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British comedian inspires linguistic study of slang synonyms for getting drunk – MacMegasite macmegasite.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from macmegasite.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This is why Brits have 546 different words for drunk aol.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from aol.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The English have an enormous vocabulary for describing intoxication. A new report from German linguists Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer (Chemnitz University of Technology) and Peter Uhrig (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg) examined why British people have such a large number of words to express the idea of being drunk in a humorous way so-called "drunkonyms" like “hammered” or