Talk:Teetotalism
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This page was listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion in May, 2004. The result of that discussion was to keep the article. For an archive of the discussion, see Talk:Teetotalism/Delete.
Reverting to version with Frank Sinatra quote. It's not offensive. It contributes to the article's NPOV because it shows criticism of Teetotalism.
No it's POV. It's not criticism of teetotalism, it's a poor joke which you wouldn't see in an encyclopedia article on teetotalism. This IS an encyclopedia article about teetotalism, so I remove it.
The anecdote about the origin of the word is also poor encyclopedia material. The correct answer is reduplication. Repeating the first letter of a word was a common way to emphasise in that time and place, and T-total has also been found to be used in other contexts. The stuttering theory seems unlikely to me. A stutterer would rather say tuh-tuh-total or something like it; that the letter t is pronounced "tee" is a cultural thing.
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19981023
Vintermann 10:34, May 23, 2005 (UTC)