A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Tait, Ruth


Total words by this author in corpus - 465
Total unique words used by this author in corpus - 232
Ratio of total words to unique words - 2.004

Lexicon overlap between author and dialects

This is how much the author's top 200 most frequently used words overlaps with each major dialects top 200 words
An overlap of more than 50% is a pretty good match. Because of the nature of the top 200 words, almost no-one has an overlap of more than 70%, they'd have to be writing about a really broad range of things, like body parts, working, playing, thinking, governance, and so on.
On average Scots writers overlap with English by about 27%, so this is perhaps an indication on where on the Scots - Scottish English spectrum a writer's lexicon lies.

Central overlap: 30.0%
Central Tait, Ruth

Doric overlap: 29.0%
Doric Tait, Ruth

Ulster overlap: 23.5%
Ulster Tait, Ruth

Shetland overlap: 25.5%
Shetland Tait, Ruth

Orkney overlap: 37.5%
Orkney Tait, Ruth

Southern overlap: 23.5%
Southern Tait, Ruth

English overlap: 21.0%
English Tait, Ruth