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

Raymond A. Brown wrote:
> Some vague memory stirs about my reading that some cultures use the same
> verb for the inhaling of tobacco smoke, but I'd forgotten that until this
> thread.  I've never come across that in English usage.
Japanese, for one.  When tobacco was first introduced into the
English-speaking world, "drink" was the usual verb for the inhaling of
the smoke.

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