Actually, yes, it does :)

It might only appear right to me because I've become accustomed to doing it that way. I do see your point, but I still find plural array names feel more natural than singular ones:

my @reply = qw/a singular array name? how odd/;
my $cannotnamethisreply = $reply[5];
print $cannotnamethisreply;
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Now that looks stranger to me than using a plural for the array name and a singular for the related scalar. I can understand either view though. :)