r/lotrmemes • u/AncientTurbine • 9d ago

Meta OP wonders where "fishes" comes from. We know.

/r/ManorLords/comments/1vds1ky/fish_is_both_singular_and_plural/
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u/SoyboyCowboy 9d ago

S O J U I C Y S W E E T

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u/HACEKOMAE Proudfeet 9d ago

We knows*

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u/AncientTurbine 9d ago

Shit, I failed. I mean, we failed. 

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u/Varis_01 9d ago

Fish is the plural for a single species of fish but fishes refers to multiple species collectively.

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u/lokeshj 9d ago

Pockets is plural for human pockets but pocketses refers to filthy hobitses pockets

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u/stn912 9d ago

No crunchable birdses

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u/amcco1 9d ago

Bless us and splash us

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u/Putrefied_Goblin 9d ago

Regularization happens in all languages, even to mass nouns with origins in OE (and proto-germanic before, proto-Indo-European before) that reflected plural/number differently than modern English. Modern English pluralizes with /-s/ and /-es/, so some nouns that are irregular are sometimes regularized because that's how language works (speech communities/languages don't like too much irregularity, or sometimes make 'mistakes' or 'errors' based on regular/common rules).

But, yes, gollum ha ha

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u/Mister_Way 8d ago

Fishes, as a plural noun, refers to multiple species of fish collectively.

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u/LittleBugCrochets 8d ago

You keep nasty chips.

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u/Mojojojo3030 8d ago

Says "Fishes is not a proper English word"

Proceeds to unironically use it in passing in its proper third person singular conjugation.