Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McClure, Derrick J.

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	48.5%
Doric	52.5%
Ulster	39.0%
Shetland	42.0%
Orkney	38.0%
Southern	39.5%
English	26.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	38.0%	Orkney
SHD	42.0%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	31.0%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	9.0%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	53.5%	Mid Northern A
MNB	33.5%	Mid Northern B
SNO	42.0%	South Northern
ABN	49.0%	Aberdeen
DOR	47.0%	General Northern
NEC	44.5%	North East Central
SEC	46.5%	(South) East Central
WCE	42.0%	West Central
DUN	42.0%	Dundee
EDN	48.0%	Edinburgh
GLA	37.0%	Glasgow
AYR	46.0%	Ayrshire
LAL	50.5%	General Central
SEA	38.0%	South East (Borders)
SWE	44.5%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	2.5%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	31.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	32.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	34.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	21.0%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	39.5%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	35.0%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	27.0%	General Ulster
SYN	31.5%	Synthetic (no region)