A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Isogloss map for 'say'

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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 'say' Shetland 1,052.1 occurrences per million words 19 authors out of 54 Orkney 953.9 occurrences per million words 20 authors out of 41 North Northern B (Caithness) 1,828.5 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 1,566.0 occurrences per million words 7 authors out of 12 Mid Northern A 1,602.3 occurrences per million words 21 authors out of 42 Aberdeen 1,626.0 occurrences per million words 12 authors out of 17 South Northern 976.6 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 4 Dundee 467.3 occurrences per million words 5 authors out of 9 North East Central 45.9 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 3 (South) East Central 1,101.9 occurrences per million words 29 authors out of 54 Edinburgh 886.4 occurrences per million words 15 authors out of 20 Glasgow 1,496.2 occurrences per million words 17 authors out of 22 West Central 1,291.5 occurrences per million words 28 authors out of 35 Ayrshire 726.0 occurrences per million words 6 authors out of 10 South East (Borders) 1,635.1 occurrences per million words 10 authors out of 13 South West (Galloway) 962.4 occurrences per million words 13 authors out of 21 Donegal (East Donegal) 605.7 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 3 West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 1,635.1 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 2 Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 1,694.7 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 5 Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 639.6 occurrences per million words 7 authors out of 10 East Antrim (Larne) 1,214.8 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 3 South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) 4,739.3 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 1 Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 1,070.6 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 13 Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

'say' occurrences per year

N-Gram view for 'say' 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 38 total occurrences 663.30 per million words 2001 60 total occurrences 783.89 per million words 2002 60 total occurrences 794.27 per million words 2003 160 total occurrences 1,069.42 per million words 2004 111 total occurrences 1,054.66 per million words 2005 54 total occurrences 794.33 per million words 2006 229 total occurrences 2,656.70 per million words 2007 67 total occurrences 612.13 per million words 2008 59 total occurrences 750.81 per million words 2009 72 total occurrences 884.74 per million words 2010 128 total occurrences 1,089.74 per million words 2011 184 total occurrences 1,267.39 per million words 2012 245 total occurrences 1,831.10 per million words 2013 102 total occurrences 1,370.58 per million words 2014 231 total occurrences 1,282.98 per million words 2015 187 total occurrences 1,436.89 per million words 2016 165 total occurrences 1,083.33 per million words 2017 105 total occurrences 721.94 per million words 2018 66 total occurrences 847.51 per million words 2019 117 total occurrences 1,215.62 per million words 2020 502 total occurrences 1,528.04 per million words 2021 493 total occurrences 1,107.89 per million words 2022 156 total occurrences 762.49 per million words 2023 113 total occurrences 907.21 per million words 2024 72 total occurrences 884.24 per million words 2025 3 total occurrences 246.47 per million words 2026 0 total occurrences 0.00 per million words
Year Occurences normalised per million Total occurrences
2000 663.30 38
2001 783.89 60
2002 794.27 60
2003 1,069.42 160
2004 1,054.66 111
2005 794.33 54
2006 2,656.70 229
2007 612.13 67
2008 750.81 59
2009 884.74 72
2010 1,089.74 128
2011 1,267.39 184
2012 1,831.10 245
2013 1,370.58 102
2014 1,282.98 231
2015 1,436.89 187
2016 1,083.33 165
2017 721.94 105
2018 847.51 66
2019 1,215.62 117
2020 1,528.04 502
2021 1,107.89 493
2022 762.49 156
2023 907.21 113
2024 884.24 72
2025 246.47 3
2026 0.00 0

'say' overall change in the 21st century

Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2013:-
1,154.79
Normalised occurrences 2014 to 2026:-
1,117.10