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Speaker: So you know he never did graduate. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: Yeah, but anyway, my other best friend, he had to go for a victory lap. And it wasn't really victorious though (laughs). Interviewer: (Laughs). Speaker: So anyway ah, so he had a big graduation party and um- I don't even know what happened like, it just got so intense and we were all so drunk ... |
An optional fifth year of secondary school (counted as a second year of Grade 12), taken by students graduating after 2003, the year when the OAC program (a mandatory fifth year for university- and college-streamed students) was abolished. |
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Interviewer: And you're in what grade? Speaker: Grade- well this is my second year of grade-twelve. Interviewer: Oh, okay. Speaker: Yeah. So. Interviewer: S-- Speaker: Victory lap. Interviewer: Ah, yes, I hear about this. What's the deal with this thing? Speaker: The victory lap? Well I-don't-know, it's just an extra year of high-school to get your grades up, to take courses that you missed. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Or, yeah. Like, a lot of places don't do it, but, ah, teachers encourage it here. Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: It's just- well yeah, it's just an extra year to prepare yourself ... |
An optional fifth year of secondary school (counted as a second year of Grade 12), taken by students graduating after 2003, the year when the OAC program (a mandatory fifth year for university- and college-streamed students) was abolished. |
| Example | Meaning |
Speaker: Fi-- fifth year's enough. It's kind-of like- it's kind-of like when you finish like a really long race and then you have to do one more lap. Or just do it again. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: And just kind of wander afterwards. Interviewer: Well this is what I'm hearing, the victory lap, this term has come up about a thousand times since I've been here. Speaker: Yeah. Everyone's doing it now. Like every- everyone in the school it seems. |
An optional fifth year of secondary school (counted as a second year of Grade 12), taken by students graduating after 2003, the year when the OAC program (a mandatory fifth year for university- and college-streamed students) was abolished. |
| Example | Meaning |
Speaker: No, she's not o-- she wasn't one that could hardly wait to get out of high-school 'cause she's- she did a victory lap. She stuck around for a fifth year. Interviewer: Yes. Speaker: Um, largely to do some of the volunteer work that she didn't have a chance to do. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: She wouldn't- she didn't get into it in grade-eleven. Grade-eleven is a crunch year. |
An optional fifth year of secondary school (counted as a second year of Grade 12), taken by students graduating after 2003, the year when the OAC program (a mandatory fifth year for university- and college-streamed students) was abolished. |
A person who is without home or friends; one who lives uncared-for or without guidance; an outcast from society; an unowned or neglected child.
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Of course she could only, one hand at a time. I looked after her. I called her the little waif |
Homeless person |
To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.).
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Speaker: Wake them here at home. Two nights and then the funeral the next day. Sitting down there for mass and- and bury them over at the cemetery. Interviewer: What do you mean wake- wake them? Soeaker: Wake them here, an open casket, you-know? People come here, you-know, and- |
To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.). |
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He says, "We'll have- there's nothing to hinder us of taking him up to his own house, to wake from there." She says- they didn't need her fo-- for she says, "I don't want the box opened. And I know the terrible shape he'll be in." |
To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.). |
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So whenever- he was waked at home, which was not very good either for the thirteen year old. |
To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.). |
Yes they had the- he was waked in the house. And that was a bad memory. |
To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.). |
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Yeah, the wake- yeah there was no- you didn't take someone to their- to a funeral home then, you waked them here. |
To stay awake or pass the night in prayer; to stay up during the night as an exercise of devotion; to keep vigil (in church, by a corpse, etc.). |
An animal that is wall-eyed. In N. America a name for various fishes, esp. the wall-eyed pike, Stizostedion vitreum
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Yeah. Now I think they've reached um equalibr-- equilibrium because the last few years, last year especially it was murkier than I've seen it in a long- and think the Bay just is naturally murky. It should be kind-of a dark- that's why this Walleye fish do so well here they like dark murky water and the problem with clear water is the weeds are just- explode and- 'cause the sun hits the bottom. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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Interviewer: Do you have a favourite type of fish that you fish for? Speaker: Walleye. Interviewer: Walleye. Speaker: Walleye and pike, yeah. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
Interviewer: Do you have a favourite type of fish that you fish for? Speaker: Walleye. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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Speaker: We have some pretty cool spots on it like um right at the end there's rapids, little rapids and we call it Pickerel-Rapids because that's where you get some pickerel, ah, pickerel like walleye, do you-know what walleye is? Interviewer: Um, a fish? Speaker: Yeah, it's a fish. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: I- I say pickerel but I think walleye is the right term for it, I think- I think pickerel's sort-of like the Canadian version of walleye, it's the same thing but that's the word we use for it. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
| Example | Meaning |
Interviewer: I heard lots of people say walleyes- Speaker: Walleye is the same as Pickerel- Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: In Northern-Ontario. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: Walleye is ah, known for the south and in the north it's Pickerel. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
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And my- my son- he- I'm a vegetarian so if I win steaks curling or-something, I give him the steaks and he gives me back the rainbow or the walleye that he catches in the winter time ice-fishing. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
Oh yes. Yeah it- right here at ah Pine-Lake in Gooderham and- and Contour-Lake and Wolf-Lake, there's walleye there so... |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
I- I think they- they come up into this area to catch the walleye which is pickerel. And we had cottages and we rented every summer- every spring to people from Ohio to come up to- to fish the walleye. |
She says pickerel fish and walleye fish are the same thing. People in the south call it walleye and people in the North call is pickerel |
A lady who keeps her seat at the side of a room during dancing, whether because she cannot find a partner or by her own choice
| Example | Meaning |
That was the idea. Yeah. You-know I was- if you got invited to it you were lucky. And then you could go down to the auditorium where they held the tea dances which were in the afternoons and hopefully somebody would ask you to dance. Stand there like a wallflower. |
a girl who sits during a dance and doesn't dance |
| Example | Meaning |
No, no. You'd never go alone. Oh no. We'd sit like little wallflowers or something. And we also had a movie theatre and- not a theatre but in the town hall we had a- um well it was chairs and a thing. And they had a- they'd bring all these old movies and we'd go and sit there on a Friday night, I think it was twenty-five-cents, and- and then the next week you'd have to go 'cause it was a serial. |
a girl who sits during a dance and doesn't dance |