Three changes that shape the same lever:
(1) The metaphor-cue wordlist now unions /usr/share/dict/words +
/usr/share/dict/american-english + /usr/share/dict/british-english.
The Debian split made the prior 'just symlink to american-english'
miss British spellings (colour, organisation, realise) which
silently became false negatives on British-speaker questions.
Union: 102,485 → 104,305 entries on this machine. ~1,820 added
British-specific entries.
(2) Supplemental dictionary support: operators can layer
domain-specific vocabulary into the morphological substrate.
Two paths:
- Env var: ABORIST_METAPHOR_DICTS=/path/a:/path/b
- Programmatic: register_metaphor_dictionary(path)
Each supplemental dict is one word per line. The cue suffix
tests (-ly stem, -ing stem, -est stem) then resolve domain
stems automatically — adding 'aerodynamic' to a custom dict
makes 'aerodynamically' classify as adverbial without code
changes.
Use case: 'a tree with its own vocabulary' — an aviation
forest, a medical corpus, a legal-domain shard each carries
jargon the standard wordlist doesn't cover. Register once,
suffix tests pick up domain stems forever.
(3) README gains a 'Sidecar diagnostics' section with a table of
the three sidecars (deflection, title-relevance, metaphor-
deflection) plus a 'Metaphor-deflection cue dictionary' subsection
explaining the derivation rule, the load order, and the per-
forest vocabulary configurability. Architecturally documents
why the rule is *derived* from the union (Phase-2 lesson) and
not hand-curated.
3 new tests in tests/test_inspect.py:
- register_metaphor_dictionary unions a custom path's words
- ABORIST_METAPHOR_DICTS env var supplements with two paths
- re-registering same path is idempotent
763/34 tests pass.
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