Plurality in user messages

Question

Many times, when generating messages to show to the user, the message will contain a number of something that I want to inform the customer about.

I\'ll give a

Answer 1

How about to write function like

string GetOutputMessage(int count, string oneItemMsg, string multiItemMsg)
{
 return string.Format("{0} {1}", count, count > 1 ? multiItemMsg : oneItemMsg);
}

.. and use it whenever you need?

string message = "You have selected " + GetOutputMessage(noofitemsselected,"item","items") + ". Are you sure you want to delete it/them?";