Comment by 🥬 lamb-duh
Re: "+CHAPS+ I will probably add it. MW dic says it's just a…"
i would consider pants and chaps to be mass nouns because you have to use a unit if you want to talk about a definite number of them. i'm not a dictionary editor though so what do i know.
Mar 23 · 6 weeks ago
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🚀 stack [OP/mod] · Mar 23 at 23:33:
Yes, pants, scissors, and such words are the exception to the plural -S rule.
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+CHAPS+ I will probably add it. MW dic says it's just a plural noun, but as clothing goes, no cowboy would be caught with a single chap. So it's like pants -- plural-looking but stands for one object.