A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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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 'how' Shetland 267.4 occurrences per million words 14 authors out of 54 Orkney 119.2 occurrences per million words 6 authors out of 41 North Northern B (Caithness) 2,145.0 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 3 North Northern A (Black Isle) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 1 Mid Northern B 786.2 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 11 Mid Northern A 127.5 occurrences per million words 12 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 520.4 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 9 North East Central 510.1 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 3 (South) East Central 442.5 occurrences per million words 14 authors out of 46 Edinburgh 433.0 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 19 Glasgow 1,471.1 occurrences per million words 13 authors out of 21 West Central 1,779.2 occurrences per million words 15 authors out of 31 Ayrshire 104.8 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 9 South East (Borders) 973.2 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 13 South West (Galloway) 584.0 occurrences per million words 9 authors out of 22 Donegal (East Donegal) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 1 West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 327.0 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 2 Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 62.8 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 5 Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 6 East Antrim (Larne) 394.0 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 3 South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 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.

'how' occurrences per year

N-Gram view for 'how' 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 6 total occurrences 104.95 per million words 2001 14 total occurrences 182.91 per million words 2002 5 total occurrences 66.28 per million words 2003 33 total occurrences 220.72 per million words 2004 12 total occurrences 114.02 per million words 2005 13 total occurrences 191.23 per million words 2006 14 total occurrences 162.42 per million words 2007 54 total occurrences 584.42 per million words 2008 7 total occurrences 89.08 per million words 2009 20 total occurrences 245.76 per million words 2010 10 total occurrences 85.14 per million words 2011 26 total occurrences 179.09 per million words 2012 46 total occurrences 343.80 per million words 2013 18 total occurrences 241.87 per million words 2014 177 total occurrences 1,029.04 per million words 2015 95 total occurrences 729.97 per million words 2016 45 total occurrences 295.45 per million words 2017 38 total occurrences 261.27 per million words 2018 39 total occurrences 500.84 per million words 2019 175 total occurrences 1,818.24 per million words 2020 222 total occurrences 695.76 per million words 2021 520 total occurrences 1,106.11 per million words 2022 104 total occurrences 514.28 per million words 2023 56 total occurrences 622.07 per million words 2024 18 total occurrences 2,438.03 per million words
Year Occurences normalised per million Total occurrences
2000 104.95 6
2001 182.91 14
2002 66.28 5
2003 220.72 33
2004 114.02 12
2005 191.23 13
2006 162.42 14
2007 584.42 54
2008 89.08 7
2009 245.76 20
2010 85.14 10
2011 179.09 26
2012 343.80 46
2013 241.87 18
2014 1,029.04 177
2015 729.97 95
2016 295.45 45
2017 261.27 38
2018 500.84 39
2019 1,818.24 175
2020 695.76 222
2021 1,106.11 520
2022 514.28 104
2023 622.07 56
2024 2,438.03 18

'how' overall change in the 21st century

Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2012:-
205.23
Normalised occurrences 2013 to 2024:-
777.90