Dan Kogai scripsit:

> So I go silly and let me ask you guys a silly question.  How come ghoti, 
> oops, fish, is fish no matter how many of them you count?  And what is a 
> singular form of sheep?  shoop ?

"Sheep".  Historically, these words that don't change in the plural designate
things that mostly occur in herds, or flocks, or other large collectives.

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