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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
So I lasted about half-a-year at the ah residence and then I said, "I- this is not for me," and my poor mom and dad they scrambled to get- find some place for me and ah just through friends they found a family that wanted to take in a boarder and it was like- I lucked out 'cause they- these were the nicest people in the c-- city.
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... a lot of schools were buying it and some libraries and-things-like-that so. It- just at- especially at that time there was nothing available so- you-know teachers were desperate to have anything that illustrated- and it's funny- um T-V-O and some outfit in Quebec and some place down in The-States actually bought footage from it- just to illustrate in their own films that they were doing- so it was like- a- a stock-footage ah source as well.
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Interviewer: Is it like set teams that show up all the time or is it like pick-up game? Speaker: Oh no that- you show up and the- and we put you some place and-that so.
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And um they settled in um Belleville because my grandmother Milton had a- a sister who was a seamstress here with Andrew-MacIsaac tailors down on Front-Street. And so they settled here and all of my aunts became seamstress-workers someplace in Belleville and my father had- had become a carpenter-pattern-maker in Scotland and had his- his papers over there and started working with um- with Samuel-Adams in some of the older places.
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... I've got friends that work at Exxon-Mobil, and they go through this same thing you-know. No, we can take out business over to Germany or some place and, "Da da da da da", so I guess when it comes down to it anymore it seems like the- the bottom line is you-know, ah I guess your shareholders and ah, and your- your profits, so-
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So ah we ah cleaned it all up and we whitewashed the whole thing, got some whitewash and- and ah we got an old car-seat from someplace and that- that was our- that was our- ... That was our clubhouse for years.
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Speaker: ... they were hobo-houses. And ah but that ah- the railroaders knew they were there and but- ... Didn't bother them. They- they would catch maybe the next freight maybe the next day and ah go on and- go on down to Kingston or someplace like that and- Interviewer: And try their- try their luck there getting food or work. Speaker: And- ah- yeah yeah.
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Interviewer: What did it cost to- to see the- the Saturday afternoon matinee? Speaker: Ah at that time about fifteen-cents to twenty-five-cents, in that range someplace.
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Yeah. They weren't even living together at one time I think. I don't know they were some place else, and the parents had to stay in another place, in another house.
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I-- saying to my partner Katie here that I'd like to move some place where there's no snow at all because I'm pretty loaded up with arthritis. Go somewhere where it's dry, year-round eh? I don't know if I could handle it. 'Cause I've grown up in the four seasons.
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And ah now there's some place going in called Veg-Out, it's like an organic juice bar right?
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... you-know like I'd like to work at some place like the Capital-Centre you-know or some place like- like a local non-profit you-know that- that does something for the community you-know-what-I-mean?
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And to be honest I've always thought the name kind-of held the city back a little bit because I think it conjures up images in people's minds of like some place cold and isolated you-know-what-I-mean? ... Yeah in- in the minds of Canadians anyway. Because when we hear word- the words "north" we just always think of- it's like a negative word to Canadians, I-think, in a way because we think north equals cold ...
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And for some reason the word "bay" together with the word "north" just makes people think of Hudson's-Bay you-know they think of James-Bay or Hudson's-Bay you-know-what-I-mean? They think of some place way up there where nobody lives where it's just like (laughs) you-know like semi-arctic or something you-know-what-I-mean like- like Canadians I think really have ah stigmatized the word "north" in a negative way I-think you-know.
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Speaker: "Oh North-Bay, oh yeah." (laughs) Yeah. Interviewer: Well it doesn't feel like a really catchy name either. Speaker: No no it's- kind-of has a- you-know makes you just think of some place kind-of like- it's kind-of not happening. Some place kind-of like maybe even like depressing or something you-know-what-I-mean?
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Interviewer: How are you liking ah North-Bay so far? ... Is there someplace else that you're thinking of (inc) Speaker: No, no just just someplace else like I- I- I-mean I- I think of places for practical reasons this is where I'll probably end up going but- but not um- not ah like I said not for any other reason other than it's- it's practical for- for me to be there, you-
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... big bulldozers do the work. At that time you couldn't get ah- a back-hoe. That was the best way to do it was a back-hoe, but there was none around there at-that-time. Or if they were you'd have to bring them from North-Bay or-someplace, I couldn't afford that. So, a- a bulldozer'd come and he'd do the work.
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Interviewer: And the ah, a--and his wife was also from ah, Hayley's? Speaker: Fro-- yeah down the Rent- Renfrew or-someplace there.
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Interviewer: Um, do you find that having um so many French speakers around here ah changes the way people speak English? Do you think that influences the English at all or? Speaker: I notice sometimes mostly I go someplace and there's some F-- ah French people. They'll talk French but they can talk English too but they don't. Like I can't understand. ... I don't like that but I can't help it.
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Otherwise, it's like ah, little things like, doing this that they shouldn't have done, or ah sometimes ah, they say go places and then they went some place else. Those kind of things. But I always told them, I said, and they knew that, I said, "Don't lie to me 'cause I always find out." And I always did.
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