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Past Participle: Respect the Voice
My first non-babysitting job was running a snack bar at a small swim and tennis club. An opening weekend task was to write the menu on the chalkboard, and in my best block printing I wrote “ice tea.” The club manager swooped down, erased the entry, handed the chalk back to me and said, “It’s iced tea, not ice tea. You don’t make tea out of ice; you put it on ice.” I made the correction and chalked it up to a learning experience. (See what I did there? Chalk? Chalked it up? Okay…)