<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>00:36 it's amicable enough that i am going to go <,> to the play with him on friday night friday <,> <{><[> <[>word yeah that's word that's good but we must go and see it we're going to see it next tuesday or wednesday probably next wednesday word yeah okay yeah take me to it actually i still owe you money word you owe me money you can take me to it okay <{><[>exhales <[>that's right i was going to ring her now exhales tut never ever ever <,> get in debt to that why not you'll end up taking them to plays laughs <&>calls from out of room what did you say dear didn't mention your name at all dear he was talking about zeb in a metaphorical sort of sense i think why not the get into debt to <.>with he has to take you to plays that you don't want to see i think <{><[>regina <[>you don't want to see no that's not what i said at all <{><[>putting words into my mouth <[>yes it is okay well <.>i i'll go and see it with someone else then no laughs i said <.>you you <{><[>have to take them to plays <[>he's proposing you go and see it with zeb regina <,,><&>7 i did not SAY or imply that no no it's just about never ever getting into debt regina don't get into debt to ben keep him in debt to you only word i'm more useful exhales <.>i i'm more than useful well it obviously worries you is that necessarily good mm yes tut even if it's good does that necessarily make it USEFUL <,,> mm could be potentially your sister's picking on me mhm eh i'm not word just you in general there's just so much of me laughs hey there cat you can do what you like but you don't need <.>to word fridge word he says it must have been in the food word never mind now that was quarter past six wasn't it <,> the <{1><[1>word i was sitting there and trying to think now what time was it there was another thing at thornton hall that looked rather nice <{2><[2><.>it <[1>mm <[2>are you looking for a new dress well i can HARDLY wear a dress that looks exactly like yours regina is one <.>of is one of the girls going to wear it i'm not quite sure hey by the way can i borrow a pair of your earrings <,> well it's just <.>that laughs it depends <,,> <{><[>which pair <[><.>oh well which pair <.>are which pair are you going to wear and i'll borrow <.>another the new ones i just bought today oh well then how about i wear those big ones with the <.>bl with the crystals the blue crystals yeah you <{><[>know the ones you word <[>i suppose you could wear the blue crystals i really like them mm yeah because i was looking at some earrings but then i thought <.>well tut regina owns so many and then i thought well i'll have to spend some money on a dress and the cheapest dress i saw in town was thirty dollars and i didn't really like it very much um and <.>so and then i thought well or otherwise i'll have to get some shoes or something and that costs money so laughs just have to buy something NEW <{><[>laughs <[>laughs just about laughs what was the point of buying the other dress then if you can't wear it <.>well i wore the other dress um to a barbecue and um <,> somebody word <{><[>word word <[>laughs you went to a party? that was mitchell's one wasn't it she went to a party? she went to a party oh my goodness <.>she she's over her glandular fever she is is she is she officially over it or just unofficially over it unofficially not allowed to touch alcohol yet no six months i think is it and <{><[>you have to have a blood test to see if your liver <.>l liver's back to normal <[>word word how one tests that i'm not sure but well they take a huge needle word hollow and right into the liver and it <{><[>exhales <[>then they pull it out and then they need to get this core sample basically yeah no no they <.>just they just poke it in your arm and you just watch your blood go through it's quite fun <,> WATCH the blood go through yeah your sister's sick <{><[>mm <[>laughs regina must do that all the time cos you're always giving blood regina he gives blood more often probably so he's quite word needle and the sight of <&>microphone noise blood <,,> word mm? word <{><[>word <[>are you recording over this yeah oh <{><[>am i allowed to record over that <&>tape turned off <[>laughs the needle ones you've never <{><[>done <.>a <[>do you know how BIG the needles are <.>they're they're <{><[>quite small <[>voc they're about the size of your little finger and they go <&>makes jabbing sound and they're huge word <{><[>they pull it you'll never be able to give blood for the rest of your life <[>no <.>they're what because you've had glandular fever ever? no because it's one of those things that stays in your system forever <,,> oh <{><[>no <[><.>so <.>so <.>k so you're prone to relapses <.>if like if you get run down you'll come down with glandular fever again but does it actually <{><[>stay <[>or you can pass it on to someone else who's run down possibly does it actually stay in your system forever or just slightly stay in your system forever or not <{><[>REALLY stay <.>in <[>like malaria i mean <.>it no you do keep it i think you can't ever give blood at least you probably could but i mean it would have to be very exceptional they'd have to REALLY need your blood to <{><[>make it worth the risk <[>you sure about that because i don't think there's any questions about glandular fever there is <,,> you'd <{><[>have to ask them <[>word yeah yeah i'm not quite sure if it stays in your system forever or just till long time <,,> and i'm wondering if perhaps i have had <.>the <.>the <.>this the word that i had before didn't actually have word <&>5:43 <&>end of extract