Interviewer:  {NW} How in just one year, she started
911:  No about two I guess. Two, year and a half, bout two years I guess she's figured she better just join because she couldn't beat me but she used to say I used to say go get the dog and she said what dog {NW} She said I'll go get the dog Now it's a dog {NW}
Interviewer:  You don't think she's influenced you?
911:  No, don't think so Unless you hear something coming out that doesn't sound Texas.
Interviewer:  {NW} #1 Um you say #
911:  #2 Yeah I've # just always talked just slow and {NS} and drawlish. {D:She used to laugh} {D: Now I met} when I met her brother, he talks the same way and they just had a big laugh over the way I talk. They thought it was something else. I was laughing at them I didn't understand half of what they said.
Interviewer:  {NW} Where Where's she from again?
911:  Indiana.
Interviewer:  Where in Indiana? You-
911:  Up around Fort Wayne. Little place called Bluffton.
Interviewer:  Have you ever been up there?
911:  No. Not yet but I suppose I'll have to one of these days. Her parents have been down here. They came down here last October and stayed about a month with us. They got a kick out of the they way I talk too I thought I don't think I could sound terrible coming out of here cause I've done some of this stuff before and then when they play it back, I think, Lord, that can't be me, but it is.
Interviewer:  {NS} Um you said af- after she washes the dishes, then she?
911:  Dries 'em.
Interviewer:  Or in clear water?
911:  Rinses 'em.
Interviewer:  Hmm?
911:  Rinses 'em.
Interviewer:  And the cloth or rag you use when you're washing dishes?
911:  Dishcloth.
Interviewer:  What about when you're drying them?
911:  Well here you get into dishcloth or dishrag. I guess uh you use the word dishrag in in referring to the cloth that you dry 'em with.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Uh I don't know what you'd what you'd pin down to the one you'd dry 'em with I guess dishcloth.
Interviewer:  Is Cloth?
911:  I don't know ever using the word What's the first one you asked me about there dish-
Interviewer:  Well when you first of all when you're washing and then when you're drying them
911:  When you're drying 'em you dry 'em with a dishcloth.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh what about when you're washing 'em?
911:  Well I guess I don't remember using anything to- like that to to wash 'em with Uh I guess it's be dishrag that little Dobie you use in there to scrape 'em off with.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about the thing you use to bathe your face with?
911:  Washrag.
Interviewer:  And to dry yourself with?
911:  Towel.
Interviewer:  And If you wanted to pour something from a big container into something with a narrow mouth to keep it from spilling out you'd pour it through a?
911:  Funnel. {NS}
Interviewer:  And um something that if you were uh wanted your horse to go faster, you could hit him with a
911:  With a whip?
Interviewer:  And if an electric lamp wasn't burning, you have to screw in a new?
911:  Bulb.
Interviewer:  What kind of bulb?
911:  Light bulb.
Interviewer:  And to carry the clothes out to hang 'em on the line, you carry them out in a clothes
911:  Basket.
Interviewer:  And a long time ago people would take corn to the mill to be ground, did you ever hear an expression related to the amount of corn that they'd take at one time?
911:  No. I don't think so
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of a turn of corn?
911:  No.
Interviewer:  What about if someone got as much as wood as he could carry? They say he had a? In his arms you'd say
911:  Armload.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And on a wagon that didn't have a full load of wood you'd say he just had a?
911:  Half a load?
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear the expression jag of wood?
911:  No.
Interviewer:  And say the man had a load of wood in his wagon as he was driving along, you'd say that he was
911:  Excuse me, run that back.
Interviewer:  If someone had a load of wood in his wagon and he's driving along, you'd say he's
911:  Driving his wagon?
Interviewer:  Okay Or he's what what he's
911:  Hauling wood.
Interviewer:  And If there was log across the road, you'd say I tied a chain around it and we what it out of the way?
911:  We uh dragged it out of the way.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay you'd say we have what many logs out of the road?
911:  We dragged a lot of logs out of the road.
Interviewer:  Okay and you have to tie a chain around it in order to?
911:  Drag it.
Interviewer:  {NS} And {NS} you open a bottle and wanted to close it back up you'd stick in a?
911:  Cork.
Interviewer:  What if it's uh made out of glass you'd call it a?
911:  Stopper.
Interviewer:  And something that a musical instrument you'd blow on like this.
911:  Harmonica {NS}
Interviewer:  Any other names for that?
911:  Yeah, harmonica or a mouth organ.
Interviewer:  What about the one like this?
911:  Jew's harp.
Interviewer:  And something that um you could use for chopping a log X-shaped frame you could set the log in
911:  With a X shape?
Interviewer:  Yeah
911:  I don't know
Interviewer:  what about the thing carpenters use? with the A- A-frame?
911:  Oh the uh saw horse?
Interviewer:  Okay, any other name for that?
911:  No I've always called it a saw horse
Interviewer:  What about the Spanish name for that?
911:  I don't have any idea.
Interviewer:  You ever heard of burro? {C: Spanish} bur
911:  Oh yeah okay, burro {C: Spanish}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
911:  Um I guess I have heard it called that I just I didn't think of it when you mentioned it but
Interviewer:  Would you call it that yourself?
911:  I guess if I was communicating with a carpenter in Spanish and stopped to think about it I'd come up with that {NS} Uh I'd just call it a saw horse eh you know
Interviewer:  And something you put in a pistol would be a?
911:  Bullet.
Interviewer:  Or another name for that?
911:  Another name for bullet? Slug.
Interviewer:  What about the after you've you shot out the metal thing that's left?
911:  Cartridge.
Interviewer:  Okay and you'd straighten your hair using a comb and a?
911:  Brush and if you were gonna use that you'd say you were going to? Comb your hair.
Interviewer:  Or
911:  Comb my hair
Interviewer:  Or what your hair?
911:  Brush my hair.
Interviewer:  And you sharpen a straight razor using a leather
911:  Yeah it's a strap stripe {NS} I don't know {X} you going back on me again now a leather stripe? Stripe I guess.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. what about the thing you'd sharpen a small knife on?
911:  {D: Hone?} Uh um {NS} What'd you call it? Stone.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm what kind of stone
911:  Uh yeah I knew {NS} you were gonna ask me that um whetstone.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh What about the thing that turns around that you'd sharpen an ax or something big on?
911:  Same thing, isn't it? I don't know.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of a grind?
911:  Grindstone?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Is that same thing to you? I guess I'd probably call a whetstone {D: was it} {D: if I'm} thinking about it Grindstone, I don't think I've ever heard it called that.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm And something that children play on that take a board and it goes up and down
911:  See-saw.
Interviewer:  Any other names for that?
911:  Teeter totter.
Interviewer:  Which have you heard the word teeter totter around here much?
911:  No not very much. See-saw.
Interviewer:  Where'd you hear teeter-totter?
911:  {NW} I don't have any idea, it just came out {NS} you said any other names. Must of heard it somewhere but to me, it's just plain old see-saw.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh if you saw some children playing on that you'd say they were?
911:  See-sawing
Interviewer:  And Something that you take a board and fix in the and it spins around and around
911:  I know what we talking about, don't know what to call it You not talking about a merry-go-round.
Interviewer:  Well, it's like a merry-go-round, only it's homemade.
911:  Yeah I know uh but I don't know what you'd call it
Interviewer:  Did you ever heard of a flying Ginny or a ridey-horse or whirly-gig?
911:  No.
Interviewer:  And you take a long uh rope and tie it to a tree limb and put a seat on it and a make a?
911:  Swing.
Interviewer:  And something that um you'd take a board and fix it down at both ends children would jump up and down in the middle
911:  Oh a board?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {X}
911:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  Do you ever heard of a joggling board or bouncing board?
911:  No.
Interviewer:  And a thing you could use to carry coal in?
911:  No, I don't have any idea. Coal?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
911:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  What about the thing that runs through the stove to the chimney?
911:  From the stove to the chimney
Interviewer:  Like, you've seen those old-fashioned stoves
911:  You talking about stove pipe?
Interviewer:  Okay what does the stovepipe fit into?
911:  At the top or the bottom?
Interviewer:  At the top.
911:  I don't know what you'd call that.
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear of the expression {D: flu}
911:  Yeah I've heard it I didn't know I ne- probably sat here all night and not thought of it of thought of it in connection with that stove pipe
Interviewer:  What do you mean?
911:  I don't know. When you mentioned it, I knew right away what- if you had used the word to me I'd known what your talking about but I just a word that I never use and it's you know.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm But you'd call that the?
911:  What you talking about there? That flu deal? {NW} Yeah I guess so. But I never would get it out on my own.
Interviewer:  {NW} And if you wanted to move bricks or something heavy like that, something that has a little wheel in front?
911:  Wheelbarrow.
Interviewer:  Okay. any other names for that?
911:  I don't think so.
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear Georgia buggy?
911:  No.
Interviewer:  And the thing people drive nowadays? You'd call a?
911:  Car.
Interviewer:  Any other names?
911:  Automobile.
Interviewer:  And if something was squeaking to lubricate it, you'd say you had to?
911:  Oil it.
Interviewer:  Or?
911:  Grease it.
Interviewer:  Okay, you say yesterday he what the car? He
911:  Greased the car.
Interviewer:  And if grease got all over your hands you'd say your hands were all?
911:  Greasy.
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  Greasy.
Interviewer:  And inside the tire of the car you have the inner?
911:  Inner tube.
Interviewer:  And If your door was squeaky, you could put a few drops of
911:  Oil
Interviewer:  And wha- what'd people used to burn in lamps?
911:  Kerosene. Or oil.
Interviewer:  Huh
911:  Oil?
Interviewer:  That's the same thing?
911:  I don't think so. I'm more familiar with kerosene lamp you know you use it, still use it now taking lamps. {NW} Um the oil lamps to me are different, they were glass {NW} they're more glass {D: had the deed} on the top of 'em looks different. Kerosene lamp to me has got uh metal frame to it and why there's just something different {NS} between an oil lamp and a kerosene lamp.
Interviewer:  Do you ever see people make a lamp, using a rag, and a bottle, and some kerosene?
911:  No.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of a flambeau?
911:  Uh-uh I thought you were describing a molotov cocktail. {NW}
Interviewer:  If someone had just built a boat and they were gonna put it in the water they'd you'd say they were going to?
911:  Launch it.
Interviewer:  Okay. what different kinds of boats would people have around here?
911:  Oh mostly uh Uh tha- that I am not a boater but uh mostly little motor boats and little fishing boats with outdoor motor on 'em
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm any special names? For the fishing boats?
911:  You mean the small ones?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
911:  Nah there's, Call 'em boat boat and motor usually.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear it called a rowboat or Jo- Oh rowboat, yeah
911:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  What does a rowboat look like?
911:  Well it's just is a lot smaller boat usually I guess, about ten to twelve feet long, with an oar on each side.
Interviewer:  Is it pointed or flat?
911:  Yeah pointed at the front and squared off at the back.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm What about a pirogue or bathtub?
911:  No I think that's up in Louisiana isn't it?
Interviewer:  Have you
911:  Never seen one, no I don't think Unless that's that flat bottom deal that slopped at the front and kind of you know, not pointed
Interviewer:  Uh-huh
911:  That woul- that would be my impression of it
Interviewer:  Of the?
911:  Pirogue.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh #
911:  #2 Whatever you call it. #
Interviewer:  And if a child was just learning to dress himself, the mother would bring him the clothes and say
911:  Put on your clothes.
Interviewer:  Or here?
911:  Here are your clothes.
Interviewer:  And if you're taking a child to the dentist uh the dentist might say if the child was scared the dentist would say, you don't need to be scared, I what gonna hurt you
911:  I'm not gonna hurt you.
Interviewer:  Do you ever use the word ain't?
911:  Do I use it?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  Kidding around. I That's one thing they drummed into my head when I was growing up, that that was a very, very incorrect word. Now I'll uh like I say just kidding around as in fool you know as in horseplay I'll say well I, I ain't gonna do that. And I know I'm using that in a kidding way I just have always, it's one word that I've always felt was, you know drummed into my head, that's not correct.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. You wouldn't ever just say
911:  I wouldn't ever use it in any You know, normal conversation, serious conversation, I wouldn't use it, no.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh And if I ask you uh was that you I saw in town yesterday? You might say, no it?
911:  No it wasn't.
Interviewer:  It wasn't
911:  No it wasn't me.
Interviewer:  And If a woman wanted to a dress of a certain color, she's take along a little square of cloth to use as a?
911:  Sample.
Interviewer:  And she sees a dress that she likes a lot, she says the dress was very?
911:  Pretty.
Interviewer:  Or if it's even better than that she say it was just
911:  Beautiful
Interviewer:  And what might she wear over her dress in the kitchen?
911:  An apron.
Interviewer:  And to sign {NS} your name in ink, you'd use a?
911:  Pen. {NS}
Interviewer:  And to hold a baby's diaper in place?
911:  Pin.
Interviewer:  Do you pronounce those words the same?
911:  I don't know did I? Pen, pin.
Interviewer:  What about soup that you buy, comes in a can made of?
911:  Tin
Interviewer:  And a dime is worth?
911:  Ten cents.
Interviewer:  And what would a man wear to church on Sunday? {NS}
911:  Suit {NS}
Interviewer:  And if he just bought it be a brand?
911:  Brand new suit.
Interviewer:  Do you remember the three-piece suit?
911:  With a vest?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Well you kind of got some of those things going again haven't it? Pants, coat, and s- vest.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Any other name for pants?
911:  Trousers, I never use it.
Interviewer:  What about the word britches?
911:  I use it kidding around, but I don't use it very often. I never use it when I'm just- there again you know, really seriously communicating, it's pants. Britches I might say, scared the britches off of me but that's strictly then just you know, what do you call it? Uh uh expression or just uh
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  use it that way.
Interviewer:  What about something that uh farmers used to wear that
911:  Overalls?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh and if you went out side without your coat and you wanted it you'd say go inside and what me my coat?
911:  Get me my coat.
Interviewer:  And what it to me?
911:  Bring it to me.
Interviewer:  So you say, so then he
911:  Got his coat
Interviewer:  And
911:  Put it on.
Interviewer:  No and what it to me?
911:  Oh he got my coat and brought it to me.
Interviewer:  And he'd say, here I have what you your coat?
911:  Brought you your coat. You thought I was gonna say brung didn't you? {NW}
Interviewer:  Do you hear people say {NS} that around here?
911:  No not really I don't brung
Interviewer:  Just kidding around?
911:  Kidding around there again but I don't know that I even use that, I've heard it, but I don't know that I've ever heard anybody using it serious like
Interviewer:  Uh-huh and you said that coat won't fit this year, but last year it?
911:  Fit.
Interviewer:  And if you stuff a lot of things in your pockets, it makes them
911:  Bulge.
Interviewer:  And you say the shirt used to fit me 'til I washed it and it
911:  Shrunk.
Interviewer:  And every shirt I've watched recently has
911:  Shrank.
Interviewer:  And I hope this shirt doesn't
911:  Shrink.
Interviewer:  And if a woman likes to put on good clothes, you'd say she like to?
911:  Dress up.
Interviewer:  Would you say that about a man?
911:  Yeah, I think so.
Interviewer:  What about if a woman likes to stand in front of a mirror and
911:  Primp
Interviewer:  Okay Anything else you'd say?
911:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  Would you say that about a man? That a man likes to primp?
911:  Eh I guess so what's he doing? He's up standing in front of that mirror primping, I guess so.
Interviewer:  Does it sound different when you say it about a man to-
911:  No, not really
Interviewer:  What would you call a man who primps a lot?
911:  {NW} You better not put that on tape {NW} um I don't know, a man that primps a lot, I never fooled around with that kind.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear the expression jelly bean?
911:  No.
Interviewer:  Or
911:  In terms of talking about a man?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  Jelly bean. I don't know somebody told me that guy's a jelly bean, I figure he's a sissy
Interviewer:  {NS}
911:  That's the only- I never- I don't think I've ever heard it used before
Interviewer:  Uh-huh And something you can carry coins in would be called a?
911:  Coins
Interviewer:  Uh-huh or carry change in?
911:  Purse.
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  A purse.
Interviewer:  And stuff that a woman wears around her neck? lot of
911:  Necklace.
Interviewer:  Or things strung up together?
911:  Beads.
Interviewer:  Okay, you'd call that a? What of beads?
911:  String of beads.
Interviewer:  And something that she'd wear around her wrist?
911:  Bracelet.
Interviewer:  And something men used to wear to hold up their pants?
911:  Suspenders.
Interviewer:  Any other name? Do you ever hear galluses?
911:  No
Interviewer:  And what would you hold over you when it rains?
911:  Umbrella.
Interviewer:  And the last thing you put on a bed, the fancy cover?
911:  Bed spread.
Interviewer:  What about something that women used to make?
911:  Quilt?
Interviewer:  Okay. And at the head of the bed, you put your head on a?
911:  Pillow
Interviewer:  Do you remember anything about twice as long as a pillow?
911:  Twice as long as a pillow, one of them round things?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
911:  I don't know what to call it though
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of bolster?
911:  No I don't think so. I know what you're talking about when you said that long thing it is I just didn't think of remember seeing one around my grandma's house, but don't remember- I don't know whether I've heard that word or not {NS}
Interviewer:  What about if you had a lot of company and you didn't have enough beds for everyone, for the children to sleep on, down on the floor you could make a?
911:  Pallet.
Interviewer:  And something that um nowadays if you bought some groceries the grocers would put them in a?
911:  Sack.
Interviewer:  Made out of?
911:  Paper.
Interviewer:  What about something that flour used to come in?
911:  Sack.
Interviewer:  Made out of?
911:  Cloth.
Interviewer:  What if you bought um feed that would come in a?
911:  Feed?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh that rough, brown material?
911:  Burlap or gunny.
Interviewer:  Okay you'd call it a gunny?
911:  Gunny sack.
Interviewer:  Any other names for that?
911:  Tow sack gunny sack burlap bag.
Interviewer:  Which, would
911:  I'd probably call it a gunny sac.
Interviewer:  What about tow sac?
911:  {NS} tow sac? well that's usually, you get the feed in the burlap bag and you use it to haul something else around and they call it a tow sac {NW} {NW}
Interviewer:  Something that um people make out of sugarcane
911:  That they make out of sugarcane?
Interviewer:  Yeah, besides sugar sticky liquid
911:  Syrup.
Interviewer:  Any other name for syrup?
911:  I don't think so.
Interviewer:  What about out of the sorghum? {NS}
911:  Mm I guess syrup would be {NS}
Interviewer:  What about mol- mola-
911:  Molasses?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What's the difference?
911:  I don't like molasses. {NW} Uh molasses to me is well then again I just go back {NS} Molasses to me now we're talking about what they make or what they, what I think of them as? Syrup to me is a lighter color, tastes better, molasses is dark and
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  I don't know if that's what you're looking for or not.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear them call long sweetening and short sweetening?
911:  No.
Interviewer:  What about if you wanted to buy some molasses, what would it come in?
911:  Bottle. I guess.
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear the term a stand of molasses?
911:  #1 No. #
Interviewer:  #2 Or a stand of lard? #
911:  Uh-uh.
Interviewer:  And something that uh flour used to come in if you buy it about a hundred pounds at a time.
911:  Barrel.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And things that run around the barrel to hold the wood in place.
911:  Uh. Hoops.
Interviewer:  Okay. What about something smaller than a barrel that nails used to come in?
911:  Keg.
Interviewer:  And on a beer keg, the thing you turn to get the beer out.
911:  Spout.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. What about out on your yard the thing you hook your hose up to?
911:  The faucet.
Interviewer:  And at the sink?
911:  Faucet.
Interviewer:  And if you have a wagon and two horses the long wooden piece that comes between the horses... {NS}
911:  You tell me and I'll remember but I can't call it off hand.
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear of a pole or tongue or
911:  Tongue yeah, tongue okay. Wagon tongue, yeah.
Interviewer:  What about with a buggy, what do you have?
911:  You got two don't ya? I don't know what you'd call 'em.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear fills or shaves or drafts?
911:  No.
Interviewer:  And the thing that connects one wheel to the other is called
911:  Axle.
Interviewer:  Okay. And starting with the inside of the wagon wheel, you have the hub and the spokes come out and they fit into the
911:  Well I always said the spokes fit into the hub.
Interviewer:  Well on the outside though, the What part of the wheel is connected to the ground?
911:  Oh the uh I don't know what, I don't know what you'd call it. You talking about the whole wheel, I just called it the wheel.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Did you ever hear of the rim or tire or felly?
911:  Well I guess you call it a tire. I don't remember ever calling it a Like a wooden wheel I'd kinda just call it a wheel.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What's the tire made out of on the wagon?
911:  Wood.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And if you have a horse hitched to a wagon, the bar of wood that the {D: trace} is fastened onto?
911:  Well you lost me.
Interviewer:  #1 Do you ever hear #
911:  #2 I don't know # that much about a wagon.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of a singletree or whiffletree?
911:  I've heard of the word singletree.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Did you know what it meant?
911:  Well talking about a wagon singletree I guess if what you're talking about that piece that comes out to hitch your mount to is that right?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  Well that's where I've heard the word singletree, but I've never hitched up horses to a wagon.
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear of double singletree or doubletree or {X}
911:  No.
Interviewer:  And you'd say we expected a big crop from that field because the soil is very...
911:  Good.
Interviewer:  Or another word for that.
911:  Fertile.
Interviewer:  And what different kinds of land do you have around here?
911:  Different kinds of land?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  By classification, good and bad?
Interviewer:  What
911:  Uh Fertile and salty That's the way I look at it around here.
Interviewer:  Any special names for kinds of soils?
911:  Well you got uh You got river bottom
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  And ebony It's called some ebony, a lot of ebony trees and it's it's pretty good salt, all that ebony, ebony dirt.
Interviewer:  What does it look like?
911:  Well it's real soft and fine. And grows stuff real good. It's supposed to be {NS} kind of got a brown color to it and a lot {D: land on there is gray}. You know a salt in it, little hard to grow anything but junk like grass and scrub brush.
Interviewer:  What about the river bottom?
911:  Well that's good too, that's probably the best there is for farming. Kind of a little sandy feeling to it, a fine {NS} Hello?
Auxiliary:  You want me to just keep your stuff on?
911:  I'll be there in a minute. {NS}
Interviewer:  You want me to stop now?
911:  No, how much more do you have to go?
Interviewer:  Well I can cut if off now if you want.
911:  Yeah well what time is it? It's okay if she's got supper, it's got to be pretty close.
Interviewer:  Yeah.
911:  Presidents had in my lifetime were Truman and Johnson.
Interviewer:  Most people around here liked Johnson. Pretty much I guess.
911:  Well you know, It's all, Everybody around here knows that he stole his first election.
Interviewer:  How did he do that?
911:  Jimmied up one of the ballot boxes. {NW} Came in about three hours later up there from around {NW} up somewhere, where was it? {NW} It's box thirteen in some county up west and north of here so for a long time they called him box thirteen Johnson. All the votes were in and he was about just a few behind and this one box didn't show up, didn't show up, and then about two or three hours later here comes that box and he wins by about eleven or fifteen votes or something like that. And everybody up there swears this stuff. {NS}
Interviewer:  This is for {NS}
911:  Congress, yeah. {NS}
Interviewer:  Texas politics
911:  Is dirty.
Interviewer:  It has a lot of machines, doesn't it?
911:  They've cleaned out a lot of them with its pretty machine you know.
Interviewer:  What's it like round here?
911:  Here in this town, it's small town nit-picking is what it is. Brownsville is cliquish. It's got little cliques. And it just depends, every so often, every few years one clicks in and the other one's out and the other one gets back in and the other one's out and they just swap people back and forth with the job and they, I guess it's just that way all over, I don't know the ins and the outs. {D: Brown} was pretty bad at one time they had some boys down there that were really knocking down money off contracts street contracts and such but uh
Interviewer:  Where was this Jim Wells from, was he from
911:  Jim Wells
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. I think in the the twenties or thirties or something like that, did you ever hear anything about them?
911:  Well there is a Jim Wells county.
Interviewer:  I think it's named after him.
911:  Yeah. But I don't know who he is.
Interviewer:  Um we were talking yesterday about land what
911:  Oh yeah okay.
Interviewer:  different types of land is out there?
911:  You're asking?
Interviewer:  Yes.
911:  Now where were we yesterday? You asked me about different kinds of land and I said uh river bottom, {D: soil and} ebony soil salty soil
Interviewer:  Did you ever hear one called loam or loom?
911:  Loam. Uh {NS} Yeah. Normally would have I ever heard it, any specific dirt or land around here here uh I've heard of it referred to as a sandy loam.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Used the word loam in connection with the texture of it. I don't know whether that's correct or not
Interviewer:  What kind of, do you mean sandy?
911:  Well
Interviewer:  Is
911:  Well I've heard it used that way. and talking well I think, the way they, I've heard it around here you could, they would use it as a uh with an adjective in front of it
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
911:  that could be good or bad. Most of 'em, probably forever used in connection with good because around here the stuff that's bad they just call it you know {NW} Prairie stuff, salty.
Interviewer:  What do you mean
911:  For well
Interviewer:  What do you mean by prairie?
911:  Mm the stuff you've driven through coming up here. Between here and Brownsville and it's got that little stubby stuff growing on it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  That's about all that'll grow. Can kinda Oh bushy looking little stuff gets up about a foot high or so.
Interviewer:  Call the place a prairie then or so? Or would you just use it talking about the soil?
911:  Well we refer to that soil down there we just call it just salty, alkaline, uh scrub brush called salt blights.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Uh There's a place out here, I don't know if it's going to go on the tape but there's a big area just like that out here they call it Jackass Prairie. Because years back I saw some people turning mules and things loose running around out there and it just wasn't good for anything. Well it's still there the same way.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  And just {D: was} salt, you can't grow anything on it.
Interviewer:  What would you call land that um it's a good grassland? But you can't grow a lot.
911:  Round here?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh, or or anywhere.
911:  Well now stuff like that around here grow grass and stuff like that probably called pasture land, a pasture.
Interviewer:  Do you ever talk about a meadow? Or bayou or?
911:  Meadow, not around here. I don't think I've heard the word meadow used in connection with a piece of land down here. I've heard the word now, I mean I There's even songs written using you know, the word meadow but uh to me that's just a great big grassy, shady place, not farmland. And down here you talk about land used as evaluate in terms of cows or or crop, whether it's good or not good for that.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Meadow to me is kind of a hilly, grassy nice shady place. And what was the second word you said?
Interviewer:  Bayou.
911:  Why that's in Louisiana. That's with water isn't it?
Interviewer:  What
911:  To me that's just a low, it's almost kind of swampy. I've never seen it but that's somebody's talking about a bayou, I think of Louisiana right away and think of those lowlands there with water.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about lowlands around here with water. What would you call them?
911:  {NW} Trying to think of one. Ah you know We don't have if you know how it's dry and here we've got well you know those are resacas. {C: Spanish}
Interviewer:  What's a resaca? {C: Spanish}
911:  Well it's it's not a lake. Cause it's running water and it's long and narrow.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  It's not a stream cause it's too big. Really what they are are offshoots of the Rio Grande River. They often come from or and feed from the Rio Grande.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  That's one width. When the river gets up high it feeds off into these resacas and they get bank full and sometimes they're down lower {C: Spanish} depending on how much water is in the river. I don't know exactly what you what English word you could put to resaca, {C: Spanish} lake doesn't fit it, stream, creek river, none of those fit.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about ravine or hollow or gully? Do you ever use those words?
911:  No, around here you'd be more likely to use the word arroyo. {C: Spanish} {NS}
Interviewer:  What's that?
911:  Great big dry creek bed, well not again creek because it'll be a great big dry resaca bed. {C: Spanish} {NS} An arroyo is just like {C: Spanish} probably a ravine. Deep and of varying depths and uh usually water in it if it's been raining or if the river's flowing over, otherwise dry. Dry bed.
Interviewer:  Do people use the word ravine around here much? Or is that a word that you've read?
911:  I don't think they use it around here much no. Ravine, that's uh I can't think of any place around here that I've heard anybody call it a ravine. I might, somebody might have called it a big arroyo up around {D: Honogen} {C: Spanish} a ravine, that probably, probably is one, which around here, just called an arroyo Colorado. {C: Spanish}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  But it would be my My impression of a ravine if I was going to call it not, something other than an arroyo I guess I'd call that a ravine.
Interviewer:  You said arroyo Colorado? {C: Spanish}
911:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  Is that the name of one?
911:  That's the one that runs, big one that runs north of here otherwise. Got a little bit of water in the bottom of it, it's deep I guess it's from the highway, and from the road down it must be I guess seventy-five to a hundred feet deep. And then just a little trickle of water, just a little creek running along the bottom of it.
Interviewer:  Is there anything else there besides uh a creek or a river that when a resaca {C: Spanish} you know it would have running water in it? you could
911:  Stream.
Interviewer:  What's the difference between a stream and a creek or?
911:  Mm between a stream and a creek if I would tell you If you asked, if you asked me what the difference is in my mind, I'd say that a stream is bigger than a creek.
Interviewer:  Does the creek um always have water in it or?
911:  No I'd say a creek could dry. Run dry. More, more often than a stream.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Cause no you Cause around here, I don't know exactly where but they have dry creek beds. {NS} Different places around Texas, I've never heard of a dry stream bed I don't think.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Heard of dry stream but I think that means just dried up for good, I think a creek can run dry and then water'll run back in. If it gets rainwater. {NS}
Interviewer:  What if you have um Some water that's flowing along and it, it drops off goes down to
911:  Waterfall.
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  Waterfall.
Interviewer:  Okay. And a place where boats stop and freight's unloaded?
911:  The dock.
Interviewer:  Anything else?
911:  Port? Pier. Dock. Port. Pier. {X} Well the port's the whole thing. That's probably what I should have said the first place when you said where they come in and unload, they come to the port. Port comprised of docks, piers, and {D: wharf} Now I don't know any difference if they ask me, to describe that thing going out on the water on stilts, I'd call it a dock. Or a pier would be the two words I'd be most likely to use.
Interviewer:  The word port you wouldn't use much?
911:  Probably would be the one I'd use last.
Interviewer:  This uh port Brownsville is it Do big ships come in there?
911:  Yeah, big oil tankers to pick up cotton, pick up grain. Sometimes, sometimes lead and pipe stuff from Mexico. Things like that, a lot of grain.
Interviewer:  Mostly they're going to South America and Mexico?
911:  Japan, a lot of it here goes out to Japan.
Interviewer:  How long has that port been there? Since you can remember or?
911:  Well my grandfather and one of my great uncles had a lot to do with putting it in there. Now if you're going to ask me when, and I'm going to draw a complete blank. {NW} Uh. I think it was in the early thirties or late twenties when they really got it going. But I can't, I don't remember exactly.
Interviewer:  Uh do you ever talk about a swamp or a marsh or bog around here?
911:  No, not around here. There's not such thing.
Interviewer:  Do you use any of those terms yourself?
911:  Oh I know use the word swamp. But not in its correct form, usually hear it again kidding around. Uh got an example for ya. Oh it'd be like {X} I'm about to give you this might be a silly example, but like on a golf course, We're tromping around out there and the water's come up out of the resaca or something {C: Spanish} and it's where it shouldn't be. And it's up maybe a couple of inches and we would say Ah darn it, I'm stepping in a real swamp out here. You know. Just like that, there are no swamps or bogs or marches around here.
Interviewer:  What's the difference between a swamp and a bog and a marsh?
911:  I don't know. Maybe they all the same thing I think.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about something like that with saltwater in it?
911:  With saltwater in it. I don't know.
Interviewer:  There's nothing like that around here?
911:  No. Not that I can think of.
Interviewer:  And Say if you had some swampy land and you wanted to get the water off it, you'd say you wanted to do what to it?
911:  Uh Well what I would first think of in my mind pump it off, I don't know if that's the word you're looking for Uh Go ahead, tell me, I'll recognize it.
Interviewer:  Well you dig something to
911:  Oh uh Drain it?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What would you dig to drain it all?
911:  Well I'd call it a trench I imagine or a drain. Drainage canal, drain canal.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Or trench depending on the size of it.
Interviewer:  What if there had been a heavy rainfall and the water came out a little trench sort of, you'd call that a...
911:  Mm. Big one, you'd call that a cut.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Uh I don't know, I, I vaguely know what you're talking about, the word or expression but I can't call it to mind.
Interviewer:  What about the things of the side of the road to carry the water off?
911:  Drainage.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Bar ditch.
Interviewer:  Okay. A what?
911:  Bar ditch.
Interviewer:  What do you mean bar?
911:  I don't know, it's just an old thing, I haven't actually I used to always hear 'em bar ditches.
Interviewer:  What do they look like?
911:  Just a little dugout just to The shallow place alongside the highway just to drain water. So the water will drain off the road.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And a small rise in land, you'd call a
911:  Small one?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  Hill.
Interviewer:  Okay, any other names?
911:  I don't think so.
Interviewer:  What about something bigger than a hill?
911:  Mountain?
Interviewer:  Okay. And the rocky side of a mountain that drops off real sharp.
911:  Cliff.
Interviewer:  And talking about several of those,
911:  Cliffs.
Interviewer:  Okay. And a place up in the mountains where the road goes across in a low place. Not not the valley but the the low place between mountains, you'd call that a
911:  Mm you got me here, because you haven't seen any mountains round this part of the country, or could you be talking about a gorge?
Interviewer:  Okay. And On television, gun fighters, for every man they've killed, they've cut a little
911:  Notch?
Interviewer:  Okay. And What are the names of some of the creeks or streams and things around here?
911:  {NW} Well the only one I can think of in When you're talking about creeks or streams it'd be that of the Orroyo Colorado. Uh, those resacas are named, there's uh {C: Spanish} uh Resaca de la Guerra {C: Spanish} Mm fooey There's another one, there's two big ones and that's the biggest one there. There's Resaca de Rancho Viejo {C: Spanish} But they're not streams or creeks now.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Uh, that's about it, there's other little piddly ones I guess got names on 'em, but I'd sit here all day and not remember 'em. Never put much significance to 'em
Interviewer:  What are those names mean, are they named after people or places?
911:  {NS} Resaca de la Guerra {C: Spanish} would be the resaca of the war. Or the war resaca. {C: Spanish} It's battle sites. Several different things, one of the Civil War, one in the Texas war of independence I think.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm
911:  Uh And the other one resaca the Rancho Viejo would be the resaca of the old ranch. Or the old ranch's resaca. {C: Spanish}
Interviewer:  And what different kinds of roads are there around here?
911:  Different kinds of roads. You talking about material?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Paved. Which would be asphalt. Blacktop would be the same thing, caliche Gravel and dirt. I guess.
Interviewer:  What's the caliche?
911:  Oh it's kind of a mixture, some kind of powdery stuff and and a certain kind of rock. It's kind of whitish colored.
Interviewer:  Like the road down, couple of roads down from here? Is that caliche?
911:  There's plenty of them around here. Must be, it's kinda. Gravel you know great big dark color rock. This kind of has a whitish color to it and it's a little powdery. It'll blow. Yeah. Car go down it, stir it up, it'll blow pretty good.
Interviewer:  Gravel will?
911:  The caliche will. Unless you roll it and pack it down and wet it pretty good. You just lay it down there, it'll blow, blow worse than dirt. If you stir it up.
Interviewer:  Why do they put it down then?
911:  You can get in and out of it when it rains. It'll, you can soak it up pretty good, and it'll rain hard you can still drive in and out of it just like gravel.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  You won't stick in it.
Interviewer:  What do you call the white paved road? You don't see too many of them out anymore.
911:  Oh used to do it with the with concrete. Cement. Yeah, you don't do that anymore, it costs too much to do it with with tar or asphalt.
Interviewer:  What would you call a little road that turns off the main road?
911:  Off of a main highway?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Paved? Would it be paved yeah?
Interviewer:  Paved road.
911:  Well. I'll call it a road I guess.
Interviewer:  Any other name for just a small
911:  No you're hunting for words they don't use around here, you're looking for things like country lane and stuff like that, maybe I don't know. Around here just, it's a road. Take the road to the left.
Interviewer:  Do you ever use the word lane?
911:  No. That's what I thought Maybe you're fishing for something like that, but not around here.
Interviewer:  What, what do you think of a lane this big?
911:  Oh just real narrow. About wide enough for a car. Maybe just cut out with nothing on it paved or anything, just a dirt road probably.
Interviewer:  Do you think of a lane as having trees or fences on both sides?
911:  Yeah, a country lane do.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Just a little dirt road maybe like you were saying, with a farm on each side or fences and trees. Or these meadows that we talked about on each side kinda peaceful like not hot and dusty like down here.
Interviewer:  {NS} And a road that goes up to a person's house, would be a...
911:  A main road that goes up to his house?
Interviewer:  Or
911:  A driveway.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What about a road across a ranch? Would you have a special name for that?
911:  No I just call it a road.
Interviewer:  And a road in town?
911:  Street.
Interviewer:  And something along the side of the street for people to walk on?
911:  Sidewalk.
Interviewer:  Any old fashioned name for sidewalk?
911:  No {NS} Hello? This he. Uh-huh. I guess an old {X} An old term for sidewalk. {NS} Hmm.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear {D: bonkhead} or anything like that?
911:  What did you say?
Interviewer:  {D: Bonkhead.}
911:  Well in {D: Spanish} you go, we used there's a word banqueta {C: Spanish} {C: Spanish} I don't know if that's correct or not, but I remember refer, hearing people refer to it as a banqueta. {C: Spanish} {C: Spanish}
Interviewer:  Did you hear that in English or
911:  Well no, the way just said it, it kinda has a Spanish tone to it, banqueta. {C: Spanish} {C: Spanish}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NS} And if you went to someone's house and knocked on the door, and nobody answered, you say, I guess he's not
911:  Home.
Interviewer:  And if someone's walking in your direction, you say he's coming straight
911:  At me.
Interviewer:  Or straight
911:  Toward me.
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  Toward me.
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you went into town and {NS} happened to see someone that you hadn't counted on seeing, you say this morning I happened to
911:  Run into such-and-such.
Interviewer:  And if a child is given the same name as her mother has, you'd say they named the child...
911:  After her mother.
Interviewer:  And something that people drink for breakfast.
911:  Juice.
Interviewer:  Or
911:  Coffee.
Interviewer:  Okay, and if you wanted some coffee and it wasn't ready, you'd say you had to go
911:  Make the coffee.
Interviewer:  And talking about putting milk in your coffee, you'd say some people like it... How?
911:  Black?
Interviewer:  Okay. Black coffee is coffee, what milk?
911:  Oh without milk,
Interviewer:  Okay. And other people like coffee
911:  with milk.
Interviewer:  Any other names for black coffee?
911:  Slang ones?
Interviewer:  Do you have
911:  Well, not words that I use, just say coffee, and they ask how I want it and I say I want it black. {NS} Well they they use words that I've heard of before, {X} just pure coffee I mean they don't call it, what uh What Java
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Don't use it, never heard it used much, read it, now I've heard people say it once or twice once in a while but I guess not ten times.
Interviewer:  What kind of java? is that
911:  Yeah but that's not really from around here
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  But I've heard a cup of coffee referred to that I don't know what it is or where it came from
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear the expression drinking coffee barefoot?
911:  No.
Interviewer:  Have you ever heard drinking whiskey bare-footed?
911:  Uh never heard that
Interviewer:  And If you were walking along the road an an animal came and scared you you say I picked up a... What?
911:  Pick up a rock
Interviewer:  And I,
911:  Threw it at it.
Interviewer:  Okay, anything else to say besides threw it?
911:  No unless I've hit 'em Then I'd say I picked up a rock and hit him with it.
Interviewer:  Do you ever say you chucked it or flung it or?
911:  Mm-mm. You're on about me now?
Interviewer:  Or have you ever heard of any of those?
911:  Well I heard 'em but I don't know if I ever heard anybody really use 'em. I have always used or heard say I picked up a rock and threw it at 'em.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And
911:  If pitched it at 'em, I would take it to mean just kinda underhanded, just finally toss. To somebody to catch. Not to throw it at some something you wanna get out of there.
Interviewer:  Like you pitch a ball in baseball or something?
911:  Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  And if you wanted to get your horses ready to go somewhere, but you say before you can hitch 'em to a wagon or buggy, you have to...
911:  I don't know I've never done it.
Interviewer:  But what do you have to put on it?
911:  Put on a harness?
Interviewer:  Okay. And say you, say you have to
911:  Harness up the horses.
Interviewer:  And when you're driving a horse, you got him with the
911:  Reigns.
Interviewer:  Is that when you're plowing or with a wagon? You call at the reins.
911:  I call it reins in the wagon and for riding in the saddle. And a bridle call it the reins
Interviewer:  And if you're riding them with the saddle, You put your feet in the
911:  Stirrups
Interviewer:  And talking about um distance you say well I don't know exactly how far away it is, but it's just a
911:  You're about to close up.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh, it's just a little
911:  Just a little aways
Interviewer:  Okay, and if you had been traveling, {NS} and still had about five hundred miles to go, you'd say you still had a
911:  Long way to go.
Interviewer:  And, something was very common and you didn't have to look for it in a special place, You'd say oh you can find that just about
911:  Any place.
Interviewer:  And someone slipped and fell over this way, you'd say he fell over
911:  Backwards.
Interviewer:  This way?
911:  Frontwards. Forward.
Interviewer:  Okay. Say if um, you had been fishing and I asked you did you catch any, and you might say no what and what? No
911:  No I didn't catch any
Interviewer:  Okay, did you ever hear people say I didn't catch nary a one?
911:  Yeah. I've even used that. There again when we're you know. {NS} Did you catch any, I didn't catch nary a one. Yeah I've used that quite a bit.
Interviewer:  Is that kinda like ain't, the way you use it, just kidding or?
911:  No not really, I don't and like I told you yesterday, I always had drummed in my head that the word ain't was really bad. It's almost like using a cuss word. {NS} Nary a one, to me is just a slang expression really, I don't consider it, it's not correct.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  By any means, but we use it.
Interviewer:  It's not as bad as ain't?
911:  Yeah. No, I wouldn't think so. To me ain't is is just really incorrect, and I hear people use it all the time when they using it and not not kidding, they just using it in their you know vocabulary. To me, I would use it kidding around and, {NS} but nary a one, I would use that maybe in just normal conversation sometimes if it fits you know.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And If you got rid of all the brush and trees on your land, you say you
911:  Clear it off.
Interviewer:  And wheat is tied off into
911:  I don't know, wheat?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  I dunno.
Interviewer:  What about corn? Or fodder?
911:  I don't have any idea. Bundle?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And the bundles are piled up into a
911:  Stack.
Interviewer:  And talking about how much wheat you raised, you might say you raised forty what of wheat today?
911:  Bushels.
Interviewer:  And what do you have to do with oats to separate the grains from the rest of it?
911:  Mm. I don't know. Oats?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Ain't got any idea.
Interviewer:  Say if there was something that we had to do today, just the two of us you could say we'll have to do it, or you could say instead of saying we, you could say
911:  We're going to do it together, don't say we?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. But would you say you and I would have to do it or me and you?
911:  Of if I'm talking to you? Say you and I gotta do this today. Or we have to do it today.
Interviewer:  What if you're talking about some man and yourself?
911:  You and I.
Interviewer:  Or.
911:  We.
Interviewer:  Would you say him and me or he and I?
911:  He and I. He and I are gonna do it today.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And you say he doesn't want just you or just me for this job, he wants
911:  Both of us.
Interviewer:  And if you knock at the door, and someone asks you who's there, and you know that they recognize your voice, you'd say it's
911:  It's me.
Interviewer:  And
911:  Or it is I? No I'd say it's me. Correct or not, that's what I'd say.
Interviewer:  What if uh If it's a man at the door, you'd say it's Like if I asked you was that was him at the door, you'd say yes that was
911:  That was him.
Interviewer:  And if it was a woman?
911:  That was her.
Interviewer:  And if it was two people?
911:  That was them.
Interviewer:  And talking about how tall you are, You'd say he's not as tall
911:  As I am.
Interviewer:  Or I'm not as tall
911:  As he is.
Interviewer:  And he can do that better than
911:  Than I can.
Interviewer:  And If you had been out to uh to New Mexico say, and you hadn't gone any more west than that, you'd say New Mexico is
911:  As far as I went.
Interviewer:  Or. New Mexico is what west of then? New Mex-
911:  New Mexico is far west as I've been.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Do you ever say it's all the farther west or the farthest west of
911:  Mm. I've heard it, but I've never used it. {X} And if you asked me the same question, ask me that question, I say well New Mexico is far west as I've been.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  I guess I've heard people say farthest west or furthest west or whatever you say, but I've never used it.
Interviewer:  And if something belongs to me, you say it's {C: NS}
911:  Yours. {C: NS}
Interviewer:  And if it belongs to both of us, it's
911:  It's ours.
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  Ours.
Interviewer:  And to them?
911:  It's theirs.
Interviewer:  And to him?
911:  It's his.
Interviewer:  And to her?
911:  It's hers.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear people say yours or his or
911:  Yeah, I guess maybe There again kidding around expression I would probably use it a few times, but there again, just kidding, you know, I don't say kidding but just kinda cute conversation, I guess.
Interviewer:  What give me some examples what What would you
911:  I'd say if I'm about to say something about that, keep your hands off of that, that's our'n.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  Or uh You better not mess with that thing that's his'n and he'll get you {NW} Well they're just kidding, they're not in everyday conversation.
Interviewer:  Do you hear it around here, people say that?
911:  No, just the same way I'm using it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Kidding.
Interviewer:  Say if there had been a group of people at your house and
911:  I think there's, let me just say something about that. I think there maybe there There are places where people talk that way his'n and our'n and their'n.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Or whatever those words {NS} In a way, It's not one of my sayings. Uh Maybe mimicking or copying or something conversation or you know a way of talking in other places I mean.
Interviewer:  But you don't hear
911:  No
Interviewer:  Around here much? How would you address a group of people? Like There's a group at your house and they're gonna leave, you'd say I hope What
911:  Hope y'all had a good time.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Do you ever use the word y'all talking just to one person?
911:  To one?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  I don't, no.
Interviewer:  What if um there's a group of people and you were asking about everybody's coats, you'd say where are
911:  Where are y'all their coats or their
Interviewer:  Well you're talking to them. You'd say where are,
911:  Where are your coats?
Interviewer:  Would you ever say y'all's coats?
911:  Oh I might. {NW} Where are y'all's coats? Yeah I might say that.
Interviewer:  What if there's a there was a party that you hadn't been able to go to and and you were asking about the people that had gone, you'd ask them what
911:  Who all was there?
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And there's a group of children that obviously belonged to more than one family, you'd ask about them children are they
911:  Whose children are those?
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  Whose children are those?
Interviewer:  Would you ever say who all's children?
911:  I knew you were gonna ask me that. I don't think so. It And it's funny you know might say y'all's coach and then say who all. Who all's children oh I don't think so.
Interviewer:  That sounds a little funny?
911:  Yeah I suppose.
Interviewer:  What if there had been a a speech that you hadn't been able to hear? You're asking about you know, everything that that the person said, you'd say
911:  What all did he say?
Interviewer:  Okay. And if you say no one else will look out for them, you say they've got to look out for
911:  For themselves.
Interviewer:  And no one else will do it for them. He better do it
911:  For himself.
Interviewer:  And talking about kinds of animals the kind of animal that barks.
911:  Dog.
Interviewer:  And if you want your dog to attack another dog what would you tell him?
911:  Sic 'em.
Interviewer:  Okay. What different kinds of dogs are there?
911:  Breeds?
Interviewer:  Well not breeds but just what would you call a mixed breed dog for example?
911:  Mutt.
Interviewer:  Okay, any other terms like that?
911:  Heinz fifty-seven.
Interviewer:  What about for a small noisy dog?
911:  Poodle? Are you, you're not talking about breeds now?
Interviewer:  No, not breeds, just a general name.
911:  A small, noisy dog, I'd probably call a pain in the neck. {NS} Hello? Dog.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Do you ever hear it called a feist?
911:  Oh I've heard of, I've heard that there's a feisty little dog. I've never heard it called a feist. I'd say well those dogs are pretty feisty. Maybe a little small barking dog {D: That might fit there yeah}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm What about just a worthless dog?
911:  Well you go back to mutt.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if you had a mean dog, you tell someone, you'd better be careful, that dog will
911:  Bite you.
Interviewer:  And yesterday he
911:  Bit somebody.
Interviewer:  And the person had to go to the doctor after he got
911:  Bitten.
Interviewer:  Do you ever say after he got dog bit?
911:  No. I'd say no I'd say he got bitten by dogs.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And the kind of animal that um you could plow with
911:  Horse.
Interviewer:  Or something
911:  Ox.
Interviewer:  Something that looks kinda like a horse.
911:  Mule.
Interviewer:  Okay, and two of those hitched together, would be a...
911:  Team. Team of mules.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What about the ox? when they're hitched together?
911:  Team of oxen.
Interviewer:  Did you ever see that?
911:  No. Have I ever seen any? Pictures I guess but never seen it.
Interviewer:  And the animal that would get you milk.
911:  The cow.
Interviewer:  And the male is called the
911:  Bull.
Interviewer:  Is that word nice to use when you were growing up? Or did it sound a little vulgar?
911:  Depends on how you were using it nowadays you say well that's a bull out there in that pasture, well that's alright, but I didn't better come to the house and say hold on and give me that bull. That wasn't That wasn't considered too nice.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {NS} And the little ones, when it's first born,
911:  Calf.
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  Calf.
Interviewer:  And the female is called a
911:  Female cow calf
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Any special names for a female calf?
911:  No, maybe just calves.
Interviewer:  What about the male?
911:  Well If you're really trying to pin it down I guess you could say bull calf.
Interviewer:  And if you had a cow that was expecting a calf, you'd say she was going to
911:  Foal.
Interviewer:  Okay. Any other more common ways to say that?
911:  Well that'd be a horse or a foal, I dunno if I ever heard that used with a cow or not.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear come in fresh or drop a calf or
911:  Drop a calf, yeah, she's fixing to drop a calf.
Interviewer:  Okay.
911:  The foal, go back to there, that's horse, not cow.
Interviewer:  What do you call the female horse?
911:  Mare.
Interviewer:  What about the male?
911:  Stallion.
Interviewer:  Any other names for a male horse?
911:  Had to depend on what they've done to him, might call him a gelding.
Interviewer:  You call him a gelding after you have
911:  Fixed him. Altered him.
Interviewer:  Any other terms for that, fixed or altered? Would you use those terms talking about a pig for example? Or a cow?
911:  I never talked about pigs much. I suppose.
Interviewer:  And. You say everyone around here likes to get on horses and
911:  Ride.
Interviewer:  And yesterday he
911:  Rode.
Interviewer:  And I have never
911:  Ridden.
Interviewer:  And if you couldn't stay on, you'd say you fell
911:  Off. Fell off the horse.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And say a child went to sleep in bed and woke up and found himself on the floor in the morning, he'd say I guess I must have
911:  I guess I must have fallen out of bed.
Interviewer:  And the things that you put on the horses' feet.
911:  Shoes. Horseshoes.
Interviewer:  What about a game you play with those? Do you ever see.
911:  Yeah we played that. Play horseshoes.
Interviewer:  Do you ever see it played with rings instead of horseshoes?
911:  The same way? Just like hor- no. I don't think so.
Interviewer:  And the part of the horse's feet that you put the shoes on.
911:  The hooves.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay, and Just one of those would be one
911:  Hoof.
Interviewer:  And what do people raise sheep for?
911:  Wool.
Interviewer:  Do people ever raise sheep in this area?
911:  No. I've never seen one down here. Oh I guess I've seen one or two from people just messing around, but they've never raised them down here for commercial purposes.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  It's too hot.
Interviewer:  What do they call the male sheep?
911:  Ram.
Interviewer:  And the female?
911:  Ewe.
Interviewer:  And Talking about um pigs, when they're full grown you call them.
911:  Pig, hog.
Interviewer:  Okay, what about when they're half grown? {NS}
911:  Pig I guess.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of a shoat?
911:  I've heard of the word but I've never used it.
Interviewer:  Did Did you ever Do you know what it means exactly or? Did you
911:  No.
Interviewer:  What about the male hog?
911:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of a boar or a male hog?
911:  Oh okay boar yeah. But I don't know, {X} Don't think I've ever heard it talking about a tame hog. I don't think I've ever heard of a boar hog, but they remain wild.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Is a boar hog male or
911:  Male. Well now, {X} Boar hog, that means a wild wild hog I guess I never thought about it, I guess we just refer to it that way, it could be a male or female. Boar hog.
Interviewer:  What would you call a female hog?
911:  Sow.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm, what if she's never had pigs?
911:  I don't know. {NW}
Interviewer:  And a male hog that's been fixed, you call him a
911:  {NS} Um
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear barrow, or boar? And the stiff hairs that a hog has on its back.
911:  I don't have any idea but if I had to call it something I guess I would probably call it bristle.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What about the big teeth that a hog has?
911:  {NW} Ah.
Interviewer:  Or an elephant has?
911:  Yeah, tusks, mm-kay.
Interviewer:  And things you put the food in for the hogs, would be a
911:  Trough
Interviewer:  Mm-kay, and if you had three or four of those, you'd have three or four
911:  Troughs.
Interviewer:  And Say if you had some horses and mules and cows and so fourth they were getting hungry, you'd say you have to go feed the
911:  Animals.
Interviewer:  Okay, what if you're talking about hens and turkeys and geese? You say you had to feed the
911:  Feed the chickens or I'd have to break each of them down, I wouldn't {NS}