English Learning for Curious Minds

300 years ago, London experienced a gin craze of epic scale, with the average Londoner drinking 10 times the amount of gin that the world's biggest gin drinking country does now.

Today, it's time to learn about how gin almost destroyed London.

Full transcript, key vocabulary, and bonus episodes available on www.leonardoenglish.com

Show Notes

🔪🔪🔪 January Special Offer [ends 23:59 Jan 14th] 🔪🔪🔪

Become a Pro Member and get “Students of Murder” course (normally €49) for free: https://bit.ly/Jan2025Offer

---


300 years ago, London experienced a gin craze of epic scale, with the average Londoner drinking 10 times the amount of gin that the world's biggest gin drinking country does now.

Today, it's time to learn about how gin almost destroyed London.

We'll learn about:

  • 👀 Why 'gin' is called 'gin'
  • ⚡ The perfect storm that made caused the gin boom
  • 🍸 The gin shops
  • 🌡 The ingredients of the 'gin'
  • "Drunk for a penny; dead drunk for two pennies; clean straw for nothing.”
  • 💊 Gin craze = crack cocaine epidemic?
  • 👶 Poor Mary Defour
  • ⚖ The Gin Act of 1751
  • 📈 Gin today & the resurgence of gin

Key vocabulary: Epidemic, Epic, Bear in mind, Customary, Sophisticated, Phenomenon, Spirit, Juniper, Variant, Liquor, Brandy, Fate, Imported, Patriotic, Domestic, Reliance, Unlicensed, Boom, Legislation, Disposable income, Perfect storm, Establishments, Sipping, Emerge, Fiendishly, Sulphuric acid, Turpentine, Impotent, Sterile, Exceeded, Vast, Pass out, Monotonous, Drawn parallels, Impurities, Hopelessly, Wake-up call, Passed, Consumption, Resurgence, Craze, Stronghold

Full transcript and key vocabulary available on the website www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/londons-gin-craze

---

You might like:

🔓
Unlock bonus episodes, interactive transcripts, subtitles & vocabulary lists

🔪 [Ending Soon!]
January "Students of Murder" Special Offer

🧑‍💼
Demystifying Business English Course

📹
A look inside Leonardo English membership

⚡️  How To Use Podcasts Like A Boss To Learn English

📧
Join the weekly newsletter

✍️
Free English Grammar Checker

---

Keywords: Learn English, vocabulary, lessons, idioms, aprende inglés, idiomas, aprender inglês, apprendre l'anglais, imparare l’inglese, ingilizce öğren,英語を習う, تعلم الإنجليزية

What is English Learning for Curious Minds?

Are you looking for a more interesting way to learn English?

English Learning for Curious Minds is a podcast for intermediate-advanced English learners.

Learn weird and wonderful things about the world at the same time as improving your English.

Every episode comes with an interactive transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary and is spoken at a speed you can understand.

Join listeners from 189 countries and discover a more interesting way of improving your English.

Find the bonus episodes, interactive transcripts, subtitles, key vocabulary, and more at www.leonardoenglish.com