A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Dialect Map

Please enter a word to map

Isogloss map for 'boy'

- basic concord - pre-sorted concord - post-sorted concord - chronogrid - similar spellings - fine-grain concord -
>10,000 per million occurrences >1,000 per million >100 per million >10 per million >1 per million >0 per million Isogloss map for 'boy' Shetland 470.8 occurrences per million words 15 authors out of 54 Orkney 377.6 occurrences per million words 10 authors out of 41 North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 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 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 11 Mid Northern A 160.2 occurrences per million words 6 authors out of 42 Aberdeen 10.9 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 16 South Northern 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 4 Dundee 85.0 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 9 North East Central 92.7 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 3 (South) East Central 98.9 occurrences per million words 13 authors out of 49 Edinburgh 150.2 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 20 Glasgow 373.3 occurrences per million words 11 authors out of 23 West Central 335.6 occurrences per million words 9 authors out of 31 Ayrshire 39.3 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 9 South East (Borders) 99.8 occurrences per million words 5 authors out of 13 South West (Galloway) 375.5 occurrences per million words 7 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) 219.7 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 5 Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 353.4 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 6 East Antrim (Larne) 919.3 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 3 South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 1 Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 204.9 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 6 Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

'boy' occurrences per year

N-Gram view for 'boy' 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 8 total occurrences 139.93 per million words 2001 24 total occurrences 313.56 per million words 2002 21 total occurrences 278.36 per million words 2003 6 total occurrences 40.13 per million words 2004 9 total occurrences 85.51 per million words 2005 3 total occurrences 44.13 per million words 2006 52 total occurrences 603.27 per million words 2007 8 total occurrences 86.58 per million words 2008 10 total occurrences 127.26 per million words 2009 41 total occurrences 503.81 per million words 2010 10 total occurrences 85.14 per million words 2011 21 total occurrences 144.65 per million words 2012 15 total occurrences 112.11 per million words 2013 13 total occurrences 174.68 per million words 2014 6 total occurrences 34.88 per million words 2015 17 total occurrences 130.63 per million words 2016 16 total occurrences 105.05 per million words 2017 8 total occurrences 55.01 per million words 2018 20 total occurrences 256.82 per million words 2019 6 total occurrences 62.34 per million words 2020 87 total occurrences 256.28 per million words 2021 114 total occurrences 242.49 per million words 2022 69 total occurrences 315.94 per million words 2023 6 total occurrences 61.47 per million words 2024 3 total occurrences 207.73 per million words
Year Occurences normalised per million Total occurrences
2000 139.93 8
2001 313.56 24
2002 278.36 21
2003 40.13 6
2004 85.51 9
2005 44.13 3
2006 603.27 52
2007 86.58 8
2008 127.26 10
2009 503.81 41
2010 85.14 10
2011 144.65 21
2012 112.11 15
2013 174.68 13
2014 34.88 6
2015 130.63 17
2016 105.05 16
2017 55.01 8
2018 256.82 20
2019 62.34 6
2020 256.28 87
2021 242.49 114
2022 315.94 69
2023 61.47 6
2024 207.73 3

'boy' overall change in the 21st century

Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2012:-
179.97
Normalised occurrences 2013 to 2024:-
183.56