The swimsuit issue
Giraffoto
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The issue I have is, why is a pair of trunks (or shorts) clearly plural, while a bikini is singular?
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Surely 'Bi-' is a prefix meaning 2 or twice, as in Bi-kini?0
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Bikinis were named after the Bikini Atoll, site of American nuclear weapons tests. Nothing to do with bi= 2.
The bikini is the top and bottom, and also gets called a bikini suit. If you are talking just about the bottom, they get called bikini briefs, so they are in the plural just like swimming trunks.0 -
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Looks like I was right first time.
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Not in the spirit of humour but before modern tailoring, pants were made in two parts, one for each leg, the pieces were put on each leg separately and then wrapped and tied or belted at the waist, the plural usage persisted out of habit even after the garments had become physically one piece.
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team47b wrote:Not in the spirit of humour but before modern tailoring, pants were made in two parts, one for each leg, the pieces were put on each leg separately and then wrapped and tied or belted at the waist, the plural usage persisted out of habit even after the garments had become physically one piece.
Or maybe that's just pants
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