<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side two <&>8:45 i'm having terrible trouble we didn't play scrabble when we were young but we played all sorts of card games crib you played crib with your father didn't you i can't remember learning to play crib so i <&>9:00 think he probably taught me the minute he came <{1><[1>home from the <{2><[2>war before i <.>could before i knew that i was learning <[1><.>ho <[2>yes laughs cos i played crib with MY father too on the arm of the chair the crib board was and he used to smoke a pipe and i remember the smoke coming up tut so that's rather nice it just <{><[>carries on <[>yes cos you taught MY mum and dad how to play <{><[>crib <[>yes yes <.>i your dad had played but had forgotten <,,> the details <,,><&>4 but yes <.>i i just don't remember being able <.>to being taught i must have been pretty young and then we used to play crib <.>b YEARS later when we got a car if we were driving anywhere with the <.>nu numbers on the car number plate in front oh right working out what it would add up to as a crib hand gosh and cos in the car we were sad right dad <&>10:00 had this lovely little repertoire of of goodies <,,><&>2 yes he did didn't he for singing in the car for <.>ts for um well <.>we we had a scrabble game for those songs at the time very hairy that's an impressive dictionary it's <.>a getting a bit out of date and i keep finding words in crosswords that aren't in HERE so i've got to get a new one well no it's <.>a it's funk and wagnall and as far as I can make out you can't BUY them <{><[>any more <[>no no i'll have to get <{><[>er <[>and i'm not even sure whether they're still producing the dictionary i've got our librarian <.>to to check about it because <,,> <.>they're they're producing um encyclopedias because when i was in auckland last one of the supermarket chains had <.>a um clears throat you know if you get <{><[>tickets <[>yes i <{><[>saw that too <&>11:00 <[>clears throat it means you buy <,> some will say glassware or whatever that you can get cheap when you've got so many tickets well <.>this <.>th foodtown i think it was in auckland had funk and wagnall encyclopedias in various parts you know a to c or whatever i'm not quite sure how they were done but it does seem to be very difficult to <.>u to actually <&>announces scrabble score twenty one but as dictionaries GO <,,> it's rather a fun one cos of all it's little pictures and its synonyms and antonyms but webster was the best in all it was um american too inhales but it er it often had a quotation under each word oh but i don't think they're around now either very nice <&>calculates scrabble score fifty fifty one fifty FIVE OH gosh WHAT? laughs <.>that's <.>that's NOW it's getting under way yes oh and you've been sitting <&>pronounced shitting all that time with x in your <{><[>hand <[>it worked word was going to go down there <&>12:00 laughs er yes x <,,><&>6 and then we got <.>this this cute little table we found this in a second hand shop and the idea is that cos the dictionary is so heavy is that you can pull the TABLE around and er you're very well <{><[>organised scrabble players <[>you don't have to WELL you have to be <{><[>don't you <[>OH YES you can't ultimate comfort yes you got <{><[>your little lazy susan <[>oh lazy SUsan the first one we had luke made them for <{><[>me <[>yes i've still got them i <{><[>think <[>did did fredrick stefford <.>have did they have one that would turn round anyway luke <.>made he made two he made one for helen <.>and well glen and one for ME and mine was the mark two model laughs and it was slightly better and then i got this one from life care <&>13:00 oh splendid the people <.>l at life care in auckland it's a old people's village place and my brother in law inhales worked there after he retired from his other job and er some of the residents there made things and they made <,> lazy susans oh is that right yeah it's my turn again yes mum and dad used to come home with all sorts of things from life care it was <.>a the sort of residential village that purely wealthy people retired to oh and they gave things away <,,><&>3 um clothes and handbags and <,> <.>we from time to time <.>we most of us have benefited from mac's years at life care we quite missed it when he retired from there <&>14:00 too <,,><&>7 i think that's a word i'll have to look it up <,,><&>12 so what happens after <.>the the german play have you got any other little ploys on oh it's study i think till exam time now oh i've got work yes teaching as well but i think i might actually cut that down and just do relieving teaching instead right not quite such a commitment yeah how many papers have you got to i'm doing two stage threes this year and then next year i'll do four stage three crumbs education papers and then i'll end up with a double major one two five it's a lot of work at the moment <&>15:00 it IS <.>a a lot of work isn't it it's much much harder than i ever dreamed it's <{><[>interesting reading isn't she clever i <.>thought i SAW this word <[>oh look at this it's only twelve thirteen seventeen eighteen so it's sixty eight no doubles or <{><[>anything <[>i'd hate to be difficult but what is it atomist oh atomist oh why shouldn't i know about that what is ATOMIST i'm not quite sure somebody who studies atoms laughs well i suppose <{><[>so <[>sixty eight you're gonna get for <{><[>atomist <[>she's reaching for the dictionary laughs i have this thing about you've gotta know what it means if you're going to get away with it in scrabble we played with some laughs some funny chaps once in new plymouth and one of them used to put down all sorts of strange words and we'd say what does that mean and he always had an answer but they they were made up words so things like <{><[>word <&>16:00 <[>this cute little thing you use to take the eyes out of potatoes was word yeah oh dear oh so if i can have one atomist i can have SEVERAL atomists i suppose yes is there a double letter here double letter <{><[>score <[>oh <{><[>three <[>the atomic <.>a atomism is <{><[>the atomic philosophy <[>three four seven <{><[>ten eleven twelve thirteen thirteen fourteen eighteen and fifty sixty eight <[>and you can have an atomist it's to do with atoms and is it a person well it's a noun yes <{><[>yes it must be a person if it's an ist <[>mm oh well to do with atomic energy i suppose really <,,><&>6 three of these <,> we <.>did <.>at at home <.>w as i <&>17:00 say we played crib when i was young and then when i got older we played bridge <,> contract bridge and but a great deal of the time evenings and things like that <.>we we just read everybody read <,,> and we had <{1><[1>musical things my mother was <{2><[2>very <[1>yeah <[2>soirees YES oh ours weren't quite as big as soirees but they were um cos we lived in a small place but lots of the people used to sing and my mother would play and they'd just sing round the piano gilbert and sullivan and um <,,><&>3 and other <,,> indian love lyrics i think cos of the family i came from we did <&>18:00 a lot of that too just cos mum played the <{1><[1>piano and and went to all the shows <{2><[2>and had the theatre always there <[1>yes yes <[2>yes and we didn't have um cos there was no television and radio <,> was not anything like the same i think we must have been the last people in the king country to get a radio my father was a bit conservative in that way and then we tended just to listen to the NEWS clears throat cos it was during the war <,,><&>6 in the port in the port? <.>tell tell sally about the port <.>talk he was being conservative and oh my parents were brought <.>up laughs in VERY different ways my mother's father was a presbyterian minister of the national church of scotland corporals and they were going LIBERAL i mean <.>they they had the odd drink and <&>19:00 the <.>g girls all danced and oh they had a LOVELY time but my FATHER was brought up in a VERY NARROW scottish church i don't know whether he was actually what was called a wee free but it was very close to it and they didn't do tut anything on sundays you know their shoes were cleaned on saturday night they stood for the prayers laughs and NO drink no card playing or anything like that inhales tut so <.>an <.>and but they were tut liberal in politics whereas my mother's people were conservative and <{><[>when <.>dad <[>word word <{><[>word <[>yes it's very was courting <{><[>mother tut er <.>he he got on very well with his future father in law but they couldn't discuss either religion or politics all laugh <[>confusing anyway <{><[>er <&>20:00 <[>maybe THAT'S why they decided to emigrate oh i don't know i don't <.>c i don't know what the politics who was prime minister <,> it would be edward the <.>s when did queen victoria die nineteen oh one nineteen oh one so the <{><[>end of the war <[>edward the seventh yes <,> anyway <.>the <.>g gradually <.>he he didn't mind mother going to dances but <.>he he never danced himself didn't know how inhales and he used to take her along and sit there while she danced with all these other people i suppose <,> and then <.>wi with no liquor no liquor and then when we were in clyde i was telling you about the the um tuberculosis people tut coming there and one of them was a doctor and he was there i think they came from dunedin or somewhere like that and his wife used to stay <&>21:00 with us in our house looking after when she was visiting her husband and he died and then sometime after that tut his brother i think it was as a gesture of gratitude sent a case of wine <,,><&>3 and they sent it back oh that's a sad little story horrific and during the war when my husband was overseas and raewyn was a wee dot and we'd go down and stay with granny <.>and and things were a bit hectic cos my sister was was ill and it was really pretty awful sometimes inhales tut and we used to think OH if only we had that case of wine laughs but then my uncle on my mother's side her brother who was a sea captain tut retired and he came out to new zealand <.>and and stayed with us for quite a <&>22:00 long time and he'd never HEARD of anything so extraordinary as being teetotal all laugh and he used to get wine we <.>were lived in the king country and of course you couldn't buy it there but you could get it sent in from tut auckland or was that prohibition or something yes it's <.>no <{1><[1>a dry area <{2><[2>king country <[1>marlborough <[2>whangamomona or somewhere like that and he didn't get much and we used to have a glass of sherry before dinner on sunday and dad got he did he ENJOYED it oh and ever after that we always had some wine in the house word <{><[>word <[>i know he made a very nice drop of gees linctus which has a bit of a kick to it oh <.>gran granddad's cough mixture oh <{><[>did that <[>he <.>di he used to do his own dispensing and and and <,,> doreen must have had some of granddad's cough mixture <{><[>cos i can remember having it you and i got <.>gees <.>some at some stage many moons later a doctor prescribed some gee linctus g that's what it IS <[>she had she had well did dad <.>y she had a copy of it and she used to get the chemist to make it up for her so that's what it is <{><[>gees linctus <[>yes yes <,,> laughs <{><[>word <[>does she word own recipe well he use to do his own dispensing at the at oh i suppose he did it at whenohura at mangaweka and <{><[>word <[>in clyde he did too yeah mm so word and they didn't have <.>chemo handy chemists apothecaries laughs laughs oh they called them chemists <{1><[1>laughs that's going back a bit further to apothecaries laughs he was a great <{2><[2>gardener <[1>laughs <[2>well some language it's still apothecary <{><[>or word <[>yeah the same as word <[>oh yes yes yes it was cos there a chemist in rotorua that's got all these different names around him yes yeah laughs oh dear <&>24:00 but one thing i notice different um <,,><&>3 when i was young oh <.>w i mean after i was married <.>y everybody grew their own vegetables <,,> and now i still find it surprising that a lot of people won't even and grow silverbeet when i see people buying silverbeet in <.>grow green grocer i think good gracious me what have we come too that we have to buy silverbeet laughs <&>24:32