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The word 'walkie-talkie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
walkie-talkieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7123
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 32.8 3 2
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 11.9 9 1
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 walkie-talkie in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 83 - Dunnottar, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
dle o the fleer, Ah saa it. A walkie-talkie! Ye should hae heard me gie M
it wis him that lent him the walkie-talkie – he caa’d Katiebella for
2 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

General Central

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

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