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Subject: Re: email stop words
From: Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
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Arne Vajh=F8j wrote:
> I would have discarded special characters:
>=20
>     >=3D-()
>=20
> up front.

You need a hyphen to spell words like "laissez-faire" and "higgledy-piggled=
y".

Apostrophe is a "special" character but very common in English words (most =
possessives, for example).

Plus-sign appears in, for example, "Google+" and "G+" and "+1".

So you need to be judicious in your definition of "special".

--=20
Lew