Show etymology extraordinary the following paragraph culled from a new york paper published more than a hundred years ago would seem to show that the philologists of that time were open to ridicule it Is customary to have a in the neighborhood of theaters as Is the case in this city where the audience exhausted by attention to the performance may recruit their spirits by tal ing a glass of gin or something equally exhilarating be tween the act as it often happens that immediately upon drinking a dram the person emits a sound sim liar to the letter a the dram and the sound have been united and thus dram a or drama is found |