I luv iced tea! And ice tea doesn't seem like the right grammar. But iced tea is the best thing to drink when the sun is hot as hell outside, I'm in new York but still the temperature gets over 100 degrees! I know, weird for a state up north.
I think you have to be a good speaker and pronounce your glottal stops to distinguish. I love Iced Tea! Delicious and refreshing in warm sunny weather (which incidentally means that I don't get to enjoy it that much!).
Your climate is very much like mine. I hear ya! We have had a lot of rain and drizzle this past week though the sun is trying to come out today. You could not say it is hot though-perhaps room temperature when out of the breeze.
Today (Sat 16th) has been a complete washout. However the preceding week has been nice and the forecast is for some warm sunshine tomorrow. We don't have any Iced Tea in the fridge though. I first tasted it on a visit to New Jersey and sought it out in our supermarkets when I got home. There was another cold drink I had over there whose name escapes me but it was to die for! I think you could buy it in Dunkin' Donuts. Perhaps our American friends can help with this?
A cold drink.....fruit punch, lemonade (which is what you call lemon squash) those are the basic ones that come to mind other than pop and the plethora of flavoured Iced teas now available.
I love Irn Bru! Just do not allow the fizz bubbles to go up your nose or it WILL make you gag. I am not sure why. You should give it another try - it's certainly not an unpleasant taste!
No, the drink out of Dunkin' Donuts was not a fruity one. I suppose you could liken it to an iced coffee (that is the closest I can think of). I remember that you can specify a flavour that can be optionally added like caramel or vanilla. It'll come back to me sometime soon!
OH it probably was an iced coffee. There are different types like iced lattes and iced cappuccinos. The popular donut chain in Canada calls them Ice Caps (short for cappuccino) so it was probably something similar at Dunkin Donuts.
I'm off to visit and have dinner with my parents. Enjoy the rest of your night/wee hours of the morning-lol.
It's funny, I say it that way, but when I write it I write iced tea. I dunno... we slur so many things together here that I probably say it iced tea and don't realize it.
Even if the -ed is there in your mind it sounds like it isn't. But I see people write Ice Tea as well. In my options the picture of the Lipton label spells it Ice Tea.
I believe the grammatically correct way is iced not ice. The tea, after all, isn't made out of ice.
The misspelling, I think is similar to people writing "should of." That's what they hear when someone says should've. And thinking skills have gone way down...
Yes, I think so too and that is what Linkums suggested as well. It is perpetuated though if companies selling it spell it that way too, as Lipton does in the label I included with the options.
Ummm - yes, but not always! lol. You can have fewer vehicles using a road and you can have less traffic using a road. (Sorry for being so pedantic as I know the spirit of what it is you mean). :-)
YOu can't count traffic that's why you use the term less. Traffic is a conglomerate thing. You can count the individual cars and that is why you say fewer cars.
There was less of a crowd at the mall today. There were fewer people at the mall today. Like traffic, the crowd is one thing, whereas the individual people are many.
They also do things to appease the public. In this area, the news people refer to going "down the shore" which is the colloquialism here (I myself generally say I'm going to the shore or I'm going to the beach, but people who actually don't get rid of their Philadelphia accents say, "down the shore."
lol... and down is pronounced "daln" Just like the most used word is Ja, as in "Ja eat yet ?" (really Jeet) "Ja see that?" "Ja know what I mean?" And they walk on the payment and root for the Iggles. lol
News to me?But I'm complicated I'll google it now. Okay YES Lipton does sell a diet sparkling carbonated ice tea. I don't drink diet anything. Learn something useless everyday. ;)
I tried Irn Bru and nearly gagged. ;-)
No, the drink out of Dunkin' Donuts was not a fruity one. I suppose you could liken it to an iced coffee (that is the closest I can think of). I remember that you can specify a flavour that can be optionally added like caramel or vanilla. It'll come back to me sometime soon!
I'm off to visit and have dinner with my parents. Enjoy the rest of your night/wee hours of the morning-lol.
The Irn Bru seemed excessively sweet to me.
The misspelling, I think is similar to people writing "should of." That's what they hear when someone says should've. And thinking skills have gone way down...
There was less of a crowd at the mall today. There were fewer people at the mall today.
Like traffic, the crowd is one thing, whereas the individual people are many.
I say "interesting" because I have never thought to find fault with the term "traffic counter". Technically this must be grammatically incorrect then.
I have green tea with pomegranate in my fridge right now.