saucering tea

[Barbara Need]

There does not seem to be a discussion of this, at least not by
searching for saucer tea--There is a reference in May 2010 (Wilson):

though *we* always used "deaf" in our household, *many* very close
relatives and family friends used "deef," a phenomenon almost as
startling as seeing these same people drinking coffee and tea from the
saucer after pouring it from the cup.

And another in July 2010 (also Wilson) about his reaction to hearing
someone younger than he using _for to_:

the way that seeing East-TX country cousins pour coffee from the cup
into the saucer and then drink it from there caught my eye.

Barbara

Barbara Need
Ithaca

On 9 Mar 2011, at 6:00 PM, George Thompson wrote:

> I'm sure that this topic was batted about here recently, but the ADS-
> L archives do not seem to cover very recent material, so I can't
> confirm my memory.
>
> In any event, the practice is alluded to in "Etiquette BLues", by
> The Happiness Boys, receorded in the mid or late 1920s,

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