By these means, I say, riches will accumulate.—Goldsmith.
Politics plural.
Cultivating a feeling that politics are tiresome.—G. W. Curtis.
The politics in which he took the keenest interest were politics scarcely deserving of the name.—Macaulay.
Now I read all the politics that come out.—Goldsmith.
46. Some words have no corresponding singular.
- aborigines
- amends
- annals
- assets
- antipodes
- scissors
- thanks
- spectacles
- vespers
- victuals
- matins
- nuptials
- oats
- obsequies
- premises
- bellows
- billiards
- dregs
- gallows
- tongs
Occasionally singular words.
Sometimes, however, a few of these words have the construction of singular nouns. Notice the following:—
They cannot get on without each other any more than one blade of a scissors can cut without the other.—J. L. Laughlin.