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The word 'walkan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
walkanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 175.8 5 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
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 walkan in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
whit you're up tae when ah'm walkan up yer path? on page 83

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Walkan tae the Seturday job... on page 111

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Crackan the troughs, (Brisk Northerly 2021) Orkney, blog
ither-in-law minds the postie walkan right across the ice on the B
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
t begun till dream at she wis walkan han in han wi Dinah, an sayan on page 10
," sade e Moose, gettan up an walkan awy. "Ee insult me by talkan on page 29
hy voice at her side. She wis walkan by e White Rabbit, who wis pe on page 78
iers were always gettan up an walkan off till ither parts o e groo on page 79
A've got till go through next walkan aboot at e ither end o e groo on page 81

5 matches

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