Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Thomson, Mark

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	45.5%
Doric	41.0%
Ulster	34.5%
Shetland	32.0%
Orkney	42.5%
Southern	29.5%
English	37.5%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	42.5%	Orkney
SHD	32.0%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	31.0%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	9.5%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	39.5%	Mid Northern A
MNB	38.0%	Mid Northern B
SNO	35.0%	South Northern
ABN	45.0%	Aberdeen
DOR	39.0%	General Northern
NEC	38.5%	North East Central
SEC	40.0%	(South) East Central
WCE	44.0%	West Central
DUN	39.5%	Dundee
EDN	38.5%	Edinburgh
GLA	45.5%	Glasgow
AYR	39.0%	Ayrshire
LAL	42.5%	General Central
SEA	28.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	42.5%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	5.5%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	36.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	30.0%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	27.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	18.5%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	32.5%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	31.5%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	22.0%	General Ulster
SYN	29.5%	Synthetic (no region)