# Snowball and elusion **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 5, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snowball-and-elusion/17941 "2014-06-05T22:36:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![oto\_iashvili](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@oto\_iashvili](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/oto_iashvili)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snowball-and-elusion/17941/1 "2014-06-05T22:36:24Z")
Hello, At first, I was using the analyzer "language analyzer" and everything seemed to work very well. Until I realize that "a" is not part of the list of stopwords in french So I decided to test with snowball. It also seemed working well, but in this case it does remove short word like " l' ", " d' ", ... Hence my question: How to use snowball, keep filters by default, and add a list of stopwords and elusion? Otherwise, how to change the list of stopwords for analyzer "language analyzer"? And one last question: is there really an interest to use snowball rather than the analyzer "language analyzer"? is it faster? more relevant? thank you -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/56de95ea-bb68-42a0-889f-5d34bef4dcf2%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/56de95ea-bb68-42a0-889f-5d34bef4dcf2%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snowball-and-elusion/17941/2 "2017-07-06T01:24:22Z")
Closed on July 6, 2017, 1:24am UTC