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Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:
> 
> But of course none of this explains why those objects are singular in
> some languages and plural in others.
> 

Or country. In Brazil, inexplicably, they refer to seeing glasses with the
plural noun and a singular article, e.g. _um óculos_ which sounds like 'a
glasses' (note that things like your/the are inflected for number even in
Brazil, so the weirdness is more conspicuous than this).