Completely carparked: Study finds 546 words for getting 'drunk' in the English language
If there's one thing Brits are good at, it's getting totally trolleyed - and expressing it in endlessly creative ways. Once the subject of a Michael McIntyre stand-up routine, in which the comedian argued that posh people can use any word to mean drunk in English, two German linguists took it upon themselves to research its truth. “We were curious to find out if the synonyms of “drunk” are used in similar contexts,” explained the study's co-author Professor Dr. Christina Sanchez-Stockhammer of Chemnitz University in a press release. The findings, published in the Yearbook of the German Cogniti...