mahmoud
`strutils.plural` does not handle acronyms correctly
If the word to be pluralized is an acronym like "DOI", then plural will match case and produce "DOIS", which is not the desired result in many (most?) cases. A better result would be "DOIs", to match its use in sentences such as "There are a total of 53 DOIs associated with this journal".
I realize acronyms are especially challenging, because it's basically impossible for plural to recognize every conceivable acronym. Perhaps a better solution would be to have some kind of option or override on the case-matching part of the code, such that the user could say "don't match case".
Good point, I'd take a PR for that if you want to take a swing at it. :)
On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 6:27 PM Mike Hucka @.***> wrote:
If the word to be pluralized is an acronym like "DOI", then plural will match case and produce "DOIS", which is not the desired result in many (most?) cases. A better result would be "DOIs", to match its use in sentences such as "There are a total of 53 DOIs associated with this journal".
I realize this is a difficult case, because it's basically impossible for plural to recognize every conceivable acronym. Perhaps a better solution would be to have some kind of option or override on the case-matching part of the code, such that the user could say "don't match case".
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