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Parf of speech: Preposition, OED Year: 1175, OED Evaluation: Now arch. or vulgar. Cf. French pour, German um zu.

Before an inf., usually for to, (Sc. till), indicating the object of an action; = ‘in order (to)’.

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Oh, they were- I think they were mostly log-buildings, and um, they had what they called scoops or-something on the roof, I-don't-know, hollowed-out logs, for to- and they put the hollowed log down with the scoo-- ah the hollow up- and then they put another log over two of them, to close the- the space between.
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And then you'd have the neighbours in so many- oh, not- maybe eight, ten men or-something-like-that, less than threshing- and um, they carried the poles to the saw, and there were saw- and the wood was left like that, and then in the summertime, in spare time, it was split into smaller sticks for to put in the cook-stove.
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And then there was a poisonous, a kind of a felt-like there, and dark, and it had some kind of a liquid, and you put a little water and-that, and put it on the- on a plate, and put it around, and it poisoned flies, the flies would eat it and be poisoned. But then later on, however, farming, we had sprays for the barns and everything for to keep them down.
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Speaker: Now he came from a-way out ah- do you know where you go through the Turtle-Lake-Road to go on out to Rosseau? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Ah Rickford's-corner? Interviewer: Don't know exactly where that is but I know the road. Speaker: Ah, yeah. Well you just go on out along there and it comes out just- do you know where um Johnny-Jenkins lives out there? Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Well it comes out just this side of that. And that's where he came in from out there with a team of horses for to pick up the stuff at the- But how often now the trains run, every twenty minutes.
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Interviewer: And- but Buckhorn was pretty safe? Speaker: Yeah it wasn't too bad, it was- it was hard to get someone to come and pick you up for- for to do something but ah it wasn't ah- it wasn't made fun of.
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And I mean it's not uncommon to pay for to go see Aerosmith or-something to pay a hundred dollars for a ticket, so in- in Toronto.
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Speaker: I remember asking my mom for- like "Mom, can I borrow five-bucks for to go out tonight?" and her not knowing that, you-know, I could get- what- how much is an O-E of beer? Like that's- like a litre (laughs) Interviewer: It- Speaker: For three-dollars? Interviewer: It- it was less than six-bucks.
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Interviewer: Yeah. Um, what kind of food do you like to make? Speaker: Ah, I-think breakfast is probably one of my favourite meals to cook for to be honest. I love doing- I love doing brunches and breakfast and-that-kind-of-thing.
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Couldn't he-- I couldn't help it. I was going too fast and- for to stop it or move out of the way then.
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Interviewer: So is it your job to go in the- in the- Speaker: In the maw? Fo-- for to- to trap the hay down you mean? Interviewer: Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah.
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My brother helped look after the farm. We kept the farm going while he went and did that work. So that there was money for- then for to put a new kitchen on the house and to buy a vehicle.
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But when we were kids um, we'd come down here to the swimming pool and there was a- a fenced in pool, like a full size pool. And then outside of that you had a- a one foot, a two foot, and another three foot pool. It was quite a nice spo-- spot down here. And ah, it was all- i-- w-- there was never a charge. Interviewer: Wow. Speaker: For to go and swim there because it was all built- Interviewer: Splash park. Speaker: By the people of the community. Um, the men of the community, the miners, the husbands, fathers, whatever donated all their time to build a pool.
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We- we had a good vegetable garden. Oh yes. Ah, and ah, Mother'd put a lot of it away too, like she'd can the beans and can the tomatoes. Make tomato juice, make lots of pickles and- and-that that she ah, made good use of the vegetables. And we- we'd ah, have enough potatoes ah, like for to last a long time.
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Well people worked in factories and they worked times, like we had ah- lots of factories here in Almonte, they went night and day pretty near. And you worked lo-- it was for to make a war effort, eh
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I wrote "Lachlan-Moyles". And I- about as good as I could, eh? And I thought- told them, I said "See the- we had- our teachers- see that writing? It followed us right down all our life." You-know on the- for to write your name.
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They come to Pinestone because they're- something else drew them there and they're staying there. But there's really not that much for to do around here.
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And now they've got- they have to form some club, or have a bridge club or-something for to get the people together so that they can argue and fight over who's got the best hand instead of having a get-together like they used to have.
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Speaker: Oh they were good times, they were long hours. We had twenty-four years of it so you know that ah- Interviewer: Now, you said it was very interesting, what are some of the interesting- Speaker: Oh well- Interviewer: Things you remember? Speaker: Just the people. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: You have to enjoy people for to ah run a place like that. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: And I enjoy people.
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Yeah, it was a gas on and generator I believe it was, and it would put out enough for- not for to run- we didn't use li-- ah, refrigeration or anything like that but just for- basically for television and lights.
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Ah they had a- I forget what they called them? Uh, there was ladles and ah a wooden thing there to- for to fit your pound of butter. Then you put your butter all in there with a plunger in the bottom of it.
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