Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McGregor, Iain

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	51.0%
Doric	48.5%
Ulster	41.0%
Shetland	35.5%
Orkney	35.5%
Southern	46.5%
English	19.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	35.5%	Orkney
SHD	35.5%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	25.5%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	9.0%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	48.5%	Mid Northern A
MNB	35.5%	Mid Northern B
SNO	38.0%	South Northern
ABN	49.0%	Aberdeen
DOR	45.0%	General Northern
NEC	46.0%	North East Central
SEC	51.0%	(South) East Central
WCE	45.5%	West Central
DUN	45.5%	Dundee
EDN	46.5%	Edinburgh
GLA	36.5%	Glasgow
AYR	45.0%	Ayrshire
LAL	52.0%	General Central
SEA	45.0%	South East (Borders)
SWE	49.0%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	3.0%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	31.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	34.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	37.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	16.0%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	44.0%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	40.0%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	27.5%	General Ulster
SYN	37.0%	Synthetic (no region)