[Snowball-discuss] Possible grammatical corrections ...

[Martin Porter]

Amores,

Thank you for your interest in our work, and the list of corrections:-

>http://snowball.tartarus.org/texts/introduction.html
>
>"standardly" -> "usually"
>
>(Unless you are certain that "standardly" is an English word; I myself
>  have never seen it.)

I'm not at all certain, but it would take more than that for me to stop
using it! "usually" would not be correct here.
>

>" transpire has come to mean 'happen', and its old meaning of 'exhalation' 
>or 'breathing out' is now effectively lost. "
>
>  I believe that I encountered this meaning routinely many years ago
>  working in a botanical research lab. (However, I do not dispute that this
>  meaning has been effectively lost outside of this one field.)
>

Good point. I should look for an example word that doesn't retain an older
meaning in certain technical contexts.

>
>"not because the word being stemmed had changed its meaning"
>
>-> "not because the word being stemmed has changed its meaning"
>

- done.

-- as is the typo reported in your second email


Martin