[Political Junkie Too]

You got me thinking about terms that have "singular" sense, but sound as though they are plural.

Money, too.

Five plus five is ten, because ten is a single quantity. This is the proper grammar when counting back change.

"That's $4.95. A nickel makes five, ten, and ten is twenty."

-PJ

[Cboldt]

... This is the proper grammar when counting back change.

Good one. Just about any time a number is used to express a single item, distance, weight. E.g., It IS 3 miles from my house to the store. The parcel IS 10 acres in area.

[Squawk 8888]

This is the proper grammar when counting back change.

Grammar and counting back change- two lost arts in a single sentence!