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    Chai vs. Tee

    Von MonkeyFox29

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    2. miki88ptt on

      Well, the map doesn’t confirm that sentence at all. Spatial regression with zero significance.

    3. fjv08kl on

      In Malayalam (spoken in the state of Kerala in South Western coastal India), there are both words – tea (the drink) is called chaaya, but the tea leaf is called teyila (teh/tea + ila/leaf).

    4. SnowdensOfYesteryear on

      As a Tamil, I’ve never heard thenir being used. Closest word is vennir which is ‘hot water’

      From a English respective, I thought chai was milk infused tea?

    5. Attygalle on

      I mean it’s a somewhat cool map but the claim it makes is absolutely not confirmed and most probably not true.

    10. Inevitable-Spirit491 on

      As an American, I once had a humorously difficult time ordering a “chai tea” from an immigrant employee at a Dunkin Donuts

    11. WilsonSmith01 on

      Actually in Polish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian it is Herbata (or similar), as a combination of Herbs and the type of the plant. In fact it is a fusion of 2 latin words: Herba + Thea.
      The Latin word Thea has a similar etymological root with Tea in English.

      So in Polish, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and others is not just Tea, but Herbs Tea.

    13. LemonadeSh4rk on

      So funny to show a statement with a map below that completely contradicts that statement

    14. eclectic_messs on

      This is less tea vs chai and more who borrowed from Minnan te versus Mandarin cha plus a few centuries of trade route path dependence

    16. southfront_ on

      Poland seems to be the only slavic country to call it „tea“ or similar. Wonder why that is.

      In serbian (croatian and bosnian too) it‘s čaj.

    17. TastlessMishMash on

      This is inaccurate, in Armenia tea is թեյ, which is pronounced like [‚teı]

    19. WanderingSondering on

      In Japanese, it’s cha. The „O“ is just an honorific qualifier, but the word is cha.

    21. samuraijon on

      the ‚o‘ in japan is just there to make the word more polite. in its bare form cha is basically the same as in mandarin also in writing – 茶

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