$ perl -MLingua::EN::Inflect -e 1 
Modification of a read-only value attempted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Lingua/EN/Inflect.pm line 140.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
zsh: exit 255   perl -MLingua::EN::Inflect -e 1

$ perl -v 

This is perl, v5.8.3 built for i386-freebsd
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