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Evie Barron, Charles 11,528 3 0.26

... I jist imagined a’ the ashes mixed up thegether in a great big ashpan underneath the furnace. It never occurred to me ...
... But fan you think o’t, we’ve a’ been peyin’ a great big fortune in taxes for wir ain ex-plor-a-tions an’ ...
... be seein’ you there, een o’ these days, Toots? That’s the big question, eh? I wonder if they would have operated on me ...
Expressive oo and a boat: The Shetland Schools Craft Residency Hughson, Hazel 1,948 1 0.51

... challenge to Jeanette Sendler to 'felt a sail in a day': a big project. She collaborated with local artists, children and ...
Extract from "One Fine Day In The Middle Of The Night" [Content label: serious] Brookmyre, Christopher 4,155 6 1.44

... “But whit’s the point? Buildin’ a hotel or whatever on a big hunk o’ metal? Whit’s wrang wi’ dry land?” “It’s so it’s ...
... Whit’s wrang wi’ dry land?” “It’s so it’s exclusive, big man. So’s scrotes like you an’ maself cannae get near the ...
... himsel’ oot playin’ tig wance, when he ran intae thon big pillar?” “Naw. That was me, ya daft cunt.” “Well, was he ...
... you in Geography in second year. Dished you wi’ that big Atlas.” “Aye, right enough. But still. He must have ...
... “Aye. Overnight stay on an oil-rig.” “It’ll be fine, big man. It’ll be better than that, in fact. Forget the oil ...
Extracts from weblog [Content label: serious] Rimbaud, Dee 8,258 14 1.70

... messages. For example: 'It doesn't matter how big your cock is, what really matters is the size of your ...
... cigarettes (although I couldn't say for sure, as I'm not a big racing fan). Now, in 2006, finally, I have been banned ...
... Underdogs? Today is a day for football. I'm not usually big into football, but I do have an almost pathological desire ...
... he intends to stay at Gretna. Despite the obvious lure of big bucks, he's more interested in job satisfaction. Even if ...
... really going on in our minds. I still have a diary. It's a big, black book that I sometimes write in. Not often, these ...
Fat Boy Swim Forde, Catherine 4,077 4 0.98

... any. He bawled as though his lungs would burst. 'Come on, big man. Chase that ball. Boot it up the field. He's on your ...
... towards him. Circling like vultures. 'Here, Kelly.' 'Here, big man.' 'Straight back up to me. Hurry.' Flustered, Jimmy ...
... arms waving above her head, lyrics tumbling from her big red mouth. Just the thought of her, way over the top, ...
... What would folks say, after all, if they discovered that: Big blob Kelly Had one special talent. And it involved food? ...
Food ideas Anderson, Wendy 2,116 2 0.95

... Ingredients: c. 10 new potatoes, 3 rashers of bacon, big dollop of mayo, (spring onions), (chopped pepper), ...
... bacon is done. Put the egg yolks (NOT WHITES) in a bowl big enough to hold all the spaghetti, and grate in the ...
Foolish Citizens All Kay, Prof Christian 824 1 1.21

... about it. Sadly I realised that I had proved myself as big a sucker as any inept T.V. citizen. The next step was to ...
Foo Mony Hoolets? Blackhall, Sheena 122 1 8.20

... Sic a crash) There is Skinnymalinkie Hanna Fatty Hetty big an broon There's a hoolet caad Horatio Fa ay sleeps upside ...
Fooshion Barron, Charles 17,826 7 0.39

... they looked sae licht in the men's hands. An' that great big thing gaun roon' an' roon' beside ye, claitterin' an' ...
... on. GLADYS A fire had broken oot. And there was this great big pile o' ... rubble ... in the street. There was ARP men ...
... have, I tell you. The Bonaccord Centre's there. A great big building. BESSIE Aye, at the side o' the street. On the ...
... ower the place. Or they would be crossed and leave great big blots in the middle o' a word. We had to mak' little pads ...
... mither died, folk ca'ed Morrison moved into that hoose - a big faimily for the size o' the hoose. There was him and her; ...
Gean Blossoms Purves, David 6,034 2 0.33

... beirs the soun o naigs nickerin. The blue green ploums ir big areddies as beans. The sauch leafs ir lang an boued lyke a ...
... a, dark monie, a, many moulder, v, crumble mukkil, a, big mull, n, mule mynd, v, remember naig, n, horse naebodie, ...
General Franco: his part in my downfall Fisher, Mark 1,323 2 1.51

... in the Second World War - and now it all seems like one big adventure. AMONG THE FAMILY photographs on the wall is his ...
... opened. Two soldiers burst in with guns and they gave us a big pan of soup. They went out the door and that was it. There ...
Geordie Jooks an the Sand Boat Fairnie, Robert 1,884 14 7.43

... he cuid see they war hard wrocht diggin oot a muckle big hole juist abuin whare the sands jyned the sea bed. Bi the ...
... the sea bed. Bi the leuks o’t, it wis gaun tae be a gret big sooster. “Sae ye fund a bit, Geordie!” cried Big Rab. ...
... be a gret big sooster. “Sae ye fund a bit, Geordie!” cried Big Rab. “C’mon well! Gie’s a haund for the tide’ll be here in ...
... His wee brither Wattie wis thare wi Wee Jock, Jinky an Big Rab. They aw hid bits o wuid, like Geordie’s, that they ...
... “But listen, dae ye no think we shuid pit some yackers an big stanes roond the ootside o the dyke? It micht help tae ...
GOW Newsletter Jan 2005 Roberts, John 1,042 1 0.96

... By John Roberts May we take this opportunity to say a big thank you to everyone in the GOW for giving such a great ...
GOW Newsletter Nov 2004 Roberts, John 1,124 1 0.89

... but dry Saturday morning you could all start off with a big group hug to get warm and perhaps more! Who knows. ...
Graip an trooel mak the perfec wind-doon - May 16, 2005 Shepherd, Robbie 793 1 1.26

... a feow feet fae yer nose, and the playgreen for birdies big an sma, nae tae menchin squirrels an pine martens. Ay, aa ...
Great duck race Hynd, George 732 1 1.37

... Was a notice on the wa' where it could be seen; A muckle big thing richt afore ma face; It was a proclamation o' a ...
Guts Barron, Charles 22,515 4 0.18

... Dod. It’ll come in handy. Hoo did ye come by it? DOD (Big wink) Dinna ask to be lee’d te, mither. Jist pit it doon ...
... to follow the fall of her finger into the barrel with a big head movement.) So it’s best niver to think ava’. That’s ...
... taste. Get it doon ye. (She hands her the bottle.) A good big scoof, noo. (Reluctantly, Teenie takes a drink.) A drappie ...
... Chrissie is avoiding her eye.) Thirty year’s an affa big gap. CHRISSIE (softly) I ken. (Pause.) But it’s maybe fit ...
Halesome Farin' Waddell, Mr John 15,793 8 0.51

... tae fill yer wame an keep ye warm till ye get hame." "Hoo big's the sea?" A spiered her. "Och, ten times as big as ...
... "Hoo big's the sea?" A spiered her. "Och, ten times as big as Foswell loch. Bit mind the time - an watch yer feet! ...
... Scots 'moose', of course. The moose that I speak of is big as a horse." "Guid save us!" cried Santa, "Hoo big are yer ...
... of is big as a horse." "Guid save us!" cried Santa, "Hoo big are yer rats? Nae doot ye'll be needin great monsters o ...
... dae, stick oot yer neck An gie the nearest yin a peck. The big yins, pester them enough, They'll throw ye bits o bread an ...
Hearts & Darts Bruce, Eddie 1,555 2 1.29

... watch, Fiona’s lingering fragrance conspired with the two big measures of whisky he had earlier, to quicken his pulse ...
... a vision in her short midnight blue dress, himself and big Alistair MacPhail in their kilts hired for the day…the ...
How do we teach Knowledge about Language? Philp, Andrew 4,340 2 0.46

... the phrases in a sentence: Our dog chews a bone Our big dog is chewing a juicy bone Our big friendly dog has been ...
... dog chews a bone Our big dog is chewing a juicy bone Our big friendly dog has been chewing a lovely juicy bone At each ...
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 ...
Interview with group of women in Clydebank 1 N/A Audio 6,482 6 0.93

... yes", so I had to go see the doctor. He al- always had a big clinic there but everybody had to pass the doctor before ...
... was, when they came into, I was given this office with a big knee hole desk. I felt really pompous sitting behind it. ...
... got called up and she can't go because she's got too big a family or something like that but we've got to judge ...
... we repr- I represented the the firm which was quite a big responsibility but I loved it, you know, always up to ...
... fourteen year old, in the Highlands it was just one class, big class, one teacher and, when I got to the age of twelve, ...
Interview with Harry Ferguson for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 19,200 8 0.42

... Mm. M1202: So er that er took us away from the big city, and got us down to the fresh air of the sea coast. ...
... //Er// F1189: //Mm.// M1202: er there was in the big house on the coast, we would buy books and consult with ...
... McGill.// And he had these outrageous postcards of the big fat Govan woman and the wee skinny Glasgow man. [laugh] ...
... Same with Bruce, erm, so we were brought up with this er big chip on our shoulders about the English, F1189: Mmhm. ...
... met one. Call them over." So he selects the tallest, big hunched shouldered fellow, all bangles and beads and ...
Interview with Liz Lochhead N/A Audio 4,449 2 0.45

... in a sort of plateau for a while, and then you take a big erm advance forward. Erm, I did feel pressured, I ...
... //[laugh]// F66: And now, because I've had that big sixty, birthday, I could retire. [laugh] Somebody ...
Interview with Margaret Ritchie for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 24,558 25 1.02

... F1192: It lies between two rivers and the nearest big town is Kirkcaldy. F1189: Mmhm mmhm. F1192: And ...
... brother. F1189: Mmhm. F1192: Aye, so //it was a big struggle.// F1189: //So three children.// F1192: ...
... um it was one of these Thornton itself didn't have a big cinema, it //just// F1189: //Mmhm.// F1192: was ...
... nice house actually. //And ehm.// F1189: //Yeah, how big was it?// F1192: Three-bedroomed house. F1189: Mm ...
... annuals, //You know// F1189: //Mmhm.// F1192: big thick, with all wee different stories in them. //Mm.// ...
Interview with Mary A Ronnie, Part 1, for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 19,851 8 0.40

... that's why we //got this bigger house - and it had a big basement.// F1189: //Ah, right, uh-huh, uh-huh, ...
... //house and// F1189: //Mmhm.// F1190: they had a big garden, and they had an orchard, //and this felt// ...
... F1189: //Mm, mmhm.// F1190: So there was this big //reference room upstairs with// F1189: //Mmhm, ...
... Dickens //collection which is in the library, which is a big collection of Dickens material.// F1189: //Mmhm, mmhm, ...
... who didn't like it. //But there must have been a big difference in the atmosphere from Hyndland.// F1189: ...
Interview with Mary A Ronnie, Part 2, for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 21,283 13 0.61

... Mmhm. F1190: And for a month, we went round with a big trolley, F1189: Mmhm. F1190: going through every ...
... to own them and //particularly, I've got quite a big New Zealand collection.// F1189: //Mmhm, mmhm.// ...
... turned out in-in F1189: Mmhm. F1190: quite big numbers then, but there wasn't the same intensity of ...
... places, she was going to small schools and - it wasn't big, flourishy stuff.// F1189: //Mm, mmhm, mmhm, mmhm, ...
... just //non-stop.// F1189: //Yes,// it it w-was big news in-in the States, I think. //Mmhm, mmhm, mmhm.// ...
Interview with Michael Stipe of REM English, Paul 1,896 4 2.11

... brunch of boiled eggs, melon slices and berries. 'I'm not big on breakfast,' he says. 'I got up late today. 'But I think ...
... in June. And he is already relishing the prospect. 'A big Scottish crowd is something that you remember, that's for ...
... Billy Bragg and rumoured squeeze Natalie Merchant at The Big Day in 1990. 'I remember that well,' he says. 'I wore a ...
... bisexuality in 1994 and couldn't believe it when it became big news in the UK in 2001. 'It's something that I've always ...
Interview with Professor Christian Kay, part 1 - on the Historical Thesaurus project N/A Audio 1,728 6 3.47

... I don't think when it was started anybody realised how big it was going to be or how long it would take. //I mean ...
... Yeah the structure of it emerged quite early, the big overall classes. That was in a- an exercise that Michael ...
... much differently, looking back on... //I know it's a big, big question, but. [laugh]// F606: //Erm. Yes it ...
... differently, looking back on... //I know it's a big, big question, but. [laugh]// F606: //Erm. Yes it is.// ...
... wasn't there in the eighties?// F606: Em it was quite big in the nineteen eighties, cause there was very high ...
Interview with Professor Christian Kay, part 2 - academic life N/A Audio 2,351 3 1.28

... And of course the the electronic revolution has made a big difference. That's probably saved us from drowning in ...
... to parse things, and comment on them. So I think the big change is having subjects like Phonetics and Grammar and ...
... there's always a risk of a small unit being absorbed by a big one, because then your priorities change. So if you're ...
Interview with Rev. John G. Sinclair for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 13,717 3 0.22

... to have, F1189: Mmhm. M1194: they're not too big, and they're //easily accommodated.// F1189: ...
... bookcase just inside the front door which has all the big books, F1189: Right, uh-huh. M1194: like the ...
... of the Friends of the Hocken Collections, that's the big //research library, down there.// F1189: //Oh yes, ...

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