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

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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
Conversation 25: Couple from Auchenblae talking about local varieties of language N/A Audio 5,757 5 0.87

... M903: //[inaudible] see a door made,// //a, a big door had been made into// F606: //mm// //[cough]// ...
... //Yeah, yeah, yeah.// M903: //ye see that was a big thing in that days like, in the sixties an that like// ...
... M903: //Cause immigration must have been a big thing// here cause I can still remember my father ...
... an they were reputed tae hae been makin a lot o money an big money in Canada an that an big trees an athin so he wis ...
... been makin a lot o money an big money in Canada an that an big trees an athin so he wis aye speakin aboot it but I'm ...
Conversation 26: Two females from Glasgow talking about weddings N/A Audio 5,779 9 1.56

... and they didnae look that// F631: //Mmhm// F689: big, and I thought, "Mm God, F631: Yeah. F689: ...
... know, I understand. But it was nice, cause it wasn't too big. It was just a //a// F689: //Uh-huh// F631: nice ...
... F689: there's no way I'm walkin down the aisle in a big //huge fancy church,// F631: //[laugh]// ...
... an I neve- what annoys me is they've got all these big screen TVs //everywhere,// F631: //Yeah.// F689: ...
... just have a chat, it's impossible cause you've got this big huge [laugh] sort o //the God lookin down on you.// ...
Conversation 27: Mother and daughter from Ayrshire and man from USA, part 1/3 - memories, fashions and traditions N/A Audio 5,132 2 0.39

... [laugh]// hairdressers became terribly, you know, big cultural icons. //In the sixties, yes, hairdressers and ...
... I know I'v- from talking to friends a chicken was a big deal to have; //you would have it maybe// F963: ...
Conversation 28: Mother and daughter from Ayrshire and man from USA, part 2/3 - violence, war and society N/A Audio 7,119 6 0.84

... would always know there was a fight, because there'd be a big gang of people all standing in //[laugh].// M964: ...
... It was just maybe sort of twice a year there would be a big //playground// F965: //Yeah.// F963: fight and ...
... be an observation point.// But do you remember those big circular things that we found when the tide was //way ...
... and it's just a business, you know, it's not really a big //deal but it it makes you// M964: //Mm// F965: ...
... yeah.// //[inaudible]// F965: //because it is a big// faceless or- they they've given their loyalty //to ...
Conversation 29: Mother and daughter from Ayrshire and man from USA, part 3/3 - childhood games N/A Audio 10,410 11 1.06

... yeah, yeah.// F965: We us- we called that a "big riddie". F963: Uh-huh //Yeah.// M964: //Mm// ...
... //Yeah.// M964: //Mm// F965: //Somebody's got a big riddie.// When they've got a red //face.// F963: ...
... "red". F963: Mmhm, yeah. F965: "Oh he's got a big riddie", you know, F963: Mmhm F965: because he was ...
... F963: //Mm mmhm// F965: Er, ha- "you got a big riddie when she came in", //you know?// F963: //Mm ...
... school wall. F963: Yeah. F965: Now there are great big picture windows F963: Right, uh-huh. F965: and you ...
Conversation 30: Male and female talking about Western Isles and music N/A Audio 5,392 10 1.85

... It's like kind of a wee village more than part of a big city, like. Just the atmos- just the kind of the way ...
... really nice. M959: An people here are like, some like, big city people but, it's just the area itself, sort of ...
... set up an, M959: Ohright mm. F958: kind of the big wheel an that, against like the castle. An at night ...
... it was just like, kind of you know what I mean, the big, //canopy thing at the back an// M959: //Aye.// ...
... like,// M959: //[laugh] Roadies!// F958: got big beer bellies an //beards and long straggly ponytails,// ...
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. ...
Conversation 32 : Female from Borders and three males from Central Belt [Content label: serious] N/A Audio 9,761 30 3.07

... the box// M939: //Got this in a little candy store in Big W.// F940: //[inaudible]// M942: //Uh-huh, ...
... I had to explain how we don't have small rivers in the big cities,// //so aw the midgies hing aboot the bins.// ...
... What are you like?// M942: //You're cruel! You're a big meanie.// M941: //Well it's crap!// F940: //I'm ...
... What?// F940: //[laugh]// M939: //[laugh] That big [inaudible].// M941: //[laugh]// F940: ...
... went an performed there //an it [laugh] there was this big sculpture, I ken, but I have tae talk to the recorder ...
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, ...
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 ...
Conversation 36: Family in Hamilton on childhood memories and holidays N/A Audio 8,325 15 1.80

... [laugh] Right. What's an armature?// F1077: //Big, big coils, isn't that?// //Part of a motor, part of ...
... [laugh] Right. What's an armature?// F1077: //Big, big coils, isn't that?// //Part of a motor, part of a- an ...
... it was lanky.// M1078: No, y-y- //"You take the big one and I'll take the other one."// F718: ...
... one."// F718: //[laugh]// F1077: //"You take the big one" or something. [laugh]// Yeah, that was Gordon. ...
... was, what sort of F1077: Well there was one of these big glitter balls, I remember that. //Was that the, uh-huh. ...
Conversation 37: Glasgow father and young daughter N/A Audio 2,157 10 4.64

... acorn? F1071: Yeah, he, sometimes he gets stuck in a big bandle and sometimes he gets scr- scraped with he ...
... he get squashed? F1071: Yeah, he gets squashed by a big camel, //remember?// M1070: //Oh dear.// //And is ...
... are hard, see, daddy can't draw them and daddy's big, isn't he? F1071: Whee! //[bump]// M1070: ...
... and there was [?]scup[/?] stairs for a chute an a big yel- blue chute so it was, M1070: Blue chute? ...
... blue chute so it was, M1070: Blue chute? //How big was it? Was it very big?// F1071: //mmhm// no it was ...
Conversation 38: Two female students discussing school in the UK and Luxembourg and travel N/A Video 6,492 1 0.15

... //or somewhere and there was, it was like a big centre for loads of schools, there was loads of other ...
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 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: ...
Conversation 41: Two Shetlanders on building houses and Up-Helly-Aa N/A Audio 3,904 5 1.28

... wir really hed is been wi de bit o land. I mean we hae a big bit o land but hit's really juist a bit o de hill. ...
... ken when you win back, dat's for sure.// //Yeah, so hoo big is your hoose?// F960: //[laugh]// De hoose hes ...
... doon it wisnae a crack it was juist wan enormous great big ston in him. //We needit never// F960: //Uh-huh.// ...
... hit actually wirks oot very weel for Up-Helly-Aa, big space an F960: Yeah. F961: but we but we hae ta ...
... //Yeah, weel maybe no// but de Brae wan is a is a big //do, dat's de next biggest ane an// F960: //Uh-huh, ...
Conversation 42: Man from Ayrshire, with Italian background, talking about Italy, jobs and Alzheimer's support work N/A Audio 7,659 2 0.26

... of Monte Cassino. M608: Okay, right, that's where the big battle was //of course, in the War, aye.// M1163: ...
... and get the same satisfaction.// M608: So you've got a big family celebration planned for Christmas then wi the ...
Conversation 43: Teachers talking about Gaelic social scene in Glasgow N/A Audio 3,704 5 1.35

... M1161: //[laugh] I don't know,// some, I know one big Queen fan. And she was at a Queen tribute band on Sunday ...
... there, but she was telling me that she was going, she's a big //Freddie Mercury fan.// F947: //Is that right?// ...
... Saturday night, I don't think the CCA, //it's not very big.// M1161: //No.// F746: //That's something I ...
... //No, not as good no.// It's not, it's not, it wasn't big enough. F947: Mmhm that's true. M1161: And ...
... it the thirtieth or thirty-first of December? //It's a big bash. Yeah,// M1161: //Really?// F947: ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 01, recording 1: baking cakes and washing up N/A Audio 7,286 8 1.10

... I'll hae [?]take this paper[/?]. F1122: Mmhm, big bits. //Mm.// F1121: //That's big bits, isn't it, ...
... F1122: Mmhm, big bits. //Mm.// F1121: //That's big bits, isn't it, but that's fine like that.// Will we put ...
... very good. Is that what you're gonna be when you're big, you're gonna be a cook? F1122: Aye and I could put on ...
... //Mmhm.// F1121: Do they make these on th- on "Big Cook Little Cook"? F1122: Mm, no. F1121: Have they ...
... F1122: Some more on that side? F1121: Is that big enough? //Right, let that one set.// F1122: ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 01, recording 2: jigsaws, drawing and baking N/A Audio 4,231 4 0.95

... //[cough]// Aye. F1121: Mmhm. So is it the big one or the little one we're doin? F1122: Erm, big one. ...
... the big one or the little one we're doin? F1122: Erm, big one. F1121: The big one. Here's aa the other pieces. ...
... one we're doin? F1122: Erm, big one. F1121: The big one. Here's aa the other pieces. F1122: Well Fizz's ...
... about if// we tidy away some toys. Maybe you're a bit big for some of that cuddly toys now. F1122: Oh, but I ...

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