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scissors

The origin and history of scissors.

Etymology

From Old French cisoirs, going back to Late Latin cīsōria, "cutting tools." The modern spelling with "sc-" came later, in the 1500s, when people wrongly linked the word to Latin scissor, meaning "tailor" or "cutter."

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