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minus-square klemptor ( @klemptor@startrek.website ) linkfedilinkEnglish4•2 months ago…what do you think teetotaler means?
minus-square PhlubbaDubba ( @PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ) linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoBrits and Brit adjacents.
minus-square psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-22 months agoA teetotaler is someone who abstains from alcohol Tea totaller would make a reasonable pun in a thing about the Boston tea party, but sounds like a mondegreen in other contexts In Boston tea party contexts the Bostonians would be the tea totallers presuming you accept “to total” as meaning “to destroy”
…what do you think teetotaler means?
Brits and Brit adjacents.
A teetotaler is someone who abstains from alcohol
Tea totaller would make a reasonable pun in a thing about the Boston tea party, but sounds like a mondegreen in other contexts
In Boston tea party contexts the Bostonians would be the tea totallers presuming you accept “to total” as meaning “to destroy”
oh the irony