whats the plural of pants?

Question

its not like u go to the shop an buy some mens pant!!!!!

Answer 1

It is a plural, there is no singular form.

Answer 2

Pants

Answer 3

Pants is plural. In the same way that glasses are (as in a pair of glasses). Just to note, a person said that the words "deer" and "fish" are plural. That's not true - the singular form is the same as the plural form (this is to do with germanic vowel changes). Compare "there is a deer" to "there are some deer".

Answer 4

Pants.

Answer 5

Easy answer is Pants. I've heard one 'tube' referred to as 'Pant' Leg. And we do normally include the word pair when referring to more than two. Pants in the UK refers to Undies as opposed to trousers. (I don't think that has a singular either.)

This is an interesting 'tid-bit',

Word History: One would not expect a word for a modern article of clothing to come ultimately from the name of a 4th-century Roman Catholic saint, but that is the case with the word pants.

It can be traced back to Pantaleon, the patron saint of Venice. He became so closely associated with the inhabitants of that city that the Venetians were popularly known as Pantaloni. Consequently, among the commedia dell'arte's stock characters the representative Venetian (a stereotypically wealthy but miserly merchant) was called Pantalone, or Pantalon in French.

In the mid-17th century the French came to identify him with one particular style of trousers, a style which became known as pantaloons in English. Pantaloons was later applied to another style that came into fashion in the late 18th century, tight-fitting garments that had begun to replace knee breeches.

After that pantaloons was used to refer to trousers in general. The abbreviation of pantaloons to pants met with some resistance at first; it was considered vulgar and, as Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, "a word not made for gentlemen, but 'gents.'" First found in the writings of Edgar Allan Poe in 1840, pants has replaced the "gentleman's word" in English and has lost all obvious connection to Saint Pantaleon.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pants

Thanks for asking,

Answer 6

there is not singular of pants. it is plural already. the correct way of saying it is pair of pants.

Answer 7

Why is it called a pair of pants when there is only one.?

We dont say pair of shirts even tho it has 2 sleeves.

And why is it a tooth brush instead of teeth brush?

Or a pair of suspenders.

Or a pair of glasses

But hey, I understand a pair of shoes.

A pair of gloves

and a paradox

Answer 8

the word pants is plural in and of itself. kinda like deer, and fish. its singular and plural at the same time.

Answer 9

pants

Answer 10

pants

Answer 11

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