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A Bonnie Fechter Templeton, Sheila 305 2 6.56

... day we heard a scraping ootside the kitchen door. He was big. His antlers telt a lang story, a hero's story, of ...
... And waited and watched while he took his time, his fine big heid lowered wi nae loss o dignity. And so he lat me feed ...

A Braw Guid Alairm Fairnie, Robert 1,498 1 0.67

... aye heard the soond looder when we opened the door tae the big bedroom press.” “Weel oor press wis backin on tae yours ...

A Fair Deal Blair, Anna 88 1 11.36

... Great angels, small ones Got to arrange Five Wee for a Big As the rate of exchange. Heads low in cahoots There's a ...

A Fairy (Liquid) Story [Content label: lesser] Smith, Mark R 4,326 1 0.23

... of varnish from its place on the shelf and, as he was too big to get turned around, reversed his way out of the door. ...

Afa sad news, bit thanks for the memories - March 21, 2005 Shepherd, Robbie 778 1 1.29

... wis the ploy as we did a take-off o Mr Pastry's lancers, big Ian flingin me across the stage, landing me in aneth the ...

A Fer Chauve Smith, Alex 23,344 5 0.21

... wis nae sign o them ata. Jonsar Eck then came across a big muckle spanner that hid been left ahin be the electrician. ...
... opened Jonsar Eck an the ither twa helpers gasped. "Oh nae Big Betsy". Och says the judge."I'll explain tae her if I see ...
... judge."I'll explain tae her if I see her." Jist wi that Big Betsy appeared an asks." Fit's wrang?" Noo the judge wis ...
... Fit's wrang?" Noo the judge wis in his element as he telt Big Betsy aboot the flooer. She asked him a puckle questions ...
... fit wye it his tae be second place?" asks the judge. Big Betsy growls."I got first prize wi this plant last year an ...

A few notes on old Kilwinning Town and the Biography of Robert Morrison, Crosshouse. Morrison, Mr Robert 5,211 12 2.30

... situated below the old Corse hill. I was a short time in big Red burn a pit that belonged to the Messers Baird’s There ...
... that belonged to the Messers Baird’s There was two pits big and wee allong side each other producing much coal for the ...
... and that was on the new railway then in construction. The big steam navvy as we called it then was working near to a ...
... produced had to be taken away by a steam pug driven by a big course man named Bob Bonnar. So my work was to shift two ...
... as we know everything comes to an end down here. So the big steam navvy finished his job and I was knocked out of work ...

A Good Bamming [Content label: serious] 'The Driver' 1,162 1 0.86

... orb that initiated the colossal explosion known as the Big Bang. Poor God! You can just imagine Him with his face ...

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 ...

A lock o hellery Johnson, Laureen 1,933 1 0.52

... the same source, implying that the quantity was a bit too big for the speaker’s liking? Or did N.E. Scots arriving in ...

Ane Auld Sang Purves, David 7,319 1 0.14

... n, moon muinlicht, n, moonlight muir, n, moor mukkil, a, big, much murner, n, mourner mynd, v, remember myndin, n, ...

An epistle tae Wullie wi the broken jaw Hynd, George 250 1 4.00

... could hae been a bit wurse Than being force fed by some big buxom nurse, Whae wid make sure ye guzzled the wattery ...

Any other Pleb Blair, Anna 259 1 3.86

... Buttered toast and nursery games In winter after dark, My big hair bows and plimsoll shoes My pinafores for Drill And ...

A Sair Fecht Smith, Alex 23,505 9 0.38

... noo at's nae ony surprise, In the efterneen er's a gey big change, Rain poors doon in the affa heavy range. Sunday ...
... o the crap is teen aff the grun, Fermer dis grin, ere's a big run. Tuesday 30th, Temp. 6/14 Dry is the day warm bit affa ...
... order, ten bags o sticks, ten bags o peats each. Ere wis a big back close an, Jonsar cood drive richt intae it nae ...
... intae it nae bother. That wis ae gweed thing, ere wis nae big carries. Farthest in tae the close bade Eenie an, on the ...
... a dizzen cans o lager, an a bottle o bacardi. He poored a big bacardi tae Tam an een tae himsel, washed it doon wi a can ...

A Small Book of Translations: 32 - Glossary & Notes Hutchison, Alexander 1,973 2 1.01

... is a low crouching dance; ee is you; lowse is loose; big eens are big ones; keckle is cackle, laugh loudly: haffets ...
... crouching dance; ee is you; lowse is loose; big eens are big ones; keckle is cackle, laugh loudly: haffets are side ...

...Auld Zimmery [Content label: serious] Kydd, Robbie 73,728 69 0.94

... Here, lemme gie yer face a dicht.' She, has to use a big bunch of tissues on my resentful face, and then several ...
... office to beard the Cock o the North (Officer-in-Charge, Big Charlie, Matron's hen-pecked 'Old Man' - what's in a ...
... but she'll be cross if she sees him licking his pencil. My big brother, Andy thinks, writes his figures very very fast ...
... Andy tries several deep breaths, as quietly as he can. His big brother can sharpen a pencil, but he can't. Andy needs to ...
... a squashed worm. The next he tries is better but much too big. The next is almost perfect but even bigger. Fiona, Andy ...

A Wee Scran o Herrin Fairnie, Robert 1,552 1 0.64

... the links. The first door thay chappit wis yin o thae big stane hooses wi its ain gairden an awthin an, as suin as ...

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. ...

A wikk o shows taks me back an fore in time - April 25, 2005 Shepherd, Robbie 779 2 2.57

... Wednesday nicht it wis the Students' Show, Thursday, the Big Yin emsel Billy Connolly an Setterday dennertime I wis oot ...
... gweed in the lead role o Minnie Cooper. Syne it wis the Big Yin in the Music Hall an the first time we hid seen him ...

BBC Voices Recording: Aberdeen N/A Audio 13,536 9 0.66

... was an iron sink, not enamel, iron sink ye know, an we'd a big zinc bath and Da used tae sit in the bath an we'd tae ...
... o rice, because Ma was in the wash-hoose an there was a big biler goin an she was sweatin an she'd on her rubber apron ...
... rubber apron an //an oh my God!// F1041: //An her big boots.// M1042: An an if it was rainin the the the ...
... I would hae s- 'thingummybob', 'her wi the big nose', or 'her wi the// //droopy eyes' or you would try ...
... M1042: //yeah but// yeah 'drookit' is a big word. //That's when oh God ye're absolutely drookit an I ...

BBC Voices Recording: Dunbar [Content label: lesser] N/A Audio 13,714 8 0.58

... used tae say exactly what Gordon says, anyone living in big house an that in Dunbar, "Oh they're the well off, we're ...
... M1014: //Kept the sun off [inaudible]// //It was a big hood [inaudible].// M1017: //A big, a big thing made ...
... //It was a big hood [inaudible].// M1017: //A big, a big thing made by, my mother used tae make them, it was ...
... was a big hood [inaudible].// M1017: //A big, a big thing made by, my mother used tae make them, it was a big ...
... big thing made by, my mother used tae make them, it was a big thing wi// //oh hoops, canes an things like that an it ...

BBC Voices Recording: Hawick N/A Audio 11,536 7 0.61

... he's no gettin money in an thing like that an him wi a big faimly an thing like that but that's what she fund oot ...
... be a// a lot o tenements in Hawick an you know there was big families, could be up tae seventy folk usin a couple o ...
... yer shouder?// M1010: eh they had bi- muckle big barras an they pit their slates ontae it their ledders ...
... maybe before your age, like// but they aw used tae be big boots an big jackets an an their the ladies they they ...
... your age, like// but they aw used tae be big boots an big jackets an an their the ladies they they were just the ...

BBC Voices Recording: Inverurie N/A Audio 12,014 6 0.50

... F1001: //But the at that time o day folk had great big hooses,// M1000: //Mmhm.// F1001: an I suppose ye ...
... M1002: //Or a calfie.// M999: When ye become a big quinie then ye become a quine. [laugh] There's, then ...
... //Aye, aye.// M999: meanin that. //Meaning the big a- the big area that's eh between the hoose an the an ...
... aye.// M999: meanin that. //Meaning the big a- the big area that's eh between the hoose an the an the steadin,// ...
... enough, I //[inaudible]// F1001: //A fine a fine big car an// a fine big hoose. M999: Aye. F1001: Twa ...

BBC Voices Recording: Leith N/A Audio 16,679 9 0.54

... F1054: And is there no kilts in Dundee, is it not a big thing? M1019: Well I don't know about in Dundee but in ...
... you see, changed, changed. But eh, later on there was a big influx frae the west, and I palled aboot wi some boys ...
... apart from syntax and grammar used, which does make a big difference to individual languages, I found anyway, I ...
... the word "gear", you know? Aye, plumbers and those with big tools and instruments did use a toolbox, aye, it was ...
... gear. Aye, and it was smaller, you didnae have to lug a big tool kit across, "It's got to go in, [?]Char-[/?]. It'll ...

BBC Voices Recording: Perth N/A Audio 17,146 7 0.41

... Mmhm. F1027: An it was great cause there were great big huge //enormous baths and you could have as much hot ...
... I wouldn't know. F1027: Oh there been- that was a big discussion in our //house.// F1023: //Aye I asked ...
... and things like that, whereas the garden shed had the big tools. F1025: Mmhm mmhm. F1027: So it would be "Go ...
... they've got all this weight round their waist plus your big body armour an, //I mean it must// F1024: //Cer- ...
... round the ear for it too, well no, not now they're too big! [laugh]// F1026: //[laugh]// //Oh.// F1023: ...

BBC Voices Recording: Portree N/A Audio 14,267 3 0.21

... Participate in a game? I'm thinking maybe that's too big a M1008: //A bit formal for that.// M1055: //Too ...
... a gentleman ehm in the west of Skye who lives in a, a big building eh ehma big edifice, ehm and he at one point ...
... in the west of Skye who lives in a, a big building eh ehma big edifice, ehm and he at one point was trying to sell a ...

BBC Voices Recording: Stirling N/A Audio 14,324 9 0.63

... forename], our absent friend, who's pregnant, and she's a big girl, and she's, you know, right from early on she was ...
... big girl, and she's, you know, right from early on she was big, and somebody said to her "A- are you carrying twins?" ...
... and she said "No, my father s-, my father says it's a big single". Cause she's from a farm, you know? [laugh] ...
... And it was like, //you know when the cows have got a big single?// F1054: //[inaudible]// //[laugh]// ...
... //Aye, she is!// F1144: //She's just havin a big single!// F1054: Okay, erm, words for insane? F1144: ...

Better Ower Yer Thrapple Fairnie, Robert 511 1 1.96

... an the singer on the tape wis still giein San Francisco big licks but wi a slower an deeper vice. He set Eddie’s pint ...

Biggam Collection Letter: 01 Taylor, James 357 1 2.80

... latter must be a pretty generous bloke if he's cashing out big eats to about fifteen people. I'm in complete agreement ...

Biggam Collection Letter: 09 Law, Madge Taylor 261 1 3.83

... the clock as usual. Hope you like the photo, the two big ones are enlargements of the snaps I took myself. I hope ...

Biggam Collection Letter: 12 Law, Madge Taylor 1,932 1 0.52

... all young trees so far I'm just hoping they don't grow too big, also an apple tree at the side but there was only 2 ...

Bonny in Black [Content label: lesser] Bruce, Eddie 4,823 1 0.21

... him the night before - for the first time ever. “You’re a big improvement on the scruffy little bugger you used to be.” ...

Bruised Blue Grainger, Cecilia 13,524 12 0.89

... Della, Della…? Thurs a body comin up the track…it the big Yew…STOPPED IT THE BIG YEW… (Pause) Krista is it a man?: ...
... a body comin up the track…it the big Yew…STOPPED IT THE BIG YEW… (Pause) Krista is it a man?: AH’M FEARED! (Pause) A ...
... thit got hunted doon an tried fur thur wickedness…BIG DEEP DARK BOGGLE HOLE waitin ower the hill; up bi the wee ...
... only man Ah’d noh be allowed ti show fear. Silence TESS. Big bag that…looks heavy…! (Touches the bag) ZEB. You’d be ...
... she want to come over here? / She looks… TESS. Bag that big might hawd aw kindae things. ROBBY. AW AW! Hawd oan Lori: ...

Buchan Words and Ways Fenton, Alexander 52,521 50 0.95

... need for cuffs. If you wore a dress or coat that was too big, someone would say, 'That een's been made for yer growth'. ...
... of chain that completed the binnin were fixed to the big loop of the sweevle. One had a loop end and the other a ...
... I winner foo mony o ye hiv iver tried e smiler? That's a big shoulder rake, used for example to gather hay left over ...
... enough sign of how hard it was to pull. The old style had big wooden teeth, but the ones I knew had curved iron tines. ...
... for hauling out broomstocks by the root, so it had to be big and powerful. It was smiddy-made, all of iron, with a ...

Cereal terms in the DOST record Macleod, Iseabail 4,340 1 0.23

... (Dalrymple [1596] in Cody 1885-95:I, 57/27). The form 'big(g)' for six-or four-rowed barley (from Old Norse 'bygg') ...

Club review of Vegas, Renfrew Ferry, Glasgow English, Paul 1,057 1 0.95

... on how you're attired, you could be in for another big surprise - a financial one. Yup, there are discounts for ...

Conversation 01: Edinburgh man on his childhood N/A Audio 4,806 3 0.62

... er, when I was in Primary three, when I was up at the "Big School", //as it// F718: //mmhm// M734: was. ...
... //mmhm// M734: er It's kind of moving towards a Big Brother society, //er,// F718: //Yeah.// M734: ...
... fallen down now, that a lot of the bands who've got really big, lose that edge because, well, "yes, I'm just off back to ...

Conversation 02: Glasgow woman on childhood memories N/A Audio 5,509 5 0.91

... kitchen. And we used to play under the table, and, the big chenille cover, and wee Angus and I got on great. We ...
... F632: mmhm F646: But, they were going to have a big house; they were going to have a two-room and kitchen, ...
... at the foot of Wee Gordon Street, the wall bit was was big sleepers, railway sleepers //up and// F632: //mmhm// ...
... standin there four of us, and up a- painted in great big chalk letters on it was S-H-I-T-E, //[laugh]// F632: ...
... lyin there greetin. [laugh] [inaudible] This great big lump's comin [laugh], my mother said, "And what did you ...

Conversation 03: Ayrshire couple on motorcycling [Content label: serious] N/A Audio 9,868 10 1.01

... a shame in a way you didn't go to it. And it was all the big personalities were there, setting it up for the very first ...
... now, M608: mmhm M642: but I think Honda gave him a big payoff. M608: hm M642: A lot of money. M608: ...
... it really, M642: And you remember we hit that //big eh hole on Racecourse, eh, Road.// F643: ...
... [laugh] M642: we got there, and, within that big triangle, there's little country lanes. And we were told ...
... mmhm M642: but when we were up there, it was a big bend, you know they just went round it, and there were a ...

Conversation 04: Two female students on university life N/A Audio 5,577 5 0.90

... F745: //Yeah.// F746: have to go through some big spiel of, like, "oh, such and such, who lives in such and ...
... briefly lived in Aberdeen but, you know, that's just a big city as well, //so,// F746: //mmhm// F745: don't ...
... //oh// //erm// F746: //Maybe you had// quite a big class in //first year?// F745: //No.// //It wa- ...
... and there was these other guys", and it's all just, like, big lists of people and stuff. F746: Yeah. //That's ...
... looking but now that, you know, I've got into this big panic about my dissertation I'm just, F746: Yeah, well ...

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 ...


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