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    I'd been labouring under the misapprehension that to use the word 'fishes' marked you out as some sort of fucking idiot. But having checked up on it having seen the word at the aquarium in the Horniman Museum, I have learned that far from marking you out as an idiot, to use the word correctly makes you some sort of brain box.

    Though often used interchangeably, these words actually mean different things. Fish is used either as singular noun or to describe a group of specimens from a single species. Fishes describes a group containing more than one species. Hence, as plurals, these words could be used thus:

    * My aquarium contains three different fishes: guppies, platies, and swordtails.
    * The North Atlantic stock of Gadus morhua is estimated to contain several million fish.
    Well I never.

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    What's the new aquarium like? Does it still go up and down the stairs?

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      I don't think so. It only seems to be downstairs. I was underwhelmed, truth be told.

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        The Authorised translators of the Bible use "fishes", don't they? And I don't think they meant "five loaves and two species of fish". Mind, that was a while ago, of course.

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          "Wouldst thou prefer the salmon or the tuna?"

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            #6
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            Joy To The World earworm, Jeremiah.

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              BrunoMaggiore wrote:
              Plus, Jesus said he would make his disciples "fishes of men." What the hell did that mean?
              I think it's fishers of men, BM.

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                No real wise guy ever sent anyone to sleep with the fish.

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                  "Five loaves and two fishes" is so clearly a recipe for twenty fish fingers, it's glaringly obvious.

                  Jesus was Captain Bird's Eye.

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                    #10
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                    I fish for fish, but he fishes for fishes.

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                      Heh, I know what you mean. It was just in the last couple of years that I realized that the Red Sox' third base coach's name was DeMarlo and not DeMalo. That's thanks to Jerry Remy of NESN, if you don't know.

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                        BrunoMaggiore wrote:
                        Femme Folle wrote:
                        BrunoMaggiore wrote:
                        Plus, Jesus said he would make his disciples "fishes of men." What the hell did that mean?
                        I think it's fishers of men, BM.
                        Huh, must've been the pastor's Jersey accent.
                        Either that or, just maybe, he didn't know what he was talking about.

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                          #13
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                          They can make cheese?

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                            #14
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                            I had a feeling you weren't serious, BM.

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                              What about 'fishies'?

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                                on little dishies?

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