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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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... went there for a beer maybe on a Saturday, you-know, as was a treat. Remember him taking my brothers there when they were, you-know, old enough to- to have a beer, him taking. And ah, yeah. And I thought, "No, I was never ever in this place." It was some place you didn't go.
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Speaker: ... they were looking for homes for the people to go to some- Interviewer 1: Because they couldn't take them all at the hospital, is that why? Speaker: Yeah, yeah. Interviewer 2: Okay. So they were injured? Speaker: Yes. But not- not bad enough that, you-know, it was just some place for them to go and stay in 'til they you know, returned to where they were- ... Interviewer 2: Yeah, it was just a sad thing. The tragic event.
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Oh he could always scan that too I suppose if he wanted to and then the image could be put on- you-know, online so that people could see it. ... Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And-- yeah and then we have ah, some place we have- (telephone rings) sorry.
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Is that- there was one some place and they didn't get though somewhere.
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What would I do without this guy, you-know? ... I would be way up in Maberly someplace.
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Interviewer: So then you- you went to the beer store? Speaker: Yeah that's where we put all the lunches. We had to find some place that was cold to keep them so they'd be fresh ... Overnight.
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... his dad worked at Camp-Borden when the war first broke out and then um, he worked some place else and then he ah went to the motors, he was working at the motors. They come home this night and had supper and he said he wasn't feeling very good and all of a sudden, he just toppled over and he was gone. He had a heart attack.
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... it was the old days, very few people had cars. ... So if people wanted to go some place, they walked or drove a buggy.
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Coached hockey and then the kids- boys were grown up (inc) would be cur-- curling (inc) or some place and then I'd have a- a hockey tournament all at the same time, I'd be running from one to the other (inc) you really-
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... they'd go visiting. Go visit some of mom's sisters or brothers some place or come up to grandpa-Ward's, that was- that always a nice trip up there.
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... Adam was the horse person so he'd always- usually every year he'd raise a- a colt. So you'd have to go see that wherever it would be- be out the pasture some place. And then, ah, uncle-Brent, he was more of a- what would you call it, bush person or?
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... that was his Sunday outing to go o-- he'd know where there was an apple tree some place and then be- he'd have a pail with him, he'd go pick apples.
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... we come home from town one day and looked down and the front of the bee box was just moving with bees. ... Yeah, that was a swarm had come from some place and they- within about ten minutes there wasn't a bee to be seen on the box, they all just moved in and were all set to stay then.
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Speaker 2: And you made your own ice cream. Speaker: It was a treat. Usually on Christmas, yeah. So they'd- they'd chip ice from some place. Wouldn't they?
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Speaker: Lisa fell and she got burnt when she was about three years old and, um, I don't remember how they- they- it was in the wintertime. Because they had to bring the doctor. ... I understood dad had to go by horse and sleigh. ... And meet him some place.
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My studio up there is lined with paintings, I have to hang them someplace.
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They said- Old Don they said his wife would have to go and get him out of the gutter. He'd be laying- they'd throw him out of some place, he'd be dead drunk.
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Interviewer: Wow, that's fanta-- so was that one of the original farms from the- Speaker: Uh, no the uh, the land grant which I have someplace was in eighteen-forty from Queen Victoria. Interviewer: Eighteen-forty wow.
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So if we were going someplace and doing something or doing something I- I would have to try and get it- let me comb her hair and brush at these curls (laughs) that were tight (laughs). That was fine we did it.
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But somebody said, "Don't go there with all your grandchildren. It's three-fifty for a single scoop." "(Gasps) I'll be taking them someplace else where you at least get two scoops for three-fifty (laughs)."
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