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If tea spread to your country by sea you call it tea, if it spread by land you call it chai. This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation "te", whereas Mandarin uses "chá"

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“If tea spread to your country by sea you call it tea, if it spread by land you call it chai. This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation "te", whereas Mandarin uses "chá"”

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Show threadMitominderNov 14, 2022
@happykhan Interesting. In the UK I often heard "Fancy a cup of char? " I understood the meaning, but did not know the history.