The Drinker's Dictionary
The Drinker's Dictionary is a list of 228 "round-about phrases" to describe drunkenness. It was published on January 6,[1] 1737 (1736 Old Style) in The Pennsylvania Gazette.[2][3] The Pennsylvania Gazette publication is attributed to Benjamin Franklin and appears in his memoirs; however, a very similar wordlist appears in the New England Weekly Journal on July 6, 1736, and differences between the two suggest earlier origins by a different author.[4] Franklin deemed drunkenness as a vice that could never be a virtue, so various terms and phrases were created to mask the inappropriateness of the act.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Levine, Harry (1981). "The Vocabulary of Drunkenness". Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 42 (11): 1046. doi:7038310.
- ^ Benjamin Franklin; William Temple Franklin; William Duane (1859). 496.
- ^ Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Berson, J. S. (2006). 10.1215/00031283-2006-011.
- ^ Levine, Harry (1981). "The Vocabulary of Drunkenness". Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 42 (11): 1046. doi:7038310.
Bibliography
[edit]- Franklin, Benjamin, Franklin, William Temple, Duane, William, Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, volume 2, New York: Derby & Jackson (1859), p. 496.
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