Punctuation 

Punctuation in search terms introduces a lot of ambiguity and should be avoided if possible. When it is not possible, such as when typing in a contraction (such as “can’t” or “won’t” in English) or an elision (such as “l’abri” in French), the word is typically split into its components, as shown in the table below.

Stemming Contractions and Elisions

Punctuation Mark	Example	Resulting Search Words
Apostrophe	Can’t	●      Can ●      ‘t
Apostrophe	l’abri	●      l’ ●      abri

MDM has reserved some punctuation marks for use as wildcards, multi-word delimiters, and for performing hybrid searches (for more information see “Keyword Search Operators”).