Interviewer
Okay uh
you might say of somebody
she isn't afraid now but she
Uh before.
Last
Last year- let's say last year she was afraid but now she's not afraid. So how would you tell me that?
Okay um
about the
D: old gray mare
you'd say
she ain't what she?
Okay um
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What would be the opposite of
used to be?
Like you might use it in a sentence. I don't understand why she's afraid she
Now she's afraid but
Okay okay um
You might say I-I wouldn't say these kids around here are reckless drivers but some of them are just kind of
Okay or you might say your son made
too many mistakes. Say say you had a son and he made too many mistakes on an arithmetic test you'd say
you shouldn't be so what with your figures?
On a test?
What?
Okay um
If you're if you're a driver and just sort of forget to signal and
you forget to do some kind of things
you might say you're a what kind of driver?
Yeah that you're supposed to do.
That make it safe yeah.
Okay um
Okay you might say there's really nothing wrong with aunt Lizzy but sometimes she just acts kind of?
Okay what's another word for funny?
Okay another word? Any other words for funny or off?
Okay okay what um
Yeah
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Okay would you use the word queer in that sentence?
Okay how would you use the word queer?
Uh-huh.
Okay
Okay okay what's a fag? Is that a male homosexual?
Okay okay uh
let's see
okay somebody who
who makes up his mind and nothing can make him change it you might say he's really
Okay yeah but what would be one word to describe somebody's like that. You can't change his mind.
Nothing you do can make him change his mind.
Uh-huh.
Okay okay um
if something happened to embarrass somebody or to make them mad
uh you might say to somebody else now don't mention it he's still a little something on that subject.
Yeah something embarrassing happened.
Now don't mention it to him he's still a little something
on that subject.
Okay um
you might say I was just kidding him. I didn't know he'd get
Okay um
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um
say you're at the theater and the and the
at the show and the and the building catches on fire.
And somebody might stand up and say
we'll be alright just keep what?
Okay or don't panic keep?
No okay that's
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Quiet is the opposite of noisy. But what's the opposite of excited or panicked?
Yeah that
The opposite of it. The opposite of of uh
scared would be?
No that's the same thing.
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The opposite.
Mm-hmm.
Okay what would somebody say if- you probably wouldn't say
probably wouldn't care if you were quiet. He'd jump up and say now stay
He wants you to keep cool.
What's another word for keep cool?
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Okay.
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Um.
Mm.
Okay if you'd been working real hard you might say you're real
Okay and if you'd been working
real real hard and you're real real tired you might say you're all
Okay um
you hear somebody's in the hospital and you might say
gosh he was looking fine yesterday. I wonder when it was he
Okay uh
say somebody got overheated and he got chilled and his eyes and nose started running you might say
he what?
Okay uh
and if the cold begins to affect his voice you might say he's beginning to get
Okay but I mean he has to whisper he's not
sound
Mm okay okay or
I'm a little h-
And if he keeps going
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you'd say he's got a?
Okay um
you might say about this time in the afternoon you might say
I think I'll go to bed. I'm getting a little bit
Not so much
tired.
Okay um
okay at six o'clock in the morning I will?
O-okay but before that you have to?
Um okay but
you have to set your alarm so that you will?
Okay.
Okay but before you get out of bed before you can actually get up
you're asleep and you have to?
Okay but okay you set the alarm and then you go to sleep and then you're asleep and then you have to
what w-um?
Before you get up in the morning
you're lying there and
when you actually get out of bed you're already awake.
And before you're awake you have to- and you're asleep. Before you're awake you have to
what up?
Mm let's say
you might say to somebody he's still sleeping you better go?
Okay so at six o'clock in the morning I will?
Okay okay or
I-or would you just say I will?
Okay okay um
Um if the medicine is still by the patient's bedside you might ask
why haven't you?
Okay and the patient might answer I
something some yesterday.
Okay but if you use the word take?
You might say I?
Okay.
And I will something some more later.
Okay and if somebody can't hear anything at all you might say he's stone
Can't hear.
No he's just he's
He just can't he just can't hear nothing.
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Speak up.
Speak up.
Okay.
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If uh if somebody began to sweat when he started to work
by the time he finished you'd say he really
what a lot?
Okay but if you're going to use the word sweat you'd say he really
Okay um.
Okay some kind of-there's a certain kind of sore that people get
and sometimes it comes on the back of a person's neck
or I guess it can be anywhere but seems like a lot of times they're on the back of a person's neck
and it's uh
mm sometimes the doctor has to go in and lance it.
And get that junk in it out.
And uh it's like a big uh blister or something.
Oh it's about that sm-that big.
You know what I'm talking about?
Okay uh well they use the same word for um
if you're going to cook something
sometimes you have to put water on to.
Yeah okay
uh when they have to lance open a boil
what do you call that stuff that comes out?
Okay
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Yeah isn't that great.
Got some more of those too.
{X}
When you get a blister okay just a regular blister
like uh on your hand.
The liquid that forms under the skin you'd call what?
Mm-hmm.
Okay okay um.
You might say a bee stung me and my hand
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Okay and uh you might say it's still pretty badly?
Okay and but it's not infected so it probably won't
what much?
Oh same word.
Okay um
okay if in a war if a bullet goes through your arm you'd say you have a?
Okay um
have you ever heard of a kind of wound where it doesn't heal clean and
a white kind of granular substance
forms around the edge. Sometimes it has to be cut out or burned out
{D: with alum}
Okay would you ever call any kind of flesh?
Okay have you ever ever heard it called uh proud flesh?
Okay um if you got a little cut on your finger and you didn't want it go get infected
you'd probably go get some medicine out of the medicine cabinet that's red
that
stings.
And it's got
a skull and cross bones you know on the
Yeah.
Um okay there's another
there's a
chemical kind of thing that
people-uh that they used to give people tonic for malaria.
And sometimes they give it to people in capsules
for when they get a cold. For a fever.
Mm yeah it's kind of like that but it's the uh stuff in it's stronger.
Okay okay.
Um.
You might say the doctor did everything he could but the patient what anyway?
Okay what are some other words for died?
I mean just a verb like died. He died or he
what?
No just
that means died.
Um okay somebody comes up okay what would a preacher say? A preacher
like at the funeral probably wouldn't say well he died on Wednesday. He'd probably say well on Wednesday he
Uh-huh okay and what's another word like that?
Would you ever say passed?
Okay how- would you use it in a sentence for me?
Okay okay um
Which of those terms you consider to be most polite?
Uh-huh.
Okay okay um
okay do you know of any crude and humorous ways to saying that he died like
I sure am glad that old skin flint finally
what?
Yeah.
Okay uh but this you're not meaning to be nice. Would you ever say uh
Yeah.
Okay would you ever say kicked the bucket or cashed in or
pegged out or anything like that?
Okay.
Um
you might say he's been dead a week and nobody's figured out yet what he?
Okay um
okay and the place where they bury people is called a?
If it's small and out in the country you'd call it a?
Something different same thing?
Uh-huh.
No uh where they bury people.
It'd it'd be kind of small.
Okay would you call it a cemetery would you just?
Okay have you ever seen the kind- it's real small and they're out on the farm and usually just a family's
buried there.
What would you call that?
Okay um
what do they call the box that they put people in?
To bury them in?
Okay anything else?
Uh-huh.
Okay um you might say he was a really important man. Everybody turned out for his?
Okay and if people are all dressed in black you'd say they are in?
Uh-huh.
Okay um.
Okay say your walking down the street on just an average sort of day
I mean you don't feel real good but you don't feel real bad either
and somebody says hey how you doing you might say oh I'm just?
Okay um
if somebody's troubled you might say
oh it will come out all right don't?
Okay uh
back to the joints and stuff I think you'd
told me what what it is that people old people get in their joints you might say that I've got a touch of?
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Would you say that again?
Okay um
Used to be there was a disease that children died of
it was a sever sore throat and they had like blisters on the inside of their throat
and they'd choke in the middle of the night.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
There's a- you have to get a shot for it now before you can enter school.
I think it's a
it seems like a there's a shot where you get three?
Yeah. And it's for a certain disease. The name of the disease is what I'm looking for.
You get one
What?
Okay it's a different one.
Yeah um.
Okay if you're skin and your eye balls turn yellow
and there's something wrong with your kidneys probably you'd say you're getting?
Okay um.
If you have a sharp
pain in your
lower right abdomen you'd
and you might have to have an operation you'd say you have?
Okay what what's the disease called?
Uh-huh.
Yeah if you have to have your appendix taken out you'd say you have a what?
Okay um
Okay when you eat and drink things that don't-oh I don't want to talk about this
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when you eat and drink things that don't agree with you
you might and they come back up
you might say that you?
Okay or what's another word for vomit?
Okay which of those two is more polite?
Okay um.
What are some crude terms that you know for that?
That you wouldn't use in polite company you know.
Uh-huh.
Okay okay um say it's at a party and it's
pretty warm and so on and you might say
I think I better get some fresh air I'm beginning
to feel a little sick.
Okay
I don't want to talk about that.
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Yeah.
Okay say you had a real gossipy neighbor.
You might say man she hardly got the news when she came right over to
what?
Uh not to listen but
she wanted you to know about it so she came over to?
Okay okay.
{NW}
I imagine I imagine.
Is-you're probably the the head of the neighborhood now.
{NW}
Yeah you'd better. Somebody's going to come in and lift your stereo.
{NW}
It did come
{X}
That's good. Were you there when it came?
That's great. Where'd you get it?
Where'd you get it?
Uh-huh.
It's got
It's got a tape player in it?
Very neat. What kind of music do you like?
Uh-huh.
Mm-hmm.
You're going to this tonight? You're going?
That's neat. That's neat.
Well we won't get together tomorrow then if you're going to be in Houston.
I had forgotten about that.
Well next week.
Okay.
Okay. You're going to have a good weekend.
{NW}
Yeah.
That'll be neat.
Okay you might say
if I don't get to go
I what be disappointed?
Okay um
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Okay say this boy keeps going over to this same girl's house all the time.
You might say he is what?
Okay and or you might say they are
what?
Okay okay uh
when you say going together does that mean that they're dating somebody else too or?
not or what do you mean exactly when you say going together?
Uh-huh.
Okay okay
um
okay uh
when a boy and girl are going together
uh he is
he would be called her what?
He-he would be called her?
Okay say they weren't engaged yet.
So you know
then what would you say?
Okay and and she'd be his
Okay um
say a boy comes home with lipstick on his collar and his little brother goes aha you've been
what?
Okay.
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Um okay if a girl stops letting this boy come over to see her you'd say she?
Okay. Um but what does she do?
Okay. And if he had asked her to marry him
and she said no you'd say-you'd say she?
Okay uh if they were they might maybe okay maybe they were engaged. But then all of a sudden she just?
Okay okay um
now if a man did that to a woman would you use the same word?
Same phrase?
Uh-huh.
Okay okay uh
Okay say that
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they didn't break up you'd say they went ahead and got?
Okay and at a wedding the man who stands up
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is the
{NS}
Uh
The man you know
who usually holds the ring.
Um no there's a-okay you got the preacher in the middle and the groom here and the bride here
and usually there's a
man on the other side of the groom and a girl on the other side of the bride like that.
And you know what do you call those those other two in the wedding?
Okay and what do you call the girl on the other side of the bride?
Okay um
Have you ever heard of uh
the kind of deal where after
the wedding all the boys in the neighborhood gather around the couples house and make all kinds of noise
and stuff like that. Have you ever heard anything like that?
Do you have a name for it?
Yeah yeah I had never heard of the
{X}
either.
Um
okay you might say about seeing a friend
I saw him mm in Houston?
Okay would you ever say down in Houston or up in Houston or over in Houston?
Okay uh what if it was uh
what if it was in Fort-Fort Worth say?
I saw him what in Fort Worth?
Okay would you say over in Fort Worth or up in Fort Worth or down in Fort Worth?
Okay what if it was in um
Corpus Christi?
Uh
would you say I saw him up in Corpus Christi or down in Corpus Christi or over in Corpus Christi?
Okay okay um what's the difference? When do you use over and when do you use up?
Oh it's the same thing.
Okay okay um
same thing for uh some body living in somebody's house. You might say he lives
something at the Brown's house.
Okay but would you ever use over or up or down in there?
Okay okay
Um
if you said that how far away would the Brown's probably be at I mean?
Not very far away or-
Okay what if they live
uh across town or something?
Okay.
Okay uh what if they live in the next
say ten or twenty miles away? Out from town. Then you'd say he lives what at the Brown's.
Yeah.
Okay okay um
okay say there was a party and there was some
there was some trouble at the party
but not everybody's making trouble just a few of them are making trouble. But the police came arrested the
Okay.
Mm after football games and stuff
schools a lot of times will sponsor a?
Okay um
You might say four o'clock is the time when school?
Okay.
And after the the day after labor day is the day that school?
Uh it's-okay. After Labor Day it's
the end of the summer vacation so that's when school?
It's the
vacation that ends
unfortunately.
Okay okay.
What's another word you might use for starts?
Starts with a B.
Okay uh
okay if a boy left home to go to school and didn't show up you'd say he
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He what?
What's that?
Uh-huh okay so it doesn't just apply to school.
Uh-huh okay.
Would you use it in a sentence for me?
Okay okay.
Um okay you-you go to school in order to get an?
Okay and after high school you go on to?
And after kindergarten you go into the?
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Okay um
used to be children sat down at um benches
in school but now they sit at?
Okay and each child has his own?
Okay and uh
if you want to check out a book you go to the?
Okay and you mail a package at the?
And you stay over night in a strange town at a?
Okay um what would you call it?
Uh the- you might say-stay at the uh
the Hilton
Or the Sheraton.
And those are?
Okay um.
You go to see a play or movie at the
what?
Okay okay um
anything else you might call the place where you go?
Okay.
Uh you go to the what to have an operation?
Okay and
somebody who looks after you in the hospital and
and takes your pulse and gives you shots and?
Okay or a?
Okay um and you catch a train at the?
Okay or
the rail-
Okay um
what do you call the place in the center of town around the courthouse?
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh. Is there-I don't know if there is one- is there one here?
Yeah.
Is there a little green place around it of some kind?
Those grassy places or something like that.
Okay well have you seen little towns where there's like a green
green uh place you know around the courthouse?
Okay um
okay uh say there's a vacant lot at the corner
and you go across it
instead of using sidewalk to go around it you know
you'd-if you do that you'd say your walking?
Okay um let me ask it another way. Okay so here's a street.
And here's a street.
Okay and there's a building right here and a building here and a building here and a building here okay
this building and this building would be across the street from each other right?
Okay and this building and this building
are what from each other?
Okay is there a particular word you might use for that?
Would you ever say
okay there's something across the street from each other
it's it's another word
Okay it's another word and it kind of means diagonal.
Because see these are straight across the street but these are diagonally across the
street but there's another word for diagonal.
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Okay okay uh
let's see
oh
now they have buses in San Antonio you know public transportation?
But used to be they had
you can still see the tracks where some of them used to?
Okay okay um
Okay you might tell a bus driver the next corner is where I want?
Mm-kay. And a cat goes over to the door and meows you might say the cat?
The cat wants?
No he goes over to the door.
Okay uh
Okay.
San Antonio is the
it's where the have all the county government for Bexar county.
You know all the county offices and stuff like that are here.
And you you'd say that San Antonio is the county what?
Yeah.
Yeah it's the main city and another word for the main city would be?
Okay yeah have you ever heard it call the
the county capital or the county seat or the
county side or the county town?
Okay um okay if you're an FBI agent
then you work for the federal?
Okay uh but the whole thing would be the federal?
Um
okay.
At school you have to take
a course in history and then usually a course in?
Um well I think they called it civics when I was in school. Always thought it was a stupid name.
But in civics like you study that
uh the United States. There are three branches the judiciary the legislative and the executive
branches of?
Okay the united states
gov-
What?
Okay um
Is that
Just just what do you call the organization that
um
that governs I guess.
Uh that rules. You'd say it's the?
Um.
The word I want is two s-
is is simpler.
The closest you've come is when you said governor but uh
um
okay who who pays
the postmaster?
Not the city but the federal
what?
Uh the whole thing. The whole organization up there
that's in you know the?
okay
Okay the president is the head of the federal?
What?
Okay okay
{NW}
a political candidate who wants the police to get tougher says he's for
what?
Okay uh
the police are supposed to enforce the what?
Okay and so somebody wants them to get tougher he wants them to enforce the
law and?
Uh okay
Richard Nixon was this was a big slogan of his campaign.
Law and something.
It was a big um
it's kind of a motto sort of thing from when Richard Nixon ran for president.
Law and?
Okay now would you say the whole phrase for me?
I'm sorry what?
Okay okay um
okay and eighteen sixty-one to eighteen sixty-five
in this country we had a war that we call the?
What?
In this country.
Mm-hmm.
Uh earlier than that.
Lincoln was president.
The-the slaves were freed.
It wasn't a world war.
It was a hundred years ago.
More than a hundred years ago.
Yeah.
Yeah the south was going to secede from the union
and uh
and because of that well they did I guess secede and
Jefferson Davis was appointed you know or elected president of the south
and Lincoln was president of the whole country at the time and
the guys that the soldiers in the south wore gray and the
the army in the north wore wore blue.
and and uh
the song Dixie got to be the oh what was it song for the south at that time.
And it was the north against the south you know. What-what war is that?
Okay okay um
okay used to be before they had the electric chair
murderers were?
Okay and you might say
that man felt so bad that he went out and what himself?
Okay um
Um
okay the largest city in this country is what would you say?
And New York is in what state?
Mm
Okay this is Texas and New York is in what?
N-
Okay okay uh would you say the whole thing with state on the end?
Okay um okay Baltimore is in?
What state?
Okay um
okay Richmond is the capital of what
state?
Okay do what why don't you name as many southern states as you can think of for me?
You know the ones in the-across the south.
Mm-hmm.
No no no no that doesn't count.
Try again.
Okay what's this state?
I mean this just?
Okay and then the one just north of here is?
Yeah yeah just north of here just.
It's-it's shaped.
It's shaped. It has a panhandle that sticks out
about like that.
Uh it has a bunch of Indians up there.
And there was a musical.
{C: singing}
Okay um I'm not going to sing anymore.
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Okay what's the state just to the east of here?
Maps and stuff. Where-where do Cajuns live?
Uh-huh.
Okay uh
let's see
Okay can you think of any other states just
states? Names of states.
Okay uh let's see.
Um Columbia is the capital of
Mm
No.
um
Uh what
what okay what's-what's the capital of the united states?
Uh-huh.
The whole thing.
Wash-
Okay okay um
okay uh
during the
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{X}
Okay um okay.
What are two southern states where they grow a lot of peaches?
Um okay Tallahassee is the capital of?
Okay uh
what-what state's Cape Canaveral in? Do you know?
Canaveral?
You know where the blast the rockets off from?
Yeah where-what state's it in?
It's the-uh it's the state that
like here's the United States and it kind of hangs down here.
On the far east coast.
Okay just let me go through the rest of these first asks.
Uh George Wallace is the governor of
what state?
{NW}
No.
Um Baton Rouge
is the capital of?
And New Orleans is there? That's
Okay the blue grass state is
what?
Okay the volunteer state?
Okay there's one called the show me state?
Yeah.
Okay
what's the state named after the biggest river in the country?
Okay um
Okay and
Little Rock is the capital of?
What?
Uh let's see.
Tulsa Tulsa is in what
state?
Mm okay Boston is in?
Okay the states from Maine to Connecticut are called the
new what?
Okay um
oh the biggest city in Maryland?
Would-do you know what that is?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
{NS}
Okay um
the biggest city in Missouri
and it has a famous blues name for it?
Uh-huh.
There was a world's fair there one time.
In the thirties I think.
Okay uh
{NS}
what's the old historical sea port in South Carolina?
How about the steel making town in Alabama?
How about the big city in Illinois where Al Capone ran rackets?
And they had the democratic convention there
uh once and they had riots and stuff?
Remember that?
Yeah Al Capone was there.
Used to be. Not anymore.
Um say the capital of Alabama is?
{NS}
Mm-hmm.
What
Can you think of any other cities in Alabama? There's one on the coast.
That-
Okay uh
Oh there's a city up in the mountains in North Carolina.
Um
what are some big uh cities in Tennessee? Can you think of any?
Mm-hmm.
There's the one where they have all the country and western music now you know?
Uh okay there's one that has uh
a song named after it and it's called the
something something choo-choo.
And the something something is the name of this town.
No no doesn't ring a bell? Okay uh
Let's see the capital and the largest city in Georgia?
How about the biggest seaport in Georgia?
Okay um
okay the biggest city in southern Georgia is what?
Okay and Fort Benning is near what town in Georgia?
It's the same as the name of the guy who discovered America.
Christo-
What?
Yeah okay um
what's the biggest city in Louisiana? They have Mardi Gras and so on.
Okay. And the capital of Louisiana is?
Uh-huh.
Uh okay what's uh the biggest
uh cities
on the Ohio river?
You know?
Okay let's go on to countries.
This is different now okay. Paris would be the capital of?
Uh okay it's close to there but it's a bigger country.
Um
Okay just north of Spain.
What?
{NW}
I didn't here what you said.
No no try again. Um
Mm
let's see Moscow is the capital of?
Uh well the cosmonauts are from where?
You know the cosmonauts that are going to rendezvous with our?
Space ship. Yeah what country are they from?
No.
The cosm- you know not our cosmo- not our astronauts but their cosmonauts.
are from?
Okay and uh
over the British Isles there's
England and Scotland and Wales and one more country.
Uh they have Saint Patrick's day and they're color's green?
And
Mm?
{NW}
Let's see
I'm trying to think of another
way another
hint
uh
oh they-they they're having trouble between the protestants and the catholics there.
And the protestants are and catholics are bombing each other's houses and stuff like that in this country.
Okay uh
{NW}
Okay I might say
about how far is it from here to
{D: New Bronkles?}
Yeah okay. And you're going to answer me. And you might say oh it's about
make up a figure I don't know how far it is.
Okay uh say it again?
Okay um if somebody asks you if you want to go with him
and you're not sure if you want to you say
oh I don't know?
Something I want to?
I don't know if I?
Okay um if somebody asks you to do something you might say I don't know mm I can do it or not.
Okay um
Okay if you want somebody to go with you you might say
I won't go mm he does.
Um
No you want you want him to go too.
You you go
So I won't go
mm you go.
Uh
would you ever say
without he goes or 'less he goes or unless unless he goes or
lessen he goes?
Okay would you use that in a sentence for me?
Okay um
when you could have used some help you might say afterwards
say you were doing a job you know
and you could have used some help you say well why did you stand around
mm helping me?
Uh okay if you had a choice of doing two things
uh and you said well I was going to do that-this but I decided to do that mm.
Uh not later but?
What's another word that you might tack on the end there?
I was going to do this but I decided to do that?
Mm okay. Um I might say
why do you like him anyway and you might say well I like him
what?
Okay um
what church-what church is it that Reverend Bailey
is a
preacher of?
Saint John's what?
I'm sorry would you say that?
Okay okay if uh
if somebody becomes a member you'd say he
what?
Okay okay in church you worship
who?
What?
Okay um you might say the preacher delivered a fine?
Okay and requiring the organist provided good?
Choir what?
Yeah or?
The organist didn't sing he just played?
Okay.
In order to play he had to open up some stuff on his
on the top of the organ and then he has to read what?
Okay
Um
You might say that was a
mm service.
Okay or if you thought it was pretty another word for pretty might be?
Mm-hmm.
Stronger-stronger word.
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Um
let's see.
There's a song from Oklahoma.
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No the da- da- da-
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There's a word that goes in there.
Okay if you see a really pretty sunset you might say wow that is just?
Stronger word.
It starts with a b.
Okay um
if you had to change a flat tire on the way to church one Sunday morning you might say
gosh church is going to be over?
what?
Well but your- you want to get there and you say
before I can get this tire changes church is?
Okay okay.
Um.
What do people sometimes tell children would come and get them if they didn't behave?
Did your mother ever used to-if you tell you that is you didn't behave
this particular kind of person was going to come and get you?
Okay anything else?
Okay do you have any other names for the devil?
Okay um what is it that people sometimes think they see around a graveyard?
Okay uh what kind of house has these kinds of things in it?
Okay um you might say if you had a choice you might say I'd?
No let's put it another way. I might say well I'll go if you insist but I'd
mm not.
Okay um.
What do you say to a friend that you haven't seen for a long time. How do you express
you know you're feeling about seeing him?
Yeah.
Okay okay how would you tell him that you're really glad to see him?
Okay okay uh
okay say you know some guy who owns five hundred acres of land.
You'd say that's a what of land?
Okay um
If you want to express agreement with somebody stronger and more enthusiastically than by just saying yes
what would you say?
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Uh-huh.
I mean like if I say
golly it's hot in here and you don't just say yes you say?
Okay um
uh let's see.
I might say
do you really think you can do that?
And you might say
I mm can.
I-
I something can.
Put-fill in the something.
Do you really think you can do that? You say I mm can.
Okay um.
If you want to be real polite to somebody like
oh just some friends of your parents or somebody like that
would you say yes no or would you say yes?
Okay
Okay um.
If somebody uh
intensely disliked
going somewhere you'd say
he mm hated that place.
Okay uh
You might say it wasn't
just
a little hot last week it was
what hot?
Okay okay um
Okay if something shocking is reporting you might hear somebody say why the very?
Uh there's just a one little one little word. Why the
It's an exclamation.
Mm okay um when a friend says good morning what do you say to him in return?
Okay um when you're introduced to a stranger what do you say?
When you shake their hand you know and say?
Okay um
if somebody's leaving after a visit you might tell them
I hope you'll come?
Okay or another word for next time would be?
Okay or another word?
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Come back a-?
Uh okay the word would start with?
a- a-
Okay. Okay.
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Um
how would you greet somebody about December the 25th?
Okay.
Okay have you ever heard anything besides merry Christmas?
Older people say?
Okay. Okay um.
What's something that you might say by way of appreciation besides just thank you? You might say
oh I'm much o-?
Okay uh.
Okay you might say I have to go to town to do some?
Mm you're going to buy stuff.
Okay to-to do what now?
Okay to shop okay.
Um okay say you bought something and the storekeeper took a piece of paper and he?
Okay or he
what the package up in it?
Okay and when you got home you had to?
Say that again.
Okay uh um
okay if a storekeeper
sold something for two dollars that he paid three dollars for you'd say he'd be selling it?
He's really selling it for less.
And he paid three.
Uh-huh.
Okay um
you might say
gee I sure do like that
mm
motorcycle.
But I can't buy it because it
what?
I'm sorry?
Okay.
Uh.
When it's time to pay the bill you say the bill is?
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Okay what was the first thing you said?
Okay and to stay in good standing at a club or lodge you have to pay your?
Uh or your
Du-
Okay
um
if you if you need to cut the grass and you don't have a lawn mower
you go over to a neighbor and ask to?
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Mm you're going to cut your grass. You don't want to cut his grass.
You just want a lawnmower.
Uh-huh. So you ask to
And he's got one.
And so you ask to what his lawnmower?
Okay or what's another word for
you know loan it to me?
Let me what?
Alright.
Um
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Uh back in the depression they used to say money was real?
Okay um somebody ran down the
the springboard at the pool and what in?
What?
Um okay he's on the diving board
okay?
And he didn't jump in but he went head first?
Okay. Uh and you might say a lot of boys will what off that high board?
Okay but if they go head first then they will?
Okay.
And nine or ten have what off the arms?
Okay uh if you-if you dive in and hit the water flat you'd call that a?
Uh-huh it hurts sometimes.
Okay okay uh
Oh when kids are out-out playing like out playing on the grass or something
they uh
they turn cart wheels or turn?
No it's just another little
thing. Tumbling kind of thing that they can do.
They can turn
cart-?
Okay um
you might say he wanted to get across the river so he dived in and?
What?
Okay and
you might say children like to what in the big creek?
Okay and I have what there myself?
What?
Okay uh
when you buy something or pay your bill sometimes the storekeeper
will uh give you a little present and say it's for?
Okay uh
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okay somebody couldn't swim very well and he went down for the third time
didn't ever see him again you'd say he?
Okay and I might say I wasn't there. I didn't see him?
I didn't see him what?
Okay and
many people had what in the same spot?
Had mm in the same spot.
Okay uh what does a baby do before it's able to walk?
Okay and uh
I might say that would be a hard mountain to?
Okay my neighbor
what it last year?
Okay but I never have what a mountain in my life?
Okay um
if you're playing hide-and-seek
and you find yourself near a stump
you have to do what to get down behind it?
Okay uh
okay a little child is saying his prayers and so he went over beside his bed and?
Uh-huh.
Okay what's a word for get on your knees?
Mm
Uh-huh.
In this church they have-they have boards for it.
Mm-hmm.
The people come in and
something and pray.
Uh sometimes the preacher'll say
all rise or all stand you know and everybody stands up
and and in a church like this he'll say all?
Um
this is when he wants them to get down on their knees and this is one word usually. All
kn-
kn-
Kn- kn- okay.
Uh
you might say I'm feeling kind of tired. I think I'll go over to the couch and?
Okay uh
you might say he was really sick. He couldn't even sit up he just
what in bed all day?
Okay or maybe he didn't sleep he just
what there?
Okay uh
talking about something that you saw in your sleep
you'd say this is what I?
Okay and often when I go to sleep I?
Okay but I can't always remember what I have?
Okay.
Um you might say I dreamed I was falling but just as I was about to hit the ground I?
Okay um
if I go
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like this you might say don't what your foot?
Okay um
if you see a friend leaving a party alone
you might say can I?
Okay. Or uh
if you were in a car?
What would you say? Can I?
Uh okay but if you had the car and he was walking you'd say can I?
Okay um
okay to get a boat up on the land you'd tie a rope to the boat and?
Okay and the opposite of pull is?
Uh-huh okay uh
say you had a
three sacks of groceries.
And you didn't have any car
and so you had to
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