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   Peter Moylan  wrote:   
   >   
   > But of course none of this explains why those objects are singular in   
   > some languages and plural in others.   
   >   
      
   Or country. In Brazil, inexplicably, they refer to seeing glasses with the   
   plural noun and a singular article, e.g. _um óculos_ which sounds like 'a   
   glasses' (note that things like your/the are inflected for number even in   
   Brazil, so the weirdness is more conspicuous than this).   
      
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