Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Pacitti, Stephen

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.

Dialect group	overlap
Central	65.0%
Doric	69.5%
Ulster	48.5%
Shetland	49.0%
Orkney	55.0%
Southern	49.0%
English	33.5%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	55.0%	Orkney
SHD	49.0%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	42.0%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	13.0%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	70.0%	Mid Northern A
MNB	53.5%	Mid Northern B
SNO	51.5%	South Northern
ABN	62.0%	Aberdeen
DOR	60.0%	General Northern
NEC	56.5%	North East Central
SEC	60.5%	(South) East Central
WCE	59.5%	West Central
DUN	56.0%	Dundee
EDN	59.0%	Edinburgh
GLA	49.5%	Glasgow
AYR	52.5%	Ayrshire
LAL	65.5%	General Central
SEA	47.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	64.0%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	4.5%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	42.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	41.0%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	40.0%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	22.5%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	49.0%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	43.0%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	29.5%	General Ulster
SYN	38.5%	Synthetic (no region)