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Unread 10-24-2012, 04:39 PM
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@Verity but fishes sounds soooooo much cooler.

Anyway.
"Fish" is one of those odd words that's usually both singular and plural—like "deer" and (in Canada) "beer." So we can say:

We caught five fish.
We saw three deer.
We Canadians drank six beer.

But we can also use "fishes" when we are talking about different species:

The fishes of the Fraser River include salmon and sturgeon.

Last edited by BLNK; 10-24-2012 at 04:42 PM. Reason: Added parenthesis.
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@Verity but fishes sounds soooooo much cooler.

Anyway.
"Fish" is one of those odd words that's usually both singular and plural—like "deer" and (in Canada) "beer." So we can say:

We caught five fish.
We saw three deer.
We Canadians drank six beer.

But we can also use "fishes" when we are talking about different species:

The fishes of the Fraser River include salmon and sturgeon.

Last edited by BLNK; 10-24-2012 at 04:42 PM. Reason: Added parenthesis.
 
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