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Curran, Doug matching with Shetland

Total unique words from Curran, Doug = 904
Total unique words from Shetland = 14,580
analysis words = 500
Author only total : 76.0%
Overlap total : 24.0%
Dialect only total: 76.0%
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Curran, Doug Shetland
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