Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McAlpine, Joan

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	48.0%
Doric	43.5%
Ulster	36.5%
Shetland	35.0%
Orkney	42.0%
Southern	37.5%
English	37.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	42.0%	Orkney
SHD	35.0%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	32.0%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	8.5%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	41.0%	Mid Northern A
MNB	36.0%	Mid Northern B
SNO	40.0%	South Northern
ABN	44.0%	Aberdeen
DOR	38.5%	General Northern
NEC	42.5%	North East Central
SEC	48.0%	(South) East Central
WCE	45.0%	West Central
DUN	41.0%	Dundee
EDN	45.5%	Edinburgh
GLA	41.5%	Glasgow
AYR	41.0%	Ayrshire
LAL	50.0%	General Central
SEA	37.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	45.0%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	3.5%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	34.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	27.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	30.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	27.0%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	38.0%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	33.5%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	29.0%	General Ulster
SYN	27.5%	Synthetic (no region)