SCOTS Project - www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk Document : 810 Title : Email correspondence 2 - C Kay & J McGonigal Author(s): Prof Christian Kay James McGonigal Copyright holder(s): Prof Christian Kay James McGonigal Text Date sent: Fri, 16 May 2003 13:36:48 +0000 Subject: LILT meeting 19 May cancellation To: Christian, John From: Jim Efternoon baith-- I've had to cancel the LILT meeting ... there's not so much progress to report in any case, although I'm clearer about the way to proceed once we get/make a little designated time for it. Best-- Jim From: Christian To: Jim Subject: Re: see me Send reply to: Christian Date sent: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:38:37 +0100 Am hoping to nip off early this afternoon. Tuesday morning or Weds afternoon are ok. Christian > Sorry, Christian-- I had to be stuck in traffic at that hour. But of > course I had seen the reel thing earlier. > > Will call by in the next two days for a wee LILT-- is there a best time? > > --Jim Date sent: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 10:54:22 +0000 Subject: Fwd: Re: Fw: Hopkins To: Christian, John From: Jim Mornin baith-- Here's the twa Hopkins translations I mentioned. Inversnaid no quite richt yet, but near eneuch, sae I'll chance it. Aye-- Jim From: Christian To: Jim Subject: Re: please cheque this? Send reply to: Christian Date sent: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 18:09:14 +0100 Dear Jim I hope that the rain has perhaps dispersed some of the swirling mists, though I see that the sun seems to be out again. I think I should be able to pay PN direct from LILT. I'll have a go anyway, as I should be paying some attention to financial matters. Everyone v. crotchety round here as all the implications of the semester system begin to strike. Hope to see you soon. Christian > Hello Christian-- > > I always feel that I'm emerging from morning mist at this time of the > year, more to do with workloads and timetabling than to any mellow > fruitfulness. Our courses have also started, two of them, so this adds > to the swirling effect. The benefit is the sudden if occasional sense of > humanity that comes from encountering someone else emerging from his/her > own mist. Starting moves have been made to devolve some of my admin > burden, though who wants to pick up an armful of mist? > > Anyway, bewteentimes in the odd and often late hour I'm doing editing > work on three SCROLL books, to one of which PN has contributed a chapter. I think that freelance writers > should be paid where possible, so I wondered whether it would be > possible to raise a cheque to pay him from the LILT-->SCROLL > fund? Is that easy to do? > Will call in soon. > > Best-- > > Jim From: Jim To: Christian Subject: Re: visit Date sent: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:19:33 +0100 Hello Christian-- No problems at all about last week. I had not had time to read your email-- and I sympathise with your fraught journey through the dreich drookit glaury road to EUP. Very good. And a great feeling of freedom, nae doot. Yes, I can meet at 2 in the Club. Best-- Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Christian To: Jim Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 12:58 PM Subject: visit > Jim - > > Sorry I chased you away last week. The book was duly delivered to EUP in > the afternoon through a tropical thunderstorm, which is a weight off my > mind. > > Ref. CPD - could you supply a list of school hols or is it on some > handy website? > > Ref. Thursday. I'm now booked up 12-2 with a Japanese visitor. I > could meet you in the club at 2 for a pre-Douglas chat, or will be > free afterwards. > > You once suggested using some of our email correspondence for the > corpus. I have now started weeding out a few gems, so I hope you > meant it! Do you want to be anonymised? > > Ta ta the noo (with a view to future corpus inclusion). > > Christian This work is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. The SCOTS Project and the University of Glasgow do not necessarily endorse, support or recommend the views expressed in this document. Information about document and author: Text Text audience Adults (18+): Specialists: Audience size: 2 Writer knew intended audience: Text details Method of composition: Wordprocessed Year of composition: 2004 Word count: 652 Text medium Email: Text setting Education: Private/personal: Text type Correspondence/letters: Author Author details Author id: 78 Forenames: James Surname: McGonigal Gender: Male Decade of birth: 1940 Educational attainment: University Age left school: 18 Upbringing/religious beliefs: Catholicism Occupation: University lecturer Place of birth: Dumfries Region of birth: E & Mid Dumfries Birthplace CSD dialect area: Dmf Country of birth: Scotland Place of residence: Glasgow Region of residence: Glasgow Residence CSD dialect area: Gsw Country of residence: Scotland Father's occupation: F.E. Lecturer Father's place of birth: Cleland Father's region of birth: Lanark Father's birthplace CSD dialect area: Lnk Father's country of birth: Scotland Mother's occupation: Primary School teacher Mother's place of birth: Midcalder Mother's region of birth: West Lothian Mother's birthplace CSD dialect area: wLoth Mother's country of birth: Scotland Languages: Language: English Speak: Yes Read: Yes Write: Yes Understand: Yes Circumstances: Work and home Language: French Speak: Yes Read: Yes Write: Yes Understand: Yes Circumstances: Used occasionally Language: Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic Speak: No Read: No Write: No Understand: Yes Circumstances: Very limited vocabulary Language: German Speak: Yes Read: Yes Write: Yes Understand: Yes Circumstances: Used occasionally Language: Scots Speak: No Read: Yes Write: Yes Understand: Yes Circumstances: Work (language study) and creative writing Language: Spanish; Castilian Speak: Yes Read: Yes Write: Yes Understand: Yes Circumstances: Used occasionally Author Author details Author id: 606 Title: Prof Forenames: Christian Surname: Kay Gender: Female Decade of birth: 1940 Educational attainment: University Age left school: 18 Upbringing/religious beliefs: Protestantism Occupation: Academic Place of birth: Edinburgh Region of birth: Midlothian Birthplace CSD dialect area: midLoth Country of birth: Scotland Place of residence: Glasgow Region of residence: Glasgow Residence CSD dialect area: Gsw Country of residence: Scotland Father's place of birth: Leith Father's region of birth: Midlothian Father's birthplace CSD dialect area: midLoth Father's country of birth: Scotland Mother's place of birth: Edinburgh Mother's region of birth: Midlothian Mother's birthplace CSD dialect area: midLoth Mother's country of birth: Scotland Languages: Language: English Speak: Yes Read: Yes Write: Yes Understand: Yes Circumstances: All Language: Scots Speak: No Read: Yes Write: No Understand: Yes Circumstances: Work