A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Isogloss map for 'a'

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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 'a' Shetland 29,684.1 occurrences per million words 49 authors out of 54 Orkney 30,584.6 occurrences per million words 37 authors out of 41 North Northern B (Caithness) 41,634.4 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 3 North Northern A (Black Isle) 42,735.0 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 1 Mid Northern B 54,698.0 occurrences per million words 12 authors out of 12 Mid Northern A 31,195.1 occurrences per million words 39 authors out of 42 Aberdeen 33,369.3 occurrences per million words 17 authors out of 17 South Northern 29,134.1 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 4 Dundee 28,664.0 occurrences per million words 9 authors out of 9 North East Central 25,271.8 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 3 (South) East Central 30,334.2 occurrences per million words 54 authors out of 54 Edinburgh 27,310.7 occurrences per million words 19 authors out of 20 Glasgow 26,936.0 occurrences per million words 22 authors out of 22 West Central 26,446.5 occurrences per million words 34 authors out of 35 Ayrshire 25,774.1 occurrences per million words 10 authors out of 10 South East (Borders) 27,493.5 occurrences per million words 13 authors out of 13 South West (Galloway) 31,855.4 occurrences per million words 21 authors out of 21 Donegal (East Donegal) 38,158.7 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 3 West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 38,423.8 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 2 Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 44,093.6 occurrences per million words 5 authors out of 5 Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 25,175.9 occurrences per million words 10 authors out of 10 East Antrim (Larne) 28,991.7 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 3 South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) 14,218.0 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 1 Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 41,183.4 occurrences per million words 13 authors out of 13 Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

'a' occurrences per year

N-Gram view for 'a' 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 2025 2026 2000 1754 total occurrences 30,616.70 per million words 2001 2235 total occurrences 29,200.04 per million words 2002 2140 total occurrences 28,328.99 per million words 2003 4183 total occurrences 27,958.61 per million words 2004 3367 total occurrences 31,991.41 per million words 2005 2078 total occurrences 30,566.91 per million words 2006 2918 total occurrences 33,852.69 per million words 2007 3225 total occurrences 29,464.70 per million words 2008 2377 total occurrences 30,248.66 per million words 2009 2187 total occurrences 26,873.92 per million words 2010 3584 total occurrences 30,512.77 per million words 2011 3869 total occurrences 26,649.68 per million words 2012 3797 total occurrences 28,378.39 per million words 2013 2780 total occurrences 37,355.05 per million words 2014 5620 total occurrences 31,213.73 per million words 2015 4090 total occurrences 31,427.21 per million words 2016 3756 total occurrences 24,660.56 per million words 2017 4169 total occurrences 28,664.54 per million words 2018 2351 total occurrences 30,189.41 per million words 2019 2760 total occurrences 28,676.22 per million words 2020 11100 total occurrences 33,787.28 per million words 2021 12028 total occurrences 27,029.76 per million words 2022 5477 total occurrences 26,770.09 per million words 2023 3374 total occurrences 27,087.78 per million words 2024 2372 total occurrences 29,130.74 per million words 2025 270 total occurrences 22,182.06 per million words 2026 0 total occurrences 0.00 per million words
Year Occurences normalised per million Total occurrences
2000 30,616.70 1,754
2001 29,200.04 2,235
2002 28,328.99 2,140
2003 27,958.61 4,183
2004 31,991.41 3,367
2005 30,566.91 2,078
2006 33,852.69 2,918
2007 29,464.70 3,225
2008 30,248.66 2,377
2009 26,873.92 2,187
2010 30,512.77 3,584
2011 26,649.68 3,869
2012 28,378.39 3,797
2013 37,355.05 2,780
2014 31,213.73 5,620
2015 31,427.21 4,090
2016 24,660.56 3,756
2017 28,664.54 4,169
2018 30,189.41 2,351
2019 28,676.22 2,760
2020 33,787.28 11,100
2021 27,029.76 12,028
2022 26,770.09 5,477
2023 27,087.78 3,374
2024 29,130.74 2,372
2025 22,182.06 270
2026 0.00 0

'a' overall change in the 21st century

Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2013:-
29,803.82
Normalised occurrences 2014 to 2026:-
28,997.70