A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Isogloss map for 'now'

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>10,000 per million occurrences >1,000 per million >100 per million >10 per million >1 per million >0 per million Isogloss map for 'now' Shetland 122.1 occurrences per million words 10 authors out of 54 Orkney 79.5 occurrences per million words 5 authors out of 41 North Northern B (Caithness) 105.5 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 3 North Northern A (Black Isle) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 1 Mid Northern B 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 11 Mid Northern A 124.3 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 42 Aberdeen 130.4 occurrences per million words 5 authors out of 15 South Northern 325.5 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 4 Dundee 552.3 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 9 North East Central 46.4 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 3 (South) East Central 447.6 occurrences per million words 13 authors out of 46 Edinburgh 357.7 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 19 Glasgow 141.1 occurrences per million words 9 authors out of 21 West Central 105.7 occurrences per million words 10 authors out of 31 Ayrshire 117.9 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 9 South East (Borders) 299.4 occurrences per million words 7 authors out of 13 South West (Galloway) 305.9 occurrences per million words 5 authors out of 22 Donegal (East Donegal) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 1 West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 2 Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 5 Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 6 East Antrim (Larne) 197.0 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 3 South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) 2,369.7 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 1 Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 6 Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

'now' occurrences per year

N-Gram view for 'now' 10,000 per million 1,000 per million 100 per million 10 per million 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2000 3 total occurrences 52.48 per million words 2001 3 total occurrences 39.19 per million words 2002 5 total occurrences 66.28 per million words 2003 13 total occurrences 86.95 per million words 2004 8 total occurrences 76.01 per million words 2005 3 total occurrences 44.13 per million words 2006 9 total occurrences 104.41 per million words 2007 54 total occurrences 584.42 per million words 2008 7 total occurrences 89.08 per million words 2009 8 total occurrences 98.30 per million words 2010 2 total occurrences 17.03 per million words 2011 28 total occurrences 192.86 per million words 2012 16 total occurrences 119.58 per million words 2013 5 total occurrences 67.19 per million words 2014 22 total occurrences 127.90 per million words 2015 56 total occurrences 430.30 per million words 2016 37 total occurrences 242.93 per million words 2017 24 total occurrences 165.02 per million words 2018 15 total occurrences 192.63 per million words 2019 24 total occurrences 249.36 per million words 2020 168 total occurrences 526.52 per million words 2021 127 total occurrences 270.14 per million words 2022 73 total occurrences 360.98 per million words 2023 23 total occurrences 255.49 per million words 2024 6 total occurrences 812.68 per million words
Year Occurences normalised per million Total occurrences
2000 52.48 3
2001 39.19 3
2002 66.28 5
2003 86.95 13
2004 76.01 8
2005 44.13 3
2006 104.41 9
2007 584.42 54
2008 89.08 7
2009 98.30 8
2010 17.03 2
2011 192.86 28
2012 119.58 16
2013 67.19 5
2014 127.90 22
2015 430.30 56
2016 242.93 37
2017 165.02 24
2018 192.63 15
2019 249.36 24
2020 526.52 168
2021 270.14 127
2022 360.98 73
2023 255.49 23
2024 812.68 6

'now' overall change in the 21st century

Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2012:-
125.50
Normalised occurrences 2013 to 2024:-
299.39