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The English language is as malleable as they come.  This fact is both a blessing and a curse.  A blessing in regards to words like “cyberspace” and a curse in regards to words like “metrosexual.” Colloquialisms also abound in the English language and acronyms, too, roll off Americans’ tonques.  Well here are a word and an acronym I may never use the same again in the future.

The word - snort.  Snort can mean “to force air violently through the nose,” or “to express scorn,” amongest other similar definitions.  It isn’t till one reads further into a dictionary’s definition of the word that one comes upon snort defined as “a drink of usu. straight liquor taken in one draft.” That’s the snort I know, the drink snort, but now it seems this definition of snort is being refined one step further.  A company has invented a device which allows a user to snort alcohol, up their nose, they specifically mention absinthe and vodka, in order to bypass the stomach and the liver and head straight to the brain.  Lovely.

Anyway, the device which faciliates the “snort” brings us to the acronym.  The device is called a Alcohol Without Liquid (AWOL) vaporiser.  AWOL, to many individuals, means “absent without leave,” and, I would wager it could apply to over zealous use of the vaporiser, but only time will tell.

Here’s the link to the article from the Scotsman which informs us of the device.  The article is appropriately titled “Experts Condemn New Craze for ‘Snorting’ Alcohol."

Via Greg Swann at Presence of Mind.

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