PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
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It disproves the rule as a universal law, not the global tendency. Portuguese merchants used a maritime route yet Portuguese retained a cha-type form.
/ˈʃa/ · noun
The Portuguese word for tea, a European cha-type form associated with sixteenth-century Portuguese contact through Macao rather than the Dutch te-type route.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Demonstrates the exception while retaining the distributional tendency.
Chapter 138 — Portuguese exception and global valuesDocuments the exceptional living form.
Portuguese chá headwordThe leaderboard turns the exception into a lesson about probabilistic historical patterns.