A pair of pair of scissors
On the right is Two Pair, but you should know that it still gets trumped by Three of a Kind.
3 pair or even a flush of scissors is still beaten by a singular rock however.
Yeah but if you take a bunch of Uranus and the right jokers it’s a reliable option
Mind was blown when I was learning about an xray-based microfabrication technique. Where the x-rays are known to scise (to cut) polymer molecules.
It took me several years to realize that scissors are tools that scise things. They are prolific scise-ers.
Scissorses… those pesky scissorses…
That’s clearly four scissors.
I teach ESL, and this kinda shit in the English language drives me nuts. It’s impossible to explain. Just gotta know it. The worst is when you’re asking questions. “What’s this?” for single things. “What are these?” for multiples. HTF do you explain that you have to know to ask “What are these?” when you’re asking about pants or scissors. They’re literally asking what those things are. It’s bizarre.
Just blame the French for things like this. Your students will be like “Oh that explains it” and move on to the next nonsensical thing they need to learn.
Every language has it’s “you just gotta know” moments. Like German. Not too hard until you start getting into technical reading and speech. Just how many words can you glue together? And why?
It is impossible to intuit, but you just introduce “pair of pants” as the singular article. Thus, two pants are “two pairs of pants.”
Which is fine for more advanced students, but for kids whose vocabulary and grammar are already very limited, it confuses things a lot.
Bring a pair of kitchen scissors, and awe them by separating the halves
Those aren’t scissors. They’re shears.
From the recent Tom Scott upload I learned a group of ferrets are called “a business”. We need more silly names to refer to multiple items. The layered parody of a pair of a pair of scissors is indeed tickling my silly bone.
And a group of velvet worms is called “a cuddle”. Idk who comes up with these but I like them.
A group of bankers is known as a ‘wunch’…
2 pairs of scissors
Scissor Sisters
Pair of pairs of scissors.
A square of scissors
Two pairs of scissors
Also a pair of a pair of scissors.
That would just be one pair of scissors while this is clearly two pairs of scissors
I see three pairs of a kind, I win.
☝️You, probably
Scissi
Scisodes.
scissorses
