Show stammerer lingual contribution to stammering according to a favorite theory we owe tho the very useful word teetotal says save the london chronicle it appears to have been first arst used in september 1833 by richard turner a reformed drunkard opinions differ however as to whether it was the happy accident of stammering over total or an intentional emphasizing by reduplication and it has even been claimed that it Is an old dialect word the only certainties are that the word ilia hu nothing to do with tes tea though a french frach novelist did trans translate lati teetotaller taller we into toul total bour du the |