Singularly plural, and versed of all...

[Tabouli]

Amy:
> who would like to know the singular for scissors.  One scissor?  One sciz?

Ah, another one to clock up in the Great English Language Mysteries.  What does one jean look like?  And one underpant or knicker?  For that matter, why is a bra (which to my mind has a greater duality about it than briefs) singular but underpants plural?  Oops, just read on further down my digest and saw that people have already raised these, but anyway...



Ethanol:
> The looks of the Frodo actor prompted me to give LOTR a last chance!

Some alarming memory tells me that I witnessed American accents on one of the LOTR trailers.  Now, I have nothing against American accents in general, but in so manifestly English a work as LOTR (as much so as HP in its own way, though of course we don't actually *see* England in it) I really hope I don't see hobbits speaking with Texan drawl or Californian slang (I also wonder if the rejection of American accents in up and coming fantasy blockbusters is starting to get Americans down a bit... we'll just have to film an American fantasy classic next.  Any suggestions?)  How much can one trust a director who cut out Tom Bombadil, one wonders...

Speaking of LOTR...

HEADS OF HOGWARTS

Three heads for Fluffy with his ropes of drool,
Seven for the Weasleys with their hair of fire,
Twenty for the moderators, born to rule,
One for Snape with his secret ire
In the Hogwarts dungeon where the cauldrons lie.

One Snape to teach them all,
One Snape to grill them,
One Snape to spy for them and with intrigue to fill them,
In the Hogwarts dungeon where the cauldrons lie.

Tabouli (who is enjoying this all too much...)


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