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16.5.15.14 Invoking the ‘eval_ngettext’ function
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     eval_ngettext MSGID MSGID-PLURAL COUNT

   This function outputs the native language translation of a textual
message whose grammatical form depends on a number, performing
dollar-substitution on the result.  Note that only shell variables
mentioned in MSGID or MSGID-PLURAL will be dollar-substituted in the
result.