Interviewer
{NS}
Okay
Uh
say you had three sacks of groceries okay
and you had to take them home.
And you didn't have your car so you picked them up and what?
Okay um
is there-they're a little heavy you'd say you
what?
Okay.
What'd you say?
{X}
Okay um
{NS}
you might tell a child that stove is real hot so
Okay or don't?
Okay um
if I want a knife
and I send somebody for it I might say
go and what the knife?
Okay um
Let's see.
{NS}
Okay um
You throw a ball to somebody and ask him to
Okay and I threw the ball and he?
Okay and I have been fishing for trout but I have not?
Okay um I might say
there's no need to hurry I'll wait
what you?
I'll wait something you.
Okay um
if you're about to punish your child he might say to you oh
please
what
me another?
Okay um
{NW}
if somebody's
always got a smile on his face and always has a pleasant word for everybody
and he always seems to be in a good?
What?
Okay um
you might say there's that pesky salesman again. Wait 'til I
Huh?
Okay what if you were just going to tell him to go away?
Wait 'til I what of him?
Okay um
{NS}
Uh you might say about somebody
{NW}
he didn't know what was going on but he something like he knew it all.
Okay um
say a kid left his best pencil on the desk and he came back and he couldn't find it
he'd say I bet somebody
what?
What if it was somebody-something more valuable?
What would you say?
Okay
um
you might say
gosh I'd forgotten about that but now I
{NW}
You might say I had forgotten about that but now I
Okay um
you might say to me
well you sure must have a better memory than I do because I sure?
Okay um
You say I have just
what him a letter?
Okay and yesterday he
what me a letter?
Okay and tomorrow I will
Okay and talking about the letter you might say it's about time I was getting im-
Uh okay
if I ask you a question you'll give me an?
Okay um
okay you put the letter in the envelope and then you take your pen and
do what to the back of the envelope?
Okay but what is it you write?
And?
Okay and so
do you call that anything I mean the whole process
of writing the address on there? I've got to something the letter.
Okay okay um
say a child has learned something surprising
and the parent
says who was it who
what you that?
Who was it who mm you that?
Who who was it who something you that?
He came home he-he-he
he had uh
learned something new.
Who was it who?
No.
Okay okay um
if somebody asked if you'd put up that new fence yet you'd say no but I was something to pretty soon.
Okay but uh something that
sort of like uh
you-you need to uh
Is there
another word that you use for that?
Okay okay um
what do children call somebody who's always running and telling something on the other kids?
Okay uh
would you ever use the word tattle-tell when talking about adults?
Okay uh
okay if you want to brighten up your room at the
your house or something for a party
and you have a lot of thing growing in your garden
you'd go out and
what?
What pull what up?
Okay you want to make the house bright.`
Because you're having a party.
Colorful and all that.
And you have a bunch of colorful stuff growing out in your garden
and so you go out and
Okay pull what up?
Uh-huh okay so what colorful stuff am I probably talking about?
I'm not talking about fruits or vegetables but I'm talking about
Okay
{NW}
Um
okay what do you call something that a child might play with?
Anything else?
Okay um have you ever used the word play-pretty?
Okay uh
if something happened that you expected to happen that you had predicted would happen
or maybe that you were afraid was gonna happen?
like if for instance if one of the kids hurt himself doing something you told him not to do
you'd say well I just
what?
Something that was gonna happen.
Okay okay um
I might say here's the book you
what me for Christmas?
Okay and after you bought it then you?
Okay uh I will what it back when I've finished it.
Okay because you have what me so many other good books?
Okay would you use that in the whole sentence?
Okay um
I might say I sure am glad I carried my umbrella
we hadn't gone half a block when it?
Or what to rain?
When it something to rain.
Mm-hmm we hadn't gone
it was sunny when we started out but we hadn't gone half a block when it?
Okay um
You might uh
let's see
I might say
why are you out of breath? And you might say well I just feeling so happy that I what
all the way home?
Okay and horses gallop but people
Well you just ran all the way home.
Same word.
Horses gallop but people
{NS}
Not ran but
Ru-
Okay okay is that-is that what-what you would say?
Okay horses gallop but people don't gallop they
Uh oh okay uh
Okay uh you might say gosh I'm late I'm going to have to
what in order to get there.
On time yeah not
not walk but?
Okay um you might say they have what a mile everyday this week?
Not walked but?
Okay now
they have
would you say the whole sentence for me?
Okay but there's a have in there.
{X}
Start and put the have in okay?
They have
Okay okay uh
one more.
Uh if you didn't know where a man was born
you might ask where does he what from?
Where does he something from?
Where does
Where does he
mm
from?
Okay uh and somebody might say he
what
in on the train last night?
Same word.
He what
in on the train last-?
Okay and he has
something to our town every month this year.
Has- no just using the same verb.
He has
Okay
{NS}
{X}
{X}
{X}
{X}
Okay with your eyes you?
Okay and uh
you might say
I what her outside just a few minutes ago?
Okay and you might say
we have what so little of you all this year?
Okay
{X}
Because I don't like it
To the mic.
Um
Oh you might say about some road you might say
you can't get in that way the highway department's got the machines in the road's all
Okay or what else though?
Uh
so they've got the road
they've taken up the pavement you know
just taken it up so they can lay down some more.
Okay uh
uh
but if they're taking it up the road is all what up?
Okay uh
okay say you got attacked by a dog on your way home
{D: and the doctor looks at the injury}
He tried to bite you and
and he ripped all your clothes up and so all your clothes were what up?
Okay or another word
Okay or they're ripped. What's the other word for ripped?
Okay alright.
Um.
{X}
If you give somebody a bracelet
and she sits there and looks at it
you might say why don't you?
Um.
I might say can you mm that?
This is gonna be a short word.
I don't
I'm asking if you're capable of something I'll say can you mm that?
Okay.
And you might say well my sister yesterday
{X}
Okay and then you say sure I have what that all my life.
Okay would you use the whole sentence for me?
I have
Okay.
Uh
I might ask you what you do and you might you might shrug your shoulders and shake your head and say ah?
And I might say aw come on there must be?
Okay eh
sometimes you hear an old person say
well I never heard of?
Okay um
If I ask you how long something's been there you might say
well I don't know as far as I know it's?
Okay or another word is it's something been there.
{D: Been there forever hasn't it}
{X}
Okay I might ask you how long has that been there and you might say well I don't know as far as I know it's?
Okay or it's something been there.
Uh not just
Oh I know maybe
uh
Have you ever seen a dog walk kids to school?
Yeah okay well I might ask you if uh
uh how often does that dog do that and you might say well he doesn't do it sometimes he?
Okay but not just sometimes he does it
everyday s- what?
Okay uh
uh
I might say how long have you been living here and you might say ever mm I?
What?
Okay and you might say it wasn't an accident
he did it?
And uh
somebody might ask me a question and I might say
I don't know you'd better mm him.
Okay. So then you went and you?
Okay and he'd say why you have
mm me that?
Okay uh
you might say those little boys like to?
Okay and
every time they met they?
Okay um
they don't so much anymore but used to be every time they saw each other they'd?
Okay.
Uh
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Another word for
they would fight would be
they?
Okay and uh they have what ever since they were small.
Okay and you might say he took a big
{NS}
took a big knife and she what him with it?
Okay um
{NS}
funny picture's been drawn on the blackboard
the teacher might come in and say all right who mm that?
Okay and if you were going to lift something like a piece of machinery up on a roof
you might use pulley blocks and a rope to what it up?
Okay another word for pull?
Mm-hmm.
Okay um
okay would there-now I don't know San Antonio very well so you're going to have to explain to me
would you describe for me the major sections of the city and like what the names of them are?
Like in Dallas you've got North Dallas okay that's a big section of the city.
But I don't know you know here what it's like.
Oh
It's uh
It's kinda in the metropolitan area but it's?
Who lives there?
What sort of people?
Poor ones or rich ones or?
Mm-hmm.
Okay
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Who lives there?
Uh-huh are they poor
or rich or what?
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
Yes
what about school?
Is that different too or?
Mm-hmm.
Okay where do the
poorest people live?
Yeah.
Okay.
Where is that?
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah mm-hmm yeah okay uh what are the- what are the major um
nationalities or I want to say ethnic groups that live in San Antonio? There's blacks and whites and who else?
Okay and who-anybody else?
Yeah
do they live in
with the rest of the Mexican community or are they separate?
Mm-hmm mm-hmm okay um what do you call uh
the-the place in town
the central place where all the main offices of the big banks are?
Yeah all the big banks.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Where are they?
Okay okay where are the biggest uh
the oldest and the biggest department stores? Where are they?
Uh-huh.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Is this one out north?
Oh. Where are the oldest stores?
You know the original department stores. Where are they?
Yeah.
The oldest big ones you know.
Yeah where's that?
Yeah okay um
are there names for places like like Kenwood and uh over in the west where Spanish speaking people live
that an outsider might not recognize?
Yeah I mean like uh you could say Kenwood and I'd know what you're talking about. But is there
is there a name for the area that I wouldn't know or somebody you know from out of town wouldn't know?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Uh-huh.
Where south?
Yeah.
Yeah okay okay
who lives there?
Yeah laurel- Laurelwood?
White kinda- what kinda white? Middle or rich?
Mm-kay uh
Yeah must be nice. Uh
Okay do any of the place like Kenwood and uh the west side and all those have they're own like
financial districts where their you know they have their own banks or are those
you know mixed in with the white community?
Yeah I mean like the banks and the businesses that would be just- just black?
Yeah like
a bank owned by all blacks or something like that?
Yeah okay well is that all uh Mexicans? Would they own banks?
Would they be in with the like where the bank- white banks are or would they be off
someplace else?
{X}
Yeah.
Yeah. So all the banks are you know in one place?
Yeah.
They do okay.
Something else I want to ask you um
in san antonio do rich blacks and poor blacks live in the same neighborhood or do rich blacks live where white
I mean huh where rich whites would live?
And poor blacks live where poor whites would live. Or do all the blacks live together and all the whites live together?
{NW}
Mm-hmm.
Okay
Yeah.
Uh the ones who live together are they mostly
poor or are they middle or are they rich?
Yeah that- that I mean are mixed in with like the whites.
No.
Yeah yeah but I mean like is there
if you get a neighborhood where where they're all mixed up
would you say they're the same economic bracket or
do you think that varies?
Yeah okay.
Mm
Okay so would that mainly be you know for the ones that are mixed in together would that mainly be uh
more wealthy or or not very wealthy or
middle?
they what I can't hear you.
Oh if they have enough money they're going to be segregated. Is that what you're saying?
Yeah.
Okay yeah that's what I was trying to find out but I get it.
Okay it's interesting how these things work out in different cities because you know they're different in different cities.
Um okay where do the
probably the richest people in town live?
Yeah.
What what?
yeah?
Yeah.
Which which direction is that from here?
Yeah.
North?
Yeah.
Before you hit route four ten or after?
North of the {X}
Huh-uh.
South?
Where- where is it I mean?
Is it between here and downtown or?
Okay.
Yeah.
Is that right?
Uh-huh.
Mm-hmm.
Uh-huh.
I don't think so.
Oh yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Uh-huh.
Okay let's see um
Okay what are some-some of the um
what are some of the landmarks around here or well-known places that tourists come to see?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah but kind of the
{X}
What was that you named after the alamo?
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Yeah. What about parks? What all kind of
parks are there?
Uh-huh uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Do you know any other names
for Brackenridge Park? Do you call it anything else?
Yeah.
Okay okay.
What else is there? Any other parks?
What park?
Where's that?
Uh-huh.
uh-uh.
Huh-uh.
Which church now?
Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah
Oh
Yeah
Yeah
Uh-huh uh-huh.
Do any of these parks have other names?
Other than you know just the name of the park?
Okay um
if you were uh
flying home from new york where would your plane land?
Yeah.
{NS}
Okay okay what's the name of the airport? Do you know?
Okay okay that'd be in new york. What's the airport here?
Yeah.
Yeah
{NW}
Okay okay what would you call it if you were just talking to somebody about it?
Okay okay um
if you were uh
if you were driving in from like
yeah okay say houston
what highway or what road would you come in on?
Yeah.
What?
What's the difference when you said
I's
on one of them and highway on the other one? What's the difference there?
Yeah. What's the difference between I-H and highway?
What?
Oh I see okay.
Yeah.
Uh-huh okay.
Okay um if you stop um along the interstate
i h 10 or whatever
he stops. Uh what would you call a place where you stop?
And it just had like uh old picnic tables and
garbage cans and stuff like that and that's all it had. What would you call that place?
Okay. What if they had um
you know a rest room and
oh water fountains and more stuff. What would you call it then? Same thing or no?
Okay what if it was uh
what if it had restaurants?
You know a place to eat and filling stations?
Then what would you call it?
Same thing or?
Okay okay um
Oh what do you call that thing that's painted on the road to help you stay in your own lane?
Yeah.
Just-just-just the painted things.
Okay okay what do you call the round things?
What?
How do you spell it?
Okay.
Are these things arranged in a line?
I don't guess I ever called them anything.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
Uh-huh okay I get it
I guess I never talked about them much at all.
Um let's see
what would you call
the thing that goes down the middle of the road that's like
usually you got it on a bigger highway you know it's got a concrete thing that goes up
and then sometimes there's a steel fence on top of that you know
well a little fence about like that- steel railing. What would you call something like that?
Okay.
Okay okay um
Okay if you were on highway ten or something like that
what do you call that place where you get on?
You know it comes in an angle?
Well no I think of an intersection to me is something that is square you know. But
these- you know call it an intersection
anyway these things come in like this and these things
come in an angle and you don't have to stop necessarily to get on.
Now you- you might I mean you know I
want to make sure we're talking about the same thing.
Well you know how highway ten will be going on like this and on each
side of it there's another little road?
Like it's just one way each way.
Yeah and and then uh
you get up on highway ten just by going up there's a yield sign but there's no stop sign or anything like that
and you can just kind if there's nobody coming you don't have to stop or anything you can just
go on up.
Okay alright do you- do you have a name for the place you get off of an interstate?
Yeah you know these places
it's kinda like the place where you get on except that
I think the oncoming traffic has to yield to you.
Yeah.
Okay let's see um
{NS}
Okay what all um
what all different names do you have for things that are streets? I mean
why do you call one kinda thing a highway and you might call this a street
What other names like that do you have?
Do you know?
What?
What's an alley?
Uh-huh.
Does an alley
go like behind houses or behind buildings or between?
Uh-huh okay okay what else is there?
Okay yeah.
Okay okay um
{NS}
okay and just a street like this what would you call it a street or would you call it a road or?
Okay
Okay um
{X}
over here on like over here on san pedro there's uh
a place where the road goes down I think goes under some railroad tracks
What would you call that place?
Okay.
Okay uh
{NS}
Um let's see what else do we have?
If a car was parked right here but parked this way
with the curve?
What do you call that kind of parking?
Okay what if the car was parked
well like I am over there like kinda you know on the other side of the building where I kinda hid at the end of the parking place?
What do you call that kind of parking?
{NS}
Okay okay um
What do you call those things where the fire department hooks up the hose when it has to put out a fire?
Uh-huh.
What?
Okay okay uh
if you were going to go down town
and park where would you park if you couldn't find a parking place on the street?
Yeah if you couldn't find just along the street you know at a meter where would you park?
Okay um can you describe a parking lot for me?
Okay is it just open?
Okay okay um
downtown San Antonio do they have um whole buildings or private buildings where you
where you drive in and maybe park it yourself and maybe somebody takes the car and goes and
parks it for you?
What do you call them?
A what?
Yeah.
Mm-kay okay
say I saw a sign the other day I want to see if you know about this
It said park and ride. What is that? What does it mean?
Yeah it was just a little sign
it said park and ride.
Oh yeah like downtown or
something?
And the bus will bring you back out to the same parking
lot.
That sounds like it'd be a good deal.
Uh-huh.
Yeah I think that's what I said.
Is that what it's supposed to say?
Or do they- is it park and drive?
Okay okay uh
let's see
what are the- other than the uh
hemisfair tower what are the other tallest buildings in town?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Jail?
The jail's tall?
Huh
Well I may have and just didn't know what it was you know.
Gosh
Uh-huh.
Do you have one name that would cover all those tall tall buildings?
What?
Uh-huh.
Okay anything else that you might call them?
Okay.
Uh
where do you think they got that name?
The Empires? Is that what you called them?
Uh-huh why is that?
Uh-huh.
No
{X}
{NW}
Okay.
Um what would you call
a real tall apartment building?
What would you call that?
What?
Okay if you didn't call it a specific name like that you know just a
{X}
in general for a real tall apartment building what would you call it?
Okay.
{X}
what do you call an area in the city where some buildings had been torn down?
And
{C: And now there are more children}
and they hadn't replaced them yet?
{NS}
Yeah. And they hadn't put anything back on there.
{NS}
{X}
What about
a smaller area like right around here
{X}
what would you call an area like that?
Like around here uh
But it just wasn't a house on it?
Kids like may play baseball out there or something
What?
Okay okay uh
what would you call the thing where you get a drink of water in public place?
Okay uh
what would you call if it was in a park?
The same thing?
Okay um
what are some different kinds of cars and trucks?
Other than brand names you know like Chevrolet and ford and like that but like
just what are some different kinds?
Yeah.
Not brand names.
Yeah.
What kind of car- what kind of truck carries a camper?
Uh-huh.
{X}
What?
Okay what kind of truck is that I mean what would you call it?
Okay okay um all right what are some other kinds?
What?
Yeah.
Okay what about cars?
Okay uh let me think. What do you call that kind of truck that like delivers flowers you know? That has a closed bed?
Yeah like it some sort of delivery truck you know that has has a
has sort of a closed bed where they can put flowers or whatever back in there.
You know some sort of delivery truck.
{X}
Mm okay
um let's see what do you call the kind of car that
has got two regular bench type seats you know like my car does but then back behind it it's got a lot of room
where you can put suitcases or maybe a whole scout troop full of kids or?
Yeah.
Okay um
say what do you call a kind of small truck that most farmers might have?
With an open bed and
you know they drive them in from farms you know with feed sacks on the back?
What do you call little bitty
fast cars?
Yeah.
Okay do you have another more general sort of name for something like that?
Okay okay um
is a hot rod a new car old car or?
{NS}
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
What do you use a hot rod for?
On the streets?
Okay.
Where's that?
Okay okay um mm
Okay uh what's the difference between a sedan and a coop? You know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay um
{NW}
does a coop just have on seat or
does it have a front and a back seat or can it have either or?
Okay okay um
what would you call big
car like a Cadillac or something?
What would you call that sort of a show off king of car?
Okay um..
If you went to the airport
from a motel say you didn't car
you didn't take your own car you know.
uh and you didn't take a cab sometimes those motels have
a big car that will take you to the airport. Do you know what they're called?
Okay okay uh
okay and the park and ride thing you take a what is it you take down town?
Yeah.
You take your car and park it and then what?
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Okay
On the the car um
what do you call that thing up front where the odometer is and all that other stuff
Yeah.
Uh you know it's got the oh okay it's got the
odometer and it's got oh I don't know sometimes there's a clock up there.
There's a whole kind of panel that runs across
right under the windshield
and it's got a bunch of dials and stuff on it
Yeah.
Okay okay um
on this panel over to the right usually there's a little place
where you can keep
I don't know matches or a flashlight or something like that.
What?
Okay
uh
what might you wrap around several maps to keep them together or something. A stretchy thing.
Yeah.
I just lost mine. I keep one on my
{X}
and I lost it.
Okay
{NS}
Um
okay you just had uh a few sheets of information to keep together
um
you might put a little metal thing kinda at the top here. What would you call that?
Okay. Any particular kind of clip?
Okay a what?
Okay uh
let's see.
Where do you keep the spare tire at in a car?
Okay and what do you call it the thing that you push down to make it go faster?
Uh-huh.
Uh like you're driving along and
you have to speed up to get around somebody
Uh and you press down harder with your foot on the
Okay
On the what?
Okay um
okay what is the shift anyway?
Yeah.
Yeah okay okay um
Is the is the gear shift ever any place besides on the floor?
Uh-huh.
Okay are there different kinds of sticks I mean different names for different kinds of them?
Yeah.
Okay.
Um a lot of times you'll be driving along
{X}
a long thing that goes all the way across the road like you know and it's about this high
and it's put in the road it's a piece of asphalt you know.
It's kinda a bar shaped thing to make you slow down.
Okay um
okay what all kinds of cars and trucks and stuff do the uh does the fire department have?
Yeah what different kinds of trucks and all?
And the what?
What does it do?
Oh yeah the medic truck.
Okay uh
is it- how is it different from an ambulance?
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh uh-huh but the medic truck is sort of the same thing.
Okay is it smaller or bigger?
Than the ambulance?
Okay okay uh
what do you call a kinda truck that pumps the water for the for the other trucks?
Do you have a name for it?
Uh-huh pumps it you know.
Okay um
there's one kind of truck that has a big long ladder on it
do you have a name for that kind of truck?
Okay uh there's another kind of truck that has
uh a big long
hose and it has a big arm kinda thing. I mean it's huge. And a bucket in the end of the arm where people stand
and the fire I mean the
electric department also uses them you know like to repair
wires and the phone company uses them to repair telephone poles.
Do you have a name for that?
Okay um
If the fire chief came to the fire all by himself
uh what would he drive over in?
Uh-huh.
He came by himself.
Okay okay um what do you call a police car?
Uh-huh.
Okay anything else?
Okay
uh
what do you call the thing like if you do something
like say there's a riot and they pick up ten people and they can get
oh six to ten of them in the back of this thing?
Okay.
Take them to jail in it.
Okay um
what do you call the uh kinda
thing that flies around and um
instead of having you know a fixed wing like this you know it's got a little
deal that's goes around?
Yeah.
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Do the police have one here?
Yeah.
Is that right?
Okay
uh
y'all ever had any really um
well actually before I ask you that I want to ask you something else
What do you call the the main police place? The place where police officers are?
Yeah
When they're on duty?
Yeah uh-huh.
Okay.
Now- now is the pig stand um
is the pig stand a place to eat?
{X}
And it's really called the pig stand?
Like the sign is
{X}
But it really has a sign out?
That says
Okay now when they report to work in the morning you know and when they sign in or whatever they do
Where do they go?
Okay okay um
What do you call the place that houses fire trucks and where firemen sit around and wait for the fire?
Okay.
Uh
Okay what other words are there for policemen?
Yeah.
What was the second one?
Fingers?
I don't understand
{X}
What is that?
What is fingers? What does that mean?
That's neat. I never heard that.
What?
Mm-hmm.
{NW}
What about the fire department? Do you have any other names for the fire department?
Okay
{X}
Let's see
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