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[BUG] The Singularize function is extremely bad TBH

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python

Research direction

Start by locating the singularize function and reviewing how it handles the reported examples: business, virginia, tour, and loss. Define the expected behavior for these false positives and add focused regression coverage; the work is done when these examples no longer produce incorrect singularization without requiring an exception dictionary.

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Description

The built-in singularize function yields lots of false positives:

Here're some examples:

  1. business
  2. virginia
  3. tour
  4. loss

It ends up I need to define a self-maintained exception dictionary, which is really inconvenient.
I know it's hard to cover all cases, but some of the false positives are really trivial.
I am quite disappointed given this repo receives lots of stars.

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