Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McKillop, Roger

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	64.0%
Doric	53.5%
Ulster	44.5%
Shetland	44.5%
Orkney	50.5%
Southern	53.5%
English	49.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	50.5%	Orkney
SHD	44.5%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	43.0%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	10.5%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	53.5%	Mid Northern A
MNB	49.5%	Mid Northern B
SNO	48.0%	South Northern
ABN	57.5%	Aberdeen
DOR	51.5%	General Northern
NEC	44.5%	North East Central
SEC	59.0%	(South) East Central
WCE	62.0%	West Central
DUN	51.0%	Dundee
EDN	57.5%	Edinburgh
GLA	57.5%	Glasgow
AYR	54.5%	Ayrshire
LAL	60.5%	General Central
SEA	46.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	59.5%	South West (Galloway)
SOU	0.0%	General Southern
DUL	3.0%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	42.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	37.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	37.0%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	27.5%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	44.5%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	42.5%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	31.5%	General Ulster
SYN	36.5%	Synthetic (no region)