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The Learning Kingdom's Cool Word of the Day for June 22, 1999
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teetotaler [n. TEE-toet-ul-ur]
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A teetotaler is a person who abstains completely from all alcoholic
drinks. Such a person practices teetotalism, and is a teetotal
person.
Is a teetotaler someone who "totally drinks tea?" Actually, the
original root form had nothing to do with drinking.
As far back as the early 1800s, "tee-totally" was an emphatic form of
"totally." This use shows the true origin of the teetotal family as a
result of reduplication, a lexical phenomenon where the initial letter
of a word is repeated for emphasis.
Most sources agree that the first application of "teetotal" to
drinking was in a speech by Richard Turner, a member of the British
Temperance Society, in 1833, in which he urged everyone to abstain
tee-totally from all forms of alcohol.
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