[Corpora-List] Mozart vs. Mozart's treat as same words in Wordsmith!

[Mike Scott]

Keely, hi

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 /father's/ 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.

I hope that helps -- Mike


On 31/08/2012 20:58, Keely wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am a music student so I am very unfamiliar with some of the 
> terminology.
> but I am trying to get the latest version of wordsmith  to treat words 
> with and without the 's as the same.
>
> I can't for the life of me figure it out.
>
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-- 
Mike Scott

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