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Correspondence from Canada: Postcard 07 - 15.07.82 852 65 3 46.15

... and I've almost finished Ch. 3. Took time off to swim in the Gulf of St Lawrence, eat seafood & PEI ...
... by more mosquitoes etc. Itch, itch, tan, tan, work, work, swim, swim, munch, munch, say no more! Love, [CENSORED: ...
... mosquitoes etc. Itch, itch, tan, tan, work, work, swim, swim, munch, munch, say no more! Love, [CENSORED: forename] ...

Sweet, Sweet Memories Love, Rowena M 155 1 6.45

... as mermaids’ hair where fish in silver wrappers swim. Sandstone, the seaside rock, is eroded into nut clusters. ...

Biggam Collection Letter: 08 Trotter, May 455 1 2.20

... traffic scares me - a sign of old age? You are not in the swim if you haven't got a car and a bicycle doesn't have a ...

Dipper: 23 - The Red Sea Crossing Reid, John 595 1 1.68

... doos/pigeons bestial/livestock stour/dust soum/swim hunkers/haunches plunkers/truants wud/mad stauve/stave ...

Great duck race Hynd, George 732 1 1.37

... and thinks to me, "Whitever can a duck-race be? Would they swim or would they fly? Could ducks race high up in the sky?". ...

Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 19, recording 1: a walk on the beach and in the park N/A Audio 3,752 5 1.33

... the water? Oh it is, look! Watch the dog going for a swim. F1136: Where is it? F1135: See that mannie over ...
... a wee-. It's got white legs. Think it'll go in for a swim? Want to go and have a seat? Yes? Right. Off of ...
... a dog come up the hill. F1136: Oh aye. Been for a swim? F1135: Mm? F1136: It been sw-, been for a swim? ...
... swim? F1135: Mm? F1136: It been sw-, been for a swim? F1135: Swim? No don't think it did. Maybe it just ...
... F1136: It been sw-, been for a swim? F1135: Swim? No don't think it did. Maybe it just went for a paddle. ...

Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 11, recording 3: making jigsaws indoors on a snowy day N/A Audio 5,666 5 0.88

... Farr's she gotta go, Mummy? She gonna have her swim. F1103: Mmhm. F1104: She's gonna have a swim ...
... her swim. F1103: Mmhm. F1104: She's gonna have a swim there, Mummy. She's gonna have her swim. F1103: Oh ...
... gonna have a swim there, Mummy. She's gonna have her swim. F1103: Oh boy. F1104: She's gonna have a swim, ...
... her swim. F1103: Oh boy. F1104: She's gonna have a swim, because she's no had a swim for a long time. F1103: ...
... F1104: She's gonna have a swim, because she's no had a swim for a long time. F1103: Has she nae? F1104: No. ...

Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 11, recording 2: changing the bedsheets and playing with My Little Pony N/A Audio 5,645 4 0.71

... that where Tommy goes? F1104: Mum, somebody wants to swim in the water. F1103: Ah. F1104: This is deep blue ...
... F1103: Fitt you daein? F1104: Tinkerbell needs to swim in my sea. F1103: Oh. F1104: She wants to take off ...
... She wants to take off her booties if she's gaun to swim in the sea. F1103: Why do you ayeways hae to take her ...
... Because er Spring Fever can't get a sweetie after swim. F1103: Mm. F1104: In erm a big big big big big ...

Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 13, recording 3: having a bath N/A Audio 4,157 2 0.48

... M1106: Mum? //Mum?// F1105: //And you can// swim under and come up like a dolphins. M1106: I said ...
... M1106: Mum, say morning. F1105: I can swim under water. M1106: Mum, Mum, you can see more, more ...

Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 18, recording 1: making jelly, making paper snowflakes and having a bath N/A Audio 9,044 4 0.44

... F1112: //Ho-.// Do you want to go s- //swim?// F1111: //She's going for a swim.// F1112: Swim. ...
... want to go s- //swim?// F1111: //She's going for a swim.// F1112: Swim. Oh! F1111: She's got lots of ...
... F1111: //She's going for a swim.// F1112: Swim. Oh! F1111: She's got lots of bubbles all over her, ...
... beside the bubbles tonight? //Th-, they're learning to swim so we've got to, can't leave them too far.// F1112: ...

Classroom Approaches to Teaching the Genres of Writing Philp, Andrew 2,380 1 0.42

... smaller than parents fend for themselves seahorses cant swim very well dorsell propelling pectigall stables and stear ...

Smootie gengs ta Lerrick De Luca, Christine 2,412 1 0.41

... up. Da fardest dey got wis da Clickimin Centre fur a swim an a ride on da flumes. Afore lang Magnus an Freya's ...

Conversation 23: Couple talking about their Orkney roots N/A Audio 2,618 1 0.38

... speak it an they'll, they'll sort of be able to get, swim in it, //as it were, the, the language// F606: ...

The Fower Quarters: 02 - Purity Blackhall, Sheena 3,055 1 0.33

... dropping the screw cap into the bath as the room began to swim around her and as the urge to vomit rose in her throat. ...

Scots version of History of Scots essay Lawson, Robert 3,112 1 0.32

... it, thin at thi watter, an I thought; whit thi hell, I’ll swim it. (Banks, 1986: 167) Thi replacement o <wh-> wi ...

Conversation 38: Two female students discussing school in the UK and Luxembourg and travel N/A Video 6,492 2 0.31

... a holiday person?// How old were you when you learned to swim? F1148: Oh I was really old. //[laugh] Ehm.// ...
... her. [laugh]// I used to be quite scared to learn to swim. F1148: My sister once got lost on the beach when she ...

Sing Us One of the Old Songs - Why Teach Ballads? Petrie, Elaine 3,470 1 0.29

... brother’s suggestion that he cling to his horse who will swim with him to the shore. It is not the curse itself that ...

Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 06, recording 1: tidying bedroom and making tea N/A Audio 3,662 1 0.27

... F1097: Into the water. Oh, he'll drown! Can he swim? M1098: Aye. F1097: Is he a good swimmer? M1098: ...

Deadly Weapons [Content label: serious] Grainger, Cecilia 15,826 4 0.25

... dust: jist like fairy dust (Pause) Wi could take a swim? Stew Dimps Cammy and Steve all get up; move as if in slow ...
... Steve all get up; move as if in slow motion; pretending to swim STEW. Follow me guys…gentle mind…easy strokes…fluid; ...
... looking fur the dolphins in the sea…when wi find thum…swim, wull swim wi dolphins in the sea: peace is there (Pause) ...
... fur the dolphins in the sea…when wi find thum…swim, wull swim wi dolphins in the sea: peace is there (Pause) We’ll find ...

The Boddamers' Monkey Blackhall, Sheena 8,148 2 0.25

... dead as a foot scraper gathers dust. A soup of polyps swim in vinegary limbo. A sperm whale swings in its chains. A ...
... lay waving its knickers Jolly's a picnic party Off to swim in the bay Across the harbour bar Seals jumped in doubles. ...


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