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Comment on We refer to jeans as "a pair of jeans", but the only thing that there are two of is the legs, it's still only one item of clothing.

Takapapatapaka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

My two cents, from a french perspectice : we say “a pair of scissors” and “a pair of glasses” but never “a pair of jeans”. For the glasses, it kinda make sense since you can wear only one glass at a time though it’s highly unpractical. For the scissors it make sense if you consider one scissor to be one blade with a handle. I perfectly understand your rant on the jeans point.

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vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Apologies if this was perceived as a rant … I’m genuinely interested in discovering why we refer to a pair of jeans.

As for glasses. In the time of monocles that might have made sense, but I’ve never seen anyone wear two of them.

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- Takapapatapaka@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Im not 100% sure what rant means, I didnt want to imply negativity, sorry for that. This really felt like a legitimate remark to me!
  
  Yup, for the glasses, it’s definitely an explanation of why we used to call them that way, the justification does not have much sense nowadays.
  
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  - vk6flab@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Rant:
    
    to speak, write or shout in a loud, uncontrolled, or angry way
    
    Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rant
    
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