ispell bug w/ fix + enhancement

[geoff at desint.UUCP]

In article <1008 at tekred.TEK.COM> billr at tekred.TEK.COM (Bill Randle) writes:

> I recently found an area where ispell has a problem.  This occurs
> when a word ending in 'y' is incorrectly pluralized...
> ...In addition, I added some code
> in good.c that checks for "yes" endings and reports them as misspelled.

Unfortunately, this fix is insufficient, kludgey, and wrong.  For example,
the s_ending routine (which is where the problem lies) will also accept
"hawkes" for "hawks".

I am working on a correct fix, which I will post when I have tested it.
In the meantime, I recommend that people save the original before
applying Bill's fixes, since I'm not going to put in a routine that
arbitrarily rejects a certain letter sequence regardless of what's in
the dictionary.
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
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