Ice Tea and Semantic Drift
Word Matters
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I Could Use a Nice Glass of Iced Tea
No matter how you spell it, nobody really says iced tea in conversation. We all say iced tea because of this phenomenon called e-lision. This happens especially with tea and tea at the ends of words. Do you have a question about the origin, history, or meaning of a word? Email us at wordmatters at m-w.com.
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