A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Isogloss map for 'before'

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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 'before' Shetland 87.2 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 54 Orkney 109.3 occurrences per million words 7 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 335.6 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 12 Mid Northern A 36.0 occurrences per million words 5 authors out of 42 Aberdeen 42.0 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 17 South Northern 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 4 Dundee 21.2 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 9 North East Central 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 3 (South) East Central 380.3 occurrences per million words 13 authors out of 54 Edinburgh 340.9 occurrences per million words 7 authors out of 20 Glasgow 220.3 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 22 West Central 310.7 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 35 Ayrshire 10.7 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 10 South East (Borders) 37.4 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 13 South West (Galloway) 125.5 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 21 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 2 authors out of 5 Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 7 East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 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.

'before' occurrences per year

N-Gram view for 'before' 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 2000 4 total occurrences 69.82 per million words 2001 0 total occurrences 0.00 per million words 2002 5 total occurrences 66.19 per million words 2003 1 total occurrences 6.68 per million words 2004 3 total occurrences 28.50 per million words 2005 3 total occurrences 44.13 per million words 2006 3 total occurrences 34.80 per million words 2007 2 total occurrences 18.27 per million words 2008 2 total occurrences 25.45 per million words 2009 2 total occurrences 24.58 per million words 2010 1 total occurrences 8.51 per million words 2011 12 total occurrences 82.66 per million words 2012 11 total occurrences 82.21 per million words 2013 4 total occurrences 53.75 per million words 2014 17 total occurrences 94.42 per million words 2015 15 total occurrences 115.26 per million words 2016 12 total occurrences 78.79 per million words 2017 14 total occurrences 96.26 per million words 2018 9 total occurrences 115.57 per million words 2019 9 total occurrences 93.51 per million words 2020 67 total occurrences 203.94 per million words 2021 222 total occurrences 498.89 per million words 2022 52 total occurrences 254.16 per million words 2023 5 total occurrences 40.14 per million words 2024 1 total occurrences 15.14 per million words 2025 0 total occurrences 0.00 per million words
Year Occurences normalised per million Total occurrences
2000 69.82 4
2001 0.00 0
2002 66.19 5
2003 6.68 1
2004 28.50 3
2005 44.13 3
2006 34.80 3
2007 18.27 2
2008 25.45 2
2009 24.58 2
2010 8.51 1
2011 82.66 12
2012 82.21 11
2013 53.75 4
2014 94.42 17
2015 115.26 15
2016 78.79 12
2017 96.26 14
2018 115.57 9
2019 93.51 9
2020 203.94 67
2021 498.89 222
2022 254.16 52
2023 40.14 5
2024 15.14 1
2025 0.00 0

'before' overall change in the 21st century

Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2012.5:-
38.15
Normalised occurrences 2013.5 to 2025:-
209.83