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

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Eric Christopherson wrote:
> > What dialect of English is this? I've never heard of "drink" being
> > used that way outside of this list.
>
> What do you mean?  Do you "drink" medicine?  Would you say that someone
> can "drink" poison, or soup, or cigarettes, or anything other than
> beverages, like water, soda, alcohol, etc.?  I've always heard it used
> in the way I've defined, "substances intended to be taken for sustaining
> life".
I've always heard "drink" used for liquid medicines. I view drink as
ingesting a liquid.

Sometimes the utensils seem to make a difference though. "Eat" tends to
be
used for stuff from bowls, while "drink" for stuff from cups.

(My dialect is Australian English.)

Simon Kissane