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OfficialWireGrind OP t1_j6uwo1t wrote

Reply to comment by blabla857 in [OC] Number of English Words by Length in Letters and Syllables by OfficialWireGrind

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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