English Language Plural / Singular Transform Function

Question

Is there any function (VB.NET or C#) that can transform an English word into its singular or to its plural form?

I was thinking of having a database that contains all words in English as well as their plural form but I also think that it is stupid since that will be huge and besides there are rules in English on how to translate a word to its plural form, so why not create a function that does the transformation?

Answer 1

You can use Humanizer micro library. It's capable of this and a lot more.

Disclaimer: I am the creator of the library.

Answer 2

In the System.Data.Entity.Design dll there is a namespace called PluralizationServices.

System.Data.Entity.Design.PluralizationServices.PluralizationService.CreateService(CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-us")) will give you an object that exposes the self explanatory Pluralize, Singularize, IsPlural and IsSingular methods.

EF uses it to pluralize and singularize table names.