source: https://twitter.com/PadraigBelton/status/951948982309261312

If tea spread to your country by sea, you call it ‘tea’. If by land, you call it chai. (*This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation ‘te’, whereas Mandarin uses chá.) https://octodon.social/media/sg1pHoupiOPe8BBjSXU