But you would never say "My pants is too large" or "My socks is too long" or "The Beatles is a great band." Or even better: "My stockings is running."

Yet in all the cases above, there is more than one item: 2 socks, 2 pantlegs, 2 stockings and with Windows there is only one item.


>However, I think the usage is plural, as in "my pants are dirty".
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>That's an interesting point - and related to it is the concept of buying a "pair of pants" and buying a "pair of socks". When I think of someone buying a pair of pants, I think of one unit, but when someone buys a pair of socks, two units.
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>Maybe because the one pair of pants covers two legs? But then a long-sleeved shirt (that covers two arms) would be a "pair of shirts". Too much thinking on a muggy Saturday afternoon. ;)
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>Kevin