Um, between Deseronto and the reserve there is, I don't think there is so much in Belleville. 'Cause Belleville is such a like- it's such an integrated town already, like it's so cultured, and Deseronto's kind of like a step above hick.

Speaker 1: That's funny 'cause that's in Davey's monologue, I remember that. Speaker 2: Do you? Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaker 2: A hick accent? Interviewer: 'Cause that's one of the things we were asking all the communities

Speaker 1: Like I don't notice it. Like Adam's never said- Speaker 2: It's a hick accent anyway. Speaker 1: Adam's never said to me that I have an accent. He's never- and like he's from the city.

Speaker: Like people- some people who live here have hick accents.

Like a lot of the guys. You get guys from like Toronto or Scarborough or Mississauga and they have all the like, you-know like they say "Dawg" and like "Bro" and you-know and like we don't talk like that, you-know. And-like and then we have our own kind-of like hick slang though, I think you-know. That we'll say- I-don't-know, I can't really think of anything but there's always so often I'll kind-of say something and people are like "What is that?" It's because its a North-Bay like kind-of hick thing, you-know and-stuff.

Yeah like I think that- yeah I think North-Bay has its own kind-of mixture of like a French and kind-of just like a hick kind-of slang- like you always get the no G's on stuff which as a Engli-- like 'cause my mom is an English major, like we get the you-know like people- "lookin'" and "seein'" and you drop the G's off everything and- I find North-Bay has this also and I- I get bad for this 'cause I say "like" all the time.

They kind-of like, you-know, like you see like a guy in the mall talking French and he's wearing a skidoo jacket, you-know-what-I-mean? Like that whole thing you-know-what-I-mean it's kind-of like that "Oh there's that guy. He's like a French hick guy right?"

You might use words you-know more- that are more- considered more you-know hick you-know more like a hick way of talking or whatever you-know I think it all depends yeah.

She says "You boys getting along pretty good eh? Making your way around pretty good." "Oh yeah." I says. We take the streetcar down and ah you-know. But we saw guys leaving would get a piece of paper. We looked (laughs) what's the paper for? You-know like two hicks?

Which it really isn't because there's so much more like land on top of us (laughs). Um, and they also see it as a really big hick town. Not a big hick town but it's- it's very hick because the population's like just over a thousand. (laughs) Um, but yeah. But I don't think there's really anything that truly defines this town for me anyway. Yeah. It's just where I come from, that's all (laughs).

Speaker: We do- there are some people in the North who can do it right? And your one of them, you're a Northern-girl like. Interviewer: Well. Speaker: (laughs) Because people think of Northern-people as hicks, they really do.

Speaker: Cause we're- e-- everyone in Temiski-- Temiskaming district like New-Liskeard, T-D-S-S, ah, us, ah, we're seen as a hick town. Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: We're seen as the hicks compared to the North-Bay kids. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: So when they come in, they're like "Okay. Well these are like the- these are like the- the- no-teeth hicks."

Speaker: Compared that to "Here Thurstan, you could have the ah the eight-millimetre and go shoot at- shoot at squirrels and- and bring them home and take them apart and we'll show you how to cook them." Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: You can't- come on people. Get with the program. I'm a hick farm boy.

Um, I- maybe a little bit. I'd like to say w-- like "hick" if that makes sense (laughs). Like just um, some of the things that we say just may be a little different. I don't- I don't know if I can think of anything but I don't really notice a d-- (inc) I don't really notice a difference actually now that...

And so that was a more of a- more of the Canadian accent, um- yeah like um- there- there definitely is, for sure, like there's that- you don't want to say hick accent, but there's that- that small-town kind-of- more like the south we have that mo-- like the south just different,

Um there was like the artsy-weirdo-kids, which was me and a lot of our friends and the jock sort of kids which kind of melded in with the sort of like hick, backwoods, country kids and- there's all sorts of them, but there was- I don't-know we all knew each other cause we all grew up together for so long that you kind of cross paths...

But okay you got Montreal you got okay Quebec. Then you had like Winnipeg. They were probably like little hick-towns back in those days right? Vancouver knew nothing about Vancouver when I was growing up. I didn't even know Vancouver existed right? Um but um well yeah Toronto I mean ah. Immigrants. Ah yeah they would come- actually most of the immigrants would come into Halifax from Halifax ...

"Oh my God, you live far." So they view it as like s-- really, really north- ... Which it really isn't because there's so much more like land on top of us (laughs). Um, and they also see it as a really big hick town. Not a big hick town but it's- it's very hick because the population's like just over a thousand. (laughs) Um, but yeah. But I don't think there's really anything that truly defines this town for me anyway. Yeah. It's just where I come from, that's all (laughs).

... the separation between the- those schools in North-Bay and the- and the- and that region compared to us. 'Cause we're- e-- everyone in Temiski-- Temiskaming district like New-Liskeard, T-D-S-S, ah, us, ah, we're seen as a hick town. ... We're seen as the hicks compared to the North-Bay kids. ... So when they come in, they're like "Okay. Well these are like the- these are like the- the- no-teeth hicks."

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