Re: Extract Attachment from Mail

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On Monday 19 February 2007, Mark Knoop wrote:
> 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.
>
Not in my copy - though of course few of us, if any, would have the full OED.  
Would you like to post the entire entry?

Anne

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