As I said this is a rough see-how /if it works implementation. That said. I do appreciate the input I was having lots of trouble with references. Making a 'real' hash was only thing that was working for me.

I'll see if I can get your revision to work for me. I did not notice any hit at N < = 200 words in the dictionary so its probably something I'll run into when I implement persistence and actually save the learned data to become the next round of training data.