[sparky2]

Logician, your point about other chars / other languages is well-taken.

If you page through the contents of your WORD table though, using queries like this:

SELECT title FROM word where wordid>1000 and wordid<2000;

you would (anyone would!) have to agree that a large portion of the table's records contain "non-searchword" strings. The purpose of the table is to store WORDS, not "junk".