# Tokenizers for common words

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tokenizers-for-common-words/129556>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 25, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tokenizers-for-common-words/129556 "2018-04-25T19:46:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![subrato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@subrato](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/subrato)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tokenizers-for-common-words/129556/1 "2018-04-25T19:46:24Z")

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Hi,

I am using a whitespace analyzer on the content that I have but when I try to search for words which really belong together like (New York, San Francisco) Elastic Search breaks it up into 2 words and look for San or New or York. How do I solve this kind of problem?

(Sorry if the title doesn't make sense I wasn't sure how to put this problem without making the title 2 miles long)

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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:** [May 23, 2018, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/tokenizers-for-common-words/129556/2 "2018-05-23T19:46:27Z")

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