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Sloshed, plastered and gazeboed: why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness

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Sloshed, plastered and gazeboed: why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness

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Linguistics@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago

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Combine ribald humour with peculiar sentence construction and a genuinely horrifying drinking culture, and what do you get? A dictionary’s worth of ‘drunkonyms’

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And if you’re posh, you have effectively unlimited choice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xewe4mlX2tc

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