Re: old english

Hi Martin,

It is an honor to hear from you. Hope your pain eases.
I was able to add the -edst endings, and now it works great! Here's my
patch.

Respectfully,
Tim
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Martin Porter <[email protected]>wrote:

> Timothy,
>
> Sorry not to have replied sooner --- I could have pointed out that the
> generated among tables can't be edited simply (people have been caught
> out by that before). For the past fortnight I've been fighting
> sciatica, apart from which I'm getting old and don't reply as soon to
> incoming messages as I used.
>
> Glad you found our work useful.
>
> I will look into -edst endings. There may be an opprtunity for further
> improvement there. And also cut/cutteth. Thanks for pointing them out!
>
> Martin
>

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--- stem_ISO_8859_1.orig	2012-06-26 14:34:33.356358100 -0700
+++ stem_ISO_8859_1.sbl	2012-06-26 14:35:06.147280900 -0700
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
         [substring] among (
             'eed' 'eedly'
                 (R1 <-'ee')
-            'ed' 'edly' 'ing' 'ingly'
+            'ed' 'edly' 'ing' 'ingly' 'est' 'eth' 'edst'
                 (
                 test gopast v  delete
                 test substring among(
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
 
     define Step_4 as (
         [substring] R2 among (
-            'al' 'ance' 'ence' 'er' 'ic' 'able' 'ible' 'ant' 'ement'
+            'al' 'ance' 'ence' 'er' 'ess' 'ic' 'able' 'ible' 'ant' 'ement'
             'ment' 'ent' 'ism' 'ate' 'iti' 'ous' 'ive' 'ize'
                       (delete)
             'ion'     ('s' or 't' delete)