Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for February 07, 2017

Just admit that you don’t know.

so what? not everyone in this country speaks the same language anyway…

Exactly, we have to respect the language! This cartoon is ON FLEEK.

I happen to be listening to lectures on English. Our language is a hodge podge of many others causing inconsistencies. At one time Butterfly was Flutterby which makes sense but people changed it.

In the U.K., “pants” refers to underpants and the outerwear is called “trousers”. So if someone from England starts giggling when you talk about your pants, that’s why.

In the winter my dog wears his coat. In the summer he pants.

we are at ground level as we speak!

Civilization is saved – all because of an ‘s’.

Because they are by definition a covering of the legs, specifically covering each leg separately (as opposed to a robe or skirt.) So, if you have two legs, you have pantS.

My shirt has two arms….we still say “shirt” not shirts.

Since pants are often referred to as a pair of pants, probably at some point, each pant leg was not connected at the top by anything but a belt – in other words – chaps.

It’s singular in my native language.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/pants-word-origin