[adrianmsmith]

Having table names plural e.g. "customers" and object names in your programming language e.g. "customer" is one extra piece of complexity that's not necessary.

For example we have a table "customer_data" at work and in our generated ORM code it's called "customer_datum".

The open-source singularization library is doing its job, but it sure made it difficult for me to global-search for that object name when I joined the company and didn't know the object was called that.

[5123121]

data is basically the singular word at this point in English language history :). "Datum" now remains as a fun quiz for the people who don't know.