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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""Nonwords.
+
+---
+layout:     post
+source:     Garner's Modern American Usage
+source_url: http://bit.ly/1T4alrY
+title:      nonwords
+date:       2014-06-10 12:31:19
+categories: writing
+---
+
+Nonwords.
+
+"""
+from proselint.tools import memoize, preferred_forms_check
+
+
+@memoize
+def check(text):
+    """Suggest the preferred forms."""
+    err = "garner.nonwords"
+    msg = "Nonword, try '{}'."
+
+    preferences = [
+
+        ["doubtless' or 'undoubtedly",   ["doubtlessly"]],
+        ["analysis",                     ["analyzation"]],
+        ["annoyance",                    ["annoyment"]],
+        ["confirmand",                   ["confirmant"]],
+        ["confirmands",                  ["confirmants"]],
+        ["converse",                     ["conversate"]],
+        ["cranded",                      ["crained"]],
+        ["disbursement' or 'dispersal",  ["dispersement"]],
+        ["discomfort' or 'discomfiture", ["discomforture"]],
+        ["effrontery",                   ["affrontery"]],
+        ["forbearance",                  ["forebearance"]],
+        ["improper",                     ["improprietous"]],
+        ["inclement",                    ["inclimate"]],
+        ["relatively low price' or 'affordability", ["relative inexpense"]],
+        ["inimical",                     ["inimicable"]],
+        ["regardless",                   ["irregardless"]],
+        ["minimize",                     ["minimalize"]],
+        ["minimized",                    ["minimalized"]],
+        ["minimizes",                    ["minimalizes"]],
+        ["minimizing",                   ["minimalizing"]],
+        # muchly
+        ["optimize",                     ["optimalize"]],
+        ["paralysis",                    ["paralyzation"]],
+        ["pettifog",                     ["pettifogger"]],
+        ["proper",                       ["proprietous"]],
+        ["quell' or 'quash",             ["squelch"]],
+        ["seldom",                       ["seldomly"]],
+        # slinged
+        ["thus",                         ["thusly"]],
+        ["categorically",                ["uncategorically"]],
+        ["undoubtedly' or 'indubitably", ["undoubtably"]],
+        ["unequivocal",                  ["unequivocable"]],
+        ["mercilessly",                  ["unmercilessly"]],
+        ["unrelentingly' or relentlessly", ["unrelentlessly"]],
+    ]
+
+    return preferred_forms_check(text, preferences, err, msg)