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Curran, Doug matching with South East (Borders)

Total unique words from Curran, Doug = 904
Total unique words from South East (Borders) = 9,497
analysis words = 500
Author only total : 70.6%
Overlap total : 29.4%
Dialect only total: 70.6%
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Curran, Doug South East (Borders)
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