Caption on a nature site: "Ruby-_Throat_ Hummingbird" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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You are correct -- I don't know what I was thinking when I typed that
post.

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> On Jul 9, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> >>> And when I tried combining it with "the Fugitive", I got a
> > surprisingly
> >> close competition:
> >>>
> >>> "one-armed man" + "the Fugitive":  34,700
> >>> "one-arm man" + "the Fugitive":  21,700
> >
> > The latter would also include "man with one arm", bumping its count
up.
>
> Really?  That flies in the face of what I understood to be a
constraint on
> searching Google using quotes, which as far as I know would rule out
"man with
> one arm" from being included in a search on "one-arm man".  I
understand that
> "one arm man" would indeed be included, since it's not sensitive to
hyphens
> (at least not consistently), or of course to upper/lower case, but
would it
> really ignore the mismatch in word order and in presence vs. absence
of
> "with"?
>
> LH
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