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:: Since these are rare, they do not have a significant influence on the result. Note also that it's entirely possible that the dictionary will change (or will have changed), but we do not expect that this will be enough of a change to matter. If we were concerned with exact counts, instead of plausibility, the task would need to be structured differently. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 17:08, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
:: Specifically, four words with both ei and ie: eightieth liechtenstein meier weierstrass, one word with multiple instances of ie: siegfried, and four words with multiple instances of ei: einstein einsteinian einsteinium weinstein -- that's a total of nine words, none of which have a significant 'c' prefix (the only word with 'c' uses it in 'ch'), and that's just not enough to matter for this task. (A much bigger issue is "what is it that decides whether two distinct spellings are the same word or a different word".) --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 17:19, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
:::Thanks for the stats Rdm. I guess I could add ''"Words that could be in multiple categories should be counted in those multiple categories"'' to the task to nail it down, as I wasn't thinking of doing anything more than showing how tenuous the "rule" was. At the moment though I think people referring to the talk page should be OK. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 07:06, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
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