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Speaker: Oh yeah, when I went on to grade thirteen. You know how I got into grade thirteen? I didn't have Latin. The principal of the high-school here wrote to the department of education and said, "Look this guy's graduate from techno- technical-school. Can we apply all those technical-school subjects in place of the Latin requirement for grade thirteen?" And they said, "Yes." Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: That's how I went on to grade thirteen. |
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long). |
The biggest thing that's wrong with this province, we went to- we followed the other provinces that we-- went to grade twelve and we followed the American system. That was under Mike- Mister-Mike-Harris. You know what they say, when you're a teacher, you don't um if ah you can't do anything, you become a teacher. If you don't understand anything, you become a teacher, okay? We switched. Grade thirteen in Canada was the equivalent of first-year university in the States. Christ, I heard that for so many years, it was unreal. Ah on top of that, on top of that, grade twelve. How old are you? You're not in grade twelve. |
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long). |
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... so they asked me to be in this play and I was Spike. So it was pretty cool. And a friend of mine, he was in grade-thirteen and he was cool guy, he was Fonzie 'cause Fonzie was cool. So from then everyone called me Spyke. And i-- i-- it's funny how it- it just stuck. |
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long). |
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Um Mister-Graham- great teacher, actually. I- I thought he was a great teacher, but he was ah pretty tough. Grade-nine and not so in grade-thirteen. He figured, "If you hadn't got it by now, you- (inc) nothing I can do for you." |
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long). |
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Interviewer: So then ah- when you got to- to high-school were things more lenient? Can you describe- were you allowed to go out- Speaker: Oh no, typical Italian, no I was not allowed to go out. No. And dances I was never allowed to go until grade-thirteen, I was allowed to go to that- that year. I was allowed to go to the dances. I was allowed to bring the car to school when I was in grade-thirteen. Um, other than that, no, I was kept in the background because I was a girl. |
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long). |
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Interviewer: Okay. Now so what- you said earlier that you originally were going to go into marine biology. What changed your mind? Speaker: Um let's see in grade thirteen I was sick a lot and I blew a lot of my grade thirteen credits so going off the Guelph wasn't going to happen. Interviewer: Ah, okay. Speaker: So I applied to one college and ah got in. 'Cause I was actually in the hospital when they were- are- you-know all your forms are due. |
A fifth year of secondary school, taken by students intending to apply for university (as opposed to students in vocational streams, whose secondary school programs are only four years long). |
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed.
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Speaker: And um my parents were both from Saskatchewan, and my mom came here to marry my dad. Interviewer: Okay. How about your grandparents? Speaker: Um my mother's father worked um in a granary elevator, and um my grandma was um a seamstress. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: And my dad's parents ah they worked um mostly in um and farmer (inc). |
A storehouse for grain after it is threshed. |
A raw, inexperienced person, esp. a novice in a trade.
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Then- then- then that's where they- well the wind was strong, shouldn't be up there and not picking up- (laughs) if you have a piece of plywood and it's pulling you, let it go. I don't know why ah- and he wasn't a greenhorn, like I mean he's been working, doing that stuff for quite a few years. He wasn't a young kid. He- you get some young kids they start they come on the job and nobody is- is telling them anything eh. |
An amateur |
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Interviewer: Green-horn is another mining term. Someone's who's fresh. Fresh at the mine is a green-horn. Speaker: Yeah, but a green- green-horn term comes from ah um rearing cattle. |
An amateur |
A channel or ravine worn in the earth by the action of water, esp. in a mountain or hill side.
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Speaker: We used to slide a lot there. That used to be a gr-- great big gully at one time. It's been all filled. Yeah. Interviewer: I was going to say, it was like- I'm thinking about it now. I'm like, "Where would you go sliding? I don't understand." Speaker: (laughs) Yeah, that used to be a gully. |
Ditch |
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... Max ah Max-Hemmings fucking on the ah- there's like this, you-know, merry-go-round thing? ... He's on there, he's fucking juiced. I'm like "That's the wrong place to lay if you're juiced-" ... Like a whole bunch of people were fucking hammered. Fuck- a lot of the- a lot of the n-- like people that I wouldn't expect to be hammered like nerds and shit were like all hammed and shit. And I'm like "Aw." |
Plastered; extremely drunk. |
An ignorant countryman; a silly fellow, booby.
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She says "You boys getting along pretty good eh? Making your way around pretty good." "Oh yeah." I says. We take the streetcar down and ah you-know. But we saw guys leaving would get a piece of paper. We looked (laughs) what's the paper for? You-know like two hicks? |
Person who lives in the country. Regarded as unintelligent. |
to steal high-grade ore
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A high grader is a guy who takes the high grade gold out of the mines and there used to be a quite a- quite a business. |
Used to be known as stealing gold back in the day |
(From high-grade, v.) To steal (ore, esp. high-grade gold ore) from a mine. Hence more widely (U.S. slang): to steal, pilfer.
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Interviewer: 'Cause packsack, but packsack is a Northern-Ontario slang- Speaker: Is it really? Interviewer: Word, yeah. Speaker: Yeah, so is a high grader. Interviewer: Even- even what? Speaker: High grader? Interviewer: What's that? Speaker: You don't know what a high grader is? Interviewer: I've probably heard it, but. Speaker: You've got to be kidding! That is true Northern-Ontario. Interviewer: What's a high grader? Speaker: A high grader is a guy who takes the high grade gold out of the mines and there used to be a quite a- quite a business. Interviewer: Oh they steal it! Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah, okay. No I know what that is. |
Someone who steals high-grade ore from a mine. |
Interviewer: Yeah, okay. No I know what that is. I've- Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Okay I don't know the word I'm word I'm sorry. Speaker: Yeah. And the O-P-P had their high grade squad. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: But you ask somebody from Nova-Soctia what a high grader is and they haven't- they don't. |
Someone who steals high-grade ore from a mine. |
Assuming, haughty, petulant, huffy.
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So we had ah Caribbean talking ah bartenders and whatever other staff that was there. Other than that they were all white, like from Switzerland and-so-on. They were very hoity-toity. |
Snobbish |
used as an oath or expletive
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Something that pops in my mind just holy-mackerel. |
used as an oath or expletive |
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment.
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Speaker: Yep. You can't- you can't wear ah bandanas near Le-Bop or Le-Bistro either. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: 'Cause the gang-rate is very, very high. There, you can't wear a hood, a hoodie, and you can't wear any, like, insignia or anything like that. 'Cause one ti-- 'cause, like, as guide, as exec members, we have hoodies, right? And sometimes you just put your hood up. And we were walking in and they were like- basically, the bouncers grabbed us all and pushed us aside and was like, "Show us your I-D! What gang are you part of? Du-du-du-du-du!" |
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment. |
Speaker: "We're on contract, we're not drinking, we have no alcohol, we have no guns, we have no knives, we have no this." Like, we're going through the list of- to try to ma-- they're like, "The only way we're letting you in is to take your hoodie off." Okay. Interviewer: (inc) safer right, yeah. Yeah. Speaker: Well, it's because they've had instances with gangs in that area, 'cause there's so many ah so many, you-know. There's- i-- it's riddled with youth-gangs. I'm being sarcastic (laughs) |
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment. |
Interviewer: The slang terms in Northern-Ontario compared to Southern-Ontario. Speaker: Um the backpack-packsack thing? (laughs). Interviewer: It's (inc). Speaker: Yeah. Well, I noticed hoodie and sweatshirt. Some people were confused by that. I don't know if everyone would be, but I think some people were. Um. Interviewer: What about camp versus cottage? |
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment. |