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Keely, hi<br>
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In WordSmith's settings, each language can define one or more
characters which can be treated as honorary letters; the apostrophe
is one which is defined by default as a valid mid-word character for
English (but not for other languages). If you aren't getting the
apostrophes in words like <i>father's</i> recognised, that could be
because your texts have curly apostrophes, which Microsoft (for
example) might have inserted into your texts instead of straight
ones. You can get that fixed using the Text Converter utility in
WordSmith.<br>
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I hope that helps -- Mike<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31/08/2012 20:58, Keely wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CABT4LOzBJ5Vj56SVL3r2D3567JGuzbFfgbCJXyk7q_cZqhBZ2w@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hi everyone,
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<div>I am a music student so I am very unfamiliar with some of the
terminology. </div>
<div>but I am trying to get the latest version of wordsmith to
treat words with and without the 's as the same. </div>
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<div>I can't for the life of me figure it out.</div>
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