The assumption in the Porter stemmer is that apostrophe has already been
removed before the word is stemmed, more precisely, that final apostrophe
and apostrophe plus s are taken off. I have thought of including this as
part of the stemmer operation. There is a similar issue for Dutch. See
http://snowball.tartarus.org/archives/snowball-discuss/0558.html
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