A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Isogloss map for 'so'

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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 'so' Shetland 2,790.0 occurrences per million words 32 authors out of 54 Orkney 3,000.8 occurrences per million words 23 authors out of 41 North Northern B (Caithness) 5,134.0 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 5,928.4 occurrences per million words 12 authors out of 12 Mid Northern A 1,837.7 occurrences per million words 23 authors out of 42 Aberdeen 1,122.5 occurrences per million words 11 authors out of 17 South Northern 325.5 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 4 Dundee 1,603.7 occurrences per million words 7 authors out of 9 North East Central 137.6 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 3 (South) East Central 1,075.1 occurrences per million words 31 authors out of 54 Edinburgh 632.2 occurrences per million words 12 authors out of 20 Glasgow 2,444.1 occurrences per million words 18 authors out of 22 West Central 2,046.0 occurrences per million words 24 authors out of 35 Ayrshire 181.5 occurrences per million words 6 authors out of 10 South East (Borders) 461.6 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 13 South West (Galloway) 1,018.1 occurrences per million words 11 authors out of 21 Donegal (East Donegal) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 1 West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 2,943.1 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 2 Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 1,318.1 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 5 Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 459.1 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 7 East Antrim (Larne) 361.2 occurrences per million words 2 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) 512.3 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 6 Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

'so' occurrences per year

N-Gram view for 'so' 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 43 total occurrences 750.58 per million words 2001 81 total occurrences 1,058.26 per million words 2002 132 total occurrences 1,747.40 per million words 2003 78 total occurrences 521.34 per million words 2004 54 total occurrences 513.08 per million words 2005 48 total occurrences 706.07 per million words 2006 290 total occurrences 3,364.39 per million words 2007 134 total occurrences 1,224.27 per million words 2008 37 total occurrences 470.85 per million words 2009 172 total occurrences 2,113.54 per million words 2010 81 total occurrences 689.60 per million words 2011 94 total occurrences 647.47 per million words 2012 145 total occurrences 1,083.72 per million words 2013 118 total occurrences 1,585.57 per million words 2014 363 total occurrences 2,016.12 per million words 2015 76 total occurrences 583.98 per million words 2016 124 total occurrences 814.14 per million words 2017 194 total occurrences 1,333.87 per million words 2018 51 total occurrences 654.90 per million words 2019 209 total occurrences 2,171.50 per million words 2020 704 total occurrences 2,142.90 per million words 2021 779 total occurrences 1,750.60 per million words 2022 257 total occurrences 1,256.15 per million words 2023 129 total occurrences 1,035.66 per million words 2024 130 total occurrences 1,968.06 per million words 2025 1 total occurrences 102.50 per million words
Year Occurences normalised per million Total occurrences
2000 750.58 43
2001 1,058.26 81
2002 1,747.40 132
2003 521.34 78
2004 513.08 54
2005 706.07 48
2006 3,364.39 290
2007 1,224.27 134
2008 470.85 37
2009 2,113.54 172
2010 689.60 81
2011 647.47 94
2012 1,083.72 145
2013 1,585.57 118
2014 2,016.12 363
2015 583.98 76
2016 814.14 124
2017 1,333.87 194
2018 654.90 51
2019 2,171.50 209
2020 2,142.90 704
2021 1,750.60 779
2022 1,256.15 257
2023 1,035.66 129
2024 1,968.06 130
2025 102.50 1

'so' overall change in the 21st century

Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2012.5:-
1,081.55
Normalised occurrences 2013.5 to 2025:-
1,540.57