A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Macafee, Caroline matching with South East (Borders)

Total unique words from Macafee, Caroline = 2,536
Total unique words from South East (Borders) = 9,497
analysis words = 1000
Author only total : 69.5%
Overlap total : 30.5%
Dialect only total: 69.5%
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Macafee, Caroline South East (Borders)
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