It’s a pair of binoculars, but it has always made me feel uneasy. It’s a single device, composed of two oculars. It’s technically called a “binocular telescope”, because there are monocular telescopes. But we just call them telescopes. Though it wouldn’t be wrong to call a pair of binoculars just a telescope. So both ways are correct, but I guess language is just weird like that.
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Chewmungus@lemmy.world 1 month agoSo it’s one binocular and two binoculars? I always thought it was inherently plural.
dustyData@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Chewmungus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Interesting, thanks for the added info! Kinda similar to one pant vs a pair of pants huh
criitz@reddthat.com 1 month ago
I always called them a pair of binoculars. Like pants