Thursday, July 13, 2006

Fish School

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,

What is the plural of fish?

Fish or fishes?

Both terms are correct but are used differently.



Fish is used when describing a multiple number of fish of the same type.

Example:
I caught 300 fish today.



Fishes is used when we want to indicate different type of fishes.

Example:
The fishes you can buy here are salmon and tuna. We rarely have mackerel.



Other nouns(that I know of) that follow this rule are deer and food.

Allah SWT knows best.

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Disclaimer: I am neither an English native speaker nor a qualified English teacher.