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| Pillars of Society | Thirkell, Alison | 29,032 | 8 | 0.28 | |
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... that used to go on. There were some houses that had twa big dinner-parties in a week. MRS LAING: And I hear there was ... ... by grand, exactly? DEANA: Grand is - something that is big and worthwhile and - far, far away. ROWLAND: Hm. Deana, my ... ... guidwill I can muster frae my fellow-citizens. I've a gey big enterprise on hand, as you may have heard, and if ... ... Beaumont," as it says over the gate. You seem to be the big man around here. JACK: Fine ships you have too. I bumped ... ... for the sake o Betty. All the same - that you could be so big-heartit as tak the blame - JACK: Put it behind you, James. ... |
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| Pompitie Finnds a Needle - play | Purves, David | 11,406 | 4 | 0.35 | |
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... tea caddy.) Pompitie: A mukkil needle---? Tea Wyfe: Ay, a big braw yin. Pompitie: N-N-Na, no me! Wha wants ti ken? Tea ... ... He wad hae, but he didna see me, wi him be-in sae big an me be-in sae wee. Pepper: Ah wad hae been feart richt ... ... war never a wee laddie, shuirlie? Broun Ogre: Ah wes aye big an strang for ma age, but it didna dae me onie guid. Ah ... ... kiss hir. She said Ah wes a mukkil jessie! Juist kis ye’r big an strang, it disna mean ye want ti hurt oniebodie. It’s ... |
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| Preparing to Meet the Minotaur | Blackhall, Sheena | 8,944 | 2 | 0.22 | |
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... jist a flamin scunner. No, ye canna. "Dan, can I clap yon big Alsatian dug?" Nuh. Stuff yer face wi this. Here's a ... ... caught on the hop A fast food takeaway . "Oh pussy, what big eyes you've got" Floppy's a rag doll, dried blood stuck to ... |
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| Pub review of The Living Room, Glasgow | English, Paul | 696 | 2 | 2.87 | |
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... lads thinking that they were the local equivalent of Mr Big. It's like Morton thinking they're Real Madrid. Still, ... ... one of our boozers commented made 'everyone look healthy', big windows, roomy tables, a long bar and creamy drapes give ... |
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| Queerie-Orrals | Blackhall, Sheena | 4,073 | 3 | 0.74 | |
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... 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 ... |
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| Recounting Blessings - Chapter 3 | Henderson, John | 1,041 | 1 | 0.96 | |
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... And if things got a wee bit tousy from the variety of ‘big-yins’ who would muscle into such evening confrontations, ... |
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| Refuge [Content label: serious] | Paisley, Janet | 22,040 | 17 | 0.77 | |
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... room, welded to the fireplace. I thought they had a dog, a big dog. CAROLANNE: Oh Maggie. MAGGIE: What are we living ... ... A bucket for a toilet. This house is a (SHE INDICATES BIG) - he's a doctor! She said he'd padlock the collar. ... ... aboot the weans, you think? AGNES: Och, aye. Her ain are big noo. Ages wi your Gordon the laddie? SADIE: Near 'nuff. ... ... Oh great. I'll get to play in the playroom now. SADIE: Big wean. There's burgers for your tea. (GORDON HEADS FOR THE ... ... RUBBING HER RIBS) GORDON: Hey Agnes, you could've been big. AGNES: Son, ah um big. Whit's mair, ah've ayewis been big ... |
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| Scots in Hawaii [Content label: serious] | Smith, Rob Mcclure | 4,470 | 4 | 0.89 | |
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... still nursing mega-hangovers the next afternoon when the Big Island spooled beneath them in grids of brown and green ... ... from Chicago who was most definitely checking out Bethia big time. You couldn’t blame him really. She was wearing this ... ... how he was an Assistant Professor of Astronomy, off to the Big Island to work for a couple of weeks on one of the ... ... chugged a good quart of red on the plane, her being a big believer in hair of the dog, among other myths. She ... |
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| Scotspik | de Rusett, Wendy | 890 | 1 | 1.12 | |
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... house. We say hoose. You say mouse. We say moose. You say big. We say muckle. There’s a moose loose aboot the hoose, An ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 100 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,370 | 2 | 0.84 | |
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... first muckle projeck o its like in Scotland. It ettles tae big a muckle electronic ingaitherin o baith written an spoken ... ... texts haes been ingaithert, they'll be eikit thegither tae big up a muckle electronic archive. SCOTS will be a resource ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 102 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,409 | 1 | 0.42 | |
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... passed it doon tae me. He also hud an elephant, Wi great big massive lugs, It sat doon in the corner, Beside his fluffy ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 103 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,634 | 1 | 0.38 | |
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... they aa end up suggestin they're named efter some local big hoose? Weel it's a richt disgrace bit the fowk wha hae had ... |
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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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| 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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| Scots Tung Wittins 111 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,503 | 1 | 0.40 | |
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... wey. Ae maimber pyntit oot hou important it wis tae big up ae data base o aw the Scots language teachin graith ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 114 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,652 | 1 | 0.38 | |
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... whaur there fowk that wants it." The SNP promised tae big on Mike Russell's Gaelic Language Bill that rin oot o time ... |
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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 117 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,258 | 1 | 0.44 | |
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... hay lying in the swathe, the kirn to kirn, an the peats to big? Glaikit giglets! Do ye think to get through the warld ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 119 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,301 | 2 | 0.87 | |
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... that rowes in the European Commission direck like tae big up a European Agency for Linguistic Diversity an Language ... ... burnt ma haun. Pit TCP oan it, hen. Granny, A've goat a big plook oan ma neb. Pit TCP oan it. Granny, ma thrapple's ... |
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| Scots Tung Wittins 120 | Fairnie, Robert | 2,243 | 2 | 0.89 | |
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... country the day." (Itchy Coo catalogue) Tam o Shanter's Big Night Oot is editit bi Matthew Fitt an James Robertson. ... ... hamecomin:- "The Forth Rail Brig taen seeven year tae big an wis officially opened in Mairch 1890 bi H.R.H. Prince o ... |
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