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someplace

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1880, OED Evaluation: dial. and U.S.

Somewhere; (at, in, to, etc.) a particular or unspecified place.

ExampleMeaning
Well, you- you work one place in the summertime and then, you had- it slackened off and you'd have to go whereever some place was busy. They wanted men there. They'd just give you a track for (inc) days.
somewhere
I'll be working up some place or another you-know, and they- oh- "I worked with your two boys," you-know. (laughs)
somewhere
Come in in the morning about eight o'clock, you-see. And come in about eight o'clock at night. I was home at night all the time, unless I was away some place.
somewhere
So, we went over there and I said to the girl, I said, "We're working up here and we're going to be here for about a week or so and we want some place to stay." And you-see, it wasn't in the tourist time. And I said, "We're not- we're- you-know, we're not millionaires, we're just workers." And I said "We want a place to stay if you've got room for us here."
somewhere
We- we never stopped, just drove right on by and we was c-- the other taxi, I guess they had ah must have been stopped there some place, because they were just ahead of us, we had just caught up them ah a while ago and yeah.
somewhere
... I said to them, "Well, you just stick the phone in the ground. It'll just reverse the charges, you-see." ... It'll phone away down into the States some place. So they phoned down into the States and talked to their mother for a while.
somewhere
he's ah working for the League-of-Nations or-something over there. ... Ah, yeah, over and ah- they were in Jerusalem for a while, but she got this job with the League-of-Nations down there someplace or something like that. And she's working at that and gets three hundred dollars a week.
somewhere
And ah I ha-- she gave me four sandwiches, and that was eight slices of bread. And ah (coughs) the moose-meat was just the same size as a sandwich; it was cut about that thick. And that was when (inc) got a moose up near the park someplace.
somewhere

strap

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1710, OED Evaluation: N/A

as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.

ExampleMeaning
... she said, "Mike, stand up!" She said, "What are you doing?' He said, "I am rolling boulders, up the aisle." She said, "You stay after four." Now whether she gave him the strap, whether she just lectured him sternly, or what happened, but Mike never come back to school.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.

such and such

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1551, OED Evaluation: N/A

Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Oh is that right. So what was it like to have Roda as a teacher? Speaker: You sat down and behaved yourself, because she would just turn around and look at you. And she would say, calling you by name, "Did you do such-and-such a thing?" And of-course you sat there terrified (laughs). And Roda's ah- we're all bigger than Roda.
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.

supper

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1300, OED Evaluation: N/A

The last meal of the day; (contextually) the time at which this is eaten, supper time. Also: the food eaten at such a meal. Often without article, demonstrative, possessive, or other modifier.

ExampleMeaning
You'd dance the first set with the fella you went with and-that and then you never saw him 'til supper-time!
The last meal of the day.
Speaker: (inc) be having cakes for supper tomorrow night. Interviewer: Oh lovely!
The last meal of the day.
ExampleMeaning
You-know, when you're driving a truck sitting down there all day, and when you come through here and get your supper at night, you're just want to go lay on the couch. Well, I never did that. Well, (inc) had a garden down here. And if you go down there and hoe in the garden for a half an hour, you're not a bit tired.
The last meal of the day.

the States

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

N/A

ExampleMeaning
I (inc) you get sweet onions down in the-States. Some kind of sweet-onions and he says they're- you could just- a-- eat them like an apple. (inc)
The United States of America
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So you travelled about quite a bit then? Speaker: Well r-- down there we went from ah- that was a- it was awful busy down there, and we went av-- leave with- that's across the river from Quebec-City, and then down into the States we run down there, and ah- oh I was on the passenger train into Quebec-City for about, I-think, fourteen days one time.
The United States of America
And you-see, all them trucks, coming up at Windsor, they come up through Delhi. It's an awful lot shorter up through Canada than going- from the States- then going around ah, other ways. Around that lake.
The United States of America
And it- it's a lot shorter coming out- out through that way back into the States at Niagara than it is going around the other way. And all the traffic comes through- round through there, you-see. And there's an awful lot of traffic on that highway.
The United States of America
And built a w-- a box about six-feet long, and about that square, all wrapped, you-see. And it came from the States. And then he opened it there, he would just open the m-- (inc) you-see. And it won't- would not open on him. And it was all coons, you-see.
The United States of America
Now there was a coon come in there, and ah shipped over from the States, you-know. And ah it was an awful size, you-know. And ah everybody w-- I seen (inc) over on television. It weighed forty- it weighed over forty-some pound (inc). And the subject (inc) it came from the States, you-see. It's next to (inc). And ah they sent it- it brought a hundred-and-eighty dollars or-something. And they said to (inc), "Ah turn on the television." Order came from the States, ah you-see and it was ah the winter over there (inc) milder than here, you-see, and I guess it had lost teeth and got to be great big.
The United States of America
See, that was about here- about six-hundred. And there was kids there from everywh-- Vancouver and Toronto and way over in the States and Montreal and ah- oh, ah some from New-York, and all the other countries. ... When- (inc) I think, had two down here and ah ah over in the States, you-know, there was an awful lot from there.
The United States of America