Talk:Hair-cutting shears

Proposal to merge Thinning scissors into this article

Since thinning scissors is only a 2 sentence article and will probably never grow very large, I propose merging it with this article. Thinning scissors are technically a type of hair cutting scissors anyway. Kaldari (talk) 06:04, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. In this book, thinning scissors appears in a subsection on the page discussing hair-cutting scissors. Gilliam (talk) 06:31, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Kaldari (talk) 07:52, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I disagree with the recent move of this page from hair cutting scissors to haircutting scissors. Haircut is only a noun, not a verb. There is no such word as 'haircutting'. More importantly, "hair cutting scissors" is the much more common spelling. On Google it beats "haircutting scissors" 10 to 1. Kaldari (talk) 17:23, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

First of all, in a phrase like "haircutting shears", the word "haircutting" is not an infinitive verb, it is a gerund. As such, the original verb root "haircutting" does not actually have to exist. But moreover, regardless of grammar, it IS a term that is used widely. So you cannot credibly argue that it does not exist, even if it is the less-common usage.— tooki (talk) 11:41, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps hyphenated hair-cutting is the correct term. Many books, if not all, at Google Books spell it with the hyphen. Please type in "Hair cutting scissors" at Google Books. - Gilliam (talk) 22:05, 10 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Usage of "hair cutting scissors" and "hair-cutting scissors" seems to be about evenly split at Google Books (checked the first 50 uses). I've moved the article to "hair-cutting scissors" for now. Kaldari (talk) 08:37, 13 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]