A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

talkie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 5.1 9 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1610 6 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 2 2

Occurrences of talkie in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
aiket and pulled oot a walkie-talkie. Efter a wee bit o a fankle, on page 125
mannie said intae the walkie-talkie, "I dinnae ken, gaffer. Aye, on page 126
can get tae him on ma walkie-talkie. And if onythin gangs wrang d on page 132
oont Olaf will hae his walkie-talkie on him the hale time, and if on page 139
s saw, he wis haudin a walkie-talkie. on page 140
Also on pages 143, 148, 153, 154
9 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
n away, talkin intae a walkie talkie, startin another self-induced
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
he fleer, Ah saa it. A walkie-talkie! Ye should hae heard me gie M
m,’ an picked up the walkie talkie an pit it in his coat pooch.
a gaan ti spik intae a walkie talkie at this eyn, an mak on they w
him that lent him the walkie-talkie – he caa’d Katiebella for
hin wis comin fae that walkie talkie!’
5 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
The phone rings, a walkie-talkie kinda thing that’s linked u
1 matches

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