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Teetotalism is the practice or promotion of complete personal abstinence from alcoholic beverages. A person who practices (and possibly advocates) teetotalism is called a ''teetotaler'' (also spelled ''teetotaller''; plural ''teetotalers'' or ''teetotallers'') or is simply said to be ''teetotal''. The teetotalism movement was first started in Preston, England, in the early 19th century.〔Road to Zion - British Isles, BYU-TV; http://byutv.org/watch/801-207〕 The Preston Temperance Society was founded in 1833 by Joseph Livesey, who was to become a leader of the temperance movement and the author of ''The Pledge'': "We agree to abstain from all liquors of an intoxicating quality whether ale, porter, wine or ardent spirits, except as medicine." ==Etymology== There is some dispute over the origin of the word ''teetoler''. One anecdote attributes the origin of the word to a meeting of the Preston Temperance Society in 1833. The story attributes the word to Richard〔 Turner, a member of the society, who in a speech said "I'll be reet down out-and-out t-t-total for ever and ever". A variation on the above account is found on the pages of ''The Charleston Observer'': An alternative explanation is that ''teetotal'' is simply a reduplication of the first 'T' in ''total'' (T-total). It is said that as early as 1827 in some Temperance Societies signing a 'T' after one's name signified one's pledge for total abstinence. In England in the 1830s, when the word first entered the lexicon, it was also used in other contexts as an emphasized form of ''total''; a comparable American English locution would be "total with a capital T" (an instance of the "() with a capital (letter )" snowclone). According to historian Daniel Walker Howe (''What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848'', 2007) the term was derived from the practice of American preacher and temperance advocate Lyman Beecher. He would take names at his meetings of people who pledged alcoholic temperance and noted those who pledged total abstinence with a T. Such persons became known as Teetotallers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「teetotalism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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