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<font size=3>At 8/1/2010 05:42 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 11:44 AM,
Joel S. Berson <Berson@att.net> wrote:<br>
> sense 3, "Young fishes just produced from the<br>
> spawn." [In passing, _shouldn't that be "young<br>
> *fish*_?]<br><br>
Probably not. _Fishes_ was still the usual plural - at least in
Saint<br>
Louis and points south - in both print, especially in the titles of<br>
plates (Fishes and Other Aquatic Life of The Gulf of Mexico),
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But that's about multiple species. The book on reef fishes I read
some years ago said more than one, of one species, is
"fish".<br><br>
Joel<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>and<br>
speech by the time that, During The War, I had learned to read.<br>
Indeed, the plural _fish_ in place of _fishes_ still feels a little<br>
fishy to me.<br><br>
Cf. also the title of a popular song of the day,<br><br>
"Three Little _Fishes_." Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical
Knowledge.</font></blockquote></body>
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