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.