This little phrase really gets me. You say a pair of sneakers. Cool. That's two. You say a pair of scissors. Not cool. It's only one! Do you refer to each blade as a scissor? Same goes with clippers, shears, stuff like that. You never refer to them in the singular, always plural. I'm ok with words that serve a dual purpose for singular and plural, like Deer, Fish, Buffalo, all that jazz.
Random observation: everything in that miff list refers to something that's meant to cut. Odd.
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