I worked in a fabric shop for a bit and the lady I worked for would always say 'pass me a scissor, will you?' - it just grated on me when she said that. Does anyone say scissor and not scissors? One blade of the scissors wouldn't do anyone any good - just like one leg of a pair of panties wouldn't. Words are funny and interesting.
Sharon (N.B.)
"Sharon" ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with
Well I don't know now, if you only had one leg...
I do.
An extremely well taken point ,,,, Pants were started as 2 seprate hoses ,, only later they were sewn together in Hebrew they are called Micnasyim ,, which means 2 trousers legs or 2 hauses [hosses] mirjam
Hmm - where are the French speakers? Is scissors treated like a plural in French? Other languages?
Cheryl
Cheryl Isaak ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with
Them be ciseaux, so basically plural too.
OK, extrapolating, I suspect it is so in the rest of the Romance tongues. Now for the Nordic languages?
Cheryl
Knickers in the U.S. are men's trousers that are just below knee length. I think it's a term used mostly in England for women's undergarments and unused here.
Lucille
Lucille
Oh Karen I'm disappointed in you ... have you always said 'scissor'? My spell checker spells it my way with an 's' ... so I'm right, you're wrong. So there. :-))
Sharon (N.B.)
Cheryl Isaak skrev:
the Danish word for scissors is 'saks', and a pair of scissors 'en saks', which directly translated is 'one scissor=B4. Go figure! lol
Ok - now, if you know, how closely is Danish related to German? I'd ask the DH (who speaks it quite well, but he's in an all day meeting).
How about Russian?
Chinese?
Cheryl
Cheryl Isaak ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with
Sheesh, and I thought I was being a pest yesterday locked in the house with floor guys!
Perhaps we should find out what the Inuit call scissors ??? Don't ask, I haven't a clue!
Hey, yesterday and today (and possibly tomorrow) I am stuck while the deck is leveled, the damaged garage is fixed, facia boards replaced and the new front step is laid.
The number of wasps nests behind the facia boards was amazing - at least
100. The guy doing the work has a goodly supply of wasp killer.And the new front step is because the deck was never level. I now have two posts under the carrying beam and the step post was completely rotten.
Oh and I am dog sitting. But I think all the camp laundry is done except the sleeping bags. And I found DD swimsuit so I can have it ready for "Beach Day" tomorrow.
Cheryl
Cheryl Isaak ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with
My sympathies - being restricted because of other people doing work, stinks lol I thought if another hammer hit the concrete, I would go in there and murder! Yesterday they somehow managed to tip over my ceiling high plant that I have had since the mid-70s. It is now down a few branches. How did they do that ? The thing has casters under it for mobility.
Good Luck - I hope all goes well, in my current mood and with a jaundiced view of workmen, it likely will not lol
I always understood it was short for "knickerbockers", but where that word came from I do not know.
Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.
Actually, I can not complain. This one guy has done so much in just a day and a half. And when he jacked up the deck, he did it very slowly and allowed everything to resettle every half inch. Took ages, but there is no new cracks or splits anywhere.
Cheryl
Don't they play basketball in NYC???
Giggle!
Cheryl
Cheryl Isaak skrev:
I heard that next to Chinese Danish is one of the hardest languages to learn, at least to pronounce. Here's a link to wikipedia:
Sounds a little like the German I heard in the northern part of the country.
Cheryl
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