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Re: Contest

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Oct 29, 2004
• 531 views

On 28 Oct 2004, at 20:28, Derek Parnell wrote:

> 
> 
> posted by: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
> 
> cklester wrote:
> > 
> > > > Would "a-m" be a three letter word, or do we filter out the dash?
> > 
> > Further, the rules say "'A-12-section' is a word." Is it a 12-letter word or
> > a
> > 10-letter word? 
> 
> It is a 12-letter word.
> 
> >Do we keep the dashes in the word, or are "a-m" and 
> > "a--m" and "a---m" the same word, all counted as length 2?
> 
> Yes, keep the dashes. These are three different words, of lengths 3,4,
> and 5 respectively.

Ok, but given :
am
a'm

they are equal, but is one a 2 letter and one a 3 letter word? I guess what i 
am asking is which sort/parse is to occur first? Convert "a'm" to 2 letters, 
then count it as "am", or count it as 3 letters for the purpose of word freq, 
and then remove the ' so it matches "am" from then on?

Kat