I have been watching this discussion but there is not much to add from 
my side. Other than that I know both die and dice as words and that I 
always though dice was the plural.

Totally irrelevant to this english discussion, but it did remind me of 
the standard translation for 'alea iacta est' in Dutch. Which is: 'de 
teerling is geworpen'. Where 'teerling' is the Dutch word for a die.
Only it isn't, sort of. The Dutch word for die is 'dobbelsteen' I have 
never heard anybody use the word 'teerling' except in this context. 
There is no way you can understand 'teerling' from other words. It was 
some time after I learned this Dutch expression that I finally gave up 
trying to understand it myself and looked it up in a dictionary. I don't 
think I was the only one. What is the point of using an unknown, archaic 
word in an expression if there is a perfectly normal word for it?

Now playing: Rush, roll the bones.

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Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per 
citizen per day.

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