A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Barclay, Robin

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 groupoverlap
Central22.0%
Doric23.0%
Ulster16.0%
Shetland33.0%
Orkney22.0%
Southern19.5%
English17.0%

Fine-grain dialect

DialectoverlapDescription
ORK22.0%Orkney
SHD33.0%Shetland
TON0.0%Tonge
NNB19.0%North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA5.5%North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA23.0%Mid Northern A
MNB20.0%Mid Northern B
SNO22.0%South Northern
ABN22.5%Aberdeen
DOR21.0%General Northern
NEC19.5%North East Central
SEC22.5%(South) East Central
WCE22.0%West Central
DUN19.0%Dundee
EDN21.0%Edinburgh
GLA22.5%Glasgow
AYR19.5%Ayrshire
LAL22.0%General Central
SEA19.0%South East (Borders)
SWE23.5%South West (Galloway)
DUL2.0%Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL17.0%West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL16.5%Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL15.5%Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL11.0%South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL0.0%Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL17.0%Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL15.0%East Antrim (Larne)
GUL13.0%General Ulster
SYN13.5%Synthetic (no region)