# Plurals in natural language fulltext search?

**URL:** <https://forums.percona.com/t/plurals-in-natural-language-fulltext-search/2078>\
**Category:** Sphinx & Full-Text Search\
**Created:** [December 9, 2008, 9:20am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/plurals-in-natural-language-fulltext-search/2078 "2008-12-09T09:20:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidjay202](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@davidjay202](https://forums.percona.com/u/davidjay202)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 9:20am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/plurals-in-natural-language-fulltext-search/2078/1 "2008-12-09T09:20:33Z")

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Hi,

I’m trying to find a way to resolve the plural problem without the need to add the plural variation as a keyword to the data record.

The boolean fulltext search has the option of a wild card ie book\* which will find books.

However there doesn’t seem to be this option for the natural language fulltext search.

Has anybody figured out how to do plurals for the natural language fulltext search

Thanks in advance  
David J.

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**Author:** ![AlexN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@AlexN](https://forums.percona.com/u/AlexN)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:27am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/plurals-in-natural-language-fulltext-search/2078/2 "2008-12-11T10:27:54Z")

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You may want to look at sphinx

[URL][About | Sphinx](http://www.sphinxsearch.com/features.html%5B/URL%5D)