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Example | Meaning |
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. |
The United States of America |
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. |
The United States of America |
An open portico or light roofed gallery extending along the front (and occas. other sides) of a dwelling or other building, freq. having a front of lattice-work, and erected chiefly as a protection or shelter from the sun or rain.
Example | Meaning |
Yeah by the time you got starting up the hill and get up the veranda, those last two or three steps up the veranda was pretty tough. |
An open portico or light roofed gallery extending along the front (and occas. other sides) of a dwelling or other building. |
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Example | Meaning |
... no (inc) pension. There wasn't anything at all. It-- you had-- if you- you had to do whatever you could. Anyway, and you-know, and you- I always worked for anything and when you had the truck up there and anybody wanted something drawed, for a little extra money, you done it. It didn't matter about what time it was when you got home. |
"you did it" |
Speaker: ... it goes about five miles east of Mount-Albert. I don't know how big it would be- they- but I figured they- about fifteen or eighteen, twenty mile across, you-know. Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Now, we done every road. And every road is a mile and a quarter, you-see, townships. You done it that way, and that way, and this way, and back. You went right around you-see, this mile and a quarter, that'd be ah five mile. |
"you did it" |