app.py

@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ cached: dict = {
     "chapter_list": [],
     "books_chapter_lengths": {},
     "json_dictionary": json.load(open("data/1828_Webster_KJV.json", "r")),
+    "grammatical_variants": json.load(open("data/grammatical_variants.json", "r")),
     "html_response": open("html/response.html", "r").read(),
     "html_navbar": open("html/navbar.html", "r").read(),
     "css_navbar": open("styles/header.css", "r").read(),
@@ -773,10 +774,31 @@ def search():
         return send_file("html/search.html")
     results = lookup_fts(cleaned_keywords)
     if not results:
-        h = hunspell.HunSpell("data/kjv.dic", "data/kjv.aff")
-
-        # Split query into words and correct each one
+        # PRIORITY 1: Try grammatical variant expansion first
         words = cleaned_keywords.split()
+
+        for word in words:
+            variants = cached["grammatical_variants"].get(word.lower(), [])
+            if variants:
+                # Try each variant individually
+                for variant in variants:
+                    variant_query = cleaned_keywords.replace(word, variant, 1)
+                    results = lookup_fts(variant_query)
+                    if results:
+                        response_list = scripture_response(results)
+                        arg_view = request.args.get("view", None)
+                        if arg_view == "plain":
+                            response = f"Showing results for '{variant_query}' (grammatical variant of '{cleaned_keywords}')\n<br>" + "<br>".join(response_list)
+                        elif arg_view == "rich":
+                            variant_notice = f"<div class='variant-notice'>Showing results for '<strong>{variant_query}</strong>' (grammatical variant of '{cleaned_keywords}')</div>"
+                            response_str = "".join(response_list)
+                            response = response_str.replace("<div class='responses'>", f"<div class='responses'>{variant_notice}", 1)
+                        else:
+                            response = jsonify({"original": cleaned_keywords, "variant": variant_query, "results": response_list})
+                        return response
+
+        # PRIORITY 2: If grammatical variants didn't help, try spell-check
+        h = hunspell.HunSpell("data/kjv.dic", "data/kjv.aff")
         corrected_words = []
         had_corrections = False
 
@@ -798,19 +820,19 @@ def search():
             corrected_keyword = " ".join(corrected_words)
             results = lookup_fts(corrected_keyword)
             if results:
-                # Prepend correction notice to results
                 response_list = scripture_response(results)
-                correction_notice = f"<div class='correction-notice'>Showing results for '<strong>{corrected_keyword}</strong>' (corrected from '{cleaned_keywords}')</div>"
                 arg_view = request.args.get("view", None)
                 if arg_view == "plain":
                     response = f"Showing results for '{corrected_keyword}' (corrected from '{cleaned_keywords}')\n<br>" + "<br>".join(response_list)
                 elif arg_view == "rich":
-                    response = correction_notice + "".join(response_list)
+                    correction_notice = f"<div class='correction-notice'>Showing results for '<strong>{corrected_keyword}</strong>' (corrected from '{cleaned_keywords}')</div>"
+                    response_str = "".join(response_list)
+                    response = response_str.replace("<div class='responses'>", f"<div class='responses'>{correction_notice}", 1)
                 else:
                     response = jsonify({"corrected_from": cleaned_keywords, "corrected_to": corrected_keyword, "results": response_list})
                 return response
 
-        # If we still have no results, show suggestions
+        # PRIORITY 3: If we still have no results, show spelling suggestions
         suggestions = h.suggest(cleaned_keywords)
         return "{} not found, try one of the following: {}".format(
             cleaned_keywords, ", ".join(suggestions) if suggestions else "No suggestions available"

data/grammatical_variants.json

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+  "you": ["ye", "thee", "thou"],
+  "ye": ["you", "thee", "thou"],
+  "thee": ["you", "ye", "thou"],
+  "thou": ["you", "ye", "thee"],
+  "your": ["thy", "thine"],
+  "thy": ["your", "thine"],
+  "thine": ["your", "thy"],
+  "has": ["hath"],
+  "hath": ["has", "have"],
+  "have": ["hath"],
+  "does": ["doth"],
+  "doth": ["does", "do"],
+  "do": ["doth"],
+  "says": ["saith"],
+  "saith": ["says", "said"],
+  "said": ["saith"],
+  "are": ["art"],
+  "art": ["are"]
+}

styles/header.css

@@ -89,11 +89,30 @@ body {
     max-width: var(--content-max-width);
     margin: 0 auto;
     padding: var(--space-md);
-    margin-top: var(--header-height);
+    margin-top: calc(var(--header-height) + var(--space-md));
     color: var(--color-text-primary);
     white-space: pre-wrap;
 }
 
+/* Correction & Variant Notices */
+.correction-notice,
+.variant-notice {
+    font-family: var(--font-ui);
+    font-size: 0.95rem;
+    padding: var(--space-md) var(--space-lg);
+    margin-bottom: var(--space-lg);
+    background-color: var(--color-bg-tertiary);
+    border-left: 4px solid var(--color-accent-primary);
+    border-radius: var(--border-radius-sm);
+    color: var(--color-text-secondary);
+}
+
+.correction-notice strong,
+.variant-notice strong {
+    color: var(--color-accent-primary);
+    font-weight: 600;
+}
+
 /* Results Count */
 .results-count {
     font-family: var(--font-ui);