Re: Animal plurals/collective nouns (was Re: Re:

John Cowan wrote:
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> Carlos Thompson scripsit:
>
> > Fish form either a _banco_ or a _escuela_, but it seams that _escuela_ =
is
> > mainly used in bad translations from English.
>
> IIRC it's standard in Brazilian Portuguese, too.
        I've never heard it.
        Maybe near the frontiers (we're surrounded by Spanish speaking
countries) it is so, but in most parts it's _cardume_.

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