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Peas are among the oldest garden vegetables

By Paul Barbano | Mar 13, 2013

A busboy can bus a table, and a burglar can burgle a house, so is “pease porridge hot” made of pease or a pea? In a process called back formation, English speakers assume that a noun ending in an “s” is plural, so if we drop the “s” we get the ...

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