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calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Why is a pair of scissors separated in halves? Shouldn’t a pair of scissors be separated into 2 unit scissor?

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AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Apparently this oddity has a term

pants is an example of a plurale tantum—a word only ever used in its plural form

But I don’t see anything makings sense of it

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