To me this sounds like
use Lingua::EN::Pluralize::DSL;
which would overload your grammar locally to parse strings this way.
However, due to i18n reasons this should not be in the core.
It might make sense to ship a slightly modernized Locale::MakeText
with Perl 6 so that it can be used in the compiler itself, but
unless a fully open ended system like L::MT is included I think
having anything at all might be damaging, because this will
encourage people to use the partial solution that is already built
in instead of the complete on eon the CPAN (c.f. many core modules).
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