diff --git a/src/util.jl b/src/util.jl
index 8dd0017..fd66f32 100644
--- a/src/util.jl
+++ b/src/util.jl
@@ -887,23 +887,6 @@ function remove_french_accents(text::AbstractString)::AbstractString
 end
 
 
-function countGivenWords(text::String, words::Vector{String})::Vector{Int}
-  count = []
-
-  # loop through each word in words
-  for word in words
-    # initialize a counter for the current word
-    splittext = split(text, word)
-    splittext_length = length(splittext)
-    thisWordCount = splittext_length - 1
-    push!(count, thisWordCount)
-  end
-  return count
-end
-
-
-
-