Typescript Form for Miscue Analysis
Book Title: My Place
Author: Nadia Wheatley and Donna Rawlins
1. My name’s Laura and this is my place.
2. I turned ten last week.
3. Our house is the one with the flag on the window.
4. Tony says it shows we’re on Aboriginal land, but I think it means the colour of the earth, back home.
5. Mum and Dad live here too, and Terry and Lorraine, and Auntie Bev, and Tony and Diane and their baby Dean.
6. He’s my nephew and he’s so cute!
7. We come from Bourke, but Dad thought there’d be more jobs in the city.
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8. This is me and Gully.
9. I have to keep her on a lead because she chases cars.
10. She comes from Bourke too.
11. I guess she thinks they’re sheep.
12. This is a map of my place.
13. We’ve got a McDonalds right on the corner!
14. In the McDonalds yard, there’s this big tree, and whenever I sit in it, it always makes me feel good.
15. There’s a canal down the bottom of the street, and Mum says it must have been a creek once.
16. It’s too dirty to swim in, but Tony made me a tin canoe and now some of the other kids are making them too.
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17. If you tip over and go in, the water tastes yucky and your parents go wild.
18. For my birthday, Mum said we could have tea at McDonalds!
19. We sat in the outside bit, under the tree, and it felt just like home.
20. This is my place.
21. I’m Mike.
22. I’m nearly seven.
23. I live with Mum and Dad and Yaya and Auntie Sofia.
24. Yaya’s my grandmother but I call her that because she’s Greek.
25. I don’t speak very much Greek, but I kind of always understand what she’s saying.
26. We have Easter lunch in the backyard under the grapevine.
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27. There’s roast lamb and salad, and of course I get chocolate eggs, but we have red real eggs too, and we have a competition about cracking them.
28. I’m the best at it.
29. This is me and Whiskers.
30. He sneaks in and sleeps on my bed.
31. This is a map of my place.
32. When you’re up the top of the big tree and a jet goes over, you feel as if you’re going to fall out.
33. Mum wants to move because of all the noise, but I like aeroplanes and trucks and stuff.
34. Auntie Sofia and I often go to the canal.
35. She says that if you went down it, and into the river, then into the bay, you’d be on your way Overseas!
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36. My name’s Sofia and this is my place.
37. I’m ten.
38. Baba’s just painted our house blue.
39. He comes from Greece, and he says lots of houses on his island were this colour.
40. I think it’s really pretty.
41. I live with Mama and Baba and Maroula and Paul McCartney.
42. (I’ve got a big brother called Michaelis, but he’s a solder in Vietnam.
43. Mama lights candles to pray that he comes home soon and isn’t hurt.)
44. This is me and Paul McCartney.
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45. Maroula recons John Lennon’s best, but I like Paul.
46. Before Michaelis went away, we had a goodbye party, and he invited a girlfriend!
47. She looked a bit left out because all of us were speaking Greek mostly.
48. Michaelis looked weird in his new haircut.
49. he didn’t want to go, but he said the law said he had to.
50. I wish that war would stop.
51. This is a map of my place.
52. Maroula works at the milk bar.
53. I put messages in bottles and send them down the canal.
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54. And sometimes, when I want to think about things, I go up the big tree in the statue yard.
55. There are more people in the street now because of the flats, but they don’t seem to have any kids.
56. This is my place.
57. My name’s Michaelis but at school I say it’s Mick.
58. I’m eleven.
59. I was born on Kalymnos but my parents moved here because there wasn’t enough work on our island.
60. Baba used to be a sponge diver but now he drives a taxi.
61. Mama sews shirts at home, so she doesn’t learn to speak English much.
62. I’ve already got a sister called Maroula, and now I’ve got a new one called Sofia.
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63. You’d think at least one of them could have been a boy.
64. After Sofia got christened, we had a party.
65. Baba and I had to make a fence so no one would tread on the new grape vine.
66. Sometimes I think there are more Greek people around here than there are on Kalymnos.
67. This is a map of my place.
68. Pop and Mrs. Malcom next door have got a television, and sometimes they let me go in and watch it!
69. Up near the depot there’s a big tree, and I play Tarzan.
70. That and Zorro are my favourite shows.
71. Sometimes at the end of the day our family goes for a little walk beside the canal, like we used to do around the harbour back on Kalymnos.
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72. It’s pretty dirty, and there aren’t any cafes or anything, but Mama says if you shut your eyes you can pretend it’s the Aegean.
73. This is me and my silkworms.
74. They don’t have names.
75. I feed them on mulberry leaves.
76. Their silk is soft and golden.
77. My name’s Jen and this is my place.
78. I’m eight and a half.
79. I live with Mum and Grandpa and Auntie Bridie, and now there’s my new dad.
80. My real dad’s dead.
81. He went to the war before I was born, so I never even saw him.
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82. But Mum says I’ve got his hair.
83. When Mum married my new dad, we had a party.
84. Uncle Paddy and Uncle Col came, and Miss Miller from next door and the Malcoms from the other side.
85. Miss Miller’s going to be ninety next year!
86. My new dad’s got a car.
87. It’s green.
88. This is a map of my place.
89. Mum says when she was a kid there used to be heaps more shops.
90. They’re knocking the Haunted House down, but Miss Miller yelled at them and made them promise not to touch the big tree.
91. She told them I’ve got a swing in it.
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92. At the bottom of the street there’s a canal.
93. The Council’s built a fence, but it always seems to get holes in it.
94. Sometimes I fish down there, but I never catch anything.
95. This is me and Soxie.
96. Dad says we might move out to the western suburbs soon, and get a house with a big yard all around it.
97. But I think Soxie would hate it.
98. He likes how it smells here.
99. This is my place.
100. I’m Col.
101. I’m almost eleven.
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102. In my house there’s Pa and Declan and Bridie and Kath and Jack.
103. My ma got pneumonia when I was little, and Paddy’s up country somewhere, looking for work.
104. Miss Miller next door is kind of like family too.
105. When Kath and Jack got married, she gave them her piano!
106. The night the Thomsons got evicted, it was like a party in the street.
107. The bailiffs had stuck all their things out on the footpath and boarded up the house, so Mrs Thomson knocked down the fence and built a big fire.
108. Everyone brought a pot of stew or some spuds or something, and when we’d finished eating, Pa got out his fiddle.
109. It didn’t seem awful then, but the next day they went away to the unemployed camp, and we never ever see them any more.
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110. This is a map of my place.
111. Pa and Declan got put on relief work to turn the creek into a canal, but it’s finished and they’re back on the dole again.
112. When my mate Thom mo still lived here, we nicked some wood from the old house and built a fort in the big tree.
113. And we used to swim in the canal, when our parents weren’t around.
114. But now there’s no one to muck about with.
115. This is me and Bessie.
116. She’s laid her eggs in my billycart, and I can’t use it for my paper run.
117. I hope they hurry up and hatch.
118. My name is Bridie and this is my place.
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119. I’m seven. I was born in Dublin, but Pa and Mumma left because there wasn’t much work there.
120. Now Pa reckons jobs are getting hard to find here too.
121. The rest of my family is Paddy and Declan and Kathleen and now Colum.
122. Mumma says he was a surprise.
123. Pa and Paddy and Declan all work at the brickworks.
124. Dec had to put his age up because he’s only thirteen.
125. I don’t have a pet, but Kath and I look after Col in the afternoon because Mumma cleans at the flats.
126. We put him in the pram and bounce him along the creek track till he goes to sleep.
127. I wish the creek was clean enough to swim in.
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128. This is a map of my place.
129. Last year they put in the poles, so now our lights are electric!
130. It’s really exciting living here because the aerodrome’s just nearby, and sometimes aeroplanes fly over.
131. I climb up the big tree and wave to the pilots.
132. Mumma says we’re lucky here because we’ve got good neighbours.
133. Miss Miller lets Kath and me play her piano and if we catch Henry’s bus he won’t let us pay.
134. the Thomsons on the other side have got a wireless!
135. Lorna Thomson’s my best friend.
136. We had a party last Saint Patrick’s Day.
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137. He’s the Saint of Ireland, and we all wear green for him and sing and dance.
138. Pa got a bit sad because he was missing home, so Mumma invited the Next Doors in to cheer him up.
139. This is my place.
140. Mum calls me Bertie, but Eddie and all the blokes at the hospital call me Champ.
141. I’m nine.
142. My brother Eddie’s only got one leg, but he’s still great at cricket.
143. He and the blokes sometimes let me play with them down by the creek.
144. I live with Mum and Eddie and my sister Ev, and we let the front room to Miss Walkley, from church.
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145. Dad died at Gallipoli.
146. Miss Walkley says that’s something to be proud of, but I recon it stinks.
147. He was a great spin bowler.
148. This is me and Gert.
149. We got her to help the War Effort.
150. This is a map of my place.
151. Mum works in the kitchen at the hospital, and when Ev comes home from the factory she puts on her VAD dress and goes over there too.
152. I’ve got a treehouse in the big tree.
153. Mum says we might have to move to the country because we can’t afford to live here now, but I don’t want to.
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154. On the day the war ended, people danced in the street and blokes hugged each other on the lawn.
155. But Mum started crying.
156. Then Miss Miller cried, then Mr. Miller even cried, because their Tom and Fred won’t be coming home either.
157. So I did some stilt-walking on Eddie’s crutches and made them stop.
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158. My name’s Evelyn and this is my place.
159. I’m ten.
160. We moved here because it’s close to the city for Father to get to the bank.
161. Mother teaches music at the college, but of course Eddie and I go to the ordinary school.
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162. On the way home, we always wait near the petrol pump on Mullers’ corner in case a motor car stops.
163. Father says the main road will be tar soon, and there’ll be even more traffic.