<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>16:34 hello? hello hi oh fuck how are you good how are you oh i'm getting there are you are you doing your washing yeah oh is timothy asleep no oh good have you just about finished yep just about i'm just on the last couple of spins oh right oh i just thought i'd ring i haven't given him a bath yet <{><[>so i'm just putting it off for a while <[>oh right i was just doing some handwashing i'm just spinning it but after that it will be all finished oh that's cool yep <&>17:00 did you ring me today no oh should i have no someone did yeah oh well i was speaking to a guy at smith's city yeah and um he was <,> he said oh i'll just find out hang on a minute but he didn't put the phone down and so i could still hear him talking yeah <&>phone crackles oh right and then i got a call waiting and you couldn't take it cos he wasn't there no no and i was scared he was gonna come back and thought i'd hung up on him yeah and i don't know who it was oh it's a mystery so i <.>don't oh i probably haven't told you but for the last three days someone's been ringing me up and hanging up oh really yep again again well the last time they spoke but this time it's just they wait till i answer <,> and <{><[>then as soon as i answer i say hello <[>yeah probably just as well you're changing your number eh are you gonna change it or keep the same one well i was gonna keep the same one <.>but it might be better to change it eh <&>sighs yeah i was thinking about getting a confidential number but that's no good because <.>of with my avon <&>18:00 yeah there's no point trying to <.>k hide it from anyone no i guess not so um <,,> yes the last three days in a row <,> during the day not at night just during the day yeah soon as i answer i say hello and everything and beep beep beep beep beep <,> the first one it <&>rest of utterance addressed to child what are you laughing at the first one there was a really STRANGE beeping sound it sounded like a completely different phone yeah and then the next two it just sounded like a normal phone <,> so i don't know mm bit frightening never mind we're here to protect you HUH you just bang on that wall and we'll hear you we'll think you're doing <{><[>your dishes or something <[>yeah but but noone's here during the day no that's true it just seems strange that i get it three days in a row yeah <{><[>i suppose it's getting a bit too much to be coincidence i mean it could be still but yeah <[><.>and yeah it'd be a bloody you know chance if it is but <&>19:00 yeah it just seems strange for three days in a row yeah and i don't know what i can do about it not an awful lot do you want my phone bug well they don't say <{><[>anything <[>which incidentally is on at the moment no well it's not much good if um <,> if they don't say anything is it no you just sort of get the beeping sound and that's it yeah i don't know have you talked to telecom no i haven't cos if <.>it's is it actually beeping when you hang up <,> when you pick it up no um <,> it just rings and i pick it up and say hello yeah and then a couple of seconds and then <,> they hang up <,> so they're definitely listening to see who answers the phone right and then <,,> hang up mm strange cos i was gonna say i thought you meant it was beeping when <.>you oh <{><[>right <[>you answered it and then you could perhaps tell <.>tele telecom cos there could be something wrong with your phone but obviously not <&>20:00 <&>next utterance addressed to child timothy GET OUT <,> sorry mm he's standing up on the <&>telephone beeps armchair playing with the fireplace what's that <,> that beep no i i picked the phone up to <{><[>go over to timothy and knocked the <,> voc number sorry so seen shane tonight <[>oh right yep stoned? no oh laughs not yet laughs oh well <,> oh that was nice of him he didn't fucking come and see me i don't think you would've appreciated it so far he's borrowed the phone and a towel oh right mm why doesn't he borrow MY phone any more is my phone not good enough you don't like him borrowing your phone <,,> he doesn't know that doesn't he no doesn't when you open the door <.>an and go what the fuck do you want doesn't that kind of give him some indication that perhaps you don't like him borrowing your phone i don't say that don't you no oh i've never said that to him oh i open the door <{><[><.>and <[>must just be behind his back then why <.>i is that what he said <&>21:00 no <,> but i've heard you say it oh it pisses me off sometimes yeah oh fuck i don't know <,> if he wants to use your phone that's FINE i don't mind oh that reminds me i forgot to turn the tape recorder on when he used it that should be a condition eh ha yeah yeah most of the time he's talking drugs so <{><[>no don't turn it on cos then he'll come over here <[>yeah laughs yeah it's quite good cos jennifer come round tonight did she mm <,> she just left oh right so um marion and um <,> duncan came round and put my bed up oh did they yeah they haven't got the mattress yet but they put the bed up mm and they ARE gonna feed mcivor for me oh good one <{><[>oh i told marion about it today <[>yeah yeah i know i went round to see her it was really funny eh oh sorry oh that's all right um but she's going away herself this weekend next week <{><[>oh yeah but she said duncan's gonna come and feed them all <[>yeah she said oh is he yeah <{><[>he has to come and feed hers anyway <[>oh good yeah cos they're his cats too you know and he's got responsibilities <&>22:00 laughs yeah i said to her that <.>soph um you were gonna ask her and <{1><[1>she said oh well i can do it till friday <{2><[2>but up until then and then i'm going away for the weekend <[1>yeah <[2>yeah mm everyone's fucking off on me but i don't care you'll be so <.>busy laughs <{><[>it's probably COS you're busy shifting <&>tape crackles <[>yeah that won't worry me yeah it'll be <.>probably well i just thought if everyone was here everyone can come over and give me a hand well i would do <{><[>i mean if you want to save some <[>laughs laughs if you're gonna start during the weekend i won't even be here then but if you want to do any monday night i won't have the key oh when do you get them tuesday tuesday that's unfortunate i leave at twenty past seven but i mean if <&>crackling noise fuck laughter word well <{><[>i <.>won't <[>that's my final check in time so i'll probably be leaving about twenty TO seven bloody hell <{><[>that's early <[>i know it is a bit isn't it it means i got the whole day in wellington though so i can go and see my bank manager <.>and what time do you get to wellington about eleven <,> i have to stop in christchurch <&>23:00 for a while and that's really bad cos normally paul comes and meets me and like takes me somewhere to entertain me but he's not gonna be there cos he's gone back to new plymouth for the holidays right so how long you got in christchurch i think it's an hour and a half oh that's not so bad i suppose i think yeah is there not any flights straight through no not when i wanted to go <,> i was quite lucky to get there at all cos i kept changing my plans so like i'd go back every week and change them again right so i'm quite lucky i'm actually getting there and getting back <,,><&>4 maybe you could put <,> does that bottom half of your couch <,> <.>take get away from the back of that sofa no oh i was gonna say you could take that off <{><[>and put it on the bed <[>laughs no it's all right it's <.>fine i mean i've been sleeping on it all year another week is not gonna make any difference <,,> <{><[>word <[>but i did go and jump on the base and it's very nice oh so it's word <&>crackling noise you know how the end bit broke and they fixed it yeah well um marion said i won't be able to bonk on it cos it won't be strong enough laughs <&>24:00 but i think she was joking eh cos duncan reckoned it would coughs yeah well the actual leg bit snapped right off when <{><[>word <[>i mean it looks fine now it's still standing now so i'll just be careful oh duncan's father probably superglued it back <{><[>together or nailed it or something <[>yeah duncan thinks it'll be safe laughs oh well he's a male so he would know why would he know oh <.>they they <{><[>seem to think <[>males don't know everything well they seem to think they're <{><[>experts <[>they THINK they do that's laughs a big difference from ACTually knowing everything <,> i'll take it for a test drive and see anyway <,,> who's gonna be the willing party voc <,,> three guesses? yeah madeline's neighbour laughs don't be rude laughs i was thinking you were offering there for a minute fran i'm quite disappointed laughs oh shit you would laughs what the fuck was that what that thump yeah me dropping my phone oh okay <&>24:57 <&>section blanked <&>26:57 he probably would've been just <,> over one right <,,> no <.>we yeah we had it at his first <{><[>birthday <.>so <[>he's born in december eh yeah yeah we had at his <,,> pardon me first birthday so it would've been before that <,> voc <,> oh before he started walking we had it he started walking at easter did he yeah that was quite a long time after his <.>first first birthday yeah um no he didn't start walking till about fifteen months yeah <&>next utterance addressed to child DON'T YOU DARE <,> he's trying to bite the <,> <{><[>phone plug <[>laughs don't you feed him yeah he's <{><[>just had fish and chips for tea <[>laughs has he mm fish and chips again we haven't had them <{><[><.>for <[>oh not since saturday saturday yeah shit oh that's only five days yeah that's quite a long time that's not too bad laughter oh i kept thinking god it was only a couple of days ago laughs <&>next utterance addressed to child oh do you want to say hello hang on <&>28:00 <&>next utterance addressed to child <{><[>hello timothy <,> hello <,> hi timmy bear <&>next two utterances addressed to child <[>say hello <,> say hello <,,> hello <,,> say hello <,,><&>3 now he's just staring into space <,,> voc he's not very talkative no normally he sort of has a bit of a chat yeah never mind <,> oh well i'll let you go and do your washing and i better <{><[>put this child in the bath i suppose <[>yeah okay all right <&>next utterance addressed to child NO er are you going to be home later yep no doubt i might pop over when he's gone to bed yeah okay it's possible i might go in to the office but i voc can't see it somehow laughter might leave that till the morning okay okay <{><[>see you later bye <[>see you later bye <&>28:49