An International News Service story datelined Boston, Massachusetts—and printed as "Baby Shoe Prices Advance," in the Brownwood [Texas] Bulletin (January 24, 1920)—uses the craps …

Aug 5, 2012 · a pair of new shoes / pants / scissors; I can’t find which one of those two it should be, and I’ve seen some debate about it. “A new pair of shoes”: Could it imply that the shoes …

Let me take an example. Assuming that I got two different types of balls – base ball and basket ball – and I bind them together into a pair, the pair will consist of two different types of balls. In …

Thinking it through, I came to the conclusion that in some cases “the pair” is treated as a single entity (in which case “was” would be correct), while in other cases “the pair” is treated as the …

Aug 1, 2011 · In the above examples, one would rarely find pair used in those contexts. It is also colloquial to use some to refer to just one pair: You need some scissors to do a perfect job. I …

Apr 4, 2019 · Currently, according to Google Ngrams, two pairs of eyes is 15 times as common as two pair of eyes in American English, and 40 times as common in British. For shoes, it's 9:1 …

May 27, 2018 · A person I know often drops the "to be" which would normally be before the verb in a sentence. He'll say things like: That needs fixed. It needs upgraded. They need looked at. …

May 12, 2016 · The same mentality is also behind the term "well-heeled" meaning wealthy; shoes typically have a pretty hard life as clothing, and it's very tempting to cut corners and wear a …

Jan 2, 2016 · I found both "need" and "needs" have many search results in terms of the phrase "one need/needs only". For example: 1.Should one have any doubts about this proposition, …

Dec 14, 2016 · You should use the singular, because it refers to "Pair" and not to "polynomials". The pair in this case is one, so "is". If it was "three pairs of polynomials...", for example, then …