Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Cameron, Peter

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	41.0%
Doric	38.5%
Ulster	29.5%
Shetland	31.5%
Orkney	31.0%
Southern	34.5%
English	26.5%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	31.0%	Orkney
SHD	31.5%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	24.0%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	9.5%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	35.0%	Mid Northern A
MNB	26.5%	Mid Northern B
SNO	41.5%	South Northern
ABN	36.0%	Aberdeen
DOR	37.0%	General Northern
NEC	37.5%	North East Central
SEC	40.5%	(South) East Central
WCE	35.5%	West Central
DUN	36.5%	Dundee
EDN	40.5%	Edinburgh
GLA	32.5%	Glasgow
AYR	40.5%	Ayrshire
LAL	43.0%	General Central
SEA	33.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	42.5%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	3.0%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	28.5%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	24.0%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	28.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	22.5%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	34.0%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	32.0%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	21.5%	General Ulster
SYN	24.0%	Synthetic (no region)