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I fear the vultures of linguistic pendantry will shortly be circling this topic with collective nouns and much arcanery. Woe to sheep who have no plurality? pluralism? pluralisticness? oh b@&&%£*
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Matthew Faithfull wrote: I fear the vultures of linguistic pendantry DD will shortly be circling this topic with collective nouns and much arcanery.
FTFY 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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Not to worry; the plural of sheep is Wales. Or so I've heard...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I heard New Zealand has a plurality of Shoops...
- Life in the fast lane is only fun if you live in a country with no speed limits.
- Of all the things I have lost, it is my mind that I miss the most.
- I vaguely remember having a good memory...
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My father-in-law is adamant that 1 martini is in fact 2 drinks, otherwise it would be a martinus.
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ITYM "martino". No need to go back as far as ancient Latin, when there weren't any martinis; it's modern Italian (as is the drink).
It was named after a guy, though, wasn't it? The North of the Netherlands is, for some obscure (but probably googleable, if I weren't so lazy) reason full of places named after a guy with the same name.
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My understanding was always that:
- 2 deer were of the same species but 2 deers were different (eg. 1 mule deer + 1 white tailed deer = 2 deers).
- 2 beer are of the same brand, 2 beers are different brands.
- 2 sheep are the same breed, 2 sheeps are different breeds.
... but I'm not sure about cheese and cheeses.
I also had a manager that used to talk about the softwares on his computer. That was too ugly for me. ... what is the plural of furniture? or hardware?
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Harvey
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If you want to.
You can also say "mouses" and "sheeps" if you want to, and if all the people you talk to will understand (and not arrogantly view you as an idiot).
Such linguistic details aren't law, they're custom.
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