Interviewer:  Working very hard you'd say you were very?
911:  Tired.
Interviewer:  Any other ways of saying that? {NS}
911:  I've been working very hard I'm worn out.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you'd say there is nothing really wrong with Aunt Lizzy about sometimes she acts kind of {NS}
911:  Nuts.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
911:  #1 Nutty #
Interviewer:  #2 Any other # Any other expressions?
911:  Crazy.
Interviewer:  What about the word queer or {D: queer}?
911:  Man's kinda queer? I don't think I'd put that in there. Eh what's wrong with Aunt Lizzy, but sometimes she acts kinda nutty. I'd be I'd go towards nutty. I guess I've heard it put she acts kinda queer. I don't think I'd use that that way much anymore though. That has a different meaning more of less to it now.
Interviewer:  What different meanings does it have? What did it first mean?
911:  #1 Well I think #
Interviewer:  #2 What does it mean now? #
911:  I think years back you might've used it that way well look watch out for Aunt Lizzy. She's acting a little bit queer.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh #
911:  #2 {NW} # That meant well kinda a bit on the fruit cake side.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  Nowadays you come out and pop somebody like that they might think the guy is kinda funny you know? {X} Or she or he or whatever a little bit on the what's the other word for it? A little bit on the on the uh? {NS} Well you know what I am talking about a little bit on the?
Interviewer:  Homosexual.
911:  Homosexual side yeah.
Interviewer:  How long has it been meaning that? Since most of your life?
911:  #1 You know when I #
Interviewer:  #2 Or is that a recent #
911:  No when I when I go back to when I was growing up get into high school and what not we put the word queer on some cats we were trying to you know we're talking homosexual business but the older folks you know today they were still using it meaning Aunt Lizzy was kind of on the nutty side.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  But I don't think the older folks that are still around don't go for that. I think they, you know, just change in time.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Did
911:  But I guess they don't use the word nutty either. I'd imagine they'd say a little bit eccentric. I wouldn't
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
911:  #2 say # that. You'd ask me what I'd say I'd say probably nuts.
Interviewer:  Did you used to use the word queer as a noun? #1 Say she was #
911:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  a queer? Meaning she was eccentric.
911:  {D:What do you mean?} No I don't think so. I think they use it more the way you put it there. Watch out {D:Frank} this is something or rather but she acts queer or sometime meaning not as a noun.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Meaning she's had strange behavior.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about the Spanish word for homosexual?
911:  Puto {C:Speaking Spanish}
Interviewer:  Puto {C: Speaking Spanish}
911:  Puto {C: Speaking Spanish}
Interviewer:  Is that very insulting or?
911:  Yeah that's pretty good. Now we don't kid around with that too much. Well I mean we there again depends on who. You know how close you are. You might #1 probably #
Interviewer:  #2 Mm-hmm #
911:  good close friend with that. Tell 'em his acting like one or if he shows up some strange looking set of clothes on you might tell 'em that. {NS} We we'd come out more than English would but that's that's just downright queer there.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Does that word just refer to a man?
911:  Well if you put an A at the end of it and now you're not referring now to a homosexual woman though you referring to a prostitute.
Interviewer:  A male? #1 homosexual #
911:  #2 No. #
Interviewer:  #1 A #
911:  #2 Puto {C:speaking Spanish} # is a male you're calling somebody a homosexual. A male.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Now you put an A on it and turn it into Puta {C: Speaking Spanish} and you're now referring to a female but a prostitute. {NS}
Interviewer:  Hmm. What about the word Joto {C: Speaking Spanish}?
911:  That's the same. As- as a male as a male prostitute a male homosexual. {NS} But I mean to me they mean the same thing. Joto or puto {C: Speaking Spanish} {NS} To me it's the same thing.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Male homosexual. {NS} Now how you come up with a female homosexual I don't know. Unless you took that Joto {C: Speaking Spanish} put an A- on the end of it. I don't know whether that'd work or not. I never thought about that.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. That the word Puta {C: Speaking Spanish} means?
911:  To me it's always been
Interviewer:  #1 prostitute #
911:  #2 a prostitute # Yeah.
Interviewer:  Did they have that in {D: Speaking Spanish or Texas town}
911:  #1 {NW: mumbling} #
Interviewer:  #2 prostitutes? #
911:  Oh yeah. Holy smokes. They got a whole town down there about couple three miles outside of {X} Red light district.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Or boy's town.
Interviewer:  Prostitutions legal just?
911:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  #1 Anywhere in Mexico? #
911:  #2 {X} # Yeah. But in one place. They can't just spread 'em out all over town. They have one locality. And they build up bars and and uh. Places like that and little houses around. As long as they keep it in one area.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  As long as they go to the doctor once a week and get health certified and all that it's legal.
Interviewer:  Hmm.
911:  It's dirty. Holy smokes. Every time somebody comes down here from away from here, that's the first thing they want to see.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  {X} {NS} I guess the last time I take some cats over there and once they get there they're just disappointed you know? They think they are really going to see something. It's just pure filth. Uh. Well okay #1 next question. #
Interviewer:  #2 Do you think it # should be legal here?
911:  Here?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Uh. Should it be legal here?
Interviewer:  Or has there ever been any discussion about that?
911:  {NW} Are you talking about in Texas or are you talking about in the United States?
Interviewer:  Well both just I guess it would...
911:  I guess Texas sometime is kind of funny from the rest of the country {D:something funny} {D: I don't} What are you going to get into that old argument that if you can legalize female prostitution for men how come we can't have prostitute houses for women to go to? I got in that argument at a cocktail party one time. I don't see anything wrong with that. Uh. If you had legalized prostitution if it was kept in one place you know not make it a big area with big neon signs on it but {NS} Where these girls were licensed.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  And had to had to be checked. periodically like once a week for disease or stuff like that. And it was controlled where you just couldn't all of the sudden show up as an independent. Where you had to be licensed just like uh I I just don't think there'd all that much wrong with it. I mean it might prevent some foolishness that goes on if it got you know.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  {D: Mighta} I don't know maybe it wouldn't. That's kinda far-fetched statement. I got to think about that but Uh I I'm just pretty broad minded about a lot of things. If a gal wants to make a living that way and she's not hurting anybody and the guy wants to go spend his money there well get it on you know?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Uh. #1 But #
Interviewer:  #2 Um. #
911:  Huh?
Interviewer:  I guess you mentioned earlier the sort of Baptists conservatives.
911:  Oh my lord. They'd die. If you talked {D: like you just did}. They almost have a {D: big old heart attack} {D:think I'm damned} talked to them about having legalized prostitution. They'd probably would burn the state down.
Interviewer:  {NW} Um.
911:  Well it is just like the gambling There's girls that are going to do it anyways. They know they're available. And the guys there is enough men that know where they are and how to find 'em so they can send other people over there. It's going on. So just why not make it legal and control it rather than have 'em running around passing stuff on that you don't want to have? And you know?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  {D:I don't} It's in every town in Texas. Of the size at all. Girls that you could get a hold of and you know? It's no secret to anybody so why not try and legalize it and control it somewhat? {NS}
Interviewer:  Say the person who had been well and suddenly got a disease. You'd say well. Yesterday they were fine then why is it that they?
911:  Got sick.
Interviewer:  And if a person went outside and its bad weather and came in was sneezing and his his eyes were running you'd say?
911:  Caught a cold.
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  Caught cold.
Interviewer:  And if it affected his voice, you'd say?
911:  Sore throat laryngitis.
Interviewer:  He sounded a little?
911:  Hoarse {NS}
Interviewer:  And if he did that you'd have a?
911:  Cough.
Interviewer:  And someone who can't hear anything at all. You say that he's?
911:  Deaf.
Interviewer:  And if a person say a man has been at work in- in the sun and he takes off his shirt and it is all wet. You'd say look how much I
911:  Sweated.
Interviewer:  And a sore that comes to a head is called a?
911:  Sore that comes to a head a ball?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Any other names for that?
911:  A ball a ball is a ball.
Interviewer:  What about when it opens? The stuff that comes out?
911:  Pus.
Interviewer:  And from a blister?
911:  What a blister?
Interviewer:  You know the stuff inside it? Is {NS}
911:  Well isn't that the same thing though is it?
Interviewer:  What would you call the stuff inside a blister?
911:  Well usually water.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if someone got shot or stabbed you'd say you have to get a doctor to look at the?
911:  The wound?
Interviewer:  And if the wound doesn't heal back right it gets sort of a skinless growth over it. It's gotta be cut out or burned out. You could- horses get that a lot on their legs. You call that?
911:  Hmm. I don't know.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear it called some kind of flesh?
911:  I don't
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
911:  #2 think so- #
Interviewer:  flesh or {D:crown} flesh?
911:  No. I don't think so.
Interviewer:  And if you have a little cut on your finger. Brown liquid medicine that stinks
911:  Iodine.
Interviewer:  What about a real bitter medicine? People used to take...
911:  Bitter?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What would they take for Malaria?
911:  Oh quinine. {NS} You thought I was going to say {D:well let's say I had an English friend once}. {NS} Quinine {C: IPA DIFFERENCE ADD} It's quinine {C: IPA DIFFERENCE ADD LATER}
Interviewer:  {NS} Say if someone was shot and didn't live. You'd say that he?
911:  Died.
Interviewer:  Any nicer ways of saying that?
911:  Passed away.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about a a joking way of saying it. As sort of a
911:  Kicked the bucket.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. You'd say he has been dead a week and nobody has figured out yet what he?
911:  Died of.
Interviewer:  And a place where people are buried?
911:  Cemetery.
Interviewer:  And what they put the body in?
911:  Coffin.
Interviewer:  And the ceremony
911:  #1 there's #
Interviewer:  #2 funeral # Huh?
911:  Funeral.
Interviewer:  And people dressed in black you say that they are in?
911:  Mourning.
Interviewer:  And on an average sort of day if someone asks you how you're feeling. You'd say?
911:  Pretty good.
Interviewer:  And when you're getting old and your joints start hurting you say you've got?
911:  Arthritis.
Interviewer:  Any other name for that?
911:  Bursitis.
Interviewer:  Is that the same thing?
911:  Mm. No I think arthritis is worse, isn't it?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  I don't think. I don't know if medically if it is the same thing or not but I think you {NS} get little touches of bursitis around and arthritis will cripple up the fingers and everything.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What about a a disease um. People used to get the get a really bad sore throat and they'd choke up and?
911:  Strep throat.
Interviewer:  Something- something worse than that. That they died from.
911:  Oh um Smallpox?
Interviewer:  What about dip-
911:  Diphtheria.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And a disease where your {C: loud background noise} skin and eyeballs turn yellow.
911:  Skin and eyeballs? Is that hepatitis?
Interviewer:  It's, you get it along with hepatitis I think.
911:  Oh. Jaundice.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And if you have a pain down here and have to have an operation?
911:  Appendicitis? {NS}
Interviewer:  Any old fashioned name for appendicitis?
911:  Not that I know of. Well not that I've heard.
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  Not that I've heard. {NS}
Interviewer:  And you ate something that didn't agree with you and it came back up. You'd say you had to?
911:  Throw up.
Interviewer:  Any other ways of saying that?
911:  Vomit.
Interviewer:  Which sounds nicer.
911:  Throw up.
Interviewer:  What about a really crude way? Of saying that.
911:  Up chuck.
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  Up chuck.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Anything else?
911:  Toss your cookies.
Interviewer:  Toss your cookies?
911:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  I've never heard that.
911:  I got an Oh man I feel terrible I think I'm gonna toss my cookies.
Interviewer:  Does that sound sort of joking or does it sound crude or?
911:  Well it's just joking. To me.
Interviewer:  Say if a person threw up you'd say he was
911:  #1 {X} #
Interviewer:  #2 {X} #
911:  Sick to his stomach.
Interviewer:  And say if there was a {NS} Um. Something that you do everyday. If I ask if you to do it often. You'd say yes I?
911:  Yes I?
Interviewer:  All the time yes I?
911:  I do it all the time.
Interviewer:  And if you're asking me whether he does that sort of thing. You'd ask me?
911:  Does he do it all the time? {NW}
Interviewer:  And I'd say I don't smoke but he?
911:  Does.
Interviewer:  And if I ask you if you know a person. You might say well I don't know 'em but I?
911:  Know who he is.
Interviewer:  {D: Right. What of him?}
911:  I've heard of 'em.
Interviewer:  And do you ever hear {X: load background noise blocks audio}
911:  Yeah. I've heard tell of 'em. I've heard that. I've probably used it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Say that there was a loud noise and I asked you did I- did you?
911:  Hear that.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you say yes I?
911:  Heard it.
Interviewer:  And you say I think that's right but I'm?
911:  Not sure.
Interviewer:  And you'd say well I don't know if he did it or not but people? {NS}
911:  Say he did.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. {NS} And the boy spending keeps on going over to the same girl's house he's spending a lot of time with her. You'd say that he's?
911:  Going steady.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Any old fashioned way of saying that?
911:  No from my time forward is going steady.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear people say courting?
911:  Oh. Yeah well I've heard courting. Yeah they're courting. Whether they use it anymore I can't-. We never used it.
Interviewer:  Does that sound old fashioned to you?
911:  Mm-hmm.
Interviewer:  And he would be called her?
911:  Boyfriend.
Interviewer:  And she would be his?
911:  Girlfriend.
Interviewer:  Any old fashioned names for boyfriend or girlfriend?
911:  Yeah well going along with that courting I would imagine but I don't know what it'd be.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if a boy comes home with lipstick on his collar his little brother would say he has been?
911:  His little brother would say he'd been smooching.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {NS} And when a girl stops letting the boys come over to see her. You'd say she?
911:  Broke up.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And he asked her to marry 'em but she?
911:  Turned 'em down.
Interviewer:  Any other ways of saying that?
911:  {NS} Told 'em no. {NW}
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear threw 'em over or {X} Or gave 'em the sack or?
911:  Gave 'em the gate?
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
911:  #2 gave 'em the # sack. I've heard 'em one time or another yeah. jilted 'em.
Interviewer:  And you'd say they were engaged and all of the sudden she? {NS}
911:  Broke it off.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And if she didn't turn him down you'd say they went ahead and got?
911:  Married.
Interviewer:  Any joking ways of saying?
911:  Hitched.
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  Hitched.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay {C:loud background noise} And the wedding the boy that stands up with the groom
911:  Best man.
Interviewer:  What about the woman that stands up with the bride? {NS}
911:  Mm. Maid of honor.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And what else do you have?
911:  Bride's maids.
Interviewer:  And a long time ago people in the community would get married other people would {NS} come by their house at night and make a lot of noise? Maybe beat on things or fire off riffles you'd call that a?
911:  Yeah uh they call that a- Chivaree
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  I think. {NS} I never used it.
Interviewer:  But what did you hear about it? Is it something you've read about?
911:  I've read about it. Probably heard tell about it and read about it. Never used it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Is that chivaree
Interviewer:  Yeah that's that's one expression. Do you ever hear serenade or {D:belling}?
911:  Oh serenade yeah but I never heard it in terms like that.
Interviewer:  What's a serenade mean around here?
911:  {NS} Oh well you've got You've little group of musicians come outside the door or the window and
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Sing or play guitar or something.
Interviewer:  Do they still do that around here?
911:  Uh not not much I don't think. I serenade somebody. I think in the old days it had more meaning of {NW} the boyfriend would show up underneath the gal's window plays guitar and he'd sing songs to her.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  He's serenading her. Oh now I think probably I don't know around here but possibly in Mexico or someplace you might have a group of musicians that would go around {NS} places like motels or something like hotels and serenade outside the window. Hoping you throw down a dollar or something you know? {NS} What do they call 'em ma- I don't know little group of two or three musicians in a group.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Strolling around. Playing music. {NW}
Interviewer:  How would you use the words up or down over? Talking about location.
911:  Location?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  Up down or over?
Interviewer:  Like if you went to Houston #1 you'd say? #
911:  #2 I'm going # up to Houston. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Why would you #1 say? #
911:  #2 {X} # Why would I say?
Interviewer:  Why would you say up?
911:  Well I'm going up. I guess looking at a map I'm going up.
Interviewer:  North you mean?
911:  Yeah. If I was going to Mexico City I'd say I'm going down to Mexico City. {NS}
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {NS}
911:  If I was going to go see the guy across the street I'd be going over there. {NW}
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What if you are going to {D:Loretta}? You'd?
911:  I'd be going up. You going up just darn near every place from here. {NW} {NS}
Interviewer:  And say if there was trouble at a party you'd say the police came and they didn't arrest just one or two of 'em they arrested the?
911:  Whole bunch.
Interviewer:  Any other terms besides bunch?
911:  They arrested the whole bunch. They arrested {NS} The whole gang.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What about shooting match? #1 Do you ever hear #
911:  #2 Yeah # arrested the whole shooting match {NS} {NS}
Interviewer:  And young people go out in the evening and move around on the floor to music you call that a?
911:  Dance.
Interviewer:  Are there different kinds of old fashioned dances or?
911:  Uh I don't know if they're old fashioned or if they still do 'em anymore. They used to have sock hops.
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
911:  #2 Or there's # still have those anymore or not. You take your shoes off and spend the night there in your socks. Or uh the sock hop used to have dances where the boys would invite the girls. I mean the girls would invite the boys.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NS}
911:  And a {NW} That's what you talking about isn't it? Different kinds of dances? {X} Proms and things like that
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Still have that I think. Other kinds of dances? {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of a hoedown or breakdown or?
911:  Hoedown that's kicker stuff. Going back to your kicker. Square dancing.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  Yeah they used to do that quite a bit around here. I don't know if they still do or not. I never did.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {C:lots of background noise} Think children get out of school at four o'clock you'd say at four o'clock school?
911:  School's out.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And after vacation children would ask when does school?
911:  Start.
Interviewer:  And the child left home to go to school and didn't show up in school that day. You'd say she?
911:  Played hooky or skipped.
Interviewer:  And you go to school to get?
911:  An education.
Interviewer:  And after kindergarten you go into the?
911:  First grade.
Interviewer:  And after high school you go to?
911:  College.
Interviewer:  You'd say years ago children sat on benches but now they sit at?
911:  Desks.
Interviewer:  And each child has his own?
911:  Desk.
Interviewer:  And if you wanted to check out a book you'd go to the?
911:  Library.
Interviewer:  And to mail a package?
911:  Post office.
Interviewer:  And you'd stay over night in a strange town at a?
911:  Hotel.
Interviewer:  And you'd see a play or a movie? At a?
911:  Theater.
Interviewer:  And if you have to have an operation you have to go into the?
911:  Hospital.
Interviewer:  And the woman that look after you?
911:  Nurse.
Interviewer:  And you catch a train at the?
911:  Station.
Interviewer:  Or you could call that?
911:  Depot.
Interviewer:  Or the rail?
911:  Rail railroad station.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you'd say um {NS:lots of background noise} he ran down the spring board and what?
911:  Dove in.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and several children have?
911:  Several children have? Dived in.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And I was too scared to?
911:  Dive in.
Interviewer:  And if you dive in and hit the water flat you call that a?
911:  Belly-buster.
Interviewer:  And say a child puts her head down on the ground and rolls over you'd call that a?
911:  Somersault.
Interviewer:  And you'd say he dove in and what across?
911:  Swam across.
Interviewer:  And several children have?
911:  Swum across.
Interviewer:  And children like to?
911:  Swim.
Interviewer:  And if you can't swim and you get in the water you might?
911:  Drown.
Interviewer:  And yesterday he?
911:  Drowned.
Interviewer:  And when they pull 'em out he had already?
911:  Drowned. {NS}
Interviewer:  And say if you have a piece of furniture that doesn't fit in exactly in the corner but you just have it sort of diagonally so there's some space between the back of the furniture and the corner. You'd say it was sitting? {NS}
911:  You looking for a slang expression?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  Cattywampus.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. How do you use that term? {NS}
911:  Hmm I don't use it very much. I know what you're talking about when you started telling me about the space between the Something that doesn't fit.
Interviewer:  #1 Mm-hmm. #
911:  #2 Really. # Something that you got somewhere that doesn't fit is cattywampus.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Any other term like that? {NS}
911:  No I don't think so.
Interviewer:  And years ago before they had buses in town they used to have? Maybe it would run on a track and?
911:  Oh a street car?
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you tell the bus driver that this next corner is where I?
911:  Want to get off. {NS}
Interviewer:  And you'd say um in this county Brownsville is the?
911:  County seat.
Interviewer:  And if you are a postmaster you'd be working for the federal?
911:  government.
Interviewer:  And the police in town are supposed to maintain?
911:  Law and order. {NS}
Interviewer:  And the fight between the North and the South. Was called the?
911:  Civil war.
Interviewer:  Any other names for that?
911:  Yeah um. War between the states.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And you'd say I had a choice to think that at first I was going to do this but then I decided that I'd do that. What of this? {NS}
911:  {X}
Interviewer:  I decided to do that in-?
911:  Instead of this.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And before they had the electric chair murders were?
911:  Hung.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you'd say the man went out and?
911:  Hung himself.
Interviewer:  And the biggest city in the country is in?
911:  New York. {NW}
Interviewer:  Not New York. New York City is in?
911:  New York state.
Interviewer:  And Baltimore is in?
911:  Maryland.
Interviewer:  And Boston is in?
911:  Massachusetts. {NW}
Interviewer:  And the states from Maine to Connecticut are called?
911:  New England states.
Interviewer:  What are some of the states in the Southeast?
911:  Southeast? Southeast.
Interviewer:  Or just in in this section of the country and then going?
911:  Going that way from Texas? Louisiana Alabama Mississippi Tennessee Florida Georgia North and South Carolina.
Interviewer:  There's North?
911:  South and North Carolina.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NS}
911:  #1 {NW:grunt} #
Interviewer:  #2 What # about the states above Tennessee?
911:  Kentucky.
Interviewer:  And the biggest city there?
911:  In Kentucky? {NS} Would it be Lexington? I don't know.
Interviewer:  There's another one.
911:  Kentucky.
Interviewer:  Where they run the derby.
911:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  It's lou-
911:  Louisville.
Interviewer:  And Little Rock is the capital of?
911:  Arkansas.
Interviewer:  And the state above Arkansas? {NS} {NW}
911:  Oh, Texas. {NS}
Interviewer:  Starts with an M-.
911:  Montana.
Interviewer:  Or Mis-
911:  Missouri! Excuse me Montana. Missouri.
Interviewer:  What's the biggest city there?
911:  St. Louis.
Interviewer:  And {NS} Tulsa is in?
911:  Oklahoma.
Interviewer:  And the biggest city in Maryland? {NS}
911:  Baltimore?
Interviewer:  And the capital of the United States?
911:  Washington D.C.
Interviewer:  And the old sea port in South Carolina?
911:  The old sea port in South Carolina?
Interviewer:  Are what are some the cities in South Carolina?
911:  Is it Fort Sumter?
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. What else?
911:  Charleston.
Interviewer:  And the big city in Illinois?
911:  Chicago.
Interviewer:  And what are some of the cities in Alabama?
911:  {NS} Alabama. Hmm. Selma is that in Alabama?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Selma. Something happened there. That's why I remember that. Uh. Alabama. Montgomery.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NS}
911:  Hmm. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about the the biggest city? The steal making city?
911:  In Alabama?
Interviewer:  Starts with a B-. {NS}
911:  That's in Mississippi?
Interviewer:  What's that?
911:  Old Birmingham. Okay.
Interviewer:  What about the one on the gulf?
911:  In Alabama?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  It starts with a M-.
911:  With a M-. {NS}
Interviewer:  Do you hear of Mo-?
911:  Mo- Mobile?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {NS} And Richmond is in?
911:  Virginia. {NS}
Interviewer:  And the city after the mountains in North Carolina? {NS}
911:  You got me.
Interviewer:  #1 {X} #
911:  #2 {X} #
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  Raleigh
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Do you ever hear of Ash? Asheville or Asheville?
911:  Mm. What about? Probably have but I don't
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Don't remember.
Interviewer:  You've never been up in that section there?
911:  No.
Interviewer:  Some of the cities in Tennessee?
911:  {NS} Tennessee. {NS} Tennessee. {NS} I've never been there. {NW} Tennessee. {NW} I can't think of one. {NS} I can't. I'm drawing a blank.
Interviewer:  What about where the um the Grand Ole Opry is?
911:  Nashville okay.
Interviewer:  And Lookout Mountain?
911:  Chattanooga.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And in East Tennessee? The mountain? It starts with a K-. Do you ever hear of Knox-?
911:  Knoxville.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And where Martin Luther King was shot?
911:  Was that in Tennessee?
Interviewer:  It was in West Tennessee in the Delta.
911:  Mm.
Interviewer:  It starts with an M-
911:  I don't know.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of Mem-?
911:  Oh! Memphis. Okay. Yeah you just. I'm just drawing a blank here.
Interviewer:  What about some of the cities um in Georgia?
911:  In Georgia? Atlanta Savannah Macon. Uh.
Interviewer:  And the name of the person who supposed to have discovered America?
911:  Columbus.
Interviewer:  And a big city in Southern Ohio? {NS}
911:  Southern Ohio? Columbus Ohio.
Interviewer:  Another place. Do you watch baseball? It is where the Red S-
911:  Oh. Cincinnati. {NS}
Interviewer:  And some of the cities in Louisiana? {NS}
911:  Uh Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Houma.
Interviewer:  And?
911:  {NW}
Interviewer:  You say Belfast is in what country?
911:  Ireland.
Interviewer:  And Paris?
911:  France.
Interviewer:  And Moscow?
911:  Russia. {NS}
Interviewer:  And someone asks you to go with 'em some place and you're not sure you want to you'd say I don't know?
911:  If I want to go or not.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if you wanted someone to go with you you'd say well I won't go?
911:  Unless you do. {NS}
Interviewer:  And new people become members of a church you say they?
911:  Joined a church.
Interviewer:  And you go to church to pray to?
911:  God.
Interviewer:  And a preacher preaches a?
911:  Sermon. {NS}
Interviewer:  And the choir and the organist provide the?
911:  Music. {NS}
Interviewer:  And the enemy of God is called the?
911:  Devil. {NS}
Interviewer:  What other names for him?
911:  Satan. Satan Lucifer.
Interviewer:  What would you tell children was gonna come get 'em if they didn't behave?
911:  The devil.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear the boogerman?
911:  Oh yeah well the #1 boogerman. #
Interviewer:  #2 sandman #
911:  I don't think of the boogerman as the devil though.
Interviewer:  What do you think of? {NS}
911:  Oh that's just some unknown bad person you want to stay away from. {NW} {NW}
Interviewer:  What do people think they see around a graveyard at night?
911:  Ghosts. {NS}
Interviewer:  And a house that people are scared to go in?
911:  Haunted.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear any stories of haunted houses around here? {NS}
911:  Around here? I don't think so. Or there was one place what do they call that? House of blood. I don't know there's an old house but I don't remember about it I bet {B} told you about it though.
Interviewer:  I don't think so. Is it? It's supposed to be around here? {NS}
911:  It's not anymore. I just heard a story one time and I don't remember even what. I don't even remember where it was or what was something supposed to happen. now it wasn't really a haunted deal it was something. {NS}
Interviewer:  Some murder? Or something. {NS}
911:  Something like that. I don't remember any details. I remember just one time somebody {X} or somebody telling me about that house. House of blood or something. I don't know.
Interviewer:  {NS}
911:  Sketch but I can't remember. {NS}
Interviewer:  You tell someone you better put a sweater on it's getting?
911:  Chilly.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you say well I'll go with you if you really want me to. But I?
911:  Rather not.
Interviewer:  And if you have not seen a good friend of yours in a long time what might you say when you saw 'em? You'd say I'm?
911:  Sure glad to see you again.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Do you ever use the word proud? I'm proud to see you.
911:  No. {NS}
Interviewer:  And if someone says something kinda shocking and you sort of resented them saying it you might say well the very? What of you saying that? The very?
911:  Well the expression is the very idea. Isn't it? {NS} I don't think I well I wouldn't probably say that. But that's the expression I think, isn't it?
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NS} And you say it wasn't just a little cold this morning it was? {NS}
911:  Pretty cold. Awful cold.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
911:  Awful cold {X}
Interviewer:  Say if a person was doing some work like maybe hammering something and hit his thumb what might somebody say? What exclamation?
911:  {NW} {NS} You don't want that on that tape do you?
Interviewer:  Just what what different exclamations would- would people around here probably use?
911:  God damn.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  That would probably be the first one to come out of me. {NS} Or holy smokes.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. {NS}
911:  They just not gonna come out. I don't know anybody that come out with stuff like oh my word or anything like that. It come out pretty strong.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What would you say if you were kinda something surprised you. What exclamation?
911:  Something surprised me? Probably the same thing as when I hit my hand with a hammer. Holy smokes probably. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about if you were kinda disgusted with yourself? You thought you'd done something stupid. What exclamations?
911:  You want that on that tape? {NW}
Interviewer:  {D: it is what?} What would you hear around here? {NS}
911:  Hmm. Oh shit probably.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NS}
911:  Or {NS} There again God damn it I guess.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And when a friend of yours says good morning what might you ask 'em then? {NW}
911:  How you doing?
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. What about when you are introduced to a stranger?
911:  I- I'm glad to meet you.
Interviewer:  And anything you'd ask 'em?
911:  Oh standard stuff I guess. {NS} The str- what you'd ask #1 the stranger? #
Interviewer:  #2 Yeah do you # ever say how?
911:  How do you do?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Do you say that much or?
911:  No I usually say well happy to meet you or glad to meet you.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Nice to know you.
Interviewer:  What would you say to someone around December twenty-fifth?
911:  Merry Christmas.
Interviewer:  And on the first of January?
911:  Happy New Year.
Interviewer:  Anything else people used to say? {NS}
911:  Hmm.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear Christmas gift? People say that to each other.
911:  Mm-mm {C:negative} {NS}
Interviewer:  And {NS} you say I have to go downtown to do some?
911:  Shopping.
Interviewer:  And say if you bought something and you say the store people took out a piece of paper and?
911:  Wrapped it.
Interviewer:  And when I got home I?
911:  Unwrapped it.
Interviewer:  And if you had to sell something for two dollars that you'd pay three dollars you'd be lessing it?
911:  At a profit.
Interviewer:  Or no you bought it for three dollars.
911:  Oh so at a loss.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if you like something but don't have enough money you'd say its? What too much?
911:  Costs too much.
Interviewer:  And on the first of the month your bill is? {NS}
911:  The first of the month the bill is due.
Interviewer:  And if you belong to a club you have to pay your?
911:  Dues.
Interviewer:  And if you don't have any money you could go to the bank and?
911:  Borrow some.
Interviewer:  And you say in the thirties money was?
911:  Tight.
Interviewer:  Or another wor-?
911:  Scarce.
Interviewer:  And some places if you buy something will pay your bill. Some storekeepers will give you little presents and say that its And call that what?
911:  They give you a present?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. Maybe a little extra.
911:  Hmm just a little I don't know. I know what your talking about. I don't know what they'd call it.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear of Lagniappe and pilon?
911:  Pilon yeah.
Interviewer:  What is that?
911:  Uh you go in the store you buy like for example let's say how much is that candy and they said two for a penny.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Give 'em a dime and they would give me ten of 'em. And he'd count 'em out and he'd throw one in and say here have one for pilon Just kinda it means kinda like extra or for just for nothing. Or something like that. {NS}
Interviewer:  And what does a baby do before its able to walk?
911:  Crawl.
Interviewer:  And if you were tired you'd say I think I'll go over to the couch and?
911:  Lie down.
Interviewer:  And you said he was really sick he couldn't even sit up. All morning he just? What in bed? {NS}
911:  Lied in bed. Laid in bed.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you'd say she walked up to the alter and? What down?
911:  Kneeled down.
Interviewer:  Hmm?
911:  Kneel down.
Interviewer:  And if you bring your foot down heavy on the floor you say you?
911:  Stomped your foot.
Interviewer:  And if you saw a friend of yours going someplace walking and you had your car you'd say can I?
911:  Give you a ride.
Interviewer:  Or can I what you home?
911:  Take you home.
Interviewer:  And to get something to come towards you you take hold of it and?
911:  Pull it.
Interviewer:  And the other way would be?
911:  Push it. {NS}
Interviewer:  And you'd say it was so cold last night that the pipe?
911:  Froze.
Interviewer:  And?
911:  Broke busted.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you say the pipe has already?
911:  Busted.
Interviewer:  Because the water has?
911:  Frozen.
Interviewer:  And {NW} if it gets very cold ice will?
911:  Break. {NS}
Interviewer:  Will?
911:  Bust.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Because the water will?
911:  Freeze.
Interviewer:  And {NS} You'd say um all night long the wind? {NS}
911:  Blew.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay and the wind has?
911:  Blown.
Interviewer:  And the wind started to?
911:  Blow.
Interviewer:  And the wind is from this direction you say it's? {NS}
911:  From the North.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay.
911:  What did I? Oh.
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  That's the East. Okay.
Interviewer:  When halfway between North and East you call {D:a}?
911:  Northeast.
Interviewer:  And between North and West?
911:  Northwest.
Interviewer:  And West and South?
911:  Southwest.
Interviewer:  And East and South?
911:  Southeast.
Interviewer:  And if the wind had been gentle and was gradually getting stronger you'd say it was?
911:  Picking up.
Interviewer:  What about just the opposite?
911:  Dying down.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And if you had a a sack of groceries and didn't have your car you'd say you picked it up and?
911:  Carried it home.
Interviewer:  Anything you'd say besides carried?
911:  No don't think so.
Interviewer:  Do you ever say toted or lugged or {D:packed}?
911:  No I might say lugged.
Interviewer:  #1 Uh-huh. #
911:  #2 {X} # I've heard tote but I've never used it. Might say lugged.
Interviewer:  Does lugged give you the idea that something is very heavy or clumsy?
911:  Well I'd say lugged. I would be more inclined to say lugged if it was a lot heavier say than a sack of groceries. Something really monstrous I'd say man I lugged this thing all the way home.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  With something small I'd just say carried it.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And you tell a child now that stove is hot so?
911:  Don't touch it.
Interviewer:  And if you needed a hammer you'd tell someone go?
911:  Bring me a hammer.
Interviewer:  And a game that children play where one child will be it and other children will hide?
911:  Hide and go seek.
Interviewer:  What do they call the tree that you touch and be safe?
911:  Base.
Interviewer:  And in football you run toward the?
911:  Goal-line.
Interviewer:  And {NS} You'd say um you'd say that he wasn't really going to hit his little brother but he he showed 'em his fist and he what he was gonna hit 'em?
911:  Acted like he was going to.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And say if we were planning to meet in town. I'd say well there's no need to hurry if I get there first I'll?
911:  Wait for you.
Interviewer:  And if you were about to punish a child he might ask you not to punish him just give me one more?
911:  Chance.
Interviewer:  And someone always catches onto a joke. You'd say he's got a good sense of?
911:  Humor.
Interviewer:  And if you have say you've got termites you'd say well I'm sure the exterminating company will? Will get?
911:  Get rid of 'em.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear people say {D:shed} of 'em?
911:  Mm-hmm. I've heard it. Don't use it, but I've heard it.
Interviewer:  It's sort of a?
911:  Hmm. I think it's I don't know if I'd still use it or not. I don't use it much around here.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Maybe more another part of the country.
Interviewer:  Is that kinda like a {D: nerry}? {X}
911:  Yeah probably so.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  {D: Nerry want to get shed of 'em}
Interviewer:  And say a child left her pencil on the desk and came back and didn't find it there. She'd say I bet somebody?
911:  Took it.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Anything else you'd say?
911:  Stole it.
Interviewer:  And if I ask you um. When are y'all going to Houston, you'd say well right now we're what to go next week?
911:  Set to go.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Do you ever say you're aiming to go or fixing to go?
911:  Mm. I usually just say fixing. {NS} I say that some.
Interviewer:  Does fixing mean in the future or does it mean sort of immediately?
911:  I'd be more inclined to say if somebody asked you were to ask me when are you going to the such and such of place now I say I'm fixing to go right now.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  {NS} Um. I don't think I'd particularly use it if I was going to tell you next month. I can't see myself saying I'm fixing to go next month.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  I might. It fits in alright.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Say a child learned something new. You wanted to know where she learned it. You'd say who?
911:  Taught you that.
Interviewer:  And You'd say I have just what him a letter?
911:  Written him a letter.
Interviewer:  And yesterday he?
911:  Wrote me a letter.
Interviewer:  And tomorrow?
911:  Write him another letter.
Interviewer:  And you'd say I wrote 'em in turn I was getting a?
911:  Letter. Reply.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you put the letter in the envelope and you take our your pen and you?
911:  Address it.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Any old-fashioned way of saying that?
911:  Post it.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear back it?
911:  Mm-mm {c:negative} Oh post it doesn't mean that. No.
Interviewer:  I was going to write him but I didn't know his?
911:  Address.
Interviewer:  And a child is always running and telling on other children you call him a?
911:  Tattle-tale.
Interviewer:  Would you use that word about a grown person?
911:  Nowadays?
Interviewer:  Or did you ever hear it used by a grown person?
911:  I don't think so. Usually kids.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  He's a tattle-tale. No, usually kids.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear the word pimp used to mean tattle-tale?
911:  No.
Interviewer:  Do you hear it in connection with prostitution or?
911:  Well yeah.
Interviewer:  Any other meaning? {NS}
911:  Mm no. Tell you an expression about that but you better not put it on that tape. {NW}
Interviewer:  What's that?
911:  {NS} What they say about {NS} two guys that will never make it in life. {NS} is a nervous gambler and a jealous pimp. {NS} {NW} You better take that off that tape {NS}
Interviewer:  {C: starts speaking but can't hear over coughing} {NW} brighten up your room for a party and you had a lot things growing out in your yard. You'd go out and? {NS}
911:  I don't I didn't- run back through again.
Interviewer:  If you wanted to brighten up your room. You had a lot
911:  Oh. Pick some flowers.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And something there's something bad you expected to happen. {NS} Like you'd been telling everyone it's gonna happen. Like someone is walking along a top of a fence and you expect 'em to fall off. And someone comes in and tells you he's fallen off. You'd say I just?
911:  Knew that was gonna happen.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And something that a child plays with, you'd call a?
911:  Toy.
Interviewer:  Any other name? {NS}
911:  I wouldn't. I would call it a toy.
Interviewer:  Do you ever hear play-pretty? {NS}
911:  Play-pretty. Mm I think so. Seems to me I've heard it. I don't remember exactly by whom or meaning what.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. You wouldn't use it yourself?
911:  Mm-mm {C:negative} {NS}
Interviewer:  Say um. You get someone a bracelet and you want to see how it looks on 'em. You'd say um why don't you?
911:  Try it on.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Or?
911:  Put it on.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. {NS} And you'd say you can't get through there cuz the highway department took their machines in. The road is all? {NS}
911:  Torn up.
Interviewer:  And {NS} You'd say we had to get up and start work before? {NS}
911:  Daylight.
Interviewer:  Or? Another way of
911:  #1 saying that? #
Interviewer:  #2 Break huh? # Before sun?
911:  Sun up.
Interviewer:  And we worked until?
911:  Dark.
Interviewer:  Or until su-?
911:  Dusk. Sun down.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you say this morning I saw the sun?
911:  Rise.
Interviewer:  And at six o'clock this morning the sun?
911:  Six o'clock this morning?
Interviewer:  Well seven o'clock maybe? The sun?
911:  Don't know. Sun- Ro- ro- rose. Okay I thought you were looking for sunset. Sun rose.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. {NS} And you'd say when I got outside the sun had already?
911:  Set.
Interviewer:  Or?
911:  Risen.
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  Risen.
Interviewer:  And if it's cold enough to kill the tomatoes and flowers you'd say last night we had a?
911:  Freeze.
Interviewer:  {NS} What if it's not as hard as that?
911:  Frost.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you'd say {NS} it was so cold last nigh that the lake? {NS}
911:  Froze.
Interviewer:  What if it just froze just around the edges just a thin ice. What would you say then? {C:background noise at end} {NS}
911:  I don't know. I've never been around a lake that did that. I really don't. I don't know what you'd say. Around the edges. {NS}
Interviewer:  How cold does it get here in the Winter?
911:  Huh. We get half a dozen days maybe ten days where it gets down to thirty-two or thirty. Stays in the forties most of the time. {NS}
Interviewer:  Say if um {NS} if I ask you how long your your family has lived in Brownsville. You'd say we've what lived here? We've?
911:  Always.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. {NS} And you'd say he moved here in nineteen sixty and he's lived here
911:  #1 ever #
Interviewer:  #2 ever? #
911:  since. {NS}
Interviewer:  And you say that wasn't an accident. He did that? {NS}
911:  On purpose. {NS}
Interviewer:  And you'd say she what him with a big knife?
911:  Stabbed him.
Interviewer:  And say a teacher goes into a classroom and sees a a picture on the blackboard. She'd ask who? {NS}
911:  Drew this. {NS}
Interviewer:  And if wanted to lift something heavy like a piece of machinery up to a roof you could use pulley blocks and a rope to? {NS}
911:  To lift it.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Or in other words?
911:  Raise it.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Do you ever say hoist it or hoist {C: pronunciation} it?
911:  Mm hoist maybe. {NS}
Interviewer:  You wouldn't use that much though? {NS}
911:  No. I don't think so. {NS}
Interviewer:  And talking about how tall rooms are. You'd say this room is about? {NS}
911:  Eight feet tall? {NS}
Interviewer:  And do you ever hear an old fashioned name for living room? {NS}
911:  Parlor.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. What do you think of a parlor? {X}
911:  {D:Stuff} in a room.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. {NS} Did you ever live in a house that had a parlor?
911:  Mm-mm {c:negative} {NS}
Interviewer:  And you'd say um today is is Tuesday so Monday was?
911:  Yesterday.
Interviewer:  And Wednesday is?
911:  Tomorrow.
Interviewer:  And someone came here on a Sunday Not last Sunday but a week earlier than that. You'd say he came here?
911:  Sunday before last.
Interviewer:  And if he was gonna leave not this Sunday but a week beyond that it would be? {NS}
911:  A week from Sunday.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Do you ever hear people say Sunday week?
911:  Mm-hmm Yeah I've said it before at times. Sunday week.
Interviewer:  That mean in the future?
911:  Yeah.
Interviewer:  And {NS} someone stays from the first to the fifteenth you'd say he stayed about?
911:  Two weeks. {NS}
Interviewer:  Any other name for that?
911:  No. The old days I imagine they said a fortnight.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  I don't. {NS}
Interviewer:  And if you wanted to know the time you'd ask somebody? {NS}
911:  What time is it?
Interviewer:  And you could look at your?
911:  Watch.
Interviewer:  And if it was midway between seven o'clock and eight o'clock? You'd say that it was? {NS}
911:  Seven thirty.
Interviewer:  Or another way of saying that?
911:  Half past seven.
Interviewer:  And just fifteen minutes later than that? You'd say that it was?
911:  Seven forty-five?
Interviewer:  Or?
911:  Quarter till eight. {NS}
Interviewer:  And you'd say? {NS} Nineteen seventy-three was last year, nineteen seventy-four is?
911:  This year.
Interviewer:  And if you have been doing something for a long time. You'd say I've been doing that for quite a?
911:  While.
Interviewer:  And a child has just had his third birthday. You'd say that he's?
911:  Three years old.
Interviewer:  And if something happened on this day last year. You'd say it happened exactly?
911:  One year ago.
Interviewer:  And now if you could start counting slowly. {NS}
911:  From one?
Interviewer:  Yeah.
911:  One. {NS} Two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you'd say the number after nineteen?
911:  Twenty.
Interviewer:  And after twenty-six?
911:  Twenty-seven.
Interviewer:  And twenty-nine?
911:  Thirty.
Interviewer:  Thirty-nine?
911:  Forty.
Interviewer:  Sixty-nine?
911:  Seventy.
Interviewer:  Ninety-nine?
911:  A hundred.
Interviewer:  Nine hundred ninety-nine?
911:  Thousand.
Interviewer:  And ten times one hundred thousand?
911:  A million.
Interviewer:  And if there are some people standing in line? {NS} There's eleven people that, the man the last man, is the eleventh man. The man at the head of the line is the?
911:  First.
Interviewer:  And behind him is the?
911:  Second.
Interviewer:  And keep going.
911:  Third fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth tenth.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And you say sometimes you feel that you get your good luck just a little at a time but your bad luck comes all?
911:  At once.
Interviewer:  {NS} And {NS} you'd say if you got twenty bushels to acre last year this year you got forty. You'd say this year's crop was exactly?
911:  Twice as good. {NS}
Interviewer:  And would you name the months of the year? {NS}
911:  January February March April May June July August {NS} September October November December.
Interviewer:  And the days of the week? {NS}
911:  Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Su- yeah. {NW}
Interviewer:  Is there another name for Saturday or Sunday? {NS}
911:  Weekend. {NS}
Interviewer:  What about the name sabbath? Do you ever?
911:  I never use it. {NS} I've heard it but I've never used it. For Sunday?
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  I never used it.
Interviewer:  Who who uses it?
911:  I don't know anybody that does. {NS}
Interviewer:  And you meet someone during the early part of the day. What do you say as a greeting?
911:  Good morning.
Interviewer:  How long does morning last? {NS}
911:  Mm twelve noon. {NS}
Interviewer:  And then you have?
911:  Good afternoon.
Interviewer:  And how long does the afternoon last? {NS}
911:  About six o'clock.
Interviewer:  And then you have?
911:  Good evening. {NS}
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. {NS} And if you were meeting someone at around eleven o'clock in the day would you say anything as you were leaving?
911:  See you later.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. Would you use the expression good day?
911:  I don't think so. I heard it but I never used it.
Interviewer:  What about if you were leaving someone's house after dark? {NS}
911:  Good night. {NS}
Interviewer:  And {NS} to find out the weather you look up at the sky and say I don't like the look of those black?
911:  Clouds.
Interviewer:  And on a day where the sun is shinning and you don't see any clouds? You call that a?
911:  Clear day.
Interviewer:  What about a just the opposite kind of day?
911:  Gloomy day.
Interviewer:  Huh?
911:  Cloudy day.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. And the clouds were getting thicker and thicker and you think it's going to rain in a little while You'd say the weather was? {NS}
911:  Mm building up.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. Do you ever say it's changing or
911:  #1 Oh I'd #
Interviewer:  #2 gathering #
911:  say changing yeah. Weather is changing.
Interviewer:  What do you mean changing?
911:  Well like you said there from sunny to overcast cloudy.
Interviewer:  What if it had been cloudy and the clouds pull away? You'd say it's finally going to?
911:  Clear up. {NS}
Interviewer:  And {NS} if no rain comes for weeks and weeks you say your having a?
911:  Drought.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. {NS} And a whole lot of wa- rain that is just suddenly comes down?
911:  Downpour.
Interviewer:  Any other names for that?
911:  Cloud burst.
Interviewer:  What if there is thunder and lightening in it?
911:  Mm. Thunderstorm.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And if it is not as heavy as a cloud burst or you'd call it a?
911:  Sprinkle.
Interviewer:  What else? {NS}
911:  Mm. {NS} I don't know.
Interviewer:  You'd say this morning we had a little?
911:  Rain.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh.
911:  Shower.
Interviewer:  What's the different between a shower and a sprinkle?
911:  Oh a shower is a little heavier maybe. Sprinkle to me is just drops.
Interviewer:  What about something that lasts a long time? {NS}
911:  Mm. {NS} Long. {NW} Um. That lasts a long time?
Interviewer:  Do you ever use the term drizzle?
911:  Mm around here we usually use yeah I use drizzle some or mist.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. What's the difference?
911:  Well around here we get this little fine stuff
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm.
911:  Not enough to wet anything just mess everything up. Just kind of hanging in the air. We usually call it well I'd call it mist. It's misting.
Interviewer:  What is a drizzle like?
911:  Little heavier.
Interviewer:  Mm-hmm. And if you get up in the morning and you can't see across the road. You call that a? {NS}
911:  A rain?
Interviewer:  Or not a rain but just
911:  Fog.
Interviewer:  Uh-huh. And a day like that you call a?
911:  Foggy day.
Interviewer:  Mm-kay. {NS}