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# `lang.porter` module

Reimplementation of the Porter stemming algorithm in Python.

In my quick tests, this implementation about 3.5 times faster than the seriously weird Python linked from the official page.

`whoosh.lang.porter.``stem`(w)

  Uses the Porter stemming algorithm to remove suffixes from English words.

      >>> stem("fundamentally")
      "fundament"

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