tea
Why does so much of the world seem to say tea or cha?
What do you notice?
English, from Min tê
tea
The same leaf. Another reading.
茶
One character. Two families of names.
English tea. Hindi chai. Japanese cha. They cluster.
Not random. Two families: te and cha.
Ask someone who drinks tea what they call it at home. Listen for tea, cha, or chai. Then ask how the leaf got there.
You can stop here. The word already moved.
Go find a traveling word
The screen was the door.
More ways to look outside