<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>4:25 diane good evening good evening how are you tonight oh good thanks that's good hey i just was listening to the um chappie that was on before about um drivers laughs and it sort of i was a bit um concerned with how he thought er he'd only been like down the south island for about a month travelling around um my husband and i have sort of just moved back up to auckland and we've we grew up here you know ourselves so yeah we sort of know laughs that we actually lived in nelson for about a year and i can quite honestly say that the poor nelsonians are probably the worst drivers that we've ever come across um and we actually travel around a lot we lived in northland and you know been all over the <&>5:00 country just about um through my husband's job so laughs we've seen a few drivers in our time but um tut we can say like auckland i mean they have their problems but mainly because inhales i think they rush around too much they're always just too much in a rush mm um but you know we we've just about had quite a few close calls you know nelson we were driving along the road and inhales you know on the on the we were in the right sort of basically and inhales little old ladies or other people just pulled out in front they saw us didn't even look no indication no anything they just pull out and you inhales sort of slam the brakes on and inhales you know and it's it's sort of quite <{1><[1>laughs it's um quite frustrating you know and then <.>y you're going into a car park and you sort of thinking okay um should i what should i do should i just go really slowly or what and you get these cars sort of backing out just about into you and inhales it's just really amazing laughs <{2><[2>but <[1>laughs <[2><.>i it's extraordinary <.>m my my wife was driving us <.>y yesterday <.>a as i said we <&>6:00 went up to warkworth inhales and on one of these hills where they say er use left lane unless <&>pronounced unleast overtaking yeah <{><[>yeah <[>and there was we'd been following for some time and we had a long queue behind us we'd been following a van full of people inhales it was driving very slowly in a hundred k area right so when we got on to this hill you would think wouldn't you that that van would have gone to the <{><[>lefthand lane no way they continued at a slow speed in the righthand lane now my wife said to me there's no way i'm going to overtake them on the inside <[>yeah yeah no which <.>a which i wouldn't have either because you don't if if you started to and they decided oh gosh i should have gone to the lefthand lane and came across a you had a collision b you're in the wrong oh <{><[>i know <[>so so in the end this lengthy queue of cars had to wait behind this van full of people <{1><[1>and and er i mean <{2><[2>oh <.>a <.>y you know yes i was i was wondering if <.>e <.>e <.>e how much it would cost me to get one of those big guns and lean out the <{3><[3>window and go boom you know and <[1>laughs <[2>it's frustrating <[3>laughs yeah no yeah but <.>there people sort of i think <&>7:00 you know a lot of them need to inhales to go to like defensive driving or something or really learn properly what the road rules are and inhales you know and and be courteous i think that er that's a one big problem i think you know there's no courtesy any more inhales i mean i'll tell you another thing about um we went up to whangarei cos we've been looking for houses and that but we finally settled out in waiuku here and inhales um we were coming back from down there and um there was this you know <,> sort of all through there's quite a lot of you know curves and things like that and um we've got three young children too so they <.>w all there in the back you know and inhales driving along quite quite casually and then around the corner on the wrong side of the road came this um great big voc <.>ca red car a lady driving talking on one of those um tut hand held phones yes she um sort of just managed i don't know how but managed to swerve onto her side of the road inhales just in time basically cos we we could see ourselves having a head on collision <{><[>with her <[>yes yes and i thought oh and that's another problem i think too <,> <{><[>word <&>8:00 <[>how do you <.>h how do you stop people like her from doing silly things like that that's the question isn't it er yeah there's a <.>lo i think there's a lot needs to be done basically eh <{><[>um to improve improve things for once i <.>th i think that they should ban actually um hand held phones and if they want to talk they should pull to the side of the road somewhere safe and talk then <[>mm yes and then when they're finished then they can you know carry on their way cos they they they lack concentration when they're talking like that i mean it's just the same as if you're talking to somebody else sitting in a passenger's seat you're sort of um you know sometimes you might turn to look at them sort of thing and that's that's quite bad too in itself but i think you know <.>y you've got to be really concentrating on what's happening on the road in front of you beside you and behind you all the time yes i i i you're right without a doubt it's just a matter of how you get that message through and with the best way inhales and <.>i i tell you what <.>it driving around here you take your life into your own hands thanks a lot diane nice to <&>9:00 hear from you <,> now now dum da dum dum found him jerry good evening oh good evening geoff how are you good thanks yes i i've managed to pass your book off <,> er remember yes yeah i i didn't pay for it <{><[>i'm fortunate <[>laughs er i'm afraid your super your wife's superannuitant or whatever laughs <{><[>superannuation fund laughs <[>laughs i'm i'm sorry about that laughs laughs but however er since you have so many erudite listeners <,> anyway er can you enlighten me geoff er a question if you don't mind what's this roc thing when i was young i i thought it was something you sort of listened to and danced to <{><[>but <[>laughs when you were young they had rock? well i i'm not well i'm only forty nine oh oh <.>w laughs yeah just pulling your leg um <&>10:00 that's er yes i suppose you could make an awful lot of jokes out of a name like roc couldn't you <,> a rock it'd <.>b you know between a rock and a hard place as mike moore put it or <,> frock as er winston peters said or i mean there's <.>a in rock <{><[>and roll <[>oh yes by the way i used to be your your bar person at the city hotel laughs over the road from t v yeah n z yeah yeah yeah <,> yeah no you don't remember me i suppose i remember oh yeah well how would you remember your barman i mean i remember yarning with the barman there but i mean i <,> times times change it was good though i used to like going over there yeah oh it's a good well laughs i poured a nice drop you got you got yeah you certainly had some characters come in there from that television crowd then all the good ones are gone now all the fun ones have left <,> <{><[>word <[>oh i don't know oh i wouldn't <.>say i wouldn't go that far geoff <{><[>i wouldn't go no there there's some good young characters <[>wouldn't you are there <&>11:00 popping up now i don't know journalists have changed all the young journalists used to be real characters and have a ton of fun and now they're all they're all serious and politically correct and and they can't spell for peanuts yeah er by the way er geoff er er am i allowed <{><[>another question <[>laughs go on well so this a c t and roc er can you enlighten me about this roc thing no you won't well i can't i don't know any more about it than they've told us it's just er <,> it's the right of centre so it's called roc i think it's a terrible name but there you are but what's a c t well the the powers that be er jim anderton have made me vice chairperson of the alliance in <{><[>now oh <[>have they well you won't be <{><[>a roc <[>what am i supposed to do now <.>y well you won't be a roc if you're in the alliance old son i'll give you the bully on that <,> anyhow stick to the devil you know is er is er is a <.>l a good lesson in politics i think <&>12:00 nice to hear from you <&>twenty seven seconds of advertisements <&>12:28 i called it gross misbehaviour and nobody laughed er james good evening good evening how are you good thanks yeah i spoke to you once before i was the one who told you about the little old french woman oh yes yeah yes anyhow clears throat yeah i hear oh hear you're <.>a a lot of your callers complaining about the poor driving up in auckland or something yeah i've got oh i've driven in auckland er you you lot are bloody pussy cats <{><[>laughs <&>13:00 <[><.>y you want to try driving down here <{><[>laughs in <.>wang wanganui yeah the <.>a pedestrian crossings they've never heard of them down here i was surprised when i was up in auckland they actually stop for pedestrians in auckland laughs <[>laughs i must i must be going silly in me old age <.>i auckland i i've always thought was the <.>w i'd much rather drive in wellington or christchurch than drive in auckland <,> much rather oh god <.>th well i'm in a little provincial town and tut it's fair game down here sport mind i drove a truck professionally for four years <{1><[1>laughs yes i'll tell you the worst drivers you can ever come up against tut are nuns <,> they seem <.>t to believe in divine <.>re <.>re <{2><[2>laughs divine what is it <[1>laughs <[2>i i i agree with i agree with that but i'd add to it and say people driving home from church as well put them in with them yeah laughs because <.>th the i think they they really feel good cos they have been to church and they've and they feel they're righteous and all that and and they take risks <&>14:00 on the road they don't bother to indicate they don't bother to look they just drive out and so on and i think it's because they feel that somebody up there is <.>lov loving them and looking after them yeah something like that laughs yeah laughs i'm sure it's true of nuns yeah but don't tell i hope my sister's not listening she'll she'll have words to say to geoffrey next time she sees him laughs <.>sh she <.>g she'll she'll have to say a <.>v to <.>all to all truck drivers and bus drivers in the country then laughs laughs yeah mate but every time we saw <.>a where the religious order driving we always made gave them a wide berth <{><[>laughs yeah <[>laughs oh <.>i i used to er i used to er <.>w er <.>wh when they started all these bumper stickers i used to go on air and i'd give the give the bumper sticker of the week for the whoever was the worst driver and you know it'd be les mills health studios or something like that and then they and then radio rhema started up and all these people with radio rhema on <&>15:00 their bumper <{><[>and they were they were as bad as nuns although they were a different religion <[>word well true but as you say they seem to believe in divine <{><[>laughs protection or something and oh god laughs <[>laughs it was oh was it not uncle tom who was it used to say god will take care of you but not over thirty miles an hour <{><[>laughs <[>yeah laughs yeah but anyhow i've i've i've driven in auckland and er they're they're quite courteous drivers over there you're quicker than us i'll grant you that yeah <{1><[1>that that might be right <.>but i i was in wellington because they had a lot of one way systems i always found <.>y you know you're <.>n you're out of the place and might not have driven there for a year but when you're there and you think oh ye gods i should have gone into that lane if you signal they'll always signal you to go across or or they'll say come on down this way or something like that <.>they're i always found them very helpful whereas in auckland if you signal people yell out at you where do you think you're going you bald headed old bugger <{2><[2>and things like that dreadful <[1>yeah <[2>laughs yeah or something like that or do you want a written bloody invitation or <&>16:00 yeah where'd you get you bloody licence ha ha yeah <.>b but it's er i i i've always found that in auckland but very rarely do i i've never had it i've never been in <.>s in that situation in wellington or christchurch so i or or dunedin for that matter i mean i must have just er but maybe we'll put wanganui down in <.>a in in this group with auckland how's that yeah fair enough laughs thanks a lot mate right cheerie <&>16:22 <&>twenty one seconds of advertisements <&>16:43 yeah john good evening how's it going oh good thanks i agree with you i i don't i don't personally indicate cos er it's nobody else's business where i'm going laughs i think that's the motto of half the people i saw yesterday <&>17:00 it is <{><[>laughs you come out of church and they try to take you out mate <[>laughs yeah <{><[>yeah <[>hey anyway what i'm actually ringing you about <{><[>is i've just wondered whether you know know what the minimum wage rate for an adult is <[>laughs well there isn't any on <.>th on the left funny er side <{><[>there isn't? <[><.>th the there the the they voc there isn't anything i don't er there used to be but then they changed it into all these new contracts and things oh right and they said oh the minimum you were allowed to offer but <.>i i don't even know if it's entrenched in law now even it's three sixty eight for a er youth yeah they have a youth rate but i yeah <.>th <.>th there may be there may be a legal minimum but if if so it's so small that no one gets it yeah oh i don't know how they can live oh right so what <.>i what about um in in the past in the? in the past i <.>d i <.>d i honestly can't remember i'd need i need to look it up <{><[>now i'd i'd only be guessing it's er <[>oh right right voc i mean ask yourself now how much does a person need to survive today oh a lot <&>18:00 and and so if you say to someone you're getting ten bucks a week on a forty hour week that's only four hundred dollars <{><[>well by the time they've taken their tax out of that and you pay twelve and a half percent g s t you didn't really have a lot left to spend did you <[>exactly exactly and that's at ten bucks an hour so for people earning less than that are are not getting very much no no <{><[>okay <[>yeah? i think <.>y i honestly you need six hundred bucks a week now for an ordinary say dad mum and a couple of kids yeah how the how you can survive on less than six hundred is absolutely beyond me when you look at normal prices for things no not talking about luxuries yeah that's the truth of it <{><[>look we'll see if <.>s someone will be able to tell us the answer to that john we'll find out for you <[>yeah it is cheers mate right oh mate um what have we got couple of minutes away from the from the er eleven oclock news allan good evening yeah good evening geoff how are you oh good yeah good i enjoy your programme mate um now a <&>19:00 listener um about er a week or so ago a fellow rang up in and he asked if anybody knew what the um er specifics were for the sailing vessel the cutty sark <,> do you remember the cutty sark? yeah gee that's er er a while back yeah yeah er well i i knew i had a tea tray with cutty sark on it and <.>all all er everything written down about it but i couldn't find it at the time but i just came across it tonight yeah so er i thought i'd just give a ring and if that bloke's listening he could give me a ring if he wanted to well what number you on allan um i'm at hamilton voc er that's oh seven oh seven yeah five one six <{><[>one six four four <[>yeah yeah it's a beautiful looking craft <{><[>isn't it <[>oh beautiful all right <.>i i've seen a couple of marvellous pictures also it's good whisky too <{><[>laughs i i've seen the er i've seen pictures of it it's a marvellous craft <[>laughs yeah yeah well if it's anything like <&>20:00 the picture here it certainly is beautiful all right but i just looking here you know it it says it <.>w it was sold to portuguese in eighteen ninety five for five hundred pound then was purchased from the <.>port portuguese by captain daumin of falmouth <&>pronounced foulmouth england in nineteen twenty two for three thousand seven hundred and fifty pound wouldn't believe it hold on for me just a tick er don't go away got the eleven oclock news folks and we'll be <&>20:24 <&>music cuts in although news not taped recording begins again with an advertisement and then host welcoming everyone back <&>21:05 allan um voc just the prices are interesting tell me what i want to know is how long was it how long was it word er now <{><[>um um um um <[>word is <.>it not the tray no the yacht laughs oh the yacht i was just measuring up the tray <{><[><,> oh laughs <[>laughs does it say has it got a length on it er yes length is two hundred and twelve feet five inches and the beam was thirty six feet um zero inches two two hundred and twelve feet so it was so it would it would have obviously carried all the sail without any problems wouldn't <{><[>it <[>yeah that's right it <.>w had a nett tonnage of nine hundred and twenty one tons the we i mean <.>th that's a beautiful boat but when you see some of the boats that those people sailed round the world on oh my <{><[>god <[>and some of the some of the ones that the traders that er you know went out from <&>22:00 liverpool and so on and sniffs just took stuff from one you know cargo from one country to another until they got a load to take back to england how on earth anyone ever sailed on them is <{><[>beyond me <,> <.>w <,> laughs well you see some of them oh look thanks a lot for that mate <[>laughs that's for real laughs okay then geoff that's very good of you <&>22:14