[Lexicog] Re: lexical entries as singulars or plurals

[billposer at ALUM.MIT.EDU]

To me "fishes" is the plural of "kind of fish" whereas
"fish" is the plural of individual fish.

Are there other examples of "fishes" as an individual plural
in Early Modern English? The King James Bible may not be an entirely
reliable guide to normal usage since (in the case of Matthew) it
is a translation from the Greek, which uses the plural "tous ixtuas".

Bill
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Bill Poser, Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~wjposer/ billposer at alum.mit.edu


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