DRUNKENNESS AND ALCOHOLISM.
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The vocabulary of drunkenness.
HE DITORS of the Dictionary o] American Slang (1, p. 652) report that "the concept having the most slang synonyms is drunk." The Dictionary lists 353 terms, with more added in the Appendix. In 1737 Benjamin Franklin compiled a list of 228 terms for being drunk (2). The American Thesaurus o] Slang (3) lists dose to 900 terms. 3 Obviously, Americans, like many other peoples of the world, have tak...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1905
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(00)69002-5