The Drinker's Dictionary

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The Drinker's Dictionary is a list of 228 "round-about phrases" to describe drunkenness. It was published on January 6, 1737 (1736 Old Style) in The Pennsylvania Gazette. 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. 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.

References

  1. ^ Levine, Harry (1981). "The Vocabulary of Drunkenness". Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 42 (11): 1046. doi:10.15288/jsa.1981.42.1038. PMID 7038310.
  2. ^ Benjamin Franklin; William Temple Franklin; William Duane (1859). Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 2. Derby & Jackson. p. 496.
  3. ^ From the Writings of Benjamin Franklin in the Pennsylvania Gazette 1736–1737 Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Berson, J. S. (2006). "The Source for Benjamin Franklin's "The Drinkers Dictionary" (And Was It Mather Byles?)". American Speech. 81 (2): 164–179. doi:10.1215/00031283-2006-011.
  5. ^ Levine, Harry (1981). "The Vocabulary of Drunkenness". Journal of Studies on Alcohol. 42 (11): 1046. doi:10.15288/jsa.1981.42.1038. PMID 7038310.

Bibliography

  • Franklin, Benjamin, Franklin, William Temple, Duane, William, Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, volume 2, New York: Derby & Jackson (1859), p. 496.

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