• asseverate
    DEFINITION: (verb) State categorically. SYNONYMS: assert, maintain. USAGE: They descended, passing the man with the pail, who again asseverated that he had let no intruder pass. Discuss […]
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tea time

In William Gibson’s new book Spook Country the characters with Russian background are making some tea:
“The kettle began to whistle. Tito took it off the element and dashed some boiling water into the tchainik. Then he added the two tea bags and poured the water with a habitual fast flourish. He put the lid on.”

I can’t wait to see the foreign effect of tchainik translated into Polish.

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