Shrimp. Period.

I know anyone who bothers to read this is probably well aware, but I'm going to say it anyway:

The plural of shrimp is shrimp.

I had to get that out of my system. I have no idea how "shrimps" work their way into daily conversation, but somehow they do. Usually somebody is telling me how they ate shrimps, cooked shrimps, bought shrimps, blahs blahs blahs. Of course I never say anything because who would be dumb and catty enough to pick on someone for improperly adding an "s" to the end of the word shrimp? Certainly not me. Noooooo ... instead, I'll blog about it. Maybe an offender will read?!??!

Why do I fixate on such crap?? I don't know. Who cares if someone says shrimps? Or if they say they shop at KMarts or Walmarts? I'm certainly no grammarian, but I guess there are just some words that are annoying.

Does anybody else have words they don't like? My top offenders (even placing ahead of shrimps) are: moist, loaf and meal.

Yuck. Yuck. Trivial, but yuck.