Ed Elliott kicks a hornet’s nest:
There is a lot of confusion when it comes to designing tables in SQL Server around whether to pluralize names or not. How do you choose whether to pluralize or not?
If we want to store a list of people and their details do we use “Person”, “Persons”, “People” or “Peoples”? Some people will use “People” and some will use “Person”, other persons or people would go for “Peoples” or “Persons”.
My preference is singular. In the event that I do pluralize a table, I use a grammatically correct pluralization. None of this “childs” nonsense.