Correct Plural Form for words that end in "y".

[martin@…]

In my models.py file I was using:

class Story(models.Model):

and expecting it to work fine and display stories when it needs to be plural.

Unfortuantly it displayed "Storys" on the main admin page.

This needs to be fixed.

[Adrian Holovaty]

To specify the plural form, define verbose_name_plural in your class Meta. Django intentionally does not include a English-language pluralization engine.

[Django Trac]

Could this be re-investigated on the grounds that:

a) There's not much documentation on the verbose_name_plural setting (at least none that's obvious under Model or admin).

b) Most frameworks tend to append ies instead of ys (CakePHP, Ruby etc) as a matter of simplicity for the developer.

c) English is the de-facto standard, otherwise we wouldn't be using an automatic plural 's' in the first place. Heck, the entire framework is english based - may as well do it right.

d) Non-English speakers can utilise the verbose_name_plural if required.

e) Making the development process 'easier', and less trawling through search engines, would certainly help the framework's credibility.

f) It will be harder to make a 'significant' change like this later - better to do it before it's too late.

I respect the comment made by Adrian but it's more of a matter of convenience than annoying non-english speakers (which can be covered in point c).

As an interim solution, to save the average developer time finding the 'solution' to this problem, could verbose_name_plural be explained more evidently in the documentation or by the manage scripts when creating new models?

Would it be possible to have a more permanent fix in place, if my above points are agreed to, before version 1.0 to limit future incompatability?

[Karen Tracey]

Per ​http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/contributing/ please don't reopen issues that have been marked wontfix. Instead, bring up the issue on the developer's list, where you'll reach a wider audience to gauge if there is sufficient interest to revisit the decision.