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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.

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Now the sooner you get back to school and get that twelve, which is a basic education that you have to have, then you will be going someplace. Now you've learned it the hard way, and take it as a lesson.
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Well then she died a few years ago here, his wife, ah and I forget where she was, she was in a nursing-home someplace. They had no family. They did have a child and it died.
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Nothing. And now um there was piece on Aunt-Keira-Reese, she musta belonged up there someplace. But anyway she married a Morgan.
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And the stagecoach took the tourists from here out to where Charleston, that's down on Lake-Joseph someplace.
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Then they built a um a house, it'd be- it would be a shack really, it's just be something liveable, out on the other side of the Tallyho where you go out on to one-forty-one, out in there someplace. And ah they walked in from there to where Dex-Hayle lives now and cleared the land and built the house there.
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Interviewer: ... that's such a lovely window; you must've planned this house exactly the way you wanted it. Speaker: Well, (laughs) ah Brendan was in the- ... he like done building for- for people and we were out at a cottage around McKeller someplace and they had a picture window and where you sat with this picture window- ...
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Well, you- you work one place in the summertime and then, you had- it slackened off and you'd have to go whereever some place was busy. They wanted men there. They'd just give you a track for (inc) days.
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I'll be working up some place or another you-know, and they- oh- "I worked with your two boys," you-know. (laughs)
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Come in in the morning about eight o'clock, you-see. And come in about eight o'clock at night. I was home at night all the time, unless I was away some place.
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So, we went over there and I said to the girl, I said, "We're working up here and we're going to be here for about a week or so and we want some place to stay." And you-see, it wasn't in the tourist time. And I said, "We're not- we're- you-know, we're not millionaires, we're just workers." And I said "We want a place to stay if you've got room for us here."
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We- we never stopped, just drove right on by and we was c-- the other taxi, I guess they had ah must have been stopped there some place, because they were just ahead of us, we had just caught up them ah a while ago and yeah.
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... I said to them, "Well, you just stick the phone in the ground. It'll just reverse the charges, you-see." ... It'll phone away down into the States some place. So they phoned down into the States and talked to their mother for a while.
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he's ah working for the League-of-Nations or-something over there. ... Ah, yeah, over and ah- they were in Jerusalem for a while, but she got this job with the League-of-Nations down there someplace or something like that. And she's working at that and gets three hundred dollars a week.
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And ah I ha-- she gave me four sandwiches, and that was eight slices of bread. And ah (coughs) the moose-meat was just the same size as a sandwich; it was cut about that thick. And that was when (inc) got a moose up near the park someplace.
somewhere
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She's now going to some place in Nova-Scotia which is good 'cause I don't like her and the farther the better.
somewhere
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... um I-guess it 's similar to any sort-of mall that you 'll- that 's not downtown so something like Square-One in Mississauga it- you tend to see the same kind-of there 's usually some place to eat um around that area um they usually have a movie-theatre and you-know like some kind-of banking
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Interviewer: Primarily subway? Speaker: Yeah, or walking. For a- while it was rollerblades that I took everywhere but they 're kind-of bulky when you get some-place and you-know if you 've- you 're going somewhere you got to hang around for the day and you 're not at someone 's house, the (inc) on rollerblades are keeping on your own bike is kind-of a pain.
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It used to be downtown always, um just it 's a different feel downtown, a little bit more exciting, different people, stuff like that but now we get lazier, so maybe just Brydon's or Sharky's ... just in the area, maybe even a little bit more west ... some place in Etobicoke, but even Etobicoke feels, I don't like Etobicoke, it 's exactly the same as here but I don't like it.
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And um, as you got older, ah, he would employ you down there, opening lockers. The girls had lockers when they came to swim and had to put their clothes some place. So you could be the locker girl and from the locker girl, you went to being um, selling the, the refreshments behind the counter like the candies and ice cream. So I worked my way up into there.
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So ah, we went ah, they went different places for lunch, and I remember one Sunday they were going someplace and I was in church and of course the children we all sat in the front row. And there was a, a person who sat with us called ah Miss-May and she was always dressed in black and she was the queerest woman you ever wanted to see.
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