SC - Tea-Was Atlantian Celebration

[Elise Fleming]

David/Cariadoc wrote:
> It isn't, of course, Kiri's fault (nor, probably, Olwen's), but this
> pushes one of my buttons. "Tea" as a drink is either very late period
> or out of period for western Europe. "Tea" as the name of a social
> occasion is more than a century out of period; as best I recall the
> term first appears in the 18th century. It is entirely appropriate
> for regency recreation, and wildly inappropriate for the SCA.

Don't know if it's more "period" but at Pennsic we've changed the "Tea"
(Needleworkers' Tea, etc.) to "reception" or "gathering".  I've noticed that
folk are submitting requests now using one of those nouns instead of "tea".

Alys Katharine