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From the Ted Talk by Natalie MacMaster: Fiddling in reel time

Unscramble the Blue Letters


NM: No, I want you to tell them about Leahy.

DL: What about lahey? (Laughter)

NM: Just tell them what—

DL: She wants me to talk about— We have a band named Leahy. There's 11 siblings. We, um— What will I tell them? (Laughter) We opened—

NM: No surgeries.

DL: No surgeries, oh yeah. We had a great opportunity. We opened for Shania Twain for two years on her international tour. It was a big thing for us, and now all my sisters are off having bbaies and the boys are all getting mraeird, so we're staying close to home for, I guess, another couple of wekes. What can I say? I don't know what to say, Natalie. We, uh... (ltagehur)

Open Cloze


NM: No, I want you to tell them about Leahy.

DL: What about _____? (Laughter)

NM: Just tell them what—

DL: She wants me to talk about— We have a band named Leahy. There's 11 siblings. We, um— What will I tell them? (Laughter) We opened—

NM: No surgeries.

DL: No surgeries, oh yeah. We had a great opportunity. We opened for Shania Twain for two years on her international tour. It was a big thing for us, and now all my sisters are off having ______ and the boys are all getting _______, so we're staying close to home for, I guess, another couple of _____. What can I say? I don't know what to say, Natalie. We, uh... (________)

Solution


  1. laughter
  2. married
  3. weeks
  4. leahy
  5. babies

Original Text


NM: No, I want you to tell them about Leahy.

DL: What about Leahy? (Laughter)

NM: Just tell them what—

DL: She wants me to talk about— We have a band named Leahy. There's 11 siblings. We, um— What will I tell them? (Laughter) We opened—

NM: No surgeries.

DL: No surgeries, oh yeah. We had a great opportunity. We opened for Shania Twain for two years on her international tour. It was a big thing for us, and now all my sisters are off having babies and the boys are all getting married, so we're staying close to home for, I guess, another couple of weeks. What can I say? I don't know what to say, Natalie. We, uh... (Laughter)

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
cape breton 8
ottawa valley 3
gonna play 2


Important Words


  1. babies
  2. band
  3. big
  4. boys
  5. close
  6. couple
  7. great
  8. guess
  9. home
  10. international
  11. laughter
  12. leahy
  13. married
  14. named
  15. natalie
  16. opened
  17. opportunity
  18. shania
  19. siblings
  20. sisters
  21. staying
  22. surgeries
  23. talk
  24. tour
  25. twain
  26. uh
  27. weeks
  28. yeah
  29. years