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Ice Tea and Semantic Drift

Word Matters

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Is There a Boxed Set Without the ED?

Richard Grant White bemoaned ice water and iced tea in 1871. But by 1906, Frank Visatelli wrote his a desk book of errors in English. Both are so firmly established that it is doubtful if they will ever be changed. And I feel like there's also something about the phenomenon that is ice cream.

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