Testing whether a word is plural or not

[pdscopes]

Since you can convert a word from its singular form to plural form and visa versa, is there a way to test if a word is plural or singular?

If not could I submit a pull request to do this? I would guess there could be issues with ambiguous words, e.g. sheep.

    /**
     * Returns true if the word is plural, false otherwise.
     * Ambiguous words return true.
     *
     * <pre>
     * $this->isPlural('post');       // false
     * $this->isPlural('children');   // true
     * $this->isPlural('sheep');      // true
     * $this->isPlural('words');      // true
     * $this->isPlural('CamelChild'); // false
     * </pre>
     *
     * @param string $word
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function isPlural($word)
    {
        return $word == $this->apply_inflections($word, $this->inflections->plurals);
    }

    /**
     * Returns true if the word is plural, false otherwise.
     * Ambiguous words return true.
     *
     * <pre>
     * $this->isSingular('post');       // true
     * $this->isSingular('children');   // false
     * $this->isSingular('sheep');      // true
     * $this->isSingular('words');      // false
     * $this->isSingular('CamelChild'); // true
     * </pre>
     *
     * @param string $word
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function isSingular($word)
    {
        return $word == $this->apply_inflections($word, $this->inflections->singulars);
    }

[olvlvl]

Thanks for your suggestion, that could be useful. Instead of applying inflections and checking if the word changes, what do you think about using the plural and singular regexp available in the Inflections instance?

[pdscopes]

I think that would be a nicer way of doing it actually. I'll give it go.