Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Tindal, Betty

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	56.5%
Doric	53.5%
Ulster	41.5%
Shetland	39.5%
Orkney	47.0%
Southern	44.0%
English	27.5%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	47.0%	Orkney
SHD	39.5%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	35.0%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	12.5%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	52.5%	Mid Northern A
MNB	40.0%	Mid Northern B
SNO	41.5%	South Northern
ABN	50.0%	Aberdeen
DOR	48.0%	General Northern
NEC	50.5%	North East Central
SEC	53.5%	(South) East Central
WCE	55.0%	West Central
DUN	52.0%	Dundee
EDN	53.0%	Edinburgh
GLA	48.0%	Glasgow
AYR	47.5%	Ayrshire
LAL	55.5%	General Central
SEA	42.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	55.5%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	3.0%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	40.5%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	34.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	34.0%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	24.0%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	43.5%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	39.5%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	28.0%	General Ulster
SYN	36.5%	Synthetic (no region)