Re: CHAT drinking soup: (was: Malat (on behalf of Garrett))

Laurie Gerholz wrote:
> In my particular dialect (Minnesota, American English), yes, it's
> commonly said to drink poison (if it's a liquid)
Even if it's accidental?  I would use "swallowed" or a similar verb,
never drink.  If poison were intentionally taken, as in suicide, *then*
I would use drink (kind of a metaphorical usage, i.e., it's being taken
*as if it were* a beverage intended to be drunk), but not if it were
accidental.  "He died from drinking poison", to me, would imply suicide.

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