Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McHardy, Stuart

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	66.0%
Doric	53.0%
Ulster	50.5%
Shetland	42.5%
Orkney	50.5%
Southern	56.0%
English	37.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	50.5%	Orkney
SHD	42.5%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	35.5%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	12.0%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	54.0%	Mid Northern A
MNB	45.5%	Mid Northern B
SNO	51.0%	South Northern
ABN	61.0%	Aberdeen
DOR	49.5%	General Northern
NEC	59.0%	North East Central
SEC	67.0%	(South) East Central
WCE	59.5%	West Central
DUN	43.0%	Dundee
EDN	57.5%	Edinburgh
GLA	48.5%	Glasgow
AYR	54.0%	Ayrshire
LAL	66.5%	General Central
SEA	46.0%	South East (Borders)
SWE	64.0%	South West (Galloway)
SOU	0.0%	General Southern
DUL	3.5%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	42.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	41.0%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	39.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	25.0%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	52.0%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	45.5%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	34.0%	General Ulster
SYN	39.5%	Synthetic (no region)