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;# $Id$
;#
;# Copyright (c) 1990-2006, Raphael Manfredi
;#
;# You may redistribute only under the terms of the Artistic License,
;# as specified in the README file that comes with the distribution.
;# You may reuse parts of this distribution only within the terms of
;# that same Artistic License; a copy of which may be found at the root
;# of the source tree for mailagent 3.0.
;#
;# $Log: plural.pl,v $
;# Revision 3.0 1993/11/29 13:49:07 ram
;# Baseline for mailagent 3.0 netwide release.
;#
;#
# Pluralize names -- Adapted from a routine posted by Tom Christiansen in
# comp.lang.perl on June 20th, 1992.
sub plural {
local($_, $n) = @_; # Word and amount (plural if not specified)
$n = 2 if $n eq ''; # Pluralize word by default
if ($n != 1) { # 0 something is plural
if ($_ eq 'was') {
$_ = 'were';
} else {
s/y$/ies/ || s/s$/ses/ || s/([cs]h)$/$1es/ ||
s/sis$/ses/ || s/ium$/ia/ || s/$/s/;
}
}
"$_"; # How to write $n times the original $_
}
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