# Is the search supposed to include the letter 'a'?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-search-supposed-to-include-the-letter-a/28166
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [30 Aprile 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-search-supposed-to-include-the-letter-a/28166 "2015-04-30T19:48:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![PopsRocker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/popsrocker/32/41634_2.png) [@PopsRocker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PopsRocker)
#### Post date: [30 Aprile 2015, 7:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-search-supposed-to-include-the-letter-a/28166/1 "2015-04-30T19:48:31Z")

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While doing a quick search here at the meta.discourse forums I noticed the search results included hits for the single letter A … is that normal, I thought the letter A is something not normally indexed in a search result.

I would have expected there to be more results too, if hits for A are normal.

Just curious, not a big deal 😄

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### Author: ![downey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/downey/32/166878_2.png) [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [30 Aprile 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-search-supposed-to-include-the-letter-a/28166/2 "2015-04-30T19:50:07Z")

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Can you provide some specific steps to reproduce? I type “A” and “a” and then hit Enter in the search menu item but don’t get any results.

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### Author: ![PopsRocker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/popsrocker/32/41634_2.png) [@PopsRocker](https://meta.discourse.org/u/PopsRocker)
#### Post date: [30 Aprile 2015, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-search-supposed-to-include-the-letter-a/28166/3 "2015-04-30T19:56:13Z")

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doh … I meant to include a screenshot sorry … here’s one. ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/1/9167a560cc61a6fc1078bf81330fa38e17a00af2.png)

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### Author: ![DeanMarkTaylor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/deanmarktaylor/32/102462_2.png) [@DeanMarkTaylor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DeanMarkTaylor)
#### Post date: [30 Aprile 2015, 8:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-search-supposed-to-include-the-letter-a/28166/4 "2015-04-30T20:40:27Z")

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This probably relates to “Stop Words” and full text searches

> **[12.6. Dictionaries](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/textsearch-dictionaries.html)**
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> 12.6. Dictionaries # 12.6.1. Stop Words 12.6.2. Simple Dictionary 12.6.3. Synonym Dictionary 12.6.4. Thesaurus Dictionary 12.6.5. Ispell Dictionary 12.6.6. Snowball Dictionary …

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1 Maggio 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-the-search-supposed-to-include-the-letter-a/28166/5 "2015-05-01T01:27:19Z")

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This might be a bug in the search highlighting code, somehow.