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Posted by Joy Beeson on June 9, 2006, 9:17 pm
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:14:15 -0700, "BEI Design"
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> I will if you'll just help locate my scissor. Where IS my scissor,
Scissors, at least, makes sense -- if you have a pair of kitchen
scissors that come apart for cleaning.
But one of the pieces isn't a scissor -- it's half a pair of scissors.
(As we often said in grammar class, "English has many idiots.")
I once poked around, and as far as I could tell there aren't any
synonyms for "pants" that isn't plural -- except for words that are
really synonyms for "G-string". And even there, you don't have one
brief, you have a pair of briefs.
Is the bottom part of a salwar kameez a "salwar" or a "pair of
salwars"? Whatever, when I make a kameez, I intend to wear it with a
matching pair of broadfalls.
It's only going to be a kameez-length tunic anyway. In point of
fact, it's going to be a dress. I'll probably use my daygown pattern.
Joy Beeson
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