They competed
On April Fools' Day, the seventh graders competed to see who could write the worst dictation. The winner was Jožo Poleno, who omitted a letter in a third of the words, made bolding errors in a quarter, forgot the soft sign in a sixth, and despite all his efforts, wrote the remaining twelve words without a mistake. How many words does the dictation have? (He made no more than one mistake per word.)
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