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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 ...
Jade Lute Purves, David 7,581 1 0.13

... waterfall lippert, a, disturbed littil, a, little loun, n, boy lourd, a, heavy lousum, a, lovable lowe, n, flame lown, a, ...
Joseph Knight (extract 3) Robertson, James 7,660 2 0.26

... important, whit richt had this Captain Knight tae sell the boy? He either kidnapped or purchased him frae the coast o ...
... entered intae by themsels. But Joseph Knight was a mere boy o eleiven when he was taen: he couldna hae been a sodger ...
Journal of the Russian Trip Kay, Prof Christian 6,438 3 0.47

... were sharing had at least two huge rooms. As one Swedish boy said, he had to wait for Russia to have his first taste of ...
... something to do with one of the astronauts. Asked a little boy what they were for: reply, it’s Krushchev’s birthday. ...
... birthday. Hastily nudged and corrected by another little boy. It must be hard to keep abreast! Saturday Farewell to ...
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!! ...
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 ...
Mountain Music - Chapters 1-4 Mackay, Sheila 50,638 2 0.04

... to this day. For Salvador, Vyborni was the beautiful boy of classical antiquity incarnate, whose image was all the ...
... the rage among European aristocracy after The Benevenuto Boy - the first century BC sculpture found at Herculaneum, his ...
"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 ...
Pillars of Society Thirkell, Alison 29,032 1 0.03

... You shouldn't put such outlandish notions into the boy's head, Mr Thomson. HARRY: No, I daresay. He's to turn ...
Preparing to Meet the Minotaur Blackhall, Sheena 8,944 2 0.22

... We touched through glass, just as we always did. Birthday Boy (3 year-old; overheard on a bus) Fit a lot o flags are oot ...
... were tumbling, Out of a troubled sky. "Will I ever find a boy to take my hand?" The young girl asked, As political ...
Refuge [Content label: serious] Paisley, Janet 22,040 6 0.27

... with, Carolanne? (PAUSE, WITH GROWING ANGER) The wee boy's two, and the baby, six months. He'd put them in the room ...
... BOARD TO TAKE TO KITCHEN. UPSTAIRS A BABY CRIES AND A WEE BOY CALLS MUMMY, MUMMY. BETH DOESN'T REGISTER THE CHILDREN) ...
... BETH) She all right? SADIE: Right as rain. She's got a wee boy, and a bairn. GORDON: Oh great. I'll get to play in the ...
... right, I suppose. GORDON: Great. (TO AGNES) What's the wee boy's name? AGNES: Timothy. GORDON: Right. (HE EXITS. SADIE ...
... them. David's sixteen. They wouldn't let him come here. A boy that age counts as a man. And men aren't allowed. I ...
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 ...
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 ...
Scots in Hawaii [Content label: serious] Smith, Rob Mcclure 4,470 3 0.67

... was hot as red chili peppers. Well Aloha there, boy. His name was Adrian and he said he was a graduate student ...
... for an extra buck. "Ah widnae mind blowin’ yon volcano boy's tap aff," Morag observed to Bethia. Bethia smiled at ...
... "Ah widnae say no tae a littoral explosion wi' volcano boy masel." "Paws aff," barked Morag, snapping. 'Ah seen him ...
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. ...
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 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 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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Scottish Parliament: Business Bulletin 116/2002 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 10,576 1 0.09

... in Iraq by any means necessary; condemns the USA's bully-boy tactics and its international sabre-rattling, which does ...
Scottish Parliament: Committees: Equal Opportunities: Official Reports: Meeting 2, 2003 Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 12,710 1 0.08

... James O'Rourke: I have a multidisabled, visually impaired boy and I would say that there is more awareness in this area ...
Scottish Parliament: Official Report (07/09/00) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 52,710 1 0.02

... of Scots in the Borders. He told the tale about a little boy who said to him, "Please, sir, does oor real teacher ken ...
Scottish Parliament: Official Report (26/09/01) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 33,438 2 0.06

... Scots officially to children who really spoke Scots. A wee boy put up his hand and said, "Please Sir, does oor real ...
... we need to continue with that progress. I hope that my wee boy has more success with modern languages than I did. 17:48 ...
Scottish Parliament: Official Report (27/03/03) Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 52,991 6 0.11

... 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and even beyond. I started as an office boy at 16 years of age. In those days, it was not possible to ...
... days, it was not possible to be promoted beyond an office boy until it was seen whether the call came for national ...
... of them was the head clerk, who had started as an office boy in the same firm when Queen Victoria was in the last few ...
... Presiding Officer: You have one minute. Mrs McIntosh: Oh boy. In that case, I pay tribute to previous contributors ...
... Piraeus have made other bids. However, even an Edinburgh boy such as I knows that Glasgow can readily see off that ...
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 ...
Serendipity and ither poems in Scots and English Blackhall, Sheena 12,339 1 0.08

... Lan Tune: can be sung to a variation of ‘To be a Farmer’s Boy.’ Ten generations o my fowk hae vrocht the North East lan ...
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 ...

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