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The word 'lookie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lookieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7198
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 5
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
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 lookie in Corpus

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Shetland

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

Mid Northern A

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

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)

General Northern

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

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

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