Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Johnson, Mary

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	52.5%
Doric	56.5%
Ulster	41.0%
Shetland	43.0%
Orkney	48.5%
Southern	44.0%
English	30.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	48.5%	Orkney
SHD	43.0%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	37.5%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	12.0%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	53.0%	Mid Northern A
MNB	45.0%	Mid Northern B
SNO	43.0%	South Northern
ABN	56.5%	Aberdeen
DOR	50.0%	General Northern
NEC	46.0%	North East Central
SEC	49.0%	(South) East Central
WCE	51.0%	West Central
DUN	44.5%	Dundee
EDN	51.0%	Edinburgh
GLA	54.0%	Glasgow
AYR	49.5%	Ayrshire
LAL	52.5%	General Central
SEA	42.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	52.5%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	2.5%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	41.5%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	36.0%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	36.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	20.0%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	43.0%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	38.5%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	28.0%	General Ulster
SYN	34.0%	Synthetic (no region)