At 16:55 on 16 Feb 2007, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 16 February 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>I think that this is not quite true. "Sheep" and "fish" both have > >>another plural "sheeps" and "fishes", but I do not believe that > >>"mails" is a word, except as a verb. > >> > > > > 'Fishes', yes, 'sheeps', no. > > I stand corrected. I could not find "sheeps" in a largish > dictionary. I have heard it used, however, by farmers > in South Texas, and in that sense. This could be a case > of the dictionary writers just not knowing. Oxford English Dictionary (which I would think was fairly definitive) notes the use of sheeps. -- Mark Knoop
