Wow, I did not expect this much feedback. Thank you all. I took what you posted, what my book recommended, and some other bits and pieces of information and I tried to reconstruct the program in my own way as best I could. Any critiques would be helpful. Particularly, how I could condense the program into fewer lines. Thanks! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my ($counter, $words, %counter) ;
print "This program records all of the words you type and counts how o
+ften you type them.\nPlease type in a list of words.  Type done when 
+you are finished.\n" ;
chomp ($words = <STDIN>) ;
while ($words ne "done") {
    chomp ($words = <STDIN>) ;
    if ($words eq "done") {
        last ;
    }
    $counter{$words}++ ;
}
foreach $words (keys%counter) {
    if ($counter{$words} <= 1) {
        print "You typed $words $counter{$words} time."
    }
    else {
        print "You typed $words $counter{$words} times." ;
    }
}

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