English has thousands of slang terms for being drunk, and Paul Dickson has collected plenty of them. College-campus examples include squiffy, schmammered, schwasted, slizzered, and riding in the Tour de Franzia, a drinking game built around...
Can children adopted from other countries easily re-learn their native languages as adults? And if you’re invited to an old-fashioned pound party, what should you bring? Also, regional names for those wheeled contraptions you use at the...

