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Diffstat (limited to 'crawl-ref/source/libutil.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | crawl-ref/source/libutil.cc | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/libutil.cc b/crawl-ref/source/libutil.cc index 1b4826c8ca..0175291628 100644 --- a/crawl-ref/source/libutil.cc +++ b/crawl-ref/source/libutil.cc @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #include "defines.h" #include "directn.h" #include "initfile.h" +#include "itemname.h" // is_vowel() #include "libutil.h" #include "externs.h" #include "macro.h" @@ -332,7 +333,14 @@ std::string pluralise(const std::string &name, } else if (ends_with(name, "y")) { - return name.substr(0, name.length() - 1) + "ies"; + if (name == "y") + return ("ys"); + // day -> days, boy -> boys, etc + else if (is_vowel(name[name.length() - 2])) + return name + "s"; + // jelly -> jellies + else + return name.substr(0, name.length() - 1) + "ies"; } else if (ends_with(name, "fe")) { |