Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Robertson, James

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	59.5%
Ulster	46.5%
Shetland	47.0%
Orkney	55.0%
Southern	49.5%
English	38.5%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	55.0%	Orkney
SHD	47.0%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	45.5%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	11.5%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	59.0%	Mid Northern A
MNB	49.0%	Mid Northern B
SNO	50.0%	South Northern
ABN	60.5%	Aberdeen
DOR	55.5%	General Northern
NEC	58.0%	North East Central
SEC	59.0%	(South) East Central
WCE	59.0%	West Central
DUN	54.0%	Dundee
EDN	60.5%	Edinburgh
GLA	51.0%	Glasgow
AYR	51.5%	Ayrshire
LAL	65.5%	General Central
SEA	47.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	60.5%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	3.5%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	40.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	41.0%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	37.0%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	24.5%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	48.5%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	42.0%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	29.5%	General Ulster
SYN	38.0%	Synthetic (no region)