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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.
Inaugural speech by John Kirk to launch the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech Kirk, John M Video 6,982 8 1.15

... to the launch of the SCOTS Corpus Project. This is a a big day for us; I mean it's especially a big day for me cause ...
... This is a a big day for us; I mean it's especially a big day for me cause I seem to get to make three speeches. ...
... as a corpus and now there's a huge debate, "Well, how big is the internet?", and erm [laugh] what erm eh ...
... ye know, the earlier point you want it all as it were, big might not be beautiful in that case. Ehm in the ICE ...
... they heard "of", and [claps] transcribed it as "O F", so big problems there. Ethics, getting permission to record, ...
Interpreting Scots measurement terms: a cautionary tale Simpson, A D C 7,011 2 0.29

... a 'pint' and a 'gallon', which are respectively half as big again and twice as large as the old units? This is an ...
... gallon before 1426, whereas the wine gallon was half as big again and matched a 6-pint gallon with the larger 1426 ...
Interview 01: Stranraer man talking about WWII N/A Audio 6,480 16 2.47

... They were one side of the jetty whe when they had big hangars. They had a big, well one big hangar, where they ...
... of the jetty whe when they had big hangars. They had a big, well one big hangar, where they took the planes in and ...
... whe when they had big hangars. They had a big, well one big hangar, where they took the planes in and repaired them. ...
... //uh-huh// M194: side of the water, they built two big jetties, so they did. And everything was brought in by ...
... the [inaudible] into Cairnryan, they built a great big jetty there, two je- they made one, two, three, they ...
Interview 02: Jim McGonigal on "Passage/An Pasaiste" N/A Audio 6,283 2 0.32

... North to Armagh", which is the the the third of the the big long passages, M608: mmhm M078: That was a ...
... and he talks about his own back; he was he was a big man, and in this accident, the long back twisted out of ...
Interview 03: Dundee woman on her childhood N/A Audio 9,177 10 1.09

... smashed it against the wall, and all the fish were in a big puddle on the steps, squirming about. And the, just the ...
... an actual lamp-lighter. And ehm, he came with a great big long pole, that he would, cause the the gas lamps were ...
... keep them away from the kids. So he came up with a great big long pole, and I I don't know how he did it, but he just ...
... came home and was showin off that I could now write in in big people's writing. F631: mm F634: You know big ...
... in big people's writing. F631: mm F634: You know big people, that was the way big people wrote, so, that was ...
Interview 04: Dundee woman on her first job N/A Audio 4,292 9 2.10

... [inhale] There was three offices; there was the big main office and ehm, where everybody really congregated; ...
... eh with huge stairs, huge banisters. It was a really big, kind of a big bulky sort of place; that is the only way I ...
... stairs, huge banisters. It was a really big, kind of a big bulky sort of place; that is the only way I could describe ...
... What a lot of nonsense!" He said, "We have four eh big, strong shipping clerks that work here, and one of them ...
... of me bringin up the coal. [inhale] But one of the big problems I had was I could never get the fires to light. ...
Interview 05: John Law on the Scots language N/A Audio 6,222 10 1.61

... up in nichtclesses efter. F785: Mmhm. This is quite a big question. Ehm, who or what's to blame for the demise and ...
... in the present day, they've had no difficulty selling big time, ye know, in in the world English market, because ...
... Language Resource Centre, eh, the completion of the two big Scottish dictionaries, eh, and then the the putting of ...
... hasnae had is education funding. And that's that's the big political gap in the system if you like. F785: Mmhm, ...
... mmhm.// F785: anywhere else. He mentioned 'The Big Word' which happens all over Scotland but apart from that ...
Interview 06: David Purves on the Scots language N/A Audio 4,815 1 0.21

... speaks. F718: Mmhm mmhm M017: Now that's a sort of big question, of course, //but mmhm.// F718: //Mm// Do ...
Interview 07: Teacher speaking about childhood in Shetland N/A Audio 1,654 2 1.21

... up fae// F606: //Right// F828: the mainland in big con-, steel containers. F606: Oh aye. F828: Or I ...
... that kept it cool anywey it was seemed like it was great big boxes F606: uh-huh F828: ehm because of course ...
Interview 08: Headteacher in North East Scotland N/A Audio 2,237 1 0.45

... pitches there was a guy wi a, a whippet dog and he had a big sack so he reached into the sack and pulled out a rabbit ...
Interview 09: Ian Rankin on Rebus N/A Audio 6,552 1 0.15

... a book of mine called "The Hanging Garden" which won a big erm crime prize in France, and it's about a World War ...
Interview 14: Woman from Uist talking about growing up in Shetland N/A Audio 7,453 10 1.34

... eh but that, we knew that when we started so it wasn't a big surprise. //Uh-huh, mmhm.// F746: //Yeah och I ...
... from headmasters now, you know, he was so, sorta he had a big booming voice and he was very dark and eh we were just ...
... F978: don't know what they're made of, think it, big wooden, heavy, like //like fenceposts kind o thing an, ...
... Mmhm.// F978: //Yes, the-the- there there has been a big interest, I think, you know, people started to go to ...
... say then then. //An of course Lerwick you know, was a big fishing place at one time.// F746: //Yeah.// //Mm.// ...
Interview 16: Woman talking about volunteering in Toryglen N/A Audio 2,768 5 1.81

... then they were put in the// F606: //Mmhm?// F1039: big hall in the Geoff Shaw at night. They had a two day ...
... //ye know?// F606: //Mmhm.// You come from quite a big family you //said?// F1039: //Aye.// I've got five ...
... wi a, it was a family butcher firm an they had this big cattle-truck. It was cawed Big Bertha. An the the ...
... firm an they had this big cattle-truck. It was cawed Big Bertha. An the the other two men that worked in the ...
... mother an my brothers an sisters, we used tae go in this big cattle-truck an gaun away picnics, //ye know? ...
Interview 17: Glasgow man on growing up in Govan N/A Audio 2,325 12 5.16

... o chocolate for a six- for sixpence, that was a massive big treat, I never had anythin like that yeah, we used tae ...
... tae the Dai- Cuthbertson's Dairies, an they had the big Clydesdale horses there an eh the men would let ye in an ...
... door here, fright o their life an that was the, he was the big bogey man when we were boys,// F606: //[laugh]// ...
... aw beggars or, I don't know anyway, but they played the big accordian an one o them belted oot the voice an he used to ...
... we went there. So it was a- it was aw brand new an big an airy an an eh Easterhouse hadnae been built, so it ...
Interview 18: Columba Centre, Islay N/A Audio 2,794 1 0.36

... the MacDonalds of Islay had ruled the north of Ire-, a big part of the north of Ireland, the glens of Antrim and ...
Interview 20: Media for the Muslim community in Scotland N/A Audio 8,146 4 0.49

... M1174: //And it was being disused so it was like a a big massive empty floor space// //really.// M608: ...
... cooking all day long, //you know, preparing for the big meal in the evening, or at// M608: //Yeah. Yeah.// ...
... of December, you know, the previous month, there was a big issue //er sporting news or whatever,// M608: ...
... a- anyone, nowadays everyone's watching, you know, the big Bollywood blockbuster films and from the young kid to ...
Interview 21: Suhayl Saadi N/A Audio 23,059 5 0.22

... are the rock groups that are singing about Iraq //of the big rock groups, the popular, the top rock, you know, the ones ...
... er, it's been forgotten by a lot of people //who live in big cities and so on, you know, they don't, erm,// F963: ...
... pulled books off the shelf at home, //and put them in a big knapsack, you know, it was like Christmas-time and I was ...
... Christmas-time and I was like Santa, you know, with this big knapsack, you know?// F963: //[laugh] Right. ...
... said it's behind you! [laugh] //And it was the list on big billboards behind me of the top twenty books.// F963: ...
Interview with Bernice Sibbald for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 28,837 32 1.11

... younger ones came after you?// Five of you, and you're a big sister. F1680: Mmhm. F1189: You're a middle child ...
... //That's right.// That's right. F1189: Now, how big was that house in Niddrie, it was a local authority house, ...
... it was still small, but you know, we thought it was big. F1189: Mmhm. So you got a four apartment then, and ...
... that was used the most, believe it or not, cause it was a big kitchen, but //it's like everywhere else, we all used to ...
... room.// F1189: //Mmhm mm.// And did you have a big kitchen, er did you say you had a big kitchen? F1680: ...
Interview with David Thomson for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 20,274 19 0.94

... us onto learning very early and ehm I know she gave me a big help as far as reading and writing and that sort of thing ...
... twenty-two. F1189: Mm. M1193: So she's a big influence in my life. And probably was one of the main ...
... well// There were ehm, yeah, we had a fairly big bookcase. F1189: Mm. M1193: I, I just can't ...
... don't learn' so. F1189: Your aunt seems to have been a big //influence in that way mm.// M1193: //Oh big ...
... been a big //influence in that way mm.// M1193: //Oh big influence in my, my life.// //Yeah, there's no question ...
Interview with Evelyn Entwistle for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 19,719 18 0.91

... he lost his first wife.// F1189: Well you had a big sister then. //That-that's nice, uh-huh uh-huh mmhm.// ...
... yes not nice at all.// F1189: Now was it quite a big house then? //Mmhm mm mm mmhm.// F1195: //Oh yes it ...
... bedrooms cause my brother had a wee room, my parents had a big room and I had a big room and my sister had a big room.// ...
... had a wee room, my parents had a big room and I had a big room and my sister had a big room.// //And there was a ...
... had a big room and I had a big room and my sister had a big room.// //And there was a small room for the maid so it ...

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