Hello: I need to include a pair of negations with two complete word into a regular expresion for preg_replace. How to do this? I want to replace "I want to be a SUN and a SIR" with "FRIKI FRIKI FRIKI FRIKI FRIKI SUN FRIKI FRIKI SIR" ie. the words are: SUN and SIR. And the replacement word is: FRIKI $st = preg_replace ("\b([^S][^U][^N])|([^S][^I][^R]\b)", "FRIKI",$st); This does not match Anyone hep me? Thanks