Suggested arsd.english.plural improvement

[pineapplemachine]

I happened to notice that, even setting aside exceptions, the current implementation only accounts for a subset of pluralization rules, and is incorrect for most words terminated by a vowel. A more complete progression of conditionals would be:

• If the word is a single lower-case character then the plural is (usually) formed by adding "'s", e.g. a's.

• If the word is a single upper-case character then the plural is (usually) formed by adding "s", e.g. As.

• If the word ends in "o", then the plural is (usually) formed by adding "es", e.g. heroes.

• If the word ends in "y" then the plural is (usually) formed by dropping "y"; adding "ies", e.g. flies.

• If the word ends in "f" but not "ff" then the plural is (usually) formed by dropping "f" and adding "ves", e.g. dwarves, cliffs.

• If the word ends in "ife" then the plural is (usually) formed by dropping "fe" and adding "ves", e.g. knives.

• If the word ends in "s" but not "ss" and the word is a single syllable then the plural is (usually) formed by adding "ses", e.g. busses, fusses.

• If the word ends in "s", "z", "x", "sh", or "ch" then the plural is (usually) formed by adding "es", e.g. glasses, boxes, wrenches.

• In all other cases the plural is (usually) formed by adding "s".

[adamdruppe]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2016 at 03:58:32PM -0700, Sophie Kirschner wrote:

I happened to notice that, even setting aside exceptions, the current implementation only accounts for a subset of pluralization rules. A more complete progression of conditionals would be:

Yeah, it was extremely minimal just for a few words.

But adding these are good ideas.