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Old 12-24-2018, 09:03 PM   #16
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What does this language nerdistry have to do with the price of tea in China? (I couldn't help myself, sorry)
The fault is mine, though I did tag my initial reply as OT - BookCat mentioned a review she tried to leave on Amazon, I jumped on my pet peeve pony, and we took a detour longer and more meandering than the Amazon. Mea culpa
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Green Tea in Japan is Ocha.
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And then there are various teas, also of green color (matcha, ryokucha, genmaicha, hojicha, etc), and other colours as well (kocha, mugicha, kombucha, etc) but they all have cha in the end (which is same as chai in Hindi). Just like in Russian and many European languages it’s called chai.
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"Char" in Aussie slang, eg, "Cuppa char, love," but becoming obsolete. Pronounced more like cha. No aspirated h on end, but no pronounced r either. Haven't heard it used for (wait for it) yonks.
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"Yonks" now that's a word which takes me back. Seems to be used as infrequently as "char" is now in the UK. I wonder what the origin was?

Answering my own question:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-yon1.htm
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