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?

Speaker: We may talk again. Interviewer: Yes we may. Speaker: Um, and if yous want to use my name you can.

Speaker: How long have yous been here? Interviewer: We've been here since Monday.

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?

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?"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Interviewer: How do you call chickens? Speaker: Yous can probably make a noise for that too. Interviewer: Yeah, do you remember it?

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

...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.

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).

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.

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.