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 'better' Shetland 703.3 occurrences per million words 22 authors out of 54 Orkney 596.2 occurrences per million words 16 authors out of 41 North Northern B (Caithness) 597.8 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 3 North Northern A (Black Isle) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 1 Mid Northern B 894.9 occurrences per million words 7 authors out of 12 Mid Northern A 621.3 occurrences per million words 17 authors out of 42 Aberdeen 566.5 occurrences per million words 9 authors out of 17 South Northern 976.6 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 4 Dundee 679.7 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 9 North East Central 137.6 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 3 (South) East Central 557.0 occurrences per million words 26 authors out of 54 Edinburgh 440.1 occurrences per million words 9 authors out of 20 Glasgow 422.0 occurrences per million words 17 authors out of 23 West Central 497.1 occurrences per million words 21 authors out of 35 Ayrshire 416.4 occurrences per million words 5 authors out of 10 South East (Borders) 436.0 occurrences per million words 9 authors out of 13 South West (Galloway) 404.5 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 21 Donegal (East Donegal) 605.7 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 3 West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 817.5 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 2 Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 533.5 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 5 Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 10 East Antrim (Larne) 525.3 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 3 South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 1 Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 285.5 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 13 Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

'better' occurrences per year

N-Gram view for 'better' 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 11 total occurrences 192.01 per million words 2001 50 total occurrences 653.24 per million words 2002 40 total occurrences 529.51 per million words 2003 75 total occurrences 501.29 per million words 2004 75 total occurrences 712.61 per million words 2005 36 total occurrences 529.55 per million words 2006 41 total occurrences 475.65 per million words 2007 55 total occurrences 502.50 per million words 2008 39 total occurrences 496.30 per million words 2009 49 total occurrences 602.11 per million words 2010 70 total occurrences 595.95 per million words 2011 61 total occurrences 420.17 per million words 2012 92 total occurrences 687.60 per million words 2013 42 total occurrences 564.36 per million words 2014 105 total occurrences 583.17 per million words 2015 50 total occurrences 384.20 per million words 2016 56 total occurrences 367.68 per million words 2017 56 total occurrences 385.04 per million words 2018 37 total occurrences 475.12 per million words 2019 62 total occurrences 644.18 per million words 2020 184 total occurrences 560.08 per million words 2021 244 total occurrences 577.36 per million words 2022 96 total occurrences 469.22 per million words 2023 47 total occurrences 377.33 per million words 2024 31 total occurrences 363.42 per million words 2025 1 total occurrences 82.16 per million words 2026 0 total occurrences 0.00 per million words
Year Occurences normalised per million Total occurrences
2000 192.01 11
2001 653.24 50
2002 529.51 40
2003 501.29 75
2004 712.61 75
2005 529.55 36
2006 475.65 41
2007 502.50 55
2008 496.30 39
2009 602.11 49
2010 595.95 70
2011 420.17 61
2012 687.60 92
2013 564.36 42
2014 583.17 105
2015 384.20 50
2016 367.68 56
2017 385.04 56
2018 475.12 37
2019 644.18 62
2020 560.08 184
2021 577.36 244
2022 469.22 96
2023 377.33 47
2024 363.42 31
2025 82.16 1
2026 0.00 0

'better' overall change in the 21st century

Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2013:-
541.70
Normalised occurrences 2014 to 2026:-
494.43