From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   On 6/07/2024 6:14 a.m., Antonio Marques wrote:   
   > 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).   
   >   
      
   "A scissors" is quite common in English. OED has citations as recent as   
   2001, but notes that the usage was declared "erroneous" in the 1910   
   fascicle where this word appeared.   
      
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