DID YOU GET THEM?
First, I thought it was a Louisiana thing. Then later I believed it was a hood thing. Then I just gave up. I wondered why people always pluralize a drivers license. Here’s what I mean. When you go pick up your license some people say, “did you get them?” When someone can’t find their license they’ll say, “I can’t find them.” Why do we take a single item and make it more than one. I don’t get it. I thought everyone else was crazy. Then I was at a state office and I noticed a pamphlet. It read see ‘some’ id. It also makes it plural in my book. Why do we refer to identification as more than one object? The Insite would like to hear legitimate justification so I can move on with my life!
I’m with you on people pluralizing a single item. But, in the case of the state house, the “some” could be short for “some form of ID”. That’s usually what people who work in official buildings say: “Sir/Madam, I need to see some form of ID before I let you through.”
I have always wanted to know the same thing! I thought it was a redneck Texas thing!