iced tea

[Dieter Burrell]

And sweet tea is the default if you do order 'ice tea,' at least in eastern
Georgia and western South Carolina.  Only if requested could someone
possibly receive unsweetened tea.

Dieter Burrell
ICPSR


At 12:25 PM 8/3/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>I don't know about either ice or iced tea being a "southernism" -- but it
doesn't
>appear to be predominant in my father's family's areas of Alabama. Tea
that isn't
>in a cup and isn't hot is _sweet tea_. When offered "tea" without a
qualifier in
>northern AL or in Montgomery, the question, "Ice(d) tea?" gets you "Yes
Ma'am,
>sweet tea."
>
>Beth Simon
>Assistant Professor, Linguistics and English
>Indiana University Purdue University
>simon at ipfw.edu