Are You Addicted to Workahol?
June13
You know what's kind of dumb? The fact that people say they're a "chocolaholic," a "shopaholic," a "workaholic," or a whateveraholic. The reason we say "alcoholic" is because people are addicted to "alcohol." If we said it right, we'd say we were a "chocolate-ic" or a "work-ic" or a "shop-ic." I'm not saying you're dumb if you've ever described yourself as a something-aholic, I'm just saying it's an expression that has worked its way into our language, and it's dumb. So dumb it's, like, dumbaholic.
