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Don Quixote · 02-07-2009, 11:33 PM

Question: what counts as a word? If, as you wrote, "gonna" ever shows up, do you count it as one or two, since it's "going to"? How do you count "Steel Rail Blues" and oo-oo-oo-woo-hoo-hoo?
Sounds like we'd better rethink this one.
DQ

02-07-2009, 11:33 PM	#3
Don Quixote Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Springfield, MA 01109 Posts: 309	Re: Total word count of all Lightfoot Lyrics Question: what counts as a word? If, as you wrote, "gonna" ever shows up, do you count it as one or two, since it's "going to"? How do you count "Steel Rail Blues" and oo-oo-oo-woo-hoo-hoo? Sounds like we'd better rethink this one. DQ