A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Isogloss map for 'what'

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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 'what' Shetland 924.2 occurrences per million words 17 authors out of 54 Orkney 486.9 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 41 North Northern B (Caithness) 4,958.2 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 524.1 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 11 Mid Northern A 127.5 occurrences per million words 7 authors out of 42 Aberdeen 218.8 occurrences per million words 7 authors out of 16 South Northern 325.5 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 4 Dundee 74.3 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 9 North East Central 46.4 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 3 (South) East Central 1,534.1 occurrences per million words 16 authors out of 49 Edinburgh 1,070.5 occurrences per million words 7 authors out of 20 Glasgow 414.3 occurrences per million words 12 authors out of 23 West Central 321.8 occurrences per million words 6 authors out of 31 Ayrshire 13.1 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 9 South East (Borders) 686.2 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 13 South West (Galloway) 292.0 occurrences per million words 8 authors out of 22 Donegal (East Donegal) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 1 West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 1,471.6 occurrences per million words 2 authors out of 2 Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 4,990.0 occurrences per million words 4 authors out of 5 Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 0.0 occurrences per million words 0 authors out of 6 East Antrim (Larne) 2,823.7 occurrences per million words 3 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) 256.1 occurrences per million words 1 authors out of 6 Sorry, your browser does not support inline SVG.

'what' occurrences per year

N-Gram view for 'what' 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 4 total occurrences 69.97 per million words 2001 27 total occurrences 352.75 per million words 2002 9 total occurrences 119.30 per million words 2003 118 total occurrences 789.23 per million words 2004 21 total occurrences 199.53 per million words 2005 20 total occurrences 294.20 per million words 2006 6 total occurrences 69.61 per million words 2007 37 total occurrences 400.43 per million words 2008 27 total occurrences 343.59 per million words 2009 21 total occurrences 258.05 per million words 2010 19 total occurrences 161.76 per million words 2011 65 total occurrences 447.72 per million words 2012 41 total occurrences 306.43 per million words 2013 164 total occurrences 2,203.68 per million words 2014 185 total occurrences 1,075.55 per million words 2015 18 total occurrences 138.31 per million words 2016 20 total occurrences 131.31 per million words 2017 26 total occurrences 178.77 per million words 2018 25 total occurrences 321.03 per million words 2019 60 total occurrences 623.40 per million words 2020 273 total occurrences 804.19 per million words 2021 538 total occurrences 1,144.39 per million words 2022 199 total occurrences 911.19 per million words 2023 54 total occurrences 553.22 per million words 2024 8 total occurrences 553.94 per million words
Year Occurences normalised per million Total occurrences
2000 69.97 4
2001 352.75 27
2002 119.30 9
2003 789.23 118
2004 199.53 21
2005 294.20 20
2006 69.61 6
2007 400.43 37
2008 343.59 27
2009 258.05 21
2010 161.76 19
2011 447.72 65
2012 306.43 41
2013 2,203.68 164
2014 1,075.55 185
2015 138.31 18
2016 131.31 20
2017 178.77 26
2018 321.03 25
2019 623.40 60
2020 804.19 273
2021 1,144.39 538
2022 911.19 199
2023 553.22 54
2024 553.94 8

'what' overall change in the 21st century

Normalised occurrences 2000 to 2012:-
327.57
Normalised occurrences 2013 to 2024:-
789.55