A little or young thing
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Not too much, unless you- Maybe, ah, a few candies and an orange and ah, um, maybe a new pencil or a balloon or um- possibly a little wee gift, you know, that ah would be something like a um, a clip that you 'd put on your- on your, ah, lapel or something- like-that- You-know that-that had a little saying on it. |
Small, little |
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There wasn 't that, and we would be lined up- lined up and then they- they put that skyline in. Well, you used to have to have tokens and pay, like, pay like, little- little wee small little tokens. Like it wouldn-- maybe ten cents or something. Wasn 't expensive. Not the way you pay- pay for in The-States you-know. |
Small, little |
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And the Plymouth had just a little wee dent, 'cause in those days, they made them darn solid. I mean, there was a lot of steel in them. And yeah, he hit- the whole fender came off his car. |
Small, little |
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Yeah, that 's- that 's what happened. 'Cause I mean the- the river 'cause- that little itty-bitty dribble that you see underneath Hogg 's-Hollow and around that area, that little wee dribble, the um old York-Mills bridge, which you can s-- you can see if you go across, is still there. |
Small, little |
Yeah, yeah. That used to be the fashion, there were a lot of cabins and stuff you could rent, yeah. We went up to Bert-River which is- well it 's a town, it 's a wee little town. |
Small, little |
N/A
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... they went up in the lifeguard- tower. And they did it just because they could. And then we went across and we built a little bonfire, was it? Interviewer: Yeah. And made a weenie-roast. Speaker: We had a weenie-roast. And again, just 'cause you could. Interviewer 2: Yeah, just 'cause you could. And I mean, you could see the stars for once. |
A barbecue at which wieners are cooked and served. |
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position?
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Interviewer: I always find that- I'm not from Toronto I'm from B-C, and if this weather were already there in B-C, it would be there to stay, but kind-of have to expect the worst here, don't you? Speaker: Whereabouts in B-C you come from? Interviewer: Vancouver-Island. Speaker: Oh okay, 'cause my friend's sister's down from Vancouver Interviewer: Oh okay. |
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position? |
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Interviewer: And does your Dad still live in Orillia? Speaker: He lives outside Orillia now, he's remarried and he has two kids um... whereabouts? Literally just outside Barrie. |
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position? |
Speaker: So whereabouts do you live in Victoria? Interviewer: In Nanaimo actually; it's North of Victoria. Speaker: Oh Nanaimo? Yeah, I know Nanaimo. It's awesome. |
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position? |
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... I see her on the path and I'm like "Susy!", that's her- that was her name. And I'm like "Susy!." She's like "Hey!." I'm like "So whereabouts in College do you live?" And she's like "Oh I live on Clinton." I'm like "No way, I live on Bathurst. I used to go to Harbord Collegiate." And she's like "Oh wow, well maybe I'll see you around some time." |
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position? |
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Interviewer: ... about that Queen-Street area, have you been to Jeff-Healey's club? Speaker: No, I keep hearing about it- Interviewer: yeah Speaker: I love Jeff-Healey. I love his music. Interviewer: He plays there every Thursday. So you- no matter what, you can see him. Speaker: Now that's what people say. Yeah, whereabouts is he on Queen-West? Interviewer: He's right at Queen-and-Bathurst. Speaker: Right at Queen-and-Bathurst. Interviewer: Yeah, it's the- Speaker: 'Cause I know where the Black-Bull is. That's a couple over. Interviewer: Southwest corner. |
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position? |
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Interviewer: It's a week and they go crazy. They just go drunk for a week. Speaker: Yeah. Speaker 2: That's cool. Speaker: It's carnival. Interviewer: Yeah. It's- it's like- yeah, it's like Mardi-Gras but German dress-up. Speaker: Yeah. Whereabouts in Germany? Interviewer: My dad's from Ulm. Speaker: Where 's that? Interviewer: South-central-Germany. |
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position? |
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And ah one of the members of the band was going out with a girl and ah so we got talking and ah I said, "Oh, are you from Toronto?" She said, "Yeah. I live in Toronto." I said "Well, whereabouts do you live?" And she said, "Oh, the High-Park area." And I said "Oh, I used to live in the High-Park area." And I said, "What street did you live on?" She says, "Quebec. You know where Quebec-Avenue is?" |
About where? in or near what place, part, situation, or position? |
To adapt or prepare (something) for operation or use in cold weather.
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Most of the people only came down in the summer. I think some of them did winterize it a bit and stayed through- through the year. And then in the thirties, somewhere in the thirties, the city said, "We 're- we 're going to make it a park." |
Prepared for winter |
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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Interviewer: Interesting there's that perception. I mean is that true of the larger business world? Like, is there men's jobs, women's jobs-? Speaker: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Women's lib never happened, plus- but if you- again, if you go back and look at the skills, okay, they are- it's is- yes, there's a significant portion that's business skills, but a lot of it still is that nurturing, interpersonal, communicating ... |
Women's Liberation (The liberation of women from inferior social status and all forms of sexual discrimination; a movement with these aims.) |
Example | Meaning |
Probably relatively okay but it's very macho sort-of- so Tim would be a little more macho than one might wish he were and Linda's quite you-know, relatively you-know, women's-lib sort of thing and, anyway. I don't know if you got anymore questions to ask me? |
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: You-- you 're lucky my mouth is shut for t-- two months. That 's why I 'm yacking. Seriously. Interviewer: No, no, I wanna hear, I wanna hear. Speaker: I can 't believe my voice is still holding out. Um, so yeah ah- my craft is really coming along and um, I made a whole bunch of stuff and I did sell some stuff to friends |
Casual talk |
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When we were always- I always went to Sunday-School and later, Young-People's and sang in the choir. |
A church group for teenagers. |
Example | Meaning |
I don 't know. We were in the A-Y- that 's Anglican-Young-People's- that was the young people's group. |
A church group for teenagers. |
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Speaker: I think I didn 't- I certainly went to church and I went to young-peoples and I went- Interviewer: What 's young- peoples? Speaker: Oh young-peoples was the young people's group at church. So I went to church young-peoples. At first to church, I went to Sunday-school and I went to church- young-peoples and I- hmm, I went to the cottage in the summer. |
A church group for teenagers. |