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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
It's home, you're comfortable- it's the familiarity and ah the scene. I-mean you can- well here we're away from people anyway, but um you can get out and away and see different sections which is- you-know drive ten minutes and you're off some place else to see another, you-know I-mean? I-don't-know it's just nuts.
somewhere
Isn't it- it had to be- it had to be in the fifties because I was still working for Rogers then. But we were out North in Kirkland, some place real.
somewhere
ExampleMeaning
And they're-- they're trying to ask the miners when they come off their shift if they had any sandwiches or leftover lunch- they'd get it. There were a lot of people here, they come and they do work just for something to eat and you- then go some place else.
somewhere
They built a new hospital there. Instead of building it some place where they got lots of land- or else, they're talking now about ah building a high building. With- pay to par-- go up and park.
somewhere
That'd be Danielle's brother's boy. Dan- Danielle's brother- he's a doctor in London or-some-place-there. ... They were raised- they all raised over- just over here- a couple blocks on Duncan.
somewhere
Well i-- it's alright to get your education here but I mean what do you- you going to do for a job? That's a big problem. You have to go out some place and get a job. It's okay to- to- once you get high-school here. Unless you go to Northern-College here.
somewhere
ExampleMeaning
But nevertheless, they had a lot in common. And I remember Henry-Oath taking dad down to- down to- was it Buffalo or some place.
somewhere
ExampleMeaning
That was just after that bomb exploded for the Thatcher, the Prime-minister of England, remember she was out at some place and the bomb exploded. (laughs) (inc) "Welcome to the (inc)-suite. This was the remains of it." (laughs)
somewhere
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Where did you get a sarong? Speaker: Wh-- v-- I-don't-know. Ah, I- it could- could have been um, a towel or someth-- ... What- no what- no, it wasn't a towel. I don't know. ... But anyway, they came up with one someplace. Interviewer: Made it out of something. That's funny.
somewhere
... when my kids were growing up, I used to take them a lot on picnics and ah, sleigh-riding, and-things-like-that. ... Um, we um- there was hills. Back- back here someplace. And we would ah, take them.
somewhere
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: They got a job for the summer. ... Quite a few of them too, they went on an adventure, they signed up to be down in the war-plants for the summer. Interviewer: What was that? Speaker: Saint-Catherines, or I think Sherbrook-Quebec and some places where one of the ones where they're manufacturing war-materials.
somewhere
She was kind-of outstanding. She's in- she's in Ottawa-U or-some-place eh? Or Carlton whatever, Ottawa.
somewhere
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: They should send you at least a picture of it. Speaker: I have a picture some place. ... If I could dig it out, I would but I don't know just- (laughs)
somewhere
ExampleMeaning
... some people just don't have that- th-- they just aren't good skaters. And I was one of them. And sometimes my secret d-- wish is to go someplace and learn how to skate and not have people look at me trying to skate.
somewhere
ExampleMeaning
... it's so much easier to- like people are friendly in Kirkland. ... Like you-know, you just feel comfortable no matter where you go. ... Um, like some places you go to, out of town, there's some pretty stuck-up people. ... I find Kirkland-Lake's not like that.
somewhere
ExampleMeaning
You-know I'd go down for holidays. Like for a week or two to some place. Like I went down in two-thousand-five. Was actually the first time I actually left the ca-- the country.
somewhere
But ah, no that was nice, went down there for the wedding and ah hung out and ah, that was great. You-know like to do something like that, or to go down um say to Florida, same thing, for you-know a week or-whatever. Or some place different, like Australia. But I would always come back, like, you-know.
somewhere
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My uncle Charles was an engineer. ... And ah he worked all over the place. I have a certificate um because oh- where was it? He went to some place and a- like a third-world country and um helped- there were oil- problems with oil-spills.
somewhere
ExampleMeaning
But ah, there's some places out towards ah Crys-- oh, Crystal-Beach is actually another place to go. ... Um, it's ah, it's a lake um, the- the sand is- it's like at a normal beach.
somewhere

Spinoffs

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1951, OED Evaluation: Originally U.S.

A distribution of stock of a new company to shareholders of a parent company; a company so created.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: That's the people who go underground? Speaker: Yeah. Interviewer: Yeah wow. Speaker: And- Interviewer: Wow. Spinoffs? Speaker: Spinoffs. Like ah ah spinoffs being, you-know for instance Gillivan, they're an electrical-supplier so…
companies providing services that support an industry