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454 documents matching criteria (34.50% of corpus)

2,946,861 total words in matching documents (64.24% of corpus)

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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
BBC Voices Recording: Perth N/A Audio 17,146 7 0.41

... Mmhm. F1027: An it was great cause there were great big huge //enormous baths and you could have as much hot ...
... I wouldn't know. F1027: Oh there been- that was a big discussion in our //house.// F1023: //Aye I asked ...
... and things like that, whereas the garden shed had the big tools. F1025: Mmhm mmhm. F1027: So it would be "Go ...
... they've got all this weight round their waist plus your big body armour an, //I mean it must// F1024: //Cer- ...
... round the ear for it too, well no, not now they're too big! [laugh]// F1026: //[laugh]// //Oh.// F1023: ...
BBC Voices Recording: Portree N/A Audio 14,267 3 0.21

... Participate in a game? I'm thinking maybe that's too big a M1008: //A bit formal for that.// M1055: //Too ...
... a gentleman ehm in the west of Skye who lives in a, a big building eh ehma big edifice, ehm and he at one point ...
... in the west of Skye who lives in a, a big building eh ehma big edifice, ehm and he at one point was trying to sell 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: ...
Better Ower Yer Thrapple Fairnie, Robert 511 1 1.96

... an the singer on the tape wis still giein San Francisco big licks but wi a slower an deeper vice. He set Eddie’s pint ...
Biggam Collection Letter: 01 Taylor, James 357 1 2.80

... latter must be a pretty generous bloke if he's cashing out big eats to about fifteen people. I'm in complete agreement ...
Biggam Collection Letter: 09 Law, Madge Taylor 261 1 3.83

... the clock as usual. Hope you like the photo, the two big ones are enlargements of the snaps I took myself. I hope ...
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 ...
Bonny in Black [Content label: lesser] Bruce, Eddie 4,823 1 0.21

... him the night before - for the first time ever. “You’re a big improvement on the scruffy little bugger you used to be.” ...
Bruised Blue Grainger, Cecilia 13,524 12 0.89

... Della, Della…? Thurs a body comin up the track…it the big Yew…STOPPED IT THE BIG YEW… (Pause) Krista is it a man?: ...
... a body comin up the track…it the big Yew…STOPPED IT THE BIG YEW… (Pause) Krista is it a man?: AH’M FEARED! (Pause) A ...
... thit got hunted doon an tried fur thur wickedness…BIG DEEP DARK BOGGLE HOLE waitin ower the hill; up bi the wee ...
... only man Ah’d noh be allowed ti show fear. Silence TESS. Big bag that…looks heavy…! (Touches the bag) ZEB. You’d be ...
... she want to come over here? / She looks… TESS. Bag that big might hawd aw kindae things. ROBBY. AW AW! Hawd oan Lori: ...
Buchan Words and Ways Fenton, Alexander 52,521 50 0.95

... need for cuffs. If you wore a dress or coat that was too big, someone would say, 'That een's been made for yer growth'. ...
... of chain that completed the binnin were fixed to the big loop of the sweevle. One had a loop end and the other a ...
... I winner foo mony o ye hiv iver tried e smiler? That's a big shoulder rake, used for example to gather hay left over ...
... enough sign of how hard it was to pull. The old style had big wooden teeth, but the ones I knew had curved iron tines. ...
... for hauling out broomstocks by the root, so it had to be big and powerful. It was smiddy-made, all of iron, with a ...
Cereal terms in the DOST record Macleod, Iseabail 4,340 1 0.23

... (Dalrymple [1596] in Cody 1885-95:I, 57/27). The form 'big(g)' for six-or four-rowed barley (from Old Norse 'bygg') ...
Club review of Vegas, Renfrew Ferry, Glasgow English, Paul 1,057 1 0.95

... on how you're attired, you could be in for another big surprise - a financial one. Yup, there are discounts for ...
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 02: Glasgow woman on childhood memories N/A Audio 5,509 5 0.91

... kitchen. And we used to play under the table, and, the big chenille cover, and wee Angus and I got on great. We ...
... F632: mmhm F646: But, they were going to have a big house; they were going to have a two-room and kitchen, ...
... at the foot of Wee Gordon Street, the wall bit was was big sleepers, railway sleepers //up and// F632: //mmhm// ...
... standin there four of us, and up a- painted in great big chalk letters on it was S-H-I-T-E, //[laugh]// F632: ...
... lyin there greetin. [laugh] [inaudible] This great big lump's comin [laugh], my mother said, "And what did you ...
Conversation 03: Ayrshire couple on motorcycling [Content label: serious] N/A Audio 9,868 10 1.01

... a shame in a way you didn't go to it. And it was all the big personalities were there, setting it up for the very first ...
... now, M608: mmhm M642: but I think Honda gave him a big payoff. M608: hm M642: A lot of money. M608: ...
... it really, M642: And you remember we hit that //big eh hole on Racecourse, eh, Road.// F643: ...
... [laugh] M642: we got there, and, within that big triangle, there's little country lanes. And we were told ...
... mmhm M642: but when we were up there, it was a big bend, you know they just went round it, and there were a ...
Conversation 04: Two female students on university life N/A Audio 5,577 5 0.90

... F745: //Yeah.// F746: have to go through some big spiel of, like, "oh, such and such, who lives in such and ...
... briefly lived in Aberdeen but, you know, that's just a big city as well, //so,// F746: //mmhm// F745: don't ...
... //oh// //erm// F746: //Maybe you had// quite a big class in //first year?// F745: //No.// //It wa- ...
... and there was these other guys", and it's all just, like, big lists of people and stuff. F746: Yeah. //That's ...
... looking but now that, you know, I've got into this big panic about my dissertation I'm just, F746: Yeah, well ...

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