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Scots Tung Wittins 51 Fairnie, Robert 2,596 2 0.77

... curns. Aiblins we shuid be haein a thocht noo on hoo tae big up a mair formal infrastructure amang us aw juist in case ...
... in genral ower the hail o Scotland. It ettles an aw tae big up the ingate tae buiks athin aw the airts o Scottish ...
Scots Tung Wittins 62 Fairnie, Robert 2,606 2 0.77

... New Year thon auld sang haesna kythed; a rehearsal for the Big Ane neist year whan London program high heid anes will ...
... tae mak siccar thay dinna mak the same mistaks whan the big ane comes roond at Hogmanay 1999? For us, the high-lichts ...
Scottish Parliament: Committees: Standards: Official Reports: Meeting 11, 2001 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 5,232 4 0.76

... flurry of e-mails, saying, "It wisnae me, guv, it was a big guy who broke the windae and ran away." Kay Ullrich: Or a ...
... guy who broke the windae and ran away." Kay Ullrich: Or a big, black dug. Mr McAveety: There is an issue surrounding the ...
... history—and certainly not here—has the identity of the big, black dug been found. Mr McAveety: Have there not been a ...
... Kay Ullrich: But as far as committees are concerned, the big, black dug has never been found. Lord James ...
Scots Tung Wittins 145 Fairnie, Robert 2,668 2 0.75

... dirks in a kiltie's soack" an descrives him as bein "as big as a tenement" an wha leuked as tho he'd pit Hercules "…in ...
... the sky while shoutin efter Hercules, "Whaur ye gaun, ya big chanty? " It is easy at this time o year tae cry this a ...
Conversation 08: Ayrshire woman and her mother N/A Audio 8,028 6 0.75

... my mum and dad, and pe- visitors coming in, there was a big shopping done. And we had a tut a boiler in our kitchen, ...
... then, eh, the day after New Year, eh there was always a big steak pie. Cause you usually had people, well somebody, ...
... to put the milk and the butter. She would ehm, fill a a big dish with cold //water, and sit it in to keep// F641: ...
... know, you// F640: //And one// especially was a big paper bell, which //hung at at the window, remember?// ...
... window, remember?// F639: //That's right, the window big// paper bell, and and just like paper, or sort of, the ...
Queerie-Orrals Blackhall, Sheena 4,073 3 0.74

... inno the bosie o Teenie McGee. It grew through the nicht big's a were-wolf sae furry, Nae twa winks o sleep could she ...
... there. It treetled ahin her fin she wauked tae class, Sae big noo, the teacher could hardly win past. Fariver she gaed ...
... tae her granny, an grat on her lap. (The Worry cam tae, big's an elephant's bap). Granny tuik oot her glaisses, the ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 25 - 02.01.82 852 1,378 1 0.73

... the Tigers - Huskers game just as Clemson was making the big play. Nebraska made the best of the break, forcing a ...
Conversation 40: Two students from near Dumfries on university and home [Content label: lesser] N/A Video 8,270 6 0.73

... apparently they were down to see my mum last week in the big new house. Erm, but they we- came on Sunday night and ...
... mum's new erm new house, she's got her couches now, the big chocolate brown leather //couches.// F1155: //Oh did ...
... when we were at at er school and they came and gave us a big talk for the Crichton Campus, //to try and stop// ...
... //Mm.// //That'll be good. It'll look good in your big Christmas tree.// F1154: //cause I don't know how ...
... favourite one, aren't you?// //Yeah, we could have a big tree though, couldn't we, like in the window.// F1155: ...
Peggy's Party Connell, Andrina 2,769 2 0.72

... “Well just you light up whenever you feel like it. Your big son’s been on the phone and I’ve convinced him he doesn’t ...
... if a bus came first – well. He turned to wave to her. The big silver Christmas tree, its abundant and identical blue ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 13, recording 3: having a bath N/A Audio 4,157 3 0.72

... up. F1105: [laugh] You dinna tell fibs. That's a big story. M1106: [engine noises] //[laugh]// ...
... What was coming over the harbour wall? M1106: Some big waves! F1105: That's right! And they were crashing. ...
... [inaudible]. F1105: Where's your other shell at? The big long one? M1106: I don't know. It must have fallen ...
Dog's Bite; Bee's Sting [Content label: serious] Grainger, Cecilia 8,532 6 0.70

... to his knees; looks around BJ. Aye, Kirsty slappin oan big dollops o mayo oan mah very very private parts… BJ ...
... than hur. (Pause) See, her world Lee’s world wis fu o big bad monsters, powerful monsters…in collar’s an ties wi ...
... here Lee… Silence LEE. You playin at…at…was gonnae say big brother, bit playin at bein daddy eh, Beej? She kin make a ...
... how’s aboot a spot o friendly sparrin? PAT. Aye come oan big man; like auld times…? BJ. Ah’d be delighted Pat: efter yi ...
... Silence JILLY. Ah understand aw the beatins fi ur big broon leather belt; Lee makin yi a tough guy; makin yi ...
The Former Pupils' Guild of the Mary Erskine School - Minutes May 1994 Forrest, Mrs Shona C 1,423 1 0.70

... a) Labels for furniture The proposed metal labels were too big. Miss [CENSORED: surname] reported that some of the ...
Craiters: 19 - Liptovska Teplicka Fenton, Alexander 2,855 2 0.70

... wis a widden world. E hooses, e heich, wide gates at wis big enyeuch tae let in a loadit wagon, e reef overhangs at ...
... stove, nae nott on is warm July nichts, an opposite, a big, new television set at wir hosts, Jan an Sofia, were jist ...
Conversation 39: Two female students on student halls, university, philosophy and religion N/A Audio 8,726 6 0.69

... //Yeah, it is a bit isolated.// F1151: it is quite big and everything but they forget that, you know, they are ...
... it's not really a nightshift, but we keep getting his like big deliveries of wine when he's sleeping during the day, ...
... //but it was never// F1150: //Yeah.// F1151: a big deal because there was enough people there to kind of ...
... wee brother.// //Yeah. [laugh]// F1151: //he's my big wee brother. [laugh]// Erm, yeah, I've s-, trying to ...
... joked, "Oh that's handy cause they've just opened that big philosophy factory down the road", //and I sat there ...
Conversation 07: Ayrshire woman on her career N/A Audio 8,821 6 0.68

... my mum had me when she was forty, so there was quite a big age gap between us, M608: mmhm F643: and in her ...
... recorded message] Just turn it off, oh we'll get a big message [phone rings] coming through. [phone noise] ...
... print and //we had a// M608: //mmhm// F643: big opening and a big art, a big exhibition and they, they ...
... had a// M608: //mmhm// F643: big opening and a big art, a big exhibition and they, they came along to that ...
... M608: //mmhm// F643: big opening and a big art, a big exhibition and they, they came along to that and did lots ...
A Braw Guid Alairm Fairnie, Robert 1,498 1 0.67

... aye heard the soond looder when we opened the door tae the big bedroom press.” “Weel oor press wis backin on tae yours ...
BBC Voices Recording: Aberdeen N/A Audio 13,536 9 0.66

... was an iron sink, not enamel, iron sink ye know, an we'd a big zinc bath and Da used tae sit in the bath an we'd tae ...
... o rice, because Ma was in the wash-hoose an there was a big biler goin an she was sweatin an she'd on her rubber apron ...
... rubber apron an //an oh my God!// F1041: //An her big boots.// M1042: An an if it was rainin the the the ...
... I would hae s- 'thingummybob', 'her wi the big nose', or 'her wi the// //droopy eyes' or you would try ...
... M1042: //yeah but// yeah 'drookit' is a big word. //That's when oh God ye're absolutely drookit an I ...
The Fanatic (extract 3) [Content label: serious] Robertson, James 4,519 3 0.66

... ma feet but she was awa. I stood there shakin. I had this big pain in ma baws. Like there was this big knot aw tangled ...
... I had this big pain in ma baws. Like there was this big knot aw tangled up. I felt I was gaun tae puke.’ ‘And did ...
... had a kinna study. He uised tae work at hame tae. He was a big shot in the Infirmary.’ ‘Ye kent ye were for it.’ ‘I was ...
The Fower Quarters: 02 - Purity Blackhall, Sheena 3,055 2 0.65

... them, Danny, no middle way. And if you played with the big boys... Just after her fifteenth birthday, Jennifer had ...
... are in their pants. He won't wait for ever. What's the big deal about being a virgin anyway? It's only a word. It ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 01, recording 4: tidying the toybox N/A Audio 7,667 5 0.65

... Okay. Hey! Are you gonna be a photographer when you're big? F1122: No. F1121: What are you gonna be when ...
... No. F1121: What are you gonna be when you're big? F1122: Ice-cream lady. F1121: You're gonna be an ...
... keeping all those?// F1122: Aye look [?]a bonny[/?] big picture. F1121: But you could colour that in. See? Did ...
... How does it go? Tell me. F1122: Mum, you're too big to //put it on.// F1121: //Oh my head's too big for ...
... too big to //put it on.// F1121: //Oh my head's too big for that.// F1122: Mum, how about this? You could ...
A Wee Scran o Herrin Fairnie, Robert 1,552 1 0.64

... the links. The first door thay chappit wis yin o thae big stane hooses wi its ain gairden an awthin an, as suin as ...
The Wee Reid Hen de Rusett, Wendy 1,571 1 0.64

... cut doon the corn? Horse: I wis working. I need an extra big helpin, cos I’m a muckle beast. Farm-wife: Far wis you fan ...
The Annals of Arbuthnott Part Two Williamson, Isabella 15,890 10 0.63

... are remembered. The school was lit with paraffin lamps. A big stove and open fires supplied heating; wet clothes were ...
... Roberts playing the cornet and Les Watt singing "With the big Kilmarnock Bonnet". On another occasion at a concert ...
... made out of clay or stone, not glass as today. The big one was called a peever but this was later changed to a ...
... joined with a piece of fine string about two foot long. A big wooden reel was balanced on the string and made to travel ...
... They later moved to Bamph Croft. The corn was milled by a big white horse called Meg walking round and round in a ...
BBC Voices Recording: Stirling N/A Audio 14,324 9 0.63

... forename], our absent friend, who's pregnant, and she's a big girl, and she's, you know, right from early on she was ...
... big girl, and she's, you know, right from early on she was big, and somebody said to her "A- are you carrying twins?" ...
... and she said "No, my father s-, my father says it's a big single". Cause she's from a farm, you know? [laugh] ...
... And it was like, //you know when the cows have got a big single?// F1054: //[inaudible]// //[laugh]// ...
... //Aye, she is!// F1144: //She's just havin a big single!// F1054: Okay, erm, words for insane? F1144: ...
Lecture: A Curriculum for Excellence: latest developments and implications for the teaching of languages in Scotland N/A Video 7,965 5 0.63

... that four of the sort of key points that came out of that big consultation exercise, which are particularly important ...
... clearly. So sort of narrowing it down from the great big picture to where we are. The programme board that was ...
... it links in to Assessment is for Learning which has been a big initiative in primary and in secondary, looking at ...
... there because curriculum flexibility, which is the other big erm project at the moment, it- it- it's almost erm ...
... But I was equally aware at the time that there were big problems concerning Higher English, [cough] which I ...
Craiters: 03 - Stirries Fenton, Alexander 1,596 1 0.63

... ey heidit in aa airts, an een hovert near abeen’s facin e big dresser mirror, faar it saa fit it thocht wis its fella ...
Conversation 01: Edinburgh man on his childhood N/A Audio 4,806 3 0.62

... er, when I was in Primary three, when I was up at the "Big School", //as it// F718: //mmhm// M734: was. ...
... //mmhm// M734: er It's kind of moving towards a Big Brother society, //er,// F718: //Yeah.// M734: ...
... fallen down now, that a lot of the bands who've got really big, lose that edge because, well, "yes, I'm just off back to ...
Conversation 34: Two students on leisure interests and part-time work [Content label: serious] N/A Video 9,753 6 0.62

... hit with sticks across his back, and it ends up, he's got big red marks, it's horrible. Dad hates doin it. //But ...
... I was quite annoyed, but erm I seen like this huge big punchbag, and I always thought, see the ones that you ...
... like they just cover and no more, it's not like huge //big boxin gloves.// F1049: //Uh-huh.// M1048: Erm and ...
... a huge one, like a huge pizza, and all that, er you get a big bottle of Coke and chips and something else for a tenner. ...
... F1049: I know. Linny's comin back down for Lynn's big sister's twenty-first but I'm going to take them out ...
Diaries of William Young: 1952 Young, William 3,260 2 0.61

... satisfactorily I hope. To Cathedral for evening service. Big place. 8 SATURDAY Buy presents before leaving 11.20am. ...
... 17 MONDAY Catherine showing off gym dress. She is getting big. Lathalmond today. 18 TUESDAY A good day. Not a lot to do. ...
Interview with Mary A Ronnie, Part 2, for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 21,283 13 0.61

... Mmhm. F1190: And for a month, we went round with a big trolley, F1189: Mmhm. F1190: going through every ...
... to own them and //particularly, I've got quite a big New Zealand collection.// F1189: //Mmhm, mmhm.// ...
... turned out in-in F1189: Mmhm. F1190: quite big numbers then, but there wasn't the same intensity of ...
... places, she was going to small schools and - it wasn't big, flourishy stuff.// F1189: //Mm, mmhm, mmhm, mmhm, ...
... just //non-stop.// F1189: //Yes,// it it w-was big news in-in the States, I think. //Mmhm, mmhm, mmhm.// ...
BBC Voices Recording: Hawick N/A Audio 11,536 7 0.61

... he's no gettin money in an thing like that an him wi a big faimly an thing like that but that's what she fund oot ...
... be a// a lot o tenements in Hawick an you know there was big families, could be up tae seventy folk usin a couple o ...
... yer shouder?// M1010: eh they had bi- muckle big barras an they pit their slates ontae it their ledders ...
... maybe before your age, like// but they aw used tae be big boots an big jackets an an their the ladies they they ...
... your age, like// but they aw used tae be big boots an big jackets an an their the ladies they they were just the ...
Craiters: 20 - Biz-Bizzin Fenton, Alexander 3,297 2 0.61

... back an fore, an niver lookin like needin tae come doon. A big helicopter wis huntin aboot like a vulture tee, nae lookin ...
... broon an fite, een wi a braid collar roon its neck an a big bell hingin anaith. It wis handy for e lads at e huts tae ...
Conversation 33: Two female students on Scotland, and University education N/A Video 11,628 7 0.60

... F1037: //So,// anyway. F1038: I've got a massive big //politics thing, [laugh]// F1037: //Yeah, that's ...
... things, well theatre tickets, all the time, for all the big London theatres, Shakespeare Company, all that sort of ...
... to University College, and it looked amazing, you know, big //castle, that kind of thing,// F1037: //Yeah, ...
... could never quite get it.// I got one about that //big. [laugh]// F1037: //No, no, i- it// the- there ...
... F1037: go into if I if I got a reason to do a big shopping, nip in there and er go to Marks and Sparks, ...
Scottish Parliament: Committees: Enterprise and Lifelong Learning: Official Reports: Meeting 30, 2000 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 16,827 10 0.59

... the Finns and the Swedes are doing. That sounds like big stuff, but if we are serious about staying ahead, that is ...
... that there are different solutions. There is no single big bang that would suit the various needs of different parts ...
... of globalisation, rather than on the opportunities. The big oil companies in Aberdeen are committed to the knowledge ...
... of the new economy and e-commerce. The oil companies are a big pull factor—those are the words that were used. Many of ...
... sector? As Nick Johnston said, the oil companies are the big players in the area. Is there a tendency for the ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 05, recording 2: choosing what to have for tea N/A Audio 1,705 1 0.59

... F1142: Yes. F1141: Okay. //Are you ready to jump big?// F1142: //Beans and sau-.// //[shout] I like ...
BBC Voices Recording: Dunbar [Content label: lesser] N/A Audio 13,714 8 0.58

... used tae say exactly what Gordon says, anyone living in big house an that in Dunbar, "Oh they're the well off, we're ...
... M1014: //Kept the sun off [inaudible]// //It was a big hood [inaudible].// M1017: //A big, a big thing made ...
... //It was a big hood [inaudible].// M1017: //A big, a big thing made by, my mother used tae make them, it was ...
... was a big hood [inaudible].// M1017: //A big, a big thing made by, my mother used tae make them, it was a big ...
... big thing made by, my mother used tae make them, it was a big thing wi// //oh hoops, canes an things like that an it ...
The Storie o Caermoulis Purves, David 1,779 1 0.56

... out hir auld clouts, an the neist day, she arranged for a big pairtie o hir freins ti cum til the houss about the tyme ...
Conversation 31: Male from Glasgow and female from Scottish Borders [Content label: serious] N/A Audio 7,307 4 0.55

... M944: //That's all// Each? But that's not that big a deal. //And it's two hundred quid.// F943: //It ...
... of rampage for me. I I don't want to walk in and have a big fat bli-. I've always waited for her to walk in one day ...
... I've always waited for her to walk in one day with a big fat blister and cold sore. It's never bloody happened. ...
... she could give me is "Beware, he hits on girls", bit. I'm big enough to look after myself. Cause I would kill you. ...
BBC Voices Recording: Leith N/A Audio 16,679 9 0.54

... F1054: And is there no kilts in Dundee, is it not a big thing? M1019: Well I don't know about in Dundee but in ...
... you see, changed, changed. But eh, later on there was a big influx frae the west, and I palled aboot wi some boys ...
... apart from syntax and grammar used, which does make a big difference to individual languages, I found anyway, I ...
... the word "gear", you know? Aye, plumbers and those with big tools and instruments did use a toolbox, aye, it was ...
... gear. Aye, and it was smaller, you didnae have to lug a big tool kit across, "It's got to go in, [?]Char-[/?]. It'll ...
Craiters: 08 - E Forkietailies Fenton, Alexander 1,857 1 0.54

... Bit ye didna knock e strainers in wi e mell. Ey were ower big for at, for ey were mint tae tak e strain o e weers in twa ...
Diaries of William Young: 1957 Young, William 1,892 1 0.53

... Feel this is a must if I am going to do anything big in this writing game. 18 FRIDAY 21 Present at our first ...
"Obituary for Christine Guthrie, 1896-1999" MacGillivray, Alan 1,893 1 0.53

... spent occasional holidays with her at Cairndhu. The big adventure of her later life occurred when she made a ...
Biggam Collection Letter: 12 Law, Madge Taylor 1,932 1 0.52

... all young trees so far I'm just hoping they don't grow too big, also an apple tree at the side but there was only 2 ...
A lock o hellery Johnson, Laureen 1,933 1 0.52

... the same source, implying that the quantity was a bit too big for the speaker’s liking? Or did N.E. Scots arriving in ...
Expressive oo and a boat: The Shetland Schools Craft Residency Hughson, Hazel 1,948 1 0.51

... challenge to Jeanette Sendler to 'felt a sail in a day': a big project. She collaborated with local artists, children and ...
Halesome Farin' Waddell, Mr John 15,793 8 0.51

... tae fill yer wame an keep ye warm till ye get hame." "Hoo big's the sea?" A spiered her. "Och, ten times as big as ...
... "Hoo big's the sea?" A spiered her. "Och, ten times as big as Foswell loch. Bit mind the time - an watch yer feet! ...
... Scots 'moose', of course. The moose that I speak of is big as a horse." "Guid save us!" cried Santa, "Hoo big are yer ...
... of is big as a horse." "Guid save us!" cried Santa, "Hoo big are yer rats? Nae doot ye'll be needin great monsters o ...
... dae, stick oot yer neck An gie the nearest yin a peck. The big yins, pester them enough, They'll throw ye bits o bread an ...
Joseph Knight (extract 1) Robertson, James 5,946 3 0.50

... ‘Weel, I’ll tell ye,’ she said. ‘It’s a country whaur big glaikit chiels like you dae whit they’re tellt by the ...
... house because of the ‘blackie’. Peggy’s man Chae was a big glaik from Forfar, often half drunk and always wholly ...
... sight of Joseph, and she had known why she had come to the big house out on the Perth road: she had come for him. The ...
The Ootlaw Purves, David 7,971 4 0.50

... hut, door at back, window holes, right and left, closed by big heavy wooden shutters. Wooden benches against walls, the ...
... for auld Neptune himsell. Syne thare cam a mukkil swaw as big as a houss--- Valgerd: An syne---? Orm: An syne – Ah coud ...
... til Ake-Thor whan ye war swallaed bi yon mukkil swaw as big as a houss. Thorfinn: Thare ye tell a lee. Orm: Orm never ...
... Ay, YOU! But ye’r no yeir lane. Ah hae seen a hantil big, mukkil bairns wi lang tousie baerds an gray hair, an ...
Conversation 22: Mother and son talking about living in Aberdeen N/A Audio 2,001 1 0.50

... ten thousand less parking spaces. F826: They that big? M827: Well they we-, aye they were, but the way ...
BBC Voices Recording: Inverurie N/A Audio 12,014 6 0.50

... F1001: //But the at that time o day folk had great big hooses,// M1000: //Mmhm.// F1001: an I suppose ye ...
... M1002: //Or a calfie.// M999: When ye become a big quinie then ye become a quine. [laugh] There's, then ...
... //Aye, aye.// M999: meanin that. //Meaning the big a- the big area that's eh between the hoose an the an ...
... aye.// M999: meanin that. //Meaning the big a- the big area that's eh between the hoose an the an the steadin,// ...
... enough, I //[inaudible]// F1001: //A fine a fine big car an// a fine big hoose. M999: Aye. F1001: Twa ...

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