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181 documents matching criteria (13.75% of corpus)

1,574,880 total words in matching documents (34.33% of corpus)

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Title Author Multimedia Word count Freq. Norm.
Biggam Collection Letter: 20 Law, Madge Taylor 482 1 2.07

... joke he learned at school and it goes like this. "A little boy went shopping with his Mum & Dad and kept saying that ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 27 - 16.01.82 852 633 1 1.58

... johns, as February is usually the coldest time of year. Boy, do they feel strange! I'm doing a few extracurricular ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 31 - 07.02.82 852 645 1 1.55

... see "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940). Henry Fonda was just a boy, and looked just like Jane. At times the young John ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 16 - 30.10.81 852 646 1 1.55

... Maggie Fri. 30th October. Dear Maw & Paw, Well, your boy's working for his money: I've spent most of this week ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 36 - 24.03.82 852 869 1 1.15

... in the Aitken Centre. This was mainly the family of the boy Howie, one of the curlers, which is something to do with ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 13, recording 2: playing over breakfast N/A Audio 874 1 1.14

... it. F1105: What's the magic word though? //That's a boy.// M1106 : //Please.// F1105: Would you like a ...
Scotspik de Rusett, Wendy 890 1 1.12

... gaun? I dinna ken. 4. You say girl. We say quine. You say boy. We say loon. You say child. We say bairn. You say woman. ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 12, recording 1: getting ready for playschool N/A Audio 1,047 1 0.96

... to be a erm erm in a, William is supposed to be a little boy? F1095: Come on in and get your teeth //brushed then ...
GOW Newsletter Mar 2005 Roberts, John 1,085 1 0.92

... they believed the burglar had forgotten to get his wee boy a Christmas present and was trying to give him a happy ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 13, recording 1: playing and getting ready for bed N/A Audio 1,132 1 0.88

... I'm going to count to three. One! That's a good boy. M1106 : [exhale] F1105: Pop in. M1106 : Put ...
Craiters: 04 - E Backlins Calfie Fenton, Alexander 1,628 1 0.61

... an ma jersey, an ma beets fae doon e stair, an aff e bold boy goes. It wis een o is crafties faar e hoose an e steadin ...
Interview 07: Teacher speaking about childhood in Shetland N/A Audio 1,654 1 0.60

... siblings stay or F828: Ehm, n-, my ol-, the oldest boy lives in Norfolk F606: Ah F828: eh two older ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 14, recording 3: Alphabet book and stories N/A Audio 1,846 1 0.54

... F1107: No, but close, that's a D. So that's a good boy. M1108: And a frog on his hand. F1107: So it's a? ...
Craiters: 08 - E Forkietailies Fenton, Alexander 1,857 1 0.54

... o slack. If ye wis skeely enyeuch an made a gweed job o’t, boy e weer wid sing like a fiddle fin ye wis deen an it wid ...
"Obituary for Christine Guthrie, 1896-1999" MacGillivray, Alan 1,893 1 0.53

... literary partnership developed. When Leslie Mitchell was a boy in Arbuthnott, he used to cycle all over the district ...
A lock o hellery Johnson, Laureen 1,933 1 0.52

... ‘He could devise more hellery in a minute than the average boy would think of in a year.’ (William Peden, British ...
Scots Tung Wittins 173 Fairnie, Robert 2,078 1 0.48

... on an auld wife's flainen toy; Or aiblins some bit duddie boy, On's wylecoat; But Miss's fine Lunardi, fye! Haw daur ye ...
The Fower Quarters: 14 - A Very Dysfunctional Family Blackhall, Sheena 2,104 1 0.48

... oblivious to all that had gone before. "There's a new boy coming tomorrow. Odd Christian name. What is it again? ...
Scots Tung Wittins 43 Fairnie, Robert 2,132 1 0.47

... Queen's Thesaurer's Accounts:- Aprile 1565:- Item. To one boy passend of Edinburgh, with ane charge of the Queenis ...
Scots Tung Wittins 154 Fairnie, Robert 2,160 1 0.46

... fictional…", her Dad gets a mint in a line aboot the Teddy Boy windae dresser, Joe Fraser, when the buyer, Miss ...
Interview 17: Glasgow man on growing up in Govan N/A Audio 2,325 1 0.43

... is that right? M691: I grew up there, aye, I was a wee boy in Govan, just eh durin the war. F606: Mmhm. M691: ...
Scots Tung Wittins 70 Fairnie, Robert 2,337 1 0.43

... aa things Shoap : WILLIAM INGLIS a. In the windae, a wee boy is gittin his neck washed. Pick twa-three words oot o this ...
Smootie gengs ta Lerrick De Luca, Christine 2,412 1 0.41

... made a peerie herd noise. Sure enyoch, hit wirkit. A boy cam tae da back door an löt her in. 'Mam, der's sic a ...
Scots Tung Wittins 128 Fairnie, Robert 2,464 1 0.41

... artificially as the king come by, quherein was a young boy that descend it craftelye, presenting the keyes of the ...
Scots Tung Wittins 166 Fairnie, Robert 2,498 1 0.40

... Wha's morals daurs secularisatioun, He's juist the boy, the makar Henrysoun! Now I'm fair wabbit, daunerin roun ...
Scots Tung Wittins 111 Fairnie, Robert 2,503 1 0.40

... accoonts o Mary, Queen o Scots. Aprile 1565:- Item. To ane boy passend of Edinburgh, with ane charge of the Queenis ...
Scots Tung Wittins 150 Fairnie, Robert 2,508 1 0.40

... that can cook "salmon on crootie" thanks tae Fiona's nancy-boy pals, wis concairned at her bringin hame a strecht man, ...
Scots Tung Wittins 94 Fairnie, Robert 2,651 1 0.38

... artificially as the king come by, quherein was a young boy that descendit craftelye, presenting the keyes of the ...
All That Glisters Donovan, Anne 2,713 1 0.37

... decorations, hen? Ah’m no sure. Ah got some fur ma wee boy an he loved them. Aye they’re dead good. Thanks. Ah ...
Thomas Edward o Banff de Rusett, Wendy 2,896 1 0.35

... the acting position. The same actor can play Thomas as a boy and adult in Scenes 2 and 3. CAST, in all Scenes Two ...
Conversation 09: Two brothers on early memories N/A Audio 3,071 1 0.33

... always thought in the back of her mind, if she had a wee boy she would eh give him a name that would remember her ...
Talking, Reading and Writing about Fiction Texts McGonigal, James,
Philp, Andrew		 3,138 1 0.32

... Wonka making hair cream? How do you know? (m) What kind of boy do you think Mike Teavee is? (n) What more have you ...
Awfy thochts: The closemouth jottings of Wullie MacKersall Glen, Michael Hamish 3,176 1 0.31

... is flighty. But you should see Her see-through nightie! BOY'S OWN Yon Nathan Watt Bides up oor stair. His body's like ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 10, recording 3: washing up and colouring in N/A Audio 3,176 1 0.31

... gonna carry it?// M1090: Yes. F1089: That's a good boy. M1090: I'll be careful. F1089: You'll be ca- ...
Craiters: 20 - Biz-Bizzin Fenton, Alexander 3,297 1 0.30

... for't bit we'd aa tae hae a glaiss o butter-milk, an boy it wis cool an richt fine. Fit tae ait wis e neesht ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 02, recording 2: books and bath before bedtime N/A Audio 3,387 1 0.30

... Now now my pants. F1091: Okay, that's a good boy. M1092: [child noises] F1091: Now, will you ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 08, recording 2: making chocolate crispie cakes and filling party bags N/A Audio 3,454 1 0.29

... [CENSORED: forename]'ll be eat that when she's a big boy. F1117: Is that the last one? F1118: Mmhm. F1117: ...
Interview 13: Shetland man being interviewed about language N/A Audio 3,498 1 0.29

... M865: Yeah. M952: An likes o bein the young boy in the shop you werena in danger o, well the war was ...
Conversation 15: Glasgow father and his five year-old son N/A Audio 3,598 1 0.28

... be cool. So are you going to try and eat up like a good boy then when it comes //to dinner// M805: ...
Sermons Morrison, Mr Robert 3,660 1 0.27

... Born into this world was two boys. The one was a hairy boy that is to say he had more hair that His wee Brother His ...
The Fower Quarters: 13 - Prune Stones [Content label: lesser] Blackhall, Sheena 3,692 1 0.27

... warning. After all it was a first offence - all the other boy's fault probably. Brian's co-accused was on Legal Aid but ...
The Fower Quarters: 15 - Blessed wi the Gift [Content label: lesser] Blackhall, Sheena 3,717 1 0.27

... till we wan tae Stranraer wi a hert-rousin chorus o "Danny Boy". Oor trip ower the North Channel wis gey cauld an weet, ...
Interview with two Polish speakers in Glasgow N/A Audio 3,758 1 0.27

... I think it's very nice. And here er relation between a boy and a girl is er more mm partner, //so, yeah.// F1205: ...
Conversation 41: Two Shetlanders on building houses and Up-Helly-Aa N/A Audio 3,904 1 0.26

... so it's// //it's a lot o money, hi- him an his boy baith, so.// F960: //Mmhm, mmhm, yeah.// //Yeah, I ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 13, recording 3: having a bath N/A Audio 4,157 1 0.24

... gentle. Look how gentle we are. Heady back. That's a boy. Oh, what clever you are! Is that fine? Oh, it's like ...
Diaries of William Young: 1972 Young, William 4,263 1 0.23

... trace smell of petrol. Car not finished. No sign of leak boy says. Wednesday 20 Car back but nothing has been done. ...
The Fanatic (extract 3) [Content label: serious] Robertson, James 4,519 1 0.22

... went tae private schuils. Ye didna see much o them. The boy was in his room playin Elvis Costello records, or he’d be ...
The Fruits of Sacrifice. Sigmund Freud and William Robertson Smith Booth, Gordon K 4,587 1 0.22

... of those powerful emotional fixations which the developing boy acquires towards his mother and against his father — in ...
Interview 06: David Purves on the Scots language N/A Audio 4,815 1 0.21

... usually //given// F718: //Uh-huh// M017: to some boy that could recite Tam O' //Shanter all the way through, ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 15, recording 2: playing with Spiderman stickers and starting a Christmas list to Santa N/A Audio 4,901 1 0.20

... toys, does he? M1128: No. F1127: If you're a good boy like you, Santa'll take you some toys, shouldn't he? ...

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