Next you will ask why its a PIN number or TSB bank.
Both examples of RAS Syndrome...
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostI just had a thought.
Why are they called a pair of knickers, when there's only one?
Can anyone answer this?
Then someone had the bright idea of sewing them together.
I'm guessing.
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostAlso if you had two pears could you say it?
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According to the Straight Dope a "pair" used to mean "a set of more than two like or equal things making a whole". So two trouser legs make a pair of trousers. Two lenses a pair of glasses. But I think mainly it's because English isn't entirely logical and consistent.
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostBecause it's from the day that they were knickerbocker trousers.
...and it was a pair of trousers.
(next question - why a "pair" of trousers?)
And it's also worth noting here that the French word for trousers is singular, le pantelon, and one would assume by extension that this would be so across the Romance languages.
Not So!
In Italian, the word takes the plural - i pantaloni
and to really confuse matters the Spanish have a plural with a singular definite article: el pantalones.
Anyhow, to me it's always a pair of cacks!
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Originally posted by MarillionFan View PostI just had a thought.
Why are they called a pair of knickers, when there's only one?
Can anyone answer this?
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So you were in the traps, dropped your wifes knickers and wondered why they're called a pair
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostBecause it's from the day that they were knickerbocker trousers.
...and it was a pair of trousers.
(next question - why a "pair" of trousers?)
Also if you had two pears could you say it?
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Because it's from the day that they were knickerbocker trousers.
...and it was a pair of trousers.
(next question - why a "pair" of trousers?)
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A pair of knickers
I just had a thought.
Why are they called a pair of knickers, when there's only one?
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