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+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# a couple of test stopwords to test that the words are really being
+# configured from this file:
+stopworda
+stopwordb
+
+# Standard english stop words taken from Lucene's StopAnalyzer
+a
+an
+and
+are
+as
+at
+be
+but
+by
+for
+if
+in
+into
+is
+it
+no
+not
+of
+on
+or
+such
+that
+the
+their
+then
+there
+these
+they
+this
+to
+was
+will
+with