[jcheng]

GPT-4o-mini consistently gives me this:

> How many times does the letter “r” appear in the word “strawberry”?

> The letter "r" appears 2 times in the word "strawberry."

But also:

> How many occurrences of the letter “r” appear in the word “strawberry”?

> The word "strawberry" contains three occurrences of the letter "r."

[brandall10]

Neither phrase is causing the LLM to evaluate the word itself, it just helps focus toward parts of the training data.

Using more 'erudite' speech is a good technique to help focus an LLM on training data from folks with a higher education level.

Using simpler speech opens up the floodgates more toward the general populous.