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On 23 Nov 2013 02:18:03 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following:

>
>Aside: I love the fact that pea, as in green peas or black-eyed peas, is 
>a back-formation from an uncountable noun. Originally English had the 
>word "pease", as in "pease porridge hot" from the nursery rhyme. Like 
>wheat, rice, barley and others, You would have to say something like 
>"give me a grain of pease" if you only wanted one. Eventually, people 
>began to assume that "pease", or "peas", was the plural and therefore 
>"pea" must be the singular. I look forward to the day that "rice" is the 
>plural of "ri" :-)

	Rice is the plural of rouse
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