On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Mark Young <marky1...@gmail.com> wrote: > According to the Oxford Dictionary: > > fish noun, verb noun (pl.fish or fishes)Fish is the usual plural form. The > older form, fishes, can be used to refer to different kinds of fish... > > However, I would correct anyone that ever used "fishes".
"loaves and fishes" would be familiar (but still archaic) to anyone who has read the King James Version of the bible. http://bible.cc/luke/9-16.htm -Jack -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list