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Originally Posted by snarkophilus
As mentioned in a few of the threads I linked to, songs and verses often finish a line without any punctuation, so they are likely to throw out false positives.
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Indeed, Stephen King's
Christine has 145 matches for just
[a-z]</p> and 245 matches for
[a-z,]</p>. Almost all of these were in song verses at the start of each chapter, but there were three missing periods at the end of sentences, one comma that should have been a period and one actual occurance of a break mid-sentence.