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The word 'lukin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lukinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.85710
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 981 6 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 596.3 19 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 454.2 25 1

Occurrences of lukin in Corpus

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Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
ye stravaigan aboot the banks lukin fir drift an gatherin ap aa t
1 matches

(South) East Central

Grubb, Adrian Bungee, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Kirkcaldy, prose
pad - it wis really high up. Lukin doon made me feel aw shoogily
1 matches

Ayrshire

McClelland, Ben Chicagof Island, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
taun below th' tree n sterted lukin aroon thaim fur a few minutes
1 matches

General Central

@FaetheRye tweeted
@barclaypeter7 @portysoul Lukin furrit tae the repeat???????? (2022) twitter link

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Sae whin United cum lukin', oor Davy wis made. on page 2
Ah wiz lukin for a young milkin' coo on page 13
Sae unless yir lukin fir bother, on page 25
We kept lukin' fir more an' more. on page 37
He'll bae dizzy lukin' doon. on page 39
Also on pages 43
6 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
hirsel agane. "Dinah wull be lukin mad fur mae the nicht, A wud on page 10
I wus a gye rare lukin bunch, that got thegither on on page 25
est bowed, an tuk the thimel, lukin es sad es shae cud. on page 29
bbit, dannerin baak agane, an lukin gye on edge es it went, es if on page 33
A gret big pup wus lukin doon at hir wi big roon een, on page 41
Also on pages 53, 57, 64, 69, 70, 78, 81, 84, 85, 87
19 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Nae turnin bak, nae lukin bak on page 16

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Dinnae leeve yer life lukin bakwards, on page 17

1 matches

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
an taen a wee keek intae tha lukin-gless, mair fur tae see tha l
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
an, fu o tha Halie Spïrit an lukin forrit tae tha cumin o tha Me on page 72
day, an tae aa thaim that wus lukin forrit tae Jerusalem bein set on page 73
sed man on a bed; an the' wur lukin for a wye for tae brïng hïm on page 77
nk oul wine, wud richt awa be lukin new wine. For he wud say: 'Th on page 78
An lukin roon aboot thaim aa, he sayed on page 79
Also on pages 81, 83, 84, 85, 87, 89, 90, 92, 93, 97, 99, 110, 111
25 matches

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