conuly | Jenn asked also why I didn't make a poll

and the answer was that I was posting on my phone and it's kinda a hassle, but now I have a different reason to make a poll on the word tisane.

Poll #30792 Tisane!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 76

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You primarily associate the word tisane with...

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Poirot
14 (18.4%)

Fantasy novels or fantasy-adjacent activities such as the SCA
20 (26.3%)

French
16 (21.1%)

Pedantics
13 (17.1%)

This word isn't really in my vocabulary
13 (17.1%)

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From:

jessie_c

F: Herbal teas of all sorts

From:

shaddyr

::thumbs up::

From:

darkoshi

Me too, possibly due to some tea I bought in the past saying "tisane" on it. I'm not sure where else I would have picked up the word. Although it is quite possible I also picked it up from some fantasy novel.

From:

redbird

None of the above: I associate the word "tisane" with my British friends.

From:

adrian_turtle

I classify it with French words like "aubergine" and "courgette." They're the default terms in much of the British commonwealth, but not here. Even though they don't need a footnote in the recipe, they aren't the default terms.

From:

steorra

I didn't answer the poll because no option seemed quite right: I associate it with Madeleine L'Engle but *not* with her fantasy novels - I have an impression of reading it in one of her non-fantasy books, probably a non-fantasy adult-oriented novel but it could have been nonfiction.

Edited Date: 2024-02-24 02:07 am (UTC)

From:

ioplokon

Herbal tea. Also the argument I had with my French ex girlfriend about whether tea had caffeine in it (she was like, no it has théine, then looked up the molecular structure of both & saw it was the same)

From:

conuly

You sent me on a rabbithole of discovery there, thanks.

From:

julian

None of the above.

Herbalists.

From:

conuly

Are they more likely to be witches or more likely to stumble across an increasingly-implausible number of dead bodies who need their murders solved?

From:

kareina

This word isn't part of my active vocabulary. I am certain I have seen it before, as I just looked it up, and it turns out that it describes the only sort of "tea" I am willing to drink, and I think I have seen, on more than one occasion, the explanation that it applies to all herbal infusions that aren't made from the tea plant. However the term never stays in long term memory between seeing it accompanied by its explanation, and I have never heard it said anywhere, so I have no idea how one would pronounce it.

From:

conuly

Said as it's spelled, isn't it? I mean, I've always assumed so....

From:

kareina

lol! That helps not at all--there are too many different ways to pronounce those letters, depending upon which language the word first entered English...

From:

shaddyr

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From:

conuly

They'll have blood on their hands.

From:

archersangel

clicking on the fin whale story gives me a page that says it doesn't exist. just FYI.

From:

conuly

That's odd. I'll fix it, thanks.

From:

conuly

When I checked the link it loaded with no problem. The bitly link redirects here. Can you click that link and make sure it works for you?

From:

archersangel

it works for me.

From:

conuly

Hm. So maybe it was just a momentary glitch. If nobody else complains I'll assume that's the case. I hope you do like the article.

From:

archersangel

i liked it. that's for linking to it.

From:

profiterole_reads

Poirot is Belgian anyway, so French and Poirot should be one answer.

From:

rose_griffes

I would defend Conuly making two separate choices. While I did read lots of Christie novels when I was younger, I have zero recollection of Poirot using the word. I remember learning it when I was living in France. (Tea: always disgusting, whether hot or cold. Tisane: eh, could be alright, worth a try.)

From:

conuly

Given when Poirot was born he ought to speak Walloon.

From:

oursin

None of the above: encountered over the years in omnivorous reading, could not pin it down to where. But do recall, most recently perhaps, that the eponymous Rachel in Du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel boasts of her tisanes and this has sinister undercurrents related to her 'foreignness'.

From:

redatt

I've been shaking my tiny box of brain cells, but I can't recall how I came to know the word.

It's not because I hear it in use around me (I definitely don't), but whether from Poirot or reading fantasy or historial fiction or where, I could not say.

From:

conuly

That simply means you're widely read.

From:

redsixwing

F. All teas made from things other than the tea camelia.

Possibly this makes me D.

As always thank you for the roundup!

From:

chelseagirl

None of the above; Victorian novels

From:

l33tminion

For me it's a split between pedants who are annoyed by "herbal tea" being specifically not "tea" and marketers who want to make theirs seem more fancy / esoteric / French. The former more in spoken use, the latter more in writing.

From:

chez_jae

I associate it with tea.

From:

cellio

None of the above: tea.

From:

readerjane

I associate the word "tisane" with male characters who think a female character is overwrought and want her to be quiet.

From:

conuly

Huh. Well, they're assholes.

From:

reynardo

(F) None of the above - learnt about it from a Dick Smith novel (Banker) - well worth the read.

From:

siderea

Are pedants the same as snobs? I picked up the word from my mother, who is something of a tea snob, and seized upon pedantry to express it, a la, "That's not a tea. *sniff* That's a tisane."