Non Sequitur: Re: Python Forum

[Jack Diederich]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Mark Young <marky1991 at 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