[Ads-l] Scissors

[David Daniel]

A friend of mine insists that "a lot" of people in the US (he is Irish) say
scissor rather than scissors. I - growing up in So California and having
family from the Midwest and friends pretty much from all over - have never
heard anything but scissors. He spent several years in Chicago and I'm
wondering if maybe it's a regionalism. (?) M-W does list scissor as a
synonym of scissors, but in its own entry. The "scissors" entry says nothing
about "scissor" being a variant. Does anyone have any information on this?
DAD

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