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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 ...
SKARRS Forde, Catherine 5,474 33 6.03

... Swears he can spot one of them a mile off: Antennae, Danny-Boy. 'All over,' I growl, macho. Mister Derek's got the cheek ...
... I feel them hot through this sad black jacket my Old Boy made me wear today. I want to shrug the barber off. But I ...
... and I'm trussed like a black pudding in a tie and my Old Boy's jacket. New-mown hair jagging my neck. In church, for ...
... the cemmy in the dark. Be a pure buzz, that. Anyway, Danny-Boy, now you're here, what d'you snaffle?' We were in the park ...
... and key of her nippy wee eyes. I could have sworn my Old Boy clocked me sneaking out with the bottle tucked up my jook ...
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: ...
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, ...
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 ...
Remember this Face! [Content label: serious] 'The Driver' 1,226 5 4.08

... that! A bus swung round the corner with Toothlock Doddy Boy at the controls. The vehicle was packed to the rafters ...
... driving Mill Owners in the city. I bade Toothlock Doddy Boy a good evening as I climbed into the cab. His shift for ...
... go and gasped for fresh air. Damn that Toothlock Doddy Boy! Did he not know that it is bus driving de rigueur to open ...
... suffering Death By Toosh on account of Toothlock Doddy Boy's ignorance. So let him in I did, and long did I rue that ...
... like bailing out and going home. Damn that Toothlock Doddy Boy! What was he up to? A paranoid voice inside my head was ...
Mephistophelean Ballant-Scherzo on ane Fife Legend Hubbard, Tom 288 1 3.47

... - See that boy Faust? He scunners me, The toffee-nebbit cratur; Aye on at ...
Kin Ye Mind? Hynd, George 338 1 2.96

... Kin ye mind the days o long ago When you were jist a boy Those days fair fu' o happiness A' filled wi mirth an joy ...
Letter from Frances Gardner 05 - 17/10/89 Gardner, Frances 348 1 2.87

... Kathryn had a "whizz kid" in looking for a job - a young boy with 5 Highers 7A's etc and a confessed computer Hacker!! ...
Dipper: 24 - Tribute to W.H.T.Inglis Reid, John 351 1 2.85

... Arrowe Park, Birkenhead: Site of 1929 International Boy Scout Jamboree. (Mr.Inglis was Scoutmaster of the Ayrshire ...
The Dark Shadows of A Midsummer Night's Dream Bell, Rosie 1,582 4 2.53

... particularly so, in their wrangling over the little Indian boy, Bottom's egotism is so natural and unasumed that he ...
... the back of our minds that Oberon wants the little Indian boy for duties other than that of page boy. After all, why ...
... the little Indian boy for duties other than that of page boy. After all, why does Titania. show such resistance to ...
... a king would surely have been the ambition of many a young boy? Titania, being the wife of the king would have been able ...
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 ...
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. ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 12, recording 4: playing with jigsaws and electronic toys N/A Audio 3,336 7 2.10

... my birthday. M1096: Okay. F1095: Aw, that's a good boy. I'll just hae a little bit. M1096: It's lovely. ...
... F1095: Fitt? M1096: Two girls that. That boy, that boy. It's only that boy. Nae that boy, nae that boy, ...
... Fitt? M1096: Two girls that. That boy, that boy. It's only that boy. Nae that boy, nae that boy, nay that ...
... Two girls that. That boy, that boy. It's only that boy. Nae that boy, nae that boy, nay that boy. No, that's ...
... that. That boy, that boy. It's only that boy. Nae that boy, nae that boy, nay that boy. No, that's a-. Nae that ...
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 ...
The Fower Quarters: 10 - Nothing Personal [Content label: lesser] Blackhall, Sheena 2,457 5 2.04

... son from Fraserburgh, Dougal Duthie by name, a raw-cheeked boy with a tangle of thick dark hair reaching down over his ...
... acknowledging their lecturer's sense of humour. "Why, dear boy, should we not turn her upside down, eh? Would that be ...
... young audience. He also had the satisfaction of seeing the boy's blushing discomfiture. Walking towards the statue-still ...
... the tiny heads of the violet nosegay. He stood behind the boy, looking over his shoulder. "Finished, Mr Chisholm? And ...
... rhythms and patterns. She is your challenge, dear boy, as much as that doorknob would be a challenge to you. If ...
The Fower Quarters: 12 - The Smiling Horse of Troy Blackhall, Sheena 3,474 7 2.01

... 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 his ...
... Such considerations were naturally lost on the little boy. His mother kept him close to the house like a sheep in a ...
... black. "G'wa an feed the cuddy," the veggie man told the boy. "He's a guid, quaet breet. Nae mony shelts staun as ...
... leave. "Fresh frae Turra this verra foreneen?" The little boy tugged his mother's sleeve. "Go on, Ma," he cajoled. "I ...
... a bun. She was tall, very tall, it seemed to the little boy, and she made him think instantly of a giraffe. "Mrs ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 07, recording 3: cleaning and tidying sister's bedroom N/A Audio 1,125 2 1.78

... fat?// F1102: two pieces, he ate a little girl and a boy. F1101: He ate a little girl and a boy? ...
... girl and a boy. F1101: He ate a little girl and a boy? //[inaudible]// F1102: //They were rabbits, and a ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 11, recording 3: making jigsaws indoors on a snowy day N/A Audio 5,666 10 1.76

... Celebration Castle!// F1103: //Mm. [inhale]// Oh boy! F1104: Where does that bit go? Er, I think that goes ...
... It doesna, does it? No. Stickin. F1103: Look. Oh boy, haud on, Mummy'll get-, no, dinna do that, cause you'll ...
... there, Mummy. She's gonna have her swim. F1103: Oh boy. F1104: She's gonna have a swim, because she's no had ...
... There's two flowers that go in there. F1103: Oh boy. F1104: And there's erm the wishing well that goes ...
... to dae this ain noo. //I'm gonna do.// F1103: //Oh boy!// That's the big ains, isn't it? //Hear that ...
Deadly Weapons [Content label: serious] Grainger, Cecilia 15,826 27 1.71

... STEW. Fur what? DIMPS. Bein bad…Ah wis a bad…Ah um a bad boy… STEW. Yur a man, man that’s gittin stronger every… DIMPS. ...
... Fuck sake! How long’s this gonnae go oan? CAMMY. Dimpsy boy, yur noh acceptin yur situation… DIMPS. He’s targettin me ...
... As Ah wis sayin… DIMPS. Fuckin acceptable bein mummy’s boy? Fuckin leper city bein daddy’s boy? CAMMY. Mrs Dimps? ...
... bein mummy’s boy? Fuckin leper city bein daddy’s boy? CAMMY. Mrs Dimps? DIMPS. Mr Cammy? Dimps runs at Cammy; ...
... STEW. Come oan you two? CAMMY. Hey Stew? Mibi Dimpsy boy wants some fantasy time…how ti kill yur nearest an dearest ...
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 ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 10, recording 2: reading nursery rhymes books and toy catalogues N/A Audio 2,372 4 1.69

... but dollies is nae jist for girls. You get you get boy dollies as well, M1090: Boy dollies? //Are there ...
... for girls. You get you get boy dollies as well, M1090: Boy dollies? //Are there bo- do-// F1089: //yes.// ...
... //That's bonnie though, isn't it?// M1090: //it's a boy.// F1089: That's got snow babies. M1090: D- ...
... can I have that? F1089: Have you been a good enough boy to get aw that? M1090: Yeah. I want that too. //I ...
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 ...
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; ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 05, recording 1: eating tea and playing with baby brother N/A Audio 1,975 3 1.52

... //Fa's that?// F1142: //Aye.// F1141: Is that a boy or a girl? F1142: Boy. F1141: I think there's a ...
... //Aye.// F1141: Is that a boy or a girl? F1142: Boy. F1141: I think there's a [CENSORED: forename], is ...
... F1142: Twelve weeks the day. F1141: You're a big boy, aren't you? F1142: Oh but look at this. F1141: ...
Conversation 24: Three women chatting in a garden centre N/A Audio 3,307 5 1.51

... mmhm F889: mmhm F606: So is she hoping it's a boy this time? [laugh] F889: Well aye, I hope so, aye, ...
... she'll// F606: //Yeah.// F889: be hopin for a boy, eh? an I was speakin to the man next door in his garden ...
... got two boys, Isobel, an they're gonnae have another boy //so that's three boys.// F606: //And they know ...
... know aye, they told, he says, //"We're havin another boy", aye, three boys.// F890: //It's a boy ...
... havin another boy", aye, three boys.// F890: //It's a boy [inaudible]// F606: Yeah. F890: Must be very ...
Saands o Maywick Johnson, Laureen 1,333 2 1.50

... I hears dem shoutin da wan tae da tidder, an some peerie boy comes flyin every fit fae da banks, wi a lantern in his ...
... An my Loard, I towt, lookin at wir Peter, what is du, boy? Thirteen year aald, an skipperin a boat, an me worryin me ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 10, recording 1: playing with jigsaws and toys and putting away the washing N/A Audio 5,419 8 1.48

... //[inhale] [exhale]// F1089: Are you a clever boy? M1090: Yeah. [CENSORED: forename]'s not g- ...
... can't see[/?] F1089: Did you find it? That's a good boy. Fitt colour's that? M1090: Pink. F1089: Is it? ...
... sleep in a baby bed. F1089: Mmhm. //But you're a big boy and you've got a big bed.// M1090: //Yeah.// Yeah. ...
... got a big bed.// M1090: //Yeah.// Yeah. I've got a boy bed. F1089: Boy bed? M1090: Mmhm [chew] ...
... //Yeah.// Yeah. I've got a boy bed. F1089: Boy bed? M1090: Mmhm [chew] [swallow] [?]Yeah[/?]. ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 11, recording 1: making jigsaws and playing with games N/A Audio 7,958 11 1.38

... Mum, what is this? F1103: You're Snow White! Oh boy! F1104: [inhale] We're doing good at this game, ...
... up. F1103: Was there? F1104: Yeah. F1103: Oh boy, right, are we gonna mak the ither ain, fitt ain's left? ...
... up the mountains. F1103: Up the mountain? //Oh boy!// F1104: //Yep.// F1103: Fitt mountain? F1104: ...
... erm someone gives to Lila erm erm carrots. F1103: Oh boy! F1104: And Smarties and sweeties. F1103: Smarties ...
... my dad makes me a pop-up dragon thing. F1103: Oh boy! Well we can play wi it after. Okay? F1104: ...
Selection of weblog entries [Content label: lesser] 1184 2,272 3 1.32

... 07/08/07 Post Boy Jobsworth As well as the crazies out on the street there ...
... people around you 8 hours a day at your work. The "post boy" in my office is over 50 years old and I can’t figure out ...
... old and I can’t figure out if he’s always been a post room boy or if he’s ever held a position of authority and is just ...
The Fower Quarters: 02 - Purity Blackhall, Sheena 3,055 4 1.31

... several weeks she had been frightened to sit beside any boy in her class in case he brushed against her and in doing ...
... "You can't blame him, you know," Babs said. "He's a boy, after all. Their brains are in their pants. He won't wait ...
... dirty, back-of-the-van job between a half-drunk teenage boy and a terrified girl sobbing throughout and begging him to ...
... and sweat. Grey swirls of smoke began to fill it from the boy's cigarette. The windscreen was foggy with condensation. ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 12, recording 3: walking home and opening Christmas cards N/A Audio 3,395 4 1.18

... he? M1096: aye, a snowman. F1095: What, did a boy mak a snowman and put his dad's hat on it? M1096: Aye. ...
... F1095: Santa. And fa's that that's wi him, a little boy, and a little girl. M1096: [inaudible] A little boy ...
... boy, and a little girl. M1096: [inaudible] A little boy and a little girl. F1095: Mmhm. M1096: Look. Fitt ...
... Right? M1096: Aye. F1095: Okay? //That's a good boy.// M1096: //Aye.// Gie me it. Wait. It's too ...
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 05: Fife couple on shared memories N/A Audio 11,194 12 1.07

... and I got the joab, on the wood up there, //wi the boy// M608: //mm// M642: //in the month o June// ...
... M642: Aye, and I went, and I went tae see the railway boy. And the boy says, "oh it belongs tae the fermer. He's ...
... and I went, and I went tae see the railway boy. And the boy says, "oh it belongs tae the fermer. He's just bocht it ...
... M608: //Eighty-seven? [laugh]// M642: No, the boy says, the fermer says, "I bocht it for a hundred and fifty ...
... they [inaudible] there, [inaudible] there, the boy that [inaudible] the coal. Big lumps is rollin oot the ...
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 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: ...
Fat Boy Swim Forde, Catherine 4,077 4 0.98

... NIBBLES Chapter 1 Fat Boy Fat 'Oi, boobsy. Move your fat butt! We're under pressure ...
... Not even when Victor jooked round him and crowed, 'Fat Boy Fat', to an accompanying volley of gobs and laughter. ...
... What was the smell exactly? Earth, and sweat and dirt. A boy smell. A team smell. Shared activity. Belonging. It was a ...
... time. Inside, Jimmy didn't feel like Smelly Kelly, Fat Boy Fat. Of course not. He was just - a teenager. Normal in ...
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 ...
Diaries of William Young: 1952 Young, William 3,260 3 0.92

... Lunch & tents up by 2. pm. Camp nearly complete by 4. Boy takes pains in stomach. Have to send for doctor. He says ...
... danger. 20 SUNDAY To 9 Mass. All at Communion. Doc calls. Boy OK. Begin Raft afternoon. Boy goes home to Bowhill. Frs ...
... All at Communion. Doc calls. Boy OK. Begin Raft afternoon. Boy goes home to Bowhill. Frs Payne & Docherty arr. with ...
Conversation 02: Glasgow woman on childhood memories N/A Audio 5,509 5 0.91

... have liked, you know But eh, no unless it was the wee boy. See, Eleanor was a twin, F632: mmhm F646: But ...
... her wee brother William, who would have been the only boy in the family //I mean Aunty// F632: //mmhm// F646: ...
... and then the twins, F632: mmhm F646: But the wee boy died. He only lasted oh about a week, or somethin like ...
... but we figured out, and we're sayin, "Aye", says the wee boy we're playin wi, he says "She brings them in that bag". ...
... F646: See, they kept this horse and cart for this old boy that worked for the family, for, and he come back from ...
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 ...
D Greetin Bairn an D Soond U D Voice [Content label: serious] Smith, Mark R 3,399 3 0.88

... roarin at wid ensue dt wid geng alang da lines o: TEACHER: BOY, You shall not speak in Shetland dialect in this school. ...
... y...yeah..m..m.mr.. TEACHER: You say YES in this school boy, not yeah! TERRIFIED BAIRN: Yes sir. An so d “conflict” ...
... dae work t spik a foreign language. Joost lik wee d peerie boy in d schuil, pooer is exerted through language. Olivia ...
Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 06, recording 2: having a bath N/A Audio 2,291 2 0.87

... F1097: Hair washed the night? Oh you're a dirty boy. Right, is it hair washed tonight? M1098: Broken. ...
... Aye. Erm, I can no. F1097: You're nae a nice boy at aa, are ye? You've got an evil streak. M1098: ...
Why do we teach Grammar? Philp, Andrew 2,409 2 0.83

... after they had read with the teacher a passage in which a boy, who was also the narrator, had an argument with his ...
... up the problem that some pupils were unsure when the boy was telling the story and when he was speaking. This led ...

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