Please tell me the plural of fish. In the dictionary it says plural is fish or fishes. When I look in the encyclopedia they use the term fishes a lot.
"Fish" is one of those odd words that's usually both singular and plural—like "deer" and (in Canada) "beer." So we can say:
We caught five fish.
We saw three deer.
We Canadians drank six beer. (See my additional comments in the continuation of this post.)
We saw three deer.
We Canadians drank six beer. (See my additional comments in the continuation of this post.)
But we can use "fishes" when we are talking about different species:
The fishes of the Fraser River include salmon and sturgeon.
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