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Thread #159704   Message #3785081
Posted By: MGM·Lion
13-Apr-16 - 09:43 AM
Thread Name: The Good Old English Cup of Tea
Subject: RE: The Good Old English Cup of Tea
Great, mayo. Pity the pronunciation has regularised to follow the spelling so such fine manifestations appear a bit eccentric nowadays.
Compare Alexander Pope on Hampton Court in The Rape of the Lock, 1714:

Here Thou, great Anna! whom three Realms obey,
Dost sometimes Counsel take—and sometimes Tea.


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