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pea

The origin and history of pea.

Etymology

"Pea" is actually a back-formation: the older word "pease" (as in the nursery rhyme "pease pudding") was originally both singular and plural, but people mistook the "s" for a plural ending and invented a new singular, "pea".

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Etymology from freedict-original, original.