"$1zes", '/^(ox)$/i' => "$1en", '/([m|l])ouse$/i' => "$1ice", '/(matrix|vertex|index)$/i'=> "$1ices", '/(x|ch|ss|sh)$/i' => "$1es", '/([^aeiouy]|qu)y$/i' => "$1ies", '/(hive)$/i' => "$1s", '/(?:([^f])fe|([lr])f)$/i' => "$1$2ves", '/(shea|lea|loa|thie)f$/i' => "$1ves", '/sis$/i' => "ses", '/([ti])um$/i' => "$1a", '/(tomat|potat|ech|her|vet)o$/i'=> "$1oes", '/(bu)s$/i' => "$1ses", '/(alias)$/i' => "$1es", '/(octop)us$/i' => "$1i", '/(ax|test)is$/i' => "$1es", '/(us)$/i' => "$1es", '/s$/i' => "s" ); private static $singular = array( '/(quiz)zes$/i' => "$1", '/(matr)ices$/i' => "$1ix", '/(vert|ind)ices$/i' => "$1ex", '/^(ox)en$/i' => "$1", '/(alias)es$/i' => "$1", '/(octop|vir)i$/i' => "$1us", '/(cris|ax|test)es$/i' => "$1is", '/(shoe)s$/i' => "$1", '/(o)es$/i' => "$1", '/(bus)es$/i' => "$1", '/([m|l])ice$/i' => "$1ouse", '/(x|ch|ss|sh)es$/i' => "$1", '/(m)ovies$/i' => "$1ovie", '/(s)eries$/i' => "$1eries", '/([^aeiouy]|qu)ies$/i' => "$1y", '/([lr])ves$/i' => "$1f", '/(tive)s$/i' => "$1", '/(hive)s$/i' => "$1", '/(li|wi|kni)ves$/i' => "$1fe", '/(shea|loa|lea|thie)ves$/i'=> "$1f", '/(^analy)ses$/i' => "$1sis", '/((a)naly|(b)a|(d)iagno|(p)arenthe|(p)rogno|(s)ynop|(t)he)ses$/i' => "$1$2sis", '/([ti])a$/i' => "$1um", '/(n)ews$/i' => "$1ews", '/(h|bl)ouses$/i' => "$1ouse", '/(corpse)s$/i' => "$1", '/(us)es$/i' => "$1", '/s$/i' => "" ); private static $irregular = array( 'child' => 'children', 'foot' => 'feet', 'goose' => 'geese', 'man' => 'men', 'mouse' => 'mice', 'move' => 'moves', 'person' => 'people', 'sex' => 'sexes', 'tooth' => 'teeth', ); // Some words are only uncountable sometimes. For example, "blues" can be // uncountable when referring to music, but countable when referring to // multiple colours. private static $uncountable = array( 'beef', 'bison', 'buffalo', 'carbon', 'chemistry', 'copper', 'geometry', 'gold', 'cs', 'css', 'deer', 'equipment', 'fish', 'furniture', 'information', 'mathematics', 'money', 'moose', 'nitrogen', 'oxygen', 'rice', 'series', 'sheep', 'species', 'surgery', 'traffic', 'water' ); /** * Get the plural of the word passed in. * @param string $string Word to pluralise * @return string Pluralised word */ public static function getPlural($string) { // save some time in the case that singular and plural are the same if (in_array(strtolower($string), self::$uncountable)) { return $string; } // check to see if already plural and irregular foreach (self::$irregular as $pattern => $result) { $_pattern = '/' . $result . '$/i'; if (preg_match($_pattern, $string)) { return $string; } } // check for irregular singular forms foreach (self::$irregular as $pattern => $result) { $pattern = '/' . $pattern . '$/i'; if (preg_match($pattern, $string)) { return preg_replace($pattern, $result, $string); } } // check for matches using regular expressions foreach (self::$plural as $pattern => $result) { if (preg_match($pattern, $string)) { return preg_replace($pattern, $result, $string); } } // No pattern match. Add an "s". return $string . 's'; } /** * Get the singular of the word passed in. * @param string $string Word to singularise * @return string Singularised word */ public static function getSingular($string) { // save some time in the case that singular and plural are the same if (in_array(strtolower($string), self::$uncountable)) { return $string; } // check to see if already singular and irregular foreach (self::$irregular as $pattern => $result) { $_pattern = '/' . $pattern . '$/i'; if (preg_match($_pattern, $string)) { return $string; } } // check for irregular plural forms foreach (self::$irregular as $result => $pattern) { $pattern = '/' . $pattern . '$/i'; if (preg_match($pattern, $string)) { return preg_replace($pattern, $result, $string); } } // check for matches using regular expressions foreach (self::$singular as $pattern => $result) { if (preg_match($pattern, $string)) { return preg_replace($pattern, $result, $string); } } return $string; } }