<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>2:30 you're not going anywhere <.>christmas christmas are you kyle <.>or are you still gonna go to auckland or <,,> don't think so clears throat <,,><&>6 <{><[>you can't afford to eh ? <[>not at this stage mm same here at this stage <,> i'm gonna work through the wednesday thursday friday <,> because <{><[>christmas is on the saturday isn't it <[>in between yeah yep mm boxing day the sunday so the monday tuesday <.>is <&>3:00 <.>is is the public holidays that's right so <.>i i'll go back to work wednesday thursday friday <,,> yeah? <,> yeah is everybody working through though yeah <,,> oh yeah mm that's all right <,> you know clears throat <,,> round the outside of <,,> the building mm <,,> is it um clears throat it's all finished now is it yeah just about except for that dunlop terrace or duncan <.>terr dunlop terrace <,,> mm <,,> voc voc word <,,><&>7 <&>4:00 you had enough wynne yeah i have thanks <,,><&>13 you can have the rest of that if you like oh <,,><&>12 are you <.>going are you going <{><[>away wynne <[>how much was that pardon? how much was that six ninety five for both yeah it <.>was yeah <&>next utterance addressed to TM at christmas time? mm i don't think so i think i'll just stay in town though it sounds like mum will be going up to auckland now for christmas nellie wants her to go on up there straight after the wedding <,,> oh right <&>5:00 <,,><&>6 <.>when how long is mum and that staying in auckland for do you know kyle <,,><&>4 are they going to go to hemi's clears throat <,,><&>3 that was the idea i think spend christmas at aniwa's and then go to hemi's yes yeah to <{><[>hemi <[>hemi's <,> clears throat <,,><&>20 is um <,,><&>4 elise and stuart <,,><&>4 going away for a honeymoon only for a few days <,,> they're going to <&>6:00 where to mandy and bob bellow's bach or beach house somewhere <,,> think up until christmas they're coming home for christmas so they'll only be away a few days cos the wedding's on the nineteenth right <,> clears throat voc yeah cos raelene was saying <{><[>that <[>handy people the bellows aren't they yeah they are laughs <{><[><.>raelene raelene was saying that um their flat will be free if anybody wants to stay in it up till christmas you see <,,> rachel and stuart's flat <[>seem to be oh right <,> yeah the bellows had a huge flood at their house you were <{><[>saying yes <[><.>they've yeah they got um home from work on friday and found the house with two inches of water right through it shit and it was all going downstairs as well through the roof <,> the <.>h they left the washing machine <&>7:00 going and then went out and the cut off valve malfunctioned so the water just kept on pouring in through the washing machine and pouring out of the washing machine and into the house is that right do you remember joy donahue not too sure no i don't think so no <,,><&>6 what about her <,,><&>4 this guy bellows <,> was in the air force <,,><&>3 <&>next utterance addressed to WD is he still in the airforce yep <,> well so is er joy's husband <,,><&>4 he used to be overseas i think <,> in fact he actually looks a bit like old er <.>the bob <,,><&>3 does he <&>8:00 mm yep <,,><&>10 oh dear well i saw him at the birthday <,,> at mum's birthday i actually um thought it was <,,><&>4 was him oh yeah <,,><&>7 i forget his surname though <,> clears throat <,,><&>4 kyle how did <.>they you've been watching the cricket have you <.>i i was watching it up <{><[><.>till <[>oh on and off till about one oclock this morning <,,> just wondered if they passed the aussies <,,> nah cos it was two for <{><[><.>two <[>it's the third day NOW isn't it yeah but the first innings they would've went through the first innings though <&>9:00 yeah? it was two for two hundred and fifty something when i <,> fell asleep they only had to get two hundred and ninety oh jones um <,,> um <,> creased a hundred and forty three hell yeah? mm clears throat <,,> that new guy was all right too eh mm? who's that new guy that pollock or something oh i don't know him he was all right <,,> oh gee full now not up with the play word mm that was very nice thank you tama oh clears throat gee word chicken was nice want some olives no thanks gee <.>that i used to go into the smoko shed at at work over there lot of crazy italians <&>10:00 and they eat olives and big loaves of bread and cheese salami <,> wine laughs and their beer laughs nine oclock in the morning laughs yeah yeah laughs they love their food all right so you would have felt at home then <{><[>laughs <[>oh jeez i'm oh would you like some oh oh all right then laughs but jeez they have everything the <.>table their table is just full in europe though they have the two hour lunch breaks yeah well don't they mhm but gee <.>they they have their beer and their vino they close up all the shops wine <,> two hour lunch break mm mm <,,><&>3 the working hours over there are split too <&>11:00 isn't it well they must be with a two <{><[>hour lunch break <,,><&>5 <[>yeah bit like the bus drivers here mm they work to split shifts yeah yeah i <.>was cos they were telling me that most of the work over there they <{><[>do split shifts <[>get around the er permanent work force mm <,,> and they just call them all parttimers <,,><&>11 <{><[>i went to the dentist today just for a check up <,,><&>5 just fiddled around with my teeth and said oh they're all right just come back next week and we'll clean them up laughs <&>12:00 <[>well last <.>night really? <{><[>that's unusual <[>you know how <.>they they thing them up sort of clears throat <{><[>give them a clean <[>they usually do that in one session don't they yeah well he was doing it and i had a bit of <.>tar a bit of thing underneath my gums and they started bleeding so he says oh you're better off coming back cos i would rather have preferred he did it straight away too just saves me taking an hour off work mm <,,> i'll <{><[>say <[>did <.>he <{><[>coughs <[>fifty bucks he charged but mind you he took two x rays i mean they're yeah they're quite expensive that might be why he wants you to go back next week to see the results of the x rays mm <,,><&>4 laughs and so he can charge you another fifty bucks i don't mind <{><[>paying fifty bucks <[>before he does the rest of the operation laughs word he said to me there's nothing wrong with the teeth there's there's no fillings or anything <&>13:00 <,,><&>8 i went to the dentist <{><[>um six months ago eh <,,><&>3 and the guy was wanting to tell me <,,> um <,> well he was actually telling me what needs doing <[>he <.>just yeah <,,> and while he was talking i kept asking and how much is that going to <{><[>cost <[>laughs <[>laughs and how much is that heck what are we up to laughs and it was about three thousand dollars and <{1><[1><.>i and i said oh no i can't afford that and he says do you have a credit <{2><[2>card laughs yeah well i'm certainly not going to put it on the credit card and i could hear the girls in the room next door in the office <&>14:00 jeez can you hear that chap in there <[1>WHAT? <[2>laughs laughs oh maybe <,,> you're not supposed to um <,,><&>3 ask about costs and so forth well jeez <,> it pays to nowadays especially with them anyway mm want some more bread no thanks that's <.>a <,> that's a better bread <,,> <{><[>for <.>people people on a diet that's good bread <[>word bread clears throat i don't think so very good bread <{><[>laughs also i notice you haven't been using the butter <[>laughs no given up on butter <&>pronounced buer this one should last us for a while then laughs <&>to WD in another room he's thirteen stone <,,> <&>15:00 <&>from other room who is? tama? mm mm <&>from other room word well <.>that's i've never <.>b really been over that my weight <.>n has been like that for the past ten years <,,> oh <.>f about twelve from twelve and a half to thirteen and i've never got oh thanks wynne come and sit down i'll do those <{1><[1>i've never <{2><[2>really got any bigger <[1><.>this <[2><&>from other room word this is the heaviest i have ever been yeah? fifteen stone that's not much though fifteen and a half stone? it <{><[>is for me <[>fifteen and a half stone? well what's your height when i went around to my daughter's yeah the other week <,,><&>3 she says to me that i'm a fatty <.>what's what's your height five foot nine five nine? nine yeah you see cos i'm five ten and a half <,,> i am REALLY? <{><[>laughs <[>heck yeah i'm five ten and a half <&>16:00 gee you don't look taller than me though one point seven five i am yeah? with that haircut there you must be pretty close to that too oh i keep telling everyone i'm six foot <{><[>laughs <[>laughs leave those wynne hemi does too hemi? oh jeez <&>16:22 <&>conversation between Wynne and Tama in other room not transcribed <&>16:46 what's your family gonna do over christmas then well i was gonna go up there on the twenty third cos that's the day i finish are they going up to taupo <.>well <&>17:00 they're not going up now no well we might go up there on the sunday <,,> and come back tuesday after christmas day boxing day go up there <.>s boxing day and then come back on the tuesday cos <.>i i got to <.>get <{><[>be back in wellington here by wednesday <[>oh yeah so where are you gonna have christmas <.>i'll in palmerston <.>with well it's just gonna be us oh yeah clears throat you should come up well it's only gonna be <,> my family that's all you should come up it'll be really good just us yeah yeah cos sharlene says oh if kyle's <.>not cos i said to her you're working through she says oh well hell he'll <.>be clears throat <,,> otherwise i'll be burps stay here and we'll <&>18:00 have it together <,,><&>4 but it'll be good to come up there oh <,> it's <{><[>only <.>an <[>i know that i won't be going up to auckland it's only an hour and a half drive here well i <.>can i can't afford it myself really mm too expensive <,,> well not THAT it's just <.>that well it's only expensive because because of <.>the you'd <{><[>have to come back so soon <[>the time yeah yeah <,,><&>4 but that's that's what i'm gonna do the twenty third <.>i'll i'll go up there and <,> i thought we might take a drive up to taupo on the boxing day and maybe call into hemi's <,,> oh <{><[>REALLY <[>on <.>the on <.>the yeah but i don't think so though boxing day? well i was going to spend one night in taupo and then carry on to hemi's on the monday gee pretty dry hemi's yeah it is we were there last yeah oh never <&>19:00 again <,,> jeez <.>we we were in <{><[>bed <.>by <[>not for christmas though no but new year mm we were in bed by ten <,> new year's eve last year <,> oh they just went on and on <{><[>and on <[>aniwa <.>and and i went out clears throat <,,> quite funny aniwa said to me <,,> can you remember when we were there for christmas i says yeah <,> at hemi's? mm christmas <.>what we went out on er christmas eve yeah and everything was closed is that right? in tauranga? yeah hopeless eh? and the pubs were all closed at ten i think it was mm because it was christmas eve <,> and um <,,> we had to go back to the garrison and oh gee hopeless there <&>20:00 was it and er and aniwa said to me <,> can you remember you and i dancing out on <,> on the lawn yeah? and i said yeah that's right and she said yeah cos there wasn't anything else to do yeah hopeless eh yeah well there was only me aniwa hemi and ripeka <,,> that was it i think i remember one christmas eve <.>i i rung them up and mum got on the phone and i said where is everyone she says oh they've all gone out i said to her who's that she said oh kyle aniwa they've all gone out though that was christmas eve <&>20:48