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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
Inaugural speech by John Kirk to launch the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech Kirk, John M Video 6,982 1 0.14

... Scots Wants Fae Govrenment. Sae nou A come tae ma pirlicue an a short leit o whit the Scots leid wants fae Govrement. ...
BBC Voices Recording: Aberdeen N/A Audio 13,536 7 0.52

... M1042: //And underneath that you wore combies an a simmit.// F1043: //[inaudible]// M1042: A ...
... it doesnae say your husband, it says 'a male partner' an a 'male partner' in that days was just your 'bidie-in', or ...
... F1043: //There was a lot o superstitions,// an a lot o nicknames come through the fishin trade. //Ye ...
... M1042: //[inaudible]// F1043: //an a lot o people had never heard o it before but it was aye ...
... er,// F1041: Well my grunny had a settee an two chairs an a piano in her //parlour.// F1040: //[laugh]// ...
BBC Voices Recording: Dunbar [Content label: lesser] N/A Audio 13,714 1 0.07

... winks'. Ehm that's aboot it, aye. M1017: 'Kip' an a 'nap'. 'Away tae bed'. M1016: 'Shut-eye'. M1015: ...
BBC Voices Recording: Hawick N/A Audio 11,536 11 0.95

... I'm Madge [CENSORED: surname], [laugh] a Teri an a guitterbluid, and eh I've lived here for seventy-six ...
... F1011: I'm Madge [CENSORED: surname], I'm a Teri an a guitterbluid. I've lived here aw my life for sixty-si- ...
... sixty-si- seventy-six years. F1054: What's a Teri an a guitterbluid? F1011: I was born in Hawick but the ...
... M1010: //Aye [inaudible].// M1013: //Bools, aye, an a trolley used to, we used tae play wi a// well she's ...
... lot o trolleys of course,// M1010: //Aye.// M1013: an a an an the, and oh it was it was really great fun and a ...
BBC Voices Recording: Inverurie N/A Audio 12,014 5 0.42

... right.// F1001: An I had a granda on my father's side an a papa on my mother's side. M1000: That's right noo, ...
... ye hear often //mean somebody else that's nae related an a freen o yours,// M999: //Aye.// //Aye.// M1000: ...
... o a stirk? Eh well it's eh something between calfie an a stot maybe, but it can be a heifer, eh fae the ages o ...
... o the road at Rocky's, ye ken, l- it's a lang road an a lot o folk, they aa speak aboot the folk in the co- the ...
... hoosies where you can see a little hoosie wi a lum, //eh an a lot o them on Doonside Estate, places like that you still ...
BBC Voices Recording: Leith N/A Audio 16,679 3 0.18

... expecting too much, you want jam on it. [laugh] An a frown is tae glower. F1054: That's a good-, and a ...
... for shopping, I think that's probably universally Scots. An a guider, well we we children, laddies played on the street ...
... Stoats off the grund. //[laugh]// F1018: //An a stoater used to be// a a lassie that was really, you ...
BBC Voices Recording: Perth N/A Audio 17,146 1 0.06

... Very much so, it's far more practical now to wear boots an a pair of trousers, especially if your havin tae //wrestle ...
BBC Voices Recording: Portree N/A Audio 14,267 1 0.07

... a lot of eh words in Gaelic and a few phrases, ehm, an a number of imperatives. [laugh] I would say "stop ...
BBC Voices Recording: Stirling N/A Audio 14,324 6 0.42

... M1146: //Mmhm.// F1143: but Sorrento would be U an a Volvo would be U but a Honda which we've got, would be ...
... but my friend along the road, Alison's, from ehm Melrose an a pail merk, well they didn't have toilets so they sat on a ...
... much better than chancer. It's a word o my father's an a chantywrastler was a trusted prisoner like an Uncle Tom an ...
... they are.// F1054: //Yeah.// F1143: //Mmhm.// An a word that I I love an I hadn't heard it in this context at ...
... have heard it but I was teaching locally on supply an a wee boy opened his piece box an he said, "Oh great, I've ...
Conversation 03: Ayrshire couple on motorcycling [Content label: serious] N/A Audio 9,868 1 0.10

... God! M642: So we're comin in just after three an a half hours in a marathon, and we've all got these on. ...
Conversation 05: Fife couple on shared memories N/A Audio 11,194 1 0.09

... were five fires in this //house, it was only a but an a ben!// M642: //Five fires.// Aye, a but and a ben! ...
Conversation 06: Three Ayrshire sisters reminiscing N/A Audio 8,918 2 0.22

... in a big// F638: o shoes, //imagine!// F637: //an a, ye'd tae go// tae the Newton //Station,// F638: ...
... it, I wanted tae have a feather in my hat!// F637: //An a feather! [laugh]// F640: Our mother was partial to ...
Conversation 07: Ayrshire woman on her career N/A Audio 8,821 1 0.11

... an awful lot of designs for them; erm, my best seller was an, a, a pinafore which, ehm, was the most hideous-looking ...
Conversation 13: Two male postgraduate students on academic life [Content label: serious] N/A Audio 14,078 3 0.21

... kind of influential, you know? And then I've got an, a session on modern Irish poetry, M741: [click] Oh ...
... many different things. I mean do you spell "faa" without an 'a', with an apostrophe, with a 'w'? I mean, wh- how how ...
... "a".// M605: //South-East Scots// is kind of an "a" //sound, right?// M741: //Yeah.// M605: In, but ...
Conversation 19: Two North-East teachers on Doric language N/A Audio 3,743 2 0.53

... F831: No. M842: who you are. There's a time an a place, ehm, one thing, I mean, I'm c-, if I'm speakin ...
... //Mmhm// M842: be who ye are, I mean there's a time an a place //like we've// F831: //Aye// M842: spoken ...
Conversation 21: Family from North East Scotland N/A Audio 3,440 4 1.16

... an, eleven a half tonne. M824: uh-huh //eleven an a half tonne.// F606: //mmhm// M822: //So// that's ...
... mile in an hoor I think M822: Aye, Oh it'll be an hoor an a half tae come doon, an hoor tae load, M824: Aye. ...
... an hoor tae load, M824: Aye. M822: an an hoor an a half hame. M824: Aye. //Something like that.// ...
... use Laurencekirk station, ye see F606: mmhm M822: an a lot of this Bre- Brechin folk eh but eh they, they found ...
Conversation 24: Three women chatting in a garden centre N/A Audio 3,307 1 0.30

... an I've covered it wi stones F606: Yeah. F889: an a big rock an itwis eh, it wis quite expensive, but at the ...
Conversation 25: Couple from Auchenblae talking about local varieties of language N/A Audio 5,757 3 0.52

... mm// M903: //you know?// F902: There wis an, an, a lot o inaboot-comers as you would say, as far as when ...
... M903: there's, there's a lot o programmes fae Aberdeen an a lot fae Glasgow an then ye get them fae //well, England ...
... like, Bob [?]Gauld[/?]'s Band an he used to play there an a ken, he used to play in Alexandria an Stonehaven as well ...
Conversation 32 : Female from Borders and three males from Central Belt [Content label: serious] N/A Audio 9,761 3 0.31

... it's funny because it, has the video not got three men an a little lady but it's got them actually drawn on, like ...
... F940: an they used tae have [laugh] swings an a roondaboot an they used tae have some monkey bars //but ...
... that cause we didn't want my sister an that to get in shit an a that so we co- made this story that it was the eh //it ...
Conversation 37: Glasgow father and young daughter N/A Audio 2,157 1 0.46

... wobbly, and there was [?]scup[/?] stairs for a chute an a big yel- blue chute so it was, M1070: Blue chute? ...

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