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The stem for 'ponies' in the earlier figure was 'poni'. That means that 'pony' has to be stemmed as 'poni' in order to correctly retrieve 'pony' when searching for 'ponies' and vice versa.



The next question was,

Does it have a deleterious effect on retrieval? Why or why not?

Any thoughts?




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