This article is about a book written by David Crystal, called Words in Time and Place. The article focus on the different words and phrases used to describe drunk people. The "grandfather of 'drunk'" is from Middle English: "fordrunken". Since that era, the words have become more fascinating. Some examples would be: tippled, groggy, lushy, poggled, honkers, and wasted. These words came to mean drunk for different reasons. Wasted became a saying because of the hippies, honkers was due to the slang word "honk" which meant vomit, poggled "has its origins in the Hindi word pagal, for 'madman'". According to Crystal, throughout all of time that man has been drinking, it seems that with the terms developed for "drunk" it seems that we have been trying to make it less drastic.
The article was very captivating. The author keeps it short and simple by only summarizing part of the book that was the main focus of the article. She uses quotes from the book throughout the article to give credit to her article. The tone throughout the article was casual and conversational. This is due to the simple language used and the fact that the article was short. The purpose was to simply inform the reader of the different words that have developed over time to substitute the word drunk. It also informed the reader of an interesting book about words and sayings.
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/a-history-of-drunk-words/384325/
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