Objection!
You can use fishes for multiple species however it is not required. You can use fish for a collection of trout and bass
Does any other plural work this way? Or is this just another stupid ass English variation?
Person/People does. The word “peoples” can be used as multiple different groups of people.
For instance you can say to “the peoples of Europe” to refer to Germans, French, Italian, etc.
interesting. so it’s like a plural or a plural. so I can say the monkeyses of the Amazon.
But people is a non-countable word, like water. You don’t have one people, two people.
When talking about peoples of [place] it’s a countable word.
Fish is countable.
People are countable. That’s the whole point of a census. Water can come in any amount, such as 3.5 litres. People come in discrete numbers. You can’t have .5 of a person.
I think the thing confusing you is that it’s one of those weird English words where the singular and plural word are different. Person/people vs car/cars.
If there’s more than 1 species of sheep, can I say sheeps?
Of course anyone who hears this is likely to just think you’re an idiot.
I get eaten by the worms… and weird fishes…