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Ice Tea and Semantic Drift

Word Matters

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Is Iced Tea Still Iced?

In British English, it's iced tea; in American English, it is iced tea. A bottle of snapple is still called iced tea even without that. In the UK, they have iced water and we have iced Water. Meanwhile, our iced water probably has iced in it, but so does all the other stuff.

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