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the States

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

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Speaker: ... they was bawling and (inc) the devil (inc) going on, and I said to them, "Well, you just stick the phone in the ground. It'll just reverse the charges, you-see." Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: 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. Then their brother, he'd been a counsellor up here the year before, and ah she- they'd already got him on the phone. He talked to them.
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And ah (inc) right there, she said, "Ah would you drive us home? We've got the money to pay you right now. (inc) if ah we can't phone home (inc)." I don't need to drive them right down to the States.
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Speaker: Like you- you hear something and news travels so fast like- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Something- i-- everything always gets around. I-don't-know I think travelling, like I was thinking about going to a school in the States or doing an exchange program um, even- even a different province, you-know- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Just- just to get that sense of- Interviewer: A new feeling? Speaker: Yeah.
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Interviewer: That's awesome. Wait so, what are some of the better coin machines that you've seen? Speaker: Um, right now, usually they would run, like- I went to the States in, every year like, when I go to, like, Buffalo or Niagara-Falls. Now the cool thing in Niagara-Falls I don't know have you gone to Niagara-Falls lately?
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Interviewer: Where'd you guys used to go to? Speaker: Okay. Um, the farthest place I think, my dad drove. 'Cause I guess tickets were expensive. We drove to- once, I remember when I- talking in the States, and then, I think I (inc) Canada where we drove. The States we drove down to Boston, and then went to Las Vegas we drove down there. And we drove back up. To Buffalo, and then to Montreal, and then Ottawa and then go home.
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Speaker: Yeah the- the on-- the only thing that's um, challenging to work... um, with math at home when my dad's give- helping me, is he was um, raised using the imperial system of inches, yards. Which is something that I naturally use anyway. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: 'Cause I'm from the States. But- so that makes it harder.
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There is a New Sweden, but I'm not sure if it's in New Brunswick or if it's like just in Maine, just south. She's about ah, maybe half an hour, fourty-five minutes from the States, from Maine. So they're- they're about- Moncton and where she's from is probably three of four hours apart, but she w-- she went to school in Fredericton, and then she moved.
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... by that point I had finished my masters so I thought, "P-H-D" and I thought, "Why not complete the three degrees anyway?" and I wanted to do a P-H-D so um basically I would have gone to the States if I had a more favorable response from them. I emailed some profs there.
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I like the States cause people are more...fucked-up, like they 're- they're much more like, out there.
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... and a month later I heard from someone ah that she's moving to The-States. She fell in love with one of her classmates. She's moving to Oregon um. Just weird scene.
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Like I-don-'t- know, I'm just thinking 'cause like when I think of stuff as far like music and culture or like ah like trends and-stuff-like-that, I always think of like I-don-'t-know the- States and L-A and New-York and-stuff-like-that. And it's like that where you-know how like bands go over there to get like famous and-stuff-like-that?
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Something that's popular in, in Hong-Kong will be popular in like London will be popular in the-States. Like it 'll- ... Like it 'll just- maybe not at the same time but everybody like kind-of influences each other?
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Interviewer: Yeah. But that's what I think is so true what you say of like how America's and pop-culture-America is so influential right? You-know-what-I- mean? Like how Speaker: Yeah. Yeah but then it's weird 'cause when you think of The-States versus like Canada as far as to multiculturalism and-stuff-like-that it's like they kin- - states c--tr--they- they tend to keep stuff separate, I-don-'t-know like it just like seems like a different, a different thing going on there ...
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... like so after my four years of University, I 'll go into law-school and uh, and then yeah- I hope to into Columbia law-school, but I 'll move to the States for that. And uh yeah, continue working in the States as well.
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Speaker: I like Florida. Not to live in. I-don-t-know I don't think I could live in the States it's different. Interviewer: What do you notice the big d-- what are the big- what are the biggest differences that you notice? Speaker: Um people in America aren't exactly friendly. Like no one will really go out of their way to I-don-t-know say, "Hi," I guess.
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Well the fact that we had them is the fact that they just- they didn't decide to help the States or else our boys would be there now in Iraq. Yeah.
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Interviewer: Yeah, where have you guys been? Speaker: Um, we 've been to um, the States. Interviewer: Where? Speaker: Washington, New-York, um we drove to um Quebec-City and Montreal for a few days. Yeah, so that- it was pretty fun.
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Speaker: ... the orchestras used to come to Toronto. They'd come to the Palais-Royale, they'd come to the bigger places. Um, can't think of any of them. Interviewer: Were they like, local groups, or would they tour around from the States and stuff or-? Speaker: Once-in-a-while you'd get big bands from the States. You'd get um- I'm trying to think of their names.
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Speaker: No we didn't see too- there weren't that many black people. ... But um, to- but it wasn't 'til they started to come from the States and from Ireland, from the islands- mostly the islands. Interviewer: And that happened in the fifties? Speaker: Well, forties, fifties, I'm not too sure about that.
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... no, I don't think Can-- Can-- a lot of Canadians went to the States to work because they 're- the pay seemed to be better there, and as I told you they went- you had to go to England to, to for, to be a nurse sometimes you'd get a certificate there or um for university ...
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