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package org.apache.lucene.analysis.en;

/**
 * Minimal plural stemmer for English.
 *
 * This stemmer implements the "S-Stemmer" from How Effective Is Suffixing? Donna Harman.
 */
public class EnglishMinimalStemmer {
  @SuppressWarnings("fallthrough")
  public int stem(char[] s, int len) {
    if (len < 3 || s[len - 1] != 's') return len;

    switch (s[len - 2]) {
      case 'u':
      case 's':
        return len;
      case 'e':
        if (len > 3 && s[len - 3] == 'i' && s[len - 4] != 'a' && s[len - 4] != 'e') {
          s[len - 3] = 'y';
          return len - 2;
        }
        if (s[len - 3] == 'i' || s[len - 3] == 'a' || s[len - 3] == 'o' || s[len - 3] == 'e')
          return len; /* intentional fallthrough */
      default:
        return len - 1;
    }
  }
}