<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>1:30 that's just really sick what's that tourist getting stabbed to death in a toilet oh that yes right yeah yeah the really inFURiating thing for the police is <,> that <,> right <,> the guy at one stage waded out into <{1><[1><,> the river to like wash off all the blood and everything <{2><[2>and that just happened to be at the same time as a BOAT load of tourists were going down the river in a steam boat all of them with their little <&>2:00 HANDycams and <{3><[3><,> polaroids and things and NONE of them managed to get a picture of him <[1>yeah <[2>mm <[3>YEAH oh that's right cos they were calling they were asking for anyone who was on that yeah and LOTS of people have turned in their films <.>and and like their video cassettes and things and there was this one where the police were really really really pissed off because the woman was filming at the right distance perfectly steadily just peering out the side as the boat was going past and she filmed everything and basically the edge of the toilet block comes into the view and then she pans round to something else <,> for no <{1><[1>apparent reason and she filmed EVerything else along the river bank for <{2><[2>AGES <[1>oh <[2>laughs oh god just think <{><[>they surely must catch <[>that was the second murder in that area in one day in the week or something wasn't it yeah it's hamilton and <{><[>it's the second in a week cos <.>it the um <&>3:00 <[>mm that old guy the old guy was killed accidentally with a sledge hammer <{><[>laughs <[>laughs well he was killed with a sledge hammer and apparently they didn't mean to get HIM oh that's right yeah oh was that the one who like was just bashed to death yeah <{><[>yeah and <,> and they reckon that they thought that the guy who owned the house might be the one they're after <[>the one who word yeah they're not saying very much about it which means that i suspect their investigations <.>h <.>ha have revealed some things that are of great interest to them about the guy who owned the house <,> and why people might be wanting to sneak into his house in the middle of the night and bash his brains out with a sledge hammer <,,><&>10 iain oh to word the cat <{><[>yay <[>but the the person i work with <,> has like done a lot of travelling around and she <.>says i mean that's the type of thing you do anywhere <{><[>um <[>well it makes you kind of wonder eh <&>4:00 <{1><[1>who wants anything in their <{2><[2><,> er <,> sugar <[1>yeah <[2>just um word um better make it two in that size sugar two <,> one milk yes milk and one sugar yes two sugars milk <&>I makes milking cow hand gestures okay with earl grey i know <{><[>i know <[>OH earl grey okay oops okay oops you very <.>nearly i forgot that one <{><[>god earl grey yuk <[>we nearly got <.>the <.>the the satanic earl jimmy <.>don't laughs <.>WHAT <{><[>was that you <[>we nearly got the <{1><[1>satanic earl <{2><[2>in our tea <[1><.>WHAT <[2>don't worry <{><[>no that was frank <[>oh no not the satanic earl tea ah laughs just going earl grey yuk oh right <,> <{><[>no only jemima has that word <[>in one of the flats that <.>i that i had a look at and decided not to get had a really great phone number oh six six <{><[>six <[>the last three digits were six six six wow what did you think <{><[>of the movie last night <[>but was it a horrible <{><[>flat <[>what's that what did you think of the movie last night mm quite good actually <,> quite good <{><[>i mean you know the nineteen seventies <[>the original <&>5:00 was quite good i remember that it's a sort of nineteen <{><[>seventies movie <[><.>and oh there the pane of glass off the back of the truck eh i <.>mean <&>next utterance addressed to cat CAT <&>next utterance addressed to cat DOWN pussy cat i mean you know just <{1><[1>for a for a common garden vicar and <{2><[2><.>his and his word church fall on top of him <[1><&>next utterance addressed to cat pussy cat get down <[2>yes <,> yeah yuk oh his spire i remember <{><[>that <[>i'm going to have to tell my uncle greg to watch out i mean he will be probably holding the service for deidre and jack <,,> have you got an uncle who's a priest two of my uncles does he have <{><[>forty six crucifixes <&>pronounced as crucifises on the inside of his door <[>weird i don't think so but he's got an incredibly artistic and somewhat manic wife <{><[>well <[>laughs which <{><[>would <,> pretty much do the same effect for satan i would imagine <[>yeah yeah laughs <{><[>and that's word his wife <[>right satan come here sit down i'll take a picture of you laughs laughs all right and write a poem about you and give you lots of food and talk at very high speed very enthusiastically oh <.>and <.>and and word <{><[>a few things <[>priests in the family like is one <{><[>side horribly religious and one not <[>no <.>one one <,> one <.>was one was <&>6:00 one was a methodist but now <.>he <.>he's he's no longer a minister <.>he's does church work word a bit right not minister <.>of and the other one is er minister of akapo <,> which is somewhere out of new plymouth yeah which is where <{><[>paul reeves used to be <.>the <[>i word <.>to from akapo word and he's um union church presbyterian anglican <,> whatever <,,> <{><[>word <[>two one two two none <,> two two yeah one <{><[>well actually just one cup two sugars in that one cup <[>two two none laughs he wants two cups with <{><[>one sugar in each <[>word <,,><&>5 i can never remember to put sugar in tea i'm getting better puss cat aren't i <,> yes i am <,,><&>3 one <,> cat <{><[>you won't have any trouble transcribing which one's the cat anyway <[>mm laughs no the tape i did for three one two <&>7:00 has a note on it sarah is the family cat no because somebody started talking to sarah part way through it <,> <{><[>and sarah never replied for obvious reasons <[>oh right but only if you know <.>sarah's is a cat yeah it's a bit disturbing <{><[>just sit there looking <,> silly <[>word <,,><&>3 <{><[>word <[>word is there anything else interesting in the paper <,,><&>3 yes no maybe no there isn't anything else interesting in the paper lange and pope have wed <,,> i thought they'd done that ages ago oh no <{1><[1>his divorce'll only just have come through <{2><[2>won't it <[1>no <.>the <[2>yeah they wed quietly in ireland or something discreet <,> i think it was scotland mm <,> one of those warm and northern and continent places <,,> oh the washing machine's on yes i put a load on did you put any of my underwear in um <,> possibly <,> possibly not i hope so you didn't put my blue skirt that was at the bottom of the washing box did you <&>8:00 no good <,> it runs blue dye i know <,,><&>4 it's strange all of angela's large clothing run dye and <{><[><,> none of mine do <[>different colours though oh so it's really easy if we were putting my load in shove everything in and close it down and it's gone but angela's you have to sort everything out and err yeah well my black clothes run but that's easy because just about all them are black so you just put them all in together yeah i do black loads and things that aren't black <,> which is usually a load of tee shirts and underwear it's <.>fucking i have things that run black things that run blue things that run green things that run red and something that <.>rins runs <.>pink pink and black at the same time <,,> <{1><[1>oh and something that goes sort of <{2><[2>something that goes word <[1>wow <[2>oh this is looking really interesting what and i can't remember which <{><[>word <[>wow soviet army officers are calling for a coup <&>9:00 <{><[>oh <[>heard it before what's that this is MY cup of milo <&>cat meows yeah the pussy cat <{1><[1>recognises the cups you have to to guard this <{2><[2>from the pussy <{3><[3>cat <[1>it's actually a soup bowl but um <[2>help <[3>what laughs laughs <&>cat meows <{1><[1>you wouldn't like it is hasn't got sugar <{2><[2>in it it's mine <[1>stupid cat <[2>oh and now gonzo is going <{><[>berserk <[>gonzo i don't think you want to like hassle viv because viv <{><[>wouldn't like you for it <[>no <,,><&>4 laughs and with <.>that <{><[>laughs you get the kudos <,,> <[>laughs you're hopeless yes laughs i bought a computer did you for twenty dollars what well it doesn't work <,> but <{><[>i'm <.>going <[>who's going to make it work oh that's what i forgot today i forgot to get a whole lot of printing done on my oh <{><[>yes it is <[>i'm going to rip out the innards <,> and <{1><[1>rip out the innards of my um laptop <,> and put the <.>l <{2><[2>innards of my laptop inside the computer <.>s the er <[1>word thanks angela <[2>yeah <{><[>mm <[>word word the um <.>mini monitor still works <{><[>and it's a better one than i've got on my laptop <,> it's one that the um the area health board bought a <&>10:00 long time ago it's actually a word processing system one that you plug into the back of your to the um typewriter <[>mm word but apparently it blew up <,> quite a while ago but the disk drive still works three and a half inch <,> <{1><[1><,> and <,> <{2><[2>the monitor still works <[1>oh really <[2>have a milk chocolate caramel cream OH goodness thank you very much <,> i think the gold <{><[>ones are the nicest <[>it's actually a <.>nice <{1><[1>nice looking <{2><[2>thing <[1>is there any difference <[2>no word i don't <.>have <{><[>no idea these are the very end of the christmas chocolates because i don't like caramel word <[>oh right oh god <{><[>i <.>don i didn't get any <[>um i don't like caramel or chocolate <{><[>sorry <[>that's good i like chocolate it's very sad it's <{><[>got caramel in it <[>eh <{><[>oh <[>i can give you some nougat if you like pardon i can give you <{1><[1>some nougat if <{2><[2>you like <[1>you've not still got some <[2>no i don't like sweet things he likes them periodically but he doesn't really care for them <{><[>particularly <[>we've got a block of wood outside <,,><&>3 too chewy <{><[>and i'd get splinters caught between my teeth <[>laughs yes it's a really word block of wood actually we're not going to be able to get it through the house yes we will <,> we'll just bend the house laughs what voc we've got a four point two metre long piece of wood out there <&>11:00 why we can always feed it through the window what <{><[>do you want to do <[>oh oh of course um <,> so that the cat can get out we're putting a piece of wood in the bathroom that goes up to the louvre windows cos they're the only windows that are close enough to the ground on the <.>oth outside of the house oh so we have this huge bit of wood which is about <,> half a metre longer than i thought it ought to be hang on word <.>we yeah we're going to have <.>to <&>noise of cat falling down laughs you could cut bits off it laughs <{><[>laughs <[>boy are you a silly cat laughs <{><[>laughs <[>what did it do er well it was climbing round in the cupboard that has the pots and the pans and jif and janola and stuff in it before <{><[>laughs <[>oh no bob jones <.>i i think is hell have you read this about the beauty myth <{><[>from bob jones <[>no i hate to think the mind boggles <{><[>word <[>one thing that really perplexes me is why women paint their faces an attractive women steps scrubbed and word shower an hour later she has transformed herself into a grotesque new guinean island savage <{><[><,> her face smeared with grease and lurid colours <[>bob word bob jones said a women's right to have an abortion is the same as a man's right to rape ugh laughs yep and he also <{1><[1>word <.>fr he's also freely admitted that fifty percent of what he says is DELIBerately said in order to provoke people <{2><[2>into the debate <[1>everybody always knew that word <[2>no but <&>12:19