I get eaten by the worms… and weird fishes…
It’s a good thing that English isn’t actually defined by any one person or entity, and simply by its usage. That means this is bullshit.
Of course anyone who hears this is likely to just think you’re an idiot.
If there’s more than 1 species of sheep, can I say sheeps?
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.
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.
interesting. so it’s like a plural or a plural. so I can say the monkeyses of the Amazon.
