Interviewer: The bag you bring to school and put your books in, what do you call that? Speaker: Backpack. Interviewer: You call it a backpack? You don't call it a packsack? Speaker: No. Interviewer: Do you have friends who call it a packsack? Speaker: No, I have, ah, friends that call it a schoolbag. Interviewer: Okay. Anyone- no one calls it a packsack? Speaker: No.

Interviewer: Um I don't want to say the actual word because- because then I give it away. But- but the bag that I would bring to school every day i-- let's say elementary school, I'd hang at the back of the class. Speaker: Oh your school bag? Interviewer: Would you call it a school bag though? Speaker: Oh I see what you mean. Yes, our language is changing in that department. Luggage- Interviewer: Or- Speaker: Baggage, that-sort-of-thing.

Interviewer: ... did you ever notice that the kids call their bags something else? Packsack? Speaker: Ah no, see, okay, no, I- I still remember schoolbag being said. Packsack however when you take it out on adventure.

Interviewer: Right. But um, but later when- when bags was start being used, the bag you would put your school books in- well, the bag you would bring to school, what would you- what would you call that? Speaker: School bag. Interviewer: You would call it a school bag, okay. Speaker: Yeah. We call it a school bag.

Interviewer: I grew up calling it a packsack. I- and to this day I still call it a packsack. Speaker: A packsack yeah. Yeah. Interviewer: Right, um- Speaker: School bag, that's what we call it. Interviewer: So, did you hear packsack thrown around when you were- when you were younger or with your kids or- Speaker: Not with school bags but packsack was a common word with other things you-know, like if you were carrying- you were carrying something, say on your shoulders, it would be a packsack. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Or if you went out in the ah bush for something, it was a packsack.

Speaker: ... it was very difficult because (laughs) excuse the pun, but they get- lot of times they get tunnel vision. Okay? Interviewer: Right. Speaker: So, it's like following that vein, they know that they have a drill, they know they have a scoop tram and they know that they got to blast that- that rock, pick up that rock and take it to the overpass and get it to the mill. And they know that if I- if I drill, blast and haul, I get fourteen dollars an hour at bonus.

Okay. The- the South-east, the Midlands, Wales; who can understand that language? Scotch, Irish? The different counties?

Sure, there were your- there were minor scuffles here-and-there and so-on and so-forth.

Speaker: And he would- like we would do our own thing. I had my friends, he had his. He would do his own little she-- shenanigans over there I-don't-know. Interviewer: Okay.

Five- five-hundred people is huge. People are chucking skids, entire skids, onto the um onto the fire and ah other people put, like- did Jayden dance on one? ... like, the people are chucking skids on the fire and people are going, like, dancing on top of these skids in the middle of the fucking fire. And I- yeah, I got pretty- pretty drunk.

I know Jayden-Lee. I was walking around with him and talking for a bit and he's dancing on the fire at one point. And he's not getting burned. It was a huge bonfire, probably, like, you-know, like, big enough. Like- 'kay, think of piling, like, four skids side-by-side. So, must have been, like, you-know, eight-feet-by-eight-feet, this fire. ... And, like, you-know, thirteen-feet tall (laughs). And ah there's a skid on there, and Jayden's just standing on these fucking dancing around.

On mine- ah we were at Pete-Liskard's, we- there was like two fires going. Like a little shitty fire where everyone was just sitting around probably be like- I-don't-know, jerking to each other, I-don't-know. But anyways, there was another one far- farther away from the campsite where there was a larger one and like we were putting skids and- (inc) there's like all the people that I hung around with, with like- like- like Larry-LaSalle was there, Joe was there, Tyler was there, Riley, all them um- Carl-Giorgio, do you remember him? Carl-Giorgio.

I wait for him to come around and he came around the corner and I smoked him right in the head with my flashlight. Knocked him out cold. Handcuffed him and called the police.

Interviewer: Oh! 'Kay, let's say you're walking to school, right? And there's like a puddle but it's got some ice overtop of it and you think the ice can support you but you walk over it but you're foot goes right through and your foot sinks right into the water. You would say- Speaker: "I got a soaker."

Interviewer: Um okay 'cause my generation would say we got a soaker. That was- that was what we said. Speaker: Yeah. I hear my son say that too. Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah and even- Speaker: A soaker.

Speaker: What would I have got? A wet foot. Soaked. Interviewer: Soaked? 'Cause my generation, I know older generations as well, soaker was ah- was a- was a common term for that. Speaker: Yeah, if you got- Interviewer: Say I got a- "I've got a soaker." Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Do your generation have that? Speaker: What? Using the word soaker? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Well you- you said you got soaked.

Interviewer: Another one too there is, um- let's say that you were walking around town and you didn't see a puddle there and you accidentally stepped right into the puddle and- and- and water just completely seeped through your sock and your- your shoe and- and got your foot all wet, what would you say you got? Speaker: Oh, that one I know, the soaker.

Interviewer: Um okay so then what about this with- I- I know for sure, you'll know this one, but like you-know, let's say you'd be ah, in the school ground ah during recess and you accidentally stepped into a puddle and water just like seeped through your sock and shoe, you would say-? Speaker: I've got a soaker.

I think there probably could be because like, you're not familiar with the way- well again with the social networking, that's still true, but with the local slang like, someone in Iroquois-Falls could've made up, instead of 'soaker' it could have been something else, and then that could've spread out throughout the community, but half-way through it could've stopped and it turned into a 'soaker', again when it reach T-- near Timmins, 'cause like- just 'cause of the- since they're close it doesn't mean...

Interviewer: Okay, and another thing that's common here in Timmins too is if- if someone um, you know accidentally steps in a puddle and- and a lot of water gets into their sock and shoe and-stuff, what do you call that up here? Speaker: Well, we would call that a soaker.