Re: Suggestion: 'aci'(<-'at')

So limit it to R2 -- that handles all the admitted counter-cases except
supremacy, and even supremacy doesn't get conflated with other real words.
On 2014-03-31 11:36 AM, "Olly Betts" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 03:41:21PM +0100, James Aylett wrote:
> > On 30 Mar 2014, at 18:27, Chris Hennick <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > In English, the suffix 'acy' almost always corresponds to a cognate
> > > ending 'ate' (piracy, privacy, literacy, accuracy) or 'atic'
> > > (democracy, lunacy, trichromacy), so it'd be helpful if, like those,
> > > it stemmed to -at. (The only word I can think of where this isn't
> > > true is pharmacy, but I don't think any words derived from it would
> > > be affected.)
> >
> > I think these are also counter-cases:
> >
> >  * conspiracy
>
> While "conspirate" may not be an English word, "conspirator" is.
>
> >  * episcopacy
>
> It's a little obscure, but "episcopate" is cognate.
>
> >  * fallacy
> >  * lacy
> >  * papacy
> >  * racy
> >  * supremacy
> > I think the only two likely to cause problems would be l-acy -> l-at,
> > r-acy -> r-at, which could be handled with a minimum length in the
> > rule.
>
> Also, I don't think you'd want to conflate "legacy" and "legate" (they
> may come from the same Latin root, but the meanings in English are
> rather different).
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>

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