A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lookt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
looktOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2146
ORK - Orkney
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
WCE - West Central 22.2 5 2
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 25.6 5 2
AYR - Ayrshire
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)
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 lookt in Corpus

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West Central

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
Ah goat roon tae enterin an lookt aroon ma room. At’s when ma
1 matches

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
olt). When they goat there it lookt like the storm wis tryin tae
in frae side tae side. As he lookt through the peephole, a child
e lookin awfa peelywally. Jim lookt down ‘n’ wis hinkin tae h
strikin crimson liquid which lookt awfa like blood bricht ‘nâ€
4 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
it ahent the gravestane an he lookt up. There abune him wis a hor on page 66
n reels, as, glowerin, Wullie lookt ower tae the ba; There wis Ta on page 68

3 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
-hole: then she knelt doon an lookt alang the on page 11
a moose - O moose!" The Moose lookt at her awfy curious, like, an on page 22
Merch Hare goat the watch an lookt at it despairinly: then he do on page 68

4 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
ed ower an the arrangement ay lookt queer. Ablo the swing - mebb
1 matches

General Central

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
and his wife he’s been well lookt efter. But he taks all the cr
1 matches

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