A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'talkan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
talkanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6183
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 562.6 16 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of talkan in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
stle trees? Noo, min, thoo're talkan shite." on page 56

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
till do, so Alice soon began talkan again. "Dinah'll miss me awfu on page 10
ma michty, what nonsense A'm talkan!" on page 16
hersel all e time she went on talkan. "Dear, dear! How queer every on page 17
hite kid-gloves while she wis talkan. "How can A hev done at?" she on page 19
l till Alice till find hersel talkan as if she knew them weel. Ind on page 23
Also on pages 29, 36, 50, 51, 55, 57, 64, 66, 76, 81, 105
16 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 81 - Annie and the New Chairs, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
‘Dinnae you be sae cheeky, talkan ti me lik that, and me auld e
1 matches

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