Its main use is aspart of a term normalisation process that is usually done when setting up InformationRetrieval systems.???[26]In our case the endings or suffix y, ational and tional are removed from the tokens term.The algorithm stipulates that, ???A consonant in a word is a letter other than A, E, I, O or U,and other than Y preceded by a consonant.???[27] .So the y preceded by the r in the term