public function singularize($word)
{
$_this =& self::getInstance();
if (isset($_this->_singularized[$word])) {
return $_this->_singularized[$word];
}
if (!isset($_this->_singular['merged']['uninflected'])) {
$_this->_singular['merged']['uninflected'] = array_merge($_this->_singular['uninflected'], $_this->_uninflected);
}
if (!isset($_this->_singular['merged']['irregular'])) {
$_this->_singular['merged']['irregular'] = array_merge($_this->_singular['irregular'], array_flip($_this->_plural['irregular']));
}
if (!isset($_this->_singular['cacheUninflected']) || !isset($_this->_singular['cacheIrregular'])) {
$_this->_singular['cacheUninflected'] = '(?:' . implode('|', $_this->_singular['merged']['uninflected']) . ')';
$_this->_singular['cacheIrregular'] = '(?:' . implode('|', array_keys($_this->_singular['merged']['irregular'])) . ')';
}
if (preg_match('/(.*)\\b(' . $_this->_singular['cacheIrregular'] . ')$/i', $word, $regs)) {
$_this->_singularized[$word] = $regs[1] . substr($word, 0, 1) . substr($_this->_singular['merged']['irregular'][strtolower($regs[2])], 1);
return $_this->_singularized[$word];
}
if (preg_match('/^(' . $_this->_singular['cacheUninflected'] . ')$/i', $word, $regs)) {
$_this->_singularized[$word] = $word;
return $word;
}
foreach ($_this->_singular['rules'] as $rule => $replacement) {
if (preg_match($rule, $word)) {
$_this->_singularized[$word] = preg_replace($rule, $replacement, $word);
return $_this->_singularized[$word];
}
}
$_this->_singularized[$word] = $word;
return $word;
}