# Is there an error in this Elastic blog post on common terms?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-an-error-in-this-elastic-blog-post-on-common-terms/133830>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 30, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-an-error-in-this-elastic-blog-post-on-common-terms/133830 "2018-05-30T08:48:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidefiocco](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/davidefiocco/32/31856_2.png) [@davidefiocco](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/davidefiocco)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-an-error-in-this-elastic-blog-post-on-common-terms/133830/1 "2018-05-30T08:48:48Z")

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Hi!

I was reading the post at [Stop Stopping Stop Words: a Look at Common Terms Query | Elastic Blog](https://www.elastic.co/blog/stop-stopping-stop-words-a-look-at-common-terms-query)

In the blog, there's this sentence

> The “low frequency” list is rewritten into a Boolean _Should_ clause (logical OR). In this example, it would contain “bonsai”, “cool”

Is the clause in question not a Should but a Must clause (i.e. there's a typo in the post)? That would match with the code reported later in the post:

```
{
  "bool": {
    "must": [
      { "term": { "body": "bonsai"}},
      { "term": { "body": "cool"}}
    ],
    "should": [
      { "term": { "body": "this"}}
      { "term": { "body": "is"}}
    ]
  }
}

```

If that's indeed a small mistake I am happy to report it - but I don't know how to.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-an-error-in-this-elastic-blog-post-on-common-terms/133830/2 "2018-06-01T08:27:22Z")

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Pinging @polyfractal as he wrote the original post. 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2018, 8:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/is-there-an-error-in-this-elastic-blog-post-on-common-terms/133830/3 "2018-06-29T08:27:23Z")

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Closed on June 29, 2018, 8:27am UTC

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