<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>8:38 i had a SCOTS teacher <,> at SCHOOL who was a er <,> ex <,> er <,> merc yeah coughs from er <.>in in zaire mhm taught me to play the bagpipes laughs i always wanted to play the bagpipes oh yeah i couldn't afford a set they're quite expensive eh yeah shit yeah minimum fifteen hundred <&>9:00 yeah yeah <,,> nah i was in the pipe band were you yep too cool <,,> yeah <,,> yeah i always wanted to play <.>in i always mm <.>loved i love the pipes mm even though it's all those bloody ulsterman laughs but no i love <{><[>them <[>the <.>irish irish claim to have invented the bagpipe don't they yeah and they reckon it's the biggest joke in history <{1><[1>cos they gave it to the scots and the scots <{2><[2>never caught on <[1>yeah <[2>laughs the latest claim is that the <.>e egyptians invented them <,> <{><[><,> coughs <[>yeah <.>they they <.>would they would take it <.>i i remember once reading a thing by the wizard um claiming that er the irish were one of the lost tribes of israel we are mate <{><[><.>we <.>we we're ALL of them if it's lost it's irish <[>laughs laughs laughs <{><[>and <.>they and they're still bloody lost <,,><&>3 yeah hey um thought of the week yeah about <.>we you know time i was out in newtown mall and i won <,> <&>10:00 forty six bucks in lotto <[>laughs mm so i went across the arc to the music shop there the guy in there was a real radical irishman like long hair <.>and whereabouts were you newtown mall oh yeah yeah that's a cool <{><[>word <[><.>mad madness music yep but like he's got a lot of irish <,> music you know different <{><[>sorts you know a lot of modern music a lot of clannad and enya <.>and <[>yeah there's a christie moore record in dean records catalogue i think i told you that <{><[>eh <[>yeah yeah <{><[>bought it yet <[>should we order <.>it order it up <{><[>yep <[>yep order me up one nenah is supposed to have been looking at the catalogue but she hasn't looked at it in a whole week so i'll take it back to the shop okay yep order me up one um but anyway he was saying roger daltry <,> has just um ex who you know <{><[>has <.>just they've put out <.>a a live concert album backed by the chieftains <[>mhm <,> clears throat yeah yeah and he was saying the video is fantastic <{1><[1>eh <,> you know it's like it's all traditional music <{2><[2>or who music <&>11:00 except with the chieftains doing the backing <[1>laughs <[2>yeah oh yeah <,> i nearly bought a who album today and um he says at one stage daltry's up there and he's hanging onto the mic and he <.>lets lets the lead run out so he's <.>hang he <.>says he was <.>just he could just about do <.>a a mic swing mm and then he realised where he was you know he's <{><[>laughs <[>laughs laughs oops laughs <,,> so he backed off <{><[>and er <[>laughs <{><[>when did you go up there <[>word er early in the week wednesday or something must have <.>be either wednesday or monday or something no it must be monday i've got to buy a lotto ticket this week <,> yeah keep thinking of how i can spend the money <,,><&>5 yeah it'd be cool wouldn't it yep fifty two two fifty nah fifty two two <{><[><.>four four one three five is word <[>two yeah <{><[>yeah word <[>the works buy one word nine hundred d c c <&>12:00 laughs thirteen forty <{><[>f l <,> f x l r <[>laughs laughs you could just wait at the gas stations for me laughs <{><[>laughs <[>have <.>a have a LONG break laughs you could have a travelling tanker or something <,,> no i'd need the gas stops to catch up with you word <,,><&>3 no just turn it off it goes REALLY well eh <,,> <{><[>word <[>tut what this engine yeah with <.>those have you ever had it with the <{><[>passenger trains on word <[><.>you you can't try it now we won't hear a thing <{><[>you won't hear <.>a <[>no well we'll send it <.>round <{><[>we'll send it round <.>because <[>no plus voc you won't hear nothing on the er tape oh yeah okay yeah with that going it'd just be constant noise just going to send it round for a LAP get down and <.>get get grunty <{><[>maybe <[>laughs it goes really well it is an express <,> <{><[>loco isn't it <[>train yes shit she goes like stink doesn't it yep clears throat holds all six carriages real well mm mm <,> nothing <.>like er was it brand new <&>13:00 yeah i thought it was a second hander nah i got it real cheap because it had a damaged er collect issues on the packet oh yeah <,,> so i um i scored it basically a hundred bucks under the price <{><[>under <[><.>did do <.>they do they knock them out um set up for markham yes how much exhales unobtainable not that particular model <{><[>just their product <.>range general price <[>oh yes <.>about a WEE bit cheaper than markham not <{><[>much <[>not much <,,> oh i think it runs the best of all the locos yeah in a way it's nice isn't it that shunter er comes a close second <,,> oh i've never seen a word do it yep the <.>old the old ones <.>the <,,> they all do okay mm with <.>the <,,><&>3 no it's <.>just <.>it <.>it it hurtles along so smoothly doesn't it <&>14:00 yep <,,> <.>my <.>after after reading what i have been reading in the last couple of days about the clyde dam i've realised something about this dam we're eco unsound? laughs we could build it wherever we like <{1><[1>word eh laughs we could even put a fault under it for <{2><[2>added realism <[1>laughs <[2>yes i was going to say <.>what's <{><[>what's the old saying <.>don't don't build your dam on sand <[>laughs laughs it's UNBELIEVABLE there's so many <.>faults major faults <.>the the reports that were published saying you know don't do it never <.>s never <.>well never <,> saying don't do it just describing it i have to go over it <.>what the first thing i've got to do is a list of significant events in <.>the in history but it REALLY was a case of vote catching and er politics like the choice of where <.>the where the road was put you been up the road there yeah beautiful <&>15:00 beautiful road but it's a disaster in terms of what it's done to the stability <{1><[1>of the gorge now <.>the the two <{2><[2>LOW DAMS that was um scheme h <[1>yep yeah <[2>word mm yep there were going to be two low dams on the clutha er a bit further down and they only called for six kilometres of road and it DIDN'T disturb the fault yeah er however APPARENTLY some well known national politician unNAMED flew over the area in a light plane and said oh we'll put the road through there eh and that's where the engineers decided to put the road <,,> sixteen ks of slip destabilisation <,> UNBELIEVABLE and the faults that they KNEW about and classified as inactive when all the evidence said active <{1><[1>um or unlikely to have a significant event occur in a periodicity of <,> <{2><[2><.>several yeah when okay well the periodicity might be twelve thousand years but as far as we know it moved nine thousand years ago <{3><[3>there's a fair chance that it's coming up and you can't predict these things anyway <[1>er <[2>ra de ra de da <[3>mm <&>16:00 mm it's UNBELIEVABLE <,,><&>3 all very interesting yeah i looked through the <.>book powered through it at lunchtime <,,><&>8 it <.>was <,,><&>3 like you know when <.>i it <.>was well started when i was down there basically mm but the GROUND swell <{><[>against it was you know like it didn't catch any votes in otago <[>clears throat no <,> warren cooper was <{><[><.>the <,> he was sort of quite instrumental in the whole thing <[>yeah yeah <,> he should be taken out and strung up by his fingernails for it laughs <.>but laughs he was <.>fa it didn't catch any votes down there nobody wanted it nah everybody down there was scared enough of the roxburgh dam yep i mean the roxburgh <.>dam that's got seismic cracks in it yeah several yeah and they've caused problems for a long time yeah <.>this <.>the the roxburgh site apparently is a lot <&>17:00 safer than <.>the <{><[>the clyde site <[>yeah clears throat so what everybody's well aware of if clyde pops out yeah <{><[>roxburgh goes as well <[>then roxburgh goes as well mm so you've got REAL shit on your hands mm um you know <.>and tut there's quite a few dams built <,> on dodgy sites down there ohau they <.>say ohau a is pretty dangerous um but some of those earth dams <,> they move yeah like part of aviemore moved seven centimetres a year but it's not really a problem because it's not anywhere near the <.>s spillways and end socs and that sort of thing and if it did burst it er it doesn't really pose a danger there's not that much there no no <{><[>it's incredible country eh <[>word mm man it's incredible i'd like to live down there if i could voc <,> find a tut suitable means of support yeah well you can't even grow dope down there because it's not warm enough laughs laughs yes you can can? for the summer man yes YEAH i've seen it <,> i've <&>18:00 seen it what you've seen it on the side of the road or something no no i've seen it up here mate oh <,,> shit i mean some of them are bloody doing it they're exporting it laughs oh <.>it <.>i <,,><&>4 innovation did nenah tell you the story about <.>the the nurse yeah mm not the best eh no i mean <{><[>word <[>no interesting eh sad life to <.>this to the community laughs oh really she said he wasn't much of a nurse eh <,,><&>6 stage two made it's quite bad voc i haven't cancelled the order haven't you for the cap nah oh i'll try and pick up some butts for it <,,><&>3 <&>sighs money money money money money money seem to have a bit of a steady flow coming in at the moment it's going to dry up fairly soon <&>19:00 though <,> but at least all my critical <,> needs are taken care of <,> <{><[>the rest of it's discretionary <[>word your <.>credit laughs your credible needs are more discretionary than most people's <{><[>credible needs <[>laughs i need a seventy two now i'm scared to go back in and have another listen it's not sounding very good <.>the what the <{><[>seventy two <[><.>it's funny it's funny how things work you know how sniffs <,> greg said to me when we were all down here together before he said oh plimpton he magnetised <.>his <,,> his moving coil yeah okay a couple of minutes before that while he was down here i had been standing there thinking <,> um flux buster somehow it had come into my mind yeah that the word what's wrong here why isn't it sounding as good as it did <,> three or four weeks ago and magnetism apparently can become a problem in moving coil cartridges unless it's all devised word fluxbuster and i'd been thinking shit i <&>20:00 should get it a fluxbuster off er pete quinlain in tokoroa for about thirty bucks he imports them <,> and um <,> and then greg popped in and said plimpton's been complaining of the same problem as you and he magnetised his cartridge <,,> what are you running around with an a c five an a c five <,> awful <,> AWFUL word laughs you're back in the real world when you're running one of those things no way how much is it worth three hundred dollars what's an eighty nine worth five hundred <,> i've got steve's one sitting there you're not back in the real world <,> at all <&>grunt <,> most annoying something word but <,,> oh shit <&>grunt let me guess that point's set the wrong way set the wrong way it's set to go down that er <{><[>word train's on <[>word yep funnily enough why would that we're going to have to get use to this you know SIGNALS we've got to have them actually i was thinking of using signals just to indicate which way the points were yeah i mean it's not quite <.>re not quite prototypical eh but who cares i'm i'd rather use them for um <{><[>word <[>if you use green for going left and red for going right or something word for going right that would be enough wouldn't it <&>21:22