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| A few notes on old Kilwinning Town and the Biography of Robert Morrison, Crosshouse. | Morrison, Mr Robert | 5,211 | 1 | 0.19 | |
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... our baths better Known by us as dooking and learning to swim and dive from the big stone in the centre of the stream. ... |
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| Biggam Collection Letter: 08 | Trotter, May | 455 | 1 | 2.20 | |
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... 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 ... |
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| Classroom Approaches to Teaching the Genres of Writing | Philp, Andrew | 2,380 | 1 | 0.42 | |
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... smaller than parents fend for themselves seahorses cant swim very well dorsell propelling pectigall stables and stear ... |
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| Conversation 03: Ayrshire couple on motorcycling [Content label: serious] | N/A | Audio | 9,868 | 1 | 0.10 |
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... mm M642: and of course you're just seein this swim of petrol //over the// M608: //Yeah.// M642: ... |
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| Conversation 12: Two male students chatting about pastimes | N/A | Video | 12,111 | 1 | 0.08 |
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... to be healthy for you, to go out there in the open air and swim. M815: Aye. //[?]Just aboot.[/?]// M816: //In ... |
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| Conversation 23: Couple talking about their Orkney roots | N/A | Audio | 2,618 | 1 | 0.38 |
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... speak it an they'll, they'll sort of be able to get, swim in it, //as it were, the, the language// F606: ... |
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| Conversation 38: Two female students discussing school in the UK and Luxembourg and travel | N/A | Video | 6,492 | 2 | 0.31 |
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... 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 ... |
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| Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 06, recording 1: tidying bedroom and making tea | N/A | Audio | 3,662 | 1 | 0.27 |
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... F1097: Into the water. Oh, he'll drown! Can he swim? M1098: Aye. F1097: Is he a good swimmer? M1098: ... |
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| 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 |
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... 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 ... |
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| Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 11, recording 3: making jigsaws indoors on a snowy day | N/A | Audio | 5,666 | 5 | 0.88 |
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... 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. ... |
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| Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 13, recording 3: having a bath | N/A | Audio | 4,157 | 2 | 0.48 |
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... 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 ... |
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| 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 |
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... 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: ... |
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| Conversation: Buckie - Mother and child 18, recording 2: making macaroni cheese, drawing, playing with dolls and looking at photos | N/A | Audio | 6,826 | 1 | 0.15 |
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... tired out then, are we? F1112: No, we are going to swim. Ah we are in the house now. F1111: Oh. F1112: ... |
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| 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 |
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... 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. ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Postcard 07 - 15.07.82 | 852 | 65 | 3 | 46.15 | |
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... 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] ... |
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| Deadly Weapons [Content label: serious] | Grainger, Cecilia | 15,826 | 4 | 0.25 | |
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... 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 ... |
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| Dipper: 23 - The Red Sea Crossing | Reid, John | 595 | 1 | 1.68 | |
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... doos/pigeons bestial/livestock stour/dust soum/swim hunkers/haunches plunkers/truants wud/mad stauve/stave ... |
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| Great duck race | Hynd, George | 732 | 1 | 1.37 | |
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... 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?". ... |
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| Halesome Farin' | Waddell, Mr John | 15,793 | 1 | 0.06 | |
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... banks, Thae weird-like beasts wi yaird-lang shanks? Jist swim aroon an they'll no heed ye, But play them richt - ye'll ... |
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| Interview with Mary A Ronnie, Part 1, for Scottish Readers Remember Project | N/A | Audio | 19,851 | 1 | 0.05 |
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... F1190: //So we had a great time, and we learnt to swim on the ship, and// we got very sea-sick on it too, at ... |
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| Jade Lute | Purves, David | 7,581 | 1 | 0.13 | |
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... souch, n, sigh soud, v, should souk, v, suck soum, v, n, swim soup, v, sweep sowp, v, sup spak, v, spoke spaik, n, spar ... |
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| Preparing to Meet the Minotaur | Blackhall, Sheena | 8,944 | 1 | 0.11 | |
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... will lie with the nets and seaweed I will practise not to swim against the tide. Sleep Chimneypots with the fire gone ... |
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| Scots version of History of Scots essay | Lawson, Robert | 3,112 | 1 | 0.32 | |
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... it, thin at thi watter, an I thought; whit thi hell, I’ll swim it. (Banks, 1986: 167) Thi replacement o <wh-> wi ... |
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| Scottish Parliament: Business Bulletin 137/2000 | Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body | 6,068 | 1 | 0.16 | |
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... a national programme of teaching primary children to swim. S1W-9838 Christine Grahame: To ask the Scottish Executive ... |
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| Scottish Parliament: Official Report (27/03/03) | Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body | 52,991 | 1 | 0.02 | |
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... opened his newspaper to read the headline "MSP's dog can't swim". In spite of the occasional negatives, we ought to record ... |
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| Serendipity and ither poems in Scots and English | Blackhall, Sheena | 12,339 | 1 | 0.08 | |
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... But she can hop and she’s alive And oh the joy to see her swim! Raja is blind. A single shot Robbed him of sight. Such ... |
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| Sing Us One of the Old Songs - Why Teach Ballads? | Petrie, Elaine | 3,470 | 1 | 0.29 | |
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... brother’s suggestion that he cling to his horse who will swim with him to the shore. It is not the curse itself that ... |
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| Smootie gengs ta Lerrick | De Luca, Christine | 2,412 | 1 | 0.41 | |
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... up. Da fardest dey got wis da Clickimin Centre fur a swim an a ride on da flumes. Afore lang Magnus an Freya's ... |
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| Sweet, Sweet Memories | Love, Rowena M | 155 | 1 | 6.45 | |
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... as mermaids’ hair where fish in silver wrappers swim. Sandstone, the seaside rock, is eroded into nut clusters. ... |
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| The Boddamers' Monkey | Blackhall, Sheena | 8,148 | 2 | 0.25 | |
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... 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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| The Fower Quarters: 02 - Purity | Blackhall, Sheena | 3,055 | 1 | 0.33 | |
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... 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. ... |
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| Women and Poetry 1972-1999: The Contemporary Scene | McCulloch, Margery Palmer | 7,863 | 1 | 0.13 | |
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... - mother and daughter - each in their own time long ‘to swim in impossible seas / under the moon’ but are trapped by ... |
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