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<blockquote data-quote="Fly Carpin" data-source="post: 323260" data-attributes="member: 1187"><p>[h=1]Fish vs. fishes[/h]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">The plural of <em>fish </em>is usually <em><strong>fish</strong>, </em>but<em> <strong>fishes</strong></em> has a few uses. In biology, for instance, <em>fishes</em> is used to refer to multiple <a href="https://grammarist.com/usage/species/" target="_blank">species</a> of fish. For example, if you say you saw four fish when scuba diving, that means you saw four individual fish, but if you say you saw four fishes, we might infer that you saw an undetermined number of fish of four different species.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>Fishes</em>, with an <a href="https://grammarist.com/grammar/apostrophe/" target="_blank">apostrophe</a>,also serves as the plural possessive of <em>fish</em>—for example, <em>the fishes’ scales were yellow</em>. And of course <em>fishes </em>is the present-progressive <a href="https://grammarist.com/grammar/verbs/" target="_blank">verb</a> (e.g., <em>she fishes in the river</em>).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><em>Fishes </em>also appears in the cinematic gangster idiom <em>sleep with the fishes</em>, used to indicate that someone has been <a href="https://grammarist.com/spelling/wack-whack/" target="_blank">whacked</a> (and perhaps given a water burial).</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fly Carpin, post: 323260, member: 1187"] [h=1]Fish vs. fishes[/h] [FONT=Georgia]The plural of [I]fish [/I]is usually [I][B]fish[/B], [/I]but[I] [B]fishes[/B][/I] has a few uses. In biology, for instance, [I]fishes[/I] is used to refer to multiple [URL="https://grammarist.com/usage/species/"]species[/URL] of fish. For example, if you say you saw four fish when scuba diving, that means you saw four individual fish, but if you say you saw four fishes, we might infer that you saw an undetermined number of fish of four different species.[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia] [/FONT] [FONT=Georgia] [/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][I]Fishes[/I], with an [URL="https://grammarist.com/grammar/apostrophe/"]apostrophe[/URL],also serves as the plural possessive of [I]fish[/I]—for example, [I]the fishes’ scales were yellow[/I]. And of course [I]fishes [/I]is the present-progressive [URL="https://grammarist.com/grammar/verbs/"]verb[/URL] (e.g., [I]she fishes in the river[/I]).[/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][I]Fishes [/I]also appears in the cinematic gangster idiom [I]sleep with the fishes[/I], used to indicate that someone has been [URL="https://grammarist.com/spelling/wack-whack/"]whacked[/URL] (and perhaps given a water burial).[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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