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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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Speaker: We may talk again. Interviewer: Yes we may. Speaker: Um, and if yous want to use my name you can. |
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Speaker: How long have yous been here? Interviewer: We've been here since Monday. |
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I-don't-know, I- I- I think it's got to do with education more so than language, but then again I guess education would dictate the language but- um- Rita was telling me that the word yous- you were- we were talking to Matthew about that? |
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Yeah but I- I- I been in the basement of the Royal-York in one of their restaurants and the waitresses come up to me and says, "Is there anything yous would like?" |
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Speaker 1: 'Cause she made sure we were good writ-- now Ron-Brown and I, we went- what was it for, it was something to do with- Speaker 2: Ah, s-- some kind-of course yous took together. |
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Speaker 1: Soon as you were of age, you were gone. Yeah. Speaker 2: And they let yous out early, 'cause you're farmers too. |
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Yeah. We went up to her party, Lachlan and I were invited. And it was full of people like her friends but she said "All I wanted to do was to get the two of yous together, I wanted to talk to Lachlan. |
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And they went to take off. And I says "Just a minute, you guys. This yard was clean when yous come in, clean it up now." The teacher said "Yes," she said "You can't do that. Pick it up. |
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And they were out in the field with it. And they were walking around and around in a circle. And I shouted at them. I said "Yous get that bull back into that barn. |
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Interviewer: How do you call chickens? Speaker: Yous can probably make a noise for that too. Interviewer: Yeah, do you remember it? |
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Oh yeah, yeah. And I can remember- (laughs) I can remember this when I- maybe it was one of you girls or some of yous anyway. And they- they took grandma's recipe and they took it home and made it and- and ah, it was all- main wrote out I thought they- all- everything they needed and the phone rang |
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...I'd get home maybe one-o'clock in the morning and I was up to have you kids breakfast and-everything ready for yous to go to school and- so- so I could sleep. |
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Well I can see the sun and the moon just as well I-think as any of yous. But I can't see that paper lying there. I can see the paper but I can't see the (inc) (coughs). |
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Interviewer: Did you also not have the refrigeration in- Speaker 1: No. No. Speaker 2: No. No. Speaker 1: But we did- we had an icehouse, which yous probably had- Speaker 2: No. Speaker 1: Although I can't remember- (Speaker 3) No. Never did. Speaker 2: Never had an icehouse, never. |
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Speaker: The way you learned to speak. Um when I remember- Mom and Aunt-Jill used to say "yous". Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: A plural for you. |
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