title: Stemming + wildcarding: unexpected effects
body: <p>I am editing a lucene .net implementation (2.3.2) at work to include stemming and automatic wildcarding (adding of * at the ends of words).</p>
  
  <p>I have found that exact words with wildcarding don't work. (so stack* works for stackoverflow, but stackoverflow* does not get a hit), and was wondering what causes this, and how it might be fixed.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance. (Also thanks for not asking why I am implementing <em>both</em> automatic wildcarding and stemming.)</p>
  
  <p>I am about to make the query always prefix query so I don't have to do any nasty adding "*"s to queries, so we will see if anything becomes clear then.</p>
  
  <p>Edit: Only words that are stemmed do not work wildcarded. Example Silicate* doesn't work, but silic* does.</p>