Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Douglas, Sheila

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	55.0%
Doric	44.5%
Ulster	41.0%
Shetland	36.0%
Orkney	40.5%
Southern	42.5%
English	29.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	40.5%	Orkney
SHD	36.0%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	26.0%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	10.0%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	43.5%	Mid Northern A
MNB	34.0%	Mid Northern B
SNO	47.0%	South Northern
ABN	50.0%	Aberdeen
DOR	41.0%	General Northern
NEC	51.5%	North East Central
SEC	59.0%	(South) East Central
WCE	44.0%	West Central
DUN	49.5%	Dundee
EDN	52.5%	Edinburgh
GLA	38.0%	Glasgow
AYR	48.5%	Ayrshire
LAL	57.0%	General Central
SEA	41.0%	South East (Borders)
SWE	50.5%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	3.5%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	34.5%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	30.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	33.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	22.0%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	45.0%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	38.5%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	33.5%	General Ulster
SYN	32.0%	Synthetic (no region)