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In a YouTube video the young Australian presenter used the phrase "neither fish nor bird", which I'd never heard before. It seems to be on the rise according to Google Ngrams, presumably tracking shrinking vocabulary?

I realized that there would probably be another common mistake with "foul" instead of "fowl", which has come up before in OneFellSwoop.

I classified the first as Nonstandard and the second as Spelling and gave each a tailored message.

How Has This Been Tested?

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  • I am a human and didn't use any AI.
  • I used LLM features of my editor, but not an agent.
  • I used an AI agent interactively.
  • I am an agent or I got an agent to do the work autonomously.

If Your PR Implements or Enhances a Linter

  • I made up the sentences in the unit tests.
  • The sentences in the unit tests were generated by an AI.
  • I'm using examples from the bug report / feature request.
  • I collected real-world sentences for the unit tests.

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  • I have performed a self-review of my own code
  • I have added tests to cover my changes
  • I have considered splitting this into smaller pull requests.

@hippietrail hippietrail added enhancement New feature or request linting labels Jul 5, 2026
@hippietrail hippietrail added this pull request to the merge queue Jul 7, 2026
@github-merge-queue github-merge-queue Bot removed this pull request from the merge queue due to a conflict with the base branch Jul 7, 2026
@hippietrail hippietrail added this pull request to the merge queue Jul 7, 2026
@github-merge-queue github-merge-queue Bot removed this pull request from the merge queue due to a conflict with the base branch Jul 7, 2026
@hippietrail hippietrail added this pull request to the merge queue Jul 7, 2026
@github-merge-queue github-merge-queue Bot removed this pull request from the merge queue due to a conflict with the base branch Jul 7, 2026
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