• calcopiritus@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

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

    EDIT: so you would have 2 half pair of scissors? A pair of half pair of scissors?

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months 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