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Re: "Pigeon pea". Why so named?

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From: Torsten Brinch
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:31
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On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:19:09 GMT, ppnerkDELETETHIS@yahoo.com (Phred)
wrote:

>Thanks for that, Torsten.  I wonder if, in years to come, we could 
>have the progression: pea pea --> pee pee --> wee wee?  ;-)

Since pea and pee have in fact the same pronunciation, future
generations might well choose to conflate the spellings of the two. 
If that happens mee thinks it might well have had consequences for
similarly spelled & pronounced words like wee..
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