Two pairs of scissors
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
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I see three pairs of a kind, I win.
☝️You, probably
scissorses
A lesbian couple.
Scissor me timbers
I've adopted the phrase "lip reading" to replace "scissoring."
A queer of scissors
2 pairs of scissors
A pair of pairs of scissors.
A pair squared of scissors
On the right is Two Pair, but you should know that it still gets trumped by Three of a Kind.
3 pair or even a flush of scissors is still beaten by a singular rock however.
I remember one time that I got a flush of scissors, and then my dad beat me for clogging the toilet.
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A pair of pair of scissors
A quartet of scissors.
I teach ESL, and this kinda shit in the English language drives me nuts. It's impossible to explain. Just gotta know it. The worst is when you're asking questions. "What's this?" for single things. "What are these?" for multiples. HTF do you explain that you have to know to ask "What are these?" when you're asking about pants or scissors. They're literally asking what those things are. It's bizarre.
Just blame the French for things like this. Your students will be like "Oh that explains it" and move on to the next nonsensical thing they need to learn.
Every language has it's "you just gotta know" moments. Like German. Not too hard until you start getting into technical reading and speech. Just how many words can you glue together? And why?
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It is impossible to intuit, but you just introduce "pair of pants" as the singular article. Thus, two pants are "two pairs of pants."
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From the recent Tom Scott upload I learned a group of ferrets are called "a business". We need more silly names to refer to multiple items. The layered parody of a pair of a pair of scissors is indeed tickling my silly bone.
And a group of velvet worms is called "a cuddle". Idk who comes up with these but I like them.
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Pair of scissorses
Scissors^2^
Pairs of scissors, obviously.
Which 4, or 17, or 249, or 17843368 etc would also reasonably be called.
four scissors
That's clearly four scissors.
Attempted murder
It's a troupe of scissors!
One time my grandmother gave me two pears. She said, "Here's your two pears". I said, "This is just one pair" and we went back forth a bit before she got it.
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Mind was blown when I was learning about an xray-based microfabrication technique. Where the x-rays are known to scise (to cut) polymer molecules.
It took me several years to realize that scissors are tools that scise things. They are prolific scise-ers.
Scissor Sisters.
Scissi
Scisodes.
Scissor Sisters
Pair of pairs of scissors.
Scisters
If there’s a boy pair of scissors there, and a girl pair of scissors there, then it’s a brace of pairs of scissors.
Obv.
English is very straightforward.
It's 2 per, as in:
Give me 2 per Cuz I need two per
Multi-scissor drifting!
1 pant = a pair of pants 2 pant = the noise a dog makes when it's hot outside
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