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Mind of

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1300, OED Evaluation: now only in Scotland

That which is remembered, a memory; the memory or record of (a person or thing)

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Speaker: That no, ah- that was, ah, before they got these cupboards. (laughs) Then of course the cupboards came. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: You mind of them, great big square cupboards.
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Speaker: I drove through- we drove through Ottawa, and, ah, someplace else. And, ah- Interviewer: Huxbury? Speaker: I couldn't tell you, but we went to- went, ah, ah- I think we must have been kept more to the, ah, river. I- I don't mind of going through, ah- through Montreal, for, ah, the last time, the time we drove.
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Interviewer: Do you mind them well? Your grandmother- your- your mother's mother? Speaker: I mind of my mother and- in the- I asked, I think it was my sister Julie, why they were putting Granny in the box.
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She was keeping an eye out. So she brought us pair into the school and ah tried to get us to tell. My cousin, he would not say a word, no. But I could just take so much of it and then I talk back and- and ah, so she was giving me a pretty hard time so I decided I weren't taking any more, got up to leave. So she decided she'd put me back down the seat. It didn't happen, I put her down on the floor and pinned her there and ah- <10> (laughs) Speaker: She u-- she weren't upset at all, and she couldn't quit laughing. She said "This ah really isn't the way it's supposed to be." (laughs) <10> (laughs) Speaker 2: (laughs) Speaker: I mind of that.
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I can mind of the singing it. "Auntie-I-Over, throw your leg over."
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Interviewer: (laughs) Oh yeah. And- and Cliff, going back, when you were a little boy, what kind of a farm did your mom and dad have? Speaker: Oh, it was mixed. We milked cows. I mind- I mind of milking twelve cows.
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Interviewer: You had to learn to ride when you were young? Speaker: Oh no, we never got time to ride. We just worked (laughs). Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: I mind- (laugh) I mind of being out west in forty-two.
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Ed-Drake and father took two different loads to Ottawa to the market. Fifty-two gallons or-something at a time. Loaded the old (inc) down pretty- pretty good. And I mind of them saying that they were Jews- Jewish people was in the market and ah store keeping and-that-stuff in Ottawa at that time.
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Interviewer: So how big was the Maberly-Fair in your lives when you were growing up? Speaker: How healthy? Interviewer: How big was it. And how big a part of your lives was it? Speaker: About same as it is today. Maberly-Fair's has been a highlight in Maberly for a good while. I don't mind of when it ever failed.
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Interviewer: W-- when you were young- did- did- we- we've talked about going to Perth, but did you go to Lanark at all very much or- Speaker: Oh yeah, a- a lot of time. Interviewer: Or Sharbot-Lake? Speaker: Not so much. Never had that much to do with Sharbot-Lake, I don't know why. I don't mind of it anyway.
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