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Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:"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.>Or country. In Brazil, inexplicably, they refer to seeing glasses with the
But of course none of this explains why those objects are singular in
some languages and plural in others.
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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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