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\"\"<\/a>Four hundred years ago, if you had a single pea in your hand, you would have called it a pease. That old form of the word can still be heard in a children’s rhyme: “Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot, nine days old.” The reason that pease used to be the singular form of the word\u2014and also the plural form\u2014goes back to the word’s origin. In Latin, the singular of pea is pisum and the plural is pisa; both forms contain the letter s. When English borrowed the word from Latin more than a thousand years ago, it took only the first part of this Latin word, changed the spelling to pease, and used that form to refer to one pea or to many peas. In the seventeenth century, though, people started to assume that the s near the end of pease was the s that English uses to make nouns plural. As a result, they made the well-intentioned, but erroneous, inference that the proper singular for pease must be the shortened form, pea. From then on, this new singular form, pea, existed alongside pease, which in turn came to be used only as a plural. Later, the final e of pease was dropped from the spelling, leaving us with the plural peas to go along with the singular pea.<\/p>\n

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Green peas represent the seeds of a vining plant, encompassing a multitude of cultivars that span a height spectrum from 14 feet to 5 feet. Encased within a verdant pod, which is typically excluded from consumption, unless it pertains to the sugar variant, the peas within showcase a range in dimensions. These legumes exhibit a size disparity, ranging from diminutive “petits pois,” measuring approximately 1\/8 inch in diameter, to more substantial counterparts nearing a diameter of nearly \u00bd inch.<\/p>\n

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Four hundred years ago, if you had a single pea in your hand, you would have called it a pease. That old form of the word can still be heard in a children’s rhyme: “Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot, nine days old.” The reason that pease used to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-p"],"yoast_head":"\nPea - Definition of Pea<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Four hundred years ago, if you had a single pea in your hand, you would have called it a pease. That old form of the word can still be heard in a children's rhyme: "Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, pease porridge in the pot, nine days old." 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