What counts as a “word” in WordCheck?
A “word” is any sequence of letters (with or without accents), digits, or apostrophes, surrounded by any other characters (such as spaces or punctuation). In addition, any of the approved combinations for ligatures (such as [oe]) or diacritics (such as [=a], that represents ā) forms part of a word, so that “c[oe]eur” is a single word. What this means is that words with characters other than those mentioned above will never be flagged in the text (such as commas). That isn’t to say that future versions of WordCheck can’t be modified/enhanced to include checking for words using a different string of characters, such as other punctuation, as well. While words in the Word Lists with characters other than mentioned above will never be Flagged in the text, there is no downside to including them for when WordCheck can make use of them. For example, including etc on a Word List will match etc and etc. (notice the period) in the text. Adding just etc. (again, notice the period) will not match a
