Yes, this is another one of those acorn things. So, I'm throwing it out there and sharing the love.
Today's question from the great enquiring mind that is the husband's ...
Why do people refer to pants as pairs? You have a pair of pants, and yet there is only one item. Where does the 'pair' come from?
What I'd like to know is not so much about the pair, as where he gets this crap from. Seriously.
And, he genuinely seems to want to know. I don't think he's doing it just to annoy me.
Thankfully though, right now, he's ensconced on the couch with an article on the New Zealand Secret Service and the pairs of pants seem to be temporarily forgotten. What a relief.
2 comments:
*ahem*
Pants is short for pantaloons, also plural, which in their very earliest incarnations were nearer stage tights; their name comes from a Venetian character in Italian commedia dell'arte who was the butt of the clown's jokes and who always appeared as a foolish old man wearing pantaloons,'' according to the Web site. ''Commentators referred to them when they first appeared as being a combination of breeches and stockings. Later the word was applied to fashionable tight-fitting trousers.
*takes a bow*
Heck. You ARE a geek!!
:-) :-)
Yay for finally solving one of the husband's mysteries!!
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