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 'may'

- 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 'may' Shetland 127.9 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 54 Orkney 119.2 occurrences per million words 6 authors out of 41 North Northern B (Caithness) 457.1 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 12 Mid Northern A 75.2 occurrences per million words 11 authors out of 42 Aberdeen 125.9 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 17 South Northern 325.5 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 4 Dundee 339.8 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 9 North East Central 45.9 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 3 (South) East Central 85.3 occurrences per million words 16 authors out of 54 Edinburgh 62.0 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 20 Glasgow 71.7 occurrences per million words 5 authors out of 22 West Central 84.3 occurrences per million words 9 authors out of 35 Ayrshire 149.5 occurrences per million words 5 authors out of 10 South East (Borders) 149.7 occurrences per million words 6 authors out of 13 South West (Galloway) 167.4 occurrences per million words 7 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) 219.7 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 5 Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 131.2 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 7 East Antrim (Larne) 164.2 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 3 South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) 2,369.7 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 1 Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 307.4 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 6 Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

'may' occurrences per year

N-Gram view for 'may' 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 5 total occurrences 87.28 per million words 2001 16 total occurrences 209.04 per million words 2002 14 total occurrences 185.33 per million words 2003 10 total occurrences 66.84 per million words 2004 11 total occurrences 104.52 per million words 2005 14 total occurrences 205.94 per million words 2006 6 total occurrences 69.61 per million words 2007 16 total occurrences 146.18 per million words 2008 19 total occurrences 241.79 per million words 2009 6 total occurrences 73.73 per million words 2010 9 total occurrences 76.62 per million words 2011 7 total occurrences 48.22 per million words 2012 13 total occurrences 97.16 per million words 2013 12 total occurrences 161.24 per million words 2014 28 total occurrences 155.51 per million words 2015 37 total occurrences 284.30 per million words 2016 16 total occurrences 105.05 per million words 2017 27 total occurrences 185.64 per million words 2018 15 total occurrences 192.62 per million words 2019 17 total occurrences 176.63 per million words 2020 66 total occurrences 200.90 per million words 2021 37 total occurrences 83.15 per million words 2022 38 total occurrences 185.73 per million words 2023 21 total occurrences 168.60 per million words 2024 12 total occurrences 181.67 per million words 2025 1 total occurrences 102.50 per million words
Year Occurences normalised per million Total occurrences
2000 87.28 5
2001 209.04 16
2002 185.33 14
2003 66.84 10
2004 104.52 11
2005 205.94 14
2006 69.61 6
2007 146.18 16
2008 241.79 19
2009 73.73 6
2010 76.62 9
2011 48.22 7
2012 97.16 13
2013 161.24 12
2014 155.51 28
2015 284.30 37
2016 105.05 16
2017 185.64 27
2018 192.62 15
2019 176.63 17
2020 200.90 66
2021 83.15 37
2022 185.73 38
2023 168.60 21
2024 181.67 12
2025 102.50 1

'may' overall change in the 21st century

Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2012.5:-
113.68
Normalised occurrences 2013.5 to 2025:-
160.69