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>darcs-2.4.4: a distributed, interactive, smart revision control system</TD
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>This modules provides rudimentary natural language generation
 (NLG) utilities.  That is, generating natural language from a
 machine representation.  Initially, only English is supported at
 all.  Representations are implemented for:
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> countable nouns (plurality); and
  * lists of clauses (foo, bar and/or baz).
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><A HREF="#v%3AenglishNum"
>englishNum</A
> :: <A HREF="English.html#t%3ACountable"
>Countable</A
> n =&gt; <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.0/Data-Int.html#t%3AInt"
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> -&gt; n -&gt; <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.0/Text-Show.html#t%3AShowS"
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>data</SPAN
>  <A HREF="#t%3AThis"
>This</A
>  = <A HREF="#v%3AThis"
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> <A HREF="English.html#t%3ANoun"
>Noun</A
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>andClauses</A
> :: [<A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.0/Data-Char.html#t%3AString"
>String</A
>] -&gt; <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.0/Data-Char.html#t%3AString"
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>englishNum</B
> :: <A HREF="English.html#t%3ACountable"
>Countable</A
> n =&gt; <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.0/Data-Int.html#t%3AInt"
>Int</A
> -&gt; n -&gt; <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.0/Text-Show.html#t%3AShowS"
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> englishNum 0 (Noun &quot;watch&quot;) &quot;&quot; == &quot;watches&quot;
 englishNum 1 (Noun &quot;watch&quot;) &quot;&quot; == &quot;watch&quot;
 englishNum 2 (Noun &quot;watch&quot;) &quot;&quot; == &quot;watches&quot;
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>Things that have a plural and singular spelling
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> <A HREF="English.html#t%3AThis"
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>This only distinguishes between nouns with a final -ch,
   and nouns which do not.
   More irregular nouns will just need to have their own type
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> plural (Noun &quot;batch&quot;) &quot;&quot; == &quot;batches&quot;
 plural (Noun &quot;bat&quot;)   &quot;&quot; == &quot;bats&quot;
 plural (Noun &quot;mouse&quot;) &quot;&quot; == &quot;mouses&quot; -- :-(
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> singular This (Noun &quot;batch&quot;) &quot;&quot; == &quot;this batch&quot;
 plural   This (Noun &quot;batch&quot;) &quot;&quot; == &quot;these batches&quot;
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> :: [<A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.0/Data-Char.html#t%3AString"
>String</A
>] -&gt; <A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.0/Data-Char.html#t%3AString"
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> orClauses [&quot;foo&quot;, &quot;bar&quot;, &quot;baz&quot;] == &quot;foo, bar or baz&quot;
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>As <TT
><A HREF="/usr/share/doc/ghc/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.0/Data-List.html#v%3Aintersperse"
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