What is a word?

  Should something like "see-saw" a single word is it two words?

Words consist only of letters. Because '-' isn't a letter, "see-saw"
isn't a word. Because words are maximal sequences of letters,
"see-saw" should be interpreted as the two words "see" and "saw".

  Is this like the it's example on the assignment page?

It is.

  If the text in a file is like this

    **Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts**

  is it correct that we consider only Welcome as a word and not
  **Welcome.

Yes. Also, I forgot to mention on the assignment page that the text
before the first page should be ignored; the assignment page has been
updated.
Received on Thu Feb 23 2006 - 16:57:10 EST