Beverage

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There is no situation in which “beverage” more suitable word than “drink”. Not even ironically. Not even when it comes to wiping a spilt one up, with a fresh clean flannel. It is a word that should not exist, however fine its Mediaeval French or Latin pedigree might be: it was barely used before the 19th Century.