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Should a listed surname spelling count inside a hyphenated or particle-led surname? (Smyth-Jones / Smith conflicts even with Smyth listed as Smith) #1262

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@derek73

With Lexicon.default().add("smyth", kind="family", same_as="smith"):

  • Ann Smyth / Ann Smith reads listed-spelling
  • Ann Smyth-Jones / Ann Smith reads conflict

part-of-other compares hyphen halves and particle-free words by fold only, never through listed spellings. Extending listed spellings to those words is new matching behavior. It needs two things:

  • a measurement of which shipped same_as family links would start matching inside compound surnames
  • a key check, since the keys already emit each half's spellings

Raised by the simplify pass of #1221.

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  1. added this to the 3.1 milestone on Nov 9, 2026
  2. self-assigned this
    on Nov 9, 2026
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