<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:42 yes red wine all over the carpet oh hell it's a worry this colour carpet I spilt red wine on OUR carpet did you it was the day jim broke his collar bone and we'd just got home and he insisted on a bottle of wine as a pain killer mm and he put his glass up there and he <.>told he told me to mind his glass cos i was getting the pillow and putting it down and everything and then i wasn't listening to him at all i was shitty by that stage i had been spending about an hour running <&>1:00 around after him and <,> him moaning and groaning about <{><[>what pain he was in laughs <[>it's all right if it's not you laughs laughs yeah and then i sort of flipped the pillow and knocked his wine glass on the floor <.>and when was this when jim broke his collar bone oh a month ago about <{><[>march <[>what did you do you throw salt on it well i put salt all over it but there's still a mark but it's not really bad so it doesn't really matter clears throat i broke a wine glass last week i sort of flung my head back in the spa pool went <&>makes whooshing noise laughs <{1><[1>laughs <{2><[2>laughs <[1>splat crash <[2>at least i'd finished my wine <{><[>oh well obviously you'd been drinking too much laughs <[>laughs not at all <&>makes swooshing noise laughs well jim would have been really annoyed if she'd spilt that wine yes laughs stuff the glass oh yeah right sorry yeah sniffs well it's okay because they've still got three left oh <{><[>that's word <[>but if i break one more i'm out of there oh laughs could always buy another one they wouldn't know no she'd have to leave because there wouldn't be enough wine glasses for <.>her for her to have wine <{><[>oh have you got a plastic cup <,> paper cup <[>yes yeah we could give her a plastic <{><[>cup it might be safer <&>2:00 <[>yeah thank you laughs well if you're going to break all our wine glasses the minute you move in jeez laughs ONE after one week thank <{><[>you <[>laughs yeah but one a week <{><[>i mean <[>one a week how <.>co laughs you don't have much longer left laughs are you going to get a job here and settle down again yeah <,,> settle down find work find a man laughs get married <{><[>have babies <[>get married <{><[>laughs <[>have babies laughs laughs and <{><[>buy a house with one of everything <[>and then get <.>a clears throat then get a divorce yeah <{><[>and then go and travel europe again <[>mm mm laughs <{><[>laughs <[>meet another man when you're forty five mm excuse me i want at least three in between laughs <{1><[1>well you could have brief affairs i meant <{2><[2>you know you'll meet your second life mate at the age of forty five or whatever <[1>laughs <[2>oh okay is that <{><[>what happens <[>laughs i think so <{1><[1>yeah if you don't <{2><[2>travel yes <[1>laughs <[2>at least you've got a while yet i mean i've got a few years to go oh phew laughs laughs a few more affairs for me word laughs do men meet their second life mate at forty <&>3:00 five as well clears throat i don't know doesn't seem likely does it they <.>go they go through their crisis then don't they or their fourth or whatever laughs laughs no well they're still busy yeah having their midlife crisis mm laughs flinging it around all over the place <,,><&>7 yes oh well jim's got a little while left then before he goes <{><[><.>completely completely berserk well he's already completely berserk i think <[>word do you go to wellington much me? yeah yep just about every day oh every other day cos we're based in wellington <{><[>my work is based in wellington <[>oh yeah mm <{><[>yeah it's quite good exhales quite busy <[>word yeah i was cruising around last night after the movies and thinking oh yeah i like this city city laughs i tried hard when i said that <&>4:00 laughs did you it still didn't work foreign foreign <&>next utterance with exaggerated New Zealand accent city <{><[>i like this city <[>don't count her yeah and the fish <.>and fish and chips that's cos she's been living in sydney it's amazing how you do pick up the accent though isn't it <{><[>when you're living over there <[>pick it up laughs you go over there for <{1><[1>three weeks and come back with an australian accent <[1>pick it up word laughs tara was telling you you can't help it you can help it try harder laughs well the trouble was that over there i mean i got hassled every day <,> <{><[>about having a kiwi accent <[>mm mm and the minute i come back <{><[>hassled every day laughs <[>you've got an australian one laughs bloody aussie yeah <,,><&>6 clears throat <,,> although you were there for quite a while weren't you yeah more than two years yes oh well yeah leave us in here with the tape that's really nice <{><[>laughs <[>laughs i'm back <{><[>hi <[>mm just telling jim to STAY out of it <&>5:00 have you spent most of your life in new zealand all of it mm that's okay you're a <.>true <{><[><&>rest of utterance with exaggerated New Zealand accent true blue kiwi speaker laughs <[>word <&>next utterance with exaggerated New Zealand accent yeah true blue kiwi <&>next utterance with exaggerated New Zealand accent a fair dinkum kiwi laughs never been out of it for longer <{><[>than six weeks <[>clears throat although there's kiwi accents and kiwi accents isn't there you'd think it'd be a problem just coming in <{><[>that accent that she's got <[>word she's got the stereotypical <,> kiwi accent what really flat yeah mm <,> like a real um ocker jim could you do <.>that <,> <{><[><,> out there <[>clears throat there's two different australian accents isn't there well you'll be rustling <,,><&>3 well they can transcribe the rustling laughter well they probably can't is the point somebody taking off their underpants laughter somebody doing charades it's a t v programme two words no that means they can <{><[>put it in brackets if they don't understand it <&>6:00 <[>sounds like laughs laughs mm yes um this viv porter woman <.>talks i mean how would she talk <{><[>word describing it <[>word <&>rest of utterance with exaggerated New Zealand accent oh REALLY like um lyn of tawa lyn of <{1><[1>tawa yeah and she's ALMOST as bad as lyn of tawa <{2><[2>it's really funny <[1>oh right yes <[2>mm and it's natural laughs yeah <,,> and she's <.>just she's really thick too which is funny we were at the <.>ne the next door neighbour's mum's next door neighbours they used to own the restaurant down in the village and i went then and one night dad was up here and he went out with some people from work and he used to work with fred and there was fred's wife so they were there as well and the neighbour was saying oh no dad told VIV that the neighbour painted the paintings <{><[>on the wall cos she thought that she quite liked them and she believed dad he didn't paint them or anything <[>clears throat mm god knows what <{1><[1>they are but she's just really quite dense sometimes and she IMMEDIATELY believed him and when david came <&>7:00 over she said those are really nice paintings meaning you know <{2><[2>congratulations on doing such a good job and <.>he <{3><[3><.>just <[1>laughs <[2>yeah laughs <[3>yes but they were the type of paintings that um you <.>could could have actually painted yourself cos they were water colours well any paintings ARE <{><[>surely <[>yeah but i <.>mean why why <{><[>wouldn't you believe him i mean i might have believed him mightn't you <[>somebody painted them well because he said <{><[><.>it <[>no laughs oh shut up i don't know no he sort of said it did he <{><[>oh right <[>in a funny way she should <{><[>have picked it up from what he was saying but she just doesn't think about these things she's quite funny <[>clears throat laughs she's not <.>very with it with it <,> she's a bit in a daze i think oh i think she is definitely <,,> laughs stop scratching laughs <,,> jim listens to that <,> in bed all the time we've got this radio propped up on the bed side cabinet and he leaves his ear phones in and goes to sleep and then he'll roll over and the <&>8:00 radio comes flying off bounces off the bed and lands on the floor making <.>a <,> loud racket AND putting more dents in the bed dents in the bed? oh well <{><[>rimu <[>it's rimu it's really soft <.>it soft wood dents really easily now he's wired for sound coughs <{><[>mm <[>he's always wired <,> for sound <{><[>cricket <[>or an anagram of wired <,> weird laughs weird too clears throat laughs just found some more of my GOODIES in my old room yes i was going to say earlier i was sorting out my drawers and tara was sorting out hers and she was going OH i found some origami that i did while i was twelve years old <{1><[1>laughs we found these ceremonial thingies that you're <{2><[2>supposed to put dried meat strips on <{3><[3>laughs <[1>did you <[2>she wouldn't let me throw them away <[3>yeah and <{><[>it's <.>japanese <[>and all these little boxes laughs oh it's quite fun going through boxes amazing what you find <{><[>and all the gold cigarette paper that <.>she that somebody had saved for her <[>word nana used to save all those soup packets and <&>9:00 <{><[>gold cigarette papers for me <[>oh that's right yeah to make the origami with to make the origami <{><[>yeah <,,> so i found all those and i threw them away and she said oh did you throw those away and she wouldn't let me throw away the little japanese ceremonial what's it <[>mm <{><[>laughs laughs <[>yeah <{><[>laughs <[>what was that one that you made yeah it was this little thing just this folding that they do and they <.>wrap <,> <{1><[1>this little thing around them and they put a strip of dried meat in it apparently according to the book <{2><[2>anyway <[1>oh i think i know what you mean yeah clears throat mm <[2>yeah i thought that was quite good you know <{1><[1>having a japanese ceremonial thing to stick dried meat in i mean why would you want to throw that out <{2><[2>so <[1>mm <[2>laughs well this is right i tucked it all into the pocket in the back of the book she had a little pink fly as well <{><[>laughs <[>she made me keep <{><[>that <[>laughs pink fly? well it looked like a fly <{><[>laughs <[>mm origami fly yes i don't know what it was it might have been a bat my neolithic man yes word <{><[>yes it looked more like an indian <[>mm laughs but it was good <{><[>laughs <[>and the um you still got the peacocks peacocks NO no there wasn't one <{><[>of them <[>oh word cute little peacock word <.>the in the <{><[>um the <.>peace <[>do i have that though <&>10:00 the cranes cranes? <,,> there would have been lots of those lots of boxes about FOUR laughs they were her speciality i think they were good boxes oh they were definitely yeah <{><[>i'd go along with that <[>well <.>you'd you could make the ones where you had to cut them which was cheating but then you could make them another way where you didn't actually have to cut the paper it was just folding and you folded a box did you see the guy on t v that folds maps like that folds <{><[>what <[>voc folds maps maps mm maps <,,> like a box no like origami oh mm he's devised all these <,> unique ways of folding maps that you can actually get them <.>back back how they were you know when you undo a map right it's very hard to get them back how they were <{><[>well these ones are really easy <[>laughs word doesn't sound it no there was this um competition out at coastlands when i was out there the other day and you had to fold your entry form into a <{><[>paper aeroplane yeah and get it through the sun roof of a car that way so you could win there's all these people there sort of <,,> <&>11:00 <[>paper dart <{><[>flying paper aeroplanes <[>it'd be quite difficult i suppose would it well you were allowed to use three paper clips and a certain length of sellotape laughs word <{><[>oh <[>but there's all these rules about you know the nose could be pointed or snub but nothing else and it had to have wings it had to look like a plane oh tut yes i saw a man get it in <,,><&>3 he probably wasn't the only one no <{><[>word <[>oh so what happens if more than one person gets in they have a fly off laughs <{><[>they get all of those people together and they all try and chuck it in again <[>oh laughs does it cost any money don't think so <{><[>but you had to have the official entry form <[>oh mm we're not allowed to enter because um radfords have opened a store out there yeah i think that's really unfair all <.>these <{1><[1>i'd never work for cadbury's for that reason <{2><[2>you could never enter the chocolate competition and you'd never win anything laughs <[1>oh <[2>laughs laughs tut tut is that a dynamo thing dymo yes dymo i found my dymo my tape my not negotiable <&>12:00 stamp for my cheques very handy THAT'S what I thought what are you going to use your dymo for i don't know you can put your name on your door now that i've got my name <{><[>on mine <[>laughs <{><[>laughs <[>naming things yes <,> do not disturb person thinking <{><[>laughs <[>laughs knock before you enter <,,> clears throat tut we used to go into hotels and change all those signs round did you please do not disturb laughs put them on <{><[>each other's doors <[>word change around to please come and make up my room <{><[>now <[>laughs and yes i would like breakfast <{><[>please <[>mm swap all the shoes around that were outside the door when did you do this laughs oh when i was a teenager laughs laughs <{><[>laughs <[>mum's got all these AMAZING stories about things they used to do when they were kids where did you grow up down in christchurch oh right mm like putting <,> false teeth made out of plasticine and peanuts <{><[>laughs <[>shelled peanuts laughs <{><[>laughs did you make the teeth as well <&>13:00 <[><.>on on the bench yeah yeah out of peanuts you made the teeth out of <{><[>peanuts <[>yeah looked good <{><[>laughs out of half sort of peanuts <[><.>pe people would think they <{><[>were real <[>plasticine oh and my auntie told me this story about how she left a parcel on a bus or something what was on it i think <.>she she moved seats or something and then when more people got on nothing it was just you know <.>a <{1><[1>a very fancily wrapped <{2><[2>up box <[1>oh <[2>oh parcels oh right laughs and you know she goes and sits at the back of the bus and waits for people to get on to see who's going to <{><[>sneak off with it <[>wander off with it laughs and what about the little old lady <,> with the flowers or something oh reg and his microphone <{1><[1>laughs word gnome phone <.>on in a FLOWER sort of well near a flower and this lady really thought the flower was talking to her <{2><[2>this little old lady comes along laughs where are you where are you which one are you <{3><[3>laughs word <[1>yeah reg put a microphone in the garden <[2>right <[3>the red one with the nice petals pick me pick me <&>14:00 yeah take me take me yeah tut speaking of hotels joanne was saying how times have changed this is my aunt she got a phone call from her son um his girlfriend had shouted him a night at the plaza apparently they had a special deal on or it might have been a weekend even and so there they were at the plaza hotel all flash and everything and he thought oh who can i ring laughs so he rang his mum and she said it wasn't until <{1><[1>afterwards she <.>thought or one of her friends said and he rang YOU and she thought oh yeah <{2><[2>laughs it might be a bit of a strange thing to do ring your mum <[1>clears throat <[2>laughs yeah hi my girlfriend's just shouted me a night here <{><[>laughs <[>yeah laughs i think they have that all the time <{><[>what <[>mm you can go and stay there really cheap oh no i don't think it's really cheap there was some <.>spec <{1><[1>yeah was some special where it was pretty cheap or something yeah well i mean they're well he's a student and she's a nurse they broke up but she had a car so he couldn't do without her so they got back together <{2><[2>laughs <[1>oh champagne breakfast and all that stuff yeah <[2>laughs only wants her for her <&>15:00 car <&>sighs joanne said well while they were broken up you know she was still ringing joanne and you know wondering how she was coping laughs it's a worry i found my camera instructions jim wanted them for some reason you taken many photos not lately <,> i still haven't got my last roll <{><[>developed <[>you took the photo last night did you yeah we er went to a movie and when we got back and stephanie and sam came and this guy helmut that we know and we went back and had takeaways at our place and then after they went it was about midnight or so and i put a mud pack on jim and one on wendy and wendy had her hair the front of her hair all tied <{><[>up looked like a little poodle word looked like the one on word <[>tied my fringe up with a little rubber band or elastic band put one on jim as well he had his <{1><[1>little superman curl he had an elastic band too <{2><[2>so tara thought it deserved a photo <{3><[3>looked like <.>pyg pygmy tribes word <{4><[4>word laughs <[1>coughs <[2>they were both holding <[3>cos <.>we <[4>all right they were both <.>h holding bottles of their favourite <{><[>substance? <[>i was holding a bottle of southern laughs jim had a bottle of gin yes i wasn't going to try and say that word clears throat jim had a bottle of gin jim's gin jim's gin how's your drink wendy <{><[>like another one <[>fine no thanks sure? yeah <&>16:27