Timeline for Plural noun for things with a pair
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| Mar 19, 2016 at 18:39 | comment | added | Alan Carmack | Yeah, just reporting on my own real life usage in the past few days to describe the object; (AmE). I expanded it to case for my glasses rather than say glass(es) case. It is weird though, that many folks don't seem to know that lens is singular. | |
| Mar 19, 2016 at 17:35 | comment | added | JavaLatte | @AlanCarmack, according to Ngram, spectacle case >> eyeglass case for British English, but eyeglass case > spectacle case for American English. Odd, when the order is glasses >> spectacles > eyeglasses for both languages. | |
| Mar 19, 2016 at 17:19 | comment | added | Alan Carmack | Eyeglass case may be more productive than glass(es) case. Or case for my glasses. | |
| Mar 19, 2016 at 7:08 | history | edited | JavaLatte | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 19, 2016 at 6:58 | vote | accept | Ook | ||
| Mar 19, 2016 at 6:11 | history | answered | JavaLatte | CC BY-SA 3.0 |