check if the word is in the special word, if so, add to dictionary along with count

def get_word_counts(word_list):
    word_count = {}
    for word in word_list:
        if word in word_count:
            word_count[word] += 1
        else:
            word_count[word] = 1
    return word_count
    
 get_word_counts(['a', 'b', 'a'])