<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:08 so how are you anyway laughs okay um <.>w so what did you do during the holidays did you bring one of those for me yeah but i've got to <,> i've got two of them but i've got to do something i've got to twink them out or something <{><[>or cross them out i'll cross them out i'll do that after i've finished we've finished talking but um <[>oh twink them out oh yeah i still haven't figured out what that stands for a c c e n z ice word <,> um laughs something corpus of new <{><[>zealand <[>english yeah new zealand english <{><[>word laughs <[>something something of the <{><[>computerised corpus cool <[>computerised corpus yeah there's only two cs there oh there's word <,> <&>1:00 OH oh here it is A computerised corpus <,> of english in new zealand today oh <{><[>word the computerised corpus of new zealand english and then the i c e stands for something like <[>word and we don't have the today industrial corporations events <{><[>laughs <[>yeah sure so we went to k mart today you went to k <{><[>mart <[>laughs i didn't buy <{><[>anything <[>what did you buy <.>at <{><[>what <.>have <[>oh i did buy something <{><[>i bought <[>what have you bought your dad for father's day oh my mum made laughs my mum made um this um <,> bag to put his swimming togs in <{><[>word <[>at least you're good though i haven't <{><[>got him anything cos <[>i didn't have to do anything about it i wrapped it i left it until i was gonna go to work and now that i'm too sick to go to work <{1><[1>and being signed off to go to work by a medical certificate i haven't got him anything <{2><[2>at all <[1>laughs <&>2:00 <[2>oh no it's on sunday isn't it <{><[>no but i mean <[>just make him breakfast in bed and laughs no he'll be word go down and get some books that he's forgotten he had and wrap them up and laughs <{1><[1>i got some stockings today today at k mart they're dark green they're cotton <{2><[2>cotton lycra they're like no they're like woolly ones but they're not they're cotton laughs <[1>word <[2>yay are they opaque oh right voc and i got some little new zealand notebooks to send to granpa's <{><[>word <[>green cheater cheater cheater your pants are on <{><[>fire <[>laughs <,> <&>sighs word word i've got such a <{><[>sore stomach <[>word do we have to pause it when we answer the <{><[>phone call <[>groans <{><[>yeah <[>i can keep talking <&>machine is paused <&>3:00 was <.>that if they um <,,><&>3 <{><[>exhales what was that was that the national bank ringing you <[>yeah STUPID BANK yeah oh why because your cheque account yeah because that you know l v you know how i sent those two cheques in <{><[>and <[>yeah didn't they <{><[>said <[>to l v martin and son oh that's right they hadn't cashed them yet you know one was for laundry maids and they said they were on back order or something word and <.>i i <.>g i dated the cheque <,> sorry early in the seventh month <{1><[1>of this this year and they still haven't cashed it and they said that it's supposed to be coming through on the fourth of the ninth and she said well you've got to come up and cancel those two cheques and pay for them in <.>ca cash <,> <{2><[2>send l v martin and son <.>ch cheques and cash and it's like how am i gonna fix THAT up <{3><[3>they are SO stupid <[1>oh yeah <[2>o no <[3>don't know because if you cancel it then they could be <&>4:00 still <{1><[1>they'll probably go and <.>can laughs <{2><[2>bank it the day after you've cancelled it and it'll <{3><[3>bounce <[1>yeah <.>the <.>the <[2>they'll go and cancel <[3>they'll <.>council cancel the order do you know what i mean <{><[>and i won't get my stuff <,> <[>mm who's that the greengrocer <&>knock at door laughs i'm not going to bother answering it does he come and drop off your vegetables and yeah oh cool we don't have to get our vegetables and stuff that way then laughs think i'm going to have to twink out a lot of this cos it's all screwed up well do you want to start again on the tape because i don't mind if we carry on going it probably sounds silly with a telephone conversation in the middle of it oh well if we just talk for <.>maybe how long is it supposed to be i think fifteen to twenty minutes yeah what if we just talk for twenty five minutes yeah okay and then word laughs why does it have to be on the pillow because um <&>5:00 uh oh laughs might <.>have <&>tape is paused who is it oh heaps of people ring up here especially during summer and say is this freyberg pool is this the standards association <{><[>no it is not <[>what's the standards association i DON'T KNOW <{><[>they just ring up here and say is this <.>standard NO it is NOT <[>laughs you just hang up but they get the wrong <{1><[1>number i say no it's not <{2><[2>bye laughs <[1>exhales <[2>well i used to be really nice but they get <{><[>right up your nose especially when you're trying to do something important like this <[>they ring too much laughs laughs get RIGHT up your nose so is this <{><[>supposed to be on here because it's just um <[>is that we could leave it over here word yeah but you've got to sit by the microphone oh oh i thought that was the microphone <{><[>laughs <[>thought what was the microphone? no no that's the SPEAKER that's the microphone these ones are better for recording cos i've got one of those ones with the plug in <&>6:00 microphone and it's really bad you have to be about this far away from it <{><[>REALLY <[>laughs yeah yeah i mean you <.>can't and you can't hear background noise either so if the phone rang you couldn't hear it laughs you can bet the phone is gonna be ringing on here both times word <{><[>new zealand english <[>do not know about standards do not know what <{><[>the standards association is <[>hey i was trying to figure out what does my mum speak is that canadian new zealand english or new zealand canadian english or canadian english canadian english and so <{><[>voc <[>she's just been in <.>can new zealand for a long time <{><[>same with my mum my mum speaks r p but she's just been zealand for too long <[>okay so she speaks r p <.>engli r p new zealand english <{><[>laughs <[>no she speaks r p word that's just too bad word dad speaks australian australian english they don't speak new zealand english what do maoris speak maori english <&>7:00 no new zealand english no you know how they have that voc laughs they talk with that intonation no <.>they like billy t james <{><[>used to talk that's maori english <[>DON'T voc well no that's not maori ENGLISH laughs that's <.>just that just tells you which region from new zealand he's from laughs you nutter i didn't know <{><[>word <[>no because if you got somebody from the same region where he was raised <{1><[1>they would sound the same yeah they would sound <{2><[2>the same <[1>they would speak billy t james english <[2>oh you're a nut laughs how come you've got such a nice word i don't know it's not mine it's my mum's laughs i bet she got it word bet she stole it <{><[>probably <[>look look how you undo <.>it how you i know it's cool eh very cool it's got little vent things at the top <&>8:00 i know that's word voc laughs i don't want to go back to university on monday laughs i really <{><[>don't want to <[>voc oh word i don't think i'm be able to manage i feel SO sick mm how long did the doctor say you'd be feeling like this don't know she only gave me STUFF to stop the nausea and what about have you still <{><[>got a sore back <[>she's given <.>me yeah yeah no she gave me an injection for it in the back yeah i've still got a sore back did that hurt? took me laughs or were you <{><[>in such pain that word laughs <[>oh no it didn't <.>hur actually i was in such pain that <.>i i barely noticed it but <.>once my back pain went away because of the injection yeah then it hurt where i had the injection laughs laughs anyway no and she used me like a pincushion and took all this blood out of me and it felt <{><[>voc <[>mm is <.>it where do they <{><[>they take blood from your arm don't they <[>she <.>goes <&>9:00 mm yeah and then she goes oh <{1><[1>i've got to see if <.>you're if you're really sick and need antibiotics and she played with my stomach and she poked my stomach and it was like <{2><[2><&>screams quietly <[1>is it just like getting an injection when <.>you when they take a blood test <[2>laughs when they take a blood test is it just like an injection do they have to just <{><[>no they get <[>does it hurt like an injection it's like an injection cos they put in a needle and they've got the tube but inside the tube they've got different test tubes and they keep refilling the test tubes oh yeah with blood so the blood's coming OUT oh yeah instead of going IN an injection is sorer word <{><[>word <[>because it's going in foreign material going IN laughs <,,><&>3 so really taking blood from your arm isn't sore it's just you know <,> it was like leave me alone laughs soon as i walked in there and the nurse walked <&>10:00 out she goes <&>name do you want to lie down and i'm like oh yeah bed laughs <&>screams quietly and my back was so sore <,,> i had to go to the doctor yesterday to <.>get cos i'm applying for a scholarship in america i doubt i'll get it but i'm applying for it anyway you have to have a health certificate so i went and she wrote out a sort of thing saying i'm in excellent mental and physical health laughs i don't know about the mental <{><[>bit <[>laughs i know laughs <{1><[1>so what scholarship are you applying <{2><[2>for <[1>word <[2>it's for <,,><&>3 in <{><[>which university <[>word idaho word <.>ida no university of idaho <{><[>laughs <[>but that's where potatoes <{><[>and <[>but it doesn't hurt me to apply and all i have to do is just write this three hundred word thing and i'm just going to <.>get i don't know <.>how i have to write three hundred words on why they should accept me <,> cos i <&>11:00 am a really really really really really really really really nice person laughs so do you know that idaho is the potato state oh right cos i like potatoes laughs i REALLY love potatoes <{><[>laughs <[>laughs and that's where the farmers come from and you know they've had real drought <,> things and that happening apparently i don't know you know what i mean anyway i know <,,> farmers in america <,> didn't even realise there were any <{1><[1>laughs you don't know that there area any until something happens <{2><[2>to them laughs voc <[1>laughs <[2>i know laughs is your mum gonna open them i don't know you're a bit far away <&>12:00 oh i'll come over here <,,><&>5 oh i got um from the body shop i got one of those purple dinosaur nail brushes i know my mum got one and she put it on <.>my on my um on <.>my my <.>tab bedside table <{1><[1>to cheer me up when i was <{2><[2>sick and then she says and then i'm going to take it away <{3><[3><&>mimics whining <[1>voc <[2>oh <[3>laughs it's good but my fingernails don't get dirty very much is that what they're for you just go voc voc i don't know it just looks cool it does look cool <{><[>laughs <[>laughs i got one of those nice hairbrushes from there too did you word <,,> word supposed to help with <{><[>word knots word <[>oh yay i don't have to go back to work today i KNOW it's <{><[>SO exciting <[>YAY it means i can watch quantum leap when i <{><[>want <[>inhales step by step's on tonight is it step by step or <.>step yeah that one with all those kids laughs i've only seen it once but i think i liked it i don't know yeah i watched it <&>13:00 from the beginning the beginning was really silly but it's getting <{><[>better <[>how come there are so many kids because she had three and he had three <.>so and they <{><[>married <[><.>th and there's about three boys and three girls or two girls and two <{><[>boys or word <[>yeah he had he had he had the boy <,> <{><[>um <[>there's that little boy there's <{><[>two little boys <[><.>and he had voc he had the boy you know that the girl dana <.>li dislikes his name's um it's two letters <{><[>like d j <[>oh b j or no something like that <.>s oh yeah i'm <{><[>just trying to think of what it was though <[>you know what i mean yeah and and <.>that it's his um <.>hi the little boy with the brown hair oh yeah not the nerd the little boy with the brown hair <{><[>that's <.>hi his and the girl the youngest girl <[>yeah mhm you know with the brown <{><[>pony tail <[>oh yeah yeah and acts like a tomboy that's <{><[>his and <&>14:00 on the other side her side she's got <[>yeah she's got <{><[><.>the <[>the girl <{><[>dana <[>the girl with the long hair and the <.>girl the girl with the long hair who loves herself who's real vain <&>14:07