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The word 'walker'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
walkerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.12913
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 73.6 16 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 walker in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ponsored her an tae her puppy walker Julie. Ye’ve made sic a diff(2019)

South Northern

Diansangu, Mae naebdy likes a clype, (Scots Hoose 2021) Doric, poetry
an fan roy walker said
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
d say ye'd been at the Johnny Walker, Faither!" on page 109

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ed fur by the tidy lookin dug walker ah hired. The wee man underst
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
is one n a do recognise scott walker the keeper for the guys in re (2021) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
n tights o a wumman tightrope walker in a circus. She hud it done on page 50
walker's tights that hadnae been was on page 56

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ail an wiggult it aboot. Miss Walker, said Mister Anderson. Aye, s on page 24
d hangin aboot wi Kelly Marie Walker an aw the mad aquad fae Moorp on page 28
zact same day as Kelly Marie Walker. on page 93
Karen's new pal, Carrie Anne Walker lah shoulda known she wis Kel on page 169

13 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
he got a doin aff Kelly Marie Walker wan time when we wur in third
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
t mare enthusiasm than Murray Walker. on page 114

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
A'd gone up Glen Doll wi Tam Walker an Doad Anderson, guid lads t on page 72

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
y new companion cawed Johnnie Walker tae help me furget aw ae life
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
nightcap - a dram ay Johnnie Walker - an ah must've dozed aff. on page 13

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ightcap – a dram ay Johnnie Walker an ah must’ve dozed aff.
1 matches

General Central

@alistairdunn tweeted
ally need tae listen tae Andy walker for 90 minutes?(2013)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
ken yir reference tae Ridley Walker!! Grand buik. "The Hart o the (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
Ah'm fae Killie an worked at Walker's years lik a wheen o the too(2020)