Word Count Inconsistancies

If anyone can clear this up for me, I will appreciate it.

I have found while proofreading Volume 2 that after editing the text and adding more where needed, I find that the word count is smaller than it was before by several hundred words. And it even seems to apply with chapters before I swap out the old text for the new.

For example, Words of a Lady in The Lost Element consists of 5,800 words. But when I go to edit it, the word count at the bottom of the text box detects only 5,698.

Am I the only one with this problem? And is there a way to fix this?

Comments

[me4]

Since those chapters were published quite a while ago now, maybe it's possible that the way the site counts words has changed in some way in the intervening time. It wouldn't make sense from a programming standpoint after all to have it recount the words every time it's loaded; it would only need to be done just once every time you go to make an edit or when the chapter is first published.

I'd also get a second opinion on word count. Go to places like wordcounter.net or wordcounter.io and check out what it says there.

[Who needs sleep]

I recall something about some punctuation marks such as quotation marks behaving strangely in the word counter.