Specifically a ‘grand curling-match’ between two distinct clubs or districts.
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Speaker: Or three other girls, and then I 'm on a mixed team, which means two girls and two guys, and we 're doing a league that 's based in Toronto, but it 'll be a different club and we play people our own age and, um, hopefully in November we 're gonna go to a Bonspiel which is a tournament. Interviewer: A what? Speaker: Bonspiel. That 's what it's called. B-O-N-S-P-I-E-L. Interviewer: A Bon-- Uh, okay. Speaker: Bonspiel. That 's just- That 's just the name for the tournament. And, um, hopefully that 'll be in Ottawa. |
A curling tournament. |
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And you can always go, you-know, when people aren't- even when people weren't doing well, you-know, how you go to people for um say if it's a curling-bonspiel and you go around town to get um support in terms of like a gift or-something. |
A curling tournament. |
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Um, I can re-- I'm a curler and ah, I w-- I curl ah with a dairy farmer and we were at a bonspiel oh a farmery at a bonspiel. |
A curling tournament. |
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Oh I don't know who wrote that one up (laughs). But I remember being at a bonspiel and the vice-president who was in charge of that area was there and he had a few drinks too many, he was telling us this (laughs). |
A curling tournament. |