Ask yourself what each cover primarily and whether there's one or two of them and I think you'll have your answer.
No, I'm still lost Brian. They are both single items so how can one be a pair? If it were two separate things like socks or shoes, then yes, I understand. Anyway, I love it when the bints bend ower & their thong sticks out of the top of their pants. ****ing proper horns me up.
My ex wife was that thick that she used to have to buy hers from C & A so she knew which way to put them on. When C & A closed she then had to get them from M & S
Pair for trousers came in as originally trousers came as two separate prices.... To cover two legs. The term has carried in Tailoring ever since. Same has been aplied to underwear, two leg holes, covers two arse cheeks, hence pair of knickers or briefs. G-strings and thongs cover nowt but a twat. So why would their be a pair?
The wonders of the English language eh! I was talking to a student from the Middle East who was so confused about the English language which he thought he knew so well. He had been to Yorkshire where someone addressed him as Cock, which he thought was an insult. When I explained that in Yorkshire that is a term of endearment he was scratching his head. I then told him that if he goes to Staffordshire that he may get called Duck, he just said that he gives up and he has much to learn..
They're are a pair mate. Shops have been trying to stop using the term pair for such things, look at the packaging, they doesn't say pair for Knickers and Boxers either, but they're still pairs.
Tongs, on the other hand, are a pair. You used a pair of tongs to put hot coals that had spit out of the fire back onto the fire. It proves that "h" is a powerful letter. You might be lucky and dodge a bomb, but an h-bomb? x
Also. Take the letter h out of a word and you turn rastafarian, as in "what do you call that ting?" x
