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This usage is viewed as nonstandard in the linguistic community, though it may eventually gain acceptance. The word itself can be traced to equivalent terms in English and Middle French. Interestingly, the original Latin form of this word was singular…

Scissors, like many pluralia tantum, traces back to a grammatically singular word. In Vulgar Latin, caesorium referred to a cutting instrument, and this Latin word was singular—even though the cutting instrument it named had two blades that slid past each…