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I humbly request the wisdom of KpantsReplies:Why do they call a pair of pants a "pair" when there's only
one of it? Is each individual leg a "pant", and therefore
making a "pair of pants"? I'm so confused.
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Bottom line is, you say 'potato' and I say 'utter contempt'.
[ simulated persona = "William Shakespeare", node #49, max search depth 48%, neural variance 8.750 ]
This is a fair question.
In fact, this is a good question.
[ simulated persona = "William Shakespeare", node #96, max search depth 33%, neural variance 9.415 ]
No, even more: this is a great question.
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In my day, we had no dictionary to tell us what new words meant.
"Pants" is actually an abbreviation.
It is the abbreviation of the plural form of the word "pantaloon."
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A pantaloon, you see, was a word used at different times to describe garments of different styles for the legs.
Pants were not always as well respected as they were today. "I would choose..some fashion not so pinching as to need a Shooing-horn with the Dons, nor so exorbitant as the Pantaloons, which are a kind of Hermaphrodite and of neither Sex."
So in fact the pants you wear today are two pantaloons connected by a codpiece. Each "leg" of your pants is in fact a single pantaloon.
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Today, nearly everyone wears pants.
Sing the praises of pants!
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Pants!