Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Kurtoglu, Wulf

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	62.0%
Doric	58.5%
Ulster	46.0%
Shetland	47.5%
Orkney	50.0%
Southern	50.0%
English	36.0%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	50.0%	Orkney
SHD	47.5%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	40.0%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	11.0%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	59.0%	Mid Northern A
MNB	44.5%	Mid Northern B
SNO	47.0%	South Northern
ABN	63.0%	Aberdeen
DOR	51.5%	General Northern
NEC	56.0%	North East Central
SEC	59.0%	(South) East Central
WCE	55.5%	West Central
DUN	49.5%	Dundee
EDN	62.0%	Edinburgh
GLA	50.0%	Glasgow
AYR	56.0%	Ayrshire
LAL	61.5%	General Central
SEA	48.5%	South East (Borders)
SWE	58.5%	South West (Galloway)
DUL	4.0%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	37.0%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	39.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	38.0%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	24.0%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	48.5%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	42.0%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	31.0%	General Ulster
SYN	40.5%	Synthetic (no region)