Update +ify orthography rule

[Shrimpy48]

Summary of changes

Orthography rule for words ending in i + ify suffix updated to also cover words ending in y.

Closes #1678

Pull Request Checklist

• Changes have tests
• News fragment added in news.d. See documentation for details

[Shrimpy48]

I'm not sure which category of news fragment this should have - dict feels the closest.

[mkrnr]

Hey @Shrimpy48 — thanks a ton for opening this!
(And sorry it’s taken me a while to get to it.)

I'm afraid the PR needs to be updated to resolve the conflicts. We very recently added code formatting with Ruff.

While we're touching the rule, might make sense to further extend the regex so it only fires when the final i/y is preceded by a consonant? Something like:
(r"^(.+[^aeiou])[iy] \^ if(y|ying|ied|ies|ication|ications)$", r"\1if\2")
Examples that we can add to the tests would be:

• Hawaii + -ification should be Hawaiification
• play + -ification should be playification

If you’re busy or no longer working on this, just let me know — I’m happy to pick it up and push it over the line. Either way, really appreciate the contribution!

[Shrimpy48]

Hey there, thanks for getting back to me on this! No worries about the delay.
I'm happy to carry on with it.

The preceding vowel case is tricky. Maybe the rule should fire for vowel+"i" (Hawaiification, ASCIIfication, Dubaification) but not for vowel+"y" (playification, joyification)?

[mkrnr]

Yes, that sounds good. There'll always be exceptions to this (and many other) rule but it will cover the majority of cases.

[mkrnr]

The changes look very good, thanks for that! Regarding the news file, I'd vote for "core" to make it more clear that it's changing the system rules and not adding some entries to the dictionary.

[Shrimpy48]

OK, I've added a news fragment now, thank you!

[mkrnr]

Thanks again for the improvement!