<p><strong><em>List Words (Plain Text)</em></strong> is a free, web-based tool designed to run in a browser window. It is a simple to use tool, designed to <strong>count</strong> and<strong> generate lists</strong> of all words in a document, either hosted at a web address or uploaded from the user's files.</p> <p>Users may apply the provided Glasgow <strong>stop list</strong>, upload their own, or work with the full list. This tool also generates a basic <strong>statistical analysis</strong>, including total number of words, unique words, appearances of particular words or only words matching a specified pattern.</p> <p>Other features include preset sort options, an <strong>inflectional stemmer</strong> and output formats including <strong>XML Tree</strong> and<strong> tab delimited</strong>. Most notably, the HTML output option includes a small <strong>distribution graph</strong> for the most frequent words in the document. While the tool can handle novel-sized texts, applying the inflectional stemmer will slow down the tool to a degree proportional to the size of the text.</p> <p>This tool has <strong>problems</strong> with some characters - for example, c&aelig;sar becomes \"c&frac34;sar,\" and punctuation such as quotation marks is often replaced with its unicode equivalent. In addition, words joined by hyphens (such as \"wine-dark-sea\") are counted as one word, opening quotation marks are appended to the word they are adjacent to. Users are advised to watch for such instances and adjust the results accordingly.</p> <p><strong><em>Despite these limitations, List Words (Plain Text) is an effective way to get a quick breakdown of the text.</em></strong> Versions are also available for HTML and XML documents.</p>