Re: About linguistic (in)tolerance

nicole wrote:

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> Do many other people on this list say "die" as the singular of dice?
> Because I know that my family and I use it all the time when playing
> games.
> -Nicole
All the time. "Pass me that die," or "Where did that die roll to?"
For a single grain of rice, however, I usually say
"a grain of rice" or "a peice of rice"  Rie just sounds a little
bit too much like rye.