Uiser:Illandancient/Lexis changes late September

By analysing the word frequency lists for the Scots Leid Wikipedia from 20-Sep and comparing it to one from 01-Aug, we can identify which words have fallen out of favour. The word frequency lists can be found in a google sheet here, note that words of fewer than two letters have been ignored (a, I, e, n, and o are all fine Scots words, but not here), as have words with only one occurrence.

The twenty words who's occurrences have decreased the most are as follows

Word	Change in occurrences
is	-1764
the	-1352
keeng	-1279
of	-1075
and	-1010
in	-861
than	-614
for	-547
years	-532
lairge	-484
it	-479
to	-467
commune	-413
la	-397
built	-338
with	-335
region	-308
by	-279
well	-256
on	-254

The words that have gained the most are as follows

Word	Change in occurrences	Notes
king	1338	Replacing "keeng"
telly	835	Replacing "television" or "TV" perhaps?
dochter	683
wis	593	Replacing English "was"
nor	583	Replacing English "than" in "more than" and "less than"
muckle	579	Replacing "lairge"
year	535	Replacing the English plural "years"
mile	474	Replacing the English plural "miles"
biggit	319	Replacing "built"
creatit	316	Perhaps replacing "built" an aa
month	302	Replacing English plural "months"
an	299	Replacing English "and"
atween	285	Replacing "between"
tae	282	Replacing English "to"
weel	251	Replacing English "well"
his	250
he	206
prince	196	This is due to the hard work of anonymous IP editors creating many new pages about European nobility
gien	191
princess	189	As above

Perhaps the net change in occurrences is a poor metric to use. If we instead compare the relative rank of words between the two word frequency snapshots the top twenty is as follows

Word	Notes
published	From 607th position to 859th position, a fall of 252 places and -210 occurrences
santiago	From 609th position to 826th position, a fall of 217 places and -186 occurrences
built	From 452th position to 660th position, a fall of 208 places and -338 occurrences
iran	From 624th position to 817th position, a fall of 193 places and -161 occurrences
commune	From 344th position to 522th position, a fall of 178 places and -413 occurrences
brazilian	From 663th position to 827th position, a fall of 164 places and -123 occurrences
keeng	From 128th position to 243th position, a fall of 115 places and -1279 occurrences
villa	From 714th position to 813th position, a fall of 99 places and -69 occurrences
each	From 333th position to 428th position, a fall of 95 places and -243 occurrences
developed	From 603th position to 696th position, a fall of 93 places and -109 occurrences
were	From 537th position to 624th position, a fall of 87 places and -124 occurrences
than	From 206th position to 288th position, a fall of 82 places and -614 occurrences
one	From 830th position to 908th position, a fall of 78 places and -58 occurrences
from	From 564th position to 641th position, a fall of 77 places and -109 occurrences
has	From 668th position to 742th position, a fall of 74 places and -65 occurrences
los	From 427th position to 501th position, a fall of 74 places and -150 occurrences
being	From 763th position to 835th position, a fall of 72 places and -47 occurrences
with	From 233th position to 299th position, a fall of 66 places and -335 occurrences
force	From 525th position to 583th position, a fall of 58 places and -89 occurrences
range	From 366th position to 423th position, a fall of 57 places and -141 occurrences

If we assume that as the size of the wikipedia changes, the various proportions of words ought to change in sympathy, and if we control for English words being replaced, we can isolate words that are increasing disproportionately. The following are mostly due to new articles about European nobility

Word	New occurrences
faither	79
princess	189
mairiage	100
queen	36
spaingie	34
wife	49
mairit	76
prince	196
louis	53
swaden	14
marie	42
europe	21