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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