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+# Word Count
+
+Welcome to Word Count on Exercism's Emacs Lisp Track.
+If you need help running the tests or submitting your code, check out `HELP.md`.
+
+## Instructions
+
+Given a phrase, count the occurrences of each _word_ in that phrase.
+
+For the purposes of this exercise you can expect that a _word_ will always be one of:
+
+1. A _number_ composed of one or more ASCII digits (ie "0" or "1234") OR
+2. A _simple word_ composed of one or more ASCII letters (ie "a" or "they") OR
+3. A _contraction_ of two _simple words_ joined by a single apostrophe (ie "it's" or "they're")
+
+When counting words you can assume the following rules:
+
+1. The count is _case insensitive_ (ie "You", "you", and "YOU" are 3 uses of the same word)
+2. The count is _unordered_; the tests will ignore how words and counts are ordered
+3. Other than the apostrophe in a _contraction_ all forms of _punctuation_ are ignored
+4. The words can be separated by _any_ form of whitespace (ie "\t", "\n", " ")
+
+For example, for the phrase `"That's the password: 'PASSWORD 123'!", cried the Special Agent.\nSo I fled.` the count would be:
+
+```text
+that's: 1
+the: 2
+password: 2
+123: 1
+cried: 1
+special: 1
+agent: 1
+so: 1
+i: 1
+fled: 1
+```
+
+## Source
+
+### Contributed to by
+
+- @canweriotnow
+- @npostavs
+- @vermiculus
+- @wasamasa
+- @yurrriq
+
+### Based on
+
+This is a classic toy problem, but we were reminded of it by seeing it in the Go Tour.
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