To: Renfield
Isn’t the Plural of “shrimp”, “SHRIMP”????
7 posted on
12/12/2012 7:13:47 AM PST by
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The plural of shrimp of an individual species is “shrimp”. The plural of shrimp species is “shrimps”.
12 posted on
12/12/2012 7:30:40 AM PST by
Renfield
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The way I read it, “shrimps” is meant to include other members of the suborder Caridea, and not more than one shrimp on the bah-beee.
13 posted on
12/12/2012 7:32:18 AM PST by
NativeSon
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Not necessarily. My preference is to use “shrimps” when I mean to enumerate a discrete quantity, and shrimp solely as a collective noun, but both “shrimps” and “shrimp” are acceptable plurals.
In this case, I think the author uses “shrimps,” because he is speaking of multiple populations of shrimp, just as one might use “sands.”
22 posted on
12/12/2012 8:02:07 AM PST by
dangus
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Down here in the south, it’s pronounced, swumps.
24 posted on
12/12/2012 8:05:38 AM PST by
mothball
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Yes, the plural of shrimp is shrimp. As is deer, deer.
32 posted on
12/12/2012 11:36:57 AM PST by
kabumpo
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