
Interviewer:  And uh say the clouds are getting thicker and thicker and you figure maybe it's going to rain you might say the weather is?
853:  Unsettled.
Interviewer:  Okay and say that uh it's been cloudy but the clouds are going away and the sun's coming out you'd say the weather is?
853:  Going to be nice.
Interviewer:  Okay um
853:  Clear. Nice and clear.
Interviewer:  Okay.
853:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Um say you had a big rainstorm and there was a lot of lightning and stuff with it what kind of a storm would you call that?
853:  A electrical storm.
Interviewer:  Okay uh let's see say you uh hung some clothes up on the line and you come out and they're all over the ground you'd say well the wind must have?
853:  Come up.
Interviewer:  Okay and do what?
853:  Blew them.
Interviewer:  Okay and uh you might say well the wind was pretty bad last night but it has what before even harder?
853:  Calmed down.
Interviewer:  Uh
853:  No.
Interviewer:  But before in other years it has what even worse?
853:  Blown worse than that.
Interviewer:  Okay and if the wind is coming from that direction?
853:  West.
Interviewer:  I blew it that direction
853:  South.
Interviewer:  Okay.
853:  {NW}
Interviewer:  You say it's coming you say the wind is what if it's?
853:  Coming from the south.
Interviewer:  Okay
853:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  Uh a wind halfway between the south and the west you call uh?
853:  Southwest.
Interviewer:  Okay and halfway between the south and the east?
853:  Southeast.
Interviewer:  Okay and halfway between the east and the north?
853:  Northeast.
Interviewer:  And between the west and the north?
853:  Northwest.
Interviewer:  Okay and if you go outside and it's raining but just barely just barely raining you'd say it's?
853:  Sprinkling.
Interviewer:  Okay and it's raining a little harder that's a?
853:  Little shower.
Interviewer:  Okay and harder than that?
853:  Raining right down.
Interviewer:  Okay and even harder than that real hard?
853:  Just a downpour.
Interviewer:  Okay
853:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Uh if you go out in the morning excuse me and there's this heavy white mist and you can hardly see across the street you'd say?
853:  Foggy.
Interviewer:  Okay and what do you call that stuff that makes it foggy you say here comes the
853:  Fog.
Interviewer:  Okay.
853:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  And uh if it hadn't rained for weeks and weeks
853:  {NW}
Interviewer:  You're having a
853:  Dry spell.
Interviewer:  Okay and if it
853:  Drought. {NW}
Interviewer:  What's the difference between a drought and a dry spell?
853:  Nothing.
Interviewer:  Uh if the wind has been very gentle but it's gradually getting stronger and stronger and stronger you'd say the wind is?
853:  Getting up.
Interviewer:  Okay and if it's just the opposite and the wind has been strong and it's gradually getting weaker and weaker and weaker you'd say the wind is?
853:  Kind of laying.
Interviewer:  Okay uh {NS} Last night if it was just cold enough to kill the tomatoes and the flowers you'd say we had a
853:  Frost.
Interviewer:  I wish
853:  A what?
Interviewer:  I wish.
853:  Yes I do too. {NW} I like winter.
Interviewer:  Yeah I do too. #1 I wish we had #
853:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  More of it I don't think I want quite as much as we had last winter but
853:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Last winter was a bit much.
853:  It was pretty bad.
Interviewer:  Yeah
853:  Steady constant I mean.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm yeah it was I didn't take all my plants in from outside wasn't supposed to freeze but it did and it killed my plants.
853:  I'm telling you. {NW}
Interviewer:  Uh
853:  {NW}
Interviewer:  You might say last night it was so cold the lake did what?
853:  Froze over.
Interviewer:  Okay and
853:  {NW}
Interviewer:  Speaking of rooms and their height you'd say this room is about eight what?
853:  Feet.
Interviewer:  Okay.
853:  Uh-huh eight feet high {NS} {C: audio ends}