Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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McQueer, Chris

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	47.0%
Doric	39.0%
Ulster	33.5%
Shetland	32.5%
Orkney	42.5%
Southern	36.0%
English	37.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	42.5%	Orkney
SHD	32.5%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	36.0%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	8.0%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	38.5%	Mid Northern A
MNB	36.5%	Mid Northern B
SNO	33.5%	South Northern
ABN	40.5%	Aberdeen
DOR	35.5%	General Northern
NEC	37.5%	North East Central
SEC	42.5%	(South) East Central
WCE	52.0%	West Central
DUN	36.0%	Dundee
EDN	40.0%	Edinburgh
GLA	56.5%	Glasgow
AYR	39.5%	Ayrshire
LAL	44.5%	General Central
SEA	34.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	43.5%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	5.5%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	35.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	29.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	29.0%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	22.0%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	33.5%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	32.0%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	22.5%	General Ulster
SYN	26.5%	Synthetic (no region)