There are no shrimps

Posted On August 12, 2005

Anyone who really knows Jennifer has seen her react to a menu which offers “shrimps”. She will become righteously irate and exclaim that there are no shrimps. “It is one shrimp or 50 shrimp.” She will simmilarly react to “deers”.
Imagine her indignation when visiting the Museum of Natural History and she sees this:

Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be anything on the web to backup Jennifer’s spelling claims. As horrible as it may sound, “shrimps” does seem to be an accepted plural. Arghh.