There was no such thing as ‘a pea’.

The nouns ‘peas’ (pronounced ‘piece’) and cherrys were originally the term for a singular item. It was only after the ‘s’ started being used as a way to pluralize a noun that people dropped the ‘s’ for the singular since nouns ending in ‘s’ were considered to be plural.

(The Great Courses – Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage)

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