A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Isogloss map for 'wee'

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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 'wee' Shetland 17.4 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 54 Orkney 109.3 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 41 North Northern B (Caithness) 105.5 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 2,358.5 occurrences per million words 6 authors out of 11 Mid Northern A 1,893.3 occurrences per million words 27 authors out of 42 Aberdeen 1,861.0 occurrences per million words 12 authors out of 15 South Northern 1,790.4 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 4 Dundee 1,794.8 occurrences per million words 9 authors out of 9 North East Central 2,225.9 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 3 (South) East Central 2,291.7 occurrences per million words 35 authors out of 46 Edinburgh 1,443.5 occurrences per million words 14 authors out of 19 Glasgow 4,473.1 occurrences per million words 20 authors out of 21 West Central 2,735.5 occurrences per million words 25 authors out of 31 Ayrshire 5,111.1 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 9 South East (Borders) 2,595.2 occurrences per million words 12 authors out of 13 South West (Galloway) 3,198.4 occurrences per million words 19 authors out of 22 Donegal (East Donegal) 17,241.4 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 1 West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 4,905.2 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 2 Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 4,142.6 occurrences per million words 5 authors out of 5 Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 3,533.6 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 6 East Antrim (Larne) 1,740.2 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 3 South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) 4,739.3 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 1 Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 3,842.2 occurrences per million words 6 authors out of 6 Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

'wee' occurrences per year

N-Gram view for 'wee' 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 34 total occurrences 594.72 per million words 2001 182 total occurrences 2,377.81 per million words 2002 97 total occurrences 1,285.76 per million words 2003 252 total occurrences 1,685.48 per million words 2004 185 total occurrences 1,757.77 per million words 2005 82 total occurrences 1,206.20 per million words 2006 126 total occurrences 1,461.77 per million words 2007 197 total occurrences 2,132.03 per million words 2008 224 total occurrences 2,850.53 per million words 2009 168 total occurrences 2,064.39 per million words 2010 634 total occurrences 5,397.63 per million words 2011 246 total occurrences 1,694.45 per million words 2012 303 total occurrences 2,264.61 per million words 2013 238 total occurrences 3,198.02 per million words 2014 674 total occurrences 3,918.49 per million words 2015 267 total occurrences 2,051.61 per million words 2016 354 total occurrences 2,324.24 per million words 2017 578 total occurrences 3,974.12 per million words 2018 215 total occurrences 2,761.05 per million words 2019 355 total occurrences 3,688.43 per million words 2020 1159 total occurrences 3,632.35 per million words 2021 1075 total occurrences 2,286.66 per million words 2022 374 total occurrences 1,849.42 per million words 2023 202 total occurrences 2,243.90 per million words 2024 40 total occurrences 5,417.85 per million words
Year Occurences normalised per million Total occurrences
2000 594.72 34
2001 2,377.81 182
2002 1,285.76 97
2003 1,685.48 252
2004 1,757.77 185
2005 1,206.20 82
2006 1,461.77 126
2007 2,132.03 197
2008 2,850.53 224
2009 2,064.39 168
2010 5,397.63 634
2011 1,694.45 246
2012 2,264.61 303
2013 3,198.02 238
2014 3,918.49 674
2015 2,051.61 267
2016 2,324.24 354
2017 3,974.12 578
2018 2,761.05 215
2019 3,688.43 355
2020 3,632.35 1,159
2021 2,286.66 1,075
2022 1,849.42 374
2023 2,243.90 202
2024 5,417.85 40

'wee' overall change in the 21st century

Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2012:-
2,154.88
Normalised occurrences 2013 to 2024:-
2,855.06