<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>0:15 so i hope john wasn't right when he was saying the film was um BORING tonight <,,> have you got a mouthful <{><[>word yeah oh he came home early you heard him didn't you when he home and he said <.>that <[>mm this morning yeah tut yeah gary said that the film was boring eh mm but there's a good <.>mo apparently there's a um a beginning <.>a <.>a different story <,> <{><[><.>a <.>a another movie <[>a <.>sh a short sort <{><[>of thing <.>with <[>yeah yeah about some guy who puts on a pair of <.>shoes slippers and he <.>c can imagine or be anything that he wants to be <{><[><.>and <[>and he just takes off <&>1:00 yeah right so <.>it <.>what <.>it is he a gay guy i'm not quite sure tut oh right okay yeah so oh well we'll go and see what that's like yeah what do you <{><[>want to do after that <[>and have dinner what are we doing for dinner yeah well it finishes about half past six i think <,> <.>the the tut film what have you got in the <.>f what have you got in your freezer oh very little just pizza bases not much else um <,> so that's pretty boring isn't it oh we can make a pizza yeah tut okay tut okay we'll <.>have try that <{><[>word <[>do you want to out for a drink yeah well i'd like to go and see that new bar nell's bar mm <,,> just for a little while yeah yeah yeah i don't want <.>a i don't want a night out on the booze tonight what are you doing tomorrow oh sunday um <,,> i hadn't planned what <&>2:00 made you ask word i'm working tomorrow night and sophie and carl and um caroline williams and a couple of other friends are coming up for dinner to eat at the bar yeah <{><[>voc at <.>the burger bar <[>the burger bar are you going to shout them all or do <{><[>they pay? they will pay <[>no no they're paying yeah right do you want to come up tut um what time are they coming i don't know probably about seven seven well can i see how things are going yep cos last week what happened was i caught up with a guy who'd just come <.>back i don't know if i told you about him <.>he he cut his finger tut and he got ten thousand dollars from a c c but <.>he he <.>felt it was just his little finger he didn't feel that he'd cut it THAT <{><[>badly <[>ten thousand bucks i know so he felt a bit guilty so <.>he what he did was he went away to <{><[>word <[>can he use it can he move it YEAH but he <.>didn't voc this was <.>in like about four years ago when they were pretty <.>easy easy the way they dished it out so he went away to canada and then he went down to saint louis and he sort of worked in the um tut sort of poor parts of the city and just <&>3:00 sort of <.>doing teaching english and just sort of doing volunteer type work and he just paid for his fares over and paid for his living expenses and everything using that ten grand i don't know if he used it all up but he just sort of thought well might as well do something have an adventure and do something with it <{><[>mm <[>mm so did he spend it all <{><[>word <[>well i don't know yeah <.>that's but anyway why was i rabbiting on about him oh <{><[>cos <.>i <[>mass you were at mass eh <{><[>is that where you met him <[>yeah yeah last sunday in <.>the <.>i <.>i is he gay no no he <.>kn knows i am and all that sort of stuff yeah <.>but is he nice looking no not REALLY he's <.>l average yeah yeah but <.>he <.>he's he's nice <.>t nice guy just friendly sort of guy yeah um tut but um <{><[>i MIGHT want to try and catch up with him again yeah grab one of those i'll have one too tut mm <[>he was then you went for a swim eh did you no i went for a swim BEFORE that oh <.>sunday what the <.>fuck what did i do last sunday <&>4:00 <,,> <{><[>um word <[>was <.>i where was i just trying to think did you stay <.>at i worked monday no i dropped you off at home remember i went to <.>the <.>we you slept at my place then i took you <.>up we went supermarket shopping then i took you home oh was i upset sunday afternoon no oh it <{><[>was sunday afternoon we <.>went <[>saturday <.>oh oh yeah right cos <.>f er gary <.>was gary was away all week <{><[>eh he got back on monday <[>mm mm mm laughs that's right yeah <{><[>word i went out <[>so saturday night you came with paul and myself to euro mm and then you disappeared off <,,> to the sauna mm and turned up at my place later on mm mm that's right yeah gosh <,> yes i don't know <.>i <&>sighs i told you i'm having monday off eh no <{><[>what are you doing <&>5:00 <[>oh i don't know yet i'm just taking it off tut um i just sort <.>of i haven't got any holidays <.>s coming till sort of mid to late september and i haven't had anything since christmas or not even then i didn't have much then so just a day off you know big deal but yeah tut <.>all all day in bed all morning in bed? um <,,> want to get a haircut laughs main event what's that <{1><[1>oh no i'll get a haircut yeah <{2><[2>word for that girl um <[1>laughs <[2>word laughs laughs i don't know what else i'll do perhaps write <.>i i owe HEAPS of people letters so um yuk why word er do you write to phoebe never it's easier to um give her a ring <{><[>and the <.>kids the kids <.>have the kids have only written once <[>mm they used to write quite a bit well once since i've been down here mm <,> <{><[>mm <[><.>got but they <.>got they got things to do they don't want to bloody sit down and write <{><[>letters to the old man <[>right mm when it's easier to pick up the telephone <.>and tut give you a call get a better conversation that way <{><[>anyway eh <[>mm when are you going to see them next um probably august holidays tut THEIR <.>holi holidays mm so you'll go up there tut um i don't know <,> er probably <.>have have they been down <.>to when you've been at sophie's have they ever <{><[>stayed there what would that be like <[>no that would be fun sophie would get along very well with them eh i suppose that you've got that spare room <{1><[1>too yeah you could do it <{2><[2>MM <[1>oh yeah mm <[2>but sophie would <.>get <.>would sophie's quite good with them eh <{1><[1>or would be quite <{2><[2>good with them <[1>tut <[2>would be oh right yeah got to think about that one <,> <{><[>yeah <[>and <.>alisha alisha would just about <.>be be getting into her clothes too so it would be fun for oh i see yeah yeah right and so you'd take <.>t oh well it wouldn't be too bad cos you've <.>got you're just <{><[>working <&>7:00 <[>and the kids could come along to work anyway if i had to work would your boss mind nah oh that's good i could give you a hand mm <{><[>mm <[>yeah except you wouldn't be able to toddle along to the toledo straight afterwards laughs laughs <{><[><.>cos <[>lock them in the car <{><[>laughs tie them up outside laughs <[>no here's a bag of lollies all you have to do is shut up yeah go the movies <{><[>word <[>and don't talk to strangers laughs that's my job all laugh tut yeah laughs so you reckon a pizza tonight would be all right yeah um okay we'll see how we go i was <.>hoping you know that good looking guy john i was hoping he'd give me a um john? treasury oh yeah a game of squash yeah when well you see when we played last week he said i'll give you a <.>r and then when <.>we i saw him on the saturday night he came in and said oh i <&>8:00 was hoping you'd be here he said oh i'll give you a ring during the week and we'll organise our weekend game tut you were quite excited about that i was because i thought good <.>he's i'd rung him for the first two games you see and i do fancy him a little bit you know <.>i i confess all right but um <,> i thought good i've just got to let it ride now i think you know if he wants <.>to so he hasn't rung you back no he hasn't rung oh i mean i haven't voc sort of <{><[>shed any <[>i know the feeling <{><[>laughs <[><.>haven't haven't shed haven't shed any TEARS over it or anything but um it would have been nice cos i sort of <.>thought <.>he what he did say last week was that playing at three oclock in the afternoon cut too much into the afternoon it sort of cut it in half <{><[>he couldn't actually DO an afternoon's thing and i said well how about we play in the evening after your work and he said that's a really good idea and then he was going to get back to me but he hasn't so i kind of think oh flag it i'm playing kevin on monday night <&>9:00 <[>mm this monday yeah are you yeah did you say hi to him for me yes i did did <.>he and what did he say hi back but no big deal sort of thing yeah <{><[>yeah yeah <.>he's he's looking after his son wendon <[>oh wenton <,> <.>w wenton is it wenton <{1><[1>is it i've always thought it was wendon <{2><[2>oh right as in like a bird went in the window <[1>mm <[2><.>went er mm wenton <{><[>wenton wenton <[>oh where'd he pick <.>that <{><[>oh i don't know <[>tut i don't know where <.>he <.>i don't know where he's <.>got <{><[>i think his <.>wife <[>cos the thing <.>is right got it oh yeah tut so <.>i <.>yeah i'm playing him have you met his son have you met his boy mhm what's he like tut oh well i didn't spend time chatting with him or anything like that oh do you mean what does he look like i <{><[>can't remember <[>yeah what does he look like <{><[>does he look like <[>tut <.>i kevin you mean kevin i can't remember it was um <,> about <,> <.>a last year about <.>j oh jeez i'm just trying to think june? um june or june or july they invited <&>10:00 me up tut for a sunday lunch ross <{><[>ross me and kevin <[>they? oh ross mm tut and um the kids were there <.>the they were there then last time i was talking um to kevin at the bar he was saying that ross doesn't really get along with them and gives them a bit of shit mm well ross doesn't like um kevin <,> giving attention to <.>a anybody sort of like like his ex wife <{><[>for instance <[>yeah and that's <.>s sad <{><[>eh <[>but er yeah i can't see them lasting don't know um but um <,> <{><[>kevin <[><.>what what are they like at squash kevin oh well he nah clears throat kevin well <,> tut i didn't voc he's okay you know i mean it <,> got me going a wee bit yeah but i <.>so <.>so i actually beat john and kevin reasonably comfortably <,> yeah but then i said to kev kevin's got all the shots but <,> he's been playing with ross who's hopeless you see and so what he's been doing is he's been hitting the ball and hitting it so that ross can get it right and what he found was that he <.>was he's got into the habit of hitting it back to the <.>opp person he's playing <{><[>with as opposed to hitting it away from me <[>mm mm so that i can't get it so i said that to kevin i said you got all the shots i said but you just keep you know hitting the ball back to me as opposed to hitting it where i'm not yeah yeah making me run so he was doing all the running so you're playing on monday when when <.>did you sort this one out um the last time you saw him no wednesday night last wednesday night on the phone <,> we had a bit of a goss on the phone for about <{><[>twenty minutes <[>laughs on the phone okay where was he at home yeah oh we well we went <{><[>out <[>where's he working inland revenue last time i saw him was when the oaks eh yeah when you and i were there <{><[>yeah yeah he's a lovely guy i mean we chat we had that game of squash that friday night <.>that a couple of weeks ago and then we went and um had coffee and we would've chatted for yonks about an hour and a half just over coffee yeah well you see he's he's done a bit of the some of the counselling type stuff he's quite interested that's the kind of work he does plus the teaching type work <&>12:15 <[>mm