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blabla857 t1_j6uu861 wrote

33 one letter words. 33, one, letter, words. Am I having a stroke?

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OfficialWireGrind OP t1_j6uwo1t wrote

No. I'm pretty sure the ghost words are numerals. I should have wrote "characters" rather than "letters."

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blabla857 t1_j6uxexf wrote

Shouldn't it be 35 then? 26, plus A and I, then the 7 numerals?

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OfficialWireGrind OP t1_j6uxz7v wrote

The word count goes by spelling only, and it is case insensitive. The numerals I'm referring to are Arabic numerals.

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blabla857 t1_j6v3adx wrote

Arabic numerals are not words. Numerals are. Maybe not Roman ones but "two" is! But that doesn't help with the one letter words.

The "A" and "I" were in reference to the determiner "a" and the pronoun "i".

Is it counting things like "c" as an abbreviation for century?

EDIT: I've just realised this is OC and how you built the dataset so I get it now. I think!

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ramblinjd t1_j6uvzig wrote

I assume they're counting A as both the noun representing the letter and the indefinite article. Same idea with I, X, and 3 other letters.

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ReddFro t1_j6vsp1g wrote

That’s weird, sure but I wanna know what the 3 syllable 1-letter word is.

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FrankyMihawk t1_j6vumiw wrote

How is there a 1 letter work with 3 syllables….?

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hacksoncode t1_j6uw3jq wrote

No, but you're forgetting that each letter is, itself a noun referring to that letter. Plus a few that are other words with their own dictionary entries.

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ShuTingYu t1_j6w17ym wrote

There's 36 total, I assume they included the 26 letters and 10 numbers, W being 3 syllables, 0 and 7 being 2.

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doubleatheman t1_j6w3o0r wrote

How about the two two syllable one letter words?

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blabla857 t1_j6w3w11 wrote

According to the data it's 7 (se-ven) and 0 (ze-ro)...

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