Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts - Author Dialect Comparison

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Spence, Laura

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	37.5%
Doric	37.0%
Ulster	45.5%
Shetland	31.5%
Orkney	27.5%
Southern	39.0%
English	17.5%

Fine-grain dialect

Dialect	overlap	Description
ORK	27.5%	Orkney
SHD	31.5%	Shetland
TON	0.0%	Tonge
NNB	19.5%	North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA	9.5%	North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA	37.0%	Mid Northern A
MNB	30.0%	Mid Northern B
SNO	34.5%	South Northern
DUN	32.0%	Dundee
ABN	36.0%	Aberdeen
DOR	32.5%	General Northern
NEC	36.0%	North East Central
SEC	36.5%	(South) East Central
WCE	35.0%	West Central
EDN	41.0%	Edinburgh
GLA	30.0%	Glasgow
AYR	38.5%	Ayrshire
LAL	37.5%	General Central
SEA	35.0%	South East (Borders)
SWE	38.5%	South West (Galloway)
SOU	0.0%	General Southern
DUL	2.5%	Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL	29.5%	West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL	36.5%	Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL	39.5%	Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL	13.5%	South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL	0.0%	Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL	46.0%	Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL	45.5%	East Antrim (Larne)
GUL	33.0%	General Ulster
SYN	40.0%	Synthetic (no region)