Syllables are incorrectly counted

[Anaphase]

Given the sentence:

This sentence has eight syllables.

syllableCount() will return 9. As verified on https://readability-score.com, DaveChild/Text-Statistics returns the correct syllable count of 8.

[Anaphase]

What's odd is that the syllables are correctly counted individually, but when all the words are combined together, the incorrect total is returned.

text_stats.syllableCount('This') === 1
text_stats.syllableCount('sentence') === 2
text_stats.syllableCount('has') === 1
text_stats.syllableCount('eight') === 1
text_stats.syllableCount('syllables') === 3
text_stats.syllableCount('This sentence has eight syllables') === 9 // should be 8...

[cgiffard]

Hrm. This shouldn't be happening! strokes beard

I'll take a look. :)

[Anaphase]

If it helps, I boiled it down to this:

text_stats.syllableCount('This') === 1
text_stats.syllableCount('This sentence') === 3
text_stats.syllableCount('This sentence has') === 5 // should be 4...

[cgiffard]

It looks like its counting the syllables of whitespace. This would really skew down the readability scores. :-/

[Anaphase]

Well, I thought that too, but it doesn't seem consistent. "This has it" correctly returns 3 syllables
¯_(ツ)_/¯

[cgiffard]

OK! I'll go spelunking. :)

[karan]

Any updates on this? I'm thinking of using this module but since it skews the grade level right now, I'd rather not.

[JohnMcLear]

var stats = textstatistics("monkey goes yay");
stats.wordCount();
4

-_-

[cgiffard]

Fixed in #13. Sorry for neglecting this issue for so long!