<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>4:30 he adopted that girl um yeah i know he adopted <&>pronounced as ajopted both of them what's her name annette yeah annette hillman eh and that <{><[>boy eh <[>mark yeah mark mark wihare <,,> coughs oh that's not his real name wihare it's some other name mm i know but he's a poofter anyway mm little fag <,,><&>3 little wiener laughs <&>5:00 <,,><&>6 yeah fuck yeah this reminds me of fucking um august in my fourth form why fuck i voc it's just the weather was just like this but fucking man we were word eh cos we had like a massive holiday remember that fucking that was when i was going with rachel the ugly mug she was ugly eh man she's got a <{1><[1>moustache <&>pronounced as moostache <,,> <{2><[2>coughs <[1>laughs <[2>i was i was actually going with jen first laughs did i tell you i saw her yesterday? where saw her when we went down mum's <,> she see you yeah yeah i know she saw me well who can't miss me eh laughs i'm just so bloody handsome laughs oh yeah <{><[>laughs <[>laughs no i said it to myself last night eh man out of all three of us eh i'm the best looking one <&>6:00 yeah sure you are cos i've always had girls coming coming <{><[>to look for you <[>coughs laughs thing is they come to my feet they work their way up and i can't chuck them off my head <,> yeah if they can handle <.>you your feet they can handle anyone's <{><[>laughs inhales laughs <[>laughs oh god laughs your sasquatch hairy mother feet <{><[>laughs word <[>laughs i've only got hairy feet cos i bloody shaved the buggers <{><[>laughs word why i've got <[>laughs well aren't you stupid laughs when i was form <{><[>two i used to always shave my fucking feet man <[>coughs laughs and i didn't not until third form eh and fucking all this hair sprouted and i went nah i'll shave it off again and everyone started you know <.>th everyone used to shave their legs so i started shaving my legs and now my legs gone real hairy too inhales <,,> and that poor memeio sua used to shave nothing laughs <&>7:00 <,,> eh? used to shave nothing around his er chin and <{><[>mo <[>inhales jesus FUcking egg he's got a moustache <&>pronounced as moostache and beard now eh yeah a moustache <&>pronounced as mustash yeah nah fuck he's a clown <.>w when i was form two and he was form one yeah he used to shave himself and yet he <.>had didn't have no facial hair at all man and he was only form one <,> little wiener and what did you used to say to him well i just used to exhales <,> clown <,,> yeah should've given your razor to katie <{><[>laughs <[>laughs she'll be <{><[>wanting it <[>when i come when i <.>thi come to think of it when i was form two i used to notice so many girls in my class who had hairy legs laughs they just don't know eh <{1><[1>yeah they don't click on until they get to go to <{2><[2>secondary school and they then they feel so stink <{3><[3>about it eh <[1>cos word <[2>secondary school yeah <[3>well because when you go to secondary school it's so important to make yourself look good eh <&>8:00 yeah coughs you got to have an image cos like at <,> sniffs at big schools down here eh you can't make a name for yourself eh unless you're fucking good at everything eh well I have oh i know <.>w cos we we're talented babe but fucking you know you imagine the just those ordinary people eh ordinary losers like john taylor well that's what i mean you know fucking we're not ordinary bro tough tough yeah no yeah <,> doesn't mean we're fucking coming from <&>school A <,,> it's <.>a it'll be a big change for me to go to saint saint <&>school B name abbreviated <,,> coughs <,> no i never thought i'd ever go to saint <&>school B name abbreviated <,> you know if i look back two years ago tut and um and i <.>c and we stopped here now and i <&>9:00 could see now i'd think nah fuck i'd never i'd never go to saint <&>school B it's like you never said you'd smoke tut said you never said you'd drink yeah never said you'd get a girlfriend <,> girlfriends are dumb word <,> come on let's just go home laughs you're dumb <,> come on we got to go man you're egg remember <{><[>that <[>laughs yeah <,> come on <,> we'll just play spacies <,> spacies are my life laughs when? <{><[>laughs <[>laughs but that's that's more or less what it was then and spacies was your life no it wasn't ride down pluto's with er eighty cents <{1><[1>laughs it was good too <{2><[2>laughs <[1>you used to walk down bloody king size with sixteen cents <[2>you used to you used to take me with you <{1><[1>used you used to say come on we used to steal the milk money eh remember <{2><[2>that steal the money and fucking <{3><[3>yeah you said come on man let's go down the spacies sniffs <,,> and i remember that my <{4><[4>brothers worked at king size and we played double dragon and we got our arses kicked at the first shout <[1>laughs <[2>laughs <[3>laughs inhales <&>10:00 <[4>coughs it's sort of and we tried to take spoons <{><[>remember laughs <[>laughs laughs trying to wire up the <{><[>game eh laughs <[>yeah with a spoon <,> it's just you actually think about it eh <{><[>laughs <[>laughs it's we're the spoons trying to fucking we were the spoons all right sniffs oh what eggs man <.>i i <{1><[1>felt like crying one time when we lost you know we died fuck we got to walk <{2><[2>all the fucking way home inhales laughs <[1>exhales laughs <[2>laughs yeah i'll say we had to walk all the way home fucking hell we only got down with eighty cents <{><[>and that was about bloody four or five games worth <[>laughs laughs fuck that's just ridiculous man <,,> that's just stupid where you going <&>11:00 <&>section where A moves about and disturbs tape recorder not transcribed <&>11:18 kei te pai kia ora wai mo te kai coughs coordinate you're gonna <{><[>coordinate <[>inhales <&>blows nose <{><[>yeah <[>inhales coughs swallows nah it's hard to believe you know <,> snorts what the future really holds for you like i never knew i'd be <{><[>at saint <&>school B name abbreviated for my last year <,,><&>5 oh it's just like last year i never knew i'd get in the first fifteen <[><&>blows nose exhales i never thought i'd get in the first this year honestly eh at the start of it you know when um james came home at the start of this year and told <&>12:00 us to write out our goals my goals were the first fifteen and that but i never thought i'd get in there at the start of this year <,> cos i i looked at myself eh and i thought fuck you're just you're just not big enough man got all the right skills and probably have the right attitude eh but you're just not big enough for the first down oh you know <.>up up <&>school A but i got in eh man i got in on heart <,> i <{1><[1>just i just gave it my my all when i used to play for the first <,> wasn't the best player but fuck <{2><[2>i still gave it death <,,><&>5 you know and to give all that stuff up eh you know <,> give up first fifteen <{3><[3>and senior as and all that schoolwork missus <,> to come down here and start new but there's a reason behind everything <{4><[4>eh <[1><&>blows nose <[2>sniffs <[3>exhales <[4><&>blows nose yeah i don't have to explain myself to no one down here <,,> you know it's MY life <{1><[1>and what went on at the moment i'm i'm doing the best best for me eh coming back down <{2><[2>home <[1><&>blows nose <&>13:00 <[2>yeah you'll get a lot of questions <,> voc your first week or so at <&>school C now why'd you come down <,,><&>3 you know you can either <.>s you can either be ignorant and say oh why do you want to know or you just can be helpful and say oh <,> nah i'd rather not say <,> i'd <.>rath i just came home mm you just be polite about it or yeah it's it's best to be polite eh otherwise they they start asking questions eh if they if they see if they um see there's something um fishy about it yeah you know that cheeky bastard i know he's up to something word i wonder why he's at this school yeah <,,> that's why i wonder if father tom you know will sort of open his mouth about things eh <,,><&>3 i don't know eh you know i could see it though if i stayed there till next year i wouldn't get a badge <,> <&>14:00 <{><[>i could see it at <&>school A it's just the way i don't know i just <,> <.>n not you know especially after tour <[>stayed where laughs cos shit i was a i was a real bastard on tour eh shit you swear a lot man yeah <,> oh it's just habits eh it's the after <&>school A habits that's why yeah that's why since i've been home i barely ever swear <,,> <{><[>cos and like normally <[>word cos you're all normally round adults that's why <,,> see we're we were just around ourselves man that's why it's not a good environment for kids <,> it is in <.>the in the junior years eh yeah you get the hidings and that yeah that's cool <,> bum the get the bum jobs laughs that sucks oh hide your food yeah hole it out in the toilets <{1><[1>laughs oh that's a hayley <&>15:00 <{2><[2>laughs <[1>exhales <[2>that's voc third and fourth form are the best years at at boarding schools i reckon yeah i <{><[>reckon they are <[>cos it hardens you up eh fifth form's a mediocre year <.>you you got no things at all no so <.>y fifth form you're sort of like you're no one <{><[>man you're not not a junior but you're not a senior <[>yeah cos you're in between yeah but you're in between and you got no hassles you word unless you really want to want want hassles to come to you like if you <.>e end up getting in the first fifteen or senior a or something <,> but see if you fail fifth form in um in a boarding school eh i i see that as a really big problem man there's something wrong with you not not wrong with the school <,> you know if you don't get more than fucking two subjects eh <,,> three yeah <,,><&>4 can't understand that man how fellas can muck around so much <&>16:00 <,,> look at my form <,,> yeah oh we got a fifty percent pass rate though half of us passed half of us failed you know ours <{><[>ours was only fifty two <[>yeah but your form was bigger than ours though oh yeah that's right but your marks were higher <{><[>across the class <[>yeah we had a higher ratio <.>o of highest you know our highest marks were <{><[>really high eh you know nineties eh <&>mike and <&>hemi you know eighty six ninety two <[>mm what and what was the ninety two hemi and mike mike got ninety two in science and hemi got ninety two in maths no it was the other way around mike got ninety two in maths and hemi got ninety two in science <,> and i got seventy five in maths laughs and i got seventy in t d <{><[>and i got <[>like i care laughs <{><[>no what what what subjects are you gonna take at <&>school C <[>word same ones <&>17:00 what's that um english maori physics maths and graphics cos <{><[>i want to do science <[>it depends oh cos everything goes on the the x y and z lines what's x y and z lines it's got about your timetable <,> it's got <,> so there's x y z and whatever there's a couple of other letters i think all the subjects so if you so if physics is on the y line coughs yeah <{><[>and <[>coughs oh it might clash <{><[>with another subject that i want to take <[>yeah yeah mm well that's dumb isn't it coughs yeah sniffs oh well i'll just have to see sniffs haven't gone for my interview yet sniffs burps you'll probably get stuck with missus waterman what for well for your for choosing your <&>18:00 subjects <&>blows nose <&>spits she got a son called michael <,,><&>3 is that right michael wallerman no you're thinking of <.>anoth you're thinking of these other guys wallermans oh yeah this is <{><[>waTERman <[>exhales oh <,,><&>3 yeah that guy michael wallerman was er at <&>school C last year he's a little short <{><[>chubby fella eh <[>yeah yeah black hair eh yeah he's sort of got nippy eyes and a chubby face yeah he's got two older brothers <,,><&>3 think he plays for hutt old boys marists thought so i saw him <,> that weekend when i came home and yous lost to them <,> i saw the little chubby bugger did you come and watch our game yeah i was there <,> with mum oh yeah veronica was there too <,,><&>3 yeah it was cool <&>19:00 oh he he doesn't play he doesn't play for the a team he plays for the bs oh yeah oh inhales feels like i got a stitch exhales coughs sniffs <,,><&>4 <&>spits <,,><&>5 sniffs voc clears throat some of those fellas in that under nineteen year hutt old boys team are pretty big man they look like like they're about twenty three twenty four some of them yeah <,> exhales sniffs you should've seen the petone team what about the little shits they're bloody stacked <,> <{><[>they're stacked to the max <[>yeah <&>20:00 what are <{><[>there samoans in there <[>the first yeah the first time we played them they were nothing they were the proper under nineteens mm <&>blows nose second time round there was almost a totally new team they had about three or four players that were in there from the last time yeah see they they can afford to do that shit eh they're tricky here in wellington cos wellington's so big <,,> and you know like some fellas they don't they don't play all the time you know they just any time they just jump on yeah and like if you know coaches see fellas oh yeah jump in bro oh but then again um petone they actually got off to a bit of a rocky season <,> cos um <,> tama was telling me last night that he's got a mate in the <.>n <.>n nineteens team matthew wrigley yeah he's the first five and he said um <,> had a bit of a rocky start because a lot of the boys would get out and get on the piss on a friday night <&>21:00 yeah yeah that's <{1><[1>that's like in our under twenty one <{2><[2>grade <[1>and <[2>and <.>an and would have a stink game on the saturday <,,><&>4 and they they they wouldn't want to play us on the saturday oh yous are only schoolboys waste our time <,> coughs <&>spits <,,><&>4 was that dad coughs <&>spits word are you all right <&>21:35