Plural English String - CSharp System

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Plural English String

Demo Code


using System.Text;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System;/*  w  w  w .  j a va 2s  . c o  m*/

public class Main{
        public static string Plural(this string simpleNoun, int count = 2)
        {
            if (simpleNoun == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(simpleNoun));
            if (count == 1) return simpleNoun;

            if (simpleNoun.EndsWith("ay") ||
                simpleNoun.EndsWith("ey") ||
                simpleNoun.EndsWith("iy") ||
                simpleNoun.EndsWith("oy") ||
                simpleNoun.EndsWith("uy"))
                return simpleNoun + "s";

            if (simpleNoun.EndsWith("y"))
                return simpleNoun.Substring(0, simpleNoun.Length - 1) + "ies";

            if (simpleNoun.EndsWith("ss"))
                return simpleNoun + "es";

            if (simpleNoun.EndsWith("s"))
                return simpleNoun;

            return simpleNoun + "s";
        }
}

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