Prevent creation of tag which is singular form of an existing tag in the plural

I noticed informally when exploring the site that many tags appear to exist in both singular and plural forms. For example, here on Meta, there is both comment and comments as well as notification and notifications (and a separate question here discusses the possible merging of post and posts).

Could the logic for tag creation have a mechanism to prevent or at least slow down this sprawl? For example, require a separate confirmation before allowing the creation of a new tag which only differs by the final s (or even more generally by having a very small edit distance to an existing tag), and/or perhaps automatically creating a synonym when the user accepts the plural instead of the singular (or vice versa, though the plural generally seems to be dominating in the examples I found)?

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