Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 09:45:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] gah! let's try that again - Re: google word list
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

whitroth at 5-cent.us <whitroth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> I wish google as a whole would at least
> offer single quotes, so that it does *not* try
> to interpret what I want, since they're *wrong*.

I wish they'd also proofread their scanning.
Some online "books" are almost entirely illegible,
due to typefaces the machine doesn't recognize.
Every time the OCR scanner damages a word (as when
"and" becomes "ancl"), that instance is lost from
the database and the statistical analysis fails.

=Tamar