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someplace

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1880, OED Evaluation: dial. and U.S.

Somewhere; (at, in, to, etc.) a particular or unspecified place.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: What grade is that? Speaker: Um he's going in- yeah well he's going into ten ... So Sarah thought, "Well he better this year get into it." Because maybe next year he'll be working someplace so it's a good thing.
somewhere
... Ben says, you-know he said, "It's just a miracle." Said, "It must've been an angel on his shoulder someplace." That he wasn't killed. But he had his seat-belt on too so.
somewhere
ExampleMeaning
Um, and ah, we also really just want some place that's really clean. Doesn't have to be huge but- but new and clean. We saw some gross places. Gross student houses.
somewhere

somewheres

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1859, OED Evaluation: Dialectal

In or at some place unspecified, indeterminate, or unknown

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: He's kind-of interested in a girl anyway. Sarah says- and ah she says, "Well you're NOT going out there." Somewheres near Warsaw I think she lives. And ah the mother says, "No y-- you-" it's pretty strict so it's a good thing. Sarah she's- something might happen you-know. None of that stuff.
In or at some place unspecified, indeterminate, or unknown
Speaker: But you-know maybe when they change this highway sometime, with the- all these houses I don't know what they're going to do like you-know when they build all these houses up here. Interviewer: Oh yeah would it get busier you mean or- ? Speaker: Yeah or whether they'll change the- out- yeah somewheres I don't know where. Maybe they'll take the house and-everything and go right straight through here or-something.
In or at some place unspecified, indeterminate, or unknown

strap

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1710, OED Evaluation: N/A

as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: So did you ah- now did you change your parenting methods though compared to your parents or? Speaker: Yeah I- I guess. I didn't- used the hand a few times but didn't have the strap. There's a couple of- of children that needed to be tuned in.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
I-mean the- the things now its just so tight but I- I think that back then there was more discipline like family discipline than there is now. ... you-know my dad had a- a strap about so wide and so long and I had it a few times. I don't think it really did all that much damage so.
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.
ExampleMeaning
I 'member in- like when I went to Otomby-Valley-School, so that was about grade-six or so, but there was kids getting the strap but I never did. Yeah. Um but they'd take- they'd um have to go to the principal's office and then they'd say, "I got the strap." or-something. Yeah
as used for flogging. Hence, the application of the strap as an instrument of punishment.

such and such

Parf of speech: Pronoun, OED Year: 1551, OED Evaluation: N/A

Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.

ExampleMeaning
Um, until recently he worked as a program supervisor. So when the government would implement new programs and policies and-whatever, he would be in charge of seeing where the money goes and that is being used to do such-and-such. Um, since then, the last couple of years, he's been a senior-policy-advisor. He works in Toronto.
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.

such and such

Parf of speech: Adjective, OED Year: 1551, OED Evaluation: N/A

Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.

ExampleMeaning
... I don't know whether you're county western or not but she's strictly Nashville, one of the top ones, and since she was coming to Watertown on such-and-such a date, so we got home and got thinking about it, and we got the phone number and-everything, so we phoned and we got tickets for it, and you-know I don't know how many years we were down there ...
Used to indicate or suggest a name, designation, number, or quantity, where the speaker or writer prefers or is obliged to substitute a general phrase for the specific term that would be required in a particular instance.

supper

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1300, OED Evaluation: N/A

The last meal of the day; (contextually) the time at which this is eaten, supper time. Also: the food eaten at such a meal. Often without article, demonstrative, possessive, or other modifier.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: You're getting hungry I bet. Interviewer: Yeah, yeah. Speaker: Ah yeah that's good, that's good. Because I didn't know what I was going to have for supper tonight, and I said to Roy, "Well I'm hungry." And so- and Roy says, "I am too. We're having a big meal tonight." (laughs)
The last meal of the day.
Speaker: Curse words and yeah. Especially the F-word it goes in every sentence it seems to me a lot of it. Interviewer: So that I a change I suppose. Speaker: Yeah it is to me. 'Cause I- when Roy- young Roy came home one da-- and right at the supper table he used it and I- and I just about died because I never heard it too much around, but nowadays it's just- it's part of the language.
The last meal of the day.
Interviewer: Yeah, no it was good talking to you too. Thanks Brenda. Speaker: Yeah yeah good. Yeah. Oh I just enjoyed it. It's fun. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Well you come on out I'm gonna see how the supper's coming.
The last meal of the day.
ExampleMeaning
My mom would- I'd usually go in with her for the ride to pick him up. After supper. Interviewer: So when you were- after supper. Speaker: Yeah yeah because he'd work 'til seven or eight so we'd go in and get him.
The last meal of the day.
ExampleMeaning
... they would often go to Peterborough and go out for supper, and I can't remember where we'd go. There wasn't a lot of places to eat in the forties I don't suppose. But anyway we'd go into Peterborough and go to the show.
The last meal of the day.
ExampleMeaning
... Kate was a big bike-rider and I was more of a book-reader so I didn't do a whole lot of stuff outside, but Kate was al- always outside and talking to neighbours and asking people their names and what they're having for supper, and that-sort-oh-thing.
The last meal of the day.
Well we usually get together with them for Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, we'll probably see them on Sunday because its Father's-Day. Ah we had them here for supper on Mother's-Day. Ah so the- the major things-like-that.
The last meal of the day.
ExampleMeaning
Um you-know somedays I barely have enough time to even talk to my dad on the phone to see what we're gonna do for supper 'cause it's just, you-know my two lines are going I'm getting two-hundred-and-fifty emails and it's just- it's overwhelming somedays.
The last meal of the day.
ExampleMeaning
Most time you spend time at the beach. So you pretty much wake up make a huge breakfast, go to the beach the whole day, so you wouldn't- pre-- pretty much skip lunch, you'd take snacks or-whatever, and then ah go back to your campsite for supper.
The last meal of the day.
So they'd come in and they- we'd sit at the beach all day and then they'd come back to our campsite for supper. Like they wouldn't come until probly lunch time and then they'd eat their lunch on the beach, and then go back to our place and then have um campfire. And then they'd leave.
The last meal of the day.