Well, I basically am trying to create a spell checker for the win32 platform, seeing as how there seems to be a noticeable lack them for win32.

I have looked at Lingua::Stem, and am actually using Lingua::EN::Infinitive to determine if a word is at least formed correctly. The problem occurs when I am trying to make reasonble suggestions to the user. My approach, rather than using the brute-force, mass dictionary approach, is to try to create a more intelligent search. So, if a word is not in the dictionary, and not well formed, it attempts to strip any prefixes and suffixes, and find the 'root', and then do a Double Metaphone on the 'root' (rewrote Double Metaphone for under win32), and find any words that are close, and then attempt to reattach the prefixes and suffixes. (Will have to insert grammatical checking at a later point.) So, in order to do that, I need to strip them. Prefixes are easy, suffixes can get a little tricky.

So, if anyone knows of a good (American English) conjugating module that will work under win32, or will work with minimal rewriting, please let me know!

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