Why In "Pairs"

[SparklyKid]

Trousers and knickers ?

I can understand socks.

I must get out more.

[Canary42]

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through.
Well done and now you wish, perhaps
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard, and sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead;
For goodness' sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat,
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)
A moth is not a moth in mother
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.

And here is not a match for there,
Nor dear and fear, for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose
Just look them up - and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward
And font and front and word and sword
And do and go, then thwart and cart –
Come, come! I've hardly made a start.

A dreadful language? Why man alive!
I’d mastered it when I was five !
And yet to write it, the more I try,
I’ll not learn how ‘til the day I die.

[woofgang]

I sometimes use them in ones for crafting....or you put one on and it splits so to get a pair you actually have to use three.

[Apc2604]

Jno, the point is they are sold by the number of gloves - no mention of pairs. As Woofy says often for some reason one becomes unusable or only one is needed.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Why are kippers sold in pairs?

[Ken4155]

^
'Cos they sleep together, innit. :-)

[woofgang]

because they are smoked in pairs so the flesh doesn't get too dried out

[nescio]

Canary,
have you ever seen/read The Chaos, by Gerard Nolst Trenite?
The full version is over 200 lines long and covers just about every vagary of English spelling/pronunciation

[jno]

Apc, the government seems to be mixing up the figures; sometimes they appear to be taling about pairs when they really mean single ones.

[Apc2604]

Just another reason to have a moan about the Government by the media.