Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Parkins, Hazel

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	52.5%
Doric	51.0%
Ulster	37.5%
Shetland	45.0%
Orkney	64.5%
Southern	38.5%
English	42.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	64.5%	Orkney
SHD	45.0%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	47.5%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	10.5%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	53.0%	Mid Northern A
MNB	43.0%	Mid Northern B
SNO	40.5%	South Northern
ABN	52.5%	Aberdeen
DOR	43.5%	General Northern
NEC	45.5%	North East Central
SEC	46.0%	(South) East Central
WCE	51.0%	West Central
DUN	46.5%	Dundee
EDN	49.0%	Edinburgh
GLA	48.0%	Glasgow
AYR	45.5%	Ayrshire
LAL	53.5%	General Central
SEA	36.0%	South East (Borders)
SWE	53.0%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	3.0%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	39.5%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	34.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	34.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	21.5%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	40.5%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	35.5%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	24.0%	General Ulster
SYN	30.0%	Synthetic (no region)