Extract Attachment from Mail

Chris Rouch chris.rouch at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 15:07:14 UTC 2007


On 2/16/07, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Friday 16 February 2007, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >
> >>I think that this is not quite true. "Sheep" and "fish" both have
> >>another plural "sheeps" and "fishes", but I do not believe that
> >>"mails" is a word, except as a verb.
> >>
> >
> > 'Fishes', yes, 'sheeps', no.
>
> I stand corrected. I could not find "sheeps" in a largish
> dictionary. I have heard it used, however, by farmers
> in South Texas, and in that sense. This could be a case
> of the dictionary writers just not knowing.
>

I don't know if it's in any dictionary, but it's common parlance to
say "I got two mails from...". Unrelated, in certain circles the
plural of "text" (aka an SMS text message) is "textses".

Chris




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