Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016)
by dragonwriter on Monday May 28, 2018 @07:28AM
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> Grammatically plural nouns denoting single objects is something that occurs in multiple European languages (and perhaps others), not only English.
None of those examples in English unambiguously denote single objects, they all denote indefinite numbered collections. The explicit singular object in each case is "a pair of X", where "X" is the term you have listed, and that is a grammatically singular noun phrase denoting a singular object.
None of those examples in English unambiguously denote single objects, they all denote indefinite numbered collections. The explicit singular object in each case is "a pair of X", where "X" is the term you have listed, and that is a grammatically singular noun phrase denoting a singular object.