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Documentation for check-spelling

Behavior change: Dropping word stemming

The engine behind the word splitter has code to group related words together (this is known as "stemming").

Word Stem
customwords customword
customworded customword
customwordies customwordy

This allows one to add just a single entry (the stem) to a dictionary / expect list. It had a number of folds including

The downside to this stemming is that if a repo has both potato and potatos, the latter was treated as a stem of the former and they were collectively accepted if the former is in the dictionary.

As of 0.0.17-alpha, I'm removing this feature. Those upgrading will probably need to add extra items to their dictionary / expect files. For check-spelling itself, that amounted to 6 new entries out of under 100, so about 6%.


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