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Bookmark or Share- nouns - Why is the word "pants" plural? - English Language & Usage ...Oct 17, 2021 at 23:57. .. it is really that pant and pants follow standard plurality, only usage of "pair of pants" gets shortened to "pants" for convenience. Find a language where all three pant, pants and pair of pants are expressed with plural/singular semantics and I will be impressed.
- meaning - What is the difference between trash, garbage, litter ...To me, pants is a more generic term, trousers suggests something a workman would wear, and slacks is what a professional wears in the office. But my New York mother-in-law uses trousers for more formal pants, and dungarees for jeans. And she thinks slacks are more casual than trousers. –
- syntactic analysis - 'Instead of' vs 'In stead of' - English Language ...Yes, "in stead" is never correct. "instead" is separable in some circumstances, but when the two parts are separated they have to be separated by something. So "in stead" would close right up again if it ever momentarily existed, notionally like a virtual electron-positron pair. If you are dead set on separating the two parts with something ...
- nouns - A word for clothes, shoes, accessories? - English Language ...I'm looking for a word that applies to all the things a person can wear, e.g. clothes, shoes, accessories, etc. It musn't be too generic, e.g. product, item, etc.
- "Your and my [something]" vs "Yours and my..."@Peter Shor: I think you're almost certainly correct that US usage avoids Yours and my in this construction. As Rimmer says, standard Google, and NGram, may mislead on this one, but Google Books itself is much safer (though you get less hits).
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