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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]// ... |
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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: ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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Bonny in Black [Content label: lesser] | Bruce, Eddie | 4,823 | 1 | 0.21 | |
... nae sure John should be drinkin’ – whit wi’ the medicine an’ a’,” she ventured. “Nonsense lass! Whisky’s a cure for all ... |
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Buchan Words and Ways | Fenton, Alexander | 52,521 | 22 | 0.42 | |
... from a distant time has lefr you with mental heartburn, an' a teem stamach. Have you ever been 'in 'e hingles'? It can ... ... until they knackit against a steen an e shell cracit, an a hard bilet egg aye tastes better in e open air. Pace - ... ... A little wee man in a reed, reed coat, A staff in eez han, An a steen in eez throat, Gin ye tell ma ma riddle, I'll gie ye ... ... draains o neep-clicks, wi widden handgrips, iron shanks an a twa-pronged hook at e heid. Ye didna need em in fine ... ... a dother Baabie Allan. There wis a fireplace on e fleer an a big hole for ais at wid o held a month's ais at a time. ... |
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Burns Nicht Sang for Andra Kindness | de Rusett, Wendy | 468 | 1 | 2.14 | |
... it’s nae fit you think! We’ll aa lift wir glesses, an a toast we will drink Tae the lads that are champions o ... |
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Cairtes in the Scots Leid | Kay, Billy | 709 | 2 | 2.82 | |
... for their veice tae be heard in a Europe o a Hunder Flags an a hunder tongues, a Europe whaur linguistic diversity is ... ... a challenge tae our praisent, a dedicatioun tae our past an a declaratioun o our faith in the future o Scots as a leivin ... |
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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. ... |
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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! ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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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 ... |
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