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the States

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

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Interviewer: They must not see a lot of Asian people there anyways there, the tourist most be mostly like Speaker: Yeah, yeah, I think just a lot of people from Texas or people from the States or some Canadians, but Interviewer: That's what's nice about Cuba, is it's not all-
The United States of America
Speaker: My girlfriend is a nurse. Yeah. Interviewer: Really? So is it like weird with the SARS stuff? Speaker: Well the thing is, she got her license for the States, she doesn't have her license for Canada.
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Interviewer: Oh really? That's so interesting. And was it in the States or in Canada? Speaker: Here in Toronto. Interviewer: Oh yeah? Really, I didn't know that. Huh.
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It was very different than the Americans. Yeah, we had our protests, but they were more generally sit-ins and love-ins and things-like-that instead of carrying placards and being rambunctious and things, you-know and nobody got shot up here like they did down in the States, 'cause you-know we weren't like that. We had our own little brand of social activism.
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Speaker: We spend a lot of time in Heidelburg. Interviewer: Is that a big city? Speaker: No, well, it's sort-of a mid- size, um for Germany, it's a university town so um there were a lot of intellectuals, and people that were, people that had come from Canada and the-States as well um to study at the University-of-Heidelburg. So there were great philosophical discussions down by the river and you-know, that-sort-of-thing and it's a very medieval town as well, so it was kind-of cool.
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It's very very ultra-extreme and anyway, (...) so children with learning disabilities, yeah, there was a culture going on there, there was a psychologist, and a psychiatrist that had been to various ah institutions in the States ... um observing ah what they were doing with children with learning disabilities, how they were teaching them, how to tie shoelaces, and um how to perceive foreground and background ...
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Interviewer: ... did anyone try to start a kibbutz in say America or Europe or was it something that was happening in Israel? Speaker 2: you know, people have tried, but ah not with a lot of success Interviewer: mm-mm Speaker: you hear of small collectives, mostly young people getting together and trying this in the States a lot and there were some here too, especially in the sixties ... there were ah a couple there in the- in the U-S, in the mountains near Montreal, um, what's the name of the town, the baseball hall-of-fame town?
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Yes and ah, you could go over there and ride it for a nickel, you-know for quite a while. Ah, and then it went, I think somebody in the States bought it, and ah, it was a lovely merry-go-round. We all hated to see it go.
The United States of America
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Speaker: But what ha-- what bothered me was there were SARS cases all over the place, but we were the only ones that was labeled. They had them in New-York they had them in down the States, they had them down in Europe, all over Europe, but we were Interviewer: China and Toronto. Speaker: Exactly. Because, but Vancouver's got a bigger Chinese population then Toronto does. And they had it there. But you never heard a thing about it.
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Interviewer: I didn't know that. But I remember that when that happened that- I was still in B-C and they were talking about taking all the hydro-power that we have from the Fraser-River and stuff-like-that. Speaker: To use it in the States? Interviewer: Yeah.
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Um, I have some family that lives in New-York and I have family that lives in um, Tennessee but not- we don't visit them just because it's too far. And I don't like the-States so- ... But we do talk on the phone sometimes.
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... Adrian- I mean he's Scottish by- by ancestry I guess you could say, but he- he was born in Nova-Scotia and he lived- 'cause his Mom is from New-Jersey. So he's got the dual citizenship with the States. So we 've applied for citizenship for the States for her, and for Ireland and I mean she was born here, so, that 'll be something that hopefully will help her 'cause I mean, his family is so- like such travellers and my family are that ...
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No, it was with him, ah- yeah, it was with the G-Three-band but it was with him, this young guy from ah G-I-Key, from the States, and a-
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If I have a chance to get away I have to get out of the city for a while and kind-of recuperate and come back in. I haven't travelled to the-States much.
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Interviewer: So nine-eleven hasn't really affected your travelling? Speaker: Well it- although I didn't travel much to the-States, at- at this point I'm even less inclined to do so. Like I- um I-mean I 'll go down and see my- my brother, my sister but it's just not something I 've gotten around to doing. Would nine-eleven affect that, probably.
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Um, draft-dodgers used to come up from the-States during the Vietnam-War, and when I used to skip school- I wasn't terribly, but I- I did used to skip school.
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It was like a- I'm seeing smoke in the tower you-know and- and the blurb and the voice but I'm- it's foreign. It 's- I didn't understand the picture and I knew it was in the-States so I'm thinking, "Okay a plane crashed into a building this is terrible but- (inc) but-"
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Speaker: Um, but I will tell you- no was there a moment- oh when we were at the airport- was it in the-States? Interviewer: The heightened security is what it makes it (inc) to me and you-know why can't I take my tweezers on the plane. I can't kill anyone with tweezers. Speaker: Oh you never know, we girls have our ways!
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Like here for some reason and it's maybe because my kids are so plugged-in to the hip-hop culture, um when someone says something and they're registering disbelief or surprise, they say "Shut-up." When that word is used, in the States for example, they think you're being rude and disrespectful. But I do too think it's rude, but that's what it means here.
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Speaker: They say um- they have a word when- when they- when we say "pardon" when we don't understand something or we haven't heard it, they say um- there's an-- there's another one they use for "pardon". "Pardon." Um, instead of pardon, there's one- Interviewer: "Come again" or- Speaker: "Come again" they say. In the States, they say "What happened?"
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