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Macafee, Caroline matching with Orkney

Total unique words from Macafee, Caroline = 2,536
Total unique words from Orkney = 14,219
analysis words = 1000
Author only total : 76.5%
Overlap total : 23.5%
Dialect only total: 76.5%
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Macafee, Caroline Orkney
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