diff --git a/data/json/items/ammo.json b/data/json/items/ammo.json
index 8d412abf94521..e6f4432b4b54f 100644
--- a/data/json/items/ammo.json
+++ b/data/json/items/ammo.json
@@ -342,8 +342,7 @@
     "type": "AMMO",
     "id": "bearing",
     "price": 100,
-    "name": "bearings",
-    "name_plural": "bearings",
+    "name": { "str": "bearings", "str_pl": "bearings" },
     "symbol": "=",
     "color": "dark_gray",
     "looks_like": "pebble",
@@ -828,8 +827,7 @@
     "id": "cac2powder",
     "category": "spare_parts",
     "price": 200,
-    "name": "calcium carbide premix",
-    "name_plural": "calcium carbide premix",
+    "name": { "str": "calcium carbide premix", "str_pl": "calcium carbide premix" },
     "symbol": "=",
     "color": "dark_gray",
     "description": "A powdered mixture of coke and lime ready to be smelted into usable calcium carbide in an arc furnace.",
@@ -1153,8 +1151,7 @@
     "type": "AMMO",
     "id": "RPG_die",
     "price": 10,
-    "name": "RPG die",
-    "name_plural": "RPG dice",
+    "name": { "str": "RPG die", "str_pl": "RPG dice" },
     "symbol": "=",
     "color": "light_gray",
     "looks_like": "marble",
@@ -1197,8 +1194,7 @@
     "id": "scrap_bronze",
     "type": "AMMO",
     "category": "spare_parts",
-    "name": "bronze",
-    "name_plural": "bronze",
+    "name": { "str": "bronze", "str_pl": "bronze" },
     "description": "Decent-sized chunks of bronze, for fashioning some old-school items.",
     "weight": "218 g",
     "volume": "250 ml",
diff --git a/data/json/items/chemicals_and_resources.json b/data/json/items/chemicals_and_resources.json
index 80055a032ae0b..b21b8e3bf953a 100644
--- a/data/json/items/chemicals_and_resources.json
+++ b/data/json/items/chemicals_and_resources.json
@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@
     "id": "chunk_sulfur",
     "category": "spare_parts",
     "price": 50,
-    "name": "chunk of sulfur",
-    "name_plural": "chunks of sulfur",
+    "name": { "str": "chunk of sulfur", "str_pl": "chunks of sulfur" },
     "symbol": "*",
     "color": "yellow",
     "description": "A chunk of pure sulfur.  Break it up to use it.",
@@ -57,8 +56,7 @@
     "id": "material_cement",
     "category": "spare_parts",
     "price": 200,
-    "name": "cement",
-    "name_plural": "cement",
+    "name": { "str": "cement", "str_pl": "cement" },
     "symbol": "=",
     "color": "dark_gray",
     "description": "Portland is most likely long gone, but its memory persists in cement.  This ubiquitous binder can be used for all kinds of advanced masonry.  Just add water.",
@@ -654,8 +652,7 @@
     "id": "chem_chromium_oxide",
     "category": "chems",
     "price": 500,
-    "name": "chromium oxide",
-    "name_plural": "chromium oxide",
+    "name": { "str": "chromium oxide", "str_pl": "chromium oxide" },
     "symbol": "=",
     "color": "green",
     "description": "A handful of chromium oxide.  This substance, typically known as the only stable green pigment for paints, is also a mild oxidizer, which can be mixed with aluminum powder to make thermite for welding.  If one had access to a CVD machine and a laboratory worth of reagents, they might be able to produce very durable ceramic layers.",
@@ -673,8 +670,7 @@
     "id": "chem_carbide",
     "category": "chems",
     "price": 75,
-    "name": "calcium carbide",
-    "name_plural": "calcium carbide",
+    "name": { "str": "calcium carbide", "str_pl": "calcium carbide" },
     "symbol": "=",
     "color": "white",
     "description": "A handful of calcium carbide, giving off a faint, garlic-like smell.  Commercially, calcium carbide was used for on-the-spot manufacture of acetylene and historically to power acetylene lamps.  If mixed with water and sealed, it will explode with little strength, but with relatively loud noise and could maybe be used as a decoy.",
@@ -916,8 +912,7 @@
     "id": "chem_hmtd",
     "category": "chems",
     "price": 5000,
-    "name": "HMTD",
-    "name_plural": "HMTD",
+    "name": { "str": "HMTD", "str_pl": "HMTD" },
     "symbol": "=",
     "color": "white",
     "description": "Hexamine peroxide: this fine, yellowish powder is a powerful primary explosive, used to initiate detonation of more stable explosives, such as RDX.  Relatively stable, but best not store it for too long.",
diff --git a/data/json/items/fuel.json b/data/json/items/fuel.json
index 29539ce9ae8eb..98e3a5ade1144 100644
--- a/data/json/items/fuel.json
+++ b/data/json/items/fuel.json
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
   {
     "id": "chem_ethanol",
     "type": "AMMO",
-    "name": "ethanol",
-    "name_plural": "ethanol",
+    "name": { "str": "ethanol", "str_pl": "ethanol" },
     "description": "Extremely pure alcohol suitable for use as a component in chemical reactions.  You could also water it down and drink it, or use it as fuel in alcohol-burning stoves.",
     "weight": "1 g",
     "volume": "200ml",
@@ -44,8 +43,7 @@
   {
     "id": "diesel",
     "type": "AMMO",
-    "name": "diesel",
-    "name_plural": "diesel",
+    "name": { "str": "diesel", "str_pl": "diesel" },
     "description": "Petroleum-based fuel made from a byproduct of the gasoline making process.",
     "category": "fuel",
     "weight": "1 g",
diff --git a/data/json/items/generic.json b/data/json/items/generic.json
index 9f1ac5fbb77d9..f73f475af54c1 100644
--- a/data/json/items/generic.json
+++ b/data/json/items/generic.json
@@ -2316,11 +2316,10 @@
     "type": "AMMO",
     "ammo_type": "NULL",
     "category": "other",
-    "name": "autoclave pouch",
-    "name_plural": "autoclave pouches",
+    "name": { "str": "autoclave pouch", "str_pl": "autoclave pouches" },
     "description": "This is a medical device that bears the approval of the FDA (Food and Drug Administration).  If used properly, these pouches can keep things sterile indefinitely.",
     "weight": "2 g",
-    "volume": 0,
+    "volume": "1 ml",
     "price": 5,
     "use_action": "PACK_CBM",
     "to_hit": -1,
diff --git a/data/json/items/resources/home_improvement.json b/data/json/items/resources/home_improvement.json
index 461febfa50716..679f76ce3aab4 100644
--- a/data/json/items/resources/home_improvement.json
+++ b/data/json/items/resources/home_improvement.json
@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@
     "id": "b_paint",
     "category": "other",
     "price": 120,
-    "name": "blue paint",
-    "name_plural": "blue paint",
+    "name": { "str": "blue paint", "str_pl": "blue paint" },
     "symbol": "o",
     "color": "blue",
     "description": "A can of blue paint.",
diff --git a/data/json/items/resources/tailoring.json b/data/json/items/resources/tailoring.json
index 0e96f775f4ee1..9e6d2b13d16c8 100644
--- a/data/json/items/resources/tailoring.json
+++ b/data/json/items/resources/tailoring.json
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@
     "id": "scrap_cotton",
     "type": "AMMO",
     "category": "other",
-    "name": "cotton scraps",
-    "name_plural": "cotton scraps",
+    "name": { "str": "cotton scraps", "str_pl": "cotton scraps" },
     "description": "Oddly-shaped smallish bits of cotton, waste material from tailoring projects.  Not useful for much and usually disposed of, but can be recycled into some thread if you really want.",
     "weight": "1 g",
     "volume": "1 ml",
@@ -97,8 +96,7 @@
     "id": "scrap_nomex",
     "copy-from": "scrap_cotton",
     "type": "AMMO",
-    "name": "Nomex scraps",
-    "name_plural": "Nomex scraps",
+    "name": { "str": "Nomex scraps", "str_pl": "Nomex scraps" },
     "description": "Oddly-shaped smallish bits of heat-resistant Nomex fabric, waste material from tailoring projects.  Normally it's disposed of, but since Nomex would be very difficult to make in a post-apocalyptic world, it might be worth recycling it.",
     "price": 5,
     "material": "nomex"