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How to spell peas

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What it means: Small, round, green vegetables often eaten in dishes.

In a sentence: Peas are small, round, and green vegetables.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as pees or pease.

Same family: pea, peapod, pease, split peas, snow peas. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: The word "pea" comes from Middle English "pease," which was originally treated as a collective noun. Over time, English speakers reinterpreted "pease" as a plural and created the new singular form "pea," making "peas" a kind of historical double-plural.

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