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FW: More word usage...

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Sat Aug 17 12:36:18 PDT 2002

Casey Rousseau <casey at trinityhartford.org> writes:

> Kat wrote: 
> > Trivia: "fishes" is correct when referring to a group of said animal which
> > consists of more than one species. "Fish" is for a group of the same
> > species.
> 
> Fishes is also the traditional usage when speaking of Jesus' feeding
> miracles AKA the miracle of the Loaves and the Fishes.

Obviously, he provided a *variety* of fishes.  We can deduce this from
that usage :-)
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