some scissors - meaning, usage ??? (2025)

Hello native English speakers.
What does the phrase 'some scissors' mean? Is it grammatically correct? After reading this article in Yahoo!Answer http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/7215/is-pair-of-scissors-more-correct-than-scissors ,

My wife always gives me a hard time when I say scissors; she insists the only correct way to refer to that cutting device is "pair of scissors". Is "pair of scissors" more correct than "scissors"?

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I understood it's used in informal writing when talking about only one pair of scissors. But can it be used for more than one pair of scissors or the appropriate phrase in this case is 'some pairs of scissors'?
Thank you in advance.
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"Some scissors" could mean either a pair of scissors or more than one pair of scissors, depending on the context. I often ask my wife to pass me the scissors. I might well say "I need some scissors". There is no need, most of the time, to add "pair of". It can be used for clarity as needed. There are some pairs of scissors on the table. That is clearly not ambiguous.

I have heard people say "a scissors". That sounds wrong to me. However, I know people who say "a scissor" when referring to "a pair of scissors" and there are enough who do this that some dictionaries have a separate entry for "scissor, noun" - it refers immediatey to the headword "scissors".

It is hard to imagine a situation in which Would you give me some scissors, please? would mean anything other than a single pair. If you wanted some other number of pairs of scissors, you would specify that number. If you just wanted a great many - say that you are distributing them to a group - you might say Would you give me several pairs of scissors, please? to obtain what you could carry. You'd have to think of a context in which how many pairs you received didn't matter and the person you were asking already knew that.

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