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The word 'luckin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
luckinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.4189
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 17.8 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 83.7 6 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal) 605.7 1 1
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 luckin in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Aye you wir a fine luckin man. on page 130
A bonny luckin chap on page 131

2 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
wi a hoidy-hol for queer luckin wirds on page 19

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - Da Odyssey (1-75), (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, poetry
An ey wi saft an luckin wirds is vaamed him
1 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
ntae a fist Aye, hings wurnae luckin’ a’ that great.
he plate A huv tae say it wis luckin’great
2 matches

Sands, Finn THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Siddenly, a monstrous luckin mid-field player crossit an o
din baw, tae another sinister-luckin striker.
2 matches

General Central

@DABArbuckle tweeted
wis accosted by several rough luckin bodies wha asked him "are ye (2020)
el, they're definitely better luckin ??(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
wis accosted by several rough luckin bodies wha asked him "are ye (2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
Strangers in toon, twae guid luckin lassies at that. Lik Twiggy a on page 76
id, up there on the outskirts luckin doon on the rest o us, leevin on page 78
You were a sorry luckin wummin when they put him in t on page 79

5 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
aggle o’ folk in the queue, luckin ivry bit lik yin ae the Cyber
1 matches

Donegal (East Donegal)

Watson, Audrey Yarns 3 - The Tay Meetin, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Fermanagh, prose
scannin the room fer a good luckin fella oor at lest wan that’
1 matches

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