Fish or fishes? *grin*

[RockabillyChick]

both are gramatically correct to use in the plural.

 

[Daphogs]

Well I think we should take a poll. hehehe.

I vote for fish and fishes could be used interchangeably for the plural of the word fish no matter what the use is.

 

[monkey_toes]

I vote for fish and fishes could be used interchangeably for the plural of the word fish no matter what the use is.

Which is what is known as common usage, which will eventually become proper usage. At some point, "orderves" will become a proper spelling.

 

[Raskolnikov]

The way in which it was taught to me, and the way every ichthyologist that I know uses it, is as monkey_toes already explained it:

Fish is the plural used when referring to a single species. Fishes is the plural used when referring to multiple species:

It's not something that's up for debate.



"Fishies", on the other hand...do with it what you will (just don't use it around my fishes).

 

[onepawnup]

The way in which it was taught to me, and the way every ichthyologist that I know uses it, is as monkey_toes already explained it:

It's not something that's up for debate.



"Fishies", on the other hand...do with it what you will (just don't use it around my fishes).

then we should stop debating it