Our Founding Fathers Were Such Drunks, Franklin Put Together A Drunk Dictionary

Like most college students, when I wasn't hitting the books, I could be found at the local dive bar. And while my English classes taught me countless lessons about our wonderful language, few things were more enjoyable to me than coming up with colorful synonyms for being inebriated. Long before getting "wasted," "toasted," or even "slizzard" was a thing, our favorite founding father, Benjamin Franklin, had his own dictionary for being drunk. Literally.In a 1737 edition of his newspaper, The Pennsylvania Gazette, Franklin circulated his drunken list to the masses by publishing what he called "The Drinker's Dictionary." It's pretty...

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