The English We Speak: 'Wee'

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🗓️ 7 March 2011

⏱️ 4 minutes

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In this series you can learn authentic English words and phrases that you might not find in your dictionary. This week's word is 'wee'

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0:00.0	This is a download from the BBC.
0:03.0	For more information and our terms of use, go to BBCworldservice.com
0:08.0	forward slash podcasts.
0:11.0	The English we speak.
0:13.0	We Speak.
0:15.0	From BBC Learning English.
0:20.0	Welcome to The English We speak. I'm Finn and I'm Wangfei. So what English word do we have today?
0:29.0	Well Wangfei today's English word is actually a Scottish one.
0:34.0	A Scottish phrase, the English we speak.
0:38.0	That's right.
0:39.0	Finn, I know you are from Scotland, but this is the English we speak not the Scottish not the Scottish I know
0:47.6	but actually one Fay this is a word that is very widely used.
0:53.0	Okay, what's the word then?
0:55.0	Today's word is we?
0:57.0	We, oh I know.
1:00.0	Isn't that a kind of Japanese game console?
1:03.4	Surely that's the Japanese we speak.
1:06.5	No, not that we.
1:08.9	That we is spelled W-I-I. And the word I mean is spelled W E and it means small or little. Okay so that's very nice and easy to remember. It is. Quite often you'll hear it
1:27.4	together with the word bit. A wee bit. Listen to these examples.
1:34.0	I might be a wee bit late.
1:38.0	Please just wait for me.
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