Why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/feb/20/sloshed-plastered-and-gazeboed-why-britons-have-546-words-for-drunkenness

by iechoz6H • 2 years ago

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n4r92• 2 years ago

This other article has the full list: https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2024/02/the-546-english-wo...

RAdrien• 2 years ago

Some of these are very country or group specific. “Lit” is a term used in American hip hop. “Pissed” is mainly used in Britain. “Wasted” is used by American high school and college students.

n4r92• 2 years ago

It's meant to capture words used in Britain. No doubt some people use "lit", and I definitely hear "wasted" plenty.

teleforce3• 2 years ago

Similarly why Eskimo people has so many words for ice and likewise Arabic has so many words for sword. In terestingly the Quran as the corpus and golden standard for Arabic language does not contains the word sword in its entirety.

zaphirplane2• 2 years ago

just come out with the racism and Islamophobia instead of the subtle malevolent insinuation

teleforce3• 2 years ago

On the contrary, the orientalist came out with the false claim of Islam spread by the sword but the word is not even mentioned in the Quran although culturally Arab people has strong affinity with the sword.

dorkwood• 2 years ago

I haven't counted but I feel like we probably have just as many words for snow as they do.

Snow, slush, powder, hail, sleet, avalanche, blizzard etc.

smusamashah• 2 years ago

Arabic has hundreds of words for Camel. Never heard the Arabic example with sword before.

Why Britons have 546 words for drunkenness

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