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Well um one thing you hear a lot of people say is yous. "Yous guys gonna do this" or "yous guys gonna do that" and I- I kind-of cringe when I hear it. But you- you do hear that a lot. Ah one thing I used to hear is- like this is old Belleville people, and I- I'm not really old Belleville 'cause I just grew up here but people who- you-know generations you-know- I see my wife's here cleaning off the walk, that's nice. |
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Absolutely, absolutely. My little grandsons are- are ah yes. Yeah. But I know I- like I keep saying to my kids. I know it's down the road for yous. 'Cause like Holly has the three now that are- you can almost say they're tweens right. They're border line of- of teenagers and ah you get a lot of attitude starting from them, I'm like, "Oh boy yous don't know what you're in for." And like I say, it's probably even worse now-a-days 'cause there's a lot more to get into. |
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Speaker: When I had Jordan here on the weekend she's like ah, "Who do you like having the most, Nanny?" I'm like, "Jordan yous are all my grandchildren" Interviewer: That's a dangerous question. Speaker: "And I can't like one more than the other." And "I know but who do you like having the most?" So I said, "Baby Henry." Like the bab-- the newest baby I thought, "I'm safe saying that because who could deny me having the baby right, whom I do love." I do- the younger they are the better I like them. As they get older it's like, "Okay yous need to be in school full-time." |
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That was another reason I wanted to come back, to be closer to my family because my sister lives here in Lindsay too and my parents weren't too far away like in Minden like and they- yous come down here at that time like and-that. |
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...you always tend to get a whole lot of "yous"s and ah "ain't"s and ah sometimes we describe ah ah the local twang as sounding like you've got marbles in your mouth, um- and I've just got a cold by-the-way. |
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And the waitress comes up and says “Can I ah can I get you something? Would you- woul-- would you- would yous like something?” And it’s more often than that in a restaurant. What would yous- yous like. And I’m not sure where that comes from. I’m not sure where that originates, how that happened. Whether that’s how that was introduced. |
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Oh the old guy- the old James- James his name- can't think of (inc) James, he says "Oh yous guys (inc) you getting your transfer and everything eh? Yeah," and then he looks at us, he says "You stupid bastards." |
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We had a car. Well he had a little car, he works on there. So he say "What- what yous guys going to (inc)?" "Hundred and forty Bingingham-street." "Okay," he says "I'll take you there no worries." So we we threw our stuff in his trunk of his car and he- well you know you live in Toronto eh? |
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Watch out. Okay, so anyhow it was funny how we went- the first year we went to Croatia, when I was there with my dad and my sister, what was neat is we went to Croatia and they were excited to see us, "Oh we're going to have- we're going to make some lunch for yous!" A little late lunch, like two o-clock in the afternoon. And they were on the farming-type environment. |
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...he got to use the car. He'd got to sleep over where ever he wanted, he had friends over there all the time and- and when I question my dad about this, all he said was "I raised the three of yous. Now I don't care no more." |
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Um, my grandmother, who's now gone, um had little jobs. She was a single mother of three, actually I think one of yous interviewed my aunt Dora. |
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Speaker: And um, there's still things that are still like, yous. Like you know that, yous are going to the- "What are yous doing this afternoon?" And I still- my kids, I hope don't use that anymore. Interviewer: (Laughs). Speaker: But I remember when I was a kid, it was the same thing like kids used it then and they still, I don't know if that something that drives me crazy when they- Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: Yeah, yeah, "What are yous doing?" I was like, "There's no yous." |
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...I just pretty much watch T-V 'cause really there's nothing else going on. And I'm sure even for yous guys, like aside from, you-know, hanging out with your friends, there's nothing. Like you-know, there's no street dances or... |
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Speaker: Hippies never cut their hair (laughs). So, the barber didn't like it at all 'cause yous guys never went to the barber shop, eh? And that suppressed it, ah, like even in Kirkland-Lake today, I-don't-know, maybe there's traditional barber shops. There's only what? Two- two or three... |
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So we were just sitting, and this other guy comes. He says, "Ah, yous wouldn't have a cigarette, eh?" I says, "You know what, we just gave it to that guy." He says, "Ah, to him, he's so miserable!" And I said, "I gave him two dollars, too." "Oh," he says, "I could have used that." But he says, "That's okay. That's okay." |
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Interviewer: Something that you like about the commun-- like I'm- we're both leaving for university in the fall. Speaker: Oh yeah? Interviewer: So what- what is it that would make us come back? Speaker: Would make yous come back? |
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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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