How to turn plural words singular?

Question

I\'m preparing some table names for an ORM, and I want to turn plural table names into single entity names. My only problem is finding an algorithm that does it reliably. He

Answer 1

I think you have to use a list to translate plural into singular for some special words (in your example Types->Type).

I think you could have a look at the sourcecode of CakePHP (you might start your search here). They are using such an algorithm for their tablenames and fieldnames to automagically join tables.

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[Edit:] Here you have some scientific work to read about "Plural inflection in English"