Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2004

} On 24 Jan 2004 19:18:25 GMT, lee <pepplewick@hotmail.com> wrote:
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}> Just a quickie. Which is the correct form:
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}> Two pair of trousers
}>
}> OR
}>
}> two pairs or trousers.
}
} Both sound equally correct to me.

Well, yeah, except for the one thing for picky people.

I don't think I could bring myself to write the second, and I'm having a
hard time imagining when I'd say the first.  Except playing cards, of
course, when you always have "two pair" and not "two pairs".

Jon Miller