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

There's a nice implementation of an inflector in uNnAddIns project that even implements an experimental spanish inflector. The idea is caught from Rails Inflector module.

It can be used as well for other things like converting from CamelCase to normal text and other goodies and for example generating browser friendly URLs from titles.