Note 18 — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (continued 3)

J. Parton observes that this list may have been suggested by the word-catalogs in the Gargantua (Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin, I, 221). This mildly Rabelaisian series is later elaborated into "The Drinker's Dictionary" found in the Pennsylvania Gazette, No. 494, May 25, 1738; and reprinted by Parton, I, 222-5.