NAME

       Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number - Force number of words to singular or plural

SYNOPSIS

         use Lingua::EN::Inflect::Number qw(
           number to_S to_PL # Or anything you want from Lingua::EN::Inflect
         );

         print number("goat");  # "s" - there's only one goat
         print number("goats"); # "p" - there's several goats
         print number("sheep"); # "ambig" - there could be one or many sheep

         print to_S("goats");   # "goat"
         print to_PL("goats");  # "goats" - it already is
         print to_S("goat");    # "goat" - it already is
         print to_S("sheep");   # "sheep"

DESCRIPTION

       This module extends the functionality of Lingua::EN::Inflect with three new functions
       available for export:

   number
       This takes a word, and determines its number. It returns "s" for singular, "p" for plural,
       and "ambig" for words that can be either singular or plural.

       Based on that:

   to_S / to_PL
       These take a word and convert it forcefully either to singular or to plural.
       "Lingua::EN::Inflect" does funny things if you try to pluralise an already-plural word,
       but this module does the right thing.

DISCLAIMER

       The whole concept is based on several undocumented features and idiosyncracies in the way
       Lingua::EN::Inflect works. Because of this, the module only works reliably on nouns. It's
       also possible that these idiosyncracies will be fixed at some point in the future and this
       module will need to be rethought. But it works at the moment. Additionally, any
       disclaimers on Lingua::EN::Inflect apply double here.

AUTHOR

       Simon Cozens, "simon@cpan.org"

SEE ALSO

       Lingua::EN::Inflect.