Interviewer: Well, like, what would you call the- the ah weekend that just passed? Speaker: Um...twenty-four-- um twenty-fourth of May? Ah May Run.

Interviewer: Um what about the weekend that just passed, what would you have called that? Speaker: May Run? Interviewer: Right. Speaker: They don't call it May Run? Interviewer: No, it's Northern-Ontario thing.

Because of the fishing. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Ye-- always, w-- always May Run, yeah, yeah. Well, if they had ah told me that down there, "Well, what are you talking about?" Like, what are you- w-- I've never heard it called that ever before.

Speaker: Oh, really. Interviewer: All over Northern-Ontario. Well, what do you- what do you, like, what- do you know the slang word for the Victoria ah Day weekend? Speaker: Oh, we- the May Run. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: Yeah, yeah. Tha-- Interviewer: 'Cause Southern-Ontario, they call it the May-Two-Four.

Interviewer: Like, what did you- what would you call the ah, the weekend that just passed? Speaker: Well, say- I- I never said May Run. I always said Victoria Day weekend. Always! Interviewer: Really. Speaker: And only when I came back from university did I ever hear May Run. Really. Interviewer: Yeah? Speaker: I never had heard that before in my life. Interviewer: Oh wow. Speaker: Yeah. So that was weird too, because we say May Run.

Like, um 'cause obviously, a child who's in school- well, they'll listen to their teachers and they'll hang-out with all these other kids who will, you-know, they'll use "May Run". "Oh, yeah, Mom said May Run- May Run's coming up." And ah and if they just hear it in the household and at school, then you're more likely to use the words.

Interviewer: Can you think of any other words like that or? Speaker: May Run? Interviewer: Right. Speaker: May Run's a big one. Um cottage and camp.

Speaker: Well, in my- in my time it was Queen-Victoria's-Birthday, the weekend of Queen-Victoria's-Birthday. Now it's May Run. Interviewer: Okay, and do you know what they call it in Southern-Ontario?

Interviewer: What weekend just passed? Speaker: Victoria-Day. Oh, the May Run. Interviewer: Right. Speaker: Yeah, the May Run, of-course.

Interviewer: Not like this- this- this weekend but last weekend. Speaker: Oh May Run? May-Two-Four? Interviewer: Yeah. Well they call it May-Two-Four right? And we call it May Run.

Interviewer: That was- what about the weekend that just passed? Speaker: The May- Interviewer: What you call that? Speaker: The May Run?

Yeah, it's true, like I- yeah, I talking to a guy today, he says ah- he says, "Yeah somebody wants to do something for the May-Two-Four weekend." I said "Davy!" I said "You grew up in Timmins here! What- it's not called the May-Two-Four weekend, it's called the May Run!"

Speaker: Now, I know different things, like the May Run. Well, perfect example 'cause it's the May Run. We call it the May-Two-Four- no- yeah, we call it the May-Two-Four, they call it the May Run or-something-like-that. Interviewer: We call it the May Run. Speaker: That's it, yeah sorry. We call it the May Run, they call it the May-Two-Four and just other stuff like that.

Oh absolutely I think, yup. Um our- our vernacular or colloquialism, little expressions that we use are definitely Northern-Ontario. Um 'cause I know from my experience of going to university there were things that we would say, little expressions that they had never heard of you-know like, May Run was roots?

Speaker: Yeah. So- so yeah definitely there is- there are language differences for sure. Um, in the little expressions we use- May Run was something else no one- Interviewer: Yeah, that's a big one too. Speaker: That was a big one, no one's ever heard of May Run.

Yeah. So- so yeah definitely there is- there are language differences for sure. Um, in the little expressions we use- May Run was something else no one- <4> Yeah, that's a big one too. <024> That was a big one, no one's ever heard of May Run.

Speaker: Yeah, yeah. I-- i-- it was just a holiday ah to me. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Yeah. And I was never a May Run guy, 'cause I'm not much of a bush person.

Speaker: Just the- the long holiday in May. I don't call it May Run. Interviewer: No? Speaker: No. Interviewer: People in Northern-Ontario would.

Interviewer: Yeah, that would be another Northern-Ontario- like what do we call the Victoria-Day weekend? Speaker: Ah well May Run.

Speaker: ...so true because people have- they call it different but it's all because of where we're from and what we're used to. Interviewer: Right. True. Speaker: So ah yeah, May Run. I had another one in my mind too that I- but I just- I just lost it.