A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lookan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lookanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.8321
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 1125.3 32 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 lookan in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
They were indeed a queer-lookan party at assembled on e bank- on page 23
ply bowed, an took e thimble, lookan as solemn as she could. on page 27
y till make hersel useful, an lookan anxiously aboot her. "Oh, do on page 29
, trottan slow back again, an lookan anxiously aboot as id went, a on page 31
peedy bottle at stood near e lookan-giess. Air wisna a label iss on page 32
Also on pages 38, 49, 51, 53, 55, 62, 65, 66, 75, 78, 80, 81, 82, 84, 104, 105, 107, 108, 112, 117, 118, 120
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