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" A pair of rosary beads"?

  • 26-04-2010 8:20pm
    #1
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭


    My apologies for derailing another thread with this...

    Does anyone know how the expression " a pair of rosary beads" came into being?

    It is used such a lot and no one seems to know why.

    These expressions always have a reason and a meaning.

    It makes no sense, does it? A pair usually means two.

    Thank you


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  • #2
    Fanny Cradock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,245 ✭✭✭✭Fanny Cradock


    I guess it an Irish thing. Like somebody saying "I need a new pair of trousers" when they are actually referring to one.


  • #3
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Fanny Cradock wrote: »
    I guess it an Irish thing. Like somebody saying "I need a new pair of trousers" when they are actually referring to one.


    But trousers have two legs. ie a pair.... And that is used world wide.... Hmmmmm


  • #4
    StealthRolex
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,293 ✭✭✭StealthRolex


    Not Irish but Olde English

    http://www.jstor.org/pss/454193


  • #5
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Graces7 wrote: »
    But trousers have two legs. ie a pair.... And that is used world wide.... Hmmmmm

    So surely one should refer to 'a pair of bras'?


  • #6
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    StealthRolex wrote: »
    Not Irish but Olde English

    http://www.jstor.org/pss/454193

    Thank you!

    I should have known that with my academic background of course..


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