Plural of fish.

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There is a lovely church based coffee morning near me called Little Fishes.
Why is it not Little Fish??

I live near a shop called Sofa's, Bed's & Mattresse's

THAT is mind blowing!

Fishies?

This very topic came up with my partner this morning! I recall seeing "fishes" when I was younger and reading American fishkeeping magazines so can only assume that it came over from there.

Feels good to blame American English for this but I may be wrong

When you can (more or less) count them, they are fishes. When they are more generic, or dead they are fish.

So, all the fish in the sea, or the fish on my plate...

Am guessing these "fishes" are on a logo? Or a children's playgroup thingy?

Both have their uses

Or is it 'either'?

So, the coffee morning referred to many different species of little fishes, not just a number of the same fish

Fishes is often used when talking about more than one species.

There's also the expression 'sleep with the fishes'.

Yes, and loaves and fishes
Just suddenly wondered where the extra 'es' came from...