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 :-) -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info