Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Clark, Thomas

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	72.0%
Doric	59.5%
Ulster	50.0%
Shetland	48.0%
Orkney	54.0%
Southern	50.5%
English	39.5%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	54.0%	Orkney
SHD	48.0%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	43.5%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	11.0%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	61.0%	Mid Northern A
MNB	47.0%	Mid Northern B
SNO	51.5%	South Northern
ABN	63.5%	Aberdeen
DOR	53.5%	General Northern
NEC	62.5%	North East Central
SEC	66.0%	(South) East Central
WCE	66.0%	West Central
DUN	59.0%	Dundee
EDN	65.5%	Edinburgh
GLA	57.0%	Glasgow
AYR	55.0%	Ayrshire
LAL	71.0%	General Central
SEA	49.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	66.0%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	4.0%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	42.5%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	43.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	40.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	26.5%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	50.5%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	47.5%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	32.5%	General Ulster
SYN	39.0%	Synthetic (no region)