Q re searching Google Books

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Joel: You could try the following query:
"Pope Day" -Pope's

Alternatively, you could visit the advanced search page and fill in
two slots as follows:
http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search

with the exact phrase: Pope Day
without the words: Pope's

This may achieve you goal or part of your goal. Please let me know if
it is helpful,
Garson


On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> Is there any way to search Google Books for "Pope Day" without also
> getting "Pope's Day" in the results?  Whereas searching for "Pope's
> Day" seems to exclude "Pope Day".
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> Of course, it all may be pointless, since it will be hard to exclude
> instances of "[Alexander] Pope's day", which might be frequent.
>
> Joel
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