Re: About linguistic (in)tolerance
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 28, 1999, 20:07 |
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Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 22:53:32 -0500
> From: John Cowan <cowan@...>
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> Brian Betty scripsit:
> > And pease, plural peases, became pea, plural peas. Hence 'pease porridge
> > hot ..." I think I like pease better ...
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> Almost. "Pease" was a mass noun, like "rice", with no plural.
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> So perhaps we'll see "rie" formed for a kernel of rice.
I doubt that... "pease" had a end phoneme /z/, which is identical to the
pronunciation of the plural morpheme. "rice", on the other hand, is voiceless,
and much more clearly *not* similar to some sort of hypothetical plural form.
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