Interviewer: What weekend just passed? Speaker: Victoria-Day. Oh, the May Run. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Yeah, the May Run, of-course.

Interviewer: Not like this- this- this weekend but last weekend. Speaker: Oh May Run? May-Two-Four? Interviewer: Yeah. Well they call it May-Two-Four right? And we call it May Run.

Interviewer: That was- what about the weekend that just passed? Speaker: The May- Interviewer: What you call that? Speaker: The May Run?

Yeah, it's true, like I- yeah, I talking to a guy today, he says ah- he says, "Yeah somebody wants to do something for the May-Two-Four weekend." I said "Davy!" I said "You grew up in Timmins here! What- it's not called the May-Two-Four weekend, it's called the May Run!"

Speaker: Now, I know different things, like the May Run. Well, perfect example 'cause it's the May Run. We call it the May-Two-Four- no- yeah, we call it the May-Two-Four, they call it the May Run or-something-like-that. Interviewer: We call it the May Run. Speaker: That's it, yeah sorry. We call it the May Run, they call it the May-Two-Four and just other stuff like that.

Oh absolutely I think, yup. Um our- our vernacular or colloquialism, little expressions that we use are definitely Northern-Ontario. Um 'cause I know from my experience of going to university there were things that we would say, little expressions that they had never heard of you-know like, May Run was roots?

Speaker: Yeah. So- so yeah definitely there is- there are language differences for sure. Um, in the little expressions we use- May Run was something else no one- Interviewer: Yeah, that's a big one too. Speaker: That was a big one, no one's ever heard of May Run.

Yeah. So- so yeah definitely there is- there are language differences for sure. Um, in the little expressions we use- May Run was something else no one- <4> Yeah, that's a big one too. <024> That was a big one, no one's ever heard of May Run.

Speaker: Yeah, yeah. I-- i-- it was just a holiday ah to me. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Yeah. And I was never a May Run guy, 'cause I'm not much of a bush person.

Speaker: Just the- the long holiday in May. I don't call it May Run. Interviewer: No? Speaker: No. Interviewer: People in Northern-Ontario would.

Interviewer: Yeah, that would be another Northern-Ontario- like what do we call the Victoria-Day weekend? Speaker: Ah well May Run.

Speaker: ...so true because people have- they call it different but it's all because of where we're from and what we're used to. Interviewer: Right. True. Speaker: So ah yeah, May Run. I had another one in my mind too that I- but I just- I just lost it.

Oh, we call it the May Run. They call it the– or the May two-four weekend or the May Run. And they called it– ah, what'd they call it, the ah Victoria-Day weekend? Yeah.

Speaker: Yeah, ah oh, okay. See where you're going, yeah. May Run. They don't- Interviewer: As opposed to? Speaker: Ah, Victoria-Day-Weekend

Interviewer: Okay, um what about the Victoria-Day weekend? Speaker: I've never heard that. Interviewer: It's in May. Speaker: May-run? Interviewer: Yeah (laughs)

Interviewer: Drinking weekend, right? So. Speaker: Oh yeah. Interviewer: They call it a May-two-four. Speaker: Yeah we say May Run here, yeah.

Interviewer: Um another one too is what's a popular expression for the Victoria-Day-Weekend here in Timmins? Speaker: May Run. Interviewer: Right.

Speaker: Is that right? Interviewer: That's what they call it down south. Speaker: No, here it's called May Run. The young people, not amongst ah- Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Not amongst the older people, like I'd never call it May Run. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: If- unless I was talking to somebody that would be interested in- or would be doing the May Run or a- Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Went to the May Run (laughs).

Well kids would call it- all kids would call it May Run because they go out and they go and have themselves a ball so it's a May Run

Interviewer: But it's interesting that you knew it as- as the twenty-four weekend or May-two-four whereas May Run is more common. Speaker: May Run came in after I grew up.