Thread: Finding a word or phrase in a fiction book's prose without searching characters’ dialogue
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Old 10-24-2015, 05:20 AM
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The problem with using single quotes as you have done is that it is impossible to distinguish their use as apostrophes or scare-quotes from speech. Even crafting a F/R expression to exclude word ending in 's (not that I believe such would be possible) wouldn't help with words ending in s'.
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