I teach ESL, and this kinda shit in the English language drives me nuts. It's impossible to explain. Just gotta know it. The worst is when you're asking questions. "What's this?" for single things. "What are these?" for multiples. HTF do you explain that you have to know to ask "What are these?" when you're asking about pants or scissors. They're literally asking what those things are. It's bizarre.
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From the recent Tom Scott upload I learned a group of ferrets are called "a business". We need more silly names to refer to multiple items. The layered parody of a pair of a pair of scissors is indeed tickling my silly bone.
And a group of velvet worms is called "a cuddle". Idk who comes up with these but I like them.
2 pairs of scissors
Scissor Sisters
Pair of pairs of scissors.
Scissi
Scisodes.
A scisoring
Scissii duh
Two pairs.
Exactly like playing cards
A quartet
A square of scissors
NSFWspoiler
I'm not a meme guy. I've never posted nor stolen a meme. I'm tempted to make this my first.
Ummmm.... Is that duck whacking it?
That would require a circular motion.
Cuz the corkscrew penis?
It is an anthropomorphic duck, it has also a human penis
Just a couple about to be scissoring.
Two pairs of scissors
Also a pair of a pair of scissors.
That would just be one pair of scissors while this is clearly two pairs of scissors
I see three pairs of a kind, I win.
☝️You, probably
The correct name for a group of scissors is a circumcision. That is a circumcision of scissors.
You are welcome.
scissorses
A lesbian couple.
Scissor me timbers
I've adopted the phrase "lip reading" to replace "scissoring."
A queer of scissors
One time my grandmother gave me two pears. She said, "Here's your two pears". I said, "This is just one pair" and we went back forth a bit before she got it.
four candles please
Good on you for pushing the issue.
A pair of pairs of scissors.
A pair squared of scissors
Pairs of scissors, obviously.
Which 4, or 17, or 249, or 17843368 etc would also reasonably be called.
A quartet of scissors.
It's 2 per, as in:
Give me 2 per Cuz I need two per
Get three tweezers and you got a full house!
Scissors^2^
Pair of scissorses
four scissors
It's a troupe of scissors!
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