It's not your gramma

[fufaraw]

Nobody in life has ever worn a "jean". We wear jeans. We are jeans-clad.  If your character is jean-clad (or jean clad), does that mean they're wearing only one pant leg? Jeans. Jeans clad. Thank you.

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[conuly]

Nobody has ever used "a scissor", but things are "scissor cut" and not "scissors cut", you do "scissor kicks" and not "scissors kicks".

[fufaraw]

Point. I have heard of "fetch me a scissors," which though plural is still treated as a singular noun.

I had a similar argument with a beta reader once over the "backs of his hands," which she insisted would be "the back of his hands." I snuck in after post and changed it back--it just felt so wrong to me.

Anyone must write as they like, of course. I'll still shudder when it's "wrong."