Comments on: Mass nouns (Pease)

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mcdonalds coupons — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:15:28 +0000

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Back-formation / A Love of Words — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:00:21 +0000

[...] how the word “pea” came from the mass noun “pease“? This is a perfect example of back-formation. Even though the “s” at the end of pease [...]

Dori — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:04:30 +0000

So interesting! That would be funny if we all started saying chee. How strange!

Cindy — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:20:43 +0000

I don’t know what I think about that…I am scared of what is happening to our language sometimes… we butcher is so.

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