To: SeekAndFind
How many fish do we need before we have fishes?
3 posted on
12/29/2024 7:16:51 PM PST by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: BenLurkin
Fishes refers to many kinds of fish. Salmon are fish, as are tuna. Salmon and tuna are fishes.
15 posted on
12/29/2024 7:45:36 PM PST by
gundog
(It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. the )
To: BenLurkin
If I recall correctly, fish is used for a single fish, or a bunch of the same type of fish. But if you have a bunch of more than one type of fish it is fishes.
29 posted on
12/29/2024 11:30:59 PM PST by
21twelve
(Ever Vigilant - Never Fearful)
To: BenLurkin
“...How many fish do we need before we have fishes?”
In the case of the rare word with a super-plural, I was taught that it was a case of the super-plural denoting separate groups of a particular item, such as, for example: One fish, one hundred fish, two dozen groups of fishes.
The only other English words I know of that have super-plural forms as well as ordinary plural forms are: Brother —> Brothers —> Brethren, and the very archaic: Sister —> Sisters —> Sistren.
34 posted on
12/30/2024 3:24:04 AM PST by
Kriggerel
("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
To: BenLurkin
How many fish do we need before we have fishes? If your next post mentions bicycles (or "a bicycle"), I think my brain might explode.
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