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Singular form of words ending in 'our' and in 'lives' are incorrect

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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend

Research direction

Start at the pattern.en.singularize entry point and reproduce the reported cases for “flour,” “colour,” “your,” and “olives.” Trace the singularization rules responsible for the incorrect outputs, then verify that these words produce their expected singular forms without breaking related cases.

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review

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Python 2.7.9 (default, Feb 10 2015, 03:28:08)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 6.0 (clang-600.0.56)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
$> from pattern.en import singularize
$> singularize('flour')
'flmy'
$> singularize('colour')
'colmy'
$> singularize('your')
'ymy'
$> singularize('olives')
'olife'

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