My jquery event isn't firing?

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I'm basically trying to implement:

$(function() {
var maxWords = 10;
var wordCounts = {};
$("#a").keyup(function() {
    var matches = this.value.match(/\b/g);
    wordCounts[this.id] = matches ? matches.length / 2 : 0;
    var finalCount = 0;
    $.each(wordCounts, function(k, v) {
        finalCount += v;
    });
    $('#finalcount').val('Words: ' + finalCount);
    if(finalCount > maxWords){
        $("#a").val(a.value.slice(0,-2));
    };
}).keyup();
});

HEre's the example Im using: http://ift.tt/1oDhss8

My version is here: http://ift.tt/1oS69ds

For some reason, mine isn't working. I don't really understand jquery or javascript events very well so I'm sure there's something I"m missing, but for the life of me I can't figure out what. What I"m tyring to do is limit the number of words that can go into a textarea box. Any advice> Thank you very much.

asked 41 secs ago

Josh Alcorn

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