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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 ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 14, recording 1: making gingerbread biscuits N/A Audio 4,405 3 0.68

... the sieve. Okay, can you manage to tip it? What a good boy. M1108: [banging sieve on bowl] F1107: Right, ...
... [banging sieve on bowl] F1107: Right, good boy, got it? M1108: And we have to mix it. F1107: You ...
... turn round, turn round, [?]skusshle[/?]. That's a boy. Good lad. Good lad. Right, fitt do we dae once that ...
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? ...
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? ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 16, recording 1: washing up N/A Audio 3,453 15 4.34

... falled off!// F1093: //I need, I need to find a little boy and a girl going to school, look.// M1094: Itself ...
... F1093: Right now you need to find M1094: The boy making sandcastle. F1093: the boy making a sandcastle, ...
... find M1094: The boy making sandcastle. F1093: the boy making a sandcastle, which is down the bottom. M1094: ...
... Yeah cause he does. F1093: Right. //And the boy and the girl in the swimming pool?// M1094: //[?]Too ...
... Uh-huh. [inaudible] F1093: Right, the boy and the girl going to school next. That's the little bit ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 16, recording 2: playing match the pairs and doing a jigsaw N/A Audio 2,549 13 5.10

... pieces.// F1093: This is Monday here. So what is the boy and girl doing on Monday? M1094: He's going to school. ...
... find the pieces for school? Right. //The girl and the boy going to school with their school bag.// M1094: //I'm ...
... think. M1094: Uh-huh. F1093: Right. Where's the boy? Cause you've got the girl. You need to get the boy. ...
... boy? Cause you've got the girl. You need to get the boy. M1094: [inaudible] //[?]That goes to the top, ...
... I wasnae calling you silly.// F1093: There's the boy, look. Pop him in. M1094: H- here it is. F1093: ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 16, recording 3: playing match the pairs game and with building blocks N/A Audio 3,935 4 1.02

... two. M1094: Two. F1093: Two feet out. That's a boy. M1094: Socks. F1093: Socks off. M1094: It's ...
... cows. Make a pair. It's your turn. //Do you want the boy playing football?// M1094: //Where's the other one?// ...
... house! That's it. Put it along that way. That's a boy! M1094: More bitties? F1093: There's another one, ...
... bit [inaudible]. F1093: No thanks, Toots. That's a boy. M1094: I put a bit on there. F1093: Mmhm. M1094: ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 17, recording 1: looking out of the window N/A Audio 2,811 3 1.07

... that bit wi the duster, that's a, oh, that's a clever boy. Think I'll get a clootie, will I? I'll get a clootie ...
... we're finished we'll manage to clean it. That's a boy. M1110: I'm finished! F1109: That's a real big ...
... //Stand back!// F1109: //Stand back.// That's a boy. //There we are, now.// M1110: //I do the blinds.// ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 17, recording 2: playing and chatting indoors N/A Audio 5,742 6 1.04

... in the middle. You winna see this from there. That's a boy, [inaudible]. M1110: I take out the. F1109: Has ...
... //Ken.// F1109: Fitt's that? Oh, look at that boy and girl, what are they doing? Having something to eat? ...
... girl, a boy that's a lady and a man.[/?] F1109: A boy and a lady and a man. And they're having their ...
... and get it later. Aye. You take the books. That's a boy, you take the books. Well done. M1110: What's this? ...
... six. M1110: I see me here! F1109: Oh, that's a wee boy, is he like you? Aye, he's got on his blue troosies, his ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 23, recording 1: reading picture books, watching film of "101 Dalmatians", and singing nursery rhymes N/A Audio 5,667 4 0.71

... F1116: I'll press it. F1115: Okay. Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn, the sheep's in the meadow, the ...
... in the meadow, the cow's in the corn, //where's the boy who looks after the sheep?// F1116: //I press it.// ...
... One for the master, one for the dame, one for the little boy who lives down the lane. F1115: That's a good ain. ...
... F1115: Fitt's he got? He's sleepin! That's Little Boy Blue, and he's fast asleep. Mm. I ken. There we ...
Interview 03: Dundee woman on her childhood N/A Audio 9,177 2 0.22

... a character. F631: That's the one that thought I was a boy, wasn't it? F634: Yes, yes, she couldnae get round ...
... it, of course, but then, I mean, it sounded really like a boy, so //she// F631: //mmhm// F634: couldnae, ...
Interview 05: John Law on the Scots language N/A Audio 6,222 1 0.16

... ye can hear, ye know? F785: Mmhm, yeah, there was a boy in one o my classes was like that and it did sound put on ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Interview 15: Professor Donald Meek N/A Audio 2,363 4 1.69

... very fine Gaelic speaker, erm he had been brought up as a boy in Falkirk, //until he was erm// F606: //Mm// ...
... in Tiree. He had a great love of Tiree even as a small boy, erm before he went there, and er he used to go for his ...
... resistant and I can still remember being very cross as a boy, a wee boy, trying to get my tongue round English words. ...
... I can still remember being very cross as a boy, a wee boy, trying to get my tongue round English words. I didn't ...
Interview 16: Woman talking about volunteering in Toryglen N/A Audio 2,768 2 0.72

... brilliant!// F606: //[laugh]// F1039: An one wee boy, his mother works wi, in the Ardco neighbourhood wi me eh ...
... strip for the kids an we gave them the drawin that the wee boy done, //eh// F606: //mmhm// F1039: the kids ...
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: ...
Interview 21: Suhayl Saadi N/A Audio 23,059 1 0.04

... yeah.// M762: erm and and you know, it was a wee boy thing, you know, //as well, you know, Tolkien,// F963: ...
Interview with Bernice Sibbald for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 28,837 8 0.28

... F1189: //The glamour! [laugh]// F1680: Oh boy! [laugh] F1189: Now the wee house that you had when ...
... and I think of the Dean and Stockbridge, and I think "Oh boy!" I'd love to, what I'd give to be back there now. ...
... [inaudible], did she? [laugh]// F1680: Oh boy! [laugh] The youngest one's the only one who never ...
... someone to come to, F1189: Mm. F1680: because er boy it was a a bit of a shock. F1189: All the the sort of ...
... //[laugh]// F1680: //I know. [inhale]// Oh boy. F1189: Now said you went to Burns suppers. F1680: ...
Interview with David Thomson for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 20,274 3 0.15

... look forward. F1189: I'm just wondering th-this wee boy who was excited about the bombs dropping [laugh], ...
... F1189: what you liked to read as a, a, //as a small boy?// M1193: //I think to some extent it// probably ...
... F1189: //Mm.// M1193: for best all-round boy and things like that, I got ehm [inaudible] They ...
Interview with group of women in Clydebank 1 N/A Audio 6,482 1 0.15

... as I was going up the gangway I used to hear this young boy shoutin "Watch it lassies, here's haggis coming". And at ...
Interview with Harry Ferguson for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 19,200 11 0.57

... in in the living room, and I always remember that as a boy, there was a large equestrian portrait hanging over the ...
... these campaigns, so it was a very good er er opening for a boy, F1189: Mm. M1202: er growing up. //Aye.// ...
... with er, well all the traditional books of a young boy in Britain growing up. F1189: Mm. M1202: And even ...
... F1189: Mm. M1202: And even peculiar to a Scottish boy, er, there were no restrictions on the literature. My ...
... I failed the test was I scliffed through it. For a boy in his teens it was fairly heavy reading at the time. He ...
Interview with Mary A Ronnie, Part 2, for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 21,283 4 0.19

... //building,// F1189: //Uh-huh.// F1190: but boy was it hard //work, you know, if somebody asked you a ...
... F1189: //Mm.// F1190: You know, "A Suitable Boy", //for instance - and I was absolutely fascinated// ...
... What did he say? We took some time to find a suitable boy." F1189: [laugh] F1190: And he used this ...
... they're, they're// F1190: //Mm.// F1189: sort of, boy's own //stories, but [?]in fact[/?], uh-huh, uh-huh.// ...
Interview with Rev. John G. Sinclair for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 13,717 1 0.07

... //Yes.// If I came home from school as a small boy and said "I saw a brown cow down the road", I was told ...
Interview with Robert Bruce for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 28,169 7 0.25

... F1189: Mmhm. M1682: He actually join- he was a boy seaman he joined the Navy when he was fifteen I think. ...
... he would've joined the Navy.// And then he served as a boy seaman which doesn't count as your years in the Navy ...
... M1682: //Yeah.// F1189: You were a clever boy. //[laugh]// M1682: //[laugh]// Yeah. F1189: ...
... there were a lot of demands on you as //as a young boy.// M1682: //There we- there was a lot of// yeah ...
... yeah. F1189: Now the ones you had when you you were a boy M1682: Yeah. F1189: ehm did they come to you as ...
Interview with Stan Kirkpatrick, Part 1, for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 12,193 1 0.08

... officer said you "you'll learn to speak their language, boy", and I managed to get a good smattering of Hindustani ...
Interview with Stan Kirkpatrick, Part 2, for Scottish Readers Remember Project N/A Audio 15,282 3 0.20

... Edinburgh, now, w-went through to Edinburgh as a boy. F1189: Mm. M1191: Er, the sergeant major, the ...
... Mm. M1191: er "Go round the Castle yourself, boy. Tell them sergeant major [?]Bertram[/?] sent you. And ...
... you read them first time?// M1191: Ah, probably as a boy, //schoolboy, that kind of thing.// F1189: //Mm ...
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: ...
Interview with woman at Glasgow Women's Library N/A Audio 7,542 3 0.40

... who was pretending to be my aunt. Then she had a wee boy, my stepbrother, my half-brother. Erm, and then I ended ...
... I went "Okay". And we went and I met this guy, an Indian boy. F1217: Mmhm. F1218: And he can tell you to a T, ...
... F1218: //Anyway, anyway.// So, then we had a wee boy. So I bought another, in Havelock Street, just off Byres ...
A few notes on old Kilwinning Town and the Biography of Robert Morrison, Crosshouse. Morrison, Mr Robert 5,211 4 0.77

... My wage was 9/ per week and I can tell you I was a proud boy when I put 18/ in my mothers hand in Lamonts Row where I ...
... from one end of the town to the other The most of my boy companions were schooled in the parish school but I was ...
... remember the last time the boys engaged in that sport the boy who was made Captain was Robert McGowin by name. He ...
... water which I remember was introduced when I was a boy. It was conveyed in metal pipes from the Munick reservoir ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ane Auld Sang Purves, David 7,319 1 0.14

... loch(an), n, lake loss, v, lose loue, v, love loun, n, boy lourd, a, heavy lousum, a, lovable lowdent, v, calmed down ...
A Small Book of Translations: 12 - Catullus 11 Hutchison, Alexander 211 1 4.74

... a mother bereft at the grave of her own sweet biddable boy – he's smiling still. Whatever it is, wherever he is, ...
A Small Book of Translations: 15 - Catullus 14 Hutchison, Alexander 49 1 20.41

... down as soon as the Muses sussed it was him. Dicky-boy tilts at the mound of Minerva all in vain: forked and ...
A Small Book of Translations: 32 - Glossary & Notes Hutchison, Alexander 1,973 3 1.52

... dit: Funcy is fancy; smitten is infected; loon is a lad or boy; bap is a plain bun; glyte is cock-eyed; chiel (like ...
... when; birkie refers here to a smart, well-built youth or boy; virra loon is the very boy; houlet (or oolet) is an owl; ...
... a smart, well-built youth or boy; virra loon is the very boy; houlet (or oolet) is an owl; spirkin is sparking, lively; ...
A Study into the Knowledge and Use of Scots Amongst Primary Pupils on Upper Deeside Blackhall, Sheena 29,793 2 0.07

... spoke English in the interview setting, but as one boy pointed out 'I don't know you', and the interviews with ...
... is not the language of their children. One primary seven boy was desperate to know 'how he had scored', so he could ...
...Auld Zimmery [Content label: serious] Kydd, Robbie 73,728 56 0.76

... She explains this to me off-handedly and adds, 'Ma boy-friend says I dinnae have tae work, but I'm no gaun on the ...
... When Fiona goes. A hand to grip. I glimpsed her boy-friend today, from the hallway, threateningly clanking and ...
... warmly. You-know-who won't like that. Andy is a bad boy. I don't know if I can write the next bit, but I must, for ...
... what we're doing, Fiona and I. 'Punkie,' I ask, 'your boy-friend?' 'Wha're ye cryin Punkie?' 'I used to call my wife ...
... and lie down under my duvet and fall asleep like a good boy. A more-or-less good boy. A bad boy, to be honest, But bad ...
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 ...
Biggam Collection Letter: 08 Trotter, May 455 1 2.20

... also. It is all young staff in the departments now and boy! do they know how to swing the lead and get away with it. ...
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 ...
Bruised Blue Grainger, Cecilia 13,524 3 0.22

... Lori I feared…thought you’d no voice? (Pause) Hold it now boy…just back away… Zeb pushes Robby: knocking him down ROBBY. ...
... all the field work and the house, (Pause) why he’s only a boy…a boy needs his father’s guidance! TESS. Bit Lori’s noh ...
... field work and the house, (Pause) why he’s only a boy…a boy needs his father’s guidance! TESS. Bit Lori’s noh long ...
Buchan Words and Ways Fenton, Alexander 52,521 17 0.32

... tae tak butter an' jam on a biscuit', But for a growing boy, there's little comfort in being told such things. He ...
... you were mocked. And what would a visitor make of the boy who came into my father's shop and asked for 'a pair o' ...
... me of one of the more frightening experiences I had as a boy. I was with two other young lads at Upper Pitglassie and ...
... for pennies. They were singin 'Where is my wandering boy tonight?' when Gillan, steppin backlins at e time, geed ...
... I am heartily glad now that I had the interest even as a boy to catch and keep as much as I could. Fowk are aye gabbin ...
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 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 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 ...
Correspondence from Canada: Letter 48 - 11.07.82 852 430 1 2.33

... eaten to death by mosquitoes! This is "bug" season, and boy, are they ugly... I spent the weekend-plus finishing off ...
Craiters: 02 - Kippert Fenton, Alexander 5,255 3 0.57

... e circle o steens at Aquhorthies. Weel, e managet at an boy he wis fair trickit, syne e traivelt back an speert foo ...
... sae e wytit for e knock, bit na, na, an it wisna lang ir e boy poppit up again, still wi e bag bit it wiz rowed up ...
... on e Friday paperies, an e news at wis ay in em: 'missing boy's parents' distress... reward offered for information.' ...

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