A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Isogloss map for 'was'

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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 'was' Shetland 482.4 occurrences per million words 21 authors out of 54 Orkney 278.2 occurrences per million words 9 authors out of 41 North Northern B (Caithness) 105.5 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 5,145.4 occurrences per million words 5 authors out of 12 Mid Northern A 219.1 occurrences per million words 16 authors out of 42 Aberdeen 3,745.0 occurrences per million words 10 authors out of 17 South Northern 976.6 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 4 Dundee 1,168.2 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 9 North East Central 183.5 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 3 (South) East Central 1,192.1 occurrences per million words 33 authors out of 54 Edinburgh 588.9 occurrences per million words 9 authors out of 20 Glasgow 461.1 occurrences per million words 16 authors out of 22 West Central 377.2 occurrences per million words 17 authors out of 35 Ayrshire 405.7 occurrences per million words 7 authors out of 10 South East (Borders) 5,864.1 occurrences per million words 9 authors out of 13 South West (Galloway) 669.5 occurrences per million words 12 authors out of 21 Donegal (East Donegal) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 1 West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 2 Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 910.1 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 5 Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 393.5 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 7 East Antrim (Larne) 10,637.9 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) 3,227.5 occurrences per million words 3 authors out of 6 Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

'was' occurrences per year

N-Gram view for 'was' 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 62 total occurrences 1,082.23 per million words 2001 227 total occurrences 2,965.73 per million words 2002 58 total occurrences 767.79 per million words 2003 57 total occurrences 380.98 per million words 2004 53 total occurrences 503.58 per million words 2005 41 total occurrences 603.10 per million words 2006 29 total occurrences 336.44 per million words 2007 60 total occurrences 548.18 per million words 2008 32 total occurrences 407.22 per million words 2009 48 total occurrences 589.83 per million words 2010 218 total occurrences 1,855.97 per million words 2011 111 total occurrences 764.57 per million words 2012 33 total occurrences 246.64 per million words 2013 151 total occurrences 2,029.00 per million words 2014 216 total occurrences 1,199.67 per million words 2015 523 total occurrences 4,018.69 per million words 2016 110 total occurrences 722.22 per million words 2017 76 total occurrences 522.55 per million words 2018 65 total occurrences 834.67 per million words 2019 55 total occurrences 571.45 per million words 2020 456 total occurrences 1,388.02 per million words 2021 262 total occurrences 588.78 per million words 2022 437 total occurrences 2,135.94 per million words 2023 131 total occurrences 1,051.72 per million words 2024 71 total occurrences 1,074.86 per million words 2025 0 total occurrences 0.00 per million words
Year Occurences normalised per million Total occurrences
2000 1,082.23 62
2001 2,965.73 227
2002 767.79 58
2003 380.98 57
2004 503.58 53
2005 603.10 41
2006 336.44 29
2007 548.18 60
2008 407.22 32
2009 589.83 48
2010 1,855.97 218
2011 764.57 111
2012 246.64 33
2013 2,029.00 151
2014 1,199.67 216
2015 4,018.69 523
2016 722.22 110
2017 522.55 76
2018 834.67 65
2019 571.45 55
2020 1,388.02 456
2021 588.78 262
2022 2,135.94 437
2023 1,051.72 131
2024 1,074.86 71
2025 0.00 0

'was' overall change in the 21st century

Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2012.5:-
801.24
Normalised occurrences 2013.5 to 2025:-
1,254.57