Singular or plural??
If you use it, it will become!
okay, but what do you call a group of them? My wife claims that the proper group term is a “myth” of trout 
OK … trouts are a myth, particularly in South Dakota.
(but, ya know … there’s lots of deers and turkeys in South Dakota!!)
Betty,
There are a vaiety of species of trouts, but you catch a lot of trout.
Examples:
The trouts are curious in that when taken as a genus, they can be widely divergent in habitat and behavior.
Bill and I went to the lake yesterday and caught fifty trout. They let us out of jail this morning ;).
Buddy
At least they follow the rule of fish:
There are lots of different types of fishes, but we caught 10 fish.
The spotted and Florida strain are different basses, but we caught 3 bass yesterday
…but don’t get me started on the whole mouse-mice, house-houses thing.
goose-geese, but moose-mooses???
And who decided that nothing rhymes with orange or purple? That makes poetry impossible with these beautiful colors.
Regardles of what is correct. And even thinking it is meant “tongue in cheek”…it doesn’t feel right when I read it. Regardless of it’s intent. It doesn’t feel good to me to read it. It is an uncomfortable statement to me…and I do not like it. Betty is wonderful. Just that word used in that way doesn’t set well in my mind. It’s an uncomfortable feeling every time I read it.
I know…the next thing I hear will be “get over it Jim” grow up. But I can still post my opinion.
Probably just me.
Jim
Yah … get over it Jim … and grow up!! (you know I love ya!!)
I know what’s right on this… always have … I just like ruffling feathers, and adding “S”'s to animals that don’t require them! Plus, if you use it often enuf, it’ll become part of our vernacular! Right?
Got to go furl some leaders so I can go catch some trouts.
In the fish-speak of ichthyologists, trout is both singular and plural when you are talking about a single species, e.g., rainbow trout; and, trouts, also both singular and plural, is used when talking about two or more species, regardless of how many of any one species are involved. For example, if you caught one rainbow and one brown, you caught two trouts. If you caught 100 rainbows, you caught 100 trout. This usage clearly conveys that you are talking, or writing, about a single species when you use trout, and more than one species when you use trouts. Yes, trouts fits the mind about as comfortably as a side-saddle fits a hog. But that is the correct technical usage of the terms (THANKS, Ichthyology 101!).
aged_sage
Well … THERE!!! :roll: That just about says it all!! Trouts don’t live in ugly places!!!
Rub it in…Rub it in…oh…uh…just humming an old tune Betty. <grin>
Jim
You forgot Trouties
A group of trout swimming together would probably be a school; a group of trout being prepared for the frying pan would be a mess, as in “caught me a mess of trout.”
Trying to make sense of the english language?
Silly mortals…
A quick Google returns “hover” from several different sites.
I’ve heard “school” before, and “pod”, but a “hover” of trout has a certain descriptive ring to it. Like a “murder” of crows. I like it!
Sure, Tim!! “Smoke and mirrors” describes it pretty well, too!!!
Seems like when I’m out after them, a large group of trout would indeed be best described as a myth…
Are those local, state, or federal leaders that you’re furling?
(As I once told my dog, inquiry nose wants to mind…)
Ed
Trouts, Trout,Gold Nuggets, Pink Striped Wonders, Call them what you will. Just as long as they accept my fly. I AM HAPPY!! Jax