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...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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Travel journal: USSR 852 35,187 4 0.11

... three days per week, helping a 7-year-old Anglo-Russian boy improve his reading to the point where he can gain ...
... to Winchester Public School. She has just started with the boy, Alex [CENSORED: surname], whose father is on secondment ...
... wins out. The ballet on Tuesday was a bit like that: boy meets girl, they fall in love and jump about a lot, aged ...
... partly because she hopes her children, a girl of 14 and a boy of about 7, will pick up some foreign language. The girl ...

The Mossflow Holton, Brian 33,939 2 0.06

... amang Shi Jin’s cottars wis Quarto Wang, an he wis the boy ti answer back at onie officiars; he wis that snell-gabbit ...
... laddie! Whit’s in yir buckets?” “Guid drink”, says the boy. “Whit is’t the bucketfu?” “Ay, ye like yir joke, freir.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Quarry Blackhall, Sheena 23,932 1 0.04

... mother): b.197 Big Tam Laggeran (a drug dealer: Myra’s boy friend) Neil Duguid (adopted son of Myra Anderson): b.1990 ...

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: ...

The Annals of Arbuthnott Part One Williamson, Isabella 23,042 1 0.04

... three feein' markets - always on market days. As a young boy, when John Watson's family flitted to the Wairds from ...

Guts Barron, Charles 22,515 3 0.13

... ask to be lee’d te, mither. Jist pit it doon tae your wee boy’s lucky charm. GEORGIE (To audience.) ‘At means he’s been ...
... 30. An’ you took them, without thinkin’ to check. Bright boy. They must think you’re their Santy Claus. DOD I’m sorry, ...
... Ma! GEORGIE (putting on a “mummy comforting her wee boy” voice) Dinna worry, my loon. I’ll tell the bobbies that ...

The Tragedie o Macbeth Purves, David 22,141 2 0.09

... SIWARD, his son SETON, an officer attending on Macbeth BOY, son to Macduff An English Doctor A Scottish Doctor An ...
... learning leit, list lichtlie, belittle loue, love loun, boy lounder, thrash lourd, heavy lousum, loving lowden, calm ...

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 ...

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.// ...

The Borth’ick Waitter Rodger, Matt 21,032 1 0.05

... Davie Riddle whae played the bagpipes wi mei; i the Hawick Boy’s Brigade Pipe Band. Hei marriet ae lass frae Lanarkshire ...

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 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 ...

BBC Voices Recording: Perth N/A Audio 17,146 1 0.06

... you were meant to wear trousers you would have been born a boy!" //"Get them off! You should have a skirt on", an// ...

BBC Voices Recording: Leith N/A Audio 16,679 3 0.18

... of course, you could never play peevers, if you were a boy, they get, hae doots aboot ye, the peevers, you know the ...
... have to buy tools. You know, the mother of this one boy [inaudible] in the trade "got to buy his tools, I've got ...
... my father used that word a lot. "Bring these strides boy, here, bring the boots", and you had to get all his stuff ...

The Annals of Arbuthnott Part Two Williamson, Isabella 15,890 8 0.50

... and bow to the Queen, Turn my back on the brave sailor boy. Singing games I sent a letter to my love - the players ...
... name) says she'll die For her love in the rolling sky, (Boy's name) says he loves her, All the boys are fighting for ...
... three, Pray tell me who they be. (This girl then picks a boy to go into the centre with her.) The farmer's in his den ...
... of us there including the present Lord Arbuthnott, then a boy of about ten years old. A reward of a ten-shilling note ...
... I can still see the rueful smile on the face of the small boy. Mary however returned from where she had come, not only ...

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 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 ...

BBC Voices Recording: Stirling N/A Audio 14,324 4 0.28

... F1143: But boys an ye get girl neds an boy neds, //and it's completely politically incorrect for a ...
... heard it but I was teaching locally on supply an a wee boy opened his piece box an he said, "Oh great, I've got a ...
... said them, h- cause he was just he's a, he's a clever boy an he just spoke them an he said he said, "Well, the ...
... big deal an it's good, an we had this kinda recalcitrant boy called [CENSORED: forename], and I was tryin tae get ...

BBC Voices Recording: Portree N/A Audio 14,267 5 0.35

... we like the sound of. Ehm I remember when I was a wee boy, ehm [laugh] [laugh] it's jist a very strange ...
... recently in fact [laugh] describing a mother giving, her boy had done something wrong an the other brother reported ...
... //Uh-huh yeah.// M1008: We had, when I was a boy we had a exactly the same as yourselves, the kitchen and ...
... the minister when he came for tea, and when I was a wee boy I I simply called it 'Rium a' Mhinistear', //'the ...
... - yer claes in the grun." And we all looked at the poor boy blankly, and he repeated himself again //"Yer ...

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 ...

BBC Voices Recording: Dunbar [Content label: lesser] N/A Audio 13,714 2 0.15

... a name after that I think, 'kids'. M1016: Or a 'wee boy' or M1014: Aye or a wee, aye. M1016: Just a 'wee ...
... or M1014: Aye or a wee, aye. M1016: Just a 'wee boy'. F1054: Mmhm. M1016: A 'wee laddie'. M1014: ...

BBC Voices Recording: Aberdeen N/A Audio 13,536 2 0.15

... an she was in the hospital, Michelle, an the little boy next tae her come fae Turriff, //well they've got a ...
... was French, I said tae her, "Do you speak tae the little boy in the next bed?", she said, "No, because he's foreign", ...

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 ...

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 ...

Travel journal: Peru 852 12,382 2 0.16

... comments: 'Is this the hot water jet, or is that young boy peeing?' Eventually the dead mosquitoes in the water and ...
... as it zigzagged down the hillside, it was raced by a young boy in Incan costume who yelled 'Sayonara!' at every corner as ...

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 ...

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 ...

BBC Voices Recording: Inverurie N/A Audio 12,014 1 0.08

... it's aye either got a loon or a quine, //dependin on boy or girl.// F1001: //Mmhm.// M1000: //Aye.// M999: ...

The Way Forward for the Scots Language Purves, David 11,636 4 0.34

... Miss, yon laddie hut me.' When the teacher enquired which boy she was talking about, the girl informed her, 'It wes John ...
... class, but it suddenly occurred to her that there was a boy by the name of John Totty. The little girl had translated ...
... name of John Totty. The little girl had translated this boy's name into English for the teacher's benefit. The ...
... social commentary, was dismissed as unacceptable, the boy's feelings appear to have been fully justified. To a ...

Conversation 33: Two female students on Scotland, and University education N/A Video 11,628 1 0.09

... was, but then th- her son came in, and he I, poor little boy, he was too big for his age, //I feel really bad saying ...

BBC Voices Recording: Hawick N/A Audio 11,536 1 0.09

... hookey'.// M1010: Oo caed it 'dippy' when I was a boy. //Ye playin dippy frae the scuil.// F1011: ...

Evie Barron, Charles 11,528 2 0.17

... that meant. I often wondered, but I never found oot. But, boy, I could spell it. (Chanting) ...
... spot”. We got a badge to wear a’ week, if we were the top boy or girl. Oh, she kent fit she was deein’, did Corkie. It ...

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 16: Four students on memories and music festivals [Content label: serious] N/A Video 11,091 1 0.09

... sort of, sets of cousins that weren't, weren't that bad boy, you know, and it was my, one of my aunts has got four ...

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 ...

Conversation 29: Mother and daughter from Ayrshire and man from USA, part 3/3 - childhood games N/A Audio 10,410 5 0.48

... day F963: Mm F965: and there was a very nice wee boy, erm with his mum, F963: Mm F965: and she was ...
... Surely before you were F963: No, there was one boy in my year who actually got it in Primary //One.// ...
... in Primary //One.// F965: //Oh was that that big fat boy?// //Sorry to say that.// F963: //Er, no, no, he was ...
... say that.// F963: //Er, no, no, he was not a big fat boy.// But there was actually somebody who did get it. ...
... //Mm, mmhm, yeah.// F965: obviously wasn't a bad boy. F963: Yeah. It's it is funny though, because you ...

Conversation 03: Ayrshire couple on motorcycling [Content label: serious] N/A Audio 9,868 2 0.20

... last beat the English and er got the cup, and Davy Good's boy They they they they organised a a presentation dinner, ...
... players of the year. M608: mmhm M642: and Davy's boy was Premiership Two Players' Player of the Year. M608: ...

Conversation 32 : Female from Borders and three males from Central Belt [Content label: serious] N/A Audio 9,761 2 0.20

... grubber sounds like a little, little fat greasy// //boy [laugh].// F940: //I would have thought a grubber, I ...
... M939: Aye. M942: both, cause you were a big girly boy //and your sister was a big coward, it denied, it denied ...

Conversation 34: Two students on leisure interests and part-time work [Content label: serious] N/A Video 9,753 1 0.10

... //[laugh]// M1048: complained to him about a boy that had told her where the gravy was, [laugh] //and ...

The Heavenly Cow of Thebes [Content label: serious] Blackhall, Sheena 9,752 2 0.21

... home! She-cat? You British like your animals. I honest boy; Ahmid will not cheat you! They dog your steps, will not ...
... and son The father issues soft or wordless orders The boy is smoking, his curls like a young Pan. A girl is ...


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