Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Percy, Ely

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	52.5%
Doric	42.0%
Ulster	38.0%
Shetland	36.5%
Orkney	48.5%
Southern	37.5%
English	43.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	48.5%	Orkney
SHD	36.5%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	39.5%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	7.5%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	43.0%	Mid Northern A
MNB	41.5%	Mid Northern B
SNO	37.5%	South Northern
ABN	47.5%	Aberdeen
DOR	39.5%	General Northern
NEC	45.0%	North East Central
SEC	46.5%	(South) East Central
WCE	55.5%	West Central
DUN	44.5%	Dundee
EDN	45.5%	Edinburgh
GLA	59.5%	Glasgow
AYR	43.0%	Ayrshire
LAL	49.5%	General Central
SEA	36.0%	South East (Borders)
SWE	50.5%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	5.0%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	41.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	34.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	30.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	20.0%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	38.5%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	34.0%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	22.0%	General Ulster
SYN	29.0%	Synthetic (no region)