Someone help me!

not according to the real dictionary and thesaurus.

I have only one thing to say "one fish, two fish, three, fish, red fish, blue fish" Doctor Zeuss only used perfect grammar and spelling. Whoever wrote that site is wrong not I. Come on someone else here must have good grammar as well.
 
Fishes is listed as the plural of fish in my New College Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, copyright 1978.
 
"Fish" is valid and current usage as both singular and plural; "fishes" is also valid curent usage for a collective plural, exactly as OG posted. "Fishies", however, is slang.

Now, would you care to define "the real dictionany"? The OED?
 
Originally posted by OrionGirl
Fishes is listed as the plural of fish in my New College Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, copyright 1978.
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okay I don't know what they teach you guys in school in AMERICA but up here where we use proper english we were taught there is only one word for fish (everyone I've asked has said fishes is not a word). We don't say , "come visit the wonderful variety of fishes at the vancouver aquarium". If you said fishes is a word to properly educated people they'd laugh at you. Fishes is what my 3 year old niece says.
 
In this article, which is published by the people who publish the OED, they make reference to the word fishes: http://www.oed.com/public/news/0010.pdf

I do not believe that they would allow an incorrect word into an official publication.
 
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It is a valid word. How can you debate this when all the evidence is against you. Just because you were not educated in the correct word for a collection of different fish species, doesnt mean that you are right. Everyone is citing dictionaries and scientific publications and you are citing Dr. Seuss . Not Dr. Zeuss.
NOTE: There is a difference between fishies and fishes.

Point made,
Chuck
 
Originally posted by Bristlenose Chuck
It is a valid word. How can you debate this when all the evidence is against you. Just because you were not educated in the correct word for a collection of different fish species, doesnt mean that you are right. Everyone is citing dictionaries and scientific publications and you are citing Dr. Seuss . Not Dr. Zeuss.
NOTE: There is a difference between fishies and fishes.

Point made,
Chuck
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it can be used in a sense such as "dave fishes for a living" not "I like to look at my fishes" like the website used the word.
 
he he,

this thread made me laugh and I'm sad, so...

From the Collins English Dictionary 2nd edition:

fish n., pl. fish or fishes. 1. a. any of a large group of cold blooded aquatic verterbrates having jaws, gills and usually fins and a skin covered in scales...

...and on it goes.

also...

Fishes n. the. the constellation Pisces, the twelfth sign of the zodiac.

haven't got the OED, but in England I believe we speak proper english :D
 
I had to laugh too ( and look to see if my first instinct was right)

Merriam-webster:

Main Entry: 1fish
Pronunciation: 'fish
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural fish or fish·es
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English fisc; akin to Old High German fisc fish, Latin piscis
Date: before 12th century
1 a : an aquatic animal -- usually used in combination <starfish> <cuttlefish> b : any of numerous cold-blooded strictly aquatic craniate vertebrates that include the bony fishes and usually the cartilaginous and jawless fishes and that have typically an elongated somewhat spindle-shaped body terminating in a broad caudal fin, limbs in the form of fins when present at all, and a 2-chambered heart by which blood is sent through thoracic gills to be oxygenated
2 : the flesh of fish used as food
 
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