Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Geddes, Jenny

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	42.0%
Doric	37.0%
Ulster	33.5%
Shetland	28.0%
Orkney	36.5%
Southern	33.0%
English	27.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	36.5%	Orkney
SHD	28.0%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	29.0%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	9.5%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	35.5%	Mid Northern A
MNB	30.5%	Mid Northern B
SNO	34.5%	South Northern
ABN	39.5%	Aberdeen
DOR	37.0%	General Northern
NEC	35.0%	North East Central
SEC	39.5%	(South) East Central
WCE	41.0%	West Central
DUN	38.0%	Dundee
EDN	42.0%	Edinburgh
GLA	37.5%	Glasgow
AYR	38.0%	Ayrshire
LAL	41.0%	General Central
SEA	32.0%	South East (Borders)
SWE	41.5%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	4.0%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	30.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	27.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	24.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	23.5%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	34.5%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	29.0%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	27.5%	General Ulster
SYN	25.5%	Synthetic (no region)