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English dictionaries are also very much on the descriptive side of things as of late, especially compared to their counterparts among other languages.

Dunno how the tea totallers do things but here in burgerland we actually have sort of a minor annual event finding out the latest slang terms and grammars that have entered this year’s edition of the webster dictionary, and which words have fallen out of significant use enough to be dropped from the book too.

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…what do you think teetotaler means?

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Brits and Brit adjacents.

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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”

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What do you think wordplay is?

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