Note: Many of these words have an s-less form as attributive nouns, i.e., when they are acting like adjectives (scissor kick, panty raid, pyjama day). This is not the same as having a singular form.

The singular scissor is mostly a verb. Many other two-bladed tools are also plural: pliers, forceps, shears, tweezers and tongs. You might make amends by paying damages; while damage is a common ...

Commissioned by collector Bob Shaw and designed by legendary industrial designer Brooks Stevens with assistance from fabricator Dave Draper, this singular ... style scissor doors, which add ...

You just have to know them. Then there are words such as “scissors” and “pants,” which even native English speakers puzzle over. Are they singular or plural? Surely a pair of scissors is a ...

They're those scissor-like clamps used in surgery ... very susceptible to reinterpretation as a plural that can have a singular, rabies seems safer. So to speak. There are some, on the other ...