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# Behaviours

## Expectations:

* Experienced searchers use special characters or regular expressions to make searches more powerful.

## Examples:

* Use quote marks to isolate a phrase
* Assume quotemarks take priority over ANDing a string of terms
* Wildcard with the intention of picking up plurals (\*)
* Substitute ? in the middle of a word to find spelling variants (e.g. wom?n for women, woman, womyn, womxn)
* Combine searches for specificity. (Archivist: “at the moment I can use the reference + other terms to find specific things within a collection, but that's not intuitive to users”)
* Narrow a search by adding more words to make search more specific
* Implies Boolean AND