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Default RECIPE: SPICY BBQ shrimp (easy!)

On Tue, 4 May 2021 Dave Smith wrote:

>On 2021-05-04 Sheldon Martin wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 May 2021 10:22:27 Cindy Hamilton

>
>>> "Shrimps" is the correct plural in British usage. In the U.S., "shrimp" is the
>>> correct plural form.
>>>
>>> Cindy Hamilton

>>
>> You are wrong. Shrimps is only used when speaking of different types,
>> same as sheeps. Both forms are usually considered archaic.

>
>Don't you love it when you can be dead wrong and still insist *your*
>right. Shrimps is an acceptable plural of shrimp.


You don't even speak proper English... see above **.
Shrimps is used for identifying different types of shrimp, same as
sheeps is used to identify different breeds of sheep.... shrimps and
sheeps has nothing to do with pluerality.