diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/StopAnalyzer.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/StopAnalyzer.java
index 7ac1b3f1ce6..613dc2aa1d5 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/StopAnalyzer.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/StopAnalyzer.java
@@ -46,11 +46,20 @@ public final class StopAnalyzer extends Analyzer {
     this.stopWords = StopFilter.makeStopSet(stopWords);
   }
   
-  /** Builds an analyzer with the stop words from the given file. */
+  /** Builds an analyzer with the stop words from the given file.
+   * @see WordlistLoader#getWordSet(File)
+   */
   public StopAnalyzer(File stopwordsFile) throws IOException {
     stopWords = WordlistLoader.getWordSet(stopwordsFile);
   }
 
+  /** Builds an analyzer with the stop words from the given reader.
+   * @see WordlistLoader#getWordSet(Reader)
+   */
+  public StopAnalyzer(Reader stopwords) throws IOException {
+    stopWords = WordlistLoader.getWordSet(stopwords);
+  }
+
   /** Filters LowerCaseTokenizer with StopFilter. */
   public TokenStream tokenStream(String fieldName, Reader reader) {
     return new StopFilter(new LowerCaseTokenizer(reader), stopWords);