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- // Package english provides utilities to generate more user-friendly English output.
- package english
- import (
- "fmt"
- "strings"
- )
- // These are included because they are common technical terms.
- var specialPlurals = map[string]string{
- "index": "indices",
- "matrix": "matrices",
- "vertex": "vertices",
- }
- var sibilantEndings = []string{"s", "sh", "tch", "x"}
- var isVowel = map[byte]bool{
- 'A': true, 'E': true, 'I': true, 'O': true, 'U': true,
- 'a': true, 'e': true, 'i': true, 'o': true, 'u': true,
- }
- // PluralWord builds the plural form of an English word.
- // The simple English rules of regular pluralization will be used
- // if the plural form is an empty string (i.e. not explicitly given).
- // The special cases are not guaranteed to work for strings outside ASCII.
- func PluralWord(quantity int, singular, plural string) string {
- if quantity == 1 {
- return singular
- }
- if plural != "" {
- return plural
- }
- if plural = specialPlurals[singular]; plural != "" {
- return plural
- }
- // We need to guess what the English plural might be. Keep this
- // function simple! It doesn't need to know about every possiblity;
- // only regular rules and the most common special cases.
- //
- // Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_plural
- for _, ending := range sibilantEndings {
- if strings.HasSuffix(singular, ending) {
- return singular + "es"
- }
- }
- l := len(singular)
- if l >= 2 && singular[l-1] == 'o' && !isVowel[singular[l-2]] {
- return singular + "es"
- }
- if l >= 2 && singular[l-1] == 'y' && !isVowel[singular[l-2]] {
- return singular[:l-1] + "ies"
- }
- return singular + "s"
- }
- // Plural formats an integer and a string into a single pluralized string.
- // The simple English rules of regular pluralization will be used
- // if the plural form is an empty string (i.e. not explicitly given).
- func Plural(quantity int, singular, plural string) string {
- return fmt.Sprintf("%d %s", quantity, PluralWord(quantity, singular, plural))
- }
- // WordSeries converts a list of words into a word series in English.
- // It returns a string containing all the given words separated by commas,
- // the coordinating conjunction, and a serial comma, as appropriate.
- func WordSeries(words []string, conjunction string) string {
- switch len(words) {
- case 0:
- return ""
- case 1:
- return words[0]
- default:
- return fmt.Sprintf("%s %s %s", strings.Join(words[:len(words)-1], ", "), conjunction, words[len(words)-1])
- }
- }
- // OxfordWordSeries converts a list of words into a word series in English,
- // using an Oxford comma (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma). It
- // returns a string containing all the given words separated by commas, the
- // coordinating conjunction, and a serial comma, as appropriate.
- func OxfordWordSeries(words []string, conjunction string) string {
- switch len(words) {
- case 0:
- return ""
- case 1:
- return words[0]
- case 2:
- return strings.Join(words, fmt.Sprintf(" %s ", conjunction))
- default:
- return fmt.Sprintf("%s, %s %s", strings.Join(words[:len(words)-1], ", "), conjunction, words[len(words)-1])
- }
- }
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