Table names, singular or plural

[eluser]snifty[/eluser]
This is an interesting question, old though it may be.

Various plugins and libraries seem to have different ideas about this. For instance, Phil's base model expects singular table names:

https://github.com/philsturgeon/codeigniter-base-model

...although it supports alternatives. As ipsod describes, Datamapper wants plural table names:

http://stensi.com/datamapper/pages/models.html

I guess there's no way to standardize so that such packages can work together without hacking