[Corpora-List] Stop-list in Wodrsmith Tools Concord

[John MCKENNY]

Could anyone help me with a problem I have encountered with Wordsmith Tools. I am working with  a large corpus of more than 7 million words and I want to focus on  a large set of technical, sub-technical and content words without too much noise from function words. I made a stop-list of such words as instructed in the extensive help file where it mentions that Key word, Concord and Wordlist  tools can  use a stop list. I loaded this .stp file and each time I tested a small part of my corpus using the
as   a search word I  got a full concordance of the in that small section.  My stoplist  hadn't worked.
Have I misunderstood the use of stoplist in Concord?   Is there something wrong with my stoplist file or my use of the Concord settings?
Thank you for any help you might give
All the best for 2011
John McKenny




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