From fe44c40586ed90b67662d16b5703a6b3d852a1bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: UndeadMaelys <undeadmaelys@protonmail.ch>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 19:19:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] improvement to apostrohpe separation

---
 strings.lua | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/strings.lua b/strings.lua
index 0487b18..9ce4339 100644
--- a/strings.lua
+++ b/strings.lua
@@ -44,15 +44,27 @@ end
 function minimum_apostrophes(str)
 	local restr = ""
 	for i = 1, #str do
-		if string.sub(str,i,i) == "'" then -- only makes sense to separate vowels from vowels
+		if string.sub(str,i,i) == "'" then -- only makes sense to separate vowels from vowel, or specified final separation-
 			if string.find(string.sub(str,i-1,i-1),"[aeiou]") then
 				if string.find(string.sub(str,i+1,i+1),"[aeiou]") then
 					restr = restr .. string.sub(str,i,i)
+				else
+					if string.find(string.sub(str,i+2,i+2),"[aeiou]")  then -- for patterns like V'CV where it isnt clear wether VC'V or VC'V only works for single consontants so...
+						restr = restr .. string.sub(str,i,i)
+					elseif  string.find(string.sub(str,i+3,i+3),"[aeiou]") -- we check for those specifically
+					and (string.sub(str,i+1,i+2) == "sh"
+					or string.sub(str,i+1,i+2) == "ch"
+					or string.sub(str,i+1,i+2) == "ny")
+					then
+						restr = restr .. string.sub(str,i,i)
+					end
 				end
 			else -- only consontant meaningful of checking is n'y opposed to ny
 				if string.find(string.sub(str,i-1,i-1),"[n]") 
 				and string.find(string.sub(str,i+1,i+1),"[y]") then
 					restr = restr .. string.sub(str,i,i)
+				elseif string.find(string.sub(str,i+1,i+1),"[y]") then -- or consonant from vowels
+					restr = restr .. string.sub(str,i,i)
 				end
 			end 	
 		else