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Published online 19 December 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news011220-10
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It's the drink talking
Tripping tongues betray tipsiness.
In the season of office parties, a team of US and UK scientists cautions that by far the clearest indication of drunkenness is stumbling speech. Repeated, missed or elongated words and syllables "betray even mild intoxication" they say1.
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