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I was watching an episode of Monk (S03E12), and in the first few minutes, the detective asks his assistant "Do you have a pliers?" That immediately struck me as weird, but later, towards the end of the episode, he makes the comment "This was cut with a scissors." The only place I've ever seen 'a scissors' was in old Peanuts cartoons, and I've never ever heard 'a pliers', but I guess it could make sense in a way.

I grew up saying a pair of scissors or pliers, which is weird in its own way, since it's a single object. I'm just wondering if anyone else has ever heard these terms.

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[-] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Monk's schtick is that he's a bit of a misfit. It could be that the writers intentionally had him use the words 'wrong' as a character bit.

[-] MassRedundancy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[-] octoperson@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Your comment comes up blank. Lemmy bug?

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