[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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