Black Coffee with Sugar

[Alice Faber]

Benjamin Barrett said:
>The editors of the dictionary I'm working on have a dictionary citation
>saying that black coffee can have sugar in it. I disagree, but several
>online definitions I found say only that whitener isn't used, leaving me to
>wonder if sugar can be.
>
>Does anyone say black coffee to mean with sugar?
>

Well, I don't normally put sugar in brewed coffee (just in espresso),
but it doesn't sound at all odd for me to order "black coffee, no
sugar".
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