Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Donovan, Anne

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	68.5%
Doric	57.5%
Ulster	48.0%
Shetland	46.0%
Orkney	53.0%
Southern	53.5%
English	41.5%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	53.0%	Orkney
SHD	46.0%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	45.0%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	11.0%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	56.0%	Mid Northern A
MNB	51.0%	Mid Northern B
SNO	50.5%	South Northern
ABN	60.0%	Aberdeen
DOR	52.0%	General Northern
NEC	58.5%	North East Central
SEC	60.5%	(South) East Central
WCE	64.5%	West Central
DUN	55.0%	Dundee
EDN	59.0%	Edinburgh
GLA	58.5%	Glasgow
AYR	54.5%	Ayrshire
LAL	67.5%	General Central
SEA	50.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	63.0%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	4.0%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	43.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	42.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	38.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	26.0%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	50.0%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	45.0%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	29.0%	General Ulster
SYN	38.5%	Synthetic (no region)