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Thread #118662   Message #3059123
Posted By: s&r
22-Dec-10 - 03:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: English grammar question
Subject: RE: BS: English grammar question
There was a question asking for the collective noun for shrimp. Collective nouns are things like a gaggle of geese broadly meaning a group. The collective for shrimps is troup, sometimes with an 'e' on the end - take your pick. The plural of shrimp is shrimp or shrimps.

There's a vulgar(?)( meaning of shrim as a verb meaning toe sucking (as allegedly David Mellor and Antonia de Sancha some years ago)

Stu