Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Halfpenny, Cameron

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	46.5%
Doric	42.5%
Ulster	36.0%
Shetland	31.5%
Orkney	37.5%
Southern	34.5%
English	31.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	37.5%	Orkney
SHD	31.5%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	48.5%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	6.5%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	40.0%	Mid Northern A
MNB	34.5%	Mid Northern B
SNO	33.5%	South Northern
ABN	41.5%	Aberdeen
DOR	38.5%	General Northern
NEC	38.5%	North East Central
SEC	43.5%	(South) East Central
WCE	44.0%	West Central
DUN	40.0%	Dundee
EDN	44.0%	Edinburgh
GLA	41.0%	Glasgow
AYR	36.5%	Ayrshire
LAL	46.5%	General Central
SEA	32.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	42.0%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	4.5%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	32.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	43.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	28.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	17.5%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	35.0%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	35.0%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	23.5%	General Ulster
SYN	31.5%	Synthetic (no region)