Lingua/EN/Inflect.pm

1949 which indicates the grammatical "number" of the word (or of another word
1950 with which the word being inflected must agree). If the "number" argument is
1972 conjugated verb (that is, one which is already in the correct "person"
2020 (C<NO($;$)>) which, given a word and a(n optional) count, returns the
2026 In addition, if the count is zero (or some other term which implies
2081 The C<'comma'> option specifies which character to use as a comma.
2111 (C<NUM($;$)>) which may be used to set a persistent "default number"
2179 returned by the various C<PL_eq> subroutines encodes which of the
2185 It should be noted that two distinct singular words which happen to take
2208 which can take a 3rd person singular verb and
2223 C<AN($;$)>) which will correctly prepend the appropriate indefinite
2303 "Initialisms" (sometimes inaccurately called "acronyms") are terms which
2313 rules, which may be summarized as:
2424 which changes how numbers are translated. The argument must be a
2425 positive integer less than four, which indicated how the digits of the
2444 C<"five..five..five..one..two..zero..two">, which is also easy to
2471 a named argument, 'zero', which may be set to
2559 except if the items contain commas, in which case semicolons are used.
2601 subroutine (C<inflect($)>), which recognizes calls to the various inflection
2614 calls to C<NUM()> which are embedded in an C<inflect()>-interpolated
2643 specify which aspects of classical behaviour are to be used.
2664 Note however that C<classical()> has no effect on the inflection of words which
2671 plural according to the rules for names (which is that you don't
2680 Lingua::EN::Inflect provides five exportable subroutines which allow
2691 second argument. The second argument specifies a string which is
2767 The C<def_adj> subroutine takes a pair of string arguments, which specify
2783 The C<def_a> and C<def_an> subroutines each take a single argument, which
2802 the contents of any file named F<.inflectrc> which it finds in the
2825 F<.inflectrc> file, which in turn takes precedence over the system-wide
2943 unless the appropriate "classical" inflection is in effect, in which case the
2962 Another context in which intent (and not content) sometimes determines
3036 (I<Please> report words for which the correct plural or