A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

lookie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.8 0 22.4 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences190 15 0 4 0 0
Number of authors8 7 1

Occurrences of lookie in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
arten tae's, Dassin wid hay a lookie oot o thi windae. Dassin say' on page 37
ht fur thi car park tae hay a lookie tae see fit lyke. Weel, fit w on page 56

4 matches

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
div seem tae tak tae naitur. Lookie here at ess siventeen year aa on page 37

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
the gweed news. "Lut's hae a lookie it the horoscopes," she said, on page 36
llin up a cheer. "Lut's hae a lookie it ess accoont Ah've set up, on page 52
t ye're efter, g'awa an hae a lookie. Ye jist need te get the baa on page 55
"Tak a lookie it the Situations Vacant in t on page 87

4 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
ars tae scrieve, wid ye tak a lookie? on page 112
A quick lookie in Freuchie on page 123
Bit I needed a lookie on page 139

3 matches

Hutchison, Pat Sanners Gow's Tales and Folklore of the Buchan - The Clootie Dummmplin!, (Ayton Publishing 2017 ISBN: 978-1910601419) Doric - Banffshire, prose
at that!’ Mrs Robson hid a lookie at it sayin , ‘Gweed be her
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@73Bain Jist hid a lookie and it seems aye(2020) search twitter

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
d Angela O'Brien? Ah'll hae a lookie fer a squeel photie! (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Lookie whit arrived daday!! It smell (2019) twitter link
Lookie lookie lookie what came daday!! #minisnes… (2018) twitter link