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| | Wordwizard Clubhouse - Peas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | The more particular name is to distinguish them from field peas, cow peas, snow peas, sugar-snap peas, split peas, yellow peas, fl-eyed peas, crowder peas, chickpeas, goober peas (peanuts), pigeon peas, beach peas, marrowfat peas, mushy peas,... |
 | | And here's a useless pease of information for anyone who is interested: The singular "pea" is an originally incorrect backformation from the singular "pease" (originally French), which was taken to be plural, thus demanding the singular "pea". |
 | | 'Pea' is a wrong back-formation from what was thought to be a plural but actually was a singular ('pisum' in Latin or 'pois' in French). |
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