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Provided by: liblingua-en-inflect-phrase-perl_0.18-2_all bug

NAME
       Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase - Inflect short English Phrases


SYNOPSIS
         use Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase;
         use Test::More tests => 2;

         my $plural   = Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::to_PL('green egg and ham');

         is $plural, 'green eggs and ham';

         my $singular = Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::to_S('green eggs and ham');

         is $singular, 'green egg and ham';


DESCRIPTION
       Attempts to pluralize or singularize short English phrases.

       Does not throw exceptions at present, if you attempt to pluralize an already pluralized phrase, it will
       leave it unchanged (and vice versa.)

       The behavior of this module is subject to change as I tweak the heuristics, as some things get fixed
       others might regress. The processing of natural language is a messy business.

       If it doesn't work, please email or submit to RT the example you tried, and I'll try to fix it.


OPTIONS
       By default, this module prefers to treat words as nouns (sometimes words can be interpreted as a verb or
       a noun without context.) This is better for things such as database table/column names, which is what
       this module is primarily for.

       This behavior can be switched with the variable $prefer_nouns. The default is 1.

       For example:

         {
           local $Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::prefer_nouns = 0;
           is Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::to_S('sources split'), 'source splits';
         }
         {
           local $Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::prefer_nouns = 1;
           is Lingua::EN::Inflect::Phrase::to_S('source splits'), 'source split';
         }


OPTIONAL EXPORTS
       "to_PL", "to_S"


SUBROUTINES
   to_PL
       Attempts to pluralizes a phrase unless already plural.

   to_S
       Attempts to singularize a phrase unless already singular.


BUGS
       Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-lingua-en-inflect-phrase at rt.cpan.org", or through
       the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Lingua-EN-Inflect-Phrase>.  I will
       be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.


SUPPORT
       More information at:

       •   RT: CPAN's request tracker

           <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Lingua-EN-Inflect-Phrase>

       •   AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

           <http://annocpan.org/dist/Lingua-EN-Inflect-Phrase>

       •   CPAN Ratings

           <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Lingua-EN-Inflect-Phrase>

       •   Search CPAN

           <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-EN-Inflect-Phrase/>


REPOSITORY
         git clone git://github.com/rkitover/lingua-en-inflect-phrase.git lingua-en-inflect-phrase


SEE ALSO
       Lingua::EN::Inflect, Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number, Lingua::EN::Tagger


AUTHOR
       Rafael Kitover <rkitover@cpan.org>


       Copyright (c) 2010 Rafael Kitover (rkitover@cpan.org).

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the
       GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

       See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.