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Originally Posted by xyzzy
I only quoted what he said. I doubt he tested it since we were just conversing back and forth through the ticket.
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Well ...
silly goose! This is somewhat funny ... when searching:
- fox finds fox and foxes
- foxes finds fox and foxes
- "fox" in quotes only finds fox
- "foxes" in quotes only finds foxes
- But the word "goose" has two plurals: "gooses" and "geese". So:
- goose finds goose and gooses
- gooses finds goose and gooses
- geese only finds geese
- So using goose and geese is an unfortunate incorrect example!
See
stemming in:
https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/search.html
Quotes (single ' or double ") around a word or phrase cause only those exact characters to be matched (ignoring case).
They might be using the
Porter stemming algorithm. See:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sn...porter/voc.txt
https://tartarus.org/martin/PorterStemmer/
That stemming algorithm matches the fox/foxes and goose/gooses/geese behavior I noted above.
Bill