Comment on Linguistics

• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Brits and Brit adjacents.

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  • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Teetotaler means 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

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      oh the irony

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• roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What do you think wordplay is?

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