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Ice Tea and Semantic Drift

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The Origin of Iced Tea

I remember there being kind of a stir about this when I was a kid. Maybe it was just in my family. People objected to iced tea. We're all very known. It's definitely an allision. So we cover iced tea, but our main definition is at ice tea. Even though the D in iced is really silent. But you really can't say it without seeming kind of hyper-vigilant about your pronunciation. Back in 1880, one of the 19th century's most splinetic language writers, Richard Grant White, had an entry in which he was really unhappy with people saying iced cream rather than iced cream. And iced water

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