At 5:33 PM -0800 3/19/05, David Ross wrote:
>Sheldon, you should just give up "Vainly Trying To
>Make Sense Of The English Language" and go for a ride.
I did that earlier today, a very pleasant 28 miler through Needham,
Dover, Wellesley and Weston, on my Thorn Raven with Smetana's _The
Bartered Bride_ on my iPod.
>Put on your shorts (make that a pair of shorts),
Not yet, still too much snow out there... (Cuissard in French, singular.)
> your
>glasses (still a pair last I checked)
(Lunettes, _plural_ in French.)
>and if it's chilly some tights (a pair will do for those, as well).
Nah, I generally ride in cargo pants, but I dunno how to say that in French.
>Then grab that pair of handlebars and forget
>about duality for a while.
OK, OK
Sheldon "Singular" Brown
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