You know what a pea is. But did you know that originally the word was
'pease,' and it was singular. The sound on the end was reanalyzed as a
plural 's' marker, and at the end of the 17th Century people started
talking about one 'pea.' The older form lives on in the nursery rhyme
'Pease-porridge hot, pease-porridge cold.'
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