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Tue 08 Aug 2010An empty cup leaves room for more tea
TIME OUT:There’s bags of taste and mugs of pure joy, writes MARIE MURRAY
WOULD YOU like a nice cup of tea? The question raises the curiosity of those unfamiliar with our language and the vast and particular vocabulary that surrounds our discussions about tea. We have been offering each other “a nice cup of tea” for so long that we never consider the antonymous alternative to that offer. Besides nobody in Ireland could ever make a nasty cup of tea. We are too long making it, living on it, loving it, offering it, drinking it, requesting it, refusing it and socially interacting because of it, that we all know how to make a nice cup of tea.
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