Count every ‘F’ in the following text:
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS…
Take a moment to review, if you like, before I give away the answer. I'm not sure if it has to be in all-caps for this to work, so I'll leave it that way, although it rather grates on the eyeballs.
Ahem. [Twiddling thumbs, humming to self.]
OK: it's six.
Apparently a lot of people count fewer, because they overlook the ones in the word 'of.' (I counted all six myself, but did have to make a point to be sure I wasn't missing any, so I could see myself skipping 'of' if I hadn't been paying attention).
Yet another instance of the brain leading us astray. I tell you, those things can't be trusted!
My other point here was that I read the explanation and immediately thought "well of course, 'of' is a stopword."
I do spend a fair amount of time with databases, yes.
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