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inflect.py provides plural inflections, singular noun inflections,
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"a"/"an" selection for English words, and manipulation of numbers as
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words.
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Plural forms of all nouns, most verbs, and some adjectives are provided.
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Where appropriate, "classical" variants (for example: "brother" ->
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"brethren", "dogma" -> "dogmata", etc.) are also provided.
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Single forms of nouns are also provided. The gender of singular pronouns
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can be chosen (for example "they" -> "it" or "she" or "he" or "they").
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Pronunciation-based "a"/"an" selection is provided for all English
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words, and most initialisms.
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It is also possible to inflect numerals (1,2,3) to ordinals (1st, 2nd,
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3rd) and to English words ("one", "two", "three").
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In generating these inflections, inflect.py follows the Oxford English
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Dictionary and the guidelines in Fowler's Modern English Usage,
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preferring the former where the two disagree.
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