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| A Fairy (Liquid) Story [Content label: lesser] | Smith, Mark R | 4,326 | 2 | 0.46 | |
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... and into a gigantic Liliputian-in-a-bubble-eye view of the city he had lived in for the past fifteen years. Glasgow: ... ... over George Square, the dyed red tar, statues, the City Chambers he had always meant to visit. Parkhead below now, ... |
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| Ane Auld Sang | Purves, David | 7,319 | 1 | 0.14 | |
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... a, cold causie, n, road caw, v, call, drive ceitie, n, city chairiot, n, chariot chaumer, n, chamber chiel, n, fellow ... |
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| Any other Pleb | Blair, Anna | 259 | 1 | 3.86 | |
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... Glaswegian With Charing Cross and Kelvingrove My local city region... But then I think, not using words Like 'ben' and ... |
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| Around Clach na Cùdainn: Some Musings on the Gaelic Place Names of Inverness | Maclean, Roddy | 1,159 | 2 | 1.73 | |
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... The City of Inverness, encompassing both areas long within the ... ... has played in informing the heritage of the capital city of the Gàidhealtachd. ... |
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| A Sair Fecht | Smith, Alex | 23,505 | 1 | 0.04 | |
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... naething tae dee wi you or me, come on we wull gang doon City Haugh". Awa the twa o em doon past the pooder hoosie. (Far ... |
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| A Study into the Knowledge and Use of Scots Amongst Primary Pupils on Upper Deeside | Blackhall, Sheena | 29,793 | 14 | 0.47 | |
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... in any way. The Directors of Education of Aberdeen city and Aberdeenshire respectively, for allowing me to ... ... almost blanket use that people particularly from Aberdeen city make of the diminutive can be immensely irritating to ... ... of conversations with the street gangs in this inner city district, he unravelled their group structures, which were ... ... in the commuter-dominated school communities of Aberdeen city and Kincardine and Deeside'. The major factors he ... ... a letter to the Director of Education for Aberdeen City, and the Director of Education for Aberdeenshire ... |
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| ...Auld Zimmery [Content label: serious] | Kydd, Robbie | 73,728 | 1 | 0.01 | |
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... the ritual cigarette. The Centre is actually within this City and Royal Burgh where I have lived all my life I didn't ... |
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| A week and its legacy | Kerr, Bob | 2,201 | 1 | 0.45 | |
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... this is indeed part of the justification for any town, city or country to bid to host a major cultural showcase. Speak ... |
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| BBC Voices Recording: Aberdeen | N/A | Audio | 13,536 | 3 | 0.22 |
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... the Victoria Bridge across the river tae go into the city of Aberdeen, //she'd never done it.// F1040: ... ... an auld wifie over eighty. //She'd never been in the city of Aberdeen.// F1054: //Wow!// That is amazin isn't ... ... ours. They were oor trawlermen. They they made this city of //Aberdeen.// F1043: //Oh definitely.// F1054: ... |
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| BBC Voices Recording: Glasgow [Content label: lesser] | N/A | Audio | 6,693 | 3 | 0.45 |
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... F1054: //Tell me// the differences between Glasgow city and doon the coast slightly, and aw the stuff you ... ... F1006: //Well it's the largest park in the city of// Glasgow, but I never had a neighbour in my life, ... ... I think we all want one. F1006: ehm near the city centre. I mean she was born just, funnily enough, behind ... |
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| BBC Voices Recording: Leith | N/A | Audio | 16,679 | 2 | 0.12 |
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... proper." And you wouldn't have got into the banks, the City Chambers or the Civil Service if you weren't able to speak ... ... one, Coronation Street, and Ri- well no so much River City, erm and that actually, I think the children from an ... |
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| BBC Voices Recording: Perth | N/A | Audio | 17,146 | 1 | 0.06 |
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... mu-, very much so.// Well I joined the ci-, the city of Dundee police about thirty years ago, and at that ... |
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| BBC Voices Recording: Portree | N/A | Audio | 14,267 | 1 | 0.07 |
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... the ability to work on the land, they've came into the city in hordes and were looked on as suspicious, liable to the ... |
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| Being Intimate | Sangster, Maureen | 193 | 2 | 10.36 | |
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... gackit Has it got a new view too? Instead o streets an city muck does it look to frothy blue? For I feel we are on ... ... look to frothy blue? For I feel we are on holiday nae in a city pit so unrestrained let's begin again being intimate ... |
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| Bowling for Compo [Content label: serious] | 'The Driver' | 1,250 | 1 | 0.80 | |
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... claim against the bus company. At Renfield Street in the city centre I was doing a steady 10mph in slow moving traffic; ... |
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| Brave New World in the Dear Green Place | Fisher, Mark | 1,261 | 6 | 4.76 | |
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... the situation in the visual arts. On the one hand, the city of Glasgow is celebrated as one of the world’s key ... ... it does - it is rarely to see the names that have made the city famous. While the prestigious art prizes acclaim the likes ... ... Alison Watt - Glasgow graduates all - the people of the city are rather more likely to show up at the Glasgow Art Fair, ... ... names have produced the least seen work in their own city. I recently met a commercial gallery owner in the ... ... and power can determine the landscape." From there, the city is yours, whether you choose to check out the provocative ... |
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| Broken sleep | Moncrieff, James Hiddo | 184 | 1 | 5.43 | |
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... Daffodils don't grow here On this grey granite city crag. Only the sound of seagulls Nesting - cliff-face ... |
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| Club review of Vegas, Renfrew Ferry, Glasgow | English, Paul | 1,057 | 2 | 1.89 | |
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... Ferry, was exclusive to lucky punters in the capital city, who had 12 excuses a year to dress up in their best ... ... course, you're heading for your pre-club pina coladas in city centre '70s cheese joint Flares, where Afro wigs and Elvis ... |
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| Conversation 04: Two female students on university life | N/A | Audio | 5,577 | 1 | 0.18 |
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... lived in Aberdeen but, you know, that's just a big city as well, //so,// F746: //mmhm// F745: don't ... |
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| Conversation 07: Ayrshire woman on her career | N/A | Audio | 8,821 | 1 | 0.11 |
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... down in there and go "What on earth am I doing in //this city?"// M608: //Right.// F643: You, you didn't get, ... |
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| Conversation 10: Two female students on travel and university | N/A | Video | 6,028 | 1 | 0.17 |
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... [tut], it's um, I think it's good that it's quite a big city, coming, like, coming from Hamburg and stuff. Um, ... |
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| Conversation 13: Two male postgraduate students on academic life [Content label: serious] | N/A | Audio | 14,078 | 6 | 0.43 |
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... Romantic ehm, sort of favouring of the country over the city? M741: Mmhm M605: What are the im- political ... ... M741: //Yeah.// M605: they ignore the city of Glasgow, the biggest city in Scotland, [?]wi her[/?] ... ... M605: they ignore the city of Glasgow, the biggest city in Scotland, [?]wi her[/?] a huge population. They just ... ... is is //bad.// M605: //But also in Aberdeen// city, Scots is good. M741: Yeah, yeah. //I don't know I// ... ... M741: //Yeah.// M605: So that in Dundee city, you're starting to change, like what, between Aberdeen ... |
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| Conversation 14: Two male students on university life [Content label: serious] | N/A | Video | 6,842 | 2 | 0.29 |
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... Centre, off ehm M819: Oh that that's smack bang in the city centre. M818: Aye. M819: Smack bang. No no no ... ... //lost.// M819: that market. //The Merchant City.// M818: //By the need for// Aye, well yeah, that's ... |
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| Conversation 19: Two North-East teachers on Doric language | N/A | Audio | 3,743 | 1 | 0.27 |
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... same, my dad [laugh]// my dad would be like, "Oh the city dame's back, oh aye!" //[laugh]// M842: ... |
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| Conversation 20: Four secondary school girls in the North East | N/A | Audio | 4,902 | 2 | 0.41 |
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... any //better.// F834: //Like Roisin off o// River City, she's a pain //She's [inaudible]// F835: //Like ... ... that's horrible.// //Can't believe you watch River City.// F833: //Our, our Chemistry teacher,// her voice ... |
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| Conversation 23: Couple talking about their Orkney roots | N/A | Audio | 2,618 | 3 | 1.15 |
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... //mmhm// M830: But then there's poverty in the city that there isn't in the country, not the same kind of ... ... an yeah community in Orkney and lack of it in //the city I think// F829: //mmhm// F606: //mmhm// M830: ... ... [laugh]// F829: //uh-huh, aye.// M830: Fog's a city thing //[laugh]// F606: //Aye.// F829: ... |
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| Conversation 25: Couple from Auchenblae talking about local varieties of language | N/A | Audio | 5,757 | 3 | 0.52 |
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... the rest o it who is now in that R- TV programme River City F826: Oh I didn't know that //Another of your famous ... ... an she's now the bar, she bought the pub in this River City //programme, B.B.C.// F826: //Oh right.// F902: ... ... F902: they, they dinnae, they've this set for River City in Glasgow, it's specially built F606: mmhm F902: ... |
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| Conversation 30: Male and female talking about Western Isles and music | N/A | Audio | 5,392 | 7 | 1.30 |
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... M959: //Oh right, I thought you stayed in the city centre of Edinburgh.// //[cough]// F958: //It is. ... ... It's like kind of a wee village more than part of a big city, like. Just the atmos- just the kind of the way the ... ... nice. M959: An people here are like, some like, big city people but, it's just the area itself, sort of quieter, ... ... quieter, you don't feel you're stuck in the middle of the city. [cough] //[exhale]// F958: //mm// M959: You ... ... Clark Street. An they all felt like a, a, street in a city but this feels like //more of a// M959: //Yeah.// ... |
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| Conversation 33: Two female students on Scotland, and University education | N/A | Video | 11,628 | 6 | 0.52 |
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... country, and I just thought that Newton Mearns was kind of city, really, but //it's not.// F1038: //Well no, it is// ... ... but //it's not.// F1038: //Well no, it is// city, it's a suburb. //I mean it's not// F1037: //Yeah.// ... ... F1037: //Yeah.// F1038: erm I love the city and things, but I do want to get away. //I don't really ... ... but er, my dad's yeah, he does GPS mapping at Glasgow er City Council. F1037: Amazing. F1038: So, but the reason ... ... no I th- I think, erm I do think Glasgow is a brilliant city, I think I think Glasgow has an am- an amazing identity. ... |
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| Conversation 36: Family in Hamilton on childhood memories and holidays | N/A | Audio | 8,325 | 1 | 0.12 |
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... the weather being particularly good, and it was just a big city after all, it wasn't really a holiday place, //although ... |
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| Conversation 38: Two female students discussing school in the UK and Luxembourg and travel | N/A | Video | 6,492 | 3 | 0.46 |
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... we, when we got older my parents used to take us to like city trips and stuff, F1149: Yeah. F1148: which was ... ... //Huh.// F1149: //he got a taste for the sort of city thing.// But my sister's still quite young. F1148: ... ... went there on, like, you know, one of thos- these city trips with my parents when I was about fourteen, F1149: ... |
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| Conversation 39: Two female students on student halls, university, philosophy and religion | N/A | Audio | 8,726 | 2 | 0.23 |
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... Aberdeen, and then she'd she'd never been in a l- a city before, and suddenly she was in this huge place and erm, ... ... could be in the middle of like// F1150: //No, not in a city.// //You wouldn't, just wouldn't do it.// F1151: ... |
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| Conversation 43: Teachers talking about Gaelic social scene in Glasgow | N/A | Audio | 3,704 | 1 | 0.27 |
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... mean they're trying to establish an arts centre in the city, and eh this group came together I think maybe two and a ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 01 - 28.08.81 | 852 | 648 | 1 | 1.54 | |
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... that Fredericton Jnctn is about 16 miles outside the city, but the train left & arrived on time. I got a free ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 09 - 26.09.81 | 852 | 626 | 1 | 1.60 | |
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... pleasant and the Playhouse inside looks really good for a city this size. On Thursday too I phoned Carole in Germany - ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 24 - 28.12.81 | 852 | 917 | 1 | 1.09 | |
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... from a Rubik's cube key-ring to a 3-D map of center (sic) city Philadelphia, from tube socks to chocolate kisses. Carole ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 25 - 02.01.82 | 852 | 1,378 | 8 | 5.81 | |
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... top (on a bright but cold day) we had a great view of the city, especially the Reflecting Pool down to the Lincoln ... ... Watergate, which we drove right past on our way out of the city. From the Washington Monument we proceeded to the Lincoln ... ... Greek fashion and it is really impressive. It's a gorgeous city. And then we went to the Smithsonian Institute - 13 ... ... Young, old, rich, poor, black & white - the whole city was out to lunch. We took the train in because ... ... from around 8 a.m. to around 7. p.m. and winds through the city. Working-class, usually ethnic, truck-drivers, labourers, ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 35 - 09.03.82 | 852 | 910 | 2 | 2.20 | |
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... physical stress at least. Cairo, again, is a cosmopolitan city - Greeks, Arabs, Europeans, Americans can all be found ... ... designer jeans, according to one Observer article. It's a city of contrasts, sure, but it's not all medieval saracen ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 44 - 07.06.82 | 852 | 563 | 1 | 1.78 | |
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... On the way back we stopped at St. John, the largest city in N.B. It's an ugly place, with a perpetual bad smell ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 46 - 23.06.82 | 852 | 542 | 1 | 1.85 | |
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... that's stupid. Quebec's supposed to be a really nice city, despite the language problem. I'll send you a postcard. ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 47 - 29.06.82 | 852 | 667 | 4 | 6.00 | |
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... 29 June '82. Dear Mum, Dad & Al, Back from Quebec City: it was fabulous. Helen, Julian, Ann and I drove down on ... ... mighty St Lawrence seaway on down to the French-Canadian city. Helen had made a picnic lunch and just thrown in some ... ... cheaply, in the centre of the picturesque area of the city, right next to the Chateau Frontenac, a massive old hotel ... ... and watched the last rays of the sun go down over the city. It was a great but tiring day. Trying to speak French was ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Letter 51 - 05.08.82 | 852 | 466 | 1 | 2.15 | |
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... there. It would also let me see something more of that city; so I may well do that. If you haven't sent the $$$ yet, ... |
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| Correspondence from Canada: Postcard 06 - 27.06.82 | 852 | 76 | 1 | 13.16 | |
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... Dear Mum, Dad, & Al, Quebec is a wonderful city: it's like everything I thought France might be: shambly ... |
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| Craiters: 01 - Introduction | Fenton, Alexander | 1,278 | 1 | 0.78 | |
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... contexts, whether in the Northeast, in the capital city or elsewhere. Implicit throughout, however, is the hand of ... |
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| Daft Jackie | McGonigal, James | 2,850 | 2 | 0.70 | |
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... mend, and a lot mair time tae plan a move: mebbe the big city would chinge his luck. Sae yin eftirnoon he cam oot o the ... ... wark left.' 'But Dad,' said Jackie, 'we needna gan tae the city. I hae the answer tae aa oor problems.' 'Whit dae ye mean? ... |
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| Deadly Weapons [Content label: serious] | Grainger, Cecilia | 15,826 | 6 | 0.38 | |
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... oan stocks. CAMMY. Stew man, gees a hug afore Ah hit relax city? STEVE. Ah’ll lie doon…promise me though…promise ti ... ... DIMPS. Fuckin acceptable bein mummy’s boy? Fuckin leper city bein daddy’s boy? CAMMY. Mrs Dimps? DIMPS. Mr Cammy? Dimps ... ... MOVE FORWARD…forward ti what…ti where? CAMMY. Emerald city, where the air is clean and the stars shine, even during ... ... Cammy and Dimps sit on cushions Long Silence CAMMY. Relax city? STEW. OK wi you Dimps; Steve? They all lie down STEW. ... ... nae pain; nae pleasure, nuthin. STEVE. Ah want relax city, Stew take us ti the beach? Steve moves around as if he’s ... |
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| Dialect, Standard English, and the Child at Home and in School | Philp, Andrew | 3,083 | 1 | 0.32 | |
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... There is no linguistic basis for this view as the city dialects are dialectal varieties with a history, a ... |
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| Diaries of William Young: 1972 | Young, William | 4,263 | 1 | 0.23 | |
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... 13 To Norwich. Rain heavy. Get caught in traffic in City & come out to spend 2 hrs in Riverside Hotel. Home via ... |
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| Diminishing Lines | Blackhall, Sheena | 6,319 | 1 | 0.16 | |
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... heids o state Like Kings we treat baith loon an Lord Oor City's motto? Bon Accord! Seascape Air is a dead cod smell. Sea ... |
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| Dipper: 27 - The Lassies | Begg, Dr James A | 880 | 1 | 1.14 | |
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... o muscle, Wha wi bricks an timmer tussle, Heich abune the City's bustle, As traffic passes, Tae doun their graith, an ... |
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