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I've gone back and forth on this in respect to database tables and ultimately prefer singular. If the table is named "profile", I think it's obvious that it can store more than 1 profile, since... well it's a table and has rows.

I don't see a problem with writing "childs" or "persons".

In this scenario, consistency is more useful than grammatical correctness [1]. And the simpler pluralization logic makes it easier for non-English speakers to work with the codebase.

Agree. I've always preferred the Django vs the Rails way on this. Django uses pluralization only for display purposes.

Things are object_detail (singular) and object_list (plural).

It just assumes 'append s' for plural displays, unless you override. I like the _list suffix instead of trying to pluralize