Re: "a Pair of Panties" ?????

Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> 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).