[HPFGU-OTChatter] Pants/Correcting myself

Amanda Lewanski editor at texas.net
Sun Oct 14 19:40:49 UTC 2001


Neil Ward wrote:

> This reminds me of an annoying habit some people have of calling plural
> things by their singular form.

My family often called things by singular forms that do not exist. One item of
clothing was a "clo" (singular of clothes), one half of a pair of scissors was a
"sciz", etc. And at least one plural form that does not exist, "kleenices",
which I still use.

--Amanda, laying the blame for her oddness elsewhere....





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