আমার আম্মা তো একবার শিলাই করলেই কাপড় আর ছিড়েনা!

I used to have a big confusion when people say that they had 3 stitches or 5 stitches in a cut.

Made no sense.

It’s one cut. Why would you be so clumsy that you need to stitch it five times?

Turns out – medical stitches aren’t exactly like কাঁথা শিলাই।

They are more of knots.

3 stitches = 3 knots in colloquial terms.

And now you know.