<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>5:12 sarah? yes? it's catherine shaw <,> <{><[>catherine hello hello laughs <[>word hello now the children have just rushed in from a party <{><[>and er <[>oh right well i won't keep you a <{1><[1>minute it's probably not a very good time <{2><[2>to ring <[1>no no no <[2>that's all right there's just two things one i have to tell you that i'm recording this telephone call because hilda yates is doing a linguistic collection oh right she's got me wired up here if you don't have any objection no i keep recording <,,> and the other thing <&>kids scream in the background go AWAY a bit of background interruption twenty five go AWAY <,,><&>4 sorry about that that's all right um and er um now what did i ring for oh yes <&>6:00 that's right our christmas carol thing to <{1><[1>which you and any of yours who are free <{2><[2>are invited is now shifted from the nineteenth to the twentieth at five oclock <[1>yes <[2>yes oh right cos in fact the nineteenth our children have got their dancing thing which <{1><[1>will affect it we thought it <.>was no it was meant to be on <.>the it IS on the twentieth but there weren't enough tickets or something so they're now <{2><[2>having it as well <[1>oh well that's good cos actually the <.>twenty <[2>on the nineteenth oh <{><[>i see right <[>but i'm not sure what time it is on the twentieth but <{><[>i'll let you know if we're not coming <[>oh well anyway okay so we're <.>at it's <.>at we're at five and it'll be sort of like five till eight or whatever <{1><[1>and er carols and some <{2><[2>food <[1>lovely mm <[2>mm sounds <{1><[1>gorgeous and i haven't spoken to janet yet <.>be because she was just in the middle of moving houses when i <{2><[2>um <[1>mm mm <[2>but I'VE told her that it's the <{><[>wednesday so she's made a note of that <[>yeah good she's still in the middle of moving houses mm although she's moved now yes <{><[>yes <[>she's there oh great mm okay catherine well that's lovely <{><[>thank you <[>okay see you <.>on on the sixteenth yeah <{><[>right oh bye <[>okay bye <&>7:00