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someplace

Parf of speech: Adverb, OED Year: 1880, OED Evaluation: dial. and U.S.

Somewhere; (at, in, to, etc.) a particular or unspecified place.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Do you ever fly? Speaker: Oh yeah. Mm-hm. Couple of years ago, the first year I retired I went with Herman. We went for two weeks, he was planning, he likes to go ever summer someplace, and my dad liked to do that too um, and that was back in the day when people didn't go up to Povungnituk and you-know Kugluktuk or-wherever.
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But people stayed here. If you went away it was you went away because you were working in Kitchener or you were working someplace else and- but most people stayed here. When- when my- when I was growing up in Barry's-Bay, yeah you stayed here.
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Interviewer: Did- were- did the- were there a lot of school trips? Speaker: No. ... One time they had some kind of a- what they called a king or queen jubilee.... And it was up in Boulter or some place, I remember.
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Interviewer: ... it must have been tough here, eh? Speaker: It was. They first came to- down there around Eganville some place. ... They even- some of them had to live in- in sod shanties.
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Interviewer: So what do you do at the park? Speaker: Oh, sometimes we went there some place for- just for a picnic or- ... Or just to the place there, the museum or-whatever they have there to look at that.
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So I stayed with my cousin 'til I got a job. ... And then once I got a job I stayed there and came home for two, three weeks. Home for the summer. The first summer I came for a few months because they went away some place. My l-- my, ah- people that I worked for. ... But then after that I only came home for holidays.
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... once he went to Kingston on his honeymoon and ah, he was in the States once I think in his lifetime so that's, that was typical travel then. You just didn't have the- you didn't go off to Florida for ten days and then someplace else and someplace else.
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...my father's farm. Been out there once or twice, but- ah- (clears throat) he- he left the farm way back in, oh, nineteen- roughly nineteen-eighteen, someplace in that area. And then my father, who was a very interesting man, he ah, worked in a- in a lumber camp, he was the chef, eh, and he did all that, he did it for a few years ...
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And then they would do the sawing and everything else in there, they had a planing mill, and- it was a very very big operation. And, ah, it eventually didn't- they- the companies moved someplace out of that, after that. And ah, they also... before the hydro came in here, they had the, ah- they had their own electricity here in town.
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... he took a huge swap with his paw right on the grate and just scared the heck out of me. And then the- and it's, ah- it's quite a thing to see a- a b-- an angry bear, ah, ah, who would prefer to be someplace else other than in that culvert trap. (laughs)
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Speaker: Well, there was no police anyway in town, just the- Interviewer: Yeah, I guess not. Speaker: If the town cop, he'd be busy someplace, or- Interviewer: Yeah.
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Oh yes we were sneaky and we had to be sneaky because other than that we had nothing, you-know? ... Ah, we'd wait for mother and dad to go away some place and then we'd boil some homemade candies, you-know? (laughs)
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So I didn't know how to tell the operator how to- you-know, so I just told her in plain English, I, ah, do as much as I could. I just told that she was supposed to- my sister was living some place in Ottawa and this-and-this was her name, and if she could get in touch with it. Ah, with her, you-know? And, ah, so she did.
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So they- ah, so anyway, ah, then the R-C-M-P came over and they wanted, ah, that- that key for the cedar chest and- and all the stuff was hidden away in- in the sawdust some place, you-know? ... And, ah, I- I kept on telling them that there was- there was none, you-know? And they searched everything but they didn't find it. And here my mother was walking around with the key in her purse here.
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Ah, there was a group of teachers that went on this outing. ... And, ah, I think we went to some place- Temiskaming, I guess, we went to on the train. ... I think we got the train in Mattawa and then went t-- to- for the- Temiskaming. I think they've discontinued that. And then there was another one we went some place in Hull, I think.
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Interviewer: Yeah. So how did you start learning? ... Speaker: um, I was talking to somebody and I said, "They're starting embroidery," 'cause I had read it in I think the church bulletin or someplace, "They're starting embroidery in, um- in Wilno," and Zoe was- heard me say that and she says, "Yes, come." ... (Laughs) She's very persuasive.
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