How do you use object initializers for a list of key value pairs?

I can't figure out the syntax to do inline collection initialization for:

var a = new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>();

Note that the dictionary collection initialization { { key1, value1 }, { key2, value2 } } depends on the Dictionary's Add(TKey, TValue) method. You can't use this syntax with the list because it lacks that method, but you could make a subclass with the method:

public class KeyValueList<TKey, TValue> : List<KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>>
{
    public void Add(TKey key, TValue value)
    {
        Add(new KeyValuePair<TKey, TValue>(key, value));
    }
}

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        var list = new KeyValueList<string, string>
                   {
                       { "key1", "value1" },
                       { "key2", "value2" },
                       { "key3", "value3" },
                   };
    }
}

Pretty straightforward:

var a = new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>()
{
    new KeyValuePair<string, string>("A","B"),
    new KeyValuePair<string, string>("A","B"),
    new KeyValuePair<string, string>("A","B"),
};

Note that you can leave the trailing comma after the last element (probably because .net creators wanted to make automatic code-generation easier), or remove the () brackets of the list contructor and the code still compiles.

How do you use object initializers for a list of key value pairs?

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