A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts
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Isogloss map for 'play'
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'play' occurrences per year
Year |
Occurences normalised per million |
Total occurrences |
2000 |
69.97 |
4 |
2001 |
274.36 |
21 |
2002 |
198.83 |
15 |
2003 |
187.28 |
28 |
2004 |
142.52 |
15 |
2005 |
220.65 |
15 |
2006 |
208.82 |
18 |
2007 |
346.32 |
32 |
2008 |
89.08 |
7 |
2009 |
208.90 |
17 |
2010 |
93.65 |
11 |
2011 |
117.10 |
17 |
2012 |
179.37 |
24 |
2013 |
322.49 |
24 |
2014 |
232.55 |
40 |
2015 |
299.67 |
39 |
2016 |
98.48 |
15 |
2017 |
171.89 |
25 |
2018 |
385.26 |
30 |
2019 |
187.02 |
18 |
2020 |
344.74 |
110 |
2021 |
304.18 |
143 |
2022 |
232.41 |
47 |
2023 |
155.52 |
14 |
2024 |
270.89 |
2 |
'play' overall change in the 21st century
Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2012:-
176.81
Normalised occurrences 2013 to 2024:-
261.71