Two pairs of scissors

scissorses

A lesbian couple.

2 pairs of scissors

A pair of pairs of scissors.

Two pairs.

On the right is Two Pair, but you should know that it still gets trumped by Three of a Kind.

A pair of pair of scissors

A quartet of scissors.

I teach ESL, and this kinda shit in the English language drives me nuts. It's impossible to explain. Just gotta know it. The worst is when you're asking questions. "What's this?" for single things. "What are these?" for multiples. HTF do you explain that you have to know to ask "What are these?" when you're asking about pants or scissors. They're literally asking what those things are. It's bizarre.

From the recent Tom Scott upload I learned a group of ferrets are called "a business". We need more silly names to refer to multiple items. The layered parody of a pair of a pair of scissors is indeed tickling my silly bone.

Pair of scissorses

Pairs of scissors, obviously.

Which 4, or 17, or 249, or 17843368 etc would also reasonably be called.

four scissors

Scissors^2^

It's a troupe of scissors!

One time my grandmother gave me two pears. She said, "Here's your two pears". I said, "This is just one pair" and we went back forth a bit before she got it.

Mind was blown when I was learning about an xray-based microfabrication technique. Where the x-rays are known to scise (to cut) polymer molecules.

It took me several years to realize that scissors are tools that scise things. They are prolific scise-ers.

That's clearly four scissors.

Attempted murder

Scissor Sisters.

Scissi

Scisters

Scissor Sisters

Pair of pairs of scissors.

If there’s a boy pair of scissors there, and a girl pair of scissors there, then it’s a brace of pairs of scissors.

Obv.

English is very straightforward.

It's like fish

It's 2 per, as in:

Give me 2 per Cuz I need two per

Multi-scissor drifting!