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Not sure how you're wearing your pants, but the rest of us put them on one leg at a time,
I’ve always thought this ‘putting trousers on one leg at a time’ thing was a bit wrong. I mean, you maybe put your feet through the leg holes one at a time but thats like what, a fifth of the entire putting them on operation innit, you’d pull them up both legs at the same time and can’t do up the button/belt/drawstring until both legs are fully in place.
Since a pullover or t-shirt has three openings, it would be a triplet rather than a pair if English had gone done that route.
4 Shirley? The big yin at the bottom, two arm holes, one head hole?
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4 Shirley?
No, three, for the same reason as trousers have two. If you want to describe a t-shirt as a thing with four penetrations, then trousers have three, which is the more rigorous definition of the topology, but the third hole in trousers is the rest of the universe and only yo momma has a waist band that big.
gbj_tester
Not sure how you're wearing your pants, but the rest of us put them on one leg at a time, from the obviously bifurcated bloomer to the barely there French knicker. Topologically, they all have two openings and a closed boundary
Since a pullover or t-shirt has three openings, it would be a triplet rather than a pair if English had gone done that route. The fact that pants, tights, trousers, spectacles and scissors are commonly referred to as "a pair of.." despite mostly having no meaning outside of their inherent pairwise structure is otherwise an entirely arbitrary happenstance of linguistic development