What’s tea? No, seriously. What’s ‘tea’?

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August 27, 2025

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"Gibson Girls" Miss Carlyle and Miss Clarke take tea. Gibson Girls were a tall, slim-waisted type of women characterized by the drawings of American society illustrator Charles Gibson circa 1905.

How did a word that simply referred to a millennia-old beverage come to be the latest iteration of “what’s up?”

(Image credit: Hulton Archive)