from collections import Counter


with open('a.txt', 'r+') as f:
a = f.readlines()
for i in range(len(a)):
a[i] = a[i].strip().lower()

b = []
a = dict(Counter(a))
for i in a.keys():
b.append('%s %d\n' % (i, a[i]))

f = open('a.txt', 'w')
f.writelines(b)