Unless you are Japanese...
This is so cool. If tea reached your country by land, you call it "chai", from the mainland Cantonese "chá". If it arrived by sea, you call it "tea" from coastal Fujian's Minnan dialect "té". Via @PadraigBelton.pic.twitter.com/CchL9GVcVy
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Surely the other way around - 'cha' as in 'yum cha' Cantonese from Canton and Hong Kong Pearl River. Tea from old silk road and cross country heavy fermented. I can still remember in Greenford market London bus drivers have a quick cup of cha poured into saucers to cool it !
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It appears that Cantonese is with Mandarin using the "cha" pronounciation. It's other Southern Chinese dialects like Fujianese/Amoy using "te" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yum_cha
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But we grow it now. So will we have to change "tea" to "chai"?
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I've changed it to vodka
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Not so good for breakfast though.
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What is wrong with vodka for breakfast?
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Perhaps not the best start to the day, especially if you have to drive to work.
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People drive to work? People work? But austerity? Do you not read Twitter?
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How else do you afford vodka breakfasts? Universal credit doesn't pay enough for those.
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I make my own.
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And there’s me thinking Chai was synonymous with gloves, cinnamon and ginger
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Cloves*
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Polish "herbata" is from "herba tea", so the dot should be blue
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In the Macau museum, they have an interactive map like this with all the different pronunciations. Fun, fun fun
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Never knew that. Fantastic bit of info. Can feel my mind expanding.
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Interesting indeed. The only major "by water" exception is Portugal, whose tea came from the Macau area, where they also used the Sinitic term.
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