Re: Non Sequitur: Re: Python Forum

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Gregory Ewing wrote: > rantingrick wrote: >> >> I ate >> three fishes just sounds wrong to me. What's the plural of sheep >> Stephen :-D > > It's sheepses, isn't it? Am I missing something? Shyp. Pronounced the same way, just spelled differently. Geremy Condra --

Re: Non Sequitur: Re: Python Forum

rantingrick wrote: I ate three fishes just sounds wrong to me. What's the plural of sheep Stephen :-D It's sheepses, isn't it? Am I missing something? -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Non Sequitur: Re: Python Forum

Mark Young wrote: According to the Oxford Dictionary: *fish** noun **, **verb *noun *(**pl.**fish** or **fishes**)*Fish is the usual plural form. The older form, fishes, can be used to refer to different kinds of

Re: Non Sequitur: Re: Python Forum

On Jun 8, 9:00 pm, Jack Diederich wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Mark Young wrote: > > According to the Oxford Dictionary: > > > fish noun, verb noun (pl.fish or fishes)Fish is the usual plural form. The > > older form, fishes, can be used to refer to different kinds of fish... > > > Ho

Re: Non Sequitur: Re: Python Forum

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Mark Young wrote: > According to the Oxford Dictionary: > > fish noun, verb noun (pl.fish or fishes)Fish is the usual plural form. The > older form, fishes, can be used to refer to different kinds of fish... > > However, I would correct anyone that ever used "fishes

Re: Non Sequitur: Re: Python Forum

According to the Oxford Dictionary: *fish** noun **, **verb *noun *(**pl.**fish** or **fishes**) *Fish is the usual plural form. The older form, fishes, can be used to refer to different kinds of fish... However, I wo

Re: Non Sequitur: Re: Python Forum

rantingrick wrote: > On Jun 7, 12:41 am, Steven D'Aprano t...@cybersource.com.au> wrote: > >> "Fish" can be either singular (as in "I fed the fish") or a collective >> noun ("there are many fish that live in salt water"). Plural is "fishes", >> as in "I ate three fishes", although in common use p

Re: Non Sequitur: Re: Python Forum

On Jun 7, 12:41 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > "Fish" can be either singular (as in "I fed the fish") or a collective > noun ("there are many fish that live in salt water"). Plural is "fishes", > as in "I ate three fishes", although in common use people tend to use > fish/fishes as both plural and

Re: Non Sequitur: Re: Python Forum

On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:45:44 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:29:59 +1000, Ben Finney > declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.general: > >> claim to the word. The existing forums are still forums. >> > I favor "fora" I see your smiley, but the Oxford dict