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Speaker: Well my parents- well, yeah, exactly. When my parents took us out of school for the week to take us on this vacation, so they figured they get some education in it a little bit and- yeah, it was really cool. I liked how- to see- like how their- their barbed wire fences wer-- were they just ah, break pieces of glass and then cement it on-top of the cement walls- Interviewer: Really? Speaker: So it was like broken pieces of glass sticking up. I thought that was really cool. |
A fence consisting of posts with strained horizontal wires, wire netting, or other wirework, between. |
Women's Liberation (The liberation of women from inferior social status and all forms of sexual discrimination; a movement with these aims.)
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Speaker: But I wouldn't have gone anyway because I don't- I guess I'm old fashion enough to believe that I don't think a man should have to travel around because his wife has a job somewhere. Interviewer: Hm. Speaker: I-guess I'm not women's-lib. Interviewer: Aw (laughs). |
Women's Liberation (The liberation of women from inferior social status and all forms of sexual discrimination; a movement with these aims.) |
To engage in trivial or unduly persistent conversation; to chatter.
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Speaker: I've kept you a long time !Interviewer: No! Speaker: Get- get yacking away (laughs) Interviewer: No, I going to say before, I've got ten hours of- of space on here. |
Casual talk |
A contrivance, used from ancient times, by which two animals, esp. oxen, are coupled together for drawing a plough or vehicle; usually consisting of a somewhat curved or hollowed piece of wood fitted with ‘bows’ or hoops at the ends which are passed round the animals’ necks, and having a ring or hook attached to the middle to which is fastened a chain or trace extending backward by which the plough or vehicle is drawn. Also A frame fitted to the neck and shoulders of a person for carrying a pair of pails, baskets, etc.
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You-know, I-mean the house that she lived in would have been very poorly insulated and I-mean, winters were very cold up here and she had to go and get water from- she had to haul water with a yoke at first and- |
A frame fitted to the neck and shoulders of a person for carrying a pair of pails, baskets, etc. |
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Oh, it was just one of those things. We went to Young-People's together and you-know, you'd have a party together and-that-sort-of-thing, you-know? |
A church group for teenagers. |
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And um, then I joined ah the young peoples of our church. And they were teenage and ah- and we had ah groups ah- we would go out to- we had a boat and we would go up the river in the boat some- it was a rowboat so it didn't go too far. |
A church group for teenagers. |
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Interviewer: Were you in any clubs or-anything in high-school? Speaker: Yeah I was in the Baptist-young-People's group and I was in the Drama-Club. Interviewer: The Drama-Club. |
A church group for teenagers. |
Pronoun
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Speaker: And um, there's still things that are still like, yous. Like you know that, yous are going to the- "What are yous doing this afternoon?" And I still- my kids, I hope don't use that anymore. Interviewer: (Laughs). Speaker: But I remember when I was a kid, it was the same thing like kids used it then and they still, I don't know if that something that drives me crazy when they- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Yeah, yeah, "What are yous doing?" I was like, "There's no yous." |
Pronoun |
| Example | Meaning |
Interviewer: Something that you like about the commun-- like I'm- we're both leaving for university in the fall. Speaker: Oh yeah? Interviewer: So what- what is it that would make us come back? Speaker: Would make yous come back? |
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| Example | Meaning |
The kids kind-of giggled and he turned around, he says, "Well, I made yous laugh anyway." You-know, like what else could he do? |
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