Please save my family with this?

Question

My mother and I have just had a lengthy conversation as to what is correct; She said the fishes are enjoying the rain, I said actually it's fish, not fishes. Fish for one or more fish.
Then sheep, I said it is sheep for one or many, she argued it is sheeps!!!
WHO IS CORRECT???????
Please help because either I am going around giving out wrong information or my mother is.

Thanks, and thanks to all the smart arses that will answer with some stupid comments, enjoy the 2 points. x

Takeemout01,
of course I have super powers that I can stop all the crap in the world and that is why I can have this conversation with my mother about something that is so trival.
BUT WAIT............Ive lost my powers now I can't help the universe, so I guess I am going to have to have these mundane worthless conversations with my mother rather than talk about ways to save the world ALL BY MYSELF!

Answer 1

fishes and sheeps arent words

even if they are your right!

Answer 2

Fish is correct (it is one and many)
Sheep is correct (it is one and many)

if you go on Microsoft Word and put sheeps then do a spell check you will notice that will give you incorrect answer.

So, you are right this time. Sorry mum

Answer 3

You are right with this one, sheep and fish don't have a plural. It's one sheep or a 1000 sheep and fish are the same because you don't have a shoal of fishes do you? It's a shoal of fish or one fish on its own.

Answer 4

it would use a different word before fish and sheep depending on how many you are talking about.
I.E. Look at that sheep (if you were pointgin out 1)
Look at those sheep (if you were pointing out more than 1)
But it might be different with the fish story,
I.E Look at that fish
Look at those fishes.
Hope this solves anything.

Answer 5

The plural of fish can be either fish or fishes, although most people prefer fish. (The problem arises from the fact that "fish" is also a verb, and the third person singular is "he/she fishes" so the word "fishes" doesn't sound so foreign to our ear.)

Sheep can only have one proper plural form: sheep.

Answer 6

sheep is a word use single or plural, but fish and be used the same, but fish or fishes can be used as plural. If you look it up in the dictionary, you will find that out.

Answer 7

Sheeps is totally incorrect.

If you read the King James Bible - the sermon on the mount, feeding the five thousand - Matthew V if my memory serves me correctly, you will see that in Jacobean English it speaks of "five loaves and two small fishes." This was and still is correct and acceptable, although it is an archaic speech form.

However In modern day parlance this would be "fish" as in "five loaves and two small fish." "I caught two fish today" "two fish swimming in the pond."

Answer 8

The fish. Sheep sounds better

Answer 9

Fish can be singular or plural.
Fishes can be used as the plural of fish if you can count them, one fish, two fishes etc.
Sheep is never pluralised to sheeps.

Answer 10

Fish is the correct term, however, as with many of the more complicated quirks of the English language, because so many people get it wrong, the Oxford English Dictionary has now decided that both are acceptable. As far as i'm aware, they haven't gone as far as "Sheeps" yet, but it's probably just a matter of time.

Just one more thing to thank Chavs and Yanks for.

Answer 11

You're correct. Fishes refer to different species, like fruit "Would you like to eat some fruit?". "There are many types of fruits in the basket." Same like sheep, deer. etc