DARE Interview : Prescott, Arizona; Primary Informant AZ001

Fieldworker

Grossinger, Richard

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• AZ001: White; female; age: 68 (old); education: grade school; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Full Interview 1 (Tape 0070-S1).
• Content:
• 00:20 Describes granddaughter, Fieldworker continually asks for phrases for things
• 05:00 Her filling station business developing into a laundromat
• 07:20 Father's interaction with Indians
• 09:45 Terms for trust, perfection
• 12:55 Rules to games—tick-tack-toe, statues, why she can't read
• 14:50 "Genius" to "blew his lid"
• 18:10 Son inheriting laundry business
• 19:40 Terms for argument
• 22:05 Local kids playing with their cars
• 24:25 Crime
• 27:05 Heat so bad her thermometer burst
• 29:25 From "busy work" to "cunning as a fox"
• 32:00 Tape end
• Full Interview 2 (Tape 0070-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Recording father's voice, offers to let Fieldworker copy the tape. Phrases from "stirred up" to "we've got a head start"
• 05:00 Indolent uncles and terms for ways to work
• 08:20 Granddaughter's pet duck, car accident, negative expressions
• 13:45 Decayed neighborhoods, words for shoddy work
• 18:15 "Bacon, beans, burros, and baling wire" made Arizona what it is, growing apples
• 20:55 Phrases for largeness
• 24:25 Phrases for amounts
• 27:20 From "hide or hair of him" to "all directions"
• 31:40 Tape end
• Full Interview 3 (Tape 0071-S1).
• Content:
• 00:05 Phrases from "to the end of the world" to "hindside in front"
• 06:35 Schools in area, phrases of locations
• 11:10 More phrases for location and direction
• 14:05 Layout of town, location phrases and extremes
• 18:20 Intensifier phrases
• 21:10 Greetings, annoyance
• 22:40 Exclamations
• 26:40 Substitutes for profanity
• 29:50 Informant questions point of survey
• 31:00 Tape end
• Full Interview 4 (Tape 0071-S2).
• Content:
• 00:05 Gossip in town, hunting, rattlesnakes
• 02:45 Fieldworker asks about marble games
• 03:15 Tape end