• klemptor
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    2 months ago

    …what do you think teetotaler means?

      • psud@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        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”