Is "walkie" an anachronistic term?

[Baitball Blogger]

If a writer were to use the word "walkie" as in "walkie-talkie," would that term be considered last century?

[kentauros]

1. Unless they're called something else these days.

I've only used the term in reference to speaking to a dog before taking her for a walk

[Orrex]

2. In my whole life I have never heard the word "walkie" used to describe a "walkie-talkie"

In fact, when I read your subject line, I assumed that you were referring to taking a dog outside.


I would submit that the word is indeed last-century, and probably went out of fashion by the early 80s.

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Erm...

So, you would use? Portable listening and talking device?

Assume there are no cell towers around.

[Orrex]

4. Walkie-talkie

Maybe "radio" or perhaps "two-way," but it would depend on the time/setting of your story.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Relatively recent.

Two-way isn't bad.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

7. Other than older movies

...I haven't heard the term in quite a while. IMHO, yes it is.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. At least I was able to catch it in time for the first rejection!

Thanks!

[yellowcanine]

10. When I was a kid I wanted my mom to get me a set of walkie-talkies for Christmas.

She wouldn't do it. I still don't know why. But the ones in the Monkey Ward catalog were probably cheap toys anyway and would have been a disappointment.

[yellowcanine]

6. Didn't Julius Caesar use that term? "Weni, Widi, Walkie"

Translated, "I came, I saw, I walked all over them." I think it is Latin, so yes it would be anachronistic.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Clever

[Orrex]

11. He also invented the salad, while we're at it.