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| Scots Tung Wittins 116 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,699 | 1 | 0.37 | |
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... particlar wis gey ee-catchin. This particlar poster haed a big picter o Oor Wullie on it an the wordin alangside said:- ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 161 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,701 | 1 | 0.37 | |
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... Mark Strand (that politely chaise a braw, cutty poem) an big names the likes o Alan Spence, Alastair Reid, Gwyneth ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 88 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,712 | 1 | 0.37 | |
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... graith in ither schuils. This ploy haes been stertit tae big up an intrest in whit maist fowk see as a deid language. ... |
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| Interview 18: Columba Centre, Islay | N/A | Audio | 2,794 | 1 | 0.36 |
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... the MacDonalds of Islay had ruled the north of Ire-, a big part of the north of Ireland, the glens of Antrim and ... |
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| Thy Neighbour's Wife [Content label: lesser] | Bruce, Eddie | 2,813 | 1 | 0.36 | |
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... he felt as drained as the bottle as he poured the last big dram and took it upstairs with him. He slept fitfully. ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 108 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,828 | 1 | 0.35 | |
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... proponed that it wad be a guid thing for the Executive tae big up a strategy on Scots an he felt that the CPG shuid tak a ... |
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| Scottish Parliament: Committees: Audit: Official Reports: Meeting 16, 2001 | Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body | 3,075 | 1 | 0.33 | |
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... colleges were in severe financial difficulty, there was a big debate about whether we could get that information and ... |
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| Scottish Parliament: Committees: Justice 1: Official Reports: Meeting 10, 2002 | Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body | 3,118 | 1 | 0.32 | |
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... staff why they think it works. I know that there will be a big controversial debate on the topic, but it is important to ... |
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| Talking, Reading and Writing about Fiction Texts | McGonigal, James, Philp, Andrew |
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... (f) Why is the part about the storeroom notice written in big capitals? As an alternative to focusing on a particular ... |
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| Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 10, recording 3: washing up and colouring in | N/A | Audio | 3,176 | 1 | 0.31 |
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... //That would be// F1089: //Eh?// M1090: that's a big ain! Ah! //[laugh]// F1089: //It is, aye.// ... |
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| The Ettin's Guidwyfe that Greined for Paerls | Purves, David | 3,176 | 1 | 0.31 | |
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... ae thing ma hert greins for, an that is a string o paerls. Big an braw thay maun be, for ti luik weill on a heich bodie ... |
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| Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 12, recording 3: walking home and opening Christmas cards | N/A | Audio | 3,395 | 1 | 0.29 |
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... tell you. You have to. They're good for you. Mak you big and strong. M1096: That //black crust?// F1095: ... |
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| Sing Us One of the Old Songs - Why Teach Ballads? | Petrie, Elaine | 3,470 | 1 | 0.29 | |
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... the famous quip often attributed to American blues singer Big Bill Broonzy has it: any song is a folk song ‘cause I ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 17 - Veesitors [Content label: lesser] | Blackhall, Sheena | 3,511 | 1 | 0.28 | |
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... in his jaiket fan he spied the quine hersel comin frae the Big Hoose. The gentry wis aye haudin concerts an balls sae it ... |
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| Diaries of William Young: 1964 [Content label: lesser] | Young, William | 3,534 | 1 | 0.28 | |
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... & River. Great time. 5 WEDNESDAY To Southport. On Big Dipper & in Pool. Cath, Phem, Jim & Catherine on ... |
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| Conversation 15: Glasgow father and his five year-old son | N/A | Audio | 3,598 | 1 | 0.28 |
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... M804: //[laugh]// M805: cause he sawed my big, um, brick hand. [drink] M804: Ah, so would you ... |
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| Sermons | Morrison, Mr Robert | 3,660 | 1 | 0.27 | |
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... to me and telling me that though I played the organ in the big Kirk I would have to be born again So that was old Jocks ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 13 - Prune Stones [Content label: lesser] | Blackhall, Sheena | 3,692 | 1 | 0.27 | |
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... John jolted alive, like a jerky puppet. "Yon's ma pal. Big Wully. The pigs done him fur choring a Giro," he announced ... |
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| Conversation 19: Two North-East teachers on Doric language | N/A | Audio | 3,743 | 1 | 0.27 |
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... ken, a, a change, F831: uh-huh M842: ehm a big change in tongue wi the f-, the wey the folk, I mean ... |
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| Scottish Parliament: Committees: Subordinate Legislation: Official Reports: Meeting 33, 2002 | Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body | 3,927 | 1 | 0.25 | |
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... The Convener: The change to the priority need test is a big measure. At the very least, it should be subject to the ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 106 | Fairnie, Robert | 3,978 | 1 | 0.25 | |
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... wi spoken words cause it gart mony o thaim tae feel like big jessies when they haed tae speak in "polite" English. She ... |
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| The Fower Quarters: 03 - A Gey Dour Bitch | Blackhall, Sheena | 4,030 | 1 | 0.25 | |
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... as a sign". "A sign o fit, Da?" I speired, ma twa een as big as ashets. "A shair sign," gurred Mither, "that we'll be ... |
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| Diaries of William Young: 1972 | Young, William | 4,263 | 1 | 0.23 | |
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... fine meal at Queens after. Bowling evening. Wednesday 10 Big turn-up at Choir. D. [CENSORED: surname] & W. ... |
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| A Fairy (Liquid) Story [Content label: lesser] | Smith, Mark R | 4,326 | 1 | 0.23 | |
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... of varnish from its place on the shelf and, as he was too big to get turned around, reversed his way out of the door. ... |
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| Cereal terms in the DOST record | Macleod, Iseabail | 4,340 | 1 | 0.23 | |
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... (Dalrymple [1596] in Cody 1885-95:I, 57/27). The form 'big(g)' for six-or four-rowed barley (from Old Norse 'bygg') ... |
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| Interview 06: David Purves on the Scots language | N/A | Audio | 4,815 | 1 | 0.21 |
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... speaks. F718: Mmhm mmhm M017: Now that's a sort of big question, of course, //but mmhm.// F718: //Mm// Do ... |
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| Bonny in Black [Content label: lesser] | Bruce, Eddie | 4,823 | 1 | 0.21 | |
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... him the night before - for the first time ever. “You’re a big improvement on the scruffy little bugger you used to be.” ... |
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| Sermon: Gordon Mackintosh - On Being Christ-like | N/A | Audio | 4,835 | 1 | 0.21 |
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... presses, there were not so many copies of things, so a big part of that we can say would be practical, that Joshua ... |
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| Lecture: the Glasgow Gaelic School | N/A | Video | 4,849 | 1 | 0.21 |
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... children. So it was very small numbers in a very big school. So ehm what er was perceived or felt that was ... |
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| Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 12, recording 2: doing jigsaws | N/A | Audio | 5,540 | 1 | 0.18 |
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... Put them in the same as that way so that it maks a big line, okay? M1096: Aye. Dump that one. [inaudible] ... |
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| Joseph Knight (extract 2) [Content label: serious] | Robertson, James | 5,653 | 1 | 0.18 | |
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... there. Simple farmer’s fare, and we ate with the family. Big hacks of ham, and boiled eggs. “Show me any of your French ... |
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| The Toad on the Rock's Opinion | Blackhall, Sheena | 5,941 | 1 | 0.17 | |
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... bows..pretty, rubber shoes, Hair, waving in water like a big hello, The suicide lady rolls jelly baby eyes. Lost ... |
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| The Stalking Cure [Content label: lesser] | Corbett, Dr John B | 6,214 | 1 | 0.16 | |
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... Macnab, they huv ither fish tae fry. Bendin gender Ane big differ atween the twa buiks is the wey they tak on the ... |
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| Conversation 38: Two female students discussing school in the UK and Luxembourg and travel | N/A | Video | 6,492 | 1 | 0.15 |
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... //or somewhere and there was, it was like a big centre for loads of schools, there was loads of other ... |
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| Interview 09: Ian Rankin on Rebus | N/A | Audio | 6,552 | 1 | 0.15 |
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... a book of mine called "The Hanging Garden" which won a big erm crime prize in France, and it's about a World War ... |
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| Scottish Parliament: Committees: Local Government: Official Reports: Meeting 4, 2003 | Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body | 6,683 | 1 | 0.15 | |
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... issued to the wrong person, it would be a case of, "The big dug did it and ran away." If a person applies to say that ... |
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| Women, Poetry and Song in Eighteenth-Century Lowland Scotland | McCulloch, Margery Palmer | 7,267 | 1 | 0.14 | |
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... to his castle home where she, in her turn, becomes ‘as big wi bairn/As any ladie could gae’. What makes this story so ... |
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| Ane Auld Sang | Purves, David | 7,319 | 1 | 0.14 | |
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... n, moon muinlicht, n, moonlight muir, n, moor mukkil, a, big, much murner, n, mourner mynd, v, remember myndin, n, ... |
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| Lecture on Scottish Literature 1 | Corbett, Dr John B | Video | 7,319 | 1 | 0.14 |
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... that far back. [inhale] ah, he just writes these great big long periods. [click] [inhale] But staying in the ... |
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| Jade Lute | Purves, David | 7,581 | 1 | 0.13 | |
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... monie, a, many mouls, n, soil muin, n, moon mukkil, a, big murner, n, mourner mynd, v, remember myndin, n, ... |
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| The Boddamers' Monkey | Blackhall, Sheena | 8,148 | 1 | 0.12 | |
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... The stooshie rages ben Braemar, like burn that's big wi spate. Gee-gaws an tartan trinketry are set at ilkie ... |
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| Scottish Parliament: Report on Inquiry into the role of educational and cultural policy (English) | Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body | 9,117 | 1 | 0.11 | |
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... the skills to fit into niche markets - language is a big part of this. 119. Increase funding for initiatives which ... |
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| The Heavenly Cow of Thebes [Content label: serious] | Blackhall, Sheena | 9,752 | 1 | 0.10 | |
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... web’s a corker. I met a cow in Delhi, a bobby-dazzler Big as a London bus Its horns so strong they’d puncture ... |
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| Scottish Parliament: Committees: Rural Development: Official Reports: Meeting 34, 2002 | Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body | 10,831 | 1 | 0.09 | |
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... Might not that be a preferable global outcome? That is a big question, but it is fundamental to that policy objective. ... |
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| Scottish Parliament: Committees: Finance: Official Reports: Meeting 19, 2000 | Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body | 11,626 | 1 | 0.09 | |
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... looked at the timing of the agenda and there might be a big gap between items 4 and 5. I suggest that we move items 6 ... |
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| The Way Forward for the Scots Language | Purves, David | 11,636 | 1 | 0.09 | |
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... doon at nicht Wi mirth that's dear to me; But soon the big warl's cark an' care Will quaeten doon their glee. Yet, ... |
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| Serendipity and ither poems in Scots and English | Blackhall, Sheena | 12,339 | 1 | 0.08 | |
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... limes, malaria Elephants an wud monsoons Coconuts an big baboons Seagull, spurgie, blackie, doo Microwave an ... |
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| Scottish Parliament: Committees: Health and Community Care: Official Reports: Meeting 10, 2003 | Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body | 13,883 | 1 | 0.07 | |
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... join the committee today. The OFT proposal is a seriously big issue out there, especially in my constituency in the far ... |
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| Scottish Parliament: Committees: Transport and the Environment: Official Reports: Meeting 31, 2001 | Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body | 15,521 | 1 | 0.06 | |
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... of transferred diseases and transferred genes. Those are big issues. As Dick Shelton said, the risks must be carefully ... |
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| The Ill Guidmither [Content label: serious] | Purves, David | 18,119 | 1 | 0.06 | |
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... lyke an it’s gittin waur bi the oor. It stertit near ma big tae, but nou it’s lyke the haill fuit wes on fyre. (He ... |
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