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The Fower Quarters: 17 - Veesitors [Content label: lesser] Blackhall, Sheena 3,511 1 0.28

... in his jaiket fan he spied the quine hersel comin frae the Big Hoose. The gentry wis aye haudin concerts an balls sae it ...
The Fower Quarters: 12 - The Smiling Horse of Troy Blackhall, Sheena 3,474 3 0.86

... that it was a tie and that, now he was four and almost a big boy, he would often have to wear one. It straggled over ...
... clink of high-heeled shoes, approaching smartly. The big blue door yawned open and he found himself staring into ...
... left the room. He could hear her speaking to some other big person. "The wretched child's wet himself. Is there any ...
Sing Us One of the Old Songs - Why Teach Ballads? Petrie, Elaine 3,470 1 0.29

... the famous quip often attributed to American blues singer Big Bill Broonzy has it: any song is a folk song ‘cause I ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 08, recording 2: making chocolate crispie cakes and filling party bags N/A Audio 3,454 13 3.76

... F1117: This one should work. No, that one's too big. We need the littler pan. F1118: This little pan. ...
... in it. F1118: Yes. Not too hard, Mum. //Not too big .// F1117: //Eh?// //Now,// F1118: //Not too ...
... [inaudible] water. [laugh] You maded it too big. F1117: Now, we need to melt some F1118: [laugh] ...
... the bottom o this. Only thing is, is the tub, is the jar big enough? F1118: Yes. I wanna put that in it! F1117: ...
... Yes. Now Mum. F1117: Now, we need two spoonies, a big one and a little one. F1118: [inaudible] F1117: ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 16, recording 1: washing up N/A Audio 3,453 8 2.32

... little bit that you need to do now. M1094: Why not a big bit? F1093: Mm? M1094: Why not a big bit? F1093: ...
... Why not a big bit? F1093: Mm? M1094: Why not a big bit? F1093: It's just a little bit. [cough] Right? ...
... F1093: Eh? M1094: It's in middle. F1093: The big bit? M1094: Yes. F1093: Wow! M1094: ...
... F1093: Take a chair through? M1094: Yeah. A big chair. F1093: Now, //wait till I sort the,// M1094: ...
... next? //Ah! [laugh]// M1094: //laugh// It's a big one. F1093: What is it? M1094: A plate. F1093: ...
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: Buckie - Mother and child 12, recording 3: walking home and opening Christmas cards N/A Audio 3,395 1 0.29

... tell you. You have to. They're good for you. Mak you big and strong. M1096: That //black crust?// F1095: ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 02, recording 2: books and bath before bedtime N/A Audio 3,387 3 0.89

... Now, wait till we get the first page. That's the big digger. M1092: Who that? F1091: That's a ...
... a dump truck. What's he putting down on the ground in a big pile? M1092: That. //Er.// F1091: //What's ...
... do this one again. F1091: Okay. Who's driving the big digger? M1092: Him. F1091: What's him's name? ...
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 ...
Craiters: 20 - Biz-Bizzin Fenton, Alexander 3,297 2 0.61

... back an fore, an niver lookin like needin tae come doon. A big helicopter wis huntin aboot like a vulture tee, nae lookin ...
... broon an fite, een wi a braid collar roon its neck an a big bell hingin anaith. It wis handy for e lads at e huts tae ...
Diaries of William Young: 1952 Young, William 3,260 2 0.61

... satisfactorily I hope. To Cathedral for evening service. Big place. 8 SATURDAY Buy presents before leaving 11.20am. ...
... 17 MONDAY Catherine showing off gym dress. She is getting big. Lathalmond today. 18 TUESDAY A good day. Not a lot to do. ...
Loon (extract) [Content label: lesser] Blackhall, Sheena 3,235 3 0.93

... Da pued a hauf o fuskey fae his jaiket pooch an cowped a big slug o't inno his mug o tea. A "birse cup", he caas it. ...
... his mug o tea. A "birse cup", he caas it. "See him, yer big loon," he said tae my Ma (he ay makks oot I'm nae his ...
... ae body in yer faimly tae like ye, div'nt ye noo? "He's a big brosie kinno a chiel," quo Granda. "Nae a shilpit wee ...
Awfy thochts: The closemouth jottings of Wullie MacKersall Glen, Michael Hamish 3,176 13 4.09

... that brolly Doon so low.' SEASONS GREETING Kenny's heid is Big an bald. An in the winter It gets cauld. But summer disnae ...
... Cannae pass the time. ROTARY CLUB Ma lassie's hamster's No big deal. Aw it does is Birl its wheel. Wee legs paidlin Fur ...
... bend. NICHT HOWL Ma hairy duggie Rins aff frae fowk. Ma big Shuggie's A feardie-gowk. Shuggie's even Feart fur the ...
... Pit oot the licht An he's feart tae bark. PET FOOD Ma big rabbit Wis a stotter. Then next door's whippet Went an got ...
... a stotter. Then next door's whippet Went an got 'er. Ma big Bessie Wis a beezer. Noo she's heidless In the freezer. ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 10, recording 3: washing up and colouring in N/A Audio 3,176 1 0.31

... //That would be// F1089: //Eh?// M1090: that's a big ain! Ah! //[laugh]// F1089: //It is, aye.// ...
The Ettin's Guidwyfe that Greined for Paerls Purves, David 3,176 1 0.31

... ae thing ma hert greins for, an that is a string o paerls. Big an braw thay maun be, for ti luik weill on a heich bodie ...
Talking, Reading and Writing about Fiction Texts McGonigal, James,
Philp, Andrew		 3,138 1 0.32

... (f) Why is the part about the storeroom notice written in big capitals? As an alternative to focusing on a particular ...
Scottish Parliament: Committees: Justice 1: Official Reports: Meeting 10, 2002 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 3,118 1 0.32

... staff why they think it works. I know that there will be a big controversial debate on the topic, but it is important to ...
Scottish Parliament: Committees: Audit: Official Reports: Meeting 16, 2001 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 3,075 1 0.33

... colleges were in severe financial difficulty, there was a big debate about whether we could get that information and ...
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, ...
The Fower Quarters: 02 - Purity Blackhall, Sheena 3,055 2 0.65

... them, Danny, no middle way. And if you played with the big boys... Just after her fifteenth birthday, Jennifer had ...
... are in their pants. He won't wait for ever. What's the big deal about being a virgin anyway? It's only a word. It ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 22, recording 1: painting N/A Audio 2,997 4 1.33

... wanting anything red then? Do you want me to draw a big loveheart on this other bit of paper for ye? F1124: ...
... F1123: Right, what ye drawing this time? F1124: A big cloud. F1123: A big what? F1124: Cloud. F1123: ...
... ye drawing this time? F1124: A big cloud. F1123: A big what? F1124: Cloud. F1123: Cloud? I think you're ...
... F1123: A bunch o flowers? F1124: Mmhm, to make a big, my one's being that colour. It's green. //Isn't this ...
Craiters: 12 - Glory Hole Fenton, Alexander 2,953 4 1.35

... condeetion’, as ey say in e adverts, twa ir three great big boxes o washin pooder, een o em half skailt ower e bit o ...
... an maybe it wis o some eese for muck, though fit wi e big sycamore in ae nyeuk an e haathorn in e idder, ere wisna ...
... odds. Noo, es mochs fae e brodmel in e glory hole wis big. Ey hid lang kinna bodies, an a rich, dark colour at ...
... tae split up, till ye cd see twa smaa pucklies an a big een. Ey cam hoverin ower’s an as I breathed oot ey raise a ...
Millenium Bug Cairry-oot Ferguson, Chris 2,904 4 1.38

... Hogmananay hud been a few week back now. It hud been the big yin - thay hud been bangin on aboot it fir months afore - ...
... make a difference, it wis juist the same. Thir wis a big hole whaur his chest an stomach hud been juist a short ...
... aroond it the end o the day. The eejits left ower fae the big pairtie nae doot whae didnae ken whit else tae dae wi ...
... tae see intae his soul an ken. He felt like he'd hud a big 'H' pit on his foreheid fir aebodie tae see as a warnin, ...
Craiters: 19 - Liptovska Teplicka Fenton, Alexander 2,855 2 0.70

... wis a widden world. E hooses, e heich, wide gates at wis big enyeuch tae let in a loadit wagon, e reef overhangs at ...
... stove, nae nott on is warm July nichts, an opposite, a big, new television set at wir hosts, Jan an Sofia, were jist ...
Daft Jackie McGonigal, James 2,850 3 1.05

... ale for life forby? An whit cakes! An whitna ale! Roon the big table at the steadin, folk were aa takin their fill, ...
... shoon for his feet, an syne he'll grow up intae a braw big laddie -- But, whit if my wee Jackie Jackeson dees? Oh, my ...
... tae mend, and a lot mair time tae plan a move: mebbe the big city would chinge his luck. Sae yin eftirnoon he cam oot o ...
Scots Tung Wittins 108 Fairnie, Robert 2,828 1 0.35

... 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 ...
Thy Neighbour's Wife [Content label: lesser] Bruce, Eddie 2,813 1 0.36

... he felt as drained as the bottle as he poured the last big dram and took it upstairs with him. He slept fitfully. ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 17, recording 1: looking out of the window N/A Audio 2,811 11 3.91

... stanes is wet. Aye, they're a little wet. There's big stanes, isn't there? In the the rockery bit. That's big ...
... big stanes, isn't there? In the the rockery bit. That's big stanes. M1110: Is there little stanes, Mam? F1109: ...
... there's little stanes, that's right. M1110: Bi- //big st-.// F1109: //That's the big stanes.// M1110: ...
... M1110: Bi- //big st-.// F1109: //That's the big stanes.// M1110: Big stanes. [?]There, and the ...
... st-.// F1109: //That's the big stanes.// M1110: Big stanes. [?]There, and the back[/?]. F1109: Mmhm. ...
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 ...
Peggy's Party Connell, Andrina 2,769 2 0.72

... “Well just you light up whenever you feel like it. Your big son’s been on the phone and I’ve convinced him he doesn’t ...
... if a bus came first – well. He turned to wave to her. The big silver Christmas tree, its abundant and identical blue ...
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? ...
All That Glisters Donovan, Anne 2,713 6 2.21

... careful when you squeezed the tube so’s you didny get a big blob appearin at wanst, but efter a few goes ah wis up an ...
... shape and coloured it green but a bit squirted oot intae a big blob, so ah blotted it and when ah took the paper away the ...
... a shop is stealin. A lot of folk think lik that. Donna’s big brother Jimmy wanst tried tae explain tae me that it wis ...
... me that it wis OK tae steal ooty shops cos they made such big profits that they were really stealin affy us (the workin ...
... his word. In the end ah sellt ma dinner tickets tae big Maggie Hughes and all week ah wis starvin for ah only hud ...
Scots Tung Wittins 88 Fairnie, Robert 2,712 1 0.37

... graith in ither schuils. This ploy haes been stertit tae big up an intrest in whit maist fowk see as a deid language. ...
Scots Tung Wittins 161 Fairnie, Robert 2,701 1 0.37

... Mark Strand (that politely chaise a braw, cutty poem) an big names the likes o Alan Spence, Alastair Reid, Gwyneth ...
Scots Tung Wittins 116 Fairnie, Robert 2,699 1 0.37

... particlar wis gey ee-catchin. This particlar poster haed a big picter o Oor Wullie on it an the wordin alangside said:- ...
Craiters: 09 - Watter Rats Fenton, Alexander 2,693 6 2.23

... aff an ile ingine, an Allan, made in Aiberdeen, wi a great big tank tae be fullt o pails o water, an a smaaer tank for ...
... check, for ye couldna see e ingine fae e barn. Ere wis a big aixle geed throwe e barn waa tae drive e mull, an inside ...
... at e croon fae a bittie awa, jist like e squaar meshes o a big net. At wis e wye ye kent an eddert ruck jist be lookin at ...
... graan for shelter. Ere wis even some fancy kins o trees wi big cones, yowies, fine for loons tae play wi an ey’d files ...
... o water aff a steen in e bed, at a time fin e burn wis big. Bit e rats couldna a howkit oot sic big half meens in e ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 07, recording 2: trip to the chemist's N/A Audio 2,689 1 0.37

... No? F1101: You'll be knackered, humping that great big thing aboot with ye. F1102: Fitt thing? Fitt thing? ...
Scots Tung Wittins 54 Fairnie, Robert 2,686 1 0.37

... an font kythe in thair mercats. TESCO haes noo stertit tae big a new muckle-mercat in Musselburgh (the Honest Toun) an, ...
Learning Through Reading and Writing: Informational Texts Philp, Andrew 2,683 1 0.37

... zoo. He is called Sandy. He is light brown, but he has a big black mane around his neck. He just sleeps in his cage all ...
Scots Tung Wittins 56 Fairnie, Robert 2,683 1 0.37

... haein ti dae athoot ful-time staff or sic time as thay can big up a growthier siller-flow. Thon staff, in the shape o ...
Craiters: 10 - E Hares' Lavvie Fenton, Alexander 2,681 6 2.24

... e drift swirlin an billowin ower em, biggin up wreaths big an smaa ahin ony obstruction, fither a clump o girse or a ...
... o e steens hid been shiftit (likely they'd been broken tae big pairt o e dyke), bit a twa-three wis ay ere, e big flanker ...
... tae big pairt o e dyke), bit a twa-three wis ay ere, e big flanker an een wi cup marks on't, fit ey were for naebody ...
... faither used for eez souter's shop, though noo ere wis a big crack in e gale an e windaes hid nae glaiss. Es wis faar e ...
... e tap eyn. I geed richt roon e back o't as far as a set o big trees faar I'd eence carved ma initials, syne crossed ower ...
Scots Tung Wittins 145 Fairnie, Robert 2,668 2 0.75

... dirks in a kiltie's soack" an descrives him as bein "as big as a tenement" an wha leuked as tho he'd pit Hercules "…in ...
... the sky while shoutin efter Hercules, "Whaur ye gaun, ya big chanty? " It is easy at this time o year tae cry this a ...
Scots Tung Wittins 133 Fairnie, Robert 2,660 3 1.13

... usual copyricht restrictions. The SCOTS projeck ettles tae big up a muckle electronic ingaitherin o baith written an ...
... Musselburgh Makar's Neuk The midges in Yarrae are as big as a sparrae An when it is put tae the test, Some that Ah ...
... up in yin bite. The midges Ah've seen hae wee beady een Big teeth an huge flappin lugs Yin that Ah saw, fought a close ...
Scots Tung Wittins 114 Fairnie, Robert 2,652 1 0.38

... whaur there fowk that wants it." The SNP promised tae big on Mike Russell's Gaelic Language Bill that rin oot o time ...
Scots Tung Wittins 94 Fairnie, Robert 2,651 1 0.38

... need aboot £2.5m aw thegither, ettles tae estaiblish an big up the first naitional library on the wab o Gaelic an ...
Scots Tung Wittins 103 Fairnie, Robert 2,634 1 0.38

... 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 ...
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: ...
Scots Tung Wittins 48 Fairnie, Robert 2,614 1 0.38

... tae keek ower the staunin o Scots in the scuils, an tae big Scots a sickert neuk inower the curriculum insteid o haein ...
Scots Tung Wittins 79 Fairnie, Robert 2,611 3 1.15

... Scottish journalists is:- sitooterie, wallies, Glesgae, Big Tam, the Tally connection, meeja, Broon fae Troon, Say nae ...
... ceity. The Ulstèr-Scots Leid Societie haes been ettlin tae big up the leid, that's maistlie spoken ootside the touns, an ...
... wipers hid a gey tyauve copin wi it an e dubs on e road at big it wis mair like drivin alang a burn. We made up wir minds ...
Scots Tung Wittins 62 Fairnie, Robert 2,606 2 0.77

... New Year thon auld sang haesna kythed; a rehearsal for the Big Ane neist year whan London program high heid anes will ...
... tae mak siccar thay dinna mak the same mistaks whan the big ane comes roond at Hogmanay 1999? For us, the high-lichts ...

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