Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Stewart, Anna

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	47.0%
Doric	40.5%
Ulster	32.5%
Shetland	32.5%
Orkney	42.0%
Southern	32.5%
English	40.5%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	42.0%	Orkney
SHD	32.5%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	35.5%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	6.5%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	39.5%	Mid Northern A
MNB	37.5%	Mid Northern B
SNO	34.5%	South Northern
ABN	42.0%	Aberdeen
DOR	34.0%	General Northern
NEC	38.0%	North East Central
SEC	40.5%	(South) East Central
WCE	47.5%	West Central
DUN	37.0%	Dundee
EDN	42.0%	Edinburgh
GLA	48.5%	Glasgow
AYR	37.5%	Ayrshire
LAL	43.0%	General Central
SEA	31.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	43.0%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	4.0%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	34.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	28.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	27.0%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	22.5%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	33.5%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	32.5%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	22.0%	General Ulster
SYN	24.0%	Synthetic (no region)