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'defnoun' doesn't seem to work when the word is a part of a string passed

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#163 opened on Jul 9, 2022

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Originally reported by @aMiss-aWry in #161:

I can fix the specific words with defnoun('jeans', 'jeans'), which corrects the result for an isolated string 'jeans' -> 'jeans'.

However, if I try to run plural_noun on 'blue jeans' instead of 'jeans' it then breaks again, returning 'blue jeanss'. I understand this is because 'blue jeans' appears to be a different string from 'jeans', but perhaps it should check the rules for the part of the string it is altering?

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Examine the tokenization logic in plural noun to see how it splits multi word strings and apply defnoun rules to each word. Focus on the part where the suffix is appended.
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