Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Smith, Julia

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	4.5%
Doric	5.0%
Ulster	4.5%
Shetland	6.5%
Orkney	4.0%
Southern	4.0%
English	4.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	4.0%	Orkney
SHD	6.5%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	5.0%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	1.5%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	4.5%	Mid Northern A
MNB	4.0%	Mid Northern B
SNO	4.5%	South Northern
ABN	4.5%	Aberdeen
DOR	5.0%	General Northern
NEC	3.5%	North East Central
SEC	5.0%	(South) East Central
WCE	5.0%	West Central
DUN	4.0%	Dundee
EDN	5.0%	Edinburgh
GLA	5.0%	Glasgow
AYR	4.0%	Ayrshire
LAL	4.5%	General Central
SEA	4.0%	South East (Borders)
SWE	4.5%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	0.5%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	4.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	3.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	3.0%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	2.0%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	3.5%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	4.5%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	3.0%	General Ulster
SYN	3.0%	Synthetic (no region)