Many scholars have used the rhymes of the 18th-century British poet Alexander Pope as evidence that in early times the word "tea" in English was pronounced "tay," as in Southern Fujianese, the dialect of Fujian and Taiwan.
許多學者引用十八世紀英國詩人波普詩中的韻腳諧音，證明英文中的「TEA」字早期也念作「TAY」。