What Counts as a Word?
Tom Scott 3:33
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"Word Count" is going to count plenty of things that aren’t words too -- and it doesn’t get to a more fundamental question: what actually is a word?
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Written with GRETCHEN MCCULLOCH: http://gretchenmcculloch.com - http://twitter.com/GretchenAMcC
[Update: her book BECAUSE INTERNET is out July 2019! https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book/ ]
More from Gretchen at ALL THINGS LINGUISTIC: http://allthingslinguistic.com - http://twitter.com/AllThingsLing
Directed by MATT GRAY: http://mattg.co.uk - http://twitter.com/unnamedculprit
And more from me: http://tomscott.com - http://twitter.com/tomscott
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