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The word 'walkers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
walkersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.3219
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 20.5 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 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 walkers in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
"Good morning." Mony wis dug walkers - ane wumman wi whit lookit
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Wotsits two funner an twelve, Walkers cheese an onion a hunner an e on page 147
hitever mixture a mongrel the Walkers' junkie doonstairs' neighbour on page 169

3 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
The “bootless Glenshee walkers”. The thankless, selfish, t
1 matches

Capener, Jack This laund wis wrocht for you an me, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central - Edinburgh, blog
gied thaim whit they hae? Wad walkers really be happy tae swap tuim
o Jura is equally popular wi walkers, yit the paths aroond its mai
2 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Or nicht-walkers, on page 76

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
t here an needs shelter. Hill walkers, climbers an that, use the bo
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
A group ay walkers appear fae oer the brow ay a
drawers fur? Nae wonder they walkers bolted. They must’ve though
2 matches

General Central

Thom, Williamina Lallans 75 - Oor Tibby Pagan, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, weans
n is noo a weel-kent road tae walkers. The stane is still tae the f
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
alang wi me “Aw the drookit walkers, aw the drookit walkers, Aw t(2020)
der. “Luik at aw the drookit walkers” said I tae @joao_kay. Sinsy(2020)
co an thrawn conseiderin whit Walkers did tae Killie.(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
n oot o’ mare and mare slow walkers on the wee narrow back street
1 matches

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