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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.
Conversation 05: Fife couple on shared memories N/A Audio 11,194 46 4.11

... was a// M642: //uh-huh// M608: //mm// F643: big fire in that corner, and there was a big fire there. ...
... F643: big fire in that corner, and there was a big fire there. M642: There was five chimneys in the ...
... and the rats used tae eat the wallpaper off. And we got a big hose and we washed aw the walls doon an awthing //and ...
... wash yer claes there was an auld //shed ootside, wi a big biler where ye'd tae light the fire.// F643: //The ...
... ye aboot.// M608: //oh aye.// M642: //The big hole, wi the big pump!// F643: //We shoulda kept it ...
Conversation 06: Three Ayrshire sisters reminiscing N/A Audio 8,918 27 3.03

... was Miss [?]Hamell[/?].// F638: //And mind// mind big tumshie Thomson? Miss Loudon poked him wi the poker and he ...
... Well I had F640: Cause I had the one wi the great big F638: Right! Well I had Miss [CENSORED: surname], no ...
... M608: //[laugh]// F638: And the great big gauntlets and she came in a //motorbike. So she did!// ...
... never.// F637: //I know that, and it was a great big// motorbike, //ye know.// M608: //And what kind ...
... F637: ye were seven and then ye went up tae the big school. M608: mmhm F637: And ye were there fae ye ...
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 ...
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 ...
Conversation 09: Two brothers on early memories N/A Audio 3,071 3 0.98

... they made the class sizes bigger. M608: mmhm //How big were the classes?// M636: //ah eh// //They were big ...
... big were the classes?// M636: //ah eh// //They were big classes.// M635: //There would probably// be between ...
... M635: mmhm M636: And th- they had had a sort of big end-of-ehwar banquet, M608: mmhm M636: at this, ...
Conversation 10: Two female students on travel and university N/A Video 6,028 5 0.83

... [tut], it's um, I think it's good that it's quite a big city, coming, like, coming from Hamburg and stuff. Um, ...
... that, but. Yeah. F807: [laugh] F806: [laugh] Big pause! [laugh] F807: [cough] [laugh] F806: ...
... the summer break, you know, eh June, July. F807: The big break? //Mmhm// F806: //Yeah,// I don't th-, I ...
... so we sat out the side on the terrace, and there was a big umbrella. I had a strappy top on but I sat underneath the ...
... of [exhale] [laugh] oh no! F806: That's a big essay! F807: I know, I know. F806: Hefty topics. ...
Conversation 11: Two female students chatting on various topics [Content label: lesser] N/A Video 8,349 3 0.36

... that //kind of place.// F810: //Cause eh, they do a big// thing up on eh, what do you call it? Arthur's Seat. ...
... none of these, none of these" and then I found like this big chunk of university-relevant texts. //So I was "oh,// ...
... jumper. Honestly. This horrible panda jumper and her big moustache. It's just so horrible, [laugh], but eh. I ...
Conversation 12: Two male students chatting about pastimes N/A Video 12,111 23 1.90

... every bone in my body. M815: No. M816: None o the big, //none o the,// M815: //Too careful!// M816: ...
... M816: in Scotland have got them. They're sort of big cats that are about the //place. There seems to be ...
... be quite,// M815: //Don't know. It's probably just a big dog, or something.// M816: there seems to be quite a ...
... M816: And er, and in the semi-final, this great big heifer //of a centre-half// M815: //[cough]// ...
... I don't play it so much these days. but, in my day, it was big folk thing was the M815: Yeah. M816: the things, ...
Conversation 13: Two male postgraduate students on academic life [Content label: serious] N/A Audio 14,078 12 0.85

... are kind of unwilling to get involved in these kind of big heady debates, like, not so much about the poetry, but ...
... really really funny to listen to him, cause he will, like, big broken, big stretches of Welsh and then all of a sudden ...
... funny to listen to him, cause he will, like, big broken, big stretches of Welsh and then all of a sudden he'll just ...
... M741: //Mmhm// M605: wh- all it is is a big tract ehm trying to completely dissociate the Lowland ...
... talking[/?], yeah.// M741: like you say a big revival and a kinna cultural, cultural revolution, in s- ...
Conversation 14: Two male students on university life [Content label: serious] N/A Video 6,842 2 0.29

... kinda young and kinda thinking "oh it's cool, it's like a big //shopping centre."// M819: //[?]Government ...
... where that's worked, puttin a shoppin centre, I mean, the big one at, well, cracker example! Right? And this never ...
Conversation 15: Glasgow father and his five year-old son N/A Audio 3,598 1 0.28

... M804: //[laugh]// M805: cause he sawed my big, um, brick hand. [drink] M804: Ah, so would you ...
Conversation 16: Four students on memories and music festivals [Content label: serious] N/A Video 11,091 18 1.62

... She-ra.// M811: Yeah, yeah, [inaudible] bit in a big lion //thing.// F813: //Yeah, I do// remember ...
... in the advert// they had to, like, climb up this big, to castle and stuff like //that and she had a// F813: ...
... and your foot// F814: //Yeah.// F812: in that big machine //[laugh]// F814: //[laugh]// F813: ...
... cause you want to go up and get your foot measured on the big contraption [inaudible]// F813: And one foot was ...
... ended up taking our tent, right, we're, we actually had a big tents in a circle, it was like all his friends and that, ...
Conversation 17: Two lexicographers on work and holidays N/A Audio 2,196 3 1.37

... of the size of Skye, you know, it's it's really not that big. It's smaller than I thought it was, [inaudible]. ...
... probably knackered by a horse called Willy. F010: Not big Willy who's nineteen two? F122: No he wasn't that big. ...
... big Willy who's nineteen two? F122: No he wasn't that big. F010: There's one of them at the farm. F122: Ah ...
Conversation 18: Edinburgh lexicographer on making recordings N/A Audio 920 2 2.17

... because wee Jocky so-and-so kens mair Scots nor we- than Big Sandy. And Big Sandy's wife's, wife's cousin kens mair ...
... so-and-so kens mair Scots nor we- than Big Sandy. And Big Sandy's wife's, wife's cousin kens mair nor anybody in the ...
Conversation 19: Two North-East teachers on Doric language N/A Audio 3,743 1 0.27

... ken, a, a change, F831: uh-huh M842: ehm a big change in tongue wi the f-, the wey the folk, I mean ...
Conversation 20: Four secondary school girls in the North East N/A Audio 4,902 4 0.82

... "Auch-, Auchenblae", I was like, no she tried to put a big thingy on it, she was like, "Auchenblae", you're just ...
... was goin, "No? //no?", [inaudible] [laugh] this huge big fit about it, I was like, "Oh my God"// F832: ...
... we've got the most// teenage pregnancies as well. //Big achievement.// F835: //Is it not like they've got an, ...
... F835: //I know so why is it// made out to be this big? I mean they should instead of like //criticisin// ...
Conversation 21: Family from North East Scotland N/A Audio 3,440 11 3.20

... F823: //Was it the// M824: //Aye.// F823: //big area?// M822: //Whether [inaudible] wants// tae ...
... M822: //He// he's he, he cuts it up wi, wi a big saw F606: mmhm M824: //Aye// M822: //ehm// ...
... F606: mmhm M824: //Aye// M822: //ehm// great big diamond tooth saw an he, he maks the stones wi that ye ...
... M824: Aye there's a lot o stone M822: There's a big, great big eh, oh must've been an affa buildins ...
... there's a lot o stone M822: There's a big, great big eh, oh must've been an affa buildins [inaudible] eh ...
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 ...
Conversation 23: Couple talking about their Orkney roots N/A Audio 2,618 3 1.15

... it was very odd and coming out here to the Mearns made a big //difference tae that.// F829: //Yeah.// M830: ...
... F829: I miss about Orkney though, the wide spaces, the big skies, M830: Big skies are the //things you miss, ...
... Orkney though, the wide spaces, the big skies, M830: Big skies are the //things you miss, mmhm,// F606: ...
Conversation 24: Three women chatting in a garden centre N/A Audio 3,307 5 1.51

... F606: So what would you buy if you had a big garden? F890: Small things and let them grow, F606: ...
... I've covered it wi stones F606: Yeah. F889: an a big rock an itwis eh, it wis quite expensive, but at the ...
... Christian what it cost.// F889: //well it's quite a big a-// It cost me nine hundred pound tae get it done. ...
... charge of it.// F889: Aye it's lov-, it's no near as big but it is lovely F890: It's not as big, F889: No. ...
... it's no near as big but it is lovely F890: It's not as big, F889: No. F890: but it's had a lot of, when we ...

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